Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER NINE.

MR. JONES TAKES STRONG MEASURES TO SECURE HIS ENDS, AND INTRODUCES BILLY AND HIS FRIENDS TO SOME NEW SCENES AND MOMENTS.

Again we are in the neighbourhood of the Goodwin sands. It is evening. The sun has just gone down. The air and sea are perfectly still. The stars are coming out one by one, and the floating lights have already hoisted their never-failing signals.

The Nora lies becalmed not far from the Goodwin buoy, with her sails hanging idly on the yards. Bill Towler stands at the helm with all the aspect and importance of a steersman, but without any other duty to perform than the tiller could have performed for itself. Morley Jones stands beside him with his hands in his coat pockets, and Stanley Hall sits on the cabin skylight gazing with interest at the innumerable lights of the shipping in the roadstead, and the more distant houses on shore. Jim Welton, having been told that he will have to keep watch all night, is down below taking a nap, and Grundy, having been ordered below to attend to some trifling duty in the fore part of the vessel, is also indulging in slumber.

Long and earnestly and anxiously had Morley Jones watched for an opportunity to carry his plans into execution, but as yet without success. Either circumstances were against him, or his heart had failed him at the push. He walked up and down the deck with uncertain steps, sat down and rose up frequently, and growled a good deal--all of which symptoms were put down by Stanley to the fact that there was no wind.

1. What chapter is this?
2. What time of day is it?
3. Where?
4. Has it been dark for long?
5. What is the name of the ship nearby?
6. Who's at her helm?
7. Who is at the helm of the boat?
8. Who is next to him?
9. And where's Hall?
10. Where on the cabin?
11. Who's napping?
12. Why?
13. Who else is asleep?
14. Who has a plan?
15. Who has a plan in mind?
16. What was against him?
17. What failed him?
18. What did Stanley attribute his mood to?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. CHAPTER NINE.
2. evening
3. neighbourhood of the Goodwin sand
4. No
5. Nora
6. sails
7. Bill Towler
8. Morley Jones
9. cabin
10. cabin skylight
11. Jim Welton
12. he will have to keep watch all night,
13. Grundy
14. attend to some trifling duty in the fore part of the vessel
15. Morley Jones
16. circumstances
17. his heart
18. there was no wind.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER 2

Amelius went straight back to the cottage, with the one desperate purpose of reverting to the old plan, and burying himself in his books. Surveying his well-filled shelves with an impatience unworthy of a scholar, Hume's "History of England" unhappily caught his eye. He took down the first volume. In less than half an hour he discovered that Hume could do nothing for him. Wisely inspired, he turned to the truer history next, which men call fiction. The writings of the one supreme genius, who soars above all other novelists as Shakespeare soars above all other dramatists--the writings of Walter Scott--had their place of honour in his library. The collection of the Waverley Novels at Tadmor had not been complete. Enviable Amelius had still to read _Rob Roy._ He opened the book. For the rest of the day he was in love with Diana Vernon; and when he looked out once or twice at the garden to rest his eyes, he saw "Andrew Fairservice" busy over the flowerbeds.

He closed the last page of the noble story as Toff came in to lay the cloth for dinner.

The master at table and the servant behind his chair were accustomed to gossip pleasantly during meals. Amelius did his best to carry on the talk as usual. But he was no longer in the delightful world of illusion which Scott had opened to him. The hard realities of his own everyday life had gathered round him again. Observing him with unobtrusive attention, the Frenchman soon perceived the absence of the easy humour and the excellent appetite which distinguished his young master at other times.

1. Where did Ameilus go back to?
2. What did he plan to do?
3. What book first caught his eye?
4. Was his collection of Waverley novels complete?
5. What were the master at the table and servant behind his chair use to?
6. What did the Frenchman notice?
7. Who did Amelius think was a supreme genius?
8. Did he think anyone else wrote better drama?
9. What book did he end up reading?
10. Who put the cloth down for dinner?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the cottage
2. burying himself in his books
3. Hume's "History of England"
4. no
5. to gossip pleasantly during meals
6. the absence of the easy humour and the excellent appetite which distinguished his young master at other times
7. Shakespeare
8. no
9. Rob Roy
10. Toff

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XIII

WOE, WOE TO JERUSALEM

Two more years went by, two dreadful, bloody years. In Jerusalem the factions tore each other. In Galilee let the Jewish leader Josephus, under whom Caleb was fighting, do what he would, Vespasian and his generals stormed city after city, massacring their inhabitants by thousands and tens of thousands. In the coast towns and elsewhere Syrians and Jews made war. The Jews assaulted Gadara and Gaulonitis, Sebaste and Ascalon, Anthedon and Gaza, putting many to the sword. Then came their own turn, for the Syrians and Greeks rose upon them and slaughtered them without mercy. As yet, however, there had been no blood shed in Tyre, though all knew that it must come. The Essenes, who had been driven from their home by the Dead Sea and taken refuge in Jerusalem, sent messengers to Miriam warning her to flee from Tyre, where a massacre was being planned; warning her also not to come to Jerusalem, which city they believed to be doomed, but to escape, if possible over sea. Nor was this all, for her own people, the Christians, besought her to fly for her life's sake with them to the city of Pella, where they were gathering from Jerusalem and all Juda. To both Miriam answered that what her grandsire did, that she must do. If he fled, she would fly; if he stayed at Tyre, she would stay; if he went to Jerusalem, she would go; for he had been good to her and she had sworn that while he lived she would not desert him. So the Essene messengers went back to Jerusalem, and the Christian elders prayed with her, and having blessed her and consigned her to the care of the Most High and His Son, their Lord, departed to Pella, where, as it was fated, through all those dreadful times not a hair of their heads was touched.

1. Who had been driven from their home bye the Dead Sea?
2. Where did they take refuge?
3. Who did they send messengers to?
4. Who made war in the coast towns and other places?
5. Was there blood shed in Tyre?
6. What did the messengers warn Miriam to do?
7. What did Miriam answer?
8. So where did the Essene messengers go back to?
9. And which elders prayed with her?
10. To who did they consign her care?
11. And then where did they depart to?
12. Who assaulted Gadara and Gaulonitis?
13. Who was the Jewish leader in Galilee?
14. Which person was fighting under him?
15. Where was a massacre planned?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. The Essenes
2. Jerusalem
3. Miriam
4. Syrians and Jews
5. had been no blood shed in Tyre
6. to flee from Tyre
7. answered that what her grandsire did, that she must do
8. Jerusalem
9. Christian elders
10. Most High and His Son,
11. Pella
12. Jews
13. Josephus
14. Caleb
15. city after city