Q: Have you ever heard of Back-to-Front Day? It is a festival in Britain. On that day, the adults have to go to school. And the children? They are the policemen and firemen; they sit in the offices and call New York and Paris; they are doctors and nurses. "Stand in the corner, Mr. Bass!" said Mary. Mary was six and had a class of twenty-three men and fifteen women. They were making too much noise. John was a policeman. Though his uniform was too big, he walked down the street with pride. "Hm, why are you not at school?" "Oh, I ... I have something important to do," said the man. "Fiddlesticks !" said John angrily. He took out his notebook. "Name?" he asked. "Mr. Green." John wrote it down and blew his whistle and a police car appeared. "I have a _ here," said John. "Drive him to school!" At the hospital a small doctor climbed on one chair in order to examine Mrs. Brown's throat, and Nurse Jenny took Granny Lisa's temperature. The best part of Back-to-Front Day is in the evening. The children put the adults to bed, very early. They tell them a story, too -- after the adults wash their faces and brush their teeth. How interesting Back-to-Front Day is!

1. unknown
2. a festival
3. They go to school
4. They are the policemen and firemen
5. a policeman.
6. Proud
7. Because he wasn't at school.
8. I have something important to do
9. Had him driven to the school
10. blew his whistle
11. six
12. She is a teacher
13. Mr. Bass
14. She made him stand in the corner
15. Made too much noise
16. 38 adults
17. Jenny
18. took Granny Lisa's temperature.
19. put the adults to bed, very early.
20. wash their faces and brush their teeth

Numbered questions:
1. Why was John's uniform too big?
2. What is Back to Front Day?
3. What do grownups do?
4. And the kids?
5. What was John
6. How did he feel about that?
7. Why was he mad at Mr. Green?
8. What was his excuse?
9. What did John do with him?
10. How did he summon the police car?
11. How old was Mary?
12. What was her job?
13. Who did she punish?
14. How?
15. What had he done?
16. How big was her class?
17. Who was a nurse?
18. What did she do?
19. What did the kids do early that evening?
20. What did the adults do before bed?

Q: Romansh (also spelled Romansch, Rumantsch, or Romanche; Romansh: , "rumantsch", or ) is a Romance language spoken predominantly in the southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubunden), where it has official status alongside German and Italian and is used as the medium of instruction in schools in Romansh-speaking areas. Romansh has also been recognized as a national language of Switzerland since 1938 and as an official language along with German, French and Italian since 1996. It is sometimes grouped with Ladin and Friulian as a Rhaeto-Romance language, though this is disputed.

Romansh is a descendant of the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, which by the 5th century AD replaced the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area, although Romansh retains a small number of words from these languages. Romansh has also been heavily influenced by German in vocabulary and morphosyntax. The language gradually retreated to its current area over the centuries, being replaced by Alemannic and Bavarian dialects. The earliest writing identified as Romansh dates from the 10th or 11th century, although major works do not appear until the 16th century when several regional written varieties began to develop. The 19th century saw a further shrinkage of the language area but also a literary revival and the start of a language movement dedicated to halting the decline of the language.

1. six
2. Romansh
3. southeastern Swiss canton of Grisons
4. no
5. 5th century AD
6. the Celtic and Raetic languages previously spoken in the area
7. Romance languages
8. yes
9. since 1938
10. German, French and Italian

Numbered questions:
1. How many different ways can this be spelled?
2. What is the main spelling?
3. Where does it come from?
4. Is it widely known?
5. When was it first written?
6. What did it replace?
7. What language group is it part of?
8. Is it a national language?
9. Since when?
10. What others are also recognized?

Q: (CNN) -- Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage, died early Friday, according to a spokesman with Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was 83.

The assisted-suicide advocate had been hospitalized for pneumonia and a kidney-related ailment, his attorney had said.

He had struggled with kidney problems for years and had checked into a hospital earlier this month for similar problems, his lawyer, Mayer Morganroth, said. He checked back into the hospital in the Detroit suburb on May 18 after suffering a relapse, Morganroth said.

Kevorkian, dubbed "Dr. Death," made national headlines as a supporter of physician-assisted suicide and "right-to-die" legislation. He was charged with murder numerous times through the 1990s for helping terminally ill patients take their own lives.

He was convicted on second-degree murder charges in 1999 stemming from the death of a patient who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease. He was paroled in 2007.

After his release, he said he would not help end any more lives.

Morganroth told CNN Friday that he was summoned to the hospital Thursday night, with doctors telling him "the end was near" for Kevorkian.

1998 video sparked criminal case against Kevorkian

"The doctors and nurses were extremely supportive," Morganroth said. They played music by Kevorkian's favorite composer -- Bach -- in his room, and Kevorkian died about 2:30 a.m., Morganroth said.

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, who was Kervorkian's lawyer on several assisted-suicide cases, described Kevorkian as a "historic man."

1. Dr. Jack Kevorkian
2. Beaumont Hospital
3. Royal Oak, Michigan.
4. pathology
5. putting assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage.
6. no
7. in 2007.
8. "Dr. Death,"
9. kidney problems
10. May 18

Numbered questions:
1. Who died?
2. In what building?
3. Which is where?
4. What was his specialty?
5. What was he best known for?
6. Was he in jail?
7. When was he paroled?
8. What was his hickname?
9. Why was he in the hospital?
10. When did he check in for the last time?

Q: I have a friend who is a princess of the piggies. No, really! She lives in a piggy castle and has piggy gowns and piggy balls and a piggy carriage, though no piggy crown. She loves being a princess, but sometimes it gets boring. There's only so much fun to be had walking around a castle. She likes to cook too. So sometimes, she goes to the kitchen. She has a lot of fun in the kitchen making new foods. She likes to pretend she's a cook! Someday she wants to be a piggy princess cook! One of her favorite things to cook is pea soup. She loves soup, and pea soup most of all, even if tomato is pretty good too. She doesn't like vegetable or chicken soup at all. She grows her own peas, mushes them up in the soup, and then stirs it all up with a spoon. She also cooks it on the stove. She loves to cook, and I love to eat. We're best friends!

1. she is a princess of the piggies
2. she runs out of things to do
3. goes to the kitchen
4. to make new food
5. she thinks it's fun
6. soup
7. pea

Numbered questions:
1. Why does she have all those piggy things?
2. Why does being a princess get boring?
3. what does she do then
4. why
5. how does she feel about that
6. what is her favorite food
7. what kind