Problem: The history of India includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian subcontinent; the blending of the Indus Valley Civilization and Indo-Aryan culture into the Vedic Civilization; the development of Hinduism as a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions; the rise of the Sramana movement; the decline of Srauta sacrifices and the birth of the initiatory traditions of Jainism, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism; the onset of a succession of powerful dynasties and empires for more than two millennia throughout various geographic areas of the subcontinent, including the growth of Muslim dynasties during the Medieval period intertwined with Hindu powers; the advent of European traders resulting in the establishment of the British rule; and the subsequent independence movement that led to the Partition of India and the creation of the Republic of India.

Evidence of Anatomically modern humans in the Indian subcontinent is recorded as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3200 to 1300 BCE, was the first major civilization in South Asia. A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE. This civilization collapsed at the start of the second millennium BCE and was later followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilization, which extended over much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and which witnessed the rise of major polities known as the Mahajanapadas. In one of these kingdoms, Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha propagated their Shramanic philosophies during the fifth and sixth century BCE.
1. How far back can humans be traced in Indian Subcontinent?
2. What civilization flourished along the northwestern region?
3. What cultures blended to make the Vedic Civilization?
4. Which five initiatory traditions were born?
5. What caused British rule to establish?
6. Which civilization had a collapse in the beginning of the second millenium?
7. What happened during the fifth and sixth century BCE?
8. What does Mahajanapadas refer to?
9. For how long did the Indus Valley Civilization rule?
10. What was Hinduism created as?
11. From when to when was the Indus Valley Civilization?
12. What about the Mature Harappan period?
Answer: 1. 75,000 years ago
2. the Indus Valley Civilization
3. the Indus Valley Civilization and the Indo-Aryan culture
4. Jainism, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism
5. the advent of European traders
6. unknown
7. Magadha, Mahavira and Gautama Buddha propagated their Shramanic philosophies
8. major polities
9. 1900 years
10. a synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions
11. c. 3200 to 1300 BCE
12. 600 to 1900 BCE.

Q: A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in daily newspapers, while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the development of the internet, they began to appear online as webcomics. There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century, for a total of at least 7,300,000 episodes.

Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist. As the name implies, comic strips can be humorous (for example, "gag-a-day" strips such as "Blondie", "Bringing Up Father", "Marmaduke", and "Pearls Before Swine").

Starting in the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in "Popeye", "Captain Easy", "Buck Rogers", "Tarzan", and "The Adventures of Tintin". Soap-opera continuity strips such as "Judge Parker" and "Mary Worth" gained popularity in the 1940s. All are called, generically, comic strips, though cartoonist Will Eisner has suggested that "sequential art" would be a better genre-neutral name.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is a comic strip?
2. Can you expand on that some?
3. Who creates comic strips?
4. What is the text of comic strips written in?
5. What does Will Eisner suggest that Comic strips be called?
6. How many comic strips a day appeared in U.S. newspapers each day for most of the 20th century?
7. Has there been at 7,300,000 episodes of them total?
8. Where has Comic strips been traditionally published through out the 20th and 21st century?
9. What are online comics called?
10. When did Comics start espanding to feature adventure stories?
A: 1. sequence of drawings
2. They are arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor
3. comics artist or cartoonist
4. balloons and captions
5. sequential art
6. more than 200
7. Yes
8. newspapers and magazines
9. webcomics
10. late 1920s

Problem: CHAPTER III

THE WANDERER'S NECKLACE

On the morrow early I lay awake, for how could I sleep when Iduna rested beneath the same roof with me--Iduna, who, as her father had decreed, was to become my wife sooner than I had hoped? I was thinking how beautiful she looked, and how much I loved her; also of other things that were not so pleasant. For instance, why did not everybody see her with my eyes? I could not hide from myself that Ragnar went near to hating her; more than once she had almost been the cause of a quarrel between us. Freydisa, too, my nurse, who loved me, looked on her sourly, and even my mother, although she tried to like her for my sake, had not yet learned to do so, or thus it appeared to me.

When I asked her why, she replied that she feared the maid was somewhat selfish, also too fond of drawing the eyes of men, and of the adornment of her beauty. Of those who were dearest to me, indeed, only Steinar seemed to think Iduna as perfect as I did myself. This, so far as it went, was well; but, then, Steinar and I had always thought alike, which robbed his judgment of something of its worth.

Whilst I was pondering over these things, although it was still so early that my father and Athalbrand were yet in bed sleeping off the fumes of the liquor they had drunk, I heard Steinar himself talking to the messengers from Agger in the hall. They asked him humbly whether he would be pleased to return with them that day and take possession of his inheritance, since they must get back forthwith to Agger with their tidings. He replied that if they would send some or come themselves to escort him on the tenth day from that on which they spoke, he would go to Agger with them, but that until then he could not do so.
1. Who did the mother not like?
2. What was her name?
3. What was the problem?
4. She she the only one who disliked her?
5. How many other people?
6. Who?
7. Did it create issues with anyone?
8. With who?
9. Did anyone approve of her?
10. Who?
11. Was this a great comfort?
12. Why not?
13. Why did her dad disapprove of the engagement?
14. Who was his dad napping with?
15. Why were they napping at the time?
16. Was Agger there?
17. Who were they speaking to?
18. About what?
19. Did he leave with them?
20. When would he leave then?
Answer:
1. the maid
2. Iduna
3. she feared the maid was selfish and too fond of drawing the eyes of men
4. No
5. Two
6. Ragnar and Freydisa
7. Yes
8. Ragnar
9. Yes
10. Steinar
11. No
12. Steinar and he had always thought alike, which robbed his judgment of something of its worth
13. He didn't
14. Athalbrand
15. They were sleeping off the fumes of the liquor they had drunk
16. No, he sent messengers.
17. Steinar
18. to return with and take possession of his inheritance
19. No
20. on the tenth day from that on which they spoke