Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER IV

The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn, When the smoke of the cooking hung gray: He knew where the doe made a couch for her fawn, And he looked to his strength for his prey.

But the moon swept the smoke-wreaths away.

And he turned from his meal in the villager's close, And he bayed to the moon as she rose.

--In Seonee.

'WELL, and how does success taste?' said Torpenhow, some three months later. He had just returned to chambers after a holiday in the country.

'Good,' said Dick, as he sat licking his lips before the easel in the studio.

'I want more,--heaps more. The lean years have passed, and I approve of these fat ones.'

'Be careful, old man. That way lies bad work.'

Torpenhow was sprawling in a long chair with a small fox-terrier asleep on his chest, while Dick was preparing a canvas. A dais, a background, and a lay-figure were the only fixed objects in the place. They rose from a wreck of oddments that began with felt-covered water-bottles, belts, and regimental badges, and ended with a small bale of second-hand uniforms and a stand of mixed arms. The mark of muddy feet on the dais showed that a military model had just gone away. The watery autumn sunlight was falling, and shadows sat in the corners of the studio.

'Yes,' said Dick, deliberately, 'I like the power; I like the fun; I like the fuss; and above all I like the money. I almost like the people who make the fuss and pay the money. Almost. But they're a queer gang,--an amazingly queer gang!'

1. Who was the painter speaking with?
2. Where was this man at?
3. Was he alone there?
4. Who accompanied him?
5. Was it running around the seat?
6. What years were in the past?
7. Which were upon them now?
8. How long ago had the painting subject been away?
9. What season of the year was it now?
10. Where had he gone?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Torpenhow
2. in a long chair
3. no
4. a small fox-terrier
5. no
6. the lean years
7. the fat ones
8. three months
9. autumn
10. a holiday in the country

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Federalism refers to the mixed or compound mode of government, combining a general government (the central or 'federal' government) with regional governments (provincial, state, Land, cantonal, territorial or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system. Its distinctive feature, exemplified in the founding example of modern federalism of the United States of America under the Constitution of 1789, is a relationship of parity between the two levels of government established. It can thus be defined as a form of government in which there is a division of powers between two levels of government of equal status.

Until recently, in the absence of prior agreement on a clear and precise definition, the concept was thought to mean (as a shorthand) 'a division of sovereignty between two levels of government'. New research, however, argues that this cannot be correct, as dividing sovereignty - when this concept is properly understood in its core meaning of the final and absolute source of political authority in a political community - is not possible. The descent of the United States into Civil War in the mid-nineteenth century, over disputes about unallocated competences concerning slavery and ultimately the right of secession, showed this. One or other level of government could be sovereign to decide such matters, but not both simultaneously. Therefore, it is now suggested that federalism is more appropriately conceived as 'a division of the powers flowing from sovereignty between two levels of government'. What differentiates the concept from other multi-level political forms is the characteristic of equality of standing between the two levels of government established. This clarified definition opens the way to identifying two distinct federal forms, where before only one was known, based upon whether sovereignty resides in the whole (in one people) or in the parts (in many peoples): the federal state (or federation) and the federal union of states (or federal union), respectively. Leading examples of the federal state include the United States, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Australia and India. The leading example of the federal union of states is the European Union.

1. Is Federalism a straight-forward form of government?
2. What is it?
3. What type of government is a provincial one?
4. How many political systems does it combine regional governments into?
5. When was the Constitution done up?
6. How many levels of government have equal status?
7. What is divided between them?
8. Do those include psychic, alien, or supernatural ones?
9. What is the best example of a federal union?
10. What is united in it?
11. What's an example of an actual federal state?
12. Which else?
13. Any others?
14. What differentiates the concept from other multi-level political forms?
15. Who is it between?
16. When did the United States descend into Civil War?
17. Why?
18. Over what?
19. What was the civil war ultimately about?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. No
2. A mixed or compound mode of government
3. Regional
4. A single one
5. 1789
6. Two
7. Powers
8. unknown
9. The European Union
10. States
11. India
12. Australia
13. United States, Germany, Canada, and Switzerland
14. characteristic of equality
15. Two levels of government
16. In the mid-nineteenth century
17. over disputes
18. about unallocated competences concerning slavery
19. the right of secession

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVI

DICK AND DORA

"Oh, Dick, how lovely!"

"Weren't you afraid, Sam?"

"What a big flying machine, Tom!"

Such were the exclamations from Dora, Grace and Nellie, as all rushed forward to where the boys were alighting from the _Dartaway_. Soon they were shaking hands all around, and soon other girl students were coming up, to learn what the arrival of the flying machine meant.

"Well, we certainly had a great trip," said Dick.

"The wind was pretty strong," put in Sam.

"Strongest wind you ever saw!" declared Tom, stoutly. "Turned us over about 'steen times and rolled us into a regular ball."

"Oh, Tom, what an idea!" exclaimed Nellie, and began to laugh. "But weren't you afraid?" she went on anxiously.

"What, me? Never! But Sam was so afraid he shook off his shoes, and one of 'em dropped right on a cow, and----"

"Tom Rover!" burst out Grace. "What a story-teller you are!"

"Well, Grace, if you don't believe it, go and ask that cow," went on the fun-loving Rover, soberly. "It's lucky Sam has elastics on the shoes--to pull 'em back by. If he hadn't had----" Tom did not finish but shook his head mournfully.

"I am so glad you got here safely, Dick," said Dora, in a low voice. "But oh, do you think it is quite safe?" she went on, anxiously. "I--I don't want you to get hurt!"

"I guess it is safe enough, Dora," he replied, not wishing to alarm her. "It's like an auto--you've got to get used to it."

1. Who were speaking?
2. Who were getting down from the machine?
3. Who else?
4. Who wasn't afraid?
5. Who was?
6. What did he do?
7. Where did one fall?
8. Who didn't believe the story?
9. Who's afraid for the young men?
10. What's the machine like?
11. How was the flight?
12. What did it do?
13. What was it called?
14. What happened when they alighted?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Dora, Grace and Nellie,
2. Sam and dick
3. Dick
4. Tom
5. sam
6. Shook off his show
7. On a cow
8. Grace
9. Dora
10. Big
11. Windy
12. rolled them into a ball
13. Dartaway
14. shook hands with everyone