input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XX.

THE FIRST EASTERN WAR.

215-183.

Scipio remained in Africa till he had arranged matters and won such a claim to Massinissa's gratitude that this king of Numidia was sure to watch over the interests of Rome. Scipio then returned home, and entered Rome with a grand triumph, all the nobler for himself that he did not lead Hannibal in his chains. He had been too generous to demand that so brave an enemy should be delivered up to him. He received the surname of Africanus, and was one of the most respected and beloved of Romans. He was the first who began to take up Greek learning and culture, and to exchange the old Roman ruggedness for the graces of philosophy and poetry. Indeed the Romans were beginning to have much to do with the Greeks, and the war they entered upon now was the first for the sake of spreading their own power. All the former ones had been in self-defence, and the new one did in fact spring out of the Punic war, for the Carthaginians had tried to persuade Philip, king of Macedon, to follow in the track of Pyrrhus, and come and help Hannibal in Southern Italy. The Romans had kept him off by stirring up the robber tolians against him; and when he began to punish these wild neighbors, the Romans leagued themselves with the old Greek cities which Macedon oppressed, and a great war took place.

Titus Quinctius Flaminius commanded in Greece for four years, first as consul and then as proconsul. His crowning victory was at Cynocephal, or the Dogshead Rocks, where he so broke the strength of Macedon that at the Isthmian games he proclaimed the deliverance of Greece, and in their joy the people crowded round him with crowns and garlands, and shouted so loud that birds in the air were said to have dropped down at the sound. 1. Who was called Africanus?
2. Did he become a popular man?
3. Who did he bring defeated to Rome?
4. Did he treat Hannibal as his prisoner?
5. Why not?
6. What did Scipio take up?
7. What did he give up for this?
8. In exchange for what?
9. What was different about this war?
10. What had all the other conflicts been for?
11. Who led in Greece for four years?
12. Did his position change?
13. What was he initially?
14. And then?
15. True or False: He was defeated at the Dogshead Rocks.
16. Whose power did he vanquish there?
17. What were the Rocks also called?
18. Why did the birds fall?
19. Were they happy?
20. Where did Flaminius announce that Greece was saved?
numbered_answers: 1. Scipio.
2. yes
3. Hannibal
4. no
5. Because Hannibal was so brave an enemy.
6. Greek learning and culture
7. Roman ruggedness
8. For the graces of philosophy and poetry.
9. It was the first for the sake of spreading their own power.
10. self-defence
11. Titus Quinctius Flaminius
12. Yes.
13. Consul.
14. proconsul
15. False
16. Macedon
17. Cynocephal
18. The people shouted so loud.
19. Yes.
20. at the Isthmian games

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- Thus far, NBC's late-night transition has been like butter.

Jay Leno hosted his final episode of "The Tonight Show" on February 6 with massive celebrity support and even bigger ratings, and Jimmy Fallon took over on February 17 with the same level of excitement.

But there's still one more piece of the Peacock's puzzle left to be added: Seth Meyers.

At 12:35 a.m., the 40-year-old "Saturday Night Live" star will step behind the desk of "Late Night" and occupy a chair once filled by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and, directly before him, his pal and fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Fallon.

With that kind of history, it goes without saying that there's pressure on Meyers not to screw up. Yet instead of marching in and tearing down "Late Night's" past, Meyers is planning to keep tradition intact while playing to his strengths.

After 12 years on "SNL," nine of which he served as head writer, Meyers is by all accounts more of a cerebral comedian than a performer. His colleagues give him credit for being the guy who'd rather set up the joke than steal the thunder, and some of his best work doesn't even include his face. See: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin:

Or Louis C.K. as Abraham Lincoln:

Or Amy Poehler killing it as a rapping Sarah Palin:

"There's the class clown, and then there's the guy who sits in the back and says an aside about the class clown," Meyers said to The Wall Street Journal. "That's me." 1. Who was taking over for Jay Leno?
2. How old is Myers?
3. Did he intend to tear down Late Nights past?
4. What did he do before Late Night?
5. How long was he there?
6. What was hid job there for 9 of those years?
7. Who did he write some of his best work for?
8. Who else?
9. Anyone else?
10. In what publication did he say he would make a joke about the class clown?
11. When did Leno host his last episode?
12. When did Fallon start?
13. What was his reception?
14. What channel are their shows on?
numbered_answers: 1. Jimmy Fallon
2. 40
3. No
4. SNL
5. 12 years
6. Head writer
7. Tina Fey
8. Louis C.K.
9. Amy Poehler
10. The Wall Street Journal.
11. February 6
12. February 17
13. Great excitement
14. NBC

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER III: Lightfoot Tells How His Antlers Grew

It is hard to believe what seems impossible. And yet what seems impossible to you may be a very commonplace matter to some one else. So it does not do to say that a thing cannot be possible just because you cannot understand how it can be. Peter Rabbit wanted to believe what Lightfoot the Deer had just told him, but somehow he couldn't. If he had seen those antlers growing, it would have been another matter. But he hadn't seen Lightfoot since the very last of winter, and then Lightfoot had worn just such handsome antlers as he now had. So Peter really couldn't be blamed for not being able to believe that those old ones had been lost and in their place new ones had grown in just the few months of spring and summer.

But Peter didn't blame Lightfoot in the least, because he had told Peter that he didn't like to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them when Peter had asked him about the rags hanging to his antlers. "I'm trying to believe it," he said, quite humbly.

"It's all true," broke in another voice.

Peter jumped and turned to find his big cousin, Jumper the Hare. Unseen and unheard, he had stolen up and had overheard what Peter and Lightfoot had said.

"How do you know it is true?" snapped Peter a little crossly, for Jumper had startled him.

"Because I saw Lightfoot's old antlers after they had fallen off, and I often saw Lightfoot while his new ones were growing," retorted Jumper. 1. Who startled Peter?
2. What kind of animal was he?
3. Was he related to Peter?
4. How?
5. Was Jumper evesdropping?
6. What had Lighfoot told Peter that he did not believe?
7. When was the last time Peter saw him?
8. Did he want to believe him?
9. What kind of animal was Lightfoot?
10. What did Jumper say about his story?
11. How did he know it was true?
12. How long had it taken for the new ones to grow?
13. What was hanging from his antlers?
14. Why did Peter blame Lightfoot?
numbered_answers:
1. Jumper
2. a Hare.
3. yes
4. he was a cousin
5. yes
6. that his old antlers had been lost and new ones grew in their place
7. the very last of winter,
8. yes
9. Deer
10. "It's all true,"
11. he saw Lightfoot's old antlers and he saw Lightfoot often while the new ones were growing
12. just the few months of spring and summer.
13. rags
14. he didn't like to tell things to people who wouldn't believe what he told them