Question: Wide awake in Aunt Bet's Southern house, Annie Van Lew shivered at the sounds of distant guns. It was bad enough that America was at war, but the young Virginia girl was not used to battles being fought this close. _ .Annie sat up in bed and listened.Had a stranger broken in? Earlier, the family had heard that captured officers recently escaped from a prison nearby.

Quietly opening her bedroom door, Annie walked out. A figure in a black gown was walking down the hall. It was Aunt Bet, carrying a candle in one hand and a plate of fried chicken in the other.

Annie followed her aunt to a stairway at the far end of the house. Aunt Bet climbed to the top, and opened a door leading to the attic . Annie followed closely behind.

In the attic, Aunt Bet stopped at a chest of drawers, moved it aside, and felt along the wall behind it. Slowly a door sprang open, revealing a hidden room. A thin man stepped out of the opening. As Aunt Bet handed him the plate of food, the young man saw Annie in the doorway and froze.

Desperately shaking her head "no", the girl raised one finger to her lips. The officer understood and shifted his look. Quickly Annie went back downstairs and hid, waiting until after Aunt Bet left to return. Back inside the attic,Annie called softly to the man inside, who told her where to find the hidden spring.

Soon the young officer stood in the open doorway. A small candle burned on a table behind him and, in its soft light, Annie studied his face. Clear eyes reflected the calm of one who faced death bravely.

Smiling, he said,"What trouble you should have gotten into if your aunt had turned around!" That night, Annie learned Aunt Bet was one of many daring Southerners whose hatred of slavery drove them to risk their lives by spying for the North. The girl chatted as she dared, wishing her new friend luck when he said he would leave at dawn.

Back in her room, Annie felt proud and was determined to guard her family's secret to the end. 1. What made Annie shiver?
2. Where was she staying?
3. What rumor had they heard?
4. Where had they fled from?
5. Who was in the hall?
6. What was she holding?
7. anything else?
8. where did she go?
9. what was up there?
10. where was he?
11. what covered the entrance?
12. what did the man do when he saw Annie?
13. when did she go back?
14. how did she find the secret latch?
15. did he seem afraid?
16. what was Aunt Bet doing?
17. for who?
18. when was the man leaving?
19. how did she feel?
20. why was Bet doing this? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. sounds of distant guns
2. Aunt Bet's Southern house
3. captured officers recently escaped
4. a prison nearby
5. Aunt Bet
6. a candle in one hand
7. fried chicken
8. attic
9. A thin man
10. a hidden room
11. a chest of drawers
12. froze
13. after Aunt Bet left
14. The man told her where to find it.
15. No
16. spying
17. the North
18. at dawn
19. proud
20. hatred of slavery

Question: Los Angeles (CNN) -- The doctor convicted in pop star Michael Jackson's death is suffering possibly life-threatening and permanent injuries after almost a year in a small jail cell, his lawyers are warning.

Dr. Conrad Murray is housed in a high-security section of the Los Angeles County jail because of his notoriety, which isolates him from the general population for his protection but means he has "extremely limited access to exercise."

"Death or injury at the hands of another prisoner, however, is no worse than a slow death caused by a loss of circulation and atrophy resulting from inhumane confinement of a large man in a tiny space," lawyers Valerie Wass and Michael Flanagan wrote in a letter addressed to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca Wednesday.

Conrad Murray invites Katherine Jackson to visit him in jail

Murray -- jailed since November 7, 2011, when he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death -- is 6 feet 5 inches tall, but confined in a 5-foot-by-7-foot cell, the letter said.

"If one were to keep a dog in a space just a few inches larger than the dog's length, for any extended period of time, contentions of animal cruelty possibly leading to prosecution would likely result," it said.

The sheriff's office did not immediately return repeated calls from CNN for comment.

Wass, who is overseeing the appeal of Murray's involuntary manslaughter conviction, told CNN Thursday his jail conditions "are the equivalent of a large individual flying coach in a middle seat for a period of a year." 1. When was Murray put in prison?
2. On what charge?
3. Who died?
4. Was the Doctor injured?
5. Attacked by an inmate?
6. What caused it?
7. Is he represented?
8. By whom?
9. What did they do Wednesday?
10. Who was it to?
11. Of what? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. November 7, 2011
2. Involuntary manslaughter
3. Michael Jackson
4. Yes
5. No
6. Loss of circulation and atrophy resulting from inhumane confinement in a tiny space
7. Yes
8. Valerie Wass and Michael Flanagan
9. Wrote in a letter
10. Sheriff Lee Baca Wednesday
11. Los Angeles County

Question: It was 3:30 in the morning and 8-year-old Walt Disney was doing what he did at that time every morning- rolling hundreds of newspapers he would soon deliver in his neighborhood.

It was hard work for a little kid who had to go to school, then deliver another round in the evening. But delivering papers beat picking apples for a living. That's what he'd been doing before, on his family's failing farms in Missouri.

Walt Disney, born in December, 1901, never had time for a childhood. As a result, he spent all of his adult life attempting to invent one for himself. In the process - almost by accident - he created wonderful childhood memories for generation after generation of children worldwide.

When the Disneys moved to Chicago, Walt signed up for cartooning classes, working three part-time jobs to pay for them. At 24, he created a cartoon character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was a great success. Hethen shifted his attention to mice, or one particular mouse called Mickey.And Mickey Mouse became an overnight success.

Success followed success, but Walt Disney pushed himself even harder. He produced Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, for which he won a special Oscar. After the Second World War, Walt came up with the idea of Disneyland. Everyone said it was too costly a dream, but he wouldn't listen. His great world of fantasy opened on July 17, 1955. In the next seven weeks, more than one million people walked into Disneyland. The man who had spent a painful childhood now watched other people enjoy the perfect childhood world that he had created. 1. What happened at 3:30 in the morning?
2. why?
3. where did he pick apples?
4. where?
5. What did he do with the rolled up papers?
6. Did he do this once a day?
7. How many times?
8. When was he born?
9. What happened in Chicago?
10. Did he quit working?
11. Was Mickey his first cartoon character?
12. who was?
13. What did he win an Oscar for?
14. When did he think of Disneyland?
15. After what war?
16. What did people think?
17. Did it end up a success?
18. How many people came?
19. in how long?
20. When did it open? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Walt Disney was rolling hundreds of newspapers
2. It beat picking apples.
3. On his family's farms.
4. Missouri.
5. Deliver in his neighborhood.
6. No.
7. Twice.
8. 1901.
9. Walt signed up for cartooning classes.
10. No.
11. No.
12. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
13. Snow White and Seven Dwarfs.
14. His great world of fantasy.
15. Second World War.
16. It was too costly a dream.
17. Yesl
18. More than one million.
19. Seven weeks.
20. July 17, 1955.