Q: (CNN) -- The threatening calls reportedly came one after the other to Mexico's main Catholic seminary.

Callers, claiming to be from one of the country's feared drug cartels, offered an ominous warning: Pay up if you value the safety of your priests.

"They called several times. They identified themselves as the Familia Michoacana, but who knows?" Cardinal Norberto Rivera, archbishop of Mexico City, revealed at a Mass this week. "I spoke with the authorities. We made the appropriate report. Because they wanted us to pay. Because if not, they would kill one of us. They wanted to extort 60,000 pesos ($4,600)."

Reports of extortion have become increasingly common as drug cartels expand their reach in Mexico. But public denouncements of such attempts are rare.

Rivera called on parishioners to report extortion to authorities, and he urged them not to pay.

His description Sunday of the extortion attempts and a statement denouncing drug violence give a glimpse into the problems faced by a Catholic Church often caught in the crossfire of warring cartels and government efforts to stop them.

In the country's capital alone, more than 10 priests have been threatened with extortion, said the Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero, a spokesman for the archdiocese.

"None of them have paid," he told CNN. "Last year, two extortionists were arrested."

It's not uncommon for individual parishes to face extortion threats, he said. But the calls last month to the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Mexico marked the first time such a large church-run institution in the capital had been targeted, Romero said.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who got the threats?
2. Where?
3. Who the callers claimed to be?
4. What they want?
5. If not paid, what they would do?
6. Is this types of activity common?
7. Why?
8. Do people denounce it?
9. How many times they called in this case?
10. Who they said they are?
11. Who says that?
12. Who is he?
13. of what?
14. Who did he inform that?
15. When?
16. How much they wanted?
17. Did he talk to the appropriate persons?
18. How many priests were threatened in the capital?
19. Who informed that?
20. In what capacity?
A: 1. main Catholic seminary
2. in Mexico
3. drug cartels
4. money
5. hurt the priests
6. yes
7. drug cartels expanded
8. rarely
9. several times
10. Familia Michoacana
11. Norberto Rivera
12. archbishop
13. Mexico City
14. at a Mass
15. this week
16. 60,000 pesos ($4,600)
17. I spoke with the authorities
18. 10
19. Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero
20. as a spokesman for the archdiocese

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER V

Nigel and Maggie had tea together in the little room which the latter had used as a boudoir. They were discussing the question of her future residence there.

"I am afraid," he declared, "that you will have to marry me."

"It would have its advantages," she admitted thoughtfully. "I am really so fond of you, Nigel. I should be married at St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, and have the Annersley children for bridesmaids. Don't you think I should look sweet in old gold and orange blossoms?"

"Don't tantalise me," he begged.

"We really must decide upon something," she insisted. "I hate giving up my rooms here, I should hate having my worthy aunt as resident duenna, and I suppose it would be gloriously improper for us two to go on living here if I didn't. Are you quite sure that you love me, Nigel?"

"I am not quite so sure as I was this morning," he confessed, holding out his cup for some more tea. "I met a perfectly adorable girl to-day at luncheon at the Ritz. Such eyes, Maggie, and the slimmest, most wonderful figure you ever saw!"

"Who was the cat?" Maggie enquired with asperity.

"She is Russian. Her name is Naida Karetsky. Karschoff introduced me."

Maggie was suddenly serious. There was just a trace of the one expression he had never before seen in her face--fear--lurking in her eyes, even asserting itself in her tone.

"Naida Karetsky?" she repeated. "Tell me exactly how you met her?"

"She was lunching with her father and Oscar Immelan. She stopped to speak to Karschoff and asked him to present me. Afterwards, she invited us to take coffee in the lounge."

1. Who had used the room as a boudoir?
2. What does Maggie think she would look nice wearing?
3. What is the name of the girl Nigel saw?
4. Was Maggie happy to hear of this?
5. Did she seem afraid, too?
6. What nationality is Naida?
7. Who was she eating with?
8. Who introduced Naida to Nigel?
9. Where does Maggie wish to be wed?
10. Does she like Nigel?
11. Is Nigel sure he loves Maggie?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Nigel and Maggie
2. old gold and orange blossoms
3. Naida Karetsky
4. Maggie was suddenly serious
5. in her face--fear
6. Russian
7. Karschoff
8. Karschoff
9. St. Mary Abbot's
10. I am really so fond of you
11. that you will have to marry me

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. Before his accession to the throne, he served as heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales for longer than any of his predecessors. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political power, and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties, and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and the Indian subcontinent in 1875 were popular successes, but despite public approval his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother.

As king, Edward played a role in the modernisation of the British Home Fleet and the reorganisation of the British Army after the Second Boer War. He reinstituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialised. He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called "Peacemaker", but his relationship with his nephew, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, was poor. The Edwardian era, which covered Edward's reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism. He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords.

1. What did Edward VII rule?
2. For how long?
3. What did he do before he became King?
4. What was his distinction as the holder of that title?
5. What did he embody?
6. What was his relationship with his mother like?
7. Why?
8. Who was his mother?
9. To whom was he the uncle?
10. What societal change happened while he was on the throne?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India
2. 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910
3. he served as heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales
4. performing ceremonial public duties
5. . He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France
6. a sour relationship
7. because of the playboy image
8. Queen Victoria
9. Wilhelm II
10. He reinstituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialised.