Problem: Chad, officially the Republic of Chad ( '; "Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest and Niger to the west. It is the fifth largest country in Africa in terms of area.

Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the largest wetland in Chad and the second-largest in Africa. The capital N'Djamena is the largest city.

Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. The religions of Chad are Islam (at 55%), followed by Christianity (at 40%).

Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbers. By the end of the 1st millennium BC, a series of states and empires had risen and fallen in Chad's Sahelian strip, each focused on controlling the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region. France conquered the territory by 1920 and incorporated it as part of French Equatorial Africa. In 1960, Chad obtained independence under the leadership of Francois Tombalbaye. Resentment towards his policies in the Muslim north culminated in the eruption of a long-lasting civil war in 1965. In 1979 the rebels conquered the capital and put an end to the south's hegemony. However, the rebel commanders fought amongst themselves until Hissene Habre defeated his rivals. He was overthrown in 1990 by his general Idriss Deby. Since 2003 the Darfur crisis in Sudan has spilt over the border and destabilised the nation, with hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees living in and around camps in eastern Chad. Unsustainable high birth rates and a lack of agriculture let the country persist in poverty.
1. roughly how many zones is Chad divided into?
2. what type of region is in the South?
3. and in the North?
4. what is in the middle?
5. what is the official name for the country?
6. what is the country named after?
7. is that the largest wetland in Africa?
8. what is its rank?
Answer: 1. three
2. a Sudanian Savanna zone
3. a desert zone
4. an arid belt
5. the Republic of Chad
6. Lake Chad
7. no
8. second-largest

Q: Billy and his friend Jake were walking together to meet their friends Kevin and Gordon at the park. They sometimes played in each Jake's backyard, but there was much more room at the park. And it was far too dangerous to play in the street. They were going to play touch football. They would sometimes played baseball and soccer, and even kickball but today the weather was perfect for football. The summer breeze almost blew Billy's cap off. Billy loved summertime. He liked the fall, too, when the leaves started to turn pretty colors. But he hated winter. Billy didn't like the snow. Spring was also nice. Jake was drinking a Pepsi, and Billy had a bottle of water. Gordon and Kevin would most likely be drinking blue or red Gatorade at the park where they waited.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was walking together?
2. Where were they going?
3. To do what?
4. Why were'nt they going to play any other sports?
5. Who else was going to play?
6. Was there anyone else?
7. Why was the weather perfect?
8. Does Billy enjoy any other season?
9. Which ones?
10. Any others?
11. Why not?
12. Was he holding anything?
13. What was it?
14. Anything else?
15. How do you know that?
A: 1. Billy and Jake
2. to the park
3. play touch football
4. because the weather was perfect for football
5. Kevin and Gordon
6. No
7. because Billy loved summertime
8. Yes
9. Fall and spring
10. No
11. because he doesn't like the snow
12. Yes
13. a bottle of water
14. Yes
15. because he had a cap

Problem: CHAPTER XX.

HOW CAPTAIN USSHER SUCCEEDED.

Late the next morning, Feemy and the other girls got up; they had slept together to make room in the house for the victorious Bob, but as Father John had prophesied, they were all too tired to be much inconvenienced by this. Immediately after breakfast the car came round, and Feemy, afraid to wish her friends good bye too affectionately lest suspicion should be raised, and promising to come back again in a day or two, returned to Ballycloran.

Thady was out when she got there, but he was expected in to dinner. Her father was glad to see her, and began assuring her that he would do all in his power to protect her from the evil machinations of her brother, and then again took his grog and his pipe. She went into the kitchen, and summoning Biddy, desired her to follow her up to her bedroom. When there, she carefully closed the door, and sitting down on the bed, looked in her attendant's face and said,

"Biddy, if I told you a secret, you'd never betray me, would you?"

"Is it I, Miss Feemy, that's known you so long? in course I wouldn't," and the girl pricked up her ears, and looked all anxiety. "What is it, Miss?--Shure you know av you tould me to hould my tongue, never a word I'd spake to any mortial about anything."

"I know you wouldn't, Biddy; that's why I'm going to tell you; but you mustn't whisper it to Katty, for I think she'd be telling Thady."
1. Who left after breakfast?
2. Where did she go?
3. Was Thady home?
4. Was anyone there when she got there?
5. Who
6. What is he smoking?
7. What does she need protection from?
8. Who is her servant?
9. When is she?
10. Where do they go?
11. Whose idea was that?
12. What does she want to tell Biddy?
13. Who can't she repeat it to?
14. Why not?
15. Can she trust Biddy?
16. Did she spend the night away from home?
17. Who said they would be tired?
18. Why did they need extra space in the home?
19. How soon after the meal did the vehicle come?
20. Did she slam the bedroom door?
Answer:
1. Feemy
2. Ballycloran
3. no
4. yes
5. Her father
6. his pipe
7. her brother
8. Biddy
9. in the kitchen
10. to Feemy's bedroom
11. Feemy's
12. a secret,
13. Katty
14. She'd tell Thady
15. yes
16. yes
17. Father John
18. for Bob
19. Immediately
20. no