question: CHAPTER XVII

Wingate, after several strenuous hours spent in Slate's office, returned to his rooms late that night, to find Peter Phipps awaiting him. There was something vaguely threatening about the bulky figure of the man standing gloomily upon the hearth rug, all the spurious good nature gone from his face, his brows knitted, his cheeks hanging a little and unusually pale. Wingate paused on the threshold of the room and his hand crept into his pocket. Phipps seemed to notice the gesture and shook his head.

"Nothing quite so crude, Wingate," he said. "I know an enemy when I see one, but I wasn't thinking of getting rid of you that way."

"I have found it necessary," Wingate remarked slowly, "to be prepared for all sorts of tricks when I am up against anybody as conscienceless as you. I don't want you here, Phipps. I didn't ask you to come and see me. I've nothing to discuss with you."

"There are times," Phipps replied, "when the issue which cannot be fought out to the end with arms can be joined in the council chamber. I have come to know your terms."

Wingate shook his head.

"I don't understand. It is too soon for this sort of thing. You are not beaten yet."

"I am tired," his visitor muttered. "May I sit down?"

"You are an unwelcome guest," Wingate replied coldly, "but sit if you will. Then say what you have to say and go."

Phipps sank into an easy-chair. It was obvious that he was telling the truth so far as regarded his fatigue. He seemed to have aged ten years.
1. Who returned to his room?
2. When?
3. After what?
4. Spent where?
5. Who was waiting in his room?
6. Where was he standing?
7. Was he threatening?
8. What was his body type?
9. Was he pale?
10. Did he want him there?
11. How much had Phipps aged?
12. Did he have a seat?
13. Where?
14. Why?
15. Was he beaten yet?
16. Was Wingate prepared?
17. Did his hand go into his pocket?
18. To retrieve what?
19. Does he have anything to discuss with his visitor?
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answer: 1. Wingate
2. Late that night
3. several strenuous hours
4. Slate's office
5. Peter Phipps
6. hearth rug
7. Yes
8. bulky
9. Yes
10. No
11. ten years
12. Yes
13. easy-chair
14. he was tired
15. No
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. unknown
19. No

question: CHAPTER XXXVI Rockpier

For Love himself took part against himself To warn us off.--TENNYSON

Rosamond was to have a taste of her old vocation, and go campaigning for lodgings, the searching for which she declared to be her strongest point. Rockpier was to be the destination of the family; Eleonora Vivian, whose letters had been far fewer than had been expected of her, was known to be there with her father, and this was lure sufficient for Frank. Frank's welfare again was the lure to Mrs. Poynsett; and the benefit Rosamond was to derive from sea air, after all she had gone through, made Julius willing to give himself the holiday that everybody insisted on his having until Lent.

First, however, was sent off an advanced guard, consisting of Rosamond and Terry, who went up to London with Frank, that he might there consult an aurist, and likewise present himself to his chief, and see whether he could keep his clerkship. All this turned out well, his duties did not depend on his ears, and a month's longer leave of absence was granted to him; moreover, his deafness was pronounced to be likely to yield to treatment, and a tube restored him to somewhat easier intercourse with mankind, and he was in high spirits, when, after an evening spent with Rosamond's friends, the M'Kinnons, the trio took an early train for Rockpier, where Rosamond could not detain Frank even to come to the hotel with them and have luncheon before hurrying off to Verdure Point, the villa inhabited by Sir Harry. All he had done all the way down was to impress upon her, in the fulness of his knowledge of the place, that the only habitable houses in Rockpier were in that direction--the nearer to Verdure Point the more perfect!
1. Who is the author of the quote at the beginning of the chapter?
2. Where was the family going?
3. Who was known to be there?
4. Did she correspond regularly?
5. Who was she with?
6. Who wanted to go to Rockpier because of her?
7. And who wanted to go because of him?
8. Is Rockpier near the ocean?
9. What would help Rosamond?
10. How long will the vacation be?
11. Who went to London?
12. What part of his body did Frank get checked?
13. What's wrong with them?
14. What was put in his ear?
15. Did it solve the problem?
16. How did that make him feel?
17. Who are Rosamond's friends?
18. What did the trio do with them?
19. Where did Rosamond want to go first?
20. And do what?
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answer: 1. TENNYSON
2. Rockpier
3. Eleonora Vivian
4. No
5. her father
6. Frank
7. Mrs. Poynsett
8. Yes
9. sea air
10. a month
11. Rosamond and Terry and Frank
12. His ears
13. deafness
14. a tube
15. Somewhat
16. he was in high spirits
17. the M'Kinnons
18. took an early train for Rockpier
19. the hotel
20. have luncheon

question: John von Neumann (/vn nmn/; Hungarian: Neumann Janos Lajos, pronounced [njmn jano ljo]; December 28, 1903 February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, fluid dynamics and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.

He was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics, in the development of functional analysis, a principal member of the Manhattan Project and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as one of the few originally appointed), and a key figure in the development of game theory and the concepts of cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. He published 150 papers in his life; 60 in pure mathematics, 20 in physics, and 60 in applied mathematics. His last work, an unfinished manuscript written while in the hospital, was later published in book form as The Computer and the Brain.
1. What is the nationality of John von Neumann
2. When was he born
3. What does he do?
4. Was he member of Manhattan Project?
5. Did he publish any book?
6. Which book?
7. When did he die?
8. Where did he write his last work?
9. Did he write any book on maths
10. How many paper did he write then?
11. How about physics then?
12. Who develop the game theory?
13. How many paper did he publish in applied maths
14. What are the field at which he has a major contribution?
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answer:
1. Hungarian-American
2. 1903
3. Mathematician
4. yes
5. Yes
6. The Computer and the Brain.
7. 1957
8. In the hospital
9. No, only papers
10. 150
11. 20 in physics
12. von Neumann
13. 60
14. a number of fields