input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Communications in Somalia encompasses the communications services and capacity of Somalia. Telecommunications, internet, radio, print, television and postal services in the nation are largely concentrated in the private sector. Several of the telecom firms have begun expanding their activities abroad. The Federal government operates two official radio and television networks, which exist alongside a number of private and foreign stations. Print media in the country is also progressively giving way to news radio stations and online portals, as internet connectivity and access increases. Additionally, the national postal service is slated to be officially relaunched in 2013 after a long absence. In 2012, a National Communications Act was also approved by Cabinet members, which lays the foundation for the establishment of a National Communications regulator in the broadcasting and telecommunications sectors.

After the start of the civil war, various new telecommunications companies began to spring up in the country and competed to provide missing infrastructure. Somalia now offers some of the most technologically advanced and competitively priced telecommunications and internet services in the world. Funded by Somali entrepreneurs and backed by expertise from China, Korea and Europe, these nascent telecommunications firms offer affordable mobile phone and internet services that are not available in many other parts of the continent. Customers can conduct money transfers (such as through the popular Dahabshiil) and other banking activities via mobile phones, as well as easily gain wireless Internet access. 1. How many official radio and tv networks does the federal government operate?
numbered_answers: 1. The Federal government operates two official radio and television networks, two radio stations

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained at this time the minor administrative town of Babylon. Babylon greatly expanded from the small provincial town that it had originally been during the Akkadian Empire (2335-2154 BC) during the reign of Hammurabi in the first half of the 18th century BC, becoming a major capital city. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was called "Mat Akkadi" "the country of Akkad" in the Akkadian language. It was often involved in rivalry with its older fellow Akkadian-speaking state of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, as well as Elam to the east, in Ancient Iran. Babylonia briefly became the major power in the region after Hammurabi (fl. c. 1792 1752 BC middle chronology, or c. 1696 1654 BC, short chronology) created a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire; however, the Babylonian empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and reverted back to a small kingdom.

The Babylonian state, like Assyria to the north, retained the written Akkadian language for official use (the language of its native populace), despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors, who spoke a language isolate, not being native Mesopotamians. It retained the Sumerian language for religious use (as did Assyria), but already by the time Babylon was founded, this was no longer a spoken language, having been wholly subsumed by Akkadian. The earlier Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in Babylonian and Assyrian culture, and the region would remain an important cultural center, even under its protracted periods of outside rule. 1. What is this about?
2. Where is that?
3. When was it created?
4. What did it have in it?
5. Did it stay small?
6. When did it get bigger?
7. Who ruled during this time?
8. What did it turn into then?
9. What did they speak there?
10. What was it called in that?
11. What does that mean?
numbered_answers: 1. The Babylonia State
2. central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq).
3. 1894 BC,
4. minor administrative town of Babylon.
5. No
6. first half of the 18th century BC
7. Hammurabi
8. a major capital city.
9. Akkadian language
10. Mat Akkadi
11. the country of Akkad

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER III

On the third day after Nina's visit to her aunt, Ziska Zamenoy came across to the Kleinseite on a visit to old Balatka. In the mean time Nina had told the story of her love to her father, and the effect on Balatka had simply been that he had not got out of his bed since. For himself he would have cared, perhaps, but little as to the Jewish marriage, had he not known that those belonging to him would have cared so much. He had no strong religious prejudice of his own, nor indeed had he strong feeling of any kind. He loved his daughter, and wished her well; but even for her he had been unable to exert himself in his younger days, and now simply expected from her hands all the comfort which remained to him in this world. The priest he knew would attack him, and to the priest he would be able to make no answer. But to Trendellsohn, Jew as he was, he would trust in worldly matters, rather than to the Zamenoys; and were it not that he feared the Zamenoys, and could not escape from his close connection with them, he would have been half inclined to let the girl marry the Jew. Souchey, indeed, had frightened him on the subject when it had first been mentioned to him; and Nina, coming with her own assurance so quickly after Souchey's suspicion, had upset him; but his feeling in regard to Nina had none of that bitter anger, no touch of that abhorrence which animated the breast of his sister-in-law. When Ziska came to him he was alone in his bedroom. Ziska had heard the news, as had all the household in the Windberg-gasse, and had come over to his uncle's house to see what he could do, by his own diplomacy, to put an end to an engagement which was to him doubly calamitous. "Uncle Josef," he said, sitting by the old man's bed, "have you heard what Nina is doing?" 1. who had Nina visited?
2. who is her dad?
3. did he love his daughter?
4. Did the News Nina give him have a positive effect?
5. what happened?
6. where did Ziska go?
7. who would attack Balatka?
8. would he be able to explain things to the priest?
9. what was the person Nina wanted to marry?
10. who was it because of that he greed to the relationship?
11. what did they do to him?
12. was he able to leave them?
13. who had warned him about the marriage before Nina?
14. was he with anyone when Ziska came?
15. what Balatka expect from Nina?
16. did everybody know what was going on?
17. where was the household?
18. what did he call his uncle?
19. what did he want to help with?
20. why?
numbered_answers:
1. her aunt,
2. Balatka
3. yes
4. no
5. he had not got out of his bed since.
6. Kleinseite
7. The priest he knew
8. no
9. Jewish
10. the Zamenoys
11. he feared them
12. no
13. Souchey,
14. no
15. all the comfort which remained to him
16. Ziska had heard the news, as had all the household
17. Windberg-gasse,
18. Josef
19. put an end to an engagement
20. it was doubly calamitous to him.