input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XXXVI

"Come on,--I'll show you the real dirt," Brissenden said to him, one evening in January.

They had dined together in San Francisco, and were at the Ferry Building, returning to Oakland, when the whim came to him to show Martin the "real dirt." He turned and fled across the water-front, a meagre shadow in a flapping overcoat, with Martin straining to keep up with him. At a wholesale liquor store he bought two gallon-demijohns of old port, and with one in each hand boarded a Mission Street car, Martin at his heels burdened with several quart-bottles of whiskey.

If Ruth could see me now, was his thought, while he wondered as to what constituted the real dirt.

"Maybe nobody will be there," Brissenden said, when they dismounted and plunged off to the right into the heart of the working-class ghetto, south of Market Street. "In which case you'll miss what you've been looking for so long."

"And what the deuce is that?" Martin asked.

"Men, intelligent men, and not the gibbering nonentities I found you consorting with in that trader's den. You read the books and you found yourself all alone. Well, I'm going to show you to-night some other men who've read the books, so that you won't be lonely any more."

"Not that I bother my head about their everlasting discussions," he said at the end of a block. "I'm not interested in book philosophy. But you'll find these fellows intelligences and not bourgeois swine. But watch out, they'll talk an arm off of you on any subject under the sun." 1. Where had the people eaten together?
2. What building were they at?
3. To where were they to return?
4. What had been bought at the liquor store?
5. What kind of liquor store was it?
6. Which car did he get on?
7. Who was at his heels?
8. And what did he have?
9. Where was the working class ghetto?
10. What month did all this occur?
11. Day or evening?
12. What was Brissenden going to show Martin?
13. Was this done on a whim?
14. What kind of coat was Brissenden wearing?
15. Did Martin have difficulty keeping up with him?
16. Where had Martin been consorting?
17. With what kind of entities had he been consorting?
numbered_answers: 1. San Francisco
2. the Ferry Building
3. Oakland
4. two gallon-demijohns of old port
5. a wholesale liquor store
6. a Mission Street car
7. Martin
8. several quart-bottles of whiskey
9. south of Market Street
10. January
11. evening
12. the real dirt
13. yes
14. an overcoat
15. yes
16. a trader's den
17. gibbering nonentities

input: (CNN) -- Contrary to a report in a British newspaper, Michael Jackson does not have skin cancer, says Randy Phillips, president and CEO of AEG Live, the promoter of the King of Pop's upcoming concerts at London's 02 Arena.

Michael Jackson gestures to the crowd at the March announcement for his series of London concerts.

"He's as healthy as he can be -- no health problems whatsoever," the executive told CNN.

Phillips said he asked Jackson point-blank about the skin cancer rumor yesterday, and the entertainer just brushed it off and laughed.

"He's used to rumors like this. He's been famous ever since he was 5. He doesn't read the newspapers or watch news reports," Phillips explained.

He also had an answer for an item in the British tabloid The Sun that said Jackson had been "making regular trips to a dermatologist in Beverly Hills wearing a mask and surgical cap."

"Michael is very close friends with his dermatologist. It's as simple as that," said Phillips.

According to Phillips, the 50-year-old pop star had passed a stringent physical exam before he and AEG inked their deal for Jackson to headline a 50-show residency at 02 beginning July 8. "And he'll have to take another before the shows start," he offered.

Phillips also told CNN a tour with sister Janet Jackson and other performing members of the Jackson family was "never in the works, at least from Michael Jackson's side."

He added, "Never say never, but right now, he's focusing on his own show. It's not about his family." 1. Does Michael Jackson have skin cancer?
2. Who says he didn't?
3. What's he the president and CEO of?
4. Where are they promoting an upcoming concert?
5. How long has Michael been famous?
6. Is he close to his dermatologist?
7. What's his sister's name?
8. Is he planning on touring with her?
9. What's he focusing on right now?
10. Is his show about his family? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. No
2. Randy Phillips
3. AEG Live
4. London's 02 Arena.
5. since he was 5
6. Yes
7. Janet Jackson
8. yes
9. on his own show
10. No

Q: Outside of the Low Countries, it is the native language of the majority of the population of Suriname, and also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. Historical minorities on the verge of extinction remain in parts of France and Germany, and in Indonesia,[n 1] while up to half a million native speakers may reside in the United States, Canada and Australia combined.[n 2] The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have evolved into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language[n 3] which is spoken to some degree by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia.[n 4]

Dutch is one of the closest relatives of both German and English[n 5] and is said to be roughly in between them.[n 6] Dutch, like English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive, and has levelled much of its morphology, including the case system.[n 7] Features shared with German include the survival of three grammatical gendersalbeit with few grammatical consequences[n 8]as well as the use of modal particles, final-obstruent devoicing, and a similar word order.[n 9] Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and incorporates more Romance loans than German but fewer than English.[n 10]

Answer the following questions:
1. What is Dutch a close relative of?
2. Where is it the majority native language?
3. Where else is it spoken?
4. Anywhere else?
5. Has Dutch underhgone the German shift?
6. What other languages haven't?
7. How many characteristics are shared with German?
8. What are they?
9. Does it include Romance loans?
10. Where does Afrikaans come frome?
A:
1. German and English
2. Suriname
3. Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten
4. France and Germany, Indonesia United States, Canada and Australia combined.
5. No
6. English
7. three
8. gramatical genders
9. yes
10. Southern Africa