Problem: CHAPTER XXIII

THE HAVERLEY FINANCES AND MRS. ROBINSON

"It bothers the head off of me," said Molly Tooney to Mike, as she sat eating her supper in the Cobhurst kitchen, "to try to foind out what thim two upstairs is loike, anyway, 'specially her. I've been here nigh onto two weeks, now, and I don't know her no betther than when I fust come. For the life of me I can't make out whether she's a gal woman or a woman gal. Sometimes she's one and sometimes t'other. And then there's he. Why didn't he marry and settle before he took a house to himself? And in the two Sundays I've been here, nather of thim's been to church. If they knowed what was becomin' to thim, they'd behave like Christians, if they are heretics."

Mike sat at a little table in the corner of the kitchen with his back to Molly, eating his supper. He had enough of the Southern negro in him to make him dislike to eat with white people or to turn his face toward anybody while partaking of his meals. But he also had enough of a son of Erin in him to make him willing to talk whenever he had a chance. Turning his head a little, he asked, "Now look a here, Molly; if a man's a heretic, how can he be a Christian?"

"There's two kinds of heretics," said Molly, filling her great tea-cup for the fourth time, and holding the teapot so that the last drop of the strong decoction should trickle into the cup; "Christian heretics and haythen heretics. You're one of the last koind yoursilf, Mike, for you never go nigh a church, except to whitewash the walls of it. And you'll never git no benefit to your own sowl, from Phoebe's boardin' the minister, nather. Take my word for that, Mike."
1. Where did Mike sit?
2. What is the place like?
3. Was there anyone else?
4. Who?
5. What he was doing?
6. What geographical location influenced him?
7. Is he presumably a black person?
8. Did he like eating with white folks?
9. Does it seem Molly is white?
10. But does he like to talk if he gets a chance?
11. From whom he got that habit?
12. Did he eventually talk to her?
13. Did he question a person's belief if that person was a heretic?
14. Which specific belief system he was talking about?
15. According to her how many types of heretics are there?
16. What are they?
17. What category she put him in?
18. Did he ever go to the church?
19. For what reason?
20. Did he ever say his prayer there?
Answer: 1. at a little table
2. kitchen
3. yes
4. Molly
5. eating
6. South
7. Southern negro in him
8. no
9. yes
10. yes
11. his father
12. yes
13. yes
14. Christianity
15. two
16. Christian heretics and haythen heretics
17. haythen heretics
18. yes
19. to whitewash the walls
20. no

Problem: Bob Dylan is being investigated on suspicion of inciting hatred in Paris over comments he made in Rolling Stone magazine, French prosecutors said Tuesday.

An organization representing Croatians in France pressed charges against Dylan for allegedly comparing the conflict between Croatians and Serbs to the Nazis' persecution of Jews in an interview last year for the French edition of Rolling Stone.

"If you got a slave master or Klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. That stuff lingers to this day. Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood," the influential singer-songwriter was quoted as saying.

While a Croatian group has said Dylan was referencing the violence that came with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, it's unclear whether the long-outspoken musician was referring to Yugoslavia or the crimes committed when the Ustasha ruled Croatia during World War II.

The Paris prosecutor's office said Dylan was placed under formal investigation last month by the Paris Main Court for "public injury" and "incitement to hatred."

Vlatko Maric, secretary general of the Representative Council of the Croatian Community and Institutions, told CNN his organization had brought the case almost a year ago.

Explaining the council's decision to pursue the case against Dylan, Maric said the artist's remarks in Rolling Stone were of a "rare violence" that had deeply shocked people from a nation still wounded by the conflict of the 1990s.

"An entire people is being compared to criminal organizations" like the Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan, he said. "The Croatians are peaceful people who respect Bob Dylan as an artist, but we must remind him that he can't make such remarks.
1. When was Dylan placed under investigation?
2. By who?
3. For what?
4. What evidence do they have?
5. With who?
6. Who was he talking about?
7. What did he compare them to?
8. Are they peaceful?
9. Who talked to the news?
10. When was the conflict?
Answer: 1. last month
2. by the Paris Main Court
3. "public injury" and "incitement to hatred
4. in an interview last year
5. French edition of Rolling Stone
6. Croatians and Serbs
7. Nazis' persecution of Jews
8. No
9. Bob Dylan
10. in the 1990s

Problem: CHAPTER XXXV: Lightfoot Is Reckless

In his search for the new stranger who had come to the Green Forest, Lightfoot the Deer was wholly reckless. He no longer stole like a gray shadow from thicket to thicket as he had done when searching for the beautiful stranger with the dainty feet. He bounded along, careless of how much noise he made. From time to time he would stop to whistle a challenge and to clash his horns against the trees and stamp the ground with his feet.

After such exhibitions of anger he would pause to listen, hoping to hear some sound which would tell him where the stranger was. Now and then he found the stranger's tracks, and from them he knew that this stranger was doing: just what he had been doing, seeking to find the beautiful newcomer with the dainty feet. Each time he found these signs Lightfoot's rage increased.

Of course it didn't take Sammy Jay long to discover what was going on. There is little that escapes those sharp eyes of Sammy Jay. As you know, he had early discovered the game of hide and seek Lightfoot had been playing with the beautiful young visitor who had come down to the Green Forest from the Great Mountain. Then, by chance, Sammy had visited the Laughing Brook just as the big stranger had come down there to drink. For once Sammy had kept his tongue still. "There is going to be excitement here when Lightfoot discovers this fellow," thought Sammy. "If they ever meet, and I have a feeling that they will, there is going to be a fight worth seeing. I must pass the word around."
1. Who was acting recklessly?
2. Who was he looking for?
3. Where?
4. Had he looked for someone else previously?
5. Who?
6. How had he searched for her?
7. Was he doing that now?
8. What did he periodically halt to do?
9. And what else?
10. Anything else?
11. Did he find any sign of his quarry?
12. What?
13. What did he think his quarry was doing?
14. How did this make him feel?
15. Who had observed what was happening?
16. What had he discovered previously?
17. With whom?
18. Where did she come from?
19. Who else had he seen?
20. Where?
Answer:
1. Lightfoot the Deer
2. the new stranger
3. the Green Forest
4. Yes.
5. the beautiful stranger with the dainty feet.
6. He stole like a gray shadow
7. No.
8. to whistle a challenge
9. to clash his horns against the trees
10. stamp the ground with his feet.
11. Yes.
12. the stranger's tracks
13. seeking to find the beautiful newcomer with the dainty feet.
14. his rage increased.
15. Sammy Jay
16. the game of hide and seek Lightfoot had been playing
17. the beautiful young visitor
18. the Great Mountain
19. the big stranger
20. the Laughing Brook