Question:
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I have a friend who is a princess of the piggies. No, really! She lives in a piggy castle and has piggy gowns and piggy balls and a piggy carriage, though no piggy crown. She loves being a princess, but sometimes it gets boring. There's only so much fun to be had walking around a castle. She likes to cook too. So sometimes, she goes to the kitchen. She has a lot of fun in the kitchen making new foods. She likes to pretend she's a cook! Someday she wants to be a piggy princess cook! One of her favorite things to cook is pea soup. She loves soup, and pea soup most of all, even if tomato is pretty good too. She doesn't like vegetable or chicken soup at all. She grows her own peas, mushes them up in the soup, and then stirs it all up with a spoon. She also cooks it on the stove. She loves to cook, and I love to eat. We're best friends!
1. What is my friend?
2. Of whom?
3. And where does she live?
4. And what does she have?
5. And what else?
6. Anything else?
7. And what doesn't she have?
8. What does she enjoy?
9. Is it always fun though?
10. Where does she walk?
11. What else does she enjoy doing?
12. Where does she occasionally go?
13. What does she do there?
14. What does she pretend?
15. And what does she aspire to be?
16. What's her favorite dish to prepare?
17. What other type does she enjoy?
18. And what ones doesn't she?
19. What does she grow?
20. What does she use to stir?

Numbered answers:
1. a princess
2. the piggies
3. in a piggy castle
4. piggy gowns
5. piggy balls
6. a piggy carriage
7. a piggy crown
8. being a princess
9. No
10. around a castle
11. Cooking
12. the kitchen
13. make new foods
14. she's a cook
15. a piggy princess cook
16. pea soup
17. tomato
18. vegetable or chicken soup
19. her own peas
20. a spoon

Question:
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.

The society is one of the four parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and a member of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.

It was founded in 1888 as the "New York Mathematical Society", the brainchild of Thomas Fiske, who was impressed by the "London Mathematical Society" on a visit to England. John Howard Van Amringe was the first president and Fiske became secretary. The society soon decided to publish a journal, but ran into some resistance, due to concerns about competing with the American Journal of Mathematics. The result was the "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society", with Fiske as editor-in-chief. The de facto journal, as intended, was influential in increasing membership. The popularity of the "Bulletin" soon led to Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, which were also "de facto" journals.

In 1891 Charlotte Scott became the first woman to join the society. The society reorganized under its present name and became a national society in 1894, and that year Scott served as the first woman on the first Council of the American Mathematical Society.
1. What does AMS stand for?
2. What was it originally known as?
3. Who created it?
4. When?
5. What does it exist to do?
6. Can you name one way it does that?
7. Who was the first president of the organization?
8. What was the name of their journal?
9. Was everyone happy about that?
10. How many parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics is it?
11. Where did they hold a membership?
12. Where did Fiske visit that where he found a similar organization?
13. Did it give him inspiration?
14. Who was the first female member?
15. When?
16. When did they rebuild the organization?
17. And what did they become at that time?
18. Was Scott also the first female on the Council of the American Mathematical Society?
19. Which council was that?
20. Does the AMS have scholarships?

Numbered answers:
1. American Mathematical Society
2. "New York Mathematical Society
3. Thomas Fiske,
4. 1888
5. serves the national and international community
6. through its publications
7. . John Howard Van Amringe
8. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
9. no
10. four parts
11. the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences
12. London
13. yes
14. Charlotte Scott
15. 1891
16. 1894
17. American Mathematical Society
18. Yes
19. the first Council of the American Mathematical Society
20. Yes

Question:
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CHAPTER VIII

THE HAND OF MISFORTUNE

Between the two men, seated opposite each other in the large but somewhat barely furnished office, the radical differences, both in appearance and mannerisms, perhaps, also, in disposition, had never been more strongly evident. They were partners in business and face to face with ruin. Stephen Laverick, senior member of the firm, although an air of steadfast gloom had settled upon his clean-cut, powerful countenance, retained even in despair something of that dogged composure, temperamental and wholly British, which had served him well along the road to fortune. Arthur Morrison, the man who sat on the other side of the table, a Jew to his finger-tips notwithstanding his altered name, sat like a broken thing, with tears in his terrified eyes, disordered hair, and parchment-pale face. Words had flown from his lips in a continual stream. He floundered in his misery, sobbed about it like a child. The hand of misfortune had stripped him naked, and one man, at least, saw him as he really was.

"I can't stand it, Laverick,--I couldn't face them all. It's too cruel--too horrible! Eighteen thousand pounds gone in one week, forty thousand in a month! Forty thousand pounds! Oh, my God!"

He writhed in agony. The man on the other side of the table said nothing.

"If we could only have held on a little longer! 'Unions' must turn! They will turn! Laverick, have you tried all your friends? Think! Have you tried them all? Twenty thousand pounds would see us through it. We should get our own money back--I am sure of it. There's Rendell, Laverick. He'd do anything for you. You're always shooting or playing cricket with him. Have you asked him, Laverick? He'd never miss the money."
1. What are the men discussing?
2. Do the men work together?
3. What room are they in?
4. Who is it suggested to ask for money?
5. What game does he play with Laverick?
6. Are either of the men crying?
7. Who?
8. Is the other man emotional?
9. Are they seated beside one another?
10. How long did it take to lose the money?
11. Did they feel that they could have prevented it?
12. What?
13. Do they believe that they will?
14. Do they need all of the money back to turn things around?
15. How much do they need?
16. Would that be a burden for Rendell to give them?
Numbered answers:
1. The loss of forty thousand pounds.
2. Yes.
3. An office.
4. Rendell
5. Cricket.
6. Yes.
7. Arthur Morrison
8. no.
9. No.
10. A month
11. Yes.
12. By the Unions turning.
13. One seems to believe the will.
14. No.
15. Twenty thousand pounds
16. No