question: CHAPTER XII

So sailed the Ship of Fools--Michael playing with Scraps, respecting Cocky and by Cocky being bullied and wheedled, singing with Steward and worshipping him; Daughtry drinking his six quarts of beer each day, collecting his wages the first of each month, and admiring Charles Stough Greenleaf as the finest man on board; Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah Moy avoiding the Black Papuan as the very plague, washing himself continuously and boiling his blankets once a week; Captain Doane doing the navigating and worrying about his flat-building in San Francisco; Grimshaw resting his ham-hands on his colossal knees and girding at the pawnbroker to contribute as much to the adventure as he was contributing from his wheat-ranches; Simon Nishikanta wiping his sweaty neck with the greasy silk handkerchief and painting endless water-colours; the mate patiently stealing the ship's latitude and longitude with his duplicate key; and the Ancient Mariner, solacing himself with Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand.

Came a stretch of ocean that to Daughtry was like all other stretches of ocean and unidentifiable from them. No land broke the sea-rim. The ship the centre, the horizon was the invariable and eternal circle of the world. The magnetic needle in the binnacle was the point on which the _Mary Turner_ ever pivoted. The sun rose in the undoubted east and set in the undoubted west, corrected and proved, of course, by declination, deviation, and variation; and the nightly march of the stars and constellations proceeded across the sky.
1. What was Michael playing with?
2. who was drinking beer?
3. when does he get paid?
4. Who was washing all the time?
5. what was he doing with his blankets?
6. how often?
7. who was the navigator?
8. what was he concerned about?
9. where was it?
10. where were Grimshaw's hands?
11. What was Simon wiping his neck with/
12. was it clean?
13. is he a painter?
14. who was drinnking scotch?
15. does he smoke, too?
16. what?
17. Did Daughtty think the ocean was just like the other parts?
18. Could he see land?
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answer: 1. Scraps
2. Daughtry
3. first of each month
4. Ah Moy
5. boiling
6. once a week
7. Doane
8. flat-building
9. in San Francisco
10. on his knees
11. handkerchief
12. no
13. yes
14. Ancient Mariner
15. yes
16. Havanas
17. yes
18. No

question: CHAPTER IV.

A DISCUSSION.

While Caleb stood upon the mole, he began to whip the water; and, in doing so, he spattered David and Dwight a little.

Dwight said, "Take care, Caleb--don't spatter us;" and he went up to him, and was going gently to take hold of his whip, to take it away. "Let me have the whip," said he.

"No," said Caleb, holding it firmly, "I want it."

"Let go of it, Dwight," said Madam Rachel.

"Why, mother, he ought to let me have it, for I went and got it for him. He would not have had it at all without me."

"You must not take it by violence," said his mother, "if you have ever so good a right to it. But did you get it for him?"

"Yes, mother; and he told a lie about it."

"O, Dwight," said his mother, "you ought not to say so. I can't think Caleb would tell a lie."

"He did, mother; he said he was sure he hung it up, when, after all, he dropped it in the water; and we agreed to leave it to you if that was not telling a lie."

"Did you know, Caleb, when you said you hung it up, that you had really left it in the water?"

"No, grandmother," said Caleb, very earnestly; "I really thought I had hung it up."

"Then it was not telling a _lie_, Dwight. A lie is told with an intention to deceive. To make it a lie it is necessary that the person who says a thing, must _know distinctly_ at the time that he says it, that it is not true; and he must say it with the particular intention to deceive. Now, Caleb did not do this."
1. who was splashed with water?
2. who else?
3. who told Dwight to let go?
4. what did he say in response?
5. what is moms name?
6. does mom think caleb is lying?
7. did caleb know he had left it in the water?
8. what is the definition of lie that is given?
9. who went and got the whip?
10. who was accused of lying?
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answer: 1. David
2. dwight
3. his mother
4. he should have it because he got it
5. Madam Rachel
6. no
7. no
8. A lie is told with an intention to deceive
9. dwight
10. caleb

question: Chapter XI

Now that Grandfather had fought through the Old French War, in which our chair made no very distinguished figure, he thought it high time to tell the children some of the more private history of that praiseworthy old piece of furniture.

"In 1757," said Grandfather, "after Shirley had been summoned to England, Thomas Pownall was appointed governor of Massachusetts. He was a gay and fashionable English gentleman, who had spent much of his life in London, but had a considerable acquaintance with America. The new governor appears to have taken no active part in the war that was going on; although, at one period, he talked of marching against the enemy, at the head of his company of cadets. But, on the whole, he probably concluded that it was more befitting a governor to remain quietly in our chair, reading the newspapers and official documents."

"Did the people like Pownall?" asked Charley.

"They found no fault with him," replied Grandfather. "It was no time to quarrel with the governor, when the utmost harmony was required, in order to defend the country against the French. But Pownall did not remain long in Massachusetts. In 1759, he was sent to be governor of South Carolina. In thus exchanging one government for another, I suppose he felt no regret, except at the necessity of leaving Grandfather's chair behind him."

"He might have taken it to South Carolina," observed Clara.

"It appears to me," said Laurence, giving the rein to his fancy, "that the fate of this ancient chair was, somehow or other, mysteriously connected with the fortunes of old Massachusetts. If Governor Pownall had put it aboard the vessel in which he sailed for South Carolina, she would probably have lain wind-bound in Boston harbor. It was ordained that the chair should not be taken away. Don't you think so, Grandfather?"
1. when did Pownall become governor?
2. where was Shirley then?
3. did people like Pownall?
4. what happened in 1759?
5. what did he leave behind?
6. what war did grandfather fight in?
7. what did he decide to tell the kids?
8. where did Pownall grow up?
9. did he take part in the war?
10. what did he think about doing against the enenemy?
11. why didnt he?
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answer:
1. In 1757
2. England
3. yes
4. he was sent to be governor of South Carolina
5. Grandfather's chair
6. the Old French War
7. some of the more private history of the old piece of furniture
8. London
9. no
10. marching against them
11. it was more befitting a governor to remain quietly in our chair