Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XIII.

FLAXEN'S GREAT NEED.

Flaxen wrote occasionally, during the next year, letters all too short and too far between for the lonely man toiling away on his brown farm. These letters were very much alike, telling mainly of how happy she was, and of what she was going to do by and by, on Christmas or Thanksgiving. Once she sent a photograph of herself and husband, and Anson, after studying it for a long time, took a pair of shears and cut the husband off, and threw him into the fire.

"That fellow gives me the ague," he muttered.

Bert did not write, and there was hardly a night that Ans lay down on his bed that he did not wonder where his chum was, especially as the winter came on unusually severe, reminding him of that first winter in the Territory. Day after day he spent alone in his house, going out only to feed the cattle or to get the mail. The sad wind was always in his ears. But with the passage of time the pain in his heart lost its intensity.

One day he got a letter from Flaxen that startled and puzzled him. It was like a cry for help, somehow.

"Dear old pap, I wish you was here," and then in another place came the piteous cry, "Oh, I wish I had some folks!"

All night long that cry rang in the man's head with a wailing, falling cadence like the note of a lost little prairie-chicken.

1. Is Flaxen a man or woman?
2. Was she married?
3. What was her husband's name?
4. What did Anson do to the photo he received?
5. With what?
6. Why?
7. did he keep that portion of the photo?
8. how did he destroy it?
9. What was Anson's work?
10. did Anson have lots of friends?
11. Did the hurt Anson felt get worse?
12. What did Flaxen write about in her letters?
13. Were they long letters?
14. Did Anson feel he received them often enough?
15. What did Flaxen write that surprised Anson?
16. Did he get letters from Bert?
17. when did Anson think about him?
18. was there a particular season that made him think of Bert more?
19. which season?
20. was it a mild winter?
21. why did Anson go out during the day?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. a woman
2. Yes
3. unknown
4. He cut it
5. shears
6. to get rid of the husband from the photo
7. no
8. he threw it into the fire
9. he worked on a farm
10. no
11. No
12. How happy she was and what she was going to do
13. no
14. no
15. Flaxen that startled and puzzled him. It was like a cry for help, somehow. "Dear old pap, I wish you was here," and then in another place came the piteous cry, "Oh, I wish I had some folks!"
16. no
17. at night when he lay down on his bed
18. yes
19. winter
20. no
21. to feed the cattle or to get the mail

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and south, and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north, respectively. The Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the south. Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, is New England's largest city. The largest metropolitan area is Greater Boston, which also includes Worcester, Massachusetts (the second-largest city in New England), Manchester (the largest city in New Hampshire), and Providence (the capital and largest city of Rhode Island), with nearly a third of the entire region's population.

In 1620, Puritan Separatist Pilgrims from England first settled in the region, forming the Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in the Americas, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia founded in 1607. Ten years later, more Puritans settled north of Plymouth Colony in Boston, thus forming Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the British and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquin allies in North America. In 1692, the town of Salem, Massachusetts and surrounding areas experienced the Salem witch trials, one of the most infamous cases of mass hysteria in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

1. What is New England?
2. Containing what?
3. What are 3 of the states?
4. The other 3?
5. What state borders it to the west and south?
6. What country borders it to the north?
7. What ocean does it border/
8. What is the largest city in New England?
9. What happened in 1620?
10. Forming what?
11. Was that the first settlement?
12. What was?
13. When was that founded?
14. What happened in 1692?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. geographical region
2. six states of the northeastern United States
3. Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire
4. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
5. New York
6. New Brunswick and Quebec
7. Atlantic Ocean
8. Boston
9. Pilgrims from England first settled in the region
10. Plymouth Colony
11. no
12. Jamestown Settlement
13. 1607
14. Salem, Massachusetts and surrounding areas experiencd the Salem witch trails

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Taoism ( or ), also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the "Tao" (, literally "Way", also romanized as "Dao"). The "Tao" is a fundamental idea in most Chinese philosophical schools; in Taoism, however, it denotes the principle that is the source, pattern and substance of everything that exists. Taoism differs from Confucianism by not emphasizing rigid rituals and social order. Taoist ethics vary depending on the particular school, but in general tend to emphasize "wu wei" (effortless action), "naturalness", simplicity, spontaneity, and the Three Treasures: "compassion", "frugality", and "humility".

The roots of Taoism go back at least to the 4th century BCE. Early Taoism drew its cosmological notions from the School of Yinyang (Naturalists), and was deeply influenced by one of the oldest texts of Chinese culture, the "Yijing", which expounds a philosophical system about how to keep human behavior in accordance with the alternating cycles of nature. The "Legalist" Shen Buhai may also have been a major influence, expounding a realpolitik of wu wei. The "Tao Te Ching", a compact book containing teachings attributed to Laozi (), is widely considered the keystone work of the Taoist tradition, together with the later writings of Zhuangzi.

1. What is a Chinese tradition?
2. what else is it called?
3. what kind of traditio?
4. what does it teach?
5. with what?
6. what does that mean?
7. what is it based on?
8. is it like Confucianism?
9. how are they different?
10. where did it originate?
11. when?
12. what were other influences?
13. what was that?
14. were there other influences?
15. what or who?
16. who is that?
17. how?
18. what is wu wei?
19. which book contains teacings from Laozi?
20. Is it a large book?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Taoism
2. Daoism
3. religious or philosophical
4. living in harmony
5. the "Tao"
6. literally means the "Way",
7. the principle that is the source, pattern and substance of everything that exists
8. no
9. it doesn't emphasize rigid rituals and social order
10. from the School of Yinyang
11. at least to the 4th century BCE
12. one of the oldest texts of Chinese culture
13. the "Yijing"
14. yes
15. Shen Buhai
16. The "Legalist"
17. expounding a realpolitik of wu wei.
18. effortless action
19. The "Tao Te Ching"
20. no