Problem: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have been appointed. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism.

A research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his Conservative government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and became the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election.

On moving into , Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives intended to reverse high unemployment and Britain's struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an ongoing recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher's popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and increasing unemployment, until victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her decisive re-election in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt in 1984.
1. What was Thatcher's nickname?
2. Who dubbed her that?
3. What was her party?
4. When did she become Prime Minister?
5. And when did her term end?
6. What were her policies known as?
7. What was one of her professions before politics?
8. And another?
9. What was her first political position?
10. Was she a a baroness?
11. Who appointed her Secretary of State fo Education and Science?
12. And what did she do to him?
13. What was the emphasis of her political philosophy?
14. Which sector principally did she want to deregulate?
15. Did anyone ever try to assassinate her?
16. When?
17. What features of her first years caused her popularity to wane?
18. What caused it to resurge?
19. What happened in 1983?
20. Decisively?
Answer: 1. Iron Lady
2. A Soviet journalist
3. Conservative
4. 1979
5. 1990
6. Thatcherism
7. research chemist
8. barrister
9. Member of Parliament
10. Yes
11. Edward Heath
12. defeated him in the Conservative Party leadership electio
13. deregulation flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions.
14. financial sector
15. Yes
16. 1984
17. recession and increasing unemployment,
18. victory in the 1982 Falklands War
19. she was re-elected
20. Yes

Problem: CHAPTER IV.

Signor Andrea D'Arbino, searching vainly through the various rooms in the palace for Count Fabio d'Ascoli, and trying as a last resource, the corridor leading to the ballroom and grand staircase, discovered his friend lying on the floor in a swoon, without any living creature near him. Determining to avoid alarming the guests, if possible, D'Arbino first sought help in the antechamber. He found there the marquis's valet, assisting the Cavaliere Finello (who was just taking his departure) to put on his cloak.

While Finello and his friend carried Fabio to an open window in the antechamber, the valet procured some iced water. This simple remedy, and the change of atmosphere, proved enough to restore the fainting man to his senses, but hardly--as it seemed to his friends--to his former self. They noticed a change to blankness and stillness in his face, and when he spoke, an indescribable alteration in the tone of his voice.

"I found you in a room in the corridor," said D'Arbino. "What made you faint? Don't you remember? Was it the heat?"

Fabio waited for a moment, painfully collecting his ideas. He looked at the valet, and Finello signed to the man to withdraw.

"Was it the heat?" repeated D'Arbino.

"No," answered Fabio, in strangely hushed, steady tones. "I have seen the face that was behind the yellow mask."

"Well?"

"It was the face of my dead wife."

"Your dead wife!"

"When the mask was removed I saw her face. Not as I remember it in the pride of her youth and beauty--not even as I remember her on her sick-bed--but as I remember her in her coffin."
1. Who was searching in vain?
2. Who was he searching for?
3. Where was he searching?
4. Where did he try last?
5. Did he find him there?
6. What was he doing?
7. Who did D'Arbino go to seek help?
8. Did he find anyone there?
9. What was he doing?
10. Where did they carry Fabio to?
Answer: 1. Signor Andrea D'Arbino
2. Count Fabio d'Ascoli
3. in the palace
4. the corridor leading to the ballroom
5. yes
6. lying on the floor
7. in the antechamber
8. the marquis's valet
9. assisting the Cavaliere Finello
10. to an open window

Problem: CHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is Out

With the end of June came the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy's rule in Avonlea school. Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed. Red eyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that Miss Stacy's farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr. Phillips's had been under similar circumstances three years before. Diana looked back at the schoolhouse from the foot of the spruce hill and sighed deeply.

"It does seem as if it was the end of everything, doesn't it?" she said dismally.

"You oughtn't to feel half as badly as I do," said Anne, hunting vainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief. "You'll be back again next winter, but I suppose I've left the dear old school forever--if I have good luck, that is."

"It won't be a bit the same. Miss Stacy won't be there, nor you nor Jane nor Ruby probably. I shall have to sit all alone, for I couldn't bear to have another deskmate after you. Oh, we have had jolly times, haven't we, Anne? It's dreadful to think they're all over."

Two big tears rolled down by Diana's nose.

"If you would stop crying I could," said Anne imploringly. "Just as soon as I put away my hanky I see you brimming up and that starts me off again. As Mrs. Lynde says, 'If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.' After all, I dare say I'll be back next year. This is one of the times I KNOW I'm not going to pass. They're getting alarmingly frequent."
1. Is everyone happy?
2. What are they doing?
3. About what?
4. Who is walking together?
5. What month is it?
6. Who had said goodbye?
7. Was that analogous to another time?
8. When?
9. What had happened then?
10. What does Anne wish Diana would cease doing?
11. Why?
12. What are they using to cry?
13. How wet is it?
14. What are you supposed to do if you can't be cheery?
15. According to whom?
16. Who thinks they'll flunk?
17. Who else will most likely be gone too?
18. Anyone else?
19. Who?
20. Who will have to be seating by herself?
21. Why?
Answer:
1. no
2. crying
3. the end of school
4. Anne and Diana
5. June
6. Miss Stacy
7. yes
8. three years before
9. Mr. Phillips's had been under similar circumstances
10. crying
11. so she could stop herself
12. a handkerchief
13. very
14. be as cheerful as you can
15. Mrs. Lynde
16. Anne
17. Jane
18. yes
19. Ruby
20. Diana
21. because she couldn't bear to have another deskmate after Anne