Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Cromwell was born into the middle gentry, albeit to a family descended from the sister of King Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell. Little is known of the first 40 years of his life as only four of his personal letters survive alongside a summary of a speech he delivered in 1628. He became an Independent Puritan after undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period. He was an intensely religious man, a self-styled Puritan Moses, and he fervently believed that God was guiding his victories. He was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in 1628 and for Cambridge in the Short (1640) and Long (16401649) parliaments. He entered the English Civil War on the side of the "Roundheads" or Parliamentarians. Nicknamed "Old Ironsides", he demonstrated his ability as a commander and was quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to being one of the principal commanders of the New Model Army, playing an important role in the defeat of the royalist forces. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who is this article about?
2. was he American?
3. then what?
4. was he religious?
5. when was he born?
6. did he ever go to war?
7. which war?
8. on whose side?
9. was he ever promoted?
10. to what?
11. did they defeat anyone?
12. who?
13. did he get into politics?
14. was he elected?
15. as?
16. for?
17. when?
18. were there others?
19. name one please.
20. do we know a lot about his early life?
Answer: 1. Oliver Cromwell
2. No
3. English
4. Yes
5. unknown
6. Yes
7. the English Civil War
8. the "Roundheads"
9. Yes
10. one of the principal commanders
11. Yes
12. the royalist forces
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. a Member of Parliament
16. for Huntingdon
17. in 1628
18. Yes
19. Long
20. No

Chapter LVII

AT that moment we were interrupted by the appearance of Madame Coutras, who had been paying visits. She came in, like a ship in full sail, an imposing creature, tall and stout, with an ample bust and an obesity girthed in alarmingly by straight-fronted corsets. She had a bold hooked nose and three chins. She held herself upright. She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be. She was evidently a copious talker, and now poured forth a breathless stream of anecdote and comment. She made the conversation we had just had seem far away and unreal.

Presently Dr. Coutras turned to me.

"I still have in my the picture that Strickland gave me," he said. "Would you like to see it?"

"Willingly."

We got up, and he led me on to the verandah which surrounded his house. We paused to look at the gay flowers that rioted in his garden.

"For a long time I could not get out of my head the recollection of the extraordinary decoration with which Strickland had covered the walls of his house," he said reflectively.

I had been thinking of it, too. It seemed to me that here Strickland had finally put the whole expression of himself. Working silently, knowing that it was his last chance, I fancied that here he must have said all that he knew of life and all that he divined. And I fancied that perhaps here he had at last found peace. The demon which possessed him was exorcised at last, and with the completion of the work, for which all his life had been a painful preparation, rest descended on his remote and tortured soul. He was willing to die, for he had fulfilled his purpose. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who had a part of their body that was hooked
2. What part of her body?
3. How many chins did she have
4. What is she compared to
5. Is she fat?
6. Is she short?
7. Is she a creature?
8. What kind?
9. Did she like to talk?
10. What was she wearing
11. What does the Doctor have
12. Who gave it to him
13. What is the doctors name
14. Does the narrator want to see it?
Answer: 1. Madame Coutras did
2. her nose
3. three
4. a ship in full sail
5. Yes
6. No
7. Yes
8. imposing
9. Yes
10. straight-fronted corsets
11. the picture
12. Strickland
13. Coutras
14. Yes

CHAPTER IX.

A STARTLING EVENT.

It was some days later that Chebron and Amuba again paid a visit to the temple by moonlight. It was well-nigh a month since they had been there; for, save when the moon was up, the darkness and gloom of the courts, lighted only by the lamps of the altars, was so great that the place offered no attractions. Amuba, free from the superstitions which influenced his companion, would have gone with him had he proposed it, although he too felt the influence of the darkness and the dim, weird figures of the gods, seen but faintly by the lights that burned at their feet. But to Chebron, more imaginative and easily affected, there was something absolutely terrible in the gloomy darkness, and nothing would have induced him to wander in the silent courts save when the moon threw her light upon them.

On entering one of the inner courts they found a massive door in the wall standing ajar.

"Where does this lead to?" Amuba asked.

"I do not know. I have never seen it open before. I think it must have been left unclosed by accident. We will see where it leads to."

Opening it they saw in front of them a flight of stairs in the thickness of the wall.

"It leads up to the roof," Chebron said in surprise. "I knew not there were any stairs to the roof, for when repairs are needed the workmen mount by ladders."

"Let us go up, Chebron; it will be curious to look down upon the courts." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was a doorway found?
2. Was it small?
3. Was it opened or closed?
4. Where does it go?
5. Who realized that?
6. Did they know at first where it went?
7. Was it open on purpose or by mistake?
8. What structure are they in?
9. Are they both afraid of the supernatural?
10. Who isn't?
11. How long since they had been there before?
12. Is it bright?
13. What helps brighten it?
14. It is quiet of loud there?
15. Does anything else help brighten it?
16. Are the walls thin?
17. What is usually used to reach the top?
18. What is done with things need repaired?
19. Who wants to head up?
20. For what reason?
Answer:
1. the inner courts
2. No
3. open
4. the roof,
5. Chebron
6. no
7. by mistake
8. temple
9. no
10. Amuba
11. a month
12. no
13. lamps
14. Quiet
15. moonlight.
16. No
17. a flight of stairs
18. the workmen mount by ladders
19. Chebron
20. She has never seen it open before