Problem: The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. Published in Washington, D.C., it was founded on December 6, 1877.

Located in the capital city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. It is published as a broadsheet.

The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. This includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, the second-highest number ever awarded to a single newspaper in one year, second only to "The New York Times" seven awards in 2002. "Post" journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards. In the early 1970s, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press' investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal; reporting in the newspaper greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. In years since, its investigations have led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

In 2013, its longtime controlling family, the Graham family, sold the newspaper to billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. The newspaper is owned by Nash Holdings LLC, a holding company Bezos created for the acquisition.
1. What is this article about?
2. Where is it based?
3. When did it start?
4. How many editions does it have?
5. Is it a tabloid or a broadsheet?
6. How many Pulitzers has it won?
7. Does it hold the record for most Pulitzers in a year?
8. Who owned the company for a long time?
9. Who did they sell it to?
10. Of what company?
11. When?
12. For how much money?
13. Does he own it in his own name?
14. What's the holding company's name?
15. Name two well-known reporters there.
16. What did they investigate?
17. Did that have an effect on US history?
18. What effect?
19. Which hospital has it investigated?
20. What is its emphasis?
Answer: 1. The Washington Post
2. Washington, DC
3. December 6, 1877
4. Three
5. broadsheet
6. 47
7. no
8. the Graham family
9. Jeff Bezos
10. Amazon.com
11. 2013
12. $250 million
13. no
14. Nash Holdings LLC
15. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
16. the Watergate scandal
17. yes
18. the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
19. Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
20. national politics

Q: Coincidences happen all the time to ordinary people, but the following events are perhaps some of the strangest of them all.

1. In the 19thcentury, the famous writer, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote a book called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days before three of them decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the boat Mignonette sank, and only four survivors were left in an open boat for many days. Finally the three older members killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.

2. In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I went to a small restaurant for dinner. When the owner took King Umberto I's order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were doubles, in face and in build. Both men began discussing the resemblance between each other and found many more similarities. Both men were born in the same place, on the same day, of the same year (March 14, 1844, Turin, Italy). On the day that the King married Queen Margherita, the restaurant owner had married a lady named Margherita. The restaurant owner opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto I was crowned King of Italy. On July 29, 1900, King Umberto I was informed that the restaurant owner had died that day in a shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, someone in the crowd killed him!

3. Mark Twain was a popular American author who wrote famous books such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."

Answer the following questions:
1. When did Mark die?
2. What were his death and birth significant with?
3. what signified his birth and death?
4. Where was the King born?
5. What was his wife's name?
6. Who was he like?
7. who was he like?
8. What was the name of the boat that sunk?
9. Did anyone survive?
10. how many?
11. who wrote this book?
12. name of book?
13. when was it written?
14. when did the king die?
15. how?
16. did the restaurant owner die as well?
17. name a book written by Mark.
18. who was eaten by his mates?
19. Was Mark expecting to die?
20. when was the king born?
21. what did he go to the restaurant for?
A: 1. 1910
2. yes
3. Halley's Comet
4. Turin
5. Margherita
6. King
7. restaurant owner
8. Mignonette
9. yes
10. four
11. Edgar Allan Poe
12. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
13. 19th century
14. 1900
15. someone in the crowd killed him
16. yes
17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
18. Richard Parker
19. yes
20. 1844
21. for dinner

Problem: CHAPTER II

A fat, unwholesome--looking creature, half native, half Belgian, waddled across the open space towards the hut in which the two strangers had been housed. He was followed at a little distance by two sturdy natives bearing a steaming pot which they carried on a pole between them. Trent set down his revolver and rose to his feet.

"What news, Oom Sam?" he asked. "Has the English officer been heard of? He must be close up now."

"No news," the little man grunted. "The King, he send some of his own supper to the white men. 'They got what they want,' he say. 'They start work mine soon as like, but they go away from here.' He not like them about the place! See!"

"Oh, that be blowed!" Trent muttered. "What's this in the pot? It don't smell bad."

"Rabbit," the interpreter answered tersely. "Very good. Part King's own supper. White men very favoured."

Trent bent over the pot which the two men had set upon the ground. He took a fork from his belt and dug it in.

"Very big bones for a rabbit, Sam," he remarked doubtfully.

Sam looked away. "Very big rabbits round here," he remarked. "Best keep pot. Send men away."

Trent nodded, and the men withdrew.

"Stew all right," Sam whispered confidentially. "You eat him. No fear. But you got to go. King beginning get angry. He say white men not to stay. They got what he promised, now they go. I know King--know this people well! You get away quick. He think you want be King here! You got the papers--all you want, eh?"
1. Was someone followed?
2. Who?
3. By who?
4. What did Trent do
5. Then what?
6. Was something in the pot?
7. What?
8. Was it big?
9. When did the men withdraw
10. What did Sam want Trent to do
Answer:
1. yes
2. A fat, unwholesome--looking creature, half native, half Belgian
3. two sturdy natives
4. set down his revolver
5. and rose to his feet.
6. yes
7. Rabbit
8. yes
9. when Trent nodded
10. To go