Q: It was a hot summer day. My dad and I were getting ready to go out for a ride on the boat. Just then the phone call came, the call changed that sunny and beautiful day into a cold and dark one. When I saw my father answering the phone, he was crying. I'd never seen my dad cry before. My heart sank. What possibly could happen? "Max, I'm so sorry," I heard him say. That's when it hit me. I knew that Suzie had died. Max has been my dad's best friend for years. Suzie, his daughter, had a serious illness. She knew she was different from other kids. Although she couldn't live a normal life, she was still happy. When Suzie and I were little girls, we spent quite a bit of time together. When Suzie was ten, she had to live in a hospital. About eight months before she died, we talked at least twice a week on the phone until the end. Suzie was always so excited to talk to me and wanted to know everything I did and every thing I ate. When Suzie and I first started calling each other, I thought _ would be more of a burden on me, but I was completely wrong. I learned so much from her. She gave me more than I could ever give her. I will never forget her or the talks we had. I now know that I must never take anything for granted, especially my health and the gift of life.

Answer the following questions:
1. What were the child and father getting ready to do?
2. When?
3. Was it a god day?
4. Why not?
5. How did he find out?
6. from who?
7. Who was he?
8. What happened to Suzie?
9. Was she sad?
10. Were the two girls friends?
11. What did they do before she died?
12. about what?
13. Did Suzie enjoy this?
14. Did you?
15. Did they know each other for long?
16. since when?
17. What happened when she was 10?
18. Did the dad cry when he heard tghe news?
19. Did they go for a boat ride?
20. How was the weather that day?
A: 1. go out for a ride on the boat
2. a hot summer day
3. no
4. Suzie had died
5. a phone call
6. Max
7. my dad's best friend for years
8. She had a serious illness
9. no
10. yes
11. they talked at least twice a week on the phone until the end
12. everything I did and every thing I ate
13. yes
14. yes
15. yes
16. since they were little girls
17. she had to live in a hospital
18. yes
19. no
20. sunny and beautiful
Q: CHAPTER III.

THE END OF THE BALL.

THE priest's long journey did not appear to have fatigued him. He was as cheerful and as polite as ever--and so paternally attentive to Stella that it was quite impossible for her to pass him with a formal bow.

"I have come all the way from Devonshire," he said. "The train has been behind time as usual, and I am one of the late arrivals in consequence. I miss some familiar faces at this delightful party. Mr. Romayne, for instance. Perhaps he is not one of the guests?"

"Oh, yes."

"Has he gone away?"

"Not that I know of."

The tone of her replies warned Father Benwell to let Romayne be. He tried another name.

"And Arthur Penrose?" he inquired next.

"I think Mr. Penrose has left us."

As she answered she looked toward Lady Loring. The hostess was the center of a circle of ladies and gentlemen. Before she was at liberty, Father Benwell might take his departure. Stella resolved to make the attempt for herself which she had asked Lady Loring to make for her. It was better to try, and to be defeated, than not to try at all.

"I asked Mr. Penrose what part of Devonshire you were visiting," she resumed, assuming her more gracious manner. "I know something myself of the north coast, especially the neighborhood of Clovelly."

Not the faintest change passed over the priest's face; his fatherly smile had never been in a better state of preservation.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was anyone still with full vigor?
2. Who was it?
3. Why the author thought he would be tired?
4. Was he amiable?
5. Who was nearby?
6. Did she greet him?
7. What she did?
8. Where he was coming from?
9. What mode of tranportaion he took?
10. Was the train delayed?
11. Was he looking for someone specifically?
12. Did he ask for any other person?
13. Who was that person?
14. Were he there?
15. Who was the hostess?
16. Did anyone ask about anyone's whereabout?
17. Was the person touring some place?
18. Did the priest show any emotions?
19. Where all these were happeneing?
20. What happened to Mr. Romayne anyway?
A: 1. yes
2. the priest
3. he had a long journey
4. yes
5. Stella
6. yes
7. unknown
8. Devonshire
9. The train
10. yes
11. Mr. Romayne
12. yes
13. Arthur Penrose
14. no
15. Lady Loring
16. yes
17. unknown
18. no
19. unknown
20. unknown
Q: CHAPTER IV

IDA'S FIRST ASCENT

The party had spent another day or two beside the lake when, one drowsy afternoon, Kinnaird, who sat on the hot, white shingle by the water's edge, with a pair of glasses in his hand, sent for Weston. Miss Kinnaird and Ida Stirling were seated among the boulders not far away.

"I understand that the river bends around the range, and the crest of the first rise seems no great height," he said. "There is evidently--a bench I think you call it--before you come to the snow, and the ascent should be practicable for a lady. Take these glasses and look at it."

Weston, who took the glasses, swept them along the hillside across the lake. It rose very steeply from the water's edge, but the slope was uniform, and as a good deal of it consisted apparently of lightly-covered rock and gravel the pines were thinner, and there was less undergrowth than usual. Far above him the smooth ascent broke off abruptly, and, though he could not see beyond the edge, there certainly appeared to be a plateau between it and the farther wall of rock and snow.

"I think one could get up so far without very much trouble, sir," he said.

"That," replied Kinnaird, "is how it strikes me. My daughter is rather a good mountaineer, and Miss Stirling is just as anxious to make the ascent. I may say that we have had some experience in Switzerland, not to mention the hills among the English lakes. Do you know anything about climbing?"

Answer the following questions:
1. Who surveyed the landscape to determine the best path?
2. What was good about the slope he saw?
3. Anything else?
4. Is that it?
5. Could he see beyond the edge?
6. What appeared to be between the edge and the wall of rock and snow?
7. What did Weston remark to Kinnaird after surveying the land?
8. Did Kinnaird agree?
9. What did he say about his daughter?
10. and Miss Stirling?
11. Where did Kinnaird say they had prior experience?
12. Anywhere else?
13. Where?
14. How many days did the group spend near the lake?
15. Where was Kinnaird sitting?
16. What was it next to?
17. What was he holding in his hand?
18. Who did he send for?
19. Who else was sitting nearby?
20. Who else?
A:
1. Weston
2. it was uniform
3. the pines were thinner
4. there was less undergrowth than usual
5. no
6. a plateau
7. "I think one could get up so far without very much trouble, sir,"
8. yes
9. she is a good mountaineer
10. she is anxious to make the ascent
11. Switzerland
12. yes
13. the hills among the English lakes
14. another day or two
15. the hot, white shingle
16. water's edge
17. pair of glasses
18. Weston
19. Miss Kinnaird
20. Ida Stirling