Q: For most caffeine consumers, its chief benefit is that it helps you get more done. This is what makes it unusual, says Stephen Braun, author of Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine. "Its appeal is that it helps us earn more money," he adds. "What makes it different from other drugs is that it's used as a productivity tool -- not for pleasure." Many of history's creative minds have also been associated with a large amount of caffeine consumption. According to one biographer, the French novelist and playwright Balzac drank as many as 50 cups of coffee a day. "Were it not for coffee one could not write, which is to say one could not live," he once insisted. For seven years, the film-maker David Lynch ate at the same Los Angeles diner every day, drinking up to seven sweetened cups of coffee "with lots of sugar" in one sitting, which he said would guarantee that "lots of ideas" arrived. Ludwig van Beethoven was said to have painstakingly counted out exactly 60 coffee beans per cup when he brewed coffee. Perhaps recent tales of caffeine excess featured the singer Robbie Williams, who reportedly consumed 36 cups of black coffee and 20 cans of Red Bull a day. It is the routine task itself, as much as the stimulating effects of caffeine, that makes the process so important, says Mason Currey, author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. "A lot of artists use the process of making coffee as a gateway to the creative process," he adds. "You need to get into the right mindset to do that sort of work, and the preparation process provides a focus." One problem with attempting to control caffeine, says Braun, is that it affects everyone differently -- it is impossible to work out a "safe" limit that works for everyone. "Eventually, you have to become your own scientist -- there isn't an alternative to careful self-experimentation," he says.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the main side effect of caffeine?
2. What makes this more unique than other drugs?
3. What do many of the famous creative people have in common?
4. What famous play writed would drink a ton of it?
5. How much did he drink?
6. What would happen if he didn't?
7. What film maker was famous of eating at the same place?
8. How much would he drink?
9. What famous composer was specific about his coffee?
10. How?
11. What did a famous sing consume along side his coffee?
12. How much?
A: 1. it helps you get more done
2. it's used as a productivity tool
3. They have been associated with a large amount of caffeine consumption.
4. Balzac
5. 50 cups of coffee a day
6. he could not write
7. David Lynch
8. seven sweetened cups
9. Ludwig van Beethoven
10. he counted out exactly 60 coffee beans per cup
11. Red Bull
12. 20 cans
Q: (Rolling Stone) -- On July 25th, 1965, Bob Dylan walked onstage at the Newport Folk Festival, plugged in his 1964 sunburst Fender Stratocaster and tore through a scorching three-song set. It was a crucial turning point in his career, and it quickly became rock & roll legend -- the moment when Dylan transformed from a protest folkie to a rebel genius. But the guitar Dylan played on that mythic afternoon went missing for the next 47 years -- until recently, when a team of PBS researchers told New Jersey resident Dawn Peterson that she had it in her home.

Peterson's late father, Victor Quinto, was a private pilot who worked for Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, in the mid-1960s. "After one flight, my father saw there were three guitars left on the plane," she says. He contacted the company a few times about picking the guitars up, but nobody ever got back to him."

Last fall, Peterson asked PBS's History Detectives to help verify her find. The 1964 Stratocaster came with 13 pages of typed and handwritten song lyrics tucked inside its guitar case -- but host Wes Cowan was skeptical at first. "It's so important, historically and culturally, that I couldn't have imagined Bob Dylan would have just left it on an airplane," he says.

In fact, Dylan says that's not what happened. "Bob has possession of the electric guitar he played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965," his attorney, Orin Snyder, said in a statement. "He did own several other Stratocaster guitars that were stolen from him around that time, as were some handwritten lyrics."

Answer the following questions:
1. What brand of guitar was Dylan playing
2. Where did he play?
3. how long was his show
4. what year was it?
5. where is the famous guitar now?
6. What was found with the other guitars?
7. How did Quinto get the guitars
8. Who was Victor Quinto?
9. who was he contracted through?
10. Who did Dawn contact about verifying the guitars authenticity
11. What did PBS have to do with it?
12. were they successful
13. what brand of guitars were stolen
14. was the manager contacted about the guitars left on the plane?
A: 1. sunburst Fender Stratocaster
2. Newport Folk Festival,
3. three-song set
4. 1965
5. "Bob has possession
6. handwritten song lyrics
7. three guitars left on the plane
8. private pilot
9. worked for Dylan's manager, Albert
10. unknown
11. help verify her find
12. unknown
13. unknown
14. unknown
Q: CHAPTER XVI.

JONATHAN STUBBS.

But, though Nina differed somewhat from Ayala as to their ideas as to life in general, they were close friends, and everything was done both by the Marchesa and by her daughter to make Ayala happy. There was not very much of going into grand society, and that difficulty about the dresses solved itself, as do other difficulties. There came a few presents, with entreaties from Ayala that presents of that kind might not be made. But the presents were, of course, accepted, and our girl was as prettily arrayed, if not as richly, as the best around her. At first there was an evening at the opera, and then a theatre,--diversions which are easy. Ayala, after her six dull months in Kingsbury Crescent, found herself well pleased to be taken to easy amusements. The carriage in the park was delightful to her, and delightful a visit which was made to her by Lucy. For the Tringle carriage could be spared for a visit in Brook Street, even though there was still a remembrance in the bosom of Aunt Emmeline of the evil things which had been done by the Marchesa in Rome. Then there came a dance,--which was not so easy. The Marchesa and Nina were going to a dance at Lady Putney's, and arrangements were made that Ayala should be taken. Ayala begged that there might be no arrangements, declared that she would be quite happy to see Nina go forth in her finery. But the Marchesa was a woman who always had her way, and Ayala was taken to Lady Putney's dance without a suspicion on the part of any who saw her that her ball-room apparatus was not all that it ought to be.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where the girls alike in every way?
2. Was there a problem with something?
3. What?
4. Was it remedied?
5. By whom?
6. How?
7. Where was there to be an event?
8. What kind?
9. Was Nina attending?
10. Who else?
11. What of Ayala?
12. Did she want to go?
13. Who insisted?
14. How long was she at Kingsbury Crescent?
15. Were they fun?
16. Did they try to please Ayala?
17. Did she enjoy anything at the park?
18. Had anyone come to see her?
19. Whom?
20. Who could not forget something?
A:
1. no
2. Yes
3. The dresses.
4. Yes
5. It solved itself.
6. Presents.
7. Lady Putney's
8. A dance.
9. Yes
10. The Marchesa
11. Arrangements made to take her
12. No
13. the Marchesa
14. Six months.
15. Dull.
16. Yes.
17. The carriage.
18. Yes
19. Lucy.
20. Aunt Emmeline