Problem: CHAPTER XXXV.

Were uneasiness of conscience measured by extent of crime, human history had been different, and one should look to see the contrivers of greedy wars and the mighty marauders of the money-market in one troop of self-lacerating penitents with the meaner robber and cut-purse and the murderer that doth his butchery in small with his own hand. No doubt wickedness hath its rewards to distribute; but who so wins in this devil's game must needs be baser, more cruel, more brutal than the order of this planet will allow for the multitude born of woman, the most of these carrying a form of conscience--a fear which is the shadow of justice, a pity which is the shadow of love--that hindereth from the prize of serene wickedness, itself difficult of maintenance in our composite flesh.

On the twenty-ninth of December Deronda knew that the Grandcourts had arrived at the Abbey, but he had had no glimpse of them before he went to dress for dinner. There had been a splendid fall of snow, allowing the party of children the rare pleasures of snow-balling and snow-building, and in the Christmas holidays the Mallinger girls were content with no amusement unless it were joined in and managed by "cousin," as they had always called Deronda. After that outdoor exertion he had been playing billiards, and thus the hours had passed without his dwelling at all on the prospect of meeting Gwendolen at dinner. Nevertheless that prospect was interesting to him; and when, a little tired and heated with working at amusement, he went to his room before the half-hour bell had rung, he began to think of it with some speculation on the sort of influence her marriage with Grandcourt would have on her, and on the probability that there would be some discernible shades of change in her manner since he saw her at Diplow, just as there had been since his first vision of her at Leubronn.
1. What date did someone know something?
2. who arrived?
Answer: 1. the twenty-ninth of December
2. the Grandcourts

Problem: When Debbie Parkhurst choked on a piece of apple at her Maryland home, her dog jumped in, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece of apple to pop out of her throat. Debbie Parkhurst's husband, Kevin, was at his job at a Wilmington, Del., chemical firm when she took a midday break from jewelry and bit into an apple. When the Keesling family of Indiana were about to be overcome by carbon monoxide(CO), their cat clawed at wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help. For their timely acts, Toby, a golden 2 1/2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a gray-eyed American shorthair, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Neither Parkhurst nor Keesling could explain their pets' timely heroics,though Parkhurst suggested it might have been guided by God intervention . "That's what our veterinarian said,"she said. "He wasn't making a joke; he's very spiritual, and now I have to agree with him." But both pets were themselves rescued in baby, Toby as a 4-week-old baby thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Keesling's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk. As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump spread carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie moved into rescue spot, the couple's 14-year-old son, Michael, was already unconscious. "Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry noise," Cathy Keesling said. "When I woke up I felt like a T-bar had hit me across the head." State police and officers responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.
1. what was Debbie taking a break from?
2. what did she do?
3. Did she choke?
4. who saved her?
5. how?
6. and then what happened?
7. where was her husband?
8. what is his job?
9. is it at a chemical firm?
10. where at?
11. what was the Dog's name?
12. how old?
13. What is the cat's name that they talk about?
14. what kind of cat?
15. what was her heroic act?
16. how was that heroic?
17. was the family saved?
18. how?
19. were those 2 animals recognized for their acts?
20. how?
Answer: 1. jewelry
2. bit into an apple
3. yes
4. her dog
5. jumped on her chest
6. the piece of apple popped out
7. at his job
8. unknown
9. yes
10. Wilmington, Del.
11. Toby
12. 2 1/2
13. Winnie
14. an American shorthair
15. woke up Cathy
16. the family was being 0vercome by carbon monoxide
17. yes
18. State police and officers responded
19. yes
20. they named Dog and Cat of the Year

Problem: CHAPTER V

For a number of days Michael saw only Steward and Kwaque. This was because he was confined to the steward's stateroom. Nobody else knew that he was on board, and Dag Daughtry, thoroughly aware that he had stolen a white man's dog, hoped to keep his presence secret and smuggle him ashore when the _Makambo_ docked in Sydney.

Quickly the steward learned Michael's pre-eminent teachableness. In the course of his careful feeding of him, he gave him an occasional chicken bone. Two lessons, which would scarcely be called lessons, since both of them occurred within five minutes and each was not over half a minute in duration, sufficed to teach Michael that only on the floor of the room in the corner nearest the door could he chew chicken bones. Thereafter, without prompting, as a matter of course when handed a bone, he carried it to the corner.

And why not? He had the wit to grasp what Steward desired of him; he had the heart that made it a happiness for him to serve. Steward was a god who was kind, who loved him with voice and lip, who loved him with touch of hand, rub of nose, or enfolding arm. As all service flourishes in the soil of love, so with Michael. Had Steward commanded him to forego the chicken bone after it was in the corner, he would have served him by foregoing. Which is the way of the dog, the only animal that will cheerfully and gladly, with leaping body of joy, leave its food uneaten in order to accompany or to serve its human master.
1. Who was seen?
2. by who?
3. why?
4. why?
5. where was he confined?
6. what was stolen?
7. whose dog?
8. what did he do with it?
9. where?
10. where was he hid?
11. what was he fed?
12. where could he chew on them?
13. where?
14. was he kind?
15. did he serve someone?
16. did the dog love touch?
17. how many lessons are there?
18. how long were they?
19. what was the duration?
20. who carried the bone?
Answer:
1. Steward and Kwaque
2. Michael
3. he was confined?
4. unknown
5. steward's stateroom.
6. a dog
7. n a white man's
8. smuggled him?
9. Sydney
10. the _Makambo
11. chicken bone.
12. only on the floor of the room
13. in the corner nearest the door
14. yes
15. yes
16. yes
17. Two
18. five minutes
19. half a minute
20. the dog