Problem: CHAPTER XX

PLOTTING AGAINST DICK ROVER

"Gabe Werner!"

"Where is he?"

"Up the street," answered Randy. "Come on after him."

"Who's the man you are after?" questioned one of the men who had been interviewing Andy and Fred.

"He's a young fellow who once went to a military academy with us. He's a regular bully and did something for which he ought to be locked up," was Fred's reply, and then he rushed down into the street, following his three cousins.

"How can Gabe Werner be down here?" questioned Andy. "Why, we left him in New York City!"

"I can't help that, Andy. It was Werner just as sure as I am standing here. I just happened to glance out of the window and saw him crossing the roadway. He turned his face straight toward me, and I couldn't help but recognize him."

"Where did he go?"

"I'll point out the place when we get there."

By this time the four Rovers had left the boardwalk and were plowing along on the side of the road through mud that varied from an inch to six inches in depth. They had started to run, but were soon compelled to slow up.

"Gee, this is something fierce!" panted Andy.

"Oh, you cinder path!" chanted his twin. "Wouldn't you like to do a hundred-yard dash on this road?"

"It's not much farther," announced Jack. "I saw him heading for that shack yonder."

The place he mentioned was a small building erected of rough boards, with a galvanized roof. They neared the shack to find two men sitting before it on a log smoking their pipes. They appeared somewhat startled.
1. Who were the men after?
2. Who was being interviewed?
3. Where did randy think he was?
4. Why?
5. How many rovers were there?
6. From where did they depart?
7. How deep did the mud reach?
8. Where did Jack see Gabe heading?
9. Where was it?
10. What kind of top did the building have?
11. Was it a large place?
12. How many people were there?
13. What were they doing?
14. Smoking what?
15. Where the guys expecting someone to show up?
Answer: 1. Gabe Werner
2. Andy
3. New York City
4. we left him
5. four
6. boardwalk
7. an inch to six inches
8. shack
9. yonder
10. galvanized
11. no
12. two
13. smoking
14. pipes
15. yes

Problem: Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University class of 1966 with a political science major. Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, and during 19681969 served an abbreviated four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service, he was awarded combat medals that include the Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and three Purple Heart Medals. Securing an early return to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War organization in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesman and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. He appeared in the Fulbright Hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of war crimes.

After receiving his J.D. from Boston College Law School, Kerry worked in Massachusetts as an Assistant District Attorney. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis from 1983 to 1985 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and was sworn in the following January. On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he led a series of hearings from 1987 to 1989 which were a precursor to the IranContra affair. Kerry was re-elected to additional terms in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. In 2002, Kerry voted to authorize the President "to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein", but warned that the administration should exhaust its diplomatic avenues before launching war.
1. What awards did Kerry receive?
2. Where was he born?
3. Did he go to a normal public school?
4. What college did he attend?
5. What did he study?
6. What war did he serve in?
7. Did he do any other schooling?
8. What degree did he get?
9. What committee was he on?
10. When was his last election?
Answer: 1. Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and three Purple Heart Medals. Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts.
2. Aurora, Colorado. Aurora, Colorado
3. attended boarding school. No.
4. Yale University. Yale University.
5. political science. Political Science.
6. South Vietnam. The Vietnam War.
7. .D. from Boston College Law School. Yes.
8. J.D. . J.D.
9. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
10. 2008. In 2008.

Problem: Pacing and Pausing Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing. Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara. It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel. The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping . And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in -- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up. That's why slight differences in conversational style -- tiny little things like microseconds of pause -- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this cause was a judgment of psychological problems -- even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for _ training.
1. Who is Steve's wife?
2. Is she very talkative?
3. Have she and Steve been married a long time?
4. What conversation technique are Betty and Sara not in sync with?
5. Does Betty think that Sara talks too much?
6. What is one result if people's conversation techniques are different?
7. What's another?
8. What's a possible reason that Betty is used to long pauses?
9. Who is American?
10. Do Americans generally have longer or shorter pauses than people from Latin America?
11. Do any countries have generally longer pauses than the UK?
12. What is one example?
13. What is a possible outcome of having different conversational styles?
14. Is it possible some people see pausing and pacing as a barometer on intellect?
15. Would someone from the UK think an American as pushy because of how they talk?
16. Is the way we pace our conversations something we actively think about while we are talking?
17. The woman from the southwest moved to what area?
18. Was she seen as introverted at home?
19. What was she asked to do after her evaluation?
20. Why?
Answer:
1. Betty
2. no
3. no
4. Pacing and Pausing
5. yes
6. start to talk before the other person is finished
7. fail to talk when the other person is finished
8. Betty is British,
9. Sara
10. shorter
11. yes
12. Latin America
13. stereotyping
14. yes
15. yes
16. no
17. an eastern city
18. n
19. take a training course
20. her inability to speak up