question: For Lee Ann Laraway, polio has made almost everything in life just out of reach. But what her hands can't retrieve, her assistant can. Meet Jeannie, a three-year-old help, has become Lee Ann's arms and legs.

Jeannie understands no fewer than 72 commands. To get a feel for what that means, Lee Ann takes us on a shopping trip in San Jose. First stop: The bank, where she got cash from the teller. From the bank, it's on to the drug store, where Jeannie got a candy bar for Lee Ann. Then Jeannie helped pay the cashier, and got change hack.

"When you have a really good working animal, they come and interact with you all the time," Lee Ann said. While there's no argument that Jeannie is an ordinary animal, she wasn't born that way. She was tutored and trained here at a facility that has become the final legacy of one of the Bay Area's most beloved figures.

Canine Companions for Independence sits on twelve acres of land in Santa Rosa donated by late Peanuts cartoonist Charles Shultz, Here, handlers work with specially selected labs for hours a day-- but not every dog will make the cut.

The work is serious Business. In the case of hearing dogs, the animals alert their disabled owners to everything from ringing telephones to doorbells.

Other dogs will work with severely disabled patients like eight-year-old Noah Habib of Mountain View who communicates with a special computer. "I like it when new people come up to ask me about my dog," he says. "People are really interested in the dog and will come over and ask to pet her and ask to play with her, and ask about what she does, and these are people that normally might not approach us and want to talk to Noah," says his Dad.

And back in San Jose Lee Ann is arriving home with Jeannie and her groceries. With just one chore left--opening her own door. "You can train a dog to do a lot of things," said Lee Ann. "You cannot give them the heart to do the job, and that is what a good working dog has."
1. Who had polio?
2. Who was her assistant?
3. How many commands she knows?
4. How old is she?
5. Is she a working animal?
6. How good is a goo working animal's interaction?
7. Was she born that way?
8. Was she trained?
9. Where?
10. Who established that?
11. Who was he?
****
answer: 1. Lee Ann Laraway
2. Jeannie
3. no fewer than 72commands
4. Three
5. yes
6. they interact with you all the time
7. no
8. yes
9. Canine Companions for Independence
10. Charles Shultz
11. Peanuts cartoonist

question: CHAPTER XIV

WILLIAM BENT PITMAN HEARS OF SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE

On the morning of Sunday, William Dent Pitman rose at his usual hour, although with something more than the usual reluctance. The day before (it should be explained) an addition had been made to his family in the person of a lodger. Michael Finsbury had acted sponsor in the business, and guaranteed the weekly bill; on the other hand, no doubt with a spice of his prevailing jocularity, he had drawn a depressing portrait of the lodger's character. Mr. Pitman had been led to understand his guest was not good company; he had approached the gentleman with fear, and had rejoiced to find himself the entertainer of an angel. At tea he had been vastly pleased; till hard on one in the morning he had sat entranced by eloquence and progressively fortified with information in the studio; and now, as he reviewed over his toilet the harmless pleasures of the evening, the future smiled upon him with revived attractions. "Mr. Finsbury is indeed an acquisition," he remarked to himself; and as he entered the little parlour, where the table was already laid for breakfast, the cordiality of his greeting would have befitted an acquaintanceship already old.

"I am delighted to see you, sir"--these were his expressions--"and I trust you have slept well."

"Accustomed as I have been for so long to a life of almost perpetual change," replied the guest, "the disturbance so often complained of by the more sedentary, as attending their first night in (what is called) a new bed, is a complaint from which I am entirely free."
1. what happened the day before?
2. what did Pitman think about the lodger?
3. did he change his mind about him?
4. what is the story about?
5. what day does it take place?
6. did he wake up at usual time?
7. what was different this morning?
8. what did he say to himself about Finsbury?
9. what was on the table when he entered?
10. what room was this in?
****
answer: 1. an addition had been made
2. more than the usual reluctance.
3. yes
4. WILLIAM BENT PITMAN HEARS OF SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE
5. Sunday
6. yes
7. more than the usual reluctance.
8. Mr. Finsbury is indeed an acquisition,
9. breakfast
10. the little parlour,

question: CHAPTER VIII.

AN INTERRUPTION.

Nathan, who had looked upon the men under Colonel Allen much as he had Corporal 'Lige, was literally amazed by this ready submission of the king's troops, standing silent and motionless by the side of Isaac as the garrison was paraded without arms, and the surrender made in due form.

Some days afterward Isaac learned that the spoils of war at this place were one hundred and twenty iron cannon, fifty swivels, two ten-inch mortars, one howitzer, one cohorn, ten tons musket-balls, three cartloads flints, thirty gun-carriages, a quantity of shells, a large amount of material for boat building, one hundred stand of small arms, ten casks of powder, two brass cannon, thirty barrels of flour and eighteen barrels of pork.

Forty-eight soldiers were surrendered and preparations were at once begun to send these, together with the women and children, to Hartford.

Hardly was the surrender made complete when such of the troops as had been left on the opposite shore under Seth Warner, arrived in a schooner, much to the surprise of all, until it was learned that Captain Herrick, who had been sent to Skenesborough to seize the son of the governor, had succeeded in his mission without bloodshed.

He took not only the young major, but twelve negroes and attendants, seized the schooner owned by the elder Skene, and had come down the lake in the early morning with the hope of aiding in the capture of Ticonderoga.

Isaac had supposed this victory would end the adventure, and was saying to himself that his experience had been rather pleasing than otherwise, so much so in fact that he almost regretted the time was near at hand for him to return home, when he saw, much to his surprise, a portion of the troops being formed in line as if to leave Ticonderoga.
1. What was Nathan amazed about?
2. Did they win that battle?
3. How many ended up giving up?
4. Where were they headed?
5. Where were the king's troops standing?
6. Were there soldiers left elsewhere?
7. Where?
8. Who was in charge of them?
9. How did they show up?
10. Who was sent to Skeneborough?
11. Why?
12. And did he?
13. Were there any casualties?
14. What rank was the son?
15. Did he capture anyone else?
16. Who?
17. Who owned the boat they were in?
18. What time of day was it?
19. Why had they arrived?
20. Was Isaac excited to get home?
****
answer:
1. the ready submission of the king's troops
2. yes
3. Forty-eight
4. to Hartford
5. by the side of Isaac
6. yes
7. on the opposite shore
8. Seth Warner
9. in a schooner
10. Captain Herrick
11. to seize the son of the governor
12. yes
13. no
14. major
15. yes
16. twelve negroes and attendants
17. Skene
18. morning
19. to aid in the capture of Ticonderoga.
20. no