input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Few buildings on earth can compete with the legendary beauty of the Taj Mahal. Towering over the ancient Indian city of Agra, the Taj Mahal is the grandest monument to love ever created.

The lovers in this story are the 17th century Indian emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal. She took a leading role in advising him, which is something unusual for a woman to do for a husband who's an emperor. Over the course of their nineteen-year marriage she gave birth to 14 children. But in 1631 while trying to deliver their fifteenth -- she tragically died. He was heartbroken when she died. And after her death, he decided to build the world's greatest monument ever built, for love.

He ordered the royal architects to design the most beautiful building the world had known and decided to name it after his beloved, Mumtaz Mahal. He called on twenty thousand workers and sent many more people to all corners of his country in search of valuable metals and jewels. And after seventeen years of hard work, Shah Jehan's monument was completed and his beloved empress was moved to her final resting place.

Everything had gone according to plan, but Shah Jehan's luck was about to change ... In 1658, just four years after the completion of the Taj Mahal, he was thrown out of power. Unfortunately, his son, Aran Azibe imprisoned him, his own father. And he spent the last seven years of his life in prison. And he was allowed to look at the Taj Mahal through a window. His life was in ruins, but when he died his last wish was promised. He was buried beside his beloved wife in the Taj Mahal. 1. Where is the Taj Mahal?
2. Who is the wife int he story?
3. and the husband?
4. What was unusual about her?
5. Who was he?
6. Did they have a lot of children?
7. how many?
8. What happened to Mumtaz?
9. from what?
10. Where was she buried?
11. What about the husband when he died?
12. What did the husband do after the wife died?
13. How long did it take?
14. and how many people helped?
15. what happened four years after completion?
16. by who?
17. where did he put his father?
18. for how many years did he stay?
19. What was his final wish?
20. was he?
numbered_answers: 1. Agra
2. Mumtaz Mahal
3. Shah Jehan
4. She took a leading role in advising him
5. the emperor
6. yes
7. 14
8. she died
9. while trying to deliver their fifteenth child
10. the Taj Mahal
11. He was buried beside her
12. he decided to build the world's greatest monument
13. seventeen years
14. twenty thousand
15. he was thrown out of power
16. his son
17. in prison
18. seven
19. to be buried beside his wife
20. yes

Q: American sign language has an interesting history. Although there have always been deaf individuals in America, the history really begins in 1817. Before 1817 deaf people communicated by using "home signs". Gestures were individually created and used within the home for simple communication. There were no schools or formal sign language training for the deaf.

So, why was 1817 an important date? Well, the story begins with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Gallaudet met his neighbor's daughter Alice Cogswell. Alice was the young deaf daughter of Dr. Mason Cogswell from Hartford, Connecticut. Gallaudet began teaching Alice to read and write a few simple words. Excited by the success Dr. Cogswell encouraged Gallaudet to establish a school for the deaf. Cogswell raised the money and Gallaudet traveled to Britain to learn the methods used there. However, the schools refused to share their instructional techniques and methods.

While in London, there happened to be a demonstration of the French method of deaf education. Britain was using an oral method of instruction; however, the French method used signs. Gallaudet was fascinated with the method and was able to meet with the instructor, Sicard, and his two deaf pupils, Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc. Sicard agreed to teach Gallaudet his method and Gallaudet went to Paris to learn French signs. After a while, Gallaudet wished to return home and convinced Clerc to go with him and help him establish the school. The trip home was a 52-day voyage during which Clerc taught Gallaudet French signs and Gallaudet taught Clerc English.

On April 15, 1817, Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet established what is currently known as the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. The opening of the first school for the deaf can be viewed as one of the most important events in current deaf culture.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did the sign language begin?
2. How did deaf people communicate before that?
3. What were those exactly?
4. Why couldn't they just take a class on it?
5. Who was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
6. Was he successful?
7. What did he do after that?
8. What happened while he was over there?
9. What method did Britain use?
10. What was different about the French?
11. What did he think about it?
12. Who did he meet there?
13. Was there anyone else?
14. Who?
15. Were they instructors also?
16. Who were they?
17. Was he able to learn their method?
18. Where?
19. Did he go back to Ameria after that?
20. How long did that take?
21. Did he ever start a school?
22. When?
23. Where?
A:
1. 1817
2. by using "home signs"
3. Gestures were created and used within each home.
4. There were no schools or formal training
5. He met his neighbors daughter Alice and taught her to read and write.
6. Yes
7. He traveled to Britain to learn their methods but they refused to share.
8. There was a demonstration of the French method
9. Oral method
10. They used signs.
11. He was fascinated.
12. The instructor Sicard
13. Yes
14. Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc
15. No
16. his two deaf pupils
17. Yes
18. Paris
19. Yes
20. 52 days
21. Yes
22. On April 15, 1817
23. in Hartford, Connecticut