Question: Chapter Twelve

The Wooden-Legged Grass-Hopper

Now it so happened that Trot, from the window of her room, had witnessed the meeting of the lovers in the garden and had seen the King come and drag Gloria away. The little girl's heart went out in sympathy for the poor Princess, who seemed to her to be one of the sweetest and loveliest young ladies she had ever seen, so she crept along the passages and from a hidden niche saw Gloria locked in her room.

The key was still in the lock, so when the King had gone away, followed by Googly-Goo, Trot stole up to the door, turned the key and entered. The Princess lay prone upon a couch, sobbing bitterly. Trot went up to her and smoothed her hair and tried to comfort her.

"Don't cry," she said. "I've unlocked the door, so you can go away any time you want to."

"It isn't that," sobbed the Princess. "I am unhappy because they will not let me love Pon, the gardener's boy!"

"Well, never mind; Pon isn't any great shakes, anyhow, seems to me," said Trot soothingly. "There are lots of other people you can love."

Gloria rolled over on the couch and looked at the little girl reproachfully.

"Pon has won my heart, and I can't help loving him," she explained. Then with sudden indignation she added: "But I'll never love Googly-Goo--never, as long as I live!"

"I should say not!" replied Trot. "Pon may not be much good, but old Googly is very, very bad. Hunt around, and I'm sure you'll find someone worth your love. You're very pretty, you know, and almost anyone ought to love you." 1. Who did the Princess love?
2. Who took Gloria away?
3. Where did he put her?
4. Did anyone follow the King away?
5. Who?
6. But who went with (followed) the King, when he went away?
7. Was anyone crying?
8. Who's boy was Pon?
9. Who did Trot say was very bad?
10. Where was the princess laying down?
11. Where was Trot when she saw the two lovers?
12. Whose hair was smoothed?
13. By who?
14. Who did the princess say she couldn't love?
15. Was she nice looking?
16. What was left in the door? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Pon
2. the King
3. locked in her room
4. yes
5. Trot
6. Googly-Goo
7. The Princess
8. the gardener's
9. Googly
10. upon a couch
11. from the window of her room
12. The Princess
13. Trot
14. Googly-Goo
15. yes
16. a key

Question: CHAPTER XXIX. "BONY."

Mrs. Ellmother reluctantly entered the room.

Since Emily had seen her last, her personal appearance doubly justified the nickname by which her late mistress had distinguished her. The old servant was worn and wasted; her gown hung loose on her angular body; the big bones of her face stood out, more prominently than ever. She took Emily's offered hand doubtingly. "I hope I see you well, miss," she said--with hardly a vestige left of her former firmness of voice and manner.

"I am afraid you have been suffering from illness," Emily answered gently.

"It's the life I'm leading that wears me down; I want work and change."

Making that reply, she looked round, and discovered Francine observing her with undisguised curiosity. "You have got company with you," she said to Emily. "I had better go away, and come back another time."

Francine stopped her before she could open the door. "You mustn't go away; I wish to speak to you."

"About what, miss?"

The eyes of the two women met--one, near the end of her life, concealing under a rugged surface a nature sensitively affectionate and incorruptibly true: the other, young in years, with out the virtues of youth, hard in manner and hard at heart. In silence on either side, they stood face to face; strangers brought together by the force of circumstances, working inexorably toward their hidden end.

Emily introduced Mrs. Ellmother to Francine. "It may be worth your while," she hinted, "to hear what this young lady has to say." 1. Had Emily seen Mrs. Ellmother recently?
2. Did she look well?
3. Was anyone with her?
4. How were clothes?
5. what stood out?
6. What did Emily say she was afraid had happened to her?
7. how did she reply?
8. and what did she want?
9. were the women the same age?
10. Who was introduced to Francine?
11. by who?
12. was Francine old?
13. Did Mrs Ellmother enter the room swiftly?
14. how then?
15. did she have a nickname?
16. who gave it to her?
17. how did she take Emily's hand?
18. did she sound the same asalways?
19. how then?
20. and? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. no
2. no
3. yes
4. loose
5. the big bones of her face
6. suffering from illness,
7. It's the life I'm leading that wears me down
8. want work and change
9. no
10. Mrs. Ellmother
11. Emily
12. no
13. no
14. reluctantly
15. who gave it to her?
16. her late mistress
17. doubtingly.
18. no
19. with hardly a vestige left of her former firmness of voice
20. manner.

Question: Cairo (CNN) -- The recent health crisis for former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak started when he slipped in a prison bathroom, his attorney told CNN Thursday.

The ousted strongman hurt his neck and developed a blood clot after the fall in Tora prison, attorney Farid El Deeb said.

El Deeb said Mubarak was taken off life-support equipment and his health improved on Wednesday, a day after grim and contradictory news emerged over the 84-year-old man's health.

The state-run Middle East News Agency reported that he was "clinically dead." The nation's military rulers denied the report, with one general saying Mubarak's health was deteriorating and he was in critical condition.

Mubarak was transferred from Tora prison to Maadi Military Hospital. Now, El Deeb said, his ailing client is out of a coma and under the care of doctors at the facility's intensive care unit.

"He had slipped in the bathroom of Tora prison and hurt his neck, which caused a blood clot that started all his medical problems that night, last Tuesday, including heart attack and irregular breathing," El Deeb said.

He said he had warned before that "the prison hospital was not equipped with well-trained nurses or personnel to assist him or proper equipment."

The lawyer said he hadn't been informed about how the latest bout of health problems started because he was in Lebanon when Mubarak fell sick.

"I was getting information by phone with a minute-to-minute update, but I learned that he fell when I returned to Cairo," he said. 1. Who is the article about?
2. Where is he from?
3. Did he slip in a hallway?
4. Where?
5. Is he okay?
6. Is he awake?
7. How old is he?
8. Did he slip at his home?
9. Where?
10. When did this happen?
11. Did he have legal counsel?
12. What was his name?
13. Where was he when he heard of the accident?
14. Were there daily reports of his status?
15. How fast were they? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Hosni Mubarak
2. Egypt
3. no
4. in a bathroom
5. no
6. unknown
7. 84
8. no
9. Tora prison
10. ast Tuesday
11. yes
12. Farid El Deeb
13. in Lebanon
14. no
15. minute-to-minute