Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER X

MISTRESS AND MEN

Half-an-hour later Bathsheba, in finished dress, and followed by Liddy, entered the upper end of the old hall to find that her men had all deposited themselves on a long form and a settle at the lower extremity. She sat down at a table and opened the time-book, pen in her hand, with a canvas money-bag beside her. From this she poured a small heap of coin. Liddy chose a position at her elbow and began to sew, sometimes pausing and looking round, or, with the air of a privileged person, taking up one of the half-sovereigns lying before her and surveying it merely as a work of art, while strictly preventing her countenance from expressing any wish to possess it as money.

"Now before I begin, men," said Bathsheba, "I have two matters to speak of. The first is that the bailiff is dismissed for thieving, and that I have formed a resolution to have no bailiff at all, but to manage everything with my own head and hands."

The men breathed an audible breath of amazement.

"The next matter is, have you heard anything of Fanny?"

"Nothing, ma'am."

"Have you done anything?"

"I met Farmer Boldwood," said Jacob Smallbury, "and I went with him and two of his men, and dragged Newmill Pond, but we found nothing."

"And the new shepherd have been to Buck's Head, by Yalbury, thinking she had gone there, but nobody had seed her," said Laban Tall.

"Hasn't William Smallbury been to Casterbridge?"

1. What was the bailiff dismissed for?
2. So what did Bathsheba do?
3. of what?
4. How would she do everything?
5. Were people amazed about this?
6. What was her other topic of discussion?
7. Who followed Bathsheba?
8. What did Liddy do?
9. Next to who?
10. And what did Bathsheba do when she entered?
11. What did she pour into a pile?
12. Did Liddy seem humble?
13. Who did Bathsheba talk to?
14. What were their names?
15. Who else?
16. Who looked for Fanny?
17. Who else?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. thieving
2. formed a resolution
3. to have no bailiff at all
4. with her own head and hands
5. yes
6. Fanny
7. Liddy
8. began to sew
9. a canvas money-bag
10. She sat down
11. small heap of coin
12. no
13. The men
14. Jacob Smallbury
15. Laban Tall
16. Jacob Smallbury and othes
17. Farmer Boldwood and two of his men

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Chapter 6

THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN FALLS INTO WORSE COMPANY

It had come to pass that Mr Silas Wegg now rarely attended the minion of fortune and the worm of the hour, at his (the worm's and minion's) own house, but lay under general instructions to await him within a certain margin of hours at the Bower. Mr Wegg took this arrangement in great dudgeon, because the appointed hours were evening hours, and those he considered precious to the progress of the friendly move. But it was quite in character, he bitterly remarked to Mr Venus, that the upstart who had trampled on those eminent creatures, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker, should oppress his literary man.

The Roman Empire having worked out its destruction, Mr Boffin next appeared in a cab with Rollin's Ancient History, which valuable work being found to possess lethargic properties, broke down, at about the period when the whole of the army of Alexander the Macedonian (at that time about forty thousand strong) burst into tears simultaneously, on his being taken with a shivering fit after bathing. The Wars of the Jews, likewise languishing under Mr Wegg's generalship, Mr Boffin arrived in another cab with Plutarch: whose Lives he found in the sequel extremely entertaining, though he hoped Plutarch might not expect him to believe them all. What to believe, in the course of his reading, was Mr Boffin's chief literary difficulty indeed; for some time he was divided in his mind between half, all, or none; at length, when he decided, as a moderate man, to compound with half, the question still remained, which half? And that stumbling-block he never got over.

1. who was upset because the hours were in the evening?
2. did he consider those precious?
3. who did he complain to about it?
4. what is Wegg's first name?
5. does he frequently attend the bower?
6. did he consider himself a literary man?
7. who supposedly worked out their destruction?
8. whose army is said to have cried?
9. how many soldiers were in it?
10. did Alexander get sick?
11. after what?
12. who arrived with plutarch?
13. in what?
14. did boffin find it easy to believe what he read?
15. Did Wegg complain about an aunt?
16. what was her name?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Mr Wegg
2. yes
3. Mr Venus
4. unknown
5. no
6. yes
7. Roman Empire
8. army of Alexander
9. forty thousand
10. yes
11. bathing
12. Mr Boffin
13. in a cab
14. no
15. yes
16. Jane

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The Romance languages (sometimes called the Romanic languages, Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that thus form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.

Today, around 800 million people are native speakers worldwide, mainly in Europe, Africa and the Americas, but also elsewhere. Additionally, the major Romance languages have many non-native speakers and are in widespread use as lingua francas. This is especially the case for French, which is in widespread use throughout Central and West Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Maghreb.

The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (470 million), Portuguese (250 million), French (150 million), Italian (60 million), and Romanian (25 million).

Because of the difficulty of imposing boundaries on a continuum, various counts of the modern Romance languages are given; for example, Dalby lists 23 based on mutual intelligibility. The following, more extensive list, includes 35 current, living languages, and one recently extinct language, Dalmatian:

Romance languages are the continuation of Vulgar Latin, the popular and colloquial sociolect of Latin spoken by soldiers, settlers, and merchants of the Roman Empire, as distinguished from the classical form of the language spoken by the Roman upper classes, the form in which the language was generally written. Between 350 BC and 150 AD, the expansion of the Empire, together with its administrative and educational policies, made Latin the dominant native language in continental Western Europe. Latin also exerted a strong influence in southeastern Britain, the Roman province of Africa, western Germany, Pannonia and the Balkans north of the Jirecek Line.

1. What are some names the Romance languages are sometimes called?
2. What is the most spoken of the Languages?
3. Around how many people speak it?
4. During what time frame did Latin become the dominant native language in continental Western Europe?
5. When did the modern Romance Languages start evolving from Vulgar Latin?
6. What language branch did they form then?
7. In a more extensive listing how many current Romance Languages are there?
8. Is there difficulty imposing boundries where a new language starts and an old one ends with the Romance languages?
9. Where has latin had a strong influence?
10. How many people speak Romanian?
11. Are these languages ever used as lingua francas?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Romanic languages
2. Spanish
3. 470 million
4. Between 350 BC and 150 AD
5. between the sixth and ninth centuries
6. Italic languages
7. 35 current
8. Yes
9. southeastern Britain
10. 25 million
11. Yes