Q: CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not trouble herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask. She was rather surprised, therefore, when the silence remained unbroken, and Jo assumed a patronizing air, which decidedly aggravated Meg, who in turn assumed an air of dignified reserve and devoted herself to her mother. This left Jo to her own devices, for Mrs. March had taken her place as nurse, and bade her rest, exercise, and amuse herself after her long confinement. Amy being gone, Laurie was her only refuge, and much as she enjoyed his society, she rather dreaded him just then, for he was an incorrigible tease, and she feared he would coax the secret from her.

She was quite right, for the mischief-loving lad no sooner suspected a mystery than he set himself to find it out, and led Jo a trying life of it. He wheedled, bribed, ridiculed, threatened, and scolded; affected indifference, that he might surprise the truth from her; declared he knew, then that he didn't care; and at last, by dint of perseverance, he satisfied himself that it concerned Meg and Mr. Brooke. Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor's confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight.

1. Laurie
2. Jo
3. He wheedled, bribed, ridiculed, threatened, and scolded.
4. Her mother
5. It left her to her own devices
6. No
7. she found it hard not to look mysterious and important
8. Meg
9. no
10. she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries
11. no
12. Mrs. March
13. he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight

Numbered questions:
1. Who was a troublemaker?
2. Who was afraid that he'd find out something from her?
3. What were some of his methods for doing so?
4. What did Meg devote herself to?
5. What effect did this have on Jo?
6. Did she feel at ease keeping a secret?
7. What did she have trouble doing because of it?
8. Did someone notice this?
9. Did she ask her about it?
10. Why not?
11. Did her plan to get the secret out of Jo work?
12. Who replaced Jo as nurse?
13. What did Laurie start planning to do?

Q: CHAPTER IV

KARI

Thus began my life in London in the house of my uncle, John Grimmer, who was called the Goldsmith. In truth, however, he was more than this, since not only did he fashion and trade in costly things; he lent out moneys to interest upon security to great people who needed it, and even to the king Richard and his Court. Also he owned ships and did much commerce with Holland, France, yes, and with Spain and Italy. Indeed, although he appeared so humble, his wealth was very large and always increased, like a snowball rolling down a hill; moreover, he owned much land, especially in the neighbourhood of London where it was likely to grow in value.

"Money melts," he would say, "furs corrupt with moth and time, and thieves break in and steal. But land--if the title be good--remains. Therefore buy land, which none can carry away, near to a market or a growing town if may be, and hire it out to fools to farm, or sell it to other fools who wish to build great houses and spend their goods in feeding a multitude of idle servants. Houses eat, Hubert, and the larger they are, the more they eat."

No word did he say to me as to my dwelling on with him, yet there I remained, by common consent, as it were. Indeed on the morrow of my coming a tailor appeared to measure me for such garments as he thought I should wear, by his command, I suppose, as I was never asked for payment, and he bade me furnish my chamber to my own liking, also another room at the back of the house that was much larger than it seemed, which he told me was to be mine to work in, though at what I was to work he did not say.

1. John Grimmer
2. the Goldsmith
3. land
4. hire it out to fools to farm
5. sell it to other fools
6. John was his uncle
7. in London
8. unknown
9. his own chamber
10. a room at the back of the house

Numbered questions:
1. Who would say "Money Melts"?
2. What was he called?
3. What did he believe people should invest in?
4. What's one thing that could be done with that investment?
5. What's another?
6. How were they related?
7. Where would they live?
8. Who arrived the day after the nephew?
9. What was one place the nephew in charge of furnishing?
10. And the other?

Q: The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America.

After 1765, growing philosophical and political differences strained the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies. Following the Stamp Act, Patriot protests against taxation without representation escalated into boycotts, which culminated in the Sons of Liberty destroying a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. Britain responded by closing Boston Harbor and passing a series of punitive measures against Massachusetts colony. Massachusetts colonists responded with the Suffolk Resolves, and they established a shadow government which wrested control of the countryside from the Crown. Twelve colonies formed a Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance, establishing committees and conventions that effectively seized power.

British attempts to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord in April 1775 led to open combat. Militia forces then besieged Boston, forcing a British evacuation in March 1776, and Congress appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Concurrently, an American attempt to invade Quebec and raise rebellion against the British decisively failed. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence, issuing its declaration on July4. Sir William Howe launched a British counter-offensive, capturing New York City and leaving American morale at a low ebb. However, victories at Trenton and Princeton restored American confidence. In 1777, the British launched an invasion from Quebec under John Burgoyne, intending to isolate New England. Instead of assisting this effort, Howe took his army on a separate campaign against Philadelphia, and Burgoyne was decisively defeated at Saratoga in October 1777.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. the British
4. the Massachusetts militia
5. April 1775
6. besieged Boston
7. George Washington
8. the Continental Army
9. Sir William Howe
10. Yes
11. New York City
12. The American Revolutionary War
13. the American War of Independence
14. 1775-1783
15. Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies
16. the Stamp Act
17. a shipment of tea
18. the Sons of Liberty
19. in Boston Harbor

Numbered questions:
1. Did someone try to take away someone else's arms?
2. Did someone try to take away someone else's arms?
3. Who was trying to do the taking?
4. From whom?
5. When was this?
6. What did the militants do after that?
7. Who then became a commander?
8. Of what force?
9. Who was in charge of a Britain retaliation?
10. Did he gain anything?
11. What?
12. What was this overall grand conflict called?
13. Did it have an alternate name?
14. What dates was it fought?
15. Who was it between?
16. What legislative action was the catalyst?
17. What was ruined in water?
18. Who did that?
19. Where at?