Q: CHAPTER XV--A DISCOURSE ON MANNERS

The days passed, and Tudor seemed loath to leave the hospitality of Berande. Everything was ready for the start, but he lingered on, spending much time in Joan's company and thereby increasing the dislike Sheldon had taken to him. He went swimming with her, in point of rashness exceeding her; and dynamited fish with her, diving among the hungry ground-sharks and contesting with them for possession of the stunned prey, until he earned the approval of the whole Tahitian crew. Arahu challenged him to tear a fish from a shark's jaws, leaving half to the shark and bringing the other half himself to the surface; and Tudor performed the feat, a flip from the sandpaper hide of the astonished shark scraping several inches of skin from his shoulder. And Joan was delighted, while Sheldon, looking on, realized that here was the hero of her adventure-dreams coming true. She did not care for love, but he felt that if ever she did love it would be that sort of a man--"a man who exhibited," was his way of putting it.

He felt himself handicapped in the presence of Tudor, who had the gift of making a show of all his qualities. Sheldon knew himself for a brave man, wherefore he made no advertisement of the fact. He knew that just as readily as the other would he dive among ground-sharks to save a life, but in that fact he could find no sanction for the foolhardy act of diving among sharks for the half of a fish. The difference between them was that he kept the curtain of his shop window down. Life pulsed steadily and deep in him, and it was not his nature needlessly to agitate the surface so that the world could see the splash he was making. And the effect of the other's amazing exhibitions was to make him retreat more deeply within himself and wrap himself more thickly than ever in the nerveless, stoical calm of his race.

1. Tudor
2. Berande
3. Joan's
4. Arahu
5. yes
6. Yes
7. that Tudor was the hero of her adventure-dreams coming true
8. no
9. -"a man who exhibited,"
10. he felt handicapped in the presence of Tudor
11. advertisement of the fact of his bravery, wasn't a show off
12. Yes
13. made him retreat more deeply within himself
14. unknown
15. they dynamited fish
16. the entire Tahitian crew
17. to save a life
18. the act of diving among sharks for the half of a fish
19. Life
20. it was not his nature needlessly to agitate the surface

Numbered questions:
1. Who had the gift of making a show of his qualities?
2. Whose hospitality was Tudor loathe to leave?
3. Whose company did Tudor spend a lot of time in?
4. Who challenged him to tear a fish from a shark?
5. Did he do it?
6. Did that make Joan happy?
7. What did that make Sheldon realize?
8. Did she want to be in love?
9. What kind of man did Sheldon think she would love, if she did?
10. How did Sheldon feel around Tudor?
11. What was the difference between them?
12. Did Sheldon think of himself as brave?
13. How did Tudor's exhibitions affect him?
14. What did they five among?
15. What did they dynamite?
16. From which crew was approval given?
17. Why would Sheldon dive among ground-sharks?
18. What did he consider foolhardy?
19. What pulsed steadily and deep in him?
20. What wasn't in his nature?

Q: The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America.

After 1765, growing philosophical and political differences strained the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies. Following the Stamp Act, Patriot protests against taxation without representation escalated into boycotts, which culminated in the Sons of Liberty destroying a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. Britain responded by closing Boston Harbor and passing a series of punitive measures against Massachusetts colony. Massachusetts colonists responded with the Suffolk Resolves, and they established a shadow government which wrested control of the countryside from the Crown. Twelve colonies formed a Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance, establishing committees and conventions that effectively seized power.

British attempts to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord in April 1775 led to open combat. Militia forces then besieged Boston, forcing a British evacuation in March 1776, and Congress appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Concurrently, an American attempt to invade Quebec and raise rebellion against the British decisively failed. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence, issuing its declaration on July4. Sir William Howe launched a British counter-offensive, capturing New York City and leaving American morale at a low ebb. However, victories at Trenton and Princeton restored American confidence. In 1777, the British launched an invasion from Quebec under John Burgoyne, intending to isolate New England. Instead of assisting this effort, Howe took his army on a separate campaign against Philadelphia, and Burgoyne was decisively defeated at Saratoga in October 1777.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. the British
4. the Massachusetts militia
5. April 1775
6. besieged Boston
7. George Washington
8. the Continental Army
9. Sir William Howe
10. Yes
11. New York City
12. The American Revolutionary War
13. the American War of Independence
14. 1775-1783
15. Great Britain and her Thirteen Colonies
16. the Stamp Act
17. a shipment of tea
18. the Sons of Liberty
19. in Boston Harbor

Numbered questions:
1. Did someone try to take away someone else's arms?
2. Did someone try to take away someone else's arms?
3. Who was trying to do the taking?
4. From whom?
5. When was this?
6. What did the militants do after that?
7. Who then became a commander?
8. Of what force?
9. Who was in charge of a Britain retaliation?
10. Did he gain anything?
11. What?
12. What was this overall grand conflict called?
13. Did it have an alternate name?
14. What dates was it fought?
15. Who was it between?
16. What legislative action was the catalyst?
17. What was ruined in water?
18. Who did that?
19. Where at?