Q: CHAPTER VI

PHIL SHOWS HIS STUBBORNNESS

Not one of the boys knew how to act or what to say. All wondered if Job Haskers had heard his name mentioned.

If the ill-natured instructor had heard, he made no mention of it. He looked sharply about the apartment and waved his hand to Luke.

"Watson, how many times have I told you that you make too much noise with your musical instruments?" he said, harshly. "You disturb the students who wish to study."

"I thought this was the recreation hour, Mr. Haskers," answered the lad, who loved to play the guitar and banjo.

"True, but I think we get altogether too much of your music," growled the instructor. He turned to Dave, Roger, and Phil. "So you are back at last. It is high time, if you wish to go on with your regular classes."

"We told Doctor Clay that we would make up what we have missed, Mr. Haskers," answered Dave, in a gentle tone, for he knew how easy it was to start a quarrel with the man before him. As Phil had once said, Job Haskers was always walking around "with a chip on his shoulder."

"And how soon will you make up the lessons in my class?" demanded the instructor.

"I think I can do it inside of ten days or two weeks."

"That won't suit me, Porter. You'll have to do better. I'll give each of you just a week--one week, understand? If you can't make the lessons up in that time I'll have to drop you to the next lower class."

1. Doctor Clay
2. The students
3. Too much noise
4. Musical instruments
5. They thought it was the recreation hour
6. Job Haskers
7. He's an instructor
8. No
9. To make up their lessons
10. One week
11. They would be dropped to the next lower class
12. Dave, Roger, and Phil
13. The guitar and banjo
14. The lad who loved to play the guitar and banjo
15. Watson

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the doctor in the story?
2. Who did Mr. Haskers think would be disturbed?
3. How would they be disturbed?
4. What made the noise?
5. Why were they playing their instruments?
6. Who was complaining about the noise?
7. What does he do?
8. Is he easy to get along with?
9. What did he ask of his students for his class?
10. How soon could they make them up?
11. If they didn't what would happen?
12. Who were the students?
13. What instruments did they play?
14. Who was Luke?
15. What was his last name?

Q: Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- The day after Christmas was a tough one for Santa in his ancestral homeland of Turkey.

A Muslim youth group held a demonstration Thursday in Istanbul, blasting the "jolly old elf" of legend and lore for contributing to moral decay and urging residents to turn against him.

"Traditions such as new year celebrations, Christmas tree decorations, and Santa Claus leaving presents are leading to degeneration of our culture and leading to identity crises in our society. It tears our youth from their own culture and familiarizes them with the culture of the West leading them to embrace those values," the Anatolia Youth Association said in a statement.

The group used an inflatable plastic Santa as a prop -- littering the ground below it with beer cans, a syringe and a cross to illustrate the dangers of inviting Santa into Turkish homes.

They also distributed an image of a man delivering a brutal left hook to Santa's bearded cheek.

Three years ago, the same group stabbed a blow-up Santa.

Such sentiments are not widespread in Turkey.

Many secular Muslims in Turkey decorate their homes with Christmas trees and Santas -- known in Turkey as "Noel Baba," or Father Christmas. They exchange gifts not on Christmas, but rather New Year's Day.

Despite Thursday's unpleasantness, Turkey and ol' Claus go way back -- all the way to 4th Century. That's when, as religious tradition has it, the Christian St. Nicholas secretly gifted money and other items to residents around his home in what is now the southern Turkish city of Demre, becoming the model for the modern Santa Claus.

1. Santa
2. A Muslim youth group
3. Since the 4th Century.
4. St. Nicholas
5. Christian
6. Gave money and other items away
7. Demre
8. Southern Turkey
9. No
10. Muslims
11. Secular
12. Decorate with Christmas trees and Santas
13. Do they some other time?
14. on New Year's Day.
15. "Noel Baba," or Father Christmas
16. Surrounded a plastic Santa with beer cans, a syringe and a cross
17. the dangers that would invade Turkish homes.
18. Handed out an image of a man hitting Santa.
19. Stabbed a blow-up Santa.
20. Istanbul

Numbered questions:
1. What custom is controversial in Turkey?
2. Who doesn't like the custom?
3. How long has Santa been associated with this country?
4. Who is Santa patterned after?
5. What religion is he?
6. What did he do?
7. Where?
8. Where is that?
9. Does all of Turkey agree with the demonstrators?
10. What other religion celebrate the tradition?
11. Are they religious?
12. How do they celebrate?
13. Do they exchange presents on Christmas?
14. Do they some other time?
15. Is Santa known by anything else?
16. What did the demonstrators do to show their displeasure?
17. What did this signify?
18. What else did they do?
19. What did they do three years ago?
20. Where was this demonstration?

Q: Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's parliament on Sunday elected a leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister with a simple majority.

Baburam Bhattarai, 57, vice-chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will become the fourth prime minister since Nepal became a republic in 2008.

After his election Bhattarai said he would attempt to complete the peace process and the long-delayed new constitution.

Bhattarai received 340 votes in parliament, beating his rival Ram Chandra Poudel, 66, of the Nepali Congress, who received 235 votes.

Bhattarai, who has a degree in architecture and a doctorate in regional planning, was able to get the crucial support of the regional Madhesi parties from southern Nepal.

The 65 votes of the five parties of the Madhesi front were crucial for Bhattrai, whose party is the biggest in the 601-member parliament but lacks a majority.

Media reports say the Madhesi parties have been promised 12 ministerial posts in exchange for their support.

Bhattari is the second leader of the former rebels to become prime minister.

The Maoists became the biggest party in the 2008 elections and their chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was prime minister for nine months. He resigned in a dispute with the president, who reinstated an army chief Dahal had fired.

Earlier this month Jhalanath Khanal resigned as prime minister after he was unable to persuade the former Maoist rebels to demobilize and reintegrate their fighters in a deal that was agreeable to the other political parties.

The Maoists fought a ten-year insurgency from 1996 to 2006 in which about 16,000 people were killed.

1. Baburam Bhattarai
2. yes
3. regional planning
4. he five parties of the Madhesi front
5. no
6. the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
7. 340 votes
8. Ram Chandra Poude
9. 235
10. no
11. Pushpa Kamal Dahal
12. nine months
13. Jhalanath Khanal
14. yes
15. ten-year
16. 1996 to 2006
17. about 16,000
18. 12 ministerial posts
19. 2008
20. Four

Numbered questions:
1. Who will be the next prime minister of Nepal?
2. Does he have a doctorate?
3. In what?
4. Whose votes were important?
5. Are they the smallest party?
6. What group is Bhattarai a part of?
7. How many votes did he receive?
8. Who did he defeat?
9. How many votes did he receive?
10. Is he the first of his group to rule?
11. Who else?
12. For how long?
13. Who just quit the role?
14. Did Bhattarai's political group fight a war?
15. How long?
16. From when to when?
17. How many died?
18. What will the group who supported him receive?
19. When was the republic founded?
20. How many prime ministers will it have?