Q: CHAPTER XXXVII

"Come," says the White Logic, "and forget these Asian dreamers of old time. Fill your glass and let us look at the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday who dreamed their dreams on your own warm hills."

I pore over the abstract of title of the vineyard called Tokay on the rancho called Petaluma. It is a sad long list of the names of men, beginning with Manuel Micheltoreno, one time Mexican "Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Inspector of the Department of the Californias," who deeded ten square leagues of stolen Indian land to Colonel Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo for services rendered his country and for moneys paid by him for ten years to his soldiers.

Immediately this musty record of man's land lust assumes the formidableness of a battle--the quick struggling with the dust. There are deeds of trust, mortgages, certificates of release, transfers, judgments, foreclosures, writs of attachment, orders of sale, tax liens, petitions for letters of administration, and decrees of distribution. It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed.

Who was this James King of William, so curiously named? The oldest surviving settler in the Valley of the Moon knows him not. Yet only sixty years ago he loaned Mariano G. Vallejo eighteen thousand dollars on security of certain lands including the vineyard yet to be and to be called Tokay. Whence came Peter O'Connor, and whither vanished, after writing his little name of a day on the woodland that was to become a vineyard? Appears Louis Csomortanyi, a name to conjure with. He lasts through several pages of this record of the enduring soil.

1. James King
2. sixty years ago
3. the White Logi
4. Mexican "Governor,
5. Indian land
6. Colonel Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
7. deeds of trust,
8. the land
9. Tokay
10. Petaluma
11. the names of men
12. Manuel Micheltoreno
13. for services rendered his country
14. record of man's land lust
15. Peter O'Connor
16. a vineyard
17. Louis Csomortanyi
18. record of the enduring soil.
19. Fill it
20. the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday

Numbered questions:
1. Who loaned Mariano G. Vallejo $18,000?
2. How long ago?
3. Who said to forget the Asian dreamers of old?
4. Who was Manuel Micheltoreno?
5. What did he take from the Indians?
6. Who did he give it to?
7. Can you name a type of deed?
8. What is like a monster?
9. What was the abstract of title of the vineyard named?
10. What rancho was it on?
11. What won on the long, sad list?
12. Whose name was first on it?
13. Why was land deeded to Colonel Don Mariano?
14. What was called musty?
15. Who wrote his name on the woodland?
16. What was the woodland supposed to turn into?
17. Whose name lasts through several pages?
18. What were the pages of?
19. What did the White Logic say to do with your glass?
20. And then look at what?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Kazakhstan (, ; , "Qazaqstan", ; , "Kazakhstan"), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (, "Qazaqstan Respwblikas"; , "Respublika Kazakhstan"), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of . Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically, generating 60% of the region's GDP, primarily through its oil/gas industry. It also has vast mineral resources.

Kazakhstan is officially a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage. Kazakhstan shares borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also adjoins a large part of the Caspian Sea. The terrain of Kazakhstan includes flatlands, steppe, taiga, rock canyons, hills, deltas, snow-capped mountains, and deserts. Kazakhstan has an estimated 18 million people . Given its large land area, its population density is among the lowest, at less than 6 people per square kilometre (15 people per sq. mi.). The capital is Astana, where it was moved in 1997 from Almaty, the country's largest city.

The territory of Kazakhstan has historically been inhabited by Turkic nomads who trace their ancestry to many Turkic states such as Turkic Khaganate and etc. In the 13th century, the territory joined the Mongolian Empire under Genghis Khan. By the 16th century, the Kazakh emerged as a distinct group, divided into three "juz" (ancestor branches occupying specific territories). The Russians began advancing into the Kazakh steppe in the 18th century, and by the mid-19th century, they nominally ruled all of Kazakhstan as part of the Russian Empire. Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, and subsequent civil war, the territory of Kazakhstan was reorganised several times. In 1936, it was made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union. 1. Does Kazakhstan border an ocean?
2. Is it the biggest country in the world?
3. How many are bigger?
4. How many landlocked countries are bigger?
5. Does the country border any water at all?
6. What body of water?
7. What kind of nomads used to live in Kazakhstan?
8. What states did they descend from?
9. Who ruled the Mongolian Empire?
10. Did Kazakhstan join it?
11. When?
12. True or False: The area was once part of the USSR.
13. When did this begin?
14. What was it called then?
15. Is the terrain of the country varied?
16. What is one type of terrain included?
17. And another?
18. Is rainforest included?
19. What about desert?
20. How many people live in the country?
numbered_answers: 1. no
2. no
3. eight
4. none
5. yes
6. Caspian Sea.
7. Turkic
8. Turkic
9. Genghis Khan
10. yes
11. 13th century,
12. True
13. 1936
14. Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
15. yes
16. flatlands
17. steppe
18. no
19. yes
20. estimated 18 million

William was sitting in his room working on his homework. It was something he did since he went to kindergarten. William could see outside from where he was sitting. He had a view of a beautiful sunset this time of year. It was late spring, and he sometimes found his mind wandering as he looked outside, and hated losing time like that. The sooner he finished his homework, the sooner he could go to his friend Jacob's house, where he was spending the night. William loved sleepovers with Jacob. They would do fun stuff like tell jokes, watch TV, play board games, and eat lots of junk food. Jacob also had a cool RC car that William liked to play with. But William's parents wouldn't allow him to go to Jacob's house until he finished his homework first. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where was William?
2. Doing what?
3. Did he do it often?
4. since when?
5. What did he see outside?
6. What time of year was it?
7. What happened when he looked outside?
8. did he like that?
9. why?
Answer:
1. His room.
2. Working on his homework.
3. Yes.
4. Kindergarten.
5. A beautiful sunset.
6. Late spring.
7. He sometimes found his mind wandering.
8. No.
9. Because the sooner he finished his homework, the sooner he could go to his friend Jacob's house.