Question: Laos (, , , or ; , , "Lao"), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao: , "Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao") or commonly referred to its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: , "Muang Lao"), is a landlocked country in the heart of the Indochinese peninsula of Mainland Southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southwest, and Thailand to the west and southwest.

Present day Lao PDR traces its historic and cultural identity to the kingdom of Lan Xang Hom Khao (Kingdom of a Million Elephants Under the White Parasol), which existed for four centuries as one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia. Due to Lan Xang's central geographical location in Southeast Asia, the kingdom was able to become a popular hub for overland trade, becoming wealthy economically as well as culturally.

After a period of internal conflict, Lan Xang broke off into three separate kingdoms Luang Phrabang, Vientiane, and Champasak. In 1893, it became a French protectorate, with the three territories uniting to form what is now known as the country of Laos. It briefly gained freedom in 1945 after Japanese occupation, but was recolonised by France until it won autonomy in 1949. Laos became independent in 1953, with a constitutional monarchy under Sisavang Vong. Shortly after independence, a long civil war ended the monarchy, when the Communist Pathet Lao movement came to power in 1975. 1. What is Laos colloquial name?
2. What is the official name/
3. Is it landlocked?
4. What is one country it borders with?
5. And another? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Muang Lao
2. Laos
3. Yes
4. Myanmar
5. China

Question: CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

TYRANTS AND PLOTTERS.

Leaving Christian and Adams to carry out their philanthropic intentions, we return to Matthew Quintal, whom we left sprawling on the ground in his garden.

This garden was situated in one of the little valleys not far from Bounty Bay. Higher up in the same valley stood the hut of McCoy. Towards this hut Quintal, after gathering himself up, wended his way in a state of unenviable sulkiness.

His friend McCoy was engaged at the time in smoking his evening pipe, but that pipe did not now seem to render him much comfort, for he growled and puffed in a way that showed he was not soothed by it, the reason being that there was no tobacco in the pipe. That weed,--which many people deem so needful and so precious that one sometimes wonders how the world managed to exist before Sir Walter Raleigh put it to its unnatural use--had at last been exhausted on Pitcairn Island, and the mutineers had to learn to do without it. Some of them said they didn't care, and submitted with a good grace to the inevitable. Others growled and swore and fretted, saying that they knew they couldn't live without it. To their astonishment, and no doubt to their disgust, they did manage to live quite as healthily as before, and with obvious advantage to health and teeth. Two there were, however, namely, Quintal and McCoy, who would not give in, but vowed with their usual violence of language that they would smoke seaweed rather than want their pipes. Like most men of powerful tongue and weak will, they did not fulfil their vows. Seaweed was left to the gulls, but they tried almost every leaf and flower on the island without success. Then they scraped and dried various kinds of bark, and smoked that. Then they tried the fibrous husk of the cocoa-nut, and then the dried and pounded kernel, but all in vain. Smoke, indeed, they produced in huge volumes, but of satisfaction they had none. It was a sad case. 1. Who sprawled on the ground?
2. Where?
3. Who was left to carry out their philanthropic intention?
4. And who else?
5. Where was the garden located?
6. What stood in the valley?
7. Why was McCoy not relaxed by the pipe?
8. Did they smoke bark?
9. Was it sad?
10. What was left to the seagulls? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Matthew Quintal
2. in his garden
3. Christian
4. Adams
5. in one of the valleys not far from Bounty Bay
6. hut of McCoy
7. there was no tobacco in the pipe
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. seaweed

Question: Lisa has a pet cat named Whiskers. Whiskers is black with a white spot on her chest. Whiskers also has white paws that look like little white mittens.

Whiskers likes to sleep in the sun on her favorite chair. Whiskers also likes to drink creamy milk.

Lisa is excited because on Saturday, Whiskers turns two years old.

After school on Friday, Lisa rushes to the pet store. She wants to buy Whiskers' birthday presents. Last year, she gave Whiskers a play mouse and a blue feather.

For this birthday, Lisa is going to give Whiskers a red ball of yarn and a bowl with a picture of a cat on the side. The picture is of a black cat. It looks a lot like Whiskers. 1. What's animal does Lisa have?
2. What's its name?
3. What color is it?
4. How old is it?
5. When is its birthday?
6. Did Lisa get a gift for Whiskers?
7. Where from?
8. And what is it?
9. Are they the same as last year's gifts?
10. What did she buy then?
11. What color was the feather?
12. And the ball?
13. How many gifts did she buy in total?
14. How is she feeling about her cat's birthday? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. a cat
2. Whiskers.
3. black
4. One
5. Saturday
6. yes
7. pet store
8. A ball and a bowl
9. No
10. a mouse and a feather
11. blue
12. red
13. Four
14. excited

Question: Zhejiang (helpinfo), formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu province and Shanghai municipality to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the west, and Fujian province to the south; to the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lie the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.

The province's name derives from the Zhe River (, Zhe Jiang), the former name of the Qiantang River which flows past Hangzhou and whose mouth forms Hangzhou Bay. It is usually glossed as meaning "Crooked" or "Bent River", from the meaning of Chinese , but is more likely a phono-semantic compound formed from adding (the "water" radical used for river names) to phonetic (pinyin zhe but reconstructed Old Chinese *tet), preserving a proto-Wu name of the local Yue, similar to Yuhang, Kuaiji, and Jiang.

Zhejiang was the site of the Neolithic cultures of the Hemudu and Liangzhu. A 2007 analysis of the DNA recovered from human remains in the archeological sites of prehistoric peoples along the Yangtze River shows high frequencies of haplogroup O1 in the Liangzhu culture, linking them to Austronesian and Tai-Kadai peoples. 1. Where type of province is Zhejiang
2. What province is it bordered by?
3. What is north of it?
4. What is the name of it derived from?
5. What is another meaning of it?
6. It was the place of what culture?
7. Where was the DNA found?
8. What were found as high ratings?
9. What was it linked to?
10. What was the former name of the river in the past? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. unknown
2. Jiangsu province
3. Shanghai municipality
4. Zhe River
5. unknown
6. Neolithic cultures
7. Yangtze River
8. haplogroup O1
9. Austronesian and Tai-Kadai peoples
10. Zhe River