Q: CHAPTER XXIV To hail the king in seemly sort The ladie was full fain, But King Arthur, all sore amazed, No answer made again 'What wight art thou,' the ladie said, 'That will not speak to me? Sir, I may chance to ease thy pain, Though I be foul to see'

The Marriage of Sir Gawaine.

The fairy bride of Sir Gawaine, while under the influence of the spell of her wicked step-mother, was more decrepit probably, and what is commonly called more ugly, than Meg Merrilies; but I doubt if she possessed that wild sublimity which an excited imagination communicated to features marked and expressive in their own peculiar character, and to the gestures of a form which, her sex considered, might be termed gigantic. Accordingly, the Knights of the Round Table did not recoil with more terror from the apparition of the loathly lady placed between 'an oak and a green holly,' than Lucy Bertram and Julia Mannering did from the appearance of this Galwegian sibyl upon the common of Ellangowan.

'For God's sake,' said Julia, pulling out her purse, 'give that dreadful woman something and bid her go away.'

'I cannot,' said Bertram; 'I must not offend her.'

'What keeps you here?' said Meg, exalting the harsh and rough tones of her hollow voice. 'Why do you not follow? Must your hour call you twice? Do you remember your oath? "Were it at kirk or market, wedding or burial,"'--and she held high her skinny forefinger in a menacing attitude.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was the bride pretty?
2. Why not?
3. Who cast it?
4. Was everyone afraid of her?
5. Who wasn't
6. Who wants her to disappear?
7. How?
8. Do they pay her?
9. Why not?
10. Who is she supposed to marry?
11. What does she look like?
12. What about her figure?
13. Where was she?
14. Where in the town?
A: 1. No
2. a spell
3. her step-mother
4. No
5. the Knights of the Round Table
6. Julia
7. give that woman something
8. No
9. Bertram must not offend her
10. Sir Gawaine
11. decrepit
12. gigantic
13. between 'an oak and a green holly'
14. Ellangowan
Q: Jay, an American, wanted to write a book about famous churches around the world. Firstly, Jay bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Columbus, Ohio, USA, thinking that he would start by working his way across the USA from East to West. On his first day he was inside a church taking photos when he noticed a golden telephone on the wall with a sign that read "$10,000 per call". Jay was _ so he asked a priest what the telephone was used for. The priest told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 you could talk to God. Jay thanked the priest and went along his way. Next stop was in Des Moines, and there at a very large church, he saw the same looking golden telephone with the same sign under it. A nearby nun told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000 he could talk to God. Jay decided to travel to Australia to see if they had a similar phone. He arrived at Western Australia, and again, in the church he entered, there was the same looking golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read "40 cents per call." Somewhat surprised, Jay asked the priest about the sign. 'Father Brian, I travelled all over the world and I saw this same golden telephone in many churches. I know it is a direct line to Heaven, but in all of them price was $10,000 per call. Why is it so cheap here?' Father Brian smiled and answered, 'My son, you're in Australia now - this is Heaven, so it's only a local call.'

Answer the following questions:
1. How much did most place charge to call God?
2. What about Australia?
3. Why is it less?
4. Who told Jay that?
5. Where did they meet?
6. Where in Western Australia?
7. Where is Jay from?
8. Where did he see the first golden phone?
9. What was he doing?
10. About what?
11. What was he doing at the church when he saw the phone?
12. Which direction was he headed?
13. Was this his first stop?
14. How did he get there?
15. Where did he next find one of the phones?
16. Who explained it?
17. Was it a small church?
18. What size?
19. Why did he head to Australia?
20. How did he feel about the cost there?
A: 1. $10,000 per call
2. 40 cents
3. this is Heaven, so it's only a local call.
4. Father Brian
5. Western Australia
6. in the church
7. America
8. Columbus, Ohio
9. writing a book
10. famous churches around the world
11. taking photos
12. East to West
13. Columbus, Ohio, USA
14. plane
15. Des Moines
16. A nearby nun
17. No
18. very large
19. see if they had a similar phone
20. surprised
Q: The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of navigation on the surface of the Earth that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180 line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups.

The IDL is roughly based on the meridian of 180 longitude, roughly down the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and halfway around the world from the Greenwich meridian. In many places, the IDL follows the 180 meridian exactly. In other places, however, the IDL deviates east or west away from that meridian. These various deviations generally accommodate the political and/or economic affiliations of the affected areas.

Proceeding from north to south, the first deviation of the IDL from 180 is to pass to the east of Wrangel Island and the Chukchi Peninsula, the easternmost part of Russian Siberia. (Wrangel Island lies directly on the meridian at 7132N 1800E, also noted as 7132N 1800W.) It then passes through the Bering Strait between the Diomede Islands at a distance of from each island at 1685837 W. It then bends considerably west of 180, passing west of St. Lawrence Island and St. Matthew Island.

Answer the following questions:
1. what is the meridian longitude of the IDL?
2. what does IDL stand for?
3. can people see it?
4. what poles dose it run from
5. what does it mark?
6. does it run through a large body of water?
7. what one?
8. does it ever deviate course?
9. where is the first place that happens?
A:
1. 180
2. The International Date Line
3. no
4. North Poleto South
5. one calendar day to the next
6. yes
7. Pacific Ocean
8. yes
9. east of Wrangel Island