Question: (CNN) -- Obsession often brings joy and sorrow in equal measure.

Inside that thin, shiny packet giving off a mystical glow sits five stickers -- five faces of five men whose very presence can turn lives upside down.

Welcome to the world of World Cup sticker collecting.

"My girlfriend gave me an ultimatum the other day, her or the football stickers? Shame really, I thought she was the one," Daniel Blazer, a British collector, told CNN.

While most relationships survive the sticker phase, Blazer is not alone in his infatuation with the shiny adhesives which smile back at those dreaming of the holy grail -- the full sticker album.

Some are relentless in their pursuit of that holy grail, setting up spreadsheets and even calling in their spouse to increase the odds of successful swapping.

"My husband, Stephen, is obsessed with his sticker album," Emma Conway, who blogs under the name of brummymummyof2, told CNN.

"He has his own spreadsheet so he knows what he needs and what he doesn't. It does get annoying.

"Every time I go near a shop I have to get my three-year-old daughter some stickers and then get some for my 31-year-old husband.

"He's a fantastic dad to our two children but I think the opportunity to collect stickers reminds him and his friends of being kids.

"When I go to work, he gives me his swaps, and I swap them with my colleagues and then bring them back.

"I'm like a drug dealer...but with stickers." 1. What event are the stickers associated with?
2. How many people are quoted in the article?
3. Is one of them a man?
4. Where's he from?
5. What's his name?
6. Who's the other person quoted?
7. Is she single?
8. What is her spouse's name?
9. How old is he?
10. How many children do they have?
11. How many people in their family collect stickers?
12. Who, besides the husband, does?
13. Does Stephen have a method to keep track of his stickers?
14. What is it?
15. Does the wife have a blog?
16. What screen name does she use?
17. Does she help her hubby with his hobby?
18. How?
19. Does she help in another way?
20. How's that? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. the World Cup
2. two
3. yes
4. Britain
5. Daniel Blazer
6. Emma Conway
7. no
8. Stephen
9. 31
10. two
11. two
12. their three-year-old daughter
13. yes
14. a spreadsheet
15. yes
16. brummymummyof2
17. yes
18. she buys them for him in shops
19. yes
20. take them to work and swaps with colleagues

Question: CHAPTER TWELVE.

VICTORY!

But before that winter closed, ay, before it began, a great victory was gained, which merits special mention here. Let us retrace our steps a little.

One morning, while Ian Macdonald was superintending the preparation of breakfast in some far-away part of the western wilderness, and Michel Rollin was cutting firewood, Victor Ravenshaw came rushing into camp with the eager announcement that he had seen the footprints of an _enormous_ grizzly bear!

At any time such news would have stirred the blood of Ian, but at that time, when the autumn was nearly over, and hope had almost died in the breast of our scholastic backwoodsman, the news burst upon him with the thrilling force of an electric shock.

"Now, Ian, take your gun and go in and win," said Victor with enthusiasm, for the youth had been infected with Rollin's spirit of gallantry.

"You see," Rollin had said to Victor during a confidential _tete-a-tete_, "ven a lady is in de case ye must bow de head. Ian do love your sister. Ver goot. Your sister do vish for a bar-claw collar. Ver goot. Vell, de chance turn up at last--von grizzly bar do appear. Who do shot 'im? Vy, Ian, certaintly. Mais, it is pity he am so 'bominibly bad shot!"

Victor, being an unselfish fellow, at once agreed to this; hence his earnest advice that Ian should take his gun and go in and win. But Ian shook his head.

"My dear boy," he said, with a sigh, "it's of no use my attempting to shoot a bear, or anything else. I don't know what can be wrong with my vision, I can see as clear and as far as the best of you, and I'm not bad, you'll allow, at following up a trail over hard ground; but when it comes to squinting along the barrel of a gun I'm worse than useless. It's my belief that if I took aim at a haystack at thirty yards I'd miss it. No, Vic, I must give up the idea of shooting altogether." 1. Who was in charge of the meal?
2. What was the meal?
3. What was Michael doing?
4. What did Victor see?
5. What did Victor want his friend to get?
6. Why?
7. What season was it?
8. Was Victor excited about the animal?
9. What about Ian?
10. Was Ian a good shot? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Ian Macdonald
2. breakfast
3. cutting firewood
4. the footprints of an _enormous_ grizzly bear!
5. his gun
6. to win
7. winter close
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. No

Question: CHAPTER XX

IN THE GEVANGENHUIS

When Adrian left the factory he ran on to the house in the Bree Straat.

"Oh! what has happened?" said his mother as he burst into the room where she and Elsa were at work.

"They are coming for him," he gasped. "The soldiers from the Gevangenhuis. Where is he? Let him escape quickly--my stepfather."

Lysbeth staggered and fell back into her chair.

"How do you know?" she asked.

At the question Adrian's head swam and his heart stood still. Yet his lips found a lie.

"I overheard it," he said; "the soldiers are attacking Foy and Martin in the factory, and I heard them say that they were coming here for him."

Elsa moaned aloud, then she turned on him like a tiger, asking:

"If so, why did you not stay to help them?"

"Because," he answered with a touch of his old pomposity, "my first duty was towards my mother and you."

"He is out of the house," broke in Lysbeth in a low voice that was dreadful to hear. "He is out of the house, I know not where. Go, son, and search for him. Swift! Be swift!"

So Adrian went forth, not sorry to escape the presence of these tormented women. Here and there he wandered to one haunt of Dirk's after another, but without success, till at length a noise of tumult drew him, and he ran towards the sound. Presently he was round the corner, and this was what he saw. 1. Where did Adrian run to?
2. Who is coming for Adrian's stepdad?
3. Did Adrian say something false?
4. Was Adrian glad to leave Elsa and Lisbeth?
5. What did he see around the corner?
6. Who, according to Adrian, were military men attacking?
7. Where?
8. Does Lysbeth know where Adrian's stepdad is?
9. Where did Adrian go after talking to the women?
10. Did he find his stepfather anywhere there?
11. Did something capture his attention?
12. What?
13. True or False: Adrian fled from what he heard.
14. What animal is Elsa likened to?
15. What Chapter is this passage part of?
16. What is the title of the chapter?
17. What did Lysbeth sit in?
18. Did Adrian's mind feel clear?
19. Did his pulse race? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. to the house in the Bree Straat.
2. The soldiers from the Gevangenhuis
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. unknown
6. Foy and Martin
7. in the factory
8. No
9. to one haunt of Dirk's after another,
10. No
11. Yes
12. a noise of tumult
13. False
14. tiger
15. XX
16. IN THE GEVANGENHUIS
17. chair.
18. No
19. No