Question:
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Mortamer was a tree monkey who lived in the jungles of Brazil with his parents, and their pet snail, Johnson. They lived in a grass house built in the very tops of the trees, so high that they could see the whole jungle from their front porch. One day, Mortamer and his parents were outside hunting for food and the sky turned black! The sun was gone, hidden behind giant black clouds! Big winds shook the very trees of the forest, scaring poor little Mortamer who had turned 7 years old yesterday.

Then, without warning, the sun was back! It was bright and sunny, and jungle birds were singing with all the other jungle animals. Little Mortamer and his parents quickly went back to their tree, only to find something very sad! Their poor little house lay on the ground, smashed to pieces! The wind knocked it down! Little Mortamer was very sad, and started to cry. His parents smiled, and started to pick up the pieces. Other monkeys came by to help, too. Soon everyone was fixing Mortamer's house, and he was a very happy monkey.
1. what was mortamer?
2. where did he live?
3. who was there with him?
4. did he own any animals?
5. what kind?
6. did it have a name?
7. what was their home made of?
8. how high was their home?
9. what were they doing when everything went dark?
10. where had the sun disappeared to?
11. when was mortamer's birthday?
12. how old was he two days ago?
13. how did he feel about the storm?
14. what did they do after the sun returned?
15. what did they discover?
16. was it intact?
17. how did his mother and father react?
18. what did they begin to do?
19. did they do it alone?
20. what did mortamer feel about this?

Numbered answers:
1. tree monke
2. jungles of Brazil
3. his parents
4. yes
5. snail
6. Johnson
7. grass
8. they could see the whole jungle
9. hunting for food
10. behind giant black clouds
11. yesterday
12. Seven
13. sad
14. went back to their tree
15. house lay on the ground
16. No
17. His parents smiled
18. started to pick up the pieces
19. No
20. very sad

Question:
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Chapter 6

THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO WORSE COMPANY

It had come to pass that Mr Silas Wegg now rarely attended the minion of fortune and the worm of the hour, at his (the worm's and minion's) own house, but lay under general instructions to await him within a certain margin of hours at the Bower. Mr Wegg took this arrangement in great dudgeon, because the appointed hours were evening hours, and those he considered precious to the progress of the friendly move. But it was quite in character, he bitterly remarked to Mr Venus, that the upstart who had trampled on those eminent creatures, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker, should oppress his literary man.

The Roman Empire having worked out its destruction, Mr Boffin next appeared in a cab with Rollin's Ancient History, which valuable work being found to possess lethargic properties, broke down, at about the period when the whole of the army of Alexander the Macedonian (at that time about forty thousand strong) burst into tears simultaneously, on his being taken with a shivering fit after bathing. The Wars of the Jews, likewise languishing under Mr Wegg's generalship, Mr Boffin arrived in another cab with Plutarch: whose Lives he found in the sequel extremely entertaining, though he hoped Plutarch might not expect him to believe them all. What to believe, in the course of his reading, was Mr Boffin's chief literary difficulty indeed; for some time he was divided in his mind between half, all, or none; at length, when he decided, as a moderate man, to compound with half, the question still remained, which half? And that stumbling-block he never got over.
1. who was upset because the hours were in the evening?
2. did he consider those precious?
3. who did he complain to about it?
4. what is Wegg's first name?
5. does he frequently attend the bower?
6. did he consider himself a literary man?
7. who supposedly worked out their destruction?
8. whose army is said to have cried?
9. how many soldiers were in it?
10. did Alexander get sick?
11. after what?
12. who arrived with plutarch?
13. in what?
14. did boffin find it easy to believe what he read?
15. Did Wegg complain about an aunt?
16. what was her name?

Numbered answers:
1. Mr Wegg
2. yes
3. Mr Venus
4. unknown
5. no
6. yes
7. Roman Empire
8. army of Alexander
9. forty thousand
10. yes
11. bathing
12. Mr Boffin
13. in a cab
14. no
15. yes
16. Jane

Question:
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Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as "The City". The borough is coextensive with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683, as one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River.

Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, and hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals US$ today. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan exceeded US as of 2017, and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the highest retail rents in the world, at US in 2017.
1. What type of city is Manhattan considered to be?
2. What do the locals call it?
3. Is it close to any bodies of water?
4. Which ones?
5. Is it cheap to live there?
6. How is much Manhattan Island worth?
7. What does the world think of Manhattan?
8. Is the city used often by the media?
9. Which type of media outlets?
10. When was it purchased?
11. By who?
12. Who did they buy it from?
Numbered answers:
1. a borough
2. The City
3. yes
4. the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers
5. no
6. over $3 trillion
7. it's the most economically powerful city
8. yes
9. books, films, and television shows
10. in 1626
11. Dutch colonists
12. Native Americans