Q: CHAPTER XXX

FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in September and shrieked at Carol, "School starts next Tuesday. I've got to have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down the lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the doctor? Cy Bogart wants to go--he's a brat but he's lively."

"I don't think the doctor can go," sedately. "He said something about having to make a country call this afternoon. But I'd love to."

"That's dandy! Who can we get?"

"Mrs. Dyer might be chaperon. She's been so nice. And maybe Dave, if he could get away from the store."

"How about Erik Valborg? I think he's got lots more style than these town boys. You like him all right, don't you?"

So the picnic of Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable.

They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. Dave Dyer was his most clownish self. He yelped, jigged, wore Carol's hat, dropped an ant down Fern's back, and when they went swimming (the women modestly changing in the car with the side curtains up, the men undressing behind the bushes, constantly repeating, "Gee, hope we don't run into poison ivy"), Dave splashed water on them and dived to clutch his wife's ankle. He infected the others. Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them.

1. FERN Mullins
2. Saturday morning
3. no
4. September
5. picnic
6. unknown
7. School starts next Tuesday, maybe that's why
8. Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers
9. no
10. the Dyers
11. he's got lots more style than town boys
12. south shore of Lake Minniemashie
13. unknown
14. unknown
15. clownish
16. splashed water on them
17. Carol's
18. Cy Bogart
19. Cy climbed a tree
20. to throw acorns

Numbered questions:
1. who came in the house in a hurry?
2. when?
3. was it late?
4. what month?
5. What was the excitement over?
6. why was that exciting?
7. was it because Fern wanted to have a spree before her arrest?
8. who attended the picnic?
9. was it immoral?
10. Who was the chaperone?
11. What was said about Erik?
12. where did the picnic take place?
13. what kind of grove?
14. was it a birch grove?
15. How was Mr. Dyer acting?
16. what did he do?
17. who's hat did he wear?
18. Who was the brat?
19. what did he do?
20. why?

Q: New York (CNN) -- The mother of one of the two New Jersey men arrested last week at a New York airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia says the two men are guilty of stupidity -- but not of the sinister plan described by authorities.

"Anything makes him angry. But he's not a terrorist; he's a stupid kid," Nadia Alessa said of her U.S.-born son, Mahmood.

Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, New Jersey, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, are charged with one count each of conspiracy to kill, maim and murder persons outside of the United States, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The men, who were taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 5, intended to take separate flights to Egypt on their way to Somalia "to join designated foreign terrorist organization Al-Shabaab and wage violent jihad," according to federal prosecutors.

The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Newark alleges that in 2007, Alessa and Almonte traveled together to Jordan, where they intended to enter Iraq to commit violence against U.S. troops there.

Nadia Alessa told CNN that her son went to 16 or 17 psychiatrists for what she called "anger management issues" that surfaced when he was a boy. He lived at his parents well-kept home, where his angry outbursts were common.

However, she said, he wasn't particularly religious. "He slept late. If he was devout, he would make his prayers on time. He didn't," she said.

1. two New Jersey men
2. conspiracy to kill, maim and murder persons outside of the United States
3. fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia
4. no
5. His mother
6. If he was devout, he would make his prayers on time
7. No
8. a stupid kid
9. yes
10. yes
11. 16 or 17 psychiatrists
12. no
13. unknown
14. no
15. Mohamed Mahmood Alessa
16. Nadia Alessa
17. Carlos Eduardo Almonte
18. 2007
19. Al-Shabaab

Numbered questions:
1. Who is being charged?
2. For what?
3. Where were they planning to do it?
4. Were they both religious?
5. How do we know that?
6. How did she know he wasn't religious?
7. Does she agree that her son is a terrorist?
8. What does she think he is, then?
9. Did he get angry easily?
10. Did he see anyone about anger management?
11. How many people?
12. Were his parents divorced?
13. Abusive?
14. Do we know of anything wrong with his home life?
15. What is his name?
16. His mother's name?
17. The other man's name?
18. When did they try to go join an al Qaeda group?
19. What is the group's name?

Q: (CNN) -- Last week, we clued you in to all the annoying things that couples must cease doing on Facebook.

This week, we're taking a look at the other side of the coin. What should you do about all the digital remnants of a relationship when you're no longer flitting through fields, holding hands and weaving flowers Lady Chatterley's Lover-like into one another's various expanses of hair? (i.e., after you've broken up.)

A quick story that's not specifically true but is likely true for many a person: Suzie has a new beau, Johnny, and they are, oh, so in love. Like, two straws, one milkshake in love. And Suzie detests sharing because she's an only child, so you know that's big.

Naturally, the two become Facebook friends, because, well, the site has 900 million users and based on Lord Zuckerberg's official decree, you don't actually KNOW anyone until you click "friend." Suzie is happily clicking through Johnny's pictures and scrolling through his timeline when she notices a girl named Sally has commented on quite a few snaps and left wall posts with some quite explicit descriptions of what she wants to do to his sloped-shoulder physique.

Suzie is thrown into a rage that only the most only of only children can make manifest, then she realizes that the posts are from two years back.

The next time she and Johnny are slurping some frozen milk she asks for the story, and Johnny reveals that Sally was his old flame, a college sweetheart who has long since lost the sweetness and acquired a whip (the accessory of choice for anyone in her rather dominating profession).

1. Facebook
2. Johnny
3. Sally
4. she's an only child
5. yes
6. Yes
7. 900 million
8. Zuckerberg
9. commented on snaps and left posts with explicit descriptions
10. thrown into a rage
11. two years back
12. slurping some frozen milk
13. she's his old flame

Numbered questions:
1. According to the article, what platform was used last week in their article?
2. Who is Suzy's beau?
3. What does Suzy detest?
4. Why does she hate sharing?
5. Do Johnny and her love each other?
6. Do they become FB friends?
7. How many users are on FB?
8. Who was it created by?
9. What does she notice Sally has done?
10. How does Suzie react seeing this on FB?
11. How long ago were the posts?
12. What are Johnny and her doing when she confronts him?
13. What does Johnny say about Sally?