Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXI

Graham, riding solitary through the redwood canyons among the hills that overlooked the ranch center, was getting acquainted with Selim, the eleven-hundred-pound, coal-black gelding which Dick had furnished him in place of the lighter Altadena. As he rode along, learning the good nature, the roguishness and the dependableness of the animal, Graham hummed the words of the "Gypsy Trail" and allowed them to lead his thoughts. Quite carelessly, foolishly, thinking of bucolic lovers carving their initials on forest trees, he broke a spray of laurel and another of redwood. He had to stand in the stirrups to pluck a long- stemmed, five-fingered fern with which to bind the sprays into a cross. When the patteran was fashioned, he tossed it on the trail before him and noted that Selim passed over without treading upon it. Glancing back, Graham watched it to the next turn of the trail. A good omen, was his thought, that it had not been trampled.

More five-fingered ferns to be had for the reaching, more branches of redwood and laurel brushing his face as he rode, invited him to continue the manufacture of patterans, which he dropped as he fashioned them. An hour later, at the head of the canyon, where he knew the trail over the divide was difficult and stiff, he debated his course and turned back.

Selim warned him by nickering. Came an answering nicker from close at hand. The trail was wide and easy, and Graham put his mount into a fox trot, swung a wide bend, and overtook Paula on the Fawn.
1. What is the horse's name?
2. Who's riding him?
3. Where?
4. What music is running through his mind?
5. What brushed his face?
6. From what tree?
7. What did he make as he rode?
8. What did he do with it?
9. Where?
10. How did the horse react?
11. Was that a bad sign?
12. What was it?
13. What did he keep doing?
14. For how long?
15. What did the horse do then?
16. Of what?
17. What replied?
18. From whom?
19. Who was there?
20. What was her horse's name?
21. What did Graham do when he saw them?
22. How was the path?

Numbered answers:
1. Selim
2. Graham
3. through the redwood canyons
4. Gypsy Trail"
5. branches
6. redwood
7. a cross
8. he tossed it
9. on the trail
10. Selim passed over without treading upon it
11. No
12. A good omen
13. the manufacture of patterans
14. An hour
15. warned him
16. the trail
17. an answering nicker
18. close at hand
19. Paula
20. Fawn
21. put his mount into a fox trot
22. wide and easy

Question:
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Ted Brown's dream as a child was an unusual one: he wanted to fly. What was more unusual was the way in which he made his dream come true. After high school, he wanted to join the U. S. Air Force but he failed because of his poor eyesight. However, his dream remained. At the age of 33, Ted was a truck driver in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting outside in his garden, he watched planes fly overhead and an idea came to him: to use balloons to fly. A few weeks later, Ted bought 42 huge balloons. He tied them to a chair and then he sat down in the chair with some beer, sandwiches and a gun. His plan was to fly to 10 meters above his garden, enjoy a few hours in the air, and then shoot some balloons with his gun to get back down. But things did not go as he planned. Once his friends cut the ropes under Ted's chair, the 42 balloons flew into the sky at an astonishing speed until about 4000 meters above the ground with Ted and his chair. He didn't shoot any of the balloons because he was afraid he might break the balanee of his "plane". Ted stayed in the sky with his beer and sandwiches for 14 hours, cold and frightened. Planes heading towards Los Angeles' busy international airport reported the strange sight. And Ted' s balloons caused great danger to them. At last, Ted gathered his courage to shoot a few balloons and slowly landed on the ground, where many policemen were waiting for him. Ted made his dream come true, but it cost him: he was fined $ 1,500 for breaking the law about air safety. When asked by a reporter why he had done it, Ted answered, "A man can't just sit around and do nothing; he should have his dream and go for it. "
1. What did Ted want to do?
2. Did he join the Air Force?
3. Did he try?
4. When?
5. Why didn't he join?
6. When did Ted buy to help him fly?
7. What did he use for a seat?
8. Did he attach the balloons to his seat?
9. Was it tethered?
10. How old was he at this time?
11. What was his occupation?
12. After the chair was launched how fast did it fly?
13. What did he take with him?
14. Anything else?
15. What else?
16. What did he need that for?
17. What would that do?
18. How high did he intend to go?
19. How high did he go?
20. Did it cost him?

Numbered answers:
1. fly
2. no
3. yes
4. After high school
5. poor eyesight.
6. balloons
7. a chair
8. yes
9. no
10. 33
11. truck driver
12. at an astonishing speed
13. beer
14. sandwiches
15. a gun
16. to shoot some balloons
17. get him back down
18. 10 meters above his garden
19. 4000 meters above the ground
20. yes

Question:
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CHAPTER XLVII.

KERRYCULLION.

Captain Clayton was thoroughly enjoying life, now perhaps, for the first time since he had had a bullet driven through his body. It had come to pass that everything, almost everything, was done for him by the hands of Edith. And yet Ada was willing to do everything that was required; but she declared always that what she did was of no avail. "Unless you take it to him, you know he won't eat it," she would still say. No doubt this was absurd, because the sick man's appetite was very good, considering that a hole had been made from his front to his back within the last month. It was still September, the weather was as warm as summer, and he insisted on lying out in the garden with his rugs around him, and enjoying the service of all his slaves. But among his slaves Edith was the one whom the other slaves found it most difficult to understand.

"I will go on," she said to her father, "and do everything for him while he is an invalid. But, when he is well enough to be moved, either he or I must go out of this."

Her father simply said that he did not understand it; but then he was one of the other slaves.

"Edith," said the Captain, one day, speaking from his rugs on the bank upon the lawn, "just say that one word, 'I yield.' It will have to be said sooner or later."
1. who was shot?
2. where did the bullet go
3. how is he doing now?
4. is it the first time since being shot?
5. who assisted him with everything?
6. was anyone else willing to help?
7. who?
8. what was she willing to do?
9. did she help?
10. how did she feel about helping?
11. what month was it?
12. was it cold out?
13. what season was it compared to?
14. who is Edith?
15. were there other slaves?
16. who?
17. who did they belong to?
18. who was the one he could't always understand?
19. who was Edith's father?
20. what does the Captain tell her to say?
Numbered answers:
1. Captain Clayton
2. through his body
3. he's thoroughly enjoying life
4. yes
5. Edith
6. yes
7. Ada
8. everything that was required
9. unknown
10. what she did was of no avail
11. September
12. no
13. summer
14. a slave
15. yes
16. Ada
17. Captain Clayton
18. Edith
19. a slave
20. 'I yield.'