Q: CHAPTER XX

Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus, Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat. False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed-- Repented and reproach'd, and then believed once more. _The New World._

By the time that Margaret returned with Monna Paula, the Lady Hermione was rising from the table at which she had been engaged in writing something on a small slip of paper, which she gave to her attendant.

"Monna Paula," she said, "carry this paper to Roberts the cash-keeper; let them give you the money mentioned in the note, and bring it hither presently."

Monna Paula left the room, and her mistress proceeded.

"I do not know," she said, "Margaret, if I have done, and am doing, well in this affair. My life has been one of strange seclusion, and I am totally unacquainted with the practical ways of this world--an ignorance which I know cannot be remedied by mere reading.--I fear I am doing wrong to you, and perhaps to the laws of the country which affords me refuge, by thus indulging you; and yet there is something in my heart which cannot resist your entreaties."

"O, listen to it--listen to it, dear, generous lady!" said Margaret, throwing herself on her knees and grasping those of her benefactress and looking in that attitude like a beautiful mortal in the act of supplicating her tutelary angel; "the laws of men are but the injunctions of mortality, but what the heart prompts is the echo of the voice from heaven within us."

1. the Lady Hermione
2. a small slip of paper
3. Monna Paula
4. Monna Paula
5. money
6. Lady Hermoine
7. No
8. Yes
9. her knees
10. unknown
11. the cash-keeper

Numbered questions:
1. Who had been writing?
2. What did she write on>
3. What is the attendant's name?
4. Who left the room?
5. What did the note mention?
6. Who feels she is wronging Margaret?
7. Is she a woman with much practical knowledge?
8. True or False: Lady Hermione also fears that she might be breaking the law.
9. What part of the Lady does Margaret grab?
10. What is the Lady's role to Margaret?
11. Who is Roberts?

Q: Semiotics (also called semiotic studies); is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication. It is not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a subset of semiotics This includes the study of signs and sign processes, indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.

The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems.

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, the Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco proposed that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication. Some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science, however. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciencessuch as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take "signs" or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoosemiotics).

The term derives from the Greek "semeiotikos", "observant of signs", (from "semeion", "a sign, a mark",) and it was first used in English prior to 1676 by Henry Stubbes (spelt "semeiotics") in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs. John Locke used the term "sem(e)iotike" in book four, chapter 21 of "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690). Here he explains how science may be divided into three parts:

1. semiotic studies
2. meaning-making
3. yes
4. semiology
5. Saussurean
6. yes
7. semiotics
8. study of signs and symbols
9. no
10. yes
11. non-linguistic sign systems
12. from semeiotikos
13. observant of signs
14. Greek
15. semeion
16. a sign, a mark
17. Henry Stubbes
18. semeiotics
19. prior to 1676
20. John Locke

Numbered questions:
1. What is the other name of Semiotics?
2. What does it study?
3. Does it get mixed up with a tradition?
4. With what?
5. What tradition it belongs to?
6. Does it fall under some other category?
7. of what?
8. What does it explore?
9. Is it same as linguistics?
10. Do they have anything in common?
11. What?
12. How the term came about?
13. What does it mean?
14. In what language?
15. What is the root word?
16. What does it mean?
17. Who first used it in English?
18. How did he spell it?
19. Which year?
20. Who else used it around that time?

Q: (CNN) -- The mosque in Roxbury was crowded past capacity, with about 1,200 college students, urban hipsters and East Africans lining the hallways and front stairs.

They wanted to hear Imam Suhaib Webb, resident scholar of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and widely considered one of the country's most influential Muslims, respond to Sam Harris and Bill Maher, who recently called Islam the "mother lode of bad ideas" and compared Muslims to the Mafia.

The lanky, blue-eyed imam, a convert originally from Oklahoma, is known for tackling taboo topics and spicing his sermons with pop culture references.

Before Friday's sermon, the last time the Roxbury mosque had been this crowded, Webb said, was when he preached about the finale of "Breaking Bad."

(On the Sunday after his sermon, Webb, who has extensive training in classical Islamic learning, answered religious questions on Twitter about "The Walking Dead.")

Instead of attacking Maher and Harris, though, Webb challenged his fellow Muslims.

"It's code red," he preached last Friday, pounding the minbar for emphasis. "People do not like us, and we need to get with it!"

"One day we're attacked by Fox News, the next day we're attacked by Muslims who actually pay to have Facebook ads about us," Webb said.

"I mean, that's the level of attacks that we're dealing with as a community and as a people. One brother told me, like what's going to happen next? It's like a soap opera."

Webb himself has been subject to some of those attacks, as conservative media outlets have sought to tie him to Alton Nolen, an Oklahoma man accused of beheading a co-worker, and the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.

1. Imam Suhaib Webb
2. mosque in Roxbury
3. Sam Harris and Bill Maher
4. 1,200
5. Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center
6. Mafia
7. "Breaking Bad."
8. The Walking Dead.")
9. blue
10. People do not like us
11. Oklahoma

Numbered questions:
1. Who is considered one of the country's most influential Muslims?
2. Where was he speaking?
3. Who denigrated Islam?
4. How many people were present for his speech?
5. Where does Webb work?
6. Who were Muslims likened to?
7. What television shows has the Imam referenced?
8. what else?
9. What color are his eyes?
10. According to Webb, how do people feel about Muslims?
11. Where is he from?