Q: Renacimiento, Mexico (CNN) -- As raging floodwaters swept away half of his timber shack, Saturnino Medina climbed to the roof.

He pointed Thursday to the place where river waters broke through a container wall and washed away his kitchen.

Medina and his family have almost nothing left now, after the wind and rain of Manuel hit the town of Renacimiento, located about 20 km northeast of the resort city of Acapulco.

Days after the storm made landfall as a tropical depression in the Mexican state of Guerrero, thousands of tourists are still trapped in Acapulco and thousands of families are struggling to recover.

Medina and his family were left to eat eggs and tortillas donated by neighbors and drink expired cartons of juice they found in a nearby trash dumpster. So far, he said, they haven't gotten any government aid.

"The truth is, I don't even know what to tell you," he said. "The government ignores us. They help everyone else, but they've forgotten about Renacimiento."

The town is one of many across Mexico ravaged by multiple storms that have been battering the country.

Federal officials say at least 97 people were killed across Mexico by Manuel, which plowed into the country's Pacific coast, and Ingrid, which hit the Gulf coast.

Rescue efforts continued throughout the country Thursday. In one Guerrero town ravaged by a mudslide, authorities said 68 people remained unaccounted for.

An aerial survey revealed many more mudslides, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said, and there are additional reports of disappearances that authorities have not yet confirmed.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where is Renacimiento in reference to Acapulo?
2. What did the family consume?
3. And drink?
4. Was the family happy with the help received from the government?
5. What created this dire situation for the family?
6. Was the damaged all caused by wind?
7. What else caused damage?
8. How many lives were lost due to the storm?
9. In what country?
10. What type of disaster hit another town?
11. In what place?
A: 1. 20 km northeast
2. eggs and tortillas
3. expired cartons of juice
4. no
5. Storm Manuel
6. no
7. Rain too
8. 97 by Manuel and Ingrid
9. Mexico
10. a mudslide,
11. a town in Guerrero

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

A LEARNED SQUABBLE.

Bartolommeo Scala, secretary of the Florentine Republic, on whom Tito Melema had been thus led to anchor his hopes, lived in a handsome palace close to the Porta Pinti, now known as the Casa Gherardesca. His arms-- an azure ladder transverse on a golden field, with the motto _Gradatim_ placed over the entrance--told all comers that the miller's son held his ascent to honours by his own efforts a fact to be proclaimed without wincing. The secretary was a vain and pompous man, but he was also an honest one: he was sincerely convinced of his own merit, and could see no reason for feigning. The topmost round of his azure ladder had been reached by this time: he had held his secretaryship these twenty years-- had long since made his orations on the _ringhiera_, or platform of the Old Palace, as the custom was, in the presence of princely visitors, while Marzocco, the republican lion, wore his gold crown on the occasion, and all the people cried, "Viva Messer Bartolommeo!"--had been on an embassy to Rome, and had there been made titular Senator, Apostolical Secretary, Knight of the Golden Spur; and had, eight years ago, been Gonfaloniere--last goal of the Florentine citizen's ambition. Meantime he had got richer and richer, and more and more gouty, after the manner of successful mortality; and the Knight of the Golden Spur had often to sit with helpless cushioned heel under the handsome loggia he had built for himself, overlooking the spacious gardens and lawn at the back of his palace.

1. Was the secretary a humble man?
2. What kind of man was he?
3. Was his palace ugly?
4. What was the name of it?
5. What did his parent do for a living?
6. How did he make it to where is is now?
7. Was he proud of this achievement?
8. What type of medical problem did he have?
9. What part of him did the gout affect?
10. What color was the ladder at the palace entrance?
11. What did it say on the ladder?
12. Did he hold backing bragging about his success?
13. How long had he been the secretary?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. no
2. a vain and pompous man
3. no
4. the Casa Gherardesca
5. a miller
6. his own merit
7. yes
8. gout
9. his heel
10. azure
11. Gradatim
12. no
13. twenty years

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XVI.

CONTINUED MISBEHAVIOUR OF THE EGYPTIAN WOMAN.

BY the following Monday it was known at many looms that something sat heavily on the Auld Licht minister's mind. On the previous day he had preached his second sermon of warning to susceptible young men, and his first mention of the word "woman" had blown even the sleepy heads upright. Now he had salt fish for breakfast, and on clearing the table Jean noticed that his knife and fork were uncrossed. He was observed walking into a gooseberry bush by Susy Linn, who possessed the pioneer spring-bed of Thrums, and always knew when her man jumped into it by suddenly finding herself shot to the ceiling. Lunan, the tinsmith, and two women, who had the luck to be in the street at the time, saw him stopping at Dr. McQueen's door, as if about to knock, and then turning smartly away. His hat blew off in the school wynd, where a wind wanders ever, looking for hats, and he chased it so passionately that Lang Tammas went into Allardyce's smiddy to say--

"I dinna like it. Of course he couldna afford to lose his hat, but he should hae run after it mair reverently."

Gavin, indeed, was troubled. He had avoided speaking of the Egyptian to his mother. He had gone to McQueen's house to ask the doctor to accompany him to the Kaims, but with the knocker in his hand he changed his mind, and now he was at the place of meeting alone. It was a day of thaw, nothing to be heard from a distance but the swish of curling-stones through water on Rashie-bog, where the match for the eldership was going on. Around him. Gavin saw only dejected firs with drops of water falling listlessly from them, clods of snow, and grass that rustled as if animals were crawling through it. All the roads were slack.

1. What day was it?
2. Was there a preacher?
3. Who?
4. Who was troubled?
5. Why?
6. Who was observing?
7. Who was observed?
8. What was eaten?
9. for what meal?
10. Where was he observed?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Monday
2. yes
3. Auld Licht minister's
4. Gavin
5. he wouldn't speak to his mom in egyptian.
6. Susy Linn
7. Jean
8. salt fish
9. breakfast
10. walking into a gooseberry bush.