question: The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region situated at the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, which contain Europe's highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, , located on the west of the Greater Caucasus mountain range. The Greater Caucasus acts as a natural barrier separating Europe from Southwest Asia, the latter including the Transcaucasus and Anatolia regions.

The Caucasus region is separated between northern and southern partsthe North Caucasus and Transcaucasus, respectively. The Greater Caucasus range in the north is within the Russian Federation, while the Lesser Caucasus to the south is divided between several independent states, namely Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan. The Transcaucasus extends eastwards to the Caspian Sea and northwestern Iran, and extends westwards into northeastern Turkey.

The region is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Northeast Caucasian families are indigenous to the area.

Pliny the Elder's "Natural History" (7779 AD) derives the name of the Caucasus from Scythian "kroy-khasis" ("ice-shining, white with snow"). German linguist Paul Kretschmer notes that the Latvian word "Kruvesis" also means "ice".

In the "Tale of Past Years" (1113 AD), it is stated that Old East Slavic ("Kavkasijskye gory") came from Ancient Greek ("Kafkasos"), which, according to M. A. Yuyukin, is a compound word that can be interpreted as the "Seagull's Mountain" (-: , , , , "a kind of seagull" + the reconstructed * "mountain" or "rock" richly attested both in place and personal names.)
1. what seas is the area in between?
2. What is the Europe's highest mountain?
3. where is it located?
4. in what region?
5. What is it known for?
6. What does the greater Caucasus seperate?
7. Where is the name dervived from?
8. meaning?
9. anything else?
10. and who has noted that?
11. What languages are spoken here?
12. any other?
13. and who is indigenous to the area?
14. Where would you find Transcaucasus?
15. Whatis included in the Russian Federation?
16. Transcaucasus extends eastward to what?
17. and?
18. and westward?
19. What year was Tale of past years written?
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answer: 1. Black Sea and the Caspian Sea
2. Mount Elbrus
3. Greater Caucasus mountain range
4. west
5. linguistic diversity
6. Europe from Southwest Asia
7. Scythian "kroy-khasis"
8. ice-shining, white with snow
9. ice
10. Pliny the Elder's "Natural History"
11. Turkic languages
12. Indo-European
13. Northeast Caucasian families
14. southern part
15. The Greater Caucasus
16. the Caspian Sea
17. northwestern Iran
18. into northeastern Turkey
19. 1113 AD

question: Once there was a young boy named Bret who had a cat named Wolfgang. The boy had really wanted a wolf for a pet, but his mother said wolves liked to hog the bathroom and liked to blow things down and they snored. So the boy had to call his cat Wolfie.

He had also thought about naming his cat Sir Purrsalot. Bret himself planned to become a knight when he grew up (or maybe a cowboy) and thought Sir Purrsalot sounded like a good name for his brother knight. The difficulty there was that Wolfie didn't purr a lot. He purred when he was being fed or petted, but no one could say he purred a lot. Plus Bret's mother said knights liked to poke things with their swords and they also liked to hog the bathroom and they clanked.

So Bret was left with a cat named Wolfgang. The neighbors gave him strange looks when he stood in the front yard in the evening and yelled "Wolfie! Here Wolfie!!!", to get Wolfgang to come in for the night. But Bret didn't care what anyone else thought. He had a Wolfie and maybe he'd end up becoming a pet doctor when he grew up instead.
1. Who planned something?
2. what?
3. Who purred?
4. is it something he did all the time?
5. was wolfie a dog?
6. what was he?
7. what did Bret's mother say?
8. did he yell in the yard at night?
9. was he a vet?
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answer: 1. Bret
2. To become a knight or a cowboy
3. Wolfie
4. No
5. No
6. A cat
7. Knights poke things with their swords, hog the bathroom, and clank
8. Yes
9. No

question: CHAPTER XV

A BEWILDERING EXPERIENCE

When Louise Merrick entered the brown limousine, which she naturally supposed to belong to Arthur Weldon, she had not the faintest suspicion of any evil in her mind. Indeed, the girl was very happy this especial evening, although tired with her duties at the Kermess. A climax in her young life had arrived, and she greeted it joyously, believing she loved Arthur well enough to become his wife.

Now that the engagement had been announced to their immediate circle of friends she felt as proud and elated as any young girl has a right to be under the circumstances.

Added to this pleasant event was the social triumph she and her cousins had enjoyed at the Kermess, where Louise especially had met with rare favor. The fashionable world had united in being most kind and considerate to the dainty, attractive young _debutante_, and only Diana had seemed to slight her. This was not surprising in view of the fact that Diana evidently wanted Arthur for herself, and there was some satisfaction in winning a lover who was elsewhere in prime demand. In addition to all this the little dance that concluded the evening's entertainment had been quite delightful, and all things conspired to put Louise in a very contented frame of mind. Still fluttering with the innocent excitements of the hour the girl went to join Arthur without a fear of impending misfortune. She did not think of Charlie Mershone at all. He had been annoying and impertinent, and she had rebuked him and sent him away, cutting him out of her life altogether. Perhaps she ought to have remembered that she had mildly flirted with Diana's cousin and given him opportunity for the impassioned speeches she resented; but Louise had a girlish idea that there was no harm in flirting, considering it a feminine license. She saw young Mershone at the Kermess that evening paying indifferent attentions to other women and ignoring her, and was sincerely glad to have done with him for good and all.
1. Who entered the vehicle?
2. What type of vehicle?
3. How was she feeling tonight?
4. Was she energetic?
5. Why not?
6. Did she have a beau?
7. What was his name?
8. What was their good news?
9. Who knew about it?
10. Who wasn't too happy about it?
11. Why not?
12. Who was Louise's foe's cousin?
13. What did Louise do with him?
14. But what did she do that she thought she had licensed to do?
15. Did she run in to Kermess?
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answer:
1. Louise Merrick
2. a brown limousine
3. very happy
4. no
5. she was tired with her duties at the Kermess
6. yes
7. Arthur
8. their engagement
9. their immediate friends
10. Diana
11. she wanted Arthur for herself
12. Charlie Mershone
13. she had rebuked him and sent him away
14. She had mildly flirted with him
15. She saw young Mershone at the Kermess