Question: Jake liked his old sneakers but they were getting too small. He tried on sixteen different pairs of shoes at the mall with his mom. He was looking for green shoes with blue laces. He couldn't find any he liked and left sad. His mom wanted to cheer him up. They stopped for lunch at a restaurant drive-thru. "What do you want to order?" asked Jake's Mom as she got a cheeseburger and a large drink. He ordered a hamburger. While they ate, Jake and his mom talked about different shoes Jake might try on next. He didn't want to go back to the store, but he really wanted green shoes. He ate some of her fries as he thought about it. Suddenly, his mom had a great idea. They would paint a pair of new shoes green! Jake loved that idea. So they went to the Art Store and bought green paint. They went back to the mall and bought new blue shoelaces and white sneakers. Jake was so excited about his shoes that he painted them as soon as he got home. Afterwards, he walked around the house in his new shoes dripping green paint. 1. What did Jake like?
2. WHat was wrong with them?
3. What did he do?
4. for what?
5. How many did he try?
6. Who was he there with?
7. What was he looking for?
8. Did he find them?
9. HOw did he feel?
10. What did his mom do?
11. What did she do?
12. What did she ask him?
13. What did he get
14. How about her?
15. What did they talk about?
16. Did he want to go?
17. What happened next?
18. which was? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. his old sneakers
2. too small.
3. went to the mall
4. to try on shoes
5. 16
6. his mom
7. green shoes with blue laces.
8. no
9. sad.
10. wanted to cheer him up.
11. stopped for lunch at a restaurant
12. What do you want to order
13. a hamburger
14. cheeseburger and a large drink
15. about different shoes Jake might try on next.
16. no
17. his mom had a great idea
18. They would paint a pair of new shoes green

Q: We know the famous ones--the Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells --but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper ? Shouldn' t we know who they are?

Joan Mclean thinks so. In fact, Mclean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range, feels so strongly about this matter that she' s developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning "who" invented "what" , however, Mclean also likes her students to learn the answers to the "why" and "how" questions. According to Mclean, "When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try. "

Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean's statement. "If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper' s invention," said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major. "I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rain storm into something so constructive. " Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer.

So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights, so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn' t be a built - in device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham, Alabama, Anderson started drafting out solutions. One of her ideas, a lever on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside, became the first windshield wiper.

Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations. It' s hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Morgan' s traffic light. It' s equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett' s innovation that makes glass invisible. Can you picture life without clear windows and eyeglasses?

1. Mountain University in Range
2. professor of physics
3. "why
4. YES
5. unbreakable umbrella
6. Tommy Lee
7. physics
8. senior
9. dreamed
10. 1902
11. Mary Anderson
12. New York City
13. Birmingham, Alabama
14. stormy
15. traffic light
16. Katherine J. Blodgett
17. clear windows
18. YES
19. Morgan
20. NO

Numbered questions:
1. Where does Joan Mclean work?
2. What is her job title?
3. Which questions does she want her students to answer?
4. Is she preparing her students to become inventors?
5. What did one of her students invent?
6. What was his name?
7. and his major?
8. What year is he in school?
9. What bad experience led to his invention?
10. When was the idea for the windshield wiper brainstormed?
11. By who?
12. Where was she travelling?
13. Where was her home?
14. What kind of weather sparked her creativity?
15. What did Garret A. Morgan invent?
16. Who helped made glass see-through?
17. What is one example of her technology in use?
18. Are Garret and Katherine famous?
19. What is one example of a well-known inventor?
20. Does Joan Mclean think famous inventors are the only important inventor to study?

input: CHAPTER III

ON THE PLAINS

The purchase of a buffalo robe, blankets, boots, and a Colt's revolver occupied but a short time, but the rifle was a much more difficult matter.

"You can always rely upon a Colt," the miner said, "but rifles are different things; and as your life may often depend upon your shooting-iron carrying straight, you have got to be mighty careful about it. A gun that has got the name of being a good weapon will fetch four times as much as a new one."

Denver was but a small place; there was no regular gunsmith's shop, but rifles and pistols were sold at almost every store in the town. In this quest Jerry was assisted by Pete Hoskings, who knew of several men who would be ready to dispose of their rifles. Some of these weapons were taken out into the country and tried at marks by the two men. They made what seemed to Tom wonderful shooting, but did not satisfy Hoskings.

"I should like the youngster to have a first-rate piece," he said, "and I mean to get him one if I can. There are two of these would do if we can't get a better, but if there is a first-rate one to be had in this township I will have it." Suddenly he exclaimed, "I must have gone off my head, and be going downright foolish! Why, I know the very weapon. You remember Billy the scout?"

"In course I do, everyone knew him. I heard he had gone down just before I got back here." 1. What is a colt?
2. What is different from a revolver?
3. According to who?
4. Is a Colt reliable?
5. Are there any gun shops in Denver?
6. Where are guns sold?
7. Who is buying a gun?
8. Who is helping him?
9. Did Pete take him to stores to try out the guns?
10. Where did they go to try them out?
11. Was Pete pleased with them?
12. Why kind of gun did he want for his son?
13. Had he been forgetting something?
14. What?
15. Who could he get it from?
16. What city were they in?
17. Did he remember Billy?
18. Did a lot of people know him?
19. Where is he? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. a revolver
2. rifles
3. the miner
4. yes
5. there was no regular gunsmith's shop there
6. at almost every store in town
7. Jerry
8. Pete Hoskings
9. Pete knew several men who who would be ready to dispose of their rifles
10. out in the country
11. no
12. a first-rate piece
13. yes
14. where he could get the weapon
15. Billy the scout?
16. Denver
17. yes
18. yes
19. unknown