question: CHAPTER XXV

DOMINGO APPEARS

The carriers had stopped in a deserted village one morning after a long and arduous march from the mission station, when Ormsgill, lying in the hot white sand, looked quietly at Nares, who sat with his back against one of the empty huts.

"If I knew what the dusky image was thinking I should feel considerably more at ease," he said. "Still, I don't, and there's very little use in guessing. After all, we are a long way from grasping the negro's point of view on most subjects yet. They very seldom look at things as we do."

Nares nodded. "Anyway, I almost fancy we could consider what he has told us as correct," he said. "It's something to go upon."

The man he referred to squatted close by them, naked to the waist, though a few yards of cotton cloth hung from his hips. An old Snider rifle lay at his side, and he was big and muscular with a heavy, expressionless face. As Ormsgill had suggested, it certainly afforded very little indication of what he was thinking, and left it a question whether he was capable of intelligent thought at all. They had come upon him in the deserted village on the edge of a great swamp an hour earlier, and he had skillfully evaded their questions as to what he was doing there.

It was an oppressively hot morning, and a heavy, dingy sky hung over the vast morass which they could see through the openings between the scattered huts. It stretched back bare and level, a vast desolation, towards the interior, with a little thin haze floating over it in silvery belts here and there, and streaking the forest that crept up to its edge. The carriers lay half-asleep in the warm sand, blotches of white and blue and ebony, and the man with the rifle appeared vacantly unconcerned. Time is of no value to the negro, and one could have fancied that he was prepared to wait there all day for the white men's next question.
1. What kind of firearm did the man have?
2. Was the man wearing a shirt?
3. True or False: The man with the rifle was smiling.
4. How is his face described?
5. What color is the sand?
6. True or False: The man with the rifle seemed worried abut something.
7. Did he seem impatient?
8. Who are the two named characters?
9. What is the name of the first mentioned?
10. And the second?
11. What is the title of this chapter?
12. What is the deserted settlement near?
13. What kind of housing is there?
14. What does the narrator say is worthless to the "negro?"
15. How long had it been since the carriers had found the rifleman?
16. Did the rifleman tell the carriers what he was doing in the settlement?
17. True or False: The carriers had walked far from their station.
18. What hung from the rifleman's waist?
19. Made of what?
20. Of what color?
21. True or False: The rifleman was thin.
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answer: 1. An old Snider rifle.
2. No
3. False.
4. Heavy and expressionless.
5. White
6. False.
7. No.
8. Carriers.
9. Ormsgill.
10. Nares.
11. "DOMINGO APPEARS"
12. A swamp.
13. Huts.
14. Time.
15. An hour.
16. No.
17. True.
18. Cloth.
19. Cotton.
20. Unknown.
21. False.

question: CHAPTER XXIII.

"He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, Was also certain that the earth was square, Because he'd journeyed fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere."

_Don Juan_.

Raoul Yvard was indebted to a piece of forethought in Clinch for his life. But for the three guns fired so opportunely from the Foudroyant, the execution could not have been stayed; and but for a prudent care on the part of the master's-mate, the guns would never have been fired. The explanation is this: when Cuffe was giving his subordinate instructions how to proceed, the possibility of detention struck the latter, and he bethought him of some expedient by which such an evil might be remedied. At his suggestion then, the signal of the guns was mentioned by the captain, in his letter to the commander-in-chief, and its importance pointed out. When Clinch reached the fleet, Nelson was at Castel a Mare, and it became necessary to follow him to that place by land. Here Clinch found him in the palace of Qui-Si-Sane, in attendance on the court, and delivered his despatches. Nothing gave the British admiral greater pleasure than to be able to show mercy, the instance to the contrary already introduced existing as an exception in his private character and his public career; and it is possible that an occurrence so recent, and so opposed to his habits, may have induced him the more willingly now to submit to his ordinary impulses, and to grant the respite asked with the greater promptitude.
1. Where did Clinch find himself?
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answer: 1. the palace

question: Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. He used the black swan fallacy to discuss falsification. If the outcome of an experiment contradicts the theory, one should refrain from ad hoc manoeuvres that evade the contradiction merely by making it less falsifiable. Popper is also known for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy."

Karl Popper was born in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary) in 1902, to upper middle-class parents. All of Karl Popper's grandparents were Jewish, but the Popper family converted to Lutheranism before Karl was born, and so he received Lutheran baptism. They understood this as part of their cultural assimilation, not as an expression of devout belief. Karl's father Simon Siegmund Carl Popper was a lawyer from Bohemia and a doctor of law at the Vienna University, and mother Jenny Schiff was of Silesian and Hungarian descent. After establishing themselves in Vienna, the Poppers made a rapid social climb in Viennese society: Simon Siegmund Carl became a partner in the law firm of Vienna's liberal Burgomaster Herr Grubl and, after Grubl's death in 1898, Simon took over the business. (Malachi Hacohen records that Herr Grubl's first name was Raimund, after which Karl received his middle name. Popper himself, in his autobiography, erroneously recalls that Herr Grubl's first name was Carl.) His father was a bibliophile who had 12,00014,000 volumes in his personal library. Popper inherited both the library and the disposition from him.
1. Where was Popper born?
2. When was he born?
3. What is he known for?
4. On what?
5. Did he think that a scientific theory could be proved?
6. So which fallacy did he use?
7. How many books did his father own?
8. Were all of his grandparents Lutherans?
9. So what religion did he end up in?
10. His theory was called "empirical" what?
11. Did he get baptised because of belief?
12. What was his father's profession?
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answer:
1. Vienna
2. in 1902
3. his rejection of the classical inductivist views
4. on the scientific method
5. nope
6. the black swan fallacy
7. 12,00014,000 books
8. grandparents were Jewish
9. Lutheranism
10. empirical falsification
11. no
12. a laywer