Q: My mother-in-law, Dorothy, is showing me the red notebook that's almost as precious to her as my husband's baby pictures. Inside the notebook is a list of the books she has read since 2007. For some people waking up in the middle of the night is a terrible thing. But for my mother-in-law, that time is a gift. At 87, she is getting the education she never had by working her way through great literature. She has now read close to 100 books, including every single novel by Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James and Thomas Mann.

My mother-in-law discusses her passion with the enthusiasm of a young girl, although she can also be a very tough critic, writing "VG' for " very good" in the margins next to her favorites. So far, only a handful of books have received the top prize.

Born in Ridgefield, Conn, Dorothy was the youngest daughter of an Italian gardener. She taught herself English by reading The New York Times. Eager to come to Manhattan, she became a nurse, married a dentist and spent the next several decades keeping the house and raising a family. In her later years, she put her nursing skills to good use by taking care of my father-in-law, who had lung cancer. There were many trips to the emergency room in the middle of the night and then a long hospital stay. She stayed awake to watch over him for 15 hours a day. Always a light sleeper, she developed sleeplessness as a result of the stress.

It worsened after he died. Deeply sad and lonely for the first time in her life, she began waking up around 2am. Julian and Sylvia, the elderly couple next door suggest she read literature. And so Julian, a great lover of literature, became her "professor", providing books from his large library. Suddenly

turned onto a world of amazing characters.

1. Ridgefield, Conn
2. The New York Times.
3. Dentist.
4. Nurse.
5. Lung cancer.
6. 15.
7. Yes.
8. Stress.
9. Red.
10. A list of the books she has read since 2007.
11. Close to 100.
12. Yes.
13. VG.
14. No.
15. Around 2am.
16. Julian and Sylvia.
17. Julian.
18. Literature.
19. Yes.
20. Italian.

Numbered questions:
1. Where was Dorothy born?
2. What did she read to learn English?
3. What was the profession of the man she wed?
4. What was her profession at this time?
5. What disease did her father-in-law have?
6. How many hours per day did she attend to him?
7. Did she develop sleeplessness?
8. Why?
9. What was the color of Dorothy's notebook?
10. What's in the notebook?
11. How many books has she read?
12. Has she read ones by Jane Austen?
13. What abbreviation does she use for "very good"?
14. Does she give that rating to a lot of books?
15. After he father-in-law's death, what time did she wake up?
16. What were her neighbor's names?
17. Which one of them gave her books?
18. What did he love?
19. Was he thought of as her professor?
20. Of what nationality was the gardener mentioned?

Q: Chapter V. Mohun Appears For The Last Time In This History

Besides my Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who, for family reasons, had kindly promised his protection and patronage to Colonel Esmond, he had other great friends in power now, both able and willing to assist him, and he might, with such allies, look forward to as fortunate advancement in civil life at home as he had got rapid promotion abroad. His grace was magnanimous enough to offer to take Mr. Esmond as secretary on his Paris embassy, but no doubt he intended that proposal should be rejected; at any rate, Esmond could not bear the thoughts of attending his mistress farther than the church-door after her marriage, and so declined that offer which his generous rival made him.

Other gentlemen, in power, were liberal at least of compliments and promises to Colonel Esmond. Mr. Harley, now become my Lord Oxford and Mortimer, and installed Knight of the Garter on the same day as his grace of Hamilton had received the same honour, sent to the colonel to say that a seat in Parliament should be at his disposal presently, and Mr. St. John held out many flattering hopes of advancement to the colonel when he should enter the House. Esmond's friends were all successful, and the most successful and triumphant of all was his dear old commander, General Webb, who was now appointed Lieutenant-General of the Land Forces, and received with particular honour by the ministry, by the queen, and the people out of doors, who huzza'd the brave chief when they used to see him in his chariot, going to the House or to the Drawing-room, or hobbling on foot to his coach from St. Stephen's upon his glorious old crutch and stick, and cheered him as loud as they had ever done Marlborough.

1. Lord Duke of Hamilton and Brandon
2. for family reasons
3. yes
4. yes
5. yes
6. civil life
7. at home
8. yes
9. Mr. Esmond
10. Paris embassy
11. farther than the church-door
12. his mistress
13. after her marriage
14. yes
15. his rival
16. yes
17. Mr. Harley
18. yes
19. Hamilton
20. General Webb

Numbered questions:
1. Who are among the people who would help Esmond?
2. Why he would help him?
3. Are there others who would do that too?
4. Are they powerful?
5. Would he succeed with their help?
6. in what?
7. Where?
8. Was he successful abroad?
9. Who did he take as secretary?
10. Where?
11. Where he did not wish to meet someone?
12. whom?
13. When?
14. Did he refuse the offer?
15. Of whom?
16. Were others generous in their promises to him?
17. Who was knighted?
18. Was anyone honored in the same day?
19. Who was that?
20. Who got the command of the land forces?

Q: (CNN) -- It's been more than three weeks since militants from the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group dragged 276 girls out of their beds at a boarding school in northern Nigeria, and still no one knows where the girls are. International assistance has begun to flow into Nigeria, whose president has vowed to end the terror threat plaguing his country.

Here's what you need to know to get caught up:

Where are the girls?

It's anyone's guess. Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video that he was going to sell them into slavery, but it's unknown whether he has. Pentagon spokesman U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby and other officials have said they believe the girls may have been separated into smaller groups, making the task of finding them inordinately more difficult. Gordon Brown, a former UK prime minister and the U.N.'s special envoy for global education, speculated that the girls may have been moved into neighboring countries. "The search must be in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, to see if we can find information," he said.

What's being done to find them?

Nigeria hasn't given a lot of information about its efforts other than to say that its soldiers have been out in the field, looking for the girls. Nigerian police offered a $310,000 reward, but there's no evidence that has turned up any leads. The United States and Britain have sent advisers to help the Nigerian government find the girls, stage rescue missions and help in the larger fight to defeat Boko Haram.

1. three weeks ago
2. no one knows
3. Abubakar Shekau
4. soldiers

Numbered questions:
1. When did Boko Haram kidnap the girls?
2. Where are they?
3. Who leads the group?
4. Who is looking for them?