Question:
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(CNN) -- Michael Jordan once summed up his social and political activism in four simple words: "Republicans buy sneakers, too."

In a world where athletes and celebrities seem more willing to attach their names to high-priced sneakers and headphones than real-world issues, many are thrusting themselves directly into an uncomfortable national debate over police brutality and racial injustice.

It's not only people with prominent names; there are medical students, congressional staffers, a university president and even a Northern California police chief.

A spate of controversial police slayings of unarmed black men served as the catalyst.

But the case of Eric Garner, a New York grandfather who was put in a fatal chokehold by a police officer trying to arrest him for selling cigarettes illegally, has resonated with whites and nonwhites alike.

Commentators across the political spectrum have united to condemn last week's decision by a grand jury not to indict white New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Garner's death, which was captured on a video seen around the globe. According to Pantaleo's lawyer, the officer says he didn't use a chokehold on Garner.

The outpouring started in earnest one week before the New York decision, with the long-awaited announcement of a grand jury's decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown. That decision was met with violent demonstrations in Ferguson and largely peaceful protests throughout the nation.

On November 3, five St. Louis Rams players infuriated some people with a silent message before a game against the Oakland Raiders. Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Kenny Britt walked onto the field and raised their palms in the air, demonstrating the "hands up, don't shoot" gesture protesters in Ferguson had been using for months.
1. On what date did a football team protest by raising their palms?
2. Which team participated?
3. Was it the entire team?
4. How many members?
5. What were their names?
6. What did their gesture represent?
7. Where did that gesture originate?
8. Who died in Ferguson, Missouri to initiate protests?
9. Who was he shot by?
10. What profession did Darren Wilson have?
11. Was Michael Brown armed?
12. How old was he?
13. Who died as a result of a fatal chokehold?
14. Who placed him in the hold/
15. Why was Garner being arrested?
16. Was that officer convicted?
17. What was that officer's name?
18. Was there a video of the incident?
19. Was Michael Brown's killer convicted?
20. What race were both victims?
21. Were either of them armed?

Numbered answers:
1. November 3
2. the St. Louis Rams
3. no
4. five
5. Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Kenny Britt
6. "hands up, don't shoot"
7. Ferguson
8. Michael Brown
9. Darren Wilson
10. Police Officer
11. unarmed
12. a teen
13. Eric Garner
14. a police officer
15. for selling cigarettes illegally
16. no
17. Daniel Pantaleo
18. yes
19. no
20. black
21. no

Question:
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CHAPTER XVI.

CONTINUED MISBEHAVIOUR OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN.

BY the following Monday it was known at many looms that something sat heavily on the Auld Licht minister's mind. On the previous day he had preached his second sermon of warning to susceptible young men, and his first mention of the word "woman" had blown even the sleepy heads upright. Now he had salt fish for breakfast, and on clearing the table Jean noticed that his knife and fork were uncrossed. He was observed walking into a gooseberry bush by Susy Linn, who possessed the pioneer spring-bed of Thrums, and always knew when her man jumped into it by suddenly finding herself shot to the ceiling. Lunan, the tinsmith, and two women, who had the luck to be in the street at the time, saw him stopping at Dr. McQueen's door, as if about to knock, and then turning smartly away. His hat blew off in the school wynd, where a wind wanders ever, looking for hats, and he chased it so passionately that Lang Tammas went into Allardyce's smiddy to say--

"I dinna like it. Of course he couldna afford to lose his hat, but he should hae run after it mair reverently."

Gavin, indeed, was troubled. He had avoided speaking of the Egyptian to his mother. He had gone to McQueen's house to ask the doctor to accompany him to the Kaims, but with the knocker in his hand he changed his mind, and now he was at the place of meeting alone. It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on. Around him. Gavin saw only dejected firs with drops of water falling listlessly from them, clods of snow, and grass that rustled as if animals were crawling through it. All the roads were slack.
1. What day was it?
2. Was there a preacher?
3. Who?
4. Who was troubled?
5. Why?
6. Who was observing?
7. Who was observed?
8. What was eaten?
9. for what meal?
10. Where was he observed?

Numbered answers:
1. Monday
2. yes
3. Auld Licht minister's
4. Gavin
5. he wouldn't speak to his mom in egyptian.
6. Susy Linn
7. Jean
8. salt fish
9. breakfast
10. walking into a gooseberry bush.

Question:
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Maria was a teacher at a small school in Arizona. Maria had worked in the past at schools in California, Texas, and Vermont, but had to leave these schools because the school in Arizona was perfect for her dream job. When she moved to Arizona she found a small little one bedroom house that fit her perfectly. The house was on the top floor of another building, owned by another teacher. In her house was a bed, dresser, table and telephone. Nothing else came with the house. So Maria wanted to go shopping with her new teacher friend. So they went down to the mall to buy things for her new house. First she wanted to look for some chairs to go with her table. Then she wanted to find a TV for her living room and a TV for her bedroom. Last she wanted to find a big comfy couch for her living room. When she got to the couch store she had a few different choices. She could buy the biggest couch they had but would go over her limit, it was black. She could buy the middle couch right at her limit, which was brown. Or she could buy the smallest couch well under her limit, but was not a very good color, red. Maria went with the middle couch knowing she would not like the color of the smaller one even if it was least expensive. Maria then had to choose if she wanted them to deliver her couch or if she would pick it up. Knowing she had only a small car she went with the deliver choice. She also had to choose if she wanted them to set up the couch for her or for her to set it up herself. She went with them setting it up since they would be there to deliver it anyway. Maria loved her new house and job.
1. Who was Maria?
2. Where?
3. Where was that?
4. Where else did she work?
5. Why did she leave?
6. Did she move there?
7. Where did she live?
8. Was it right for her?
9. Where was it?
10. Who owned it?
11. What was in there?
12. Anything else?
13. What did Maria want to do?
14. with who?
15. Where did they go?
16. for what?
17. What did she do first?
18. to go with what?
Numbered answers:
1. a teacher
2. at a small school
3. Arizona
4. California, Texas, and Vermont,
5. because the school in Arizona was perfect for her dream job.
6. yes
7. a small little one bedroom house
8. yes
9. the top floor of another building
10. another teacher.
11. a bed, dresser, table and telephone
12. no
13. go shopping
14. her new teacher friend.
15. the mall
16. to buy things for her new house
17. looked for some chairs
18. her table.