Question: Cindy and Mary were playing at recess. They were having a great time until Cindy brought up Allison's birthday party. Cindy had been invited to it, but Mary had not. This hurt Mary's feelings a lot. The girls kept on playing and Mary was trying to have fun, but all she felt like doing was crying. She couldn't believe that she had not been invited to Allison's birthday party. She thought that they were friends and if her best friend Cindy had been invited, why not her?

After recess was over, the class walked back into the school. Mary saw Allison in line and tried to smile, but it was hard. Cindy felt horrible now that she had talked about the party that her friend was not going to.

Mary found it hard to pay attention to the teacher now. She kept thinking over and over why Allison didn't invite her to the party. Did Mary do something to make Allison mad or to hurt her? She couldn't understand it. Her eyes started to get wet with tears. She was hoping that no one saw this. Mary thought she saw Allison looking at her in a funny way. Suddenly Mary felt like she was going to start crying. She reached into her desk to pull out some tissues. She felt a strange piece of paper. She pulled it out and there was the invitation to Allison's party. It had gotten mixed up in her papers in her desk. She immediately started to smile. She smiled at Allison and at Cindy. Cindy gave her a puzzled look because she thought that Mary was sad.

At lunch Mary explained everything to Cindy. Then Mary, Allison, and Cindy all went off to play. 1. When were Mary and Cindy playing?
2. What did Cindy bring up?
3. Was Cindy invited to the party?
4. how about Mary?
5. did this hurt Mary's feelings?
6. When recess was over where did the class go back to?
7. how did Cindy feel about her friend not going to the party?
8. Did Mary struggle to pay attention?
9. what did she keep thinking about?
10. what were her eyes filled with?
11. what did she reach for?
12. what did she find instead?
13. was she happy after she found it?
14. who did she smile at? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. at recess
2. Allison's birthday party
3. yes
4. no
5. yes
6. school
7. horrible
8. yes
9. the party
10. tears
11. some tissues
12. the invitation to Allison's party
13. yes
14. Allison and Cindy

Question: Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- North Korea says it plans to prosecute two American tourists that it detained earlier this year, accusing them of "perpetrating hostile acts."

The North Korean government had previously said it was holding the two U.S. citizens, Jeffrey Fowle and Matthew Miller, but hadn't said what it planned to do with them.

"According to the results of the investigation, suspicions about their hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and their testimonies," the North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday.

"The relevant organ of the DPRK is carrying on the investigation into them and making preparations for bringing them before court on the basis of the already confirmed charges," the report said, using using an abbreviation of the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The U.S. State Department called on North Korea to release the two men on humanitarian grounds.

Asylum bid?

North Korea said in late April that it had taken Miller into custody, claiming he had come to the country seeking asylum and had torn up his tourist visa.

It announced the detention of Fowle in early June, saying he had violated the law by acting "contrary to the purpose of tourism."

It didn't provide details at the time on what exactly he was accused of doing. But the Japanese news agency Kyodo cited unidentified diplomatic sources as saying that Fowle was part of a tour group and that he was detained in mid-May after allegedly leaving a Bible in a hotel where he had been staying. 1. Were there visitors?
2. What happened to them?
3. How?
4. When did it happen?
5. Who arrested them?
6. Was one of the visitors religious?
7. What nationality were they?
8. What does DPRK mean?
9. Was there any reason for the arrest?
10. What did they go by? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. yes
2. they were detained
3. for"perpetrating hostile acts."
4. one was in late April
5. North Korea
6. yes
7. American
8. Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
9. acting "contrary to the purpose of tourism."
10. unknown

Question: CHAPTER VII

_Old Granny Fox Tries a New Plan_

Old Granny Fox kept thinking about Danny Meadow Mouse. She knew that he was fat, and it made her mouth water every time she thought of him. She made up her mind that she must and would have him. She knew that Danny had been very, very much frightened when she and Reddy Fox had tried so hard to catch him by plunging down through the snow into his little tunnels after him, and she felt pretty sure that he wouldn't go far away from the old fence-post, in the hollow of which he was snug and safe.

Old Granny Fox is very smart. "Danny Meadow Mouse won't put his nose out of that old fence-post for a day or two. Then he'll get tired of staying inside all the time, and he'll peep out of one of his little round doorways to see if the way is clear. If he doesn't see any danger, he'll come out and run around on top of the snow to get some of the seeds in the tops of the tall grasses that stick out through the snow. If nothing frightens him, he'll keep going, a little farther and a little farther from that old fence-post. I must see to it that Danny Meadow Mouse isn't frightened for a few days." So said old Granny Fox to herself, as she lay under a hemlock tree, studying how she could best get the next meal.

Then she called Reddy Fox to her and forbade him to go down on the meadows until she should tell him he might. Reddy grumbled and mumbled and didn't see why he shouldn't go where he pleased, but he didn't dare disobey. You see he had a sore foot. He had hurt it on a wire barb when he was plunging through the snow after Danny Meadow Mouse, and now he had to run on three legs. That meant that he must depend upon Granny Fox to help him get enough to eat. So Reddy didn't dare to disobey. 1. What kind of animal is Granny?
2. And Danny ?
3. What happened when she thought about him?
4. What did she decide to do?
5. Had she attempted to take him before?
6. With whom?
7. How did they do it?
8. Into what?
9. Who made the tunnels?
10. Where did Granny think Danny would be near? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. A fox
2. Mouse
3. it made her mouth water
4. Figure out how she could eat him
5. Yes
6. Reddy Fox
7. plunging down through the snow
8. Tunnels
9. Danny
10. old fence-post