question: CHAPTER XVII

South they held along the coast, hunting, fishing, swimming, and horse-buying. Billy shipped his purchases on the coasting steamers. Through Del Norte and Humboldt counties they went, and through Mendocino into Sonoma--counties larger than Eastern states--threading the giant woods, whipping innumerable trout-streams, and crossing countless rich valleys. Ever Saxon sought the valley of the moon. Sometimes, when all seemed fair, the lack was a railroad, sometimes madrono and manzanita trees, and, usually, there was too much fog.

"We do want a sun-cocktail once in a while," she told Billy.

"Yep," was his answer. "Too much fog might make us soggy. What we're after is betwixt an' between, an' we'll have to get back from the coast a ways to find it."

This was in the fall of the year, and they turned their backs on the Pacific at old Fort Ross and entered the Russian River Valley, far below Ukiah, by way of Cazadero and Guerneville. At Santa Rosa Billy was delayed with the shipping of several horses, so that it was not until afternoon that he drove south and east for Sonoma Valley.

"I guess we'll no more than make Sonoma Valley when it'll be time to camp," he said, measuring the sun with his eye. "This is called Bennett Valley. You cross a divide from it and come out at Glen Ellen. Now this is a mighty pretty valley, if anybody should ask you. An' that's some nifty mountain over there."

"The mountain is all right," Saxon adjudged. "But all the rest of the hills are too bare. And I don't see any big trees. It takes rich soil to make big trees."
1. What direction were they headed?
2. What did they seek?
3. Did they do anything along the way?
4. Like what?
5. Anything else
6. What else?
7. Did they buy anything?
8. What?
9. How did they transport what they'd bought?
10. Who was responsible for doing this?
11. Did they travel through forest?
12. What was there an excess of?
13. What was there an occasional dearth of?
14. Did the female character feel they needed sunshine?
15. Did her companion agree?
16. What slowed them down?
17. Where?
18. At what point did they move away from the ocean?
19. When did they arrive at Sonoma Valley?
20. How did the male character describe Bennett Valley?
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answer: 1. South
2. the valley of the moon.
3. Yes.
4. hunting
5. fishing
6. swimming
7. Yes.
8. horses
9. on the coasting steamers
10. Billy
11. Yes.
12. fog
13. railroads
14. Yes.
15. Yep
16. the shipping of several horses
17. Santa Rosa
18. Fort Ross
19. unknown
20. mighty pretty

(CNN) -- Sitting in the first lady's box listening to the President Barack Obama push for movement on immigration reform, Cristian Avila no longer had to keep his head down and live in fear of being deported.

While the President dedicated only a brief part of his State of the Union address to immigration, his message went beyond his speech, and the evidence was sitting among the guests invited to join the first lady in the viewing box.

"I feel honored and excited to be here. If it wasn't for receiving my DACA last summer I wouldn't have been able to attend the State of the Union," Avila told CNN.

The 23-year-old and his siblings are just one of the many thousands of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Avila was illegally brought into the United States with his younger brother and sister when he was 9 years old

DACA is a government program enacted in 2012 that stopped deporting some undocumented young people and instead granted them temporary work authorization and a two-year reprieve from deportation.

Obama hits the road to push State of the Union message

The recipients have become one of the most visible groups advocating for immigration reform.

Avila caught the attention of the Obama administration during his 22-day fast on the National Mall in support of immigration reform last November. And, for the last two years, Avila's been working as a voter engagement coordinator for Mi Familia Vota, a non-profit Latino civic engagement program. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was listening to the president?
2. Which President?
3. What was it about?
4. Does it have anything to do with DACA?
5. What DACA stands for?
6. How old is Avila?
7. Does he have brothers and sisters?
8. Did they receive DACA?
9. When the program started?
10. Who were the recipients?
11. Were they allowed to work?
12. Could they be deported?
13. For how many years?
14. How he came into the picture?
15. For how long?
16. In any specific place?
17. When?
18. What was the cause?
19. What did he do then?
20. For whom?
Answer: 1. Cristian Avila
2. Barack Obama
3. immigration reform
4. yes
5. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
6. 23
7. yes
8. yes
9. 2012
10. undocumented young people
11. yes
12. granted reprieve
13. two-year
14. he fasted
15. 22-day
16. National Mall
17. last November
18. immigration reform
19. voter engagement coordinator
20. Mi Familia Vota

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XII.

Madame Colonna, with that vivacious energy which characterises the south, had no sooner seen Coningsby, and heard his praises celebrated by his grandfather, than she resolved that an alliance should sooner or later take place between him and her step-daughter. She imparted her projects without delay to Lucretia, who received them in a different spirit from that in which they were communicated. Lucretia bore as little resemblance to her step-mother in character, as in person. If she did not possess her beauty, she was born with an intellect of far greater capacity and reach. She had a deep judgment. A hasty alliance with a youth, arranged by their mutual relatives, might suit very well the clime and manners of Italy, but Lucretia was well aware that it was altogether opposed to the habits and feelings of this country. She had no conviction that either Coningsby would wish to marry her, or, if willing, that his grandfather would sanction such a step in one as yet only on the threshold of the world. Lucretia therefore received the suggestions and proposals of Madarne Colonna with coldness and indifference; one might even say contempt, for she neither felt respect for this lady, nor was she sedulous to evince it. Although really younger than Coningsby, Lucretia felt that a woman of eighteen is, in all worldly considerations, ten years older than a youth of the same age. She anticipated that a considerable time might elapse before Coningsby would feel it necessary to seal his destiny by marriage, while, on the other hand, she was not only anxious, but resolved, not to delay on her part her emancipation from the galling position in which she very frequently found herself. 1. How old is Lucretia?
2. Who is she younger than?
3. Was she convinced that he wanted to wed her?
4. Who might not approve of the marriage?
5. Who was the grandson?
6. Was Madame energetic
7. How is her energy characterized?
8. Did Lucretia look like her step-mom?
9. She felt a decade older than which 18 year old?
10. Did she believe that the wedding would occur soon?
numbered_answers:
1. eighteen
2. Coningsby
3. Yes
4. his grandfather
5. Coningsby
6. Yes
7. the south
8. No
9. Lucretia
10. No