Question: CHAPTER XVII.

THE INDUSTRIAL MAGNATE

In Beldover, there was both for Ursula and for Gudrun an interval. It seemed to Ursula as if Birkin had gone out of her for the time, he had lost his significance, he scarcely mattered in her world. She had her own friends, her own activities, her own life. She turned back to the old ways with zest, away from him.

And Gudrun, after feeling every moment in all her veins conscious of Gerald Crich, connected even physically with him, was now almost indifferent to the thought of him. She was nursing new schemes for going away and trying a new form of life. All the time, there was something in her urging her to avoid the final establishing of a relationship with Gerald. She felt it would be wiser and better to have no more than a casual acquaintance with him.

She had a scheme for going to St Petersburg, where she had a friend who was a sculptor like herself, and who lived with a wealthy Russian whose hobby was jewel-making. The emotional, rather rootless life of the Russians appealed to her. She did not want to go to Paris. Paris was dry, and essentially boring. She would like to go to Rome, Munich, Vienna, or to St Petersburg or Moscow. She had a friend in St Petersburg and a friend in Munich. To each of these she wrote, asking about rooms.

She had a certain amount of money. She had come home partly to save, and now she had sold several pieces of work, she had been praised in various shows. She knew she could become quite the 'go' if she went to London. But she knew London, she wanted something else. She had seventy pounds, of which nobody knew anything. She would move soon, as soon as she heard from her friends. Her nature, in spite of her apparent placidity and calm, was profoundly restless. 1. Who did Ursula turn away from?
2. Who did Gudrun have an intimate relationship with?
3. What kind of relationship did she want with him?
4. Where would she go in her plan?
5. Why not Paris?
6. Would she consider other places?
7. In which of them did she have a friend?
8. Did she reach out to them?
9. How?
10. To inquiry about?
11. Did she have limitless funds?
12. Why not London?
13. How much was in her secret stash?
14. What was she waiting for to relocate? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Birkin
2. Gerald Crich
3. a casual acquaintance
4. St Petersburg
5. Paris was dry, and essentially boring
6. Yes
7. St Petersburg and Munich
8. yes
9. she wrote to them
10. rooms
11. no
12. she knew London,
13. seventy pounds
14. to hear from her friends

Question: An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably "Lithocarpus" (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as "Grevillea robusta" (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus "Quercus" is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America contains the largest number of oak species, with approximately 90 occurring in the United States, while Mexico has 160 species of which 109 are endemic. The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species.

Oaks have spirally arranged leaves, with lobate margins in many species; some have serrated leaves or entire leaf with smooth margins. Also, the acorns contain tannic acid, as do the leaves, which helps to guard from fungi and insects. Many deciduous species are marcescent, not dropping dead leaves until spring. In spring, a single oak tree produces both male flowers (in the form of catkins) and small female flowers. The fruit is a nut called an acorn or oak nut borne in a cup-like structure known as a cupule; each acorn contains one seed (rarely two or three) and takes 618 months to mature, depending on their species. The live oaks are distinguished for being evergreen, but are not actually a distinct group and instead are dispersed across the genus. 1. What family is the oak in?
2. How many species are there?
3. How are their leaves arranged?
4. What is their "fruit"?
5. Called what
6. How many seeds are usually in an acorn?
7. Can there be more than one?
8. What chemical is in an acorn?
9. How does that help the tree?
10. Are all oaks deciduous?
11. Which species isn't?
12. Are they a distinct group?
13. Are there oaks in Australia?
14. How many types of oaks are in the US?
15. And in Mexico? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. beech family
2. 600
3. spirally arranged
4. a nut
5. acorn
6. One
7. Yes
8. tannic acid
9. helps to guard from fungi and insects
10. No
11. evergreen species
12. No
13. unknown
14. approximately 90
15. 160

Question: Chapter VIII

Anne's First Proposal

The old year did not slip away in a green twilight, with a pinky-yellow sunset. Instead, it went out with a wild, white bluster and blow. It was one of the nights when the storm-wind hurtles over the frozen meadows and black hollows, and moans around the eaves like a lost creature, and drives the snow sharply against the shaking panes.

"Just the sort of night people like to cuddle down between their blankets and count their mercies," said Anne to Jane Andrews, who had come up to spend the afternoon and stay all night. But when they were cuddled between their blankets, in Anne's little porch room, it was not her mercies of which Jane was thinking.

"Anne," she said very solemnly, "I want to tell you something. May I"

Anne was feeling rather sleepy after the party Ruby Gillis had given the night before. She would much rather have gone to sleep than listen to Jane's confidences, which she was sure would bore her. She had no prophetic inkling of what was coming. Probably Jane was engaged, too; rumor averred that Ruby Gillis was engaged to the Spencervale schoolteacher, about whom all the girls were said to be quite wild.

"I'll soon be the only fancy-free maiden of our old quartet," thought Anne, drowsily. Aloud she said, "Of course."

"Anne," said Jane, still more solemnly, "what do you think of my brother Billy?"

Anne gasped over this unexpected question, and floundered helplessly in her thoughts. Goodness, what DID she think of Billy Andrews? She had never thought ANYTHING about him--round-faced, stupid, perpetually smiling, good-natured Billy Andrews. Did ANYBODY ever think about Billy Andrews? 1. Did anybody ever thinks about Billy Andrews?
2. Is Billy related to anyone Anne knows?
3. Who?
4. Was Jane married?
5. What is Jane's last name?
6. Is that likely to change any time soon?
7. Is Jane likely to be engaged?
8. Is Anne engaged?
9. Does she think Billy is smart?
10. Is Anne wide awake?
11. Why not?
12. whose party?
13. When was it? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. unknown
2. yes
3. Jane
4. no
5. Andrews
6. unknown
7. Probably
8. no
9. no
10. no
11. because of the party
12. Ruby Gillis'
13. the night before