Q: 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.

Answer the following questions:
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?
A: 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

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Sally was walking through the park. The bluebirds were singing and the weather was nice. She waved at her neighbor Jerry, who was taking his kitten out. Then she heard a loud noise. The noise was coming from a nearby tree. She walked over to the tree to take a look and found a puppy curled up by the roots. It was making a loud, sad noise. Sally bent down and picked up the puppy. It quickly quieted down, and licked her face. Sally laughed. The puppy was brown with white paws, and she thought it was the cutest puppy she ever saw. She couldn't find a tag on him, so she took him home. When she got home, she fed the puppy some meat that she had in her fridge. The puppy seemed to like it. She also gave him a bowl of water and he lapped it all up. Then the puppy yawned. Sally picked him up and brought him to her bed and put him on her pillow. Sally looked at him with a smile. "I'm going to call you...Jackson." Jackson wagged his tail a little, and fell asleep.

1. Where was she walking?
2. What was happening there?
3. Did she see anyone she knew
4. Who did she see?
5. What was he doing?
6. What grabbed her attention next?
7. What made it?
8. How did she interact with it?
9. How did it respond to that?
10. What color was it?
11. What did she think of it?
12. where did she bring it?
13. What did it eat?
14. Was it enjoyed?
15. Did it drink?
16. What did it drink?
17. Where did it sleep?
18. Did she name it?
19. What?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Through the park.
2. Birds were singing in the sun.
3. Yes
4. Her neighbor Jerry.
5. Taking his kitten out.
6. A loud noise from a tree.
7. A puppy.
8. Sally bent down and picked up the puppy.
9. It quieted down, and licked her face.
10. brown with white paws.
11. It was cute.
12. Home.
13. meat
14. Yes
15. Yes
16. water
17. Her bed
18. Yes
19. Jackson

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are identical with material interactions.

Materialism is closely related to physicalism, the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. Philosophical physicalism has evolved from materialism with the discoveries of the physical sciences to incorporate more sophisticated notions of physicality than mere ordinary matter, such as: spacetime, physical energies and forces, dark matter, and so on. Thus the term "physicalism" is preferred over "materialism" by some, while others use the terms as if they are synonymous.

Materialism belongs to the class of monist ontology. As such, it is different from ontological theories based on dualism or pluralism. For singular explanations of the phenomenal reality, materialism would be in contrast to idealism, neutral monism, and spiritualism.

Despite the large number of philosophical schools and subtle nuances between many, all philosophies are said to fall into one of two primary categories, which are defined in contrast to each other: Idealism, and materialism.[a] The basic proposition of these two categories pertains to the nature of reality, and the primary distinction between them is the way they answer two fundamental questions: "what does reality consist of?" and "how does it originate?" To idealists, spirit or mind or the objects of mind (ideas) are primary, and matter secondary. To materialists, matter is primary, and mind or spirit or ideas are secondary, the product of matter acting upon matter.

1. what is materialism closely related to?
2. do some people prefer that term?
3. what is matter to materialists in terms of priority?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. physicalism
2. Yes
3. secondary