Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER II

SOMETHING OF THE PAST

"The horses are running away!"

"Oh, we'll be killed!"

Such were the cries from the two girls as the mettlesome grays tore along the country highway at a speed that seemed marvelous.

"Dave, can I help you?" asked Ben, anxiously.

"I don't think so," answered the young driver between his set teeth. "I guess I can bring them down. Anyway, I can try."

"What shall we do?" wailed Jessie.

"Don't do anything--sit still," ordered Dave. He was afraid that Jessie in her excitement might fling herself from the flying sleigh.

On and on bounded the frightened team. Each of the grays now had his bit in his teeth, and it looked as if it would be impossible for Dave to obtain control of the pair. And, worst of all, they were now approaching a turn, with the hill on one side of the roadway and a gully on the other.

"Better keep them as far as possible away from the gully," suggested Ben.

"That is what I'm trying to do," returned Dave, setting his teeth grimly.

Dave Porter was a resolute youth, always doing his best to accomplish whatever he set out to do. Had it been otherwise, it is not likely that he would have occupied the position in which we found him at the opening of our story.

When a very small youth Dave had been found wandering along the railroad tracks near Crumville. He could tell little about himself or how he had come in that position; and kind people had taken him in and later on had placed him in the local poorhouse. From that institution he had been taken by an old college professor, named Caspar Potts, who at that time had been farming for his health.

1. Who is driving?
2. What is the vehicle?
3. What's making it move?
4. Are they going too fast?
5. Why?
6. Who offered Dave some assistance?
7. Is he a passenger?
8. Who else is riding along?
9. What are their names?
10. Do you know the other ones name?
11. Is Dave and old man?
12. Does he take pride in his work?
13. Was he an orphan/
14. Where did someone find him?
15. What was the closest town?
16. did someone take care of him?
17. who?
18. What was his name?
19. Where did he get him?
20. What are the horses coming upon?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Dave
2. sleigh
3. The horses
4. Yes
5. They were frightened
6. Ben
7. unknown
8. two girls
9. Jessie
10. unknown
11. No
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. along the railroad tracks
15. Crumville
16. Yes
17. an old college professor
18. Caspar Potts
19. in the local poorhouse
20. a turn

Question: (OPRAH.com) -- Oprah has always said that mothers have the most difficult job on earth, and actress Jenny McCarthy is one mom who has never backed down from a challenge.

Doctors removed Monica's uterus, ovaries, gallbladder and part of her colon, along with her legs and arms.

Jenny has been an outspoken advocate for parents of children with autism since her son was diagnosed with the disease two and a half years ago.

In her new book, "Mother Warriors," Jenny tells the story of other moms fighting for their special-needs kids.

So when Oprah heard about Monica, another mom fighting for her children, she thought Jenny would be just the person to get this mother warrior's story.

After going through a painful divorce, Monica met Tony when she least expected it. Monica already had a 9-year-old daughter, but soon after she and Tony got engaged, they were thrilled to be expecting another bundle of joy.

In August 2007, she had a C-section, and though she worried about complications, Monica delivered a healthy baby girl. But hours after Sofia was born, Monica began running a fever. No one was concerned at first -- Monica figured it was just hormones -- but three days later the fever hadn't broken, and Monica's abdomen was swollen and painful. iReport.com: What do you think about this story? Sound off on video

The doctors at Monica's hospital thought she might be infected with a deadly strain of bacteria. They flew her to a hospital in Boston where she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. 1. who wrote a book?
2. what is it called?
3. what is it about?
4. does she have a special needs child?
5. a female child?
6. what is wrong with her little boy?
7. is her last name mentioned?
8. what is it?
9. does she do anything besides writing?
10. what?
11. did someone's marriage end?
12. who?
13. did she start a new relationship?
14. with who?
15. was it serious?
16. how do you know that?
17. did they reproduce?
18. when?
19. of what year?
20. did she deliver vaginally? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Jenny
2. Mother Warriors
3. moms fighting for their special-needs kids.
4. Yes
5. No
6. he has autism
7. Yes
8. McCarthy
9. Yes
10. she acts
11. Yes
12. Monica
13. Yes
14. Tony
15. Yes
16. they got engaged
17. Yes
18. In August
19. 2007
20. No

Q: Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (18691909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.

1. 1977
2. Association of American Universities
3. Massachusetts legislature
4. James Bryant Conant
5. Yes
6. John Harvard
7. its first benefactor
8. No
9. President Charles W. Eliot
10. Radcliffe College
11. No
12. unknown
13. Yes
14. Clergy
15. Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy
16. 18th century
17. Elites
18. Boston
19. 18691909
20. James Bryant Conant

Numbered questions:
1. When did Harvard become coeducational?
2. What was it a founding member of?
3. Who was it originally established by?
4. Who led the university through the Depression and World War II?
5. Was it named after someone?
6. Who?
7. Who was he?
8. Was Harvard formally affiliated with any denomination?
9. Which president transformed it into a modern research university?
10. Which college did it merge with?
11. Is it the 3rd oldest university in the US?
12. How old is it?
13. Is it the oldest higher learning institution in the US?
14. Who did the early college primarily train?
15. What kind of clergy?
16. When was the student body pretty much secularized?
17. Who was it a central cultural establishment among?
18. From what city?
19. What years was president Eliot's tenure?
20. Who liberalized admissions?