Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Stinky Pete wanted to build a tree house. He needed to get a ladder to bring wood up the tree. He went to his friend's house to borrow a ladder. He also borrowed a bucket. He needed the bucket to carry nails. His friend is named James. The ladder was too big for Stinky Pete to carry alone. He had James help him carry the ladder back home. The ladder was heavy. They were careful to stay on the sidewalk. Stinky Pete got the hammer from his tool box. He gave James a rope. Stinky Pete and James got to work on the tree house. They worked all day. They painted the inside of the tree house blue. They painted the outside of the tree house red. They did not use green or orange paint. They used the rope to climb down from the tree house. When they were all finished, Stinky Pete helped James carry the ladder and bucket back to his house. Stinky Pete thanked James for helping him.

1. What did skinny pete want to build?
2. what did he borrow?
3. whose?
4. what was their name?
5. what else did James lend him?
6. for?
7. could pete carry the ladder himself?
8. why not?
9. what did he do?
10. they were careful to do what?
11. where did pete normally keep his hammer?
12. what did he hand to James?
13. how long did they work?
14. what color paints didn't they use?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. tree house
2. ladder
3. friend's
4. James
5. bucket
6. nails
7. no
8. too big
9. had James help
10. stay on the sidewalk
11. tool box
12. rope
13. all day
14. blue and red

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER X

MYSTERIES IN MAYFAIR

That night, and for many nights afterwards, Macheson devoted himself to his work in the East End. The fascination of the thing grew upon him; he threw himself into his task with an energy which carried him often out of his own life and made forgetfulness an easy task. Night after night they came, these tired, white-faced women, with a sprinkling of sullen, dejected-looking men; night after night he pleaded and reasoned with them, striving with almost passionate earnestness to show them how to make the best of the poor thing they called life. Gradually his efforts began to tell upon himself. He grew thinner, there were shadows under his eyes, a curious intangible depression seemed to settle upon him. Holderness one night sought him out and insisted upon dinner together.

"Look here, Victor," he said, "I have a bone to pick with you. You'd better listen! Don't sit there staring round the place as though you saw ghosts everywhere."

Macheson smiled mirthlessly.

"But that is just what I do see," he answered. "The conscience of every man who knows must be haunted with them! The ghosts of starving men and unsexed women! What keeps their hands from our throats, Dick?"

"Common sense, you idiot," Holderness answered cheerfully. "There's a refuse heap for every one of nature's functions. You may try to rake it out and cleanse it, but there isn't much to be done. Hang that mission work, Victor! It's broken more hearts than anything else on earth! A man can but do what he may."

1. WHo is the main character?
2. What was he devoted to?
3. What location?
4. Who wanted to have dinner?
5. Who grew thinner?
6. Was anyone angry at Victor?
7. Who?
8. What did he say?
9. Did Macheson smile?
10. In what way?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Macheson
2. work
3. East End
4. Holderness
5. Macheson
6. Yes
7. Holderness
8. I have a bone to pick with you
9. Yes
10. mirthlessly

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

A man has been charged with a federal hate crime in connection with what authorities say was a racially motivated "knockout" assault against an elderly black man, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.

Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, of Katy, Texas, has been charged with one count of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

According to the federal complaint, Barrett attacked the 79-year-old man "because of the man's race and color." He will next appear in court Friday afternoon for a detention hearing.

The suspect made a video of the attack November 24, the complaint said. In the video, he allegedly commented that "the plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?"

He then allegedly "hit the man with such force that the man immediately fell to the ground. Barrett then laughed and said 'knockout,' as he ran to his vehicle and fled."

The victim suffered two jaw fractures and was hospitalized for several days, the complaint said.

Barrett's attorney, George Parnham, told CNN the affidavit does not "pull back the layers of mental health."

His client has bipolar disorder and takes medication, Parnham said in an earlier call.

Parnham said he could not state whether his client carried out the attack, but, "mental health issues definitely played a part in anything that occurred."

Barrett "is very sorry for this person," Parnham said, adding that he and his client haven't had much opportunity to discuss the facts of the case.

1. What was the man charged with?
2. What kind of hate crime?
3. Against who?
4. How old was the black man?
5. When did it happen?
6. What was his plan?
7. What did his attorney say?
8. How much younger is the attacker?
9. Did the victim spend any time in the hospital?
10. how long?
11. For what?
12. What disorder does the attacker have?
13. Does he take medication for it?
14. Is the attacker remorseful?
15. Why was it called a knockout assault?
16. Who is his counsel?
17. Where did the attacker live?
18. Where is that?
19. Is it a state crime?
20. What is the name of the attacker?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Hate Crimes
2. knockout" assault
3. elderly black man
4. 79
5. November 24
6. be nationally televised
7. does not "pull back the layers of mental health
8. 52 years
9. yes
10. several days
11. wo jaw fractures
12. bipolar
13. yes
14. yes
15. laughed and said 'knockout
16. George Parnham
17. Katy
18. Texas
19. no
20. Conrad Alvin Barrett