Q: Jack and his uncle went out walking in the woods near the river. They saw many things when they were in the woods. They saw a chipmunk, a butterfly, a squirrel and some birds. Jack heard a wolf howl. All of the sudden Jack heard a train whistle. It scared all of the animals away and that made Jack sad.

After a bit, Jack heard his Auntie calling for them. Jack hoped that it was time for lunch because he was getting very hungry. He hope that there would be cookies to eat, he didn't want for there to be any vegetables. When they got to the house, his auntie was waiting there with a cake for them. Jack was excited and finished the sandwiches that she had made them for lunch.

When they were finished his uncle told him that it was time to go home. It was getting late and Jack was going to be late for his bedtime if they didn't hurry. His bedtime was going to be a little earlier tonight because he had to go visit the doctor tomorrow and so there would be no story time before bed.

Jack told his uncle that he had a great day and hoped that they could do it again soon.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was Jack with?
2. Doing what?
3. Where?
4. Near what?
5. What'd they see there?
6. Like what?
7. What else?
8. Anything else?
9. Did they see anything else?
10. What'd Jack hear?
11. Did he hear anything else?
12. What'd he hear?
13. What'd it do?
14. How'd that make Jack feel?
15. Who called for him and his uncle?
16. When?
17. How'd he feel?
18. What'd he want?
19. And what did he not want?
20. And what did he get?
A: 1. his uncle
2. walking
3. in the woods
4. the river
5. many things
6. a chipmunk
7. a butterfly
8. a squirrel
9. some birds.
10. a wolf howl
11. Yes
12. a train whistle.
13. It scared all of the animals away
14. sad
15. his Auntie
16. After a bit
17. very hungry
18. cookies
19. any vegetables
20. a cake
Q: The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.

In 1066, William of Normandy introduced what, in later centuries, became referred to as a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief (a person who held land) and ecclesiastics before making laws. In 1215, the tenants-in-chief secured Magna Carta from King John, which established that the king may not levy or collect any taxes (except the feudal taxes to which they were hitherto accustomed), save with the consent of his royal council, which gradually developed into a parliament.

Over the centuries, the English Parliament progressively limited the power of the English monarchy which arguably culminated in the English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649. After the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and the subsequent Glorious Revolution of 1688, the supremacy of Parliament was a settled principle and all future English and later British sovereigns were restricted to the role of constitutional monarchs with limited executive authority. The Act of Union 1707 merged the English Parliament with the Parliament of Scotland to form the Parliament of Great Britain. When the Parliament of Ireland was abolished in 1801, its former members were merged into what was now called the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Answer the following questions:
1. what were they legislature for first
2. what time period did they become legislature for england
3. then what country did it become parliament for
4. after what
5. who introduced the feudal system
6. in what year
7. what was this system
8. when was magna carta secured
9. who secured it
10. from who
11. has parliament been limiting power of something
12. when did the English monarchy culminate
13. during what war
14. who was on trial at the time
15. who restored the monarchy
16. What merged two Parliaments together
17. what two parliaments were they
18. what was abolished in 1801
19. what are they now merged into
A: 1. Parliament of England
2. from the early 13th century until 1707
3. Great Britain
4. the political union of England and Scotland
5. , William of Normandy
6. 1066
7. he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief (a person who held land) and ecclesiastics before making laws
8. 1215
9. the tenants-in-chief
10. King John
11. The collection of taxes
12. 1649.
13. the English Civil War
14. Charles I
15. Charles II
16. The Act of Union 1707
17. the English Parliament with the Parliament of Scotland
18. the Parliament of Ireland
19. the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Q: When Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary world. But an early review in The New York Times ensured that the book would be noticed. "It's as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration ," wrote Anatole Broyard, with an enthusiasm and amazement that was shared by many critics and readers. The book became a classic, and Robinson was recognized as one of the outstanding American writers of our time. Yet it would be more than twenty years before she wrote another novel.

During the period, Robinson devoted herself to writing nonfiction. Her essays and book reviews appeared in Harper's and The New York Times Book Review, and in 1989 she published Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution, criticizing severely the environmental and public health dangers caused by the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in England--and the political and moral corruption . In 1998, Robinson published a collection of her critical and theological writings, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, which featured reassessments of such figures as Charles Darwin, John Calvin, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Aside from a single short story--"Connie Bronson," published in The Paris Review in 1986--it wasn't until 2004 that she returned to fiction with the novel Gilead, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, Home, came out this fall.

Her novels could be described as celebrations of the human--the characters in them are unforgettable creations. Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her sister Lucille, who are cared for by their eccentric Aunt Sylvie after their mother commits suicide. Robinson writes a lot about how each of the three is changed by their new life together. Gilead is an even more close exploration of personality: the book centres on John Ames, a seventy-seven-year-old pastor who is writing an account of his life and his family history to leave to his young son after he dies. Home borrows characters from Gilead but centers on Ames's friend Reverend Robert Boughton and his troubled son Jack. Robinson returned to the same territory as Gilead because, she said, "after I write a novel or a story, I miss the characters--I feel like losing some close friends."

Answer the following questions:
1. Which book by Robinson is about Ruth and her sister Lucille?
2. When was it written?
3. How many years passed before she wrote another novel?
4. What did she write in between?
5. What did she publish in 1989?
6. And where did some of her essays and book reviews show up?
7. What did she publish in 1998?
8. What figures did it reassess?
9. What single short story did she write?
10. What did Anatole Broyard say about Housekeeping?
11. Who published Connie Bronson?
12. In what year?
13. When did Robinson start writing fiction again?
14. What was the name of the novel she wrote then?
15. When does her novel, Home, come out?
16. What happens to Ruth and Lucille's mother in Housekeeping?
17. Who takes care of them then?
18. What does the book Gilead center on?
19. How old is Ames?
20. Who is he writing his book for?
A:
1. Housekeeping.
2. 1980.
3. More than twenty.
4. Nonfiction.
5. Mother Country: Britain.
6. Harper's and The New York Times Book Review
7. The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought,
8. Charles Darwin and John Calvin.
9. Connie Bronson
10. "It's as if, in writing it, she broke through the ordinary human condition with all its dissatisfactions, and achieved a kind of transfiguration
11. The Paris Review.
12. 1986
13. 2004
14. Gilead.
15. This fall.
16. She commits suicide.
17. Their Aunt Sylvie.
18. John Ames.
19. 77.
20. His son.