Q: Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir (subdivided into Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh divisions), the Pakistani-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and Chinese-administered territories of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.

In the first half of the 1st millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the "Salatin-i-Kashmir" or Shah Mir dynasty. Kashmir was part of the Mughal Empire from 1586 to 1751, and thereafter, until 1820, of the Afghan Durrani Empire. That year, the Sikhs, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. The rule of his descendants, under the "paramountcy" (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until the partition of India in 1947, when the former princely state of the British Raj was claimed by both Pakistan and India. It is currently a disputed territory, administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and China.

1. the Kashmir region
2. Hinduism, Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism
3. the Indian subcontinent
4. the northernmost geographical region
5. the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range
6. the Indian-administered territory, the Pakistani-administered territories and the Chinese-administered territories
7. India, Pakistan, and China
8. Pakistan and India
9. Shah Mir
10. 1820

Numbered questions:
1. What region was important for relions?
2. What religions were important there?
3. Where is it located?
4. Which part?
5. What used to outline the region?
6. What outlines the area now?
7. Who runs the area now?
8. Before then?
9. Who was the first Muslim ruler?
10. When did the Sikh take over?

Q: There once was a little girl named Odette who lived in a wooded forest. One evening she was getting a ride home from school in her grandpa's truck she saw smoke rising from a fire far in the distance. Odette was worried about the fire and the danger facing all the animals that live in the forest. She immediately rushed home and waited for her mother, a doctor to come home. While she was waiting for her mother to come home she ate some popcorn and talked to her grandpa about the smoke. Odette's grandpa, Harvey told her that fires are almost always put out by hard working fireman. Odette feels better knowing that brave firefighters are out there bravely trying to save the forest and the animals that live there. She grabs her favorite stuffed animal, a monkey and says a prayer for her treasured forest and then falls asleep on the couch. She wake up to the friendly face of her smiling mother who tells her that the fire is safely put out.

1. a little girl
2. Odette
3. Yes
4. smoke rising from a fire
5. getting a ride home from school
6. in a truck
7. her grandpa
8. the danger facing all the animals
9. ate some popcorn
10. Yes
11. talked to her grandpa
12. Harvey
13. firemen
14. Yes
15. Yes
16. Sleeping
17. her favorite stuffed animal
18. a monkey

Numbered questions:
1. Who lived in a forest?
2. What was her name?
3. Did the location have woods?
4. What did she see in the distance one day?
5. What was she doing when she saw it?
6. In what?
7. Who did it belong to?
8. What was she most concerned about?
9. What did she eat while she lingered for her mom?
10. Anything else?
11. What else?
12. What is her grandpa's name?
13. What did they talk about?
14. Did that make her feel better?
15. Did her mother come home?
16. What was she doing before she saw her mom?
17. With what?
18. What kind was it?

Q: A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world.

The word town shares an origin with the German word "Zaun", the Dutch word "tuin", and the Old Norse "tun". The German word "Zaun" comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of any material. An early borrowing from Celtic *dunom (cf. Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city").

In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the wealthy, which had a high fence or a wall around them (like the garden of palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, which was the example for the privy garden of William III and Mary II at Hampton Court). In Old Norse "tun" means a (grassy) place between farmhouses, and is still used in a similar meaning in modern Norwegian.

1. a human settlement
2. Zaun, tuin", and tun
3. Zaun
4. a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls
5. it was a garden
6. town
7. yes
8. unknown
9. space which fences enclosed
10. a village

Numbered questions:
1. What is a town?
2. What words does it share it's origin with?
3. Which of these words come closest to it's original meaning?
4. In england what is a town?
5. What about the Netherlands?
6. In Old Norse what does tun mean?
7. Does the definition of town by area vary?
8. What is the word Zaun an early borrowing from?
9. In English and Dutch what did the the word take on the sense of?
10. What settlement is a town larger than?