Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- As violence continues to wrack Iraq, another ethnic slaughter may be in the making by Sunni extremists from ISIS.

ISIS fighters have besieged the ethnic Turkmen Shiite town of Amerli in the north for two months, and its fewer than 20,000 residents are without power and running out of food, water and medical supplies.

"The situation of the people in Amerli is desperate and demands immediate action to prevent the possible massacre of its citizens," said Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for Iraq.

He said the suffering was "unspeakable" and demanded that the Shiite majority Iraqi government "relieve the siege" on Amerli.

Small town fights ISIS

About 5,000 families live in Amerli, which has been under siege for 70 days, according to Dr. Ali Albayati, head of the Turkmen Saving Foundation. He told CNN the town is running without electricity, is out of medicine and can only turn to wells for water.

Nearly three dozen villages surrounding Amerli are already under ISIS control, Albayati said. The people of Amerli are relying on the Iraqi government to take them out by helicopter or support them with food drops, Albayati said. In the past 10 days, he added, only one flight has delivered food.

Surrounded on four sides, the 17,400 residents have had to defend themselves with only the help of local police, said Masrwr Aswad of Iraq's Human Rights Commission.

Their situation echoes the ordeal of Iraq's ethnic Yazidis, whose plight after they were forced to flee into the mountains to escape militants ISIS triggered U.S. aid drops and the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS.
1. How long has Amerli been under siege?
2. Who is responsible to them being under siege?
3. How many people reside there?
4. Where are residents going for their water?
5. Who is reporting this information?
6. Anyone specific?
7. What does he do?
8. How is food getting to the people?
9. Who is doing the food drops?
10. How many have there been recently?
11. Have the residents had to defend themselves?
12. Is anyone helping?
13. Who?
14. Are they at any sort of disadvantage?
15. How so?
16. Does this story remind us of any other?
17. What happened?
18. Did anyone help them?
19. Who?
20. How?
21. What was noteworthy about that?

Numbered answers:
1. 70 days
2. ISIS
3. fewer than 20,000
4. wells
5. CNN
6. Dr. Ali Albayati
7. head of the Turkmen Saving Foundation
8. food drops
9. the Iraqi government
10. only one
11. yes
12. yes
13. local police
14. yes
15. they're surrounded on four sides
16. yes
17. The Yazidis were forced to flee into the mountains
18. yes
19. the U.S.
20. aid drops and airstrikes against ISIS
21. they were the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS

Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XI.--The Night of Adventures.

A cold March wind whistled and yelled round the twisted chimneys of the _Hit or Miss_. The day had been a trial to every sense. First there would come a long-drawn distant moan, a sigh like that of a querulous woman; then the sigh grew nearer and became a shriek, as if the same woman were working herself up into a passion; and finally a gust of rainy hail, mixed with dust and small stones, was dashed, like a parting insult, on the windows of the _Hit or Miss_.

Then the shriek died away again into a wail and a moan, and so _da capo_.

"Well, Eliza, what do you do now that the pantomime season is over?" said Barton to Miss Gullick, who was busily dressing a doll, as she perched on the table in the parlor of the _Hit or Miss_.

Barton occasionally looked into the public-house, partly to see that Maitland's investment was properly managed, partly because the place was near the scene of his labors; not least, perhaps, because he had still an unacknowledged hope that light on the mystery of Margaret would come from the original centre of the troubles.

"I'm in no hurry to take an engagement," answered the resolute Eliza, holding up and examining her doll. It was a fashionable doll, in a close-fitting tweed ulster, which covered a perfect panoply of other female furniture, all in the latest mode. As the child worked, she looked now and then at the illustrations in a journal of the fashions. "There's two or three managers in treaty with me," said Eliza. "There's the _Follies and Frivolities_ down Norwood way, and the _Varieties_ in the 'Ammersmith Road. Thirty shillings a week and my dresses, that's what I ask for, and I'll get it too! Just now I'm taking a vacation, and making an honest penny with these things," and she nodded at a little basket full of the wardrobe of dolls.
1. Who sometimes looked into the public-house?
2. What was one of the reasons he did?
3. What was another?
4. Who wasn't in a hurry?
5. Who was busy dressing a doll?
6. Where was she?
7. Was it windy around the Hit or Miss?
8. What was the doll dressed in?
9. What was the child looking at?
10. Who was in treaty with Eliza?
11. Who was looking at the illustrations in the journal?
12. How many shillings did she want per week?
13. What else did she ask for?
14. Did she say she was on vacation?
15. What was in the basket?
16. What mystery did Barton hope to find out about?
17. What had been a trial to the senses?
18. What did the wind sound like at first?
19. And who did it sound like?
20. Was there rain?
Numbered answers:
1. Barton
2. see that Maitland's investment was properly managed
3. the place was near the scene of his labors
4. Eliza
5. Miss Gullick
6. on the table
7. yes
8. close-fitting tweed ulster
9. her doll
10. two or three managers
11. Eliza
12. Thirty
13. dresses
14. yes
15. wardrobe of dolls
16. of Margaret
17. The day
18. long-drawn distant moan
19. a sigh like that of a querulous woman
20. yes, rainy hail