Q: CHAPTER XV

THE PLACE CALLED CALIFANO

There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to. Ovid isolated in Thrace might well lament. The soul itself needs its own mysterious nourishment. This nourishment lacking, nothing is well.

At Pescocalascio it was the mysterious influence of the mountains and valleys themselves which seemed always to be annihilating the Englishwoman: nay, not only her, but the very natives themselves. Ciccio and Pancrazio clung to her, essentially, as if she saved them also from extinction. It needed all her courage. Truly, she had to support the souls of the two men.

At first she did not realize. She was only stunned with the strangeness of it all: startled, half-enraptured with the terrific beauty of the place, half-horrified by its savage annihilation of her. But she was stunned. The days went by.

It seems there are places which resist us, which have the power to overthrow our psychic being. It seems as if every country has its potent negative centres, localities which savagely and triumphantly refuse our living culture. And Alvina had struck one of them, here on the edge of the Abruzzi.

She was not in the village of Pescocalascio itself. That was a long hour's walk away. Pancrazio's house was the chief of a tiny hamlet of three houses, called Califano because the Califanos had made it. There was the ancient, savage hole of a house, quite windowless, where Pancrazio and Ciccio's mother had been born: the family home. Then there was Pancrazio's villa. And then, a little below, another newish, modern house in a sort of wild meadow, inhabited by the peasants who worked the land. Ten minutes' walk away was another cluster of seven or eight houses, where Giovanni lived. But there was no shop, no post nearer than Pescocalascio, an hour's heavy road up deep and rocky, wearying tracks.

1. Pescocalascio
2. no
3. Pancrazio's house was the chief
4. Califano
5. no
6. three
7. no
8. Pancrazio and Ciccio's mother
9. Pancrazio's
10. yes
11. peasants
12. worked the land
13. Ten minutes' walk away
14. seven or eight
15. no
16. an hour away
17. no
18. Alvina
19. Ciccio and Pancrazio
20. male

Numbered questions:
1. What was an hour away?
2. Was she there?
3. Who's house was chief?
4. Of what?
5. Was it a large hamlet?
6. How many homes?
7. Did the old house have windows?
8. Who was born there?
9. Who owned the villa?
10. Were any relatively newer?
11. Who dwelled there?
12. What did they do?
13. How far was Giovanni?
14. How many homes there?
15. Could one go shopping there?
16. How far was the closest store?
17. Was the way smooth?
18. Who was lost?
19. Was anyone clinging to her?
20. Were they male or female?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. LONDON, England (CNN) -- An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a stunning find that sheds new light on early U.S. history.

The letters cover Benjamin Franklin's success in dealing with a British general.

The collection of 47 letters are hand-written copies made 250 years ago, when Franklin lived in London. That they were filed under the copyist's name, not Franklin's, may explain why they were overlooked by historians until now, said a curator at the British Library, where the letters are held.

The find is reported in the April issue of the William & Mary Quarterly, a journal of early American history and culture.

The letters are important in large part because they offer a "wealth of new details" that affect modern understanding of Franklin, writes Alan Houston, the political science professor who discovered the letters in the spring of 2007.

They also raise the question of how many other documents remain waiting to be found on Franklin and his life.

Houston, a professor at the University of California at San Diego, discovered the letters on the last day of his last research trip to London, just before the library's closing time.

"The first item was a letter from Benjamin Franklin to the secretary of the governor of Maryland, and I looked at it and I started to read, and I thought, 'This doesn't look familiar,'" Houston told CNN. "I've read everything Franklin ever wrote." 1. Where did he teach?
2. what was taught?
3. When were the letters found?
4. What publication reported the correspondence?
5. Which issue?
6. What type of publication is it?
7. Who was the author of the letters?
8. Was there anything remarkable about them?
9. What was the subject?
10. who was the first letter found addresses to?
11. was the professor familiar with Franklin's writing?
12. Who did he relate that to?
13. Were the found letters actually written by Franklin?
14. How long ago?
15. Where was Ben living at the time?
16. How come the letters were not found sooner?
17. According to whom?
18. Where?
19. Did they reveal anything new?
20. what day were they found?
numbered_answers: 1. University of California at San Diego,
2. U.S. history.
3. spring of 2007.
4. William & Mary Quarterly,
5. April issue
6. a journal of early American history and culture.
7. written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin
8. They shed new light on early U.S. history.
9. Benjamin Franklin's success in dealing with a British general.
10. The governor of Maryland
11. Yes
12. CNN
13. They were hand written copies
14. 250 years ago,
15. London.
16. They were filed under the copyist's name,
17. A curator
18. British Library
19. Yes
20. The last day of his last research trip to London

(CNN) -- Chelsea continued to set the pace in the English Premier League with a comfortable 4-1 win over Norwich City at Stamford Bridge Saturday.

Norwich took an unlikely 11th minute lead through their star striker Grant Holt, but it was to prove short lived once the west London side got into their stride.

Goals from Fernando Torres, his 99th in English football, Frank Lampard and Eden Hazard put them 3-1 ahead by half time.

Branislav Ivanovic rounded off the scoring with an emphatic fourth in the 78th minute.

Both John Terry and Ashley Cole played and were given a warm reception by the home crowd.

Cole was forced to apologize Friday for a controversial Twitter comment as he reacted to the findings of an FA commission into the racial slur case brought against Terry.

The commission found Terry's evidence at the hearing "improbable, implausible and contrived" as they gave the reasons for his four-match ban and large fine for remarks aimed at QPR defender Anton Ferdinand in an EPL game last season.

He has until October 18 to appeal the decision or accept a ban which would rule him out of crucial games.

Manager Roberto Di Matteo confirmed after the game that Cole was likely to face action from the club over his tweet.

"We've got a social media policy at the club and there's going to be a disciplinary process against the tweet and that's how I'll leave it," Di Matteo said.

Chelsea have opened up a four-point lead over defendiing champions Manchester City, while Norwich are winless in the league this season. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Which team scored first?
2. Did they win the game?
3. Who won?
4. By what margin?
5. What player scored first?
6. What's his position?
7. Who scored next?
8. Was that his first score ever?
9. How many does he have?
10. What was the score at the half?
11. When was the last score made?
Answer:
1. Norwich
2. No
3. west London side
4. 4-1
5. Grant Holt
6. striker
7. Fernando Torres
8. No
9. 99
10. 3-1
11. 78th minute