Q: Mitt Romney hit his party's "magic number" on Tuesday, unofficially clinching the Republican presidential nomination in a race he entered as the front-runner and has had to himself for weeks.

Romney led the pack when he announced his second run for the White House last June, and he has watched his rivals for the nomination slowly trickle out as their own wins looked increasingly unlikely.

The delegates to put him over the 1,144 necessary for the GOP nomination came in Texas, the lone state to vote this week. Romney entered the day 78 delegates away from the magic number, and on Tuesday CNN projected he would win the state's GOP presidential primary, where 152 of the state's 155 delegates were at stake.

On Tuesday, Romney said he was humbled to have secured the requisite delegates to become the GOP nominee.

"I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee," Romney wrote. "Our party has come together with the goal of putting the failures of the last 3 years behind us. I have no illusions about the difficulties of the task before us. But whatever challenges lie ahead, we will settle for nothing less than getting America back on the path to full employment and prosperity. On November 6, I am confident that we will unite as a country and begin the hard work of fulfilling the American promise and restoring our country to greatness."

Answer the following questions:
1. What place is Mitt Romney in the running for the nomination?
2. How long has he had it?
3. When did he decide to run again?
4. When does he say we will join to better our land?
5. What amount of votes did he need?
6. Where did they hail from?
7. What is another name for it?
8. What is he running for?
9. What year?
10. Who said he would win?
A: 1. front-runner
2. weeks
3. last June
4. the country
5. 1,144
6. Texas
7. the lone(star) state
8. President
9. 2012
10. CNN
Q: CHAPTER XIII.

THE MARRIAGE.

The consternation which ensued on the death of the Rowski, speedily sent all his camp-followers, army, &c. to the right-about. They struck their tents at the first news of his discomfiture; and each man laying hold of what he could, the whole of the gallant force which had marched under his banner in the morning had disappeared ere the sun rose.

On that night, as it may be imagined, the gates of the Castle of Cleves were not shut. Everybody was free to come in. Wine-butts were broached in all the courts; the pickled meat prepared in such lots for the siege was distributed among the people, who crowded to congratulate their beloved sovereign on his victory; and the Prince, as was customary with that good man, who never lost an opportunity of giving a dinner-party, had a splendid entertainment made ready for the upper classes, the whole concluding with a tasteful display of fireworks.

In the midst of these entertainments, our old friend the Count of Hombourg arrived at the castle. The stalwart old warrior swore by Saint Bugo that he was grieved the killing of the Rowski had been taken out of his hand. The laughing Cleves vowed by Saint Bendigo, Hombourg could never have finished off his enemy so satisfactorily as the unknown knight had just done.

But who was he? was the question which now agitated the bosom of these two old nobles. How to find him--how to reward the champion and restorer of the honor and happiness of Cleves? They agreed over supper that he should be sought for everywhere. Beadles were sent round the principal cities within fifty miles, and the description of the knight advertised, in the Journal de Francfort and the Allgemeine Zeitung. The hand of the Princess Helen was solemnly offered to him in these advertisements, with the reversion of the Prince of Cleves's splendid though somewhat dilapidated property.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who died?
2. Where did people end up as a result of his death?
3. What did they take it out on?
4. Who vanished?
5. What had they marched under?
6. What was the name of the castle?
7. Had something been left open there?
8. Who could come in?
9. Where was the count from?
10. When did he arrive?
11. Was he young?
12. Did the Prince entertain a lot?
13. Who did they want to find?
14. Did they decide to look for him?
15. Who was sent?
16. Did they search for 100 miles?
17. How far?
18. Where did they place his description?
19. What did they offer to him?
20. Did they offer him the hand of the princess?
A: 1. Rowski,
2. . to the right-about
3. their tents
4. the whole of the gallant force
5. his banner
6. Castle of Cleves
7. the gate
8. Everybody 9. Hombourg
10. n the midst of these entertainments
11. no
12. yes
13. unknown
14. yes
15. Beadles
16. no
17. 50 miles
18. in the Journal de Francfort and the Allgemeine Zeitung.
19. dilapidated property.
20. yes
Q: West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north (and, slightly, east), and Maryland to the northeast. West Virginia is the 10th smallest by area, is ranked 38th in population, and has the second lowest household income of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston.

West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, after the American Civil War had begun. Delegates from some Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from Virginia, although they included many secessionist counties in the new state. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the war. West Virginia was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, the first to separate from any state since Maine separated from Massachusetts, and was one of two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War (the other being Nevada). While a portion of its residents held slaves, most of the residents were yeomen farmers, and the delegates provided for gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was West Virginia one of the original states?
2. Was it a state at the beginning of the Civil War?
3. What year did it achieve statehood?
4. What area of Virginia did West Virginia come from?
5. Were all the counties loyal to the union?
6. Was it in a strategically important position during the war?
7. What was the last state to separate from another?
8. From New Hampshire?
9. From what?
10. How many other areas were given statehood during the Civil War?
11. What was it?
12. What did most people do for a living in early West Virginia?
13. Did any of the people have slaves?
14. Did that end abruptly?
15. What finally abolished slavery there?
16. What state is to its north?
17. Is Ohio on its southern border?
18. What is the area called that West Virginia is a part of?
19. Is it one of the larger U.S. states?
20. Is it wealthy?
A:
1. no
2. yes
3. 1863
4. northwestern
5. no
6. yes
7. Maine
8. no
9. Massachusetts
10. One
11. Nevada
12. farming
13. yes
14. no
15. new state constitution
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Appalachian
19. no
20. no