Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Soon it would be the holidays. But before that, there was the end of year exams. All the students worked hard for some time. If they didn't pass, they would have to take the exams in September again. Some students failed, but Kate decided not to be one of them. She worked hard all day, but just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister was worried about her. She was staying up too late . The night before the first exam, Barbala insisted that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill. She promised to wake her in the morning. As she was falling asleep, Kate was worried in case she over-slept. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the pill, she fell asleep. she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper. She couldn't answer any of the questions. Everyone round her was writing pages and pages. However hard she thought, she couldn't find anything to write about. She kept looking at her watch. Time was running out. There was only one hour left. She started one question, wrote two sentences, gave up and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started crying. Her whole body shook(,). It shook so much that it woke her up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible dream. A minute later, Barbala called her name.

1. What was before the holidays?
2. What did Barbala insist?
3. Why was Kate worried trying to fall asleep?
4. Did she think she was doing well while working on the exam?
5. What happens if the students don't pass?
6. Could she think of anything to write about on her exam?
7. Did it seem like the other students were having problems?
8. What was Barbala in relation to Kate?
9. Was her exams real?
10. Did she work hard the day before the exams?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. exams
2. that Kate have an early night and take a sleeping pill
3. in case she over-slept
4. no
5. they have to take the exams in September again
6. no
7. no
8. her sister
9. no
10. yes

Question: Operation Barbarossa (German: "Unternehmen Barbarossa") was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs as a slave-labour force for the Axis war-effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.

In the two years leading up to the invasion, Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. Nevertheless, the German High Command began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 (under the codename Operation Otto), which Adolf Hitler authorized on 18 December 1940. Over the course of the operation, about four million Axis personnel, the largest invasion force in the history of warfare, invaded the western Soviet Union along a front. In addition to troops, the Wehrmacht employed some 600,000 motor vehicles, and between 600,000 and 700,000 horses for non-combat operations. The offensive marked an escalation of the war, both geographically and in the formation of the Allied coalition.

Operationally, German forces achieved major victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union, mainly in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and inflicted, as well as sustained, heavy casualties. Despite these Axis successes, the German offensive stalled in the Battle of Moscow and subsequently the Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed German troops back. The Red Army absorbed the Wehrmacht's strongest blows and forced the unprepared Germans into a war of attrition. The Wehrmacht would never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic SovietAxis front. The failure of the operation drove Hitler to demand further operations of increasingly limited scope inside the Soviet Union, such as Case Blue in 1942 and Operation Citadel in 1943 all of which eventually failed. 1. What is the main subject here?
2. When did it start?
3. What was one country that signed a pact two years prior?
4. And the other?
5. Which country broke the pact?
6. What organization plotted against them?
7. Which German organization plotted against their foe?
8. What were they going to do?
9. What was the name of that operation?
10. Was the Nazi leader for or against this?
11. When did he give consent to carry on? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Operation Barbarossa
2. In 1941
3. Germany
4. the Soviet Union
5. The Germans
6. unknown
7. the German High Command
8. Invade the Soviet Union
9. Operation Otto
10. Yes
11. The operation

Q: CHAPTER XV

Now that Gordon was gone, at any rate, gone for good, and not to return, he felt a sudden and singular sense of freedom. It was a feeling of unbounded expansion, quite out of proportion, as he said to himself, to any assignable cause. Everything suddenly appeared to have become very optional; but he was quite at a loss what to do with his liberty. It seemed a harmless use to make of it, in the afternoon, to go and pay another visit to the ladies who lived at the confectioner's. Here, however, he met a reception which introduced a fresh element of perplexity into the situation that Gordon had left behind him. The door was opened to him by Mrs. Vivian's maid-servant, a sturdy daughter of the Schwartzwald, who informed him that the ladies--with much regret--were unable to receive any one.

"They are very busy--and they are ill," said the young woman, by way of explanation.

Bernard was disappointed, and he felt like arguing the case.

"Surely," he said, "they are not both ill and busy! When you make excuses, you should make them agree with each other."

The Teutonic soubrette fixed her round blue eyes a minute upon the patch of blue sky revealed to her by her open door.

"I say what I can, lieber Herr. It 's not my fault if I 'm not so clever as a French mamsell. One of the ladies is busy, the other is ill. There you have it."

"Not quite," said Bernard. "You must remember that there are three of them."

1. the ladies
2. disappointed
3. No
4. arguing the case
5. Mrs. Vivian's maid-servant
6. One is busy, the other is ill.
7. No
8. there are three of them
9. a French mamsel
10. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who will not see Bernard?
2. How does that make him feel?
3. Does he just leave?
4. What does he do?
5. With who?
6. Why can't they see him?
7. Does he believe that?
8. What does he say her reasons should do?
9. Whose intelligence does she compare her own to?
10. Does he think the reason she gave are conflicting?