Q: Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are decorated eggs that are usually used as gifts on the occasion of Easter or springtime celebration. As such, Easter eggs are common during the season of Eastertide (Easter season). The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in colourful foil, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as chocolate. Although eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth, in Christianity, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus resurrected. In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the blood of Christ, shed as at that time of his crucifixion." This custom of the Easter egg can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Russia and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. This Christian use of eggs may have been influenced by practices in "pre-dynastic period in Egypt, as well as amid the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete".

The practice of decorating eggshells as part of spring rituals is ancient, with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old. In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago. These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.

Answer the following questions:
1. what animal's eggs were found in africa that are 60,000 years old?
2. were they decorated?
3. what else are easter eggs called?
4. what season are they commonly used?
5. what is another name for the easter season?
6. in mesopotamia and crete, what were eggs associated with?
7. what else?
8. what did they decorate?
9. did they also use representations of eggs?
10. with what materials?
11. what do modern people substitute dyed eggs with?
12. is the foil used colorful?
13. what do Easter eggs symbolize to christians?
14. does it also resemble an empty tomb?
15. of who?
16. to what period can the custom of easter eggs be traced?
A: 1. ostrich
2. yes
3. Paschal eggs
4. the Easter season
5. Eastertide
6. death and rebirth
7. kingship
8. ostrich eggs
9. yes
10. gold and silver
11. Chocolate or plastic eggs
12. yes
13. fertility and rebirth
14. yes
15. Jesus
16. the pre-dynastic period
Q: Once there was a boy named Fritz who loved to draw. He drew everything. In the morning, he drew a picture of his cereal with milk. His papa said, "Don't draw your cereal. Eat it!" After school, Fritz drew a picture of his bicycle. His uncle said, "Don't draw your bicycle. Ride it!" At nighttime, after he finished washing his face, he drew a picture of the toothpaste on the sink. His mama said, "Don't draw the toothpaste. Brush your teeth!"

One day Fritz got a splinter in his foot. It hurt. He wanted to take the splinter out. But first, he drew a picture of his foot with the splinter in it. He said, "Now I can remember what my foot looks like with a splinter in it." Then he took the splinter out all by himself. He told his friend Stephen that he took the splinter out all by himself. Stephen did not believe him. Fritz showed him the picture. Then Stephen believed him.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Fritz enjoy doing?
2. What did he draw?
3. What did he draw in the morning?
4. Was his father pleased?
5. When did he draw a bicycle?
6. Whose bike was it?
7. Was his uncle pleased?
8. What did he wash at nighttime?
9. Did he draw something afterwards?
10. What?
11. Who was displeased this time?
12. Where did Fritz get a splinter?
13. What did he draw when this happened?
14. Why?
15. Did he go to the doctor?
16. Who removed the splinter?
17. Who did he tell?
18. Did his friend believe him?
19. What changed Stephen's mind?
A: 1. drawing
2. everything
3. a picture of his cereal
4. no
5. After school
6. his
7. no
8. his face
9. yes
10. toothpaste
11. His mama
12. his foot
13. a picture of his foot with splinter
14. so he could remember what the foot looked like
15. no
16. he did
17. his friend
18. no
19. the picture
Q: CHAPTER XXVIII

FIRE AND HAIL

On the morning after her return from Winnipeg, Beatrice sat in her father's study, with Mowbray facing her across the table. He looked thoughtful, but not so shocked and indignant as she had expected.

"So you are determined to throw Harding over!"

"Yes," Beatrice said in a strained voice. "It seems impossible to do anything else."

"A broken engagement's a serious matter; we Mowbrays keep our word. I hope you're quite sure of your ground."

"What I heard left no room for doubt."

"Did you hear the man's defense?"

"I refused to listen," said Beatrice coldly. "That he should try to excuse himself only made it worse."

"I'm not sure that's very logical. I'll confess that Harding and I seldom agree, but one must be fair."

"Does that mean that one ought to be lenient?" Beatrice asked with an angry sparkle in her eyes.

Mowbray was conscious of some embarrassment. His ideas upon the subject were not sharply defined, but if it had not been his daughter who questioned him he could have expressed them better. Beatrice ought to have left her parents to deal with a delicate matter like this, but instead she had boldly taken it into her own hands. He had tried to bring up his children well, but the becoming modesty which characterized young women in his youth had gone.

"No," he answered; "not exactly lenient. But the thing may not be so bad as you think--and one must make allowances. Then, a broken engagement reflects upon both parties. Even if one of them has an unquestionable grievance, it proves that that person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance."

Answer the following questions:
1. What had Beatrice broken?
2. with woh?
3. did her father and harding often agree?
4. Does he think she should have kept the engagement?
5. does he think she is being fair?
6. would she listen to her fiancee's excuses?
7. did she believe what she had heard about him?
8. Did her father think it made sense notto hear Harding's side of the story?
9. did he think she should have made the decision on her own?
10. who should have been involved?
11. did he think his daughter immodest?
12. did he see it as a parenting failure?
13. who does he feel looks bad in a broken engagement
14. what might it show>?
A:
1. engagement
2. Harding
3. No
4. yes
5. No
6. No
7. Yes
8. No
9. No
10. her parents
11. yes
12. Yes
13. both parties.
14. person acted very rashly in making a promise in the first instance