input: Melissa Harris-Lacewell is associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning book "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought" and writes a daily blog titled The Kitchen Table.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell says African-Americans remain skeptical about racial progress in the U.S.

PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) -- America was proud of itself for electing Barack Obama. The pride was not just partisan and ideological; it was also specifically and clearly racial.

The morning after Obama's win, The New York Times declared "Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory." The Los Angeles Times asserted that "for the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader."

Some black commentators openly wept on election night, thrilled with witnessing the election of our first black president. Even Sen. John McCain, conceding defeat, pointed to the greatness of the American promise fulfilled in the election of his opponent. Obama's victory offered the possibility that the scars of America's racial legacy were healed or, at least, that they were less raw.

For many African-American citizens, the election of the first black U.S. president was cause for celebration and open-mouthed wonder about an outcome that seemed so unlikely just two years earlier, when Obama announced his bid.

Despite this joy, many black citizens were dubious that his victory represented the destruction of any particular racial barrier.

African-Americans were both proud of and excited about Obama, but in the 45 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, black Americans had seen doors to power, influence and wealth open just enough to admit just a few without fundamentally altering opportunities for the majority. 1. Who wept on election night?
2. Why?
3. Who was elected?
4. Who lost?
5. Why were some people skeptical?
6. How long had it been since the Civil Rights Act was passed?
7. What did the newspaper declare?
8. What did Obama's victory offer?
9. Who was dubious?
10. Why?
11. Who wrote the article? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Some black commentators
2. thrilled with witnessing the election of our first black president
3. Obama
4. Sen. John McCain
5. racial progress
6. 45 years
7. "for the first time in human history, a largely white nation has elected a black man to be its paramount leader."
8. possibility that the scars of America's racial legacy were healed or, at least, that they were less raw
9. many black citizens
10. victory represented the destruction of any particular racial barrier.
11. unknown

input: CHAPTER III.

FRANCO

Franco followed the boys all that forenoon, as they went back and forth for their wood. At dinner, they did not say any thing about him to the farmer, because they supposed that he would go away, when they came in and left him, and that they should see no more of him in the afternoon. But when Jonas went out, after dinner, to get the old General, to harness him for work again, he found Franco lying snugly in the General's stall, under the crib.

At night, therefore, he told the farmer about him. The farmer said that he was some dog that had strayed away from his master; and he told Jonas to go out after supper and drive him away. Josey begged his uncle to keep him, but his aunt said she would not have a dog about the house. She said it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a sheep, and that, instead of bringing them a good fleece, a dog was good for nothing, but to track your floors in wet weather, and keep you awake all night with his howling.

So the farmer told Jonas to go out after supper, and drive the dog away.

"Let us give him some supper first, father," said Oliver.

"No," said his father; "the more you give him, the more he won't go away. I expect now, you've fooled with him so much, that it will be hard to get him off, at any rate." 1. Who is Franco?
2. Did he live at his home?
3. What did the farmer want to do with him?
4. Did anyone want to keep the dog?
5. Who?
6. What did his aunt think?
7. why not?
8. would the dog be useful?
9. Did Oliver want to make the dog leave immediately?
10. What did he want to do first?
11. Did Oliver's fatehr agree with this idea?
12. Why did he think it would be a problem?
13. When was Franco following the boys?
14. Did they tell the farmer immediately?
15. Why not?
16. Was the dog gone after dinner?
17. Where was he?
18. Who found him there? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. A dog
2. No
3. Drive him away
4. Yes
5. Josey
6. she didn't want to have a dog about the house
7. it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a sheep
8. no
9. No
10. Give him some supper
11. No
12. Because the more you give him, the more he won't go away.
13. all that forenoon
14. No
15. because they supposed that he would go away
16. No
17. in the General's stall, under the crib.
18. Jonas

input: Hetty Robinson learnt all about money when very young. As a child, she read the financial pages of the newspaper to her rich father. Her father died when Hetty was 30, and she inherited $1 million. When she herself died in 1916, she left almost $100 million to her two children.

Hetty made her money on the New York stock exchange. She was a financial genius. She made money so easily that people called her the Witch of Wall Street. But although she was one of the richest women in the world, she counted every cent and spent as little as possible. She didn't own a house, because she didn't want to pay taxes. So she and her children lived in cheap hotels. She spent almost nothing on clothes, and always wore the same long black dress. She washed it herself, but to save soap she only washed the bottom of the dress, where it touched the ground. Other people had their own offices, but Hetty used a desk in the bank where she kept her money, because it didn't cost anything. She sat in the bank and ate her sandwiches while she bought and sold stocks and shares. If the bank complained, she just moved all her money to another bank.

Hetty's family paid the price for her meanness. When she was 33 she married a millionaire, Edward Green, and they had two children. But Green lost all his money, so she left him. When her son, Ned, injured his knee, Hetty didn't want to pay for a doctor, so she took him to a free hospital for poor people. Unfortunately the doctor knew Hetty was rich and he asked for money. Hetty refused and took the boy away. His leg got worse and two years later doctors removed it.

But eventually Ned got his revenge . At the age of 81, Hetty had an argument with a shop assistant about the price of a bottle of milk. She became so angry that she had a heart attack and died. So Hetty's meanness finally killed her. Ned inherited half his mother's fortune, and he spent it all on parties, holidays and expensive jewellery. 1. How old was Hetty when her dad died?
2. What did people call her?
3. Was she poor?
4. Was she a spendthrift?
5. Who did she marry?
6. Did they have children?
7. How many?
8. What happened to her son?
9. Did she take him to the best hospital?
10. Did the doctor ask for money?
11. Did she pay?
12. What happened to her son as a result?
13. How old was she when she died?
14. What did she die of?
15. What did Ned inherit?
16. What did he spend the money on?
17. Where did she make all her money?
18. Where did she and her children live?
19. What did she always wear?
20. Did she take the dress to the cleaners? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. 30
2. the Witch of Wall Street.
3. no
4. she spent as little as possible
5. Edward Green
6. yes
7. two
8. he injured his knee
9. no
10. yeds
11. no
12. he lost his leg
13. 81
14. heart attack
15. half his mother's fortune,
16. on parties, holidays and jewellery
17. New York stock exchange.
18. cheap hotels
19. a black dress
20. no