Question:
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Barry the bowl lived in a cabinet in the kitchen. He sat next to the pots and under the pans. He liked his home, but he never got out much. He was only used for mixing when his friend wanted to bake a cake. One day, his friend pulled him out of the cabinet and put him on the table. He got out the eggs, flour and sugar and began to bake a cake. Barry was very excited. He looked around the kitchen as his friend mixed up all the ingredients. He saw a sink, a refrigerator and a toaster. He was sad to go back in the cabinet when his friend was all done with the cake. But he wasn't going back yet! His friend set him in the sink to wash out all of the leftover ingredients. It was a fun day out of the cabinet. Now it was time for him to go back home and wait for another day and another adventure.
1. What was Barry?
2. Did he live in the garage?
3. How did he feel about his house?
4. Did he have a particular purpose?
5. Who took him out?
6. What was the buddy wanting to do?
7. Was he upset to be on the table?
8. What things did he get to see?
9. What made him sad?
10. After baking, what did his buddy do to him?
11. Did he get cleaned up?
12. how did he feel about his day?
13. What would he be waiting for?
14. Did he usually get to the table much?

Numbered answers:
1. bowl
2. no
3. liked it
4. mixing
5. his friend
6. bake a cake
7. no
8. sink, refrigerator, and toaster
9. going back in the cabinet
10. set him in the sink
11. yes
12. had fun
13. another adventure
14. no

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Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is named after the Christian saint, Monica. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, Sawtelle on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south. Santa Monica is well known for its affluent single-family neighborhoods but also has many neighborhoods consisting primarily of condominiums and apartments. Over two-thirds of Santa Monica's residents are renters. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.

Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language. The first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portola, who camped near the present day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3, 1769. There are two different versions of the naming of the city. One says that it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica (mother of Saint Augustine), but her feast day is actually May 4. Another version says that it was named by Juan Crespi on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs (Serra Springs), that were reminiscent of the tears that Saint Monica shed over her son's early impiety.
1. What city borders Santa Monica to the North
2. Who had been living there for awhile?
3. When did Gaspar first camp there?
4. What is it known for in the current day?
5. What kind of neighborhoods are there?
6. Are the families generally considered to be in lower social classes?
7. In one of the versions of the naming who cried the tears the springs reminded people of?
8. What was she crying about?
9. What is the other story of the naming?
10. When is that actual date?
11. What kind of city is it?

Numbered answers:
1. Pacific Palisades
2. Tongva people
3. August 3, 1769
4. intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues
5. single-family
6. no
7. Saint Monica
8. her son's early impiety
9. feast day of Saint Monica
10. May 4
11. beachfront

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Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book,A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."
1. Who is Gary Richmond?
2. who wrote what?
3. which is about what?
4. What does a baby giraffe need to learn in the wild?
5. why?
6. who teaches them this lesson?
7. What does she do when the baby is forst born?
8. Is the baby born small?
9. how big?
10. Once the mother looks at the baby, what does she do next?
11. and then?
12. why?
13. does it learn right away?
14. what happens when it doesnt learn?
15. who is the giraffes struggle compared to?
16. any other men?
17. Did these men seem to have anything in common?
18. what is one?
19. and what happens to them?
20. what happens at the end?
Numbered answers:
1. An author.
2. A View from the Zoo.
3. How a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
4. Get up as quickly as possible.
5. To stay with its group.
6. The mother.
7. Lowers her head long enough to take a quick look.
8. No.
9. Ten feet high.
10. She puts herself directly over her child.
11. Kicks her baby.
12. She wants it to remember how it got up.
13. No.
14. The process is repeated again and again.
15. Michelangelo,
16. Vincent van Gogh.
17. Yes.
18. Sometime in their life have a dream of something.
19. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere.
20. They've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ."