Problem: Norway ( ; Norwegian: (Bokmal) or (Nynorsk); ), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign state and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the kingdom included the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It also included Bohuslan until 1658, Jamtland and Harjedalen until 1645, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, and the Hebrides and Isle of Man until 1266.

Norway has a total area of and a population of 5,258,317 (as of January 2017). The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden (1,619 km or 1,006mi long). Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea.

King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glucksburg is the current King of Norway. Erna Solberg became Prime Minister in 2013, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. A constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution. The kingdom was established as a merger of a large number of petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from the year 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,145 years, and the list of Norwegian monarchs includes over sixty kings and earls.
1. What type of government is Norway?
2. What is their primary language?
3. How many citizens are in Norway?
4. How many countries share a land border with Norway?
5. What group of islands does the country own?
6. How long has it been around?
7. Who is the monarch?
8. What area did they control in 13th century that they don't control now?
9. Anything else?
10. How large is the country?
11. What ocean do they border?
12. When did they adopt their current government?
13. What was it before it was a unified country?
14. Who are Norway's allies?
Answer: 1. Unitary monarchy
2. Norwegian
3. 5,258,317
4. Three
5. Svalbard
6. 1,145 years
7. King Harald V
8. Isle of Man
9. The Hebrides
10. unknown
11. Atlantic Ocean
12. 1814
13. A large number of petty kingdoms.
14. unknown

Q: CHAPTER NINETEEN.

A NIGHT JOURNEY.

"And he must post, without delay, Along the bridge and through the dale. And by the church and o'er the down." _Wordsworth_.

John Hewlett had finished his day's work, and come home in the dusk of an October evening. He found the house hung all over with the family linen, taken in to shelter from a shower; but not before it had become damp enough to need to be put by the fire before it could be ironed or folded. His mother was moaning over it, and there was no place to sit down. He did not wonder that Jem had taken his hunch of bread and gone away with it, nor that his father was not at home; but he took off his boots at the back door, as his aunt never liked his coming into her room in them--though they were nothing to what he would have worn had he worked in the fields--and then climbed up the stairs.

Judith was sitting up in bed, with her teapot, tea-cup, and a piece of stale loaf, laid out on a tray before her; and little Judy beside her, drinking out of a cracked mug. Judith's eyes had a strange look of fright in them, but there was an air of relief when she saw Johnnie.

"Well, aunt, is that all you have got for tea?"

"Poor mother has been hindered; but never mind that," returned Judith, in a quick, agitated tone. "Judy, my dear, drink up your tea and run down to help mother, there's a dear."

Answer the following questions:
1. How did John find the house?
2. what had to happen to the linens?
3. Why?
4. What time of day was it?
5. where was he coming from?
6. in what month?
7. who was moaning?
8. could she sit?
9. Where was Judith?
10. with what?
11. was the dad home?
12. Who may have stolen his bread?
13. Where did he take off his shoe?
14. Why?
15. What was his aunts name?
16. Who was injured and stalled?
17. Who should drink fast?
18. How did Judith's eyes look?
19. Was she ever relaxed?
20. When?
A: 1. hung all over
2. be put by the fire
3. it become damp
4. dusk
5. work
6. October
7. His mother
8. No
9. in bed
10. her teapot, tea-cup, and a piece of stale loaf
11. No
12. Jem
13. the back door,
14. his aunt never liked his coming into her room in them
15. Judith
16. mother
17. Judy
18. they had a look of fright
19. Yes
20. she saw Johnnie

Problem: One day my dad was walking home and he had a big ice-cream cone. He had chocolate and vanilla and strawberry ice-cream on top of each other. He was moving his head back and forward to some music that he was playing when a spider dropped on his ice-cream for a little bite. My dad saw right away that a spider was on it and he brushed the spider off. After the spider was put on the floor, a fly flew into his ice-cream, right where the spider had been! Oh how terrible! My dad made the spider leave and right after that he saw an alligator come running up to him wanting a bite of his ice-cream too! My dad dropped his cone, ran away, and bought a yoghurt instead. He thought about buying a dingdong, but since dinner time was so close and he had such a big lunch, he thought a yoghurt would be better. It's a much safer and better dessert.

165 words.
1. What was his dad doing one day?
2. with what?
3. Was it big?
4. What kind?
5. What happened to it?
6. why?
7. What did he do?
8. Where did it go?
9. then what?
10. Where?
11. Then what?
12. Doing what?
13. Why?
14. What did he do?
15. And?
16. What else?
17. What did he think of buying?
18. What was close?
19. Did he buy it?
20. Why?
Answer:
1. walking home
2. an ice-cream cone.
3. yes
4. chocolate and vanilla and strawberry
5. a spider dropped on it
6. a little bite
7. e brushed the spider off
8. the floor
9. a fly flew into his ice-cream
10. right where the spider had been
11. He saw an alligator
12. running up to him
13. wanting a bite of his ice-cream
14. dropped his cone
15. ran away
16. he bought a yoghurt
17. a dingdong
18. dinner
19. no
20. he thought a yoghurt would be better