Q: 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.

Answer the following questions:
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?
A: 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
Q: (CNN) -- Charlize Theron won an Oscar for covering up her beauty and finding grains of sympathy, as well as revulsion, for the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster."

She deserves to win a second nomination for playing the sexy, unmoored, utterly reprehensible Mavis Gary in "Young Adult." Mavis is one of those people blessed with good looks, talent and brains, but whose sense of entitlement far outstrips any civilized social boundaries. She's a pure narcissist, oblivious to other people's feelings and contemptuous of any experience that doesn't feed her own ego. In other words, Mavis is another monster, but a monster who can pass for beautiful with only a couple of hours in the salon.

As we know (you see it spread all over the supermarket tabloids every week), there's a perverse thrill in watching one of the beautiful people fall apart. And there's some of that same schadenfreude in play while watching the new black comedy from the "Juno" combo, writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman.

Mavis is a ghostwriter for a successful young adult book series, and even that minor claim to fame is soon to be extinguished: The series is played out and the novel she is working on will be the last of them. Perhaps that's why she feels compelled to head back home when she receives an e-mail from an ex-boyfriend, Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), announcing the birth of his first child. Figuring, very, very, wrongly, that this message must be some kind of coded cry for help, Mavis hops into her Mini and heads straight to Mercury, Minnesota, where she grew up, and where she means to reconnect with Buddy and free him from his domesticated servitude.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who did Charlize Theron portray in Monster?
2. was she awarded for her perfomace?
3. What was Aileen known for
4. Who else does the article mention she has played
5. What does mavis do for a living?
6. Is her job stable?
7. What prompts her to go home?
8. from who?
9. What does it say?
10. Does he need her assistance?
11. Where does she go?
12. How does she get there?
A: 1. Aileen Wuornos
2. an Oscar
3. for being a serial killer
4. Mavis Gary
5. a ghostwriter
6. no
7. an e-mail
8. its from an ex-boyfriend
9. the birth of his first child
10. no
11. to Mercury, Minnesota
12. by car
Q: CHAPTER VIII

And these two, as I have told you, Were the friends of Hiawatha, Chibiabos, the musician, And the very strong man, Kwasind.

--Hiawatha.

TORPENHOW was paging the last sheets of some manuscript, while the Nilghai, who had come for chess and remained to talk tactics, was reading through the first part, commenting scornfully the while.

'It's picturesque enough and it's sketchy,' said he; 'but as a serious consideration of affairs in Eastern Europe, it's not worth much.'

'It's off my hands at any rate.... Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine slips altogether, aren't there? That should make between eleven and twelve pages of valuable misinformation. Heigho!' Torpenhow shuffled the writing together and hummed--

Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell, If I'd as much money as I could tell, I never would cry, Young lambs to sell!

Dick entered, self-conscious and a little defiant, but in the best of tempers with all the world.

'Back at last?' said Torpenhow.

'More or less. What have you been doing?'

'Work. Dickie, you behave as though the Bank of England were behind you. Here's Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday gone and you haven't done a line. It's scandalous.'

'The notions come and go, my children--they come and go like our 'baccy,' he answered, filling his pipe. 'Moreover,' he stooped to thrust a spill into the grate, 'Apollo does not always stretch his---- Oh, confound your clumsy jests, Nilghai!'

'This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration,' said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow's large and workmanlike bellows to their nail on the wall. 'We believe in cobblers' wax. La!--where you sit down.'

Answer the following questions:
1. What was to be sold?
2. Who was humming?
3. And what else at the time?
4. What?
5. Did Hiawatha have any friends?
6. How many?
7. Name one?
8. What does he do?
9. And the other?
10. Is he weak?
11. Who came in?
12. Was he in a good mood?
13. How many days had he not written anything?
14. Which days?
15. Who came to play a game?
16. What game?
17. What did they discuss?
18. How many sheets were of bad information?
19. What did he put in his pipe?
20. Where did the bellows go?
A:
1. Young lambs.
2. Torpenhow
3. shuffled
4. The writing
5. Yes
6. Two
7. Chibiabos
8. A musician
9. Kwasind.
10. A very strong man
11. Dick
12. The best.
13. Three
14. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
15. The Nilghai.
16. Chess.
17. Tactics
18. Eleven to twelve.
19. 'baccy,'
20. To their nail on the wall