Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIV

The voyage is doomed to disaster and death. I know Mr. Pike, now, and if ever he discovers the identity of Mr. Mellaire, murder will be done. Mr. Mellaire is not Mr. Mellaire. He is not from Georgia. He is from Virginia. His name is Waltham--Sidney Waltham. He is one of the Walthams of Virginia, a black sheep, true, but a Waltham. Of this I am convinced, just as utterly as I am convinced that Mr. Pike will kill him if he learns who he is.

Let me tell how I have discovered all this. It was last night, shortly before midnight, when I came up on the poop to enjoy a whiff of the south- east trades in which we are now bowling along, close-hauled in order to weather Cape San Roque. Mr. Pike had the watch, and I paced up and down with him while he told me old pages of his life. He has often done this, when not "sea-grouched," and often he has mentioned with pride--yes, with reverence--a master with whom he sailed five years. "Old Captain Somers," he called him--"the finest, squarest, noblest man I ever sailed under, sir."

Well, last night our talk turned on lugubrious subjects, and Mr. Pike, wicked old man that he is, descanted on the wickedness of the world and on the wickedness of the man who had murdered Captain Somers.

"He was an old man, over seventy years old," Mr. Pike went on. "And they say he'd got a touch of palsy--I hadn't seen him for years. You see, I'd had to clear out from the coast because of trouble. And that devil of a second mate caught him in bed late at night and beat him to death. It was terrible. They told me about it. Right in San Francisco, on board the _Jason Harrison_, it happened, eleven years ago.

1. Is the voyage doomed?
2. To how many things?
3. What is the first mentioned?
4. And the second?
5. Whose identity is hidden?
6. What is his alias?
7. Is he from Maine?
8. What state then?
9. What crime will happen if his identity is revealed?
10. Who will kill him?
11. Was Pike described as old?
12. How old?
13. What sort of ailment did he have?
14. How long ago did something happen on the Jason Harrison?
15. What chapter is this from?
16. Who had the watch?
17. Who was the master he sailed with some time ago?
18. How many years ago?
19. What adjectives were used to describe Somers?
20. Where had Pike had to clear out from?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. yes
2. Two
3. disaster
4. death
5. Sidney Waltham
6. Mr. Mellaire
7. no
8. Virginia
9. murder
10. Mr. Pike
11. yes
12. over seventy
13. palsy
14. eleven years ago
15. XXIV
16. Mr. Pike
17. Old Captain Somers
18. eleven years ago
19. finest, squarest, noblest
20. the coast

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- Nobody likes politicians.

Ever since Jimmy Carter won his way to the White House in 1976 by assuring voters that they could trust him in contrast to the more experienced opponents he faced, both Republican and Democratic candidates have tended to boast about every part of their resume that can distinguish themselves from the Washington status quo.

In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama undercut the "inevitable" Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by running as the candidate who was the least corrupted by the bargaining ways of Capitol Hill. Through its portrayal of Sen. John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin, the HBO film "Game Change" effectively captures just how far political candidates are willing to go to have this appeal.

This year, the story is the same. Although President Obama is boasting of his accomplishments in the White House as the nation's leader, he is also using Congress as a foil to lambaste the way that the "real" insiders in the capital do their business. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have tried to transform themselves from pillars of the congressional Republican establishment into conservative mavericks, while front-runner Mitt Romney talks frequently about how he would bring the skills of a CEO to Washington.

The problem is that doing well in Washington requires a very different kind of skill set than the ones that business executives or mavericks bring to the table. Each of these claims is flawed -- as Obama himself discovered -- given the world in which presidents must operate.

Presidents govern in a porous world that makes every move and decision visible to the public within a relatively short time span. Constant scrutiny from the media means the president essentially works inside glass walls.

1. When was Carter elected?
2. What did he tell voters about himself?
3. Are presidents constantly being evaluated by the media?
4. Obama claimed to be less corrupted than who?
5. When was that?
6. Was Hillary the Republican nominee?
7. What was the political movie about Palin?
8. What are both party's candidates tried to be different from?
9. What was Obama's job in 2008?
10. Who made that political movie?
11. What requires a different set of skills than businessmen?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. 1976
2. that they could trust him in contrast to the more experienced opponents he faced
3. yes
4. Hillary Clinton
5. 2008
6. no
7. "Game Change"
8. the Washington status quo
9. he was a senator
10. HBO
11. doing well in Washington