question: Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco (), is a sovereign city-state, country and microstate located on the French Riviera in Western Europe. France borders the country on three sides while the other side borders the Mediterranean Sea. Monaco has an area of and a population of about 38,400, according to the last census of 2016. With 19,009 inhabitants per km, it is the second-smallest and most densely populated sovereign state in the world. Monaco has a land border of , a coastline of , and a width that varies between . The highest point in the country is a narrow pathway named Chemin des Revoires on the slopes of Mont Agel, in the Les Revoires "Ward", which is above sea level. Monaco's most populous "Quartier" is Monte Carlo and the most populous "Ward" is Larvotto/Bas Moulins. Through land reclamation, Monaco's land mass has expanded by twenty percent; in 2005, it had an area of only . Monaco is known as a playground for the rich and famous, due to its tax laws. In 2014, it was noted about 30% of the population was made up of millionaires, more than in Zurich or Geneva.

Monaco is a principality governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, with Prince Albert II as head of state. Although Prince Albert II is a constitutional monarch, he wields immense political power. The House of Grimaldi have ruled Monaco, with brief interruptions, since 1297. The official language is French, but Monegasque, Italian, and English are widely spoken and understood. The state's sovereignty was officially recognized by the Franco-Monegasque Treaty of 1861, with Monaco becoming a full United Nations voting member in 1993. Despite Monaco's independence and separate foreign policy, its defense is the responsibility of France. However, Monaco does maintain two small military units.
1. What city is the topic of the article?
2. What is the official name?
3. Is it also considered a country?
4. How is it governed?
5. Who rules?
6. What house does he belong to?
7. How long have they been in power?
8. Is Prince Albert merely a figurehead?
9. What is the official language?
10. Is that the only language spoken?
11. What others are used?
12. How many people populate Monaco?
13. Is it the most densely populated state in the world?
14. What is Monaco know as?
15. Why does it have this reputation?
16. What type of person makes up almost a third of it's population?
17. Where is it located?
18. Who is tasked with the defense of Monaco?
19. How many military units does it command?
20. What occured in 1861?
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answer: 1. Monaco
2. the Principality of Monaco
3. yes
4. under a form of constitutional monarchy
5. Prince Albert II
6. The House of Grimaldi
7. since 1297
8. no
9. French
10. no
11. Monegasque, Italian, and English
12. about 38,400
13. yes
14. a playground for the rich and famous
15. its tax laws
16. millionaires
17. on the French Riviera
18. France
19. two
20. sovereignty was officially recognized

question: CHAPTER XII

So sailed the Ship of Fools--Michael playing with Scraps, respecting Cocky and by Cocky being bullied and wheedled, singing with Steward and worshipping him; Daughtry drinking his six quarts of beer each day, collecting his wages the first of each month, and admiring Charles Stough Greenleaf as the finest man on board; Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah Moy avoiding the Black Papuan as the very plague, washing himself continuously and boiling his blankets once a week; Captain Doane doing the navigating and worrying about his flat-building in San Francisco; Grimshaw resting his ham-hands on his colossal knees and girding at the pawnbroker to contribute as much to the adventure as he was contributing from his wheat-ranches; Simon Nishikanta wiping his sweaty neck with the greasy silk handkerchief and painting endless water-colours; the mate patiently stealing the ship's latitude and longitude with his duplicate key; and the Ancient Mariner, solacing himself with Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand.

Came a stretch of ocean that to Daughtry was like all other stretches of ocean and unidentifiable from them. No land broke the sea-rim. The ship the centre, the horizon was the invariable and eternal circle of the world. The magnetic needle in the binnacle was the point on which the _Mary Turner_ ever pivoted. The sun rose in the undoubted east and set in the undoubted west, corrected and proved, of course, by declination, deviation, and variation; and the nightly march of the stars and constellations proceeded across the sky.
1. What was Michael playing with?
2. who was drinking beer?
3. when does he get paid?
4. Who was washing all the time?
5. what was he doing with his blankets?
6. how often?
7. who was the navigator?
8. what was he concerned about?
9. where was it?
10. where were Grimshaw's hands?
11. What was Simon wiping his neck with/
12. was it clean?
13. is he a painter?
14. who was drinnking scotch?
15. does he smoke, too?
16. what?
17. Did Daughtty think the ocean was just like the other parts?
18. Could he see land?
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answer:
1. Scraps
2. Daughtry
3. first of each month
4. Ah Moy
5. boiling
6. once a week
7. Doane
8. flat-building
9. in San Francisco
10. on his knees
11. handkerchief
12. no
13. yes
14. Ancient Mariner
15. yes
16. Havanas
17. yes
18. No