question: CHAPTER 12

I saw her hold Earl Percy at the point With lustier maintenance than I did look for Of such an ungrown warrior.

--King Henry IV

As soon as Violet could leave her little boy without anxiety, the two sisters deposited Charles Layton at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, with hopes that a few years' training there would enable him to become Miss Martindale's little page, the grand object of his desires.

Their next and merriest excursion was to Percy's lodgings, where he had various Greek curiosities which he wished to show them; and Theodora consented to come with her brother and sister in a simple straightforward way that Violet admired.

His rooms were over a toy-shop in Piccadilly, in such a roar of sounds that the ladies exclaimed, and Arthur asked him how much he paid for noise.

'It is worth having,' said Percy; 'it is cheerful.'

'Do you think so?' exclaimed Violet. 'I think carriages, especially late at night, make a most dismal dreary sound.'

'They remind me of an essay of Miss Talbot's where she speaks of her companions hastening home from the feast of empty shells,' said Theodora.

'Ay! those are your West-end carriages,' said Percy; 'I will allow them a dreary dissatisfied sound. Now mine are honest, business-like market-waggons, or hearty tradesfolk coming home in cabs from treating their children to the play. There is sense in those! I go to sleep thinking what drops of various natures make up the roar of that great human cataract, and wake up dreaming of the Rhine falls.
1. what were the rooms over?
2. Where?
3. where did they leave Charles?
4. what did Percy want them to see?
5. who agreed to travel with their siblings?
6. where the rooms in a noisy area?
7. Does Percy like it that way?
8. how did he describe it?
9. did the rest like the noise?
10. who felt the sounds were scary?
11. what was Theodora reminded of?
12. Was Violet scared of the sounds the whole day?
13. How long would charles be at the asylum?
14. what would the schooling help him become?
15. What does Percy say about his sounds?
16. what does he wake up dreaming of?
17. what are the folk coming from?
18. and what do they come in?
19. what kind of carriage does Percy say make the scary sound?
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answer: 1. a toy-shop
2. Piccadilly
3. Deaf and Dumb Asylum
4. Greek curiosities
5. Violet
6. Yes.
7. Yes.
8. cheerful
9. No.
10. Violet
11. an essay of Miss Talbot's
12. Yes.
13. few years
14. Miss Martindale's little page
15. It is worth having
16. Rhine falls
17. treating their children to the play
18. cabs
19. West-end

question: Traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period and commenced with the beginning of farming, which produced the "Neolithic Revolution". It ended when metal tools became widespread (in the Copper Age or Bronze Age; or, in some geographical regions, in the Iron Age). The Neolithic is a progression of behavioral and cultural characteristics and changes, including the use of wild and domestic crops and of domesticated animals.

The beginning of the Neolithic culture is considered to be in the Levant (Jericho, modern-day West Bank) about 10,200 8,800 BC. It developed directly from the Epipaleolithic Natufian culture in the region, whose people pioneered the use of wild cereals, which then evolved into true farming. The Natufian period was between 12,000 and 10,200 BC, and the so-called "proto-Neolithic" is now included in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA) between 10,200 and 8,800 BC. As the Natufians had become dependent on wild cereals in their diet, and a sedentary way of life had begun among them, the climatic changes associated with the Younger Dryas are thought to have forced people to develop farming.
1. What did Neolithic follow?
2. What was the Neolithic considered?
3. What culture did it come from?
4. What is that called today?
5. What did the this period begin?
6. And it ended when?
7. What produced the Neolithic Revolution?
8. What was produced during that time?
9. What did this evolve into?
10. What forced people to farm?
11. From what?
12. When was the Natufian period?
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answer: 1. Holocene Epipaleolithic period
2. the last part of the Stone Age
3. the Levant
4. modern-day West Bank
5. 10,200
6. 8,800 BC
7. the Epipaleolithic Natufian culture
8. the use of wild cereals
9. farming
10. climatic changes
11. Younger Dryas
12. between 12,000 and 10,200 BC

question: Ikenna Nzeribe was the sole survivor after assassins from Boko Haram stormed his Nigerian church in 2012, just 60 miles from where the jihadists last month abducted more than 200 girls.

The church massacre remains vivid for Nzeribe three years later -- as are the scars on his face, neck and arm.

The Muslim extremists fired shots into the air and shouted "Allah Hu Akbar," or God is great.

Nzeribe and 13 other Christians hit the floor.

They were mourning how Boko Haram earlier had killed three fellow Christians, but now Boko Haram was coming for them.

The masked gunmen shot the 13 worshippers in the head, fatally.

Now it was Nzeribe's turn.

"As soon as I saw the man, I knew it was over for me," Nzeribe, 33, said about the gunman. "The only thing I could do was say a last prayer, which was 'Blood of Jesus cover me.'

"And that was it for me," he told CNN.

Nzeribe, a handsome banker, was shot in the face with an AK-47 assault rifle, blowing away his jaw, lips and part of his tongue.

He faked death -- "until they finished," he said.

He bled profusely.

"I would say I died in the process," Nzeribe added. "But God brought me back to life."

Rescuers took him to a local hospital in Mubi, a suburban area in northeastern Nigeria where he was part of a Christian minority and where the mass shooting in church occurred.

He was later flown to London, where surgeons reconstructed his face.
1. where was Nzeribe shot?
2. with what type of weapon?
3. did he survive?
4. was he the only one that survived?
5. how old is Nzeribe?
6. how many people died in the attack?
7. who was responsible for the attack?
8. where did this take place?
9. in what country?
10. what did Nzeribe do after he was shot?
11. did he bleed a lot?
12. where was he taken?
13. is that in an urban area?
14. is it part of a secular region?
15. where did he have scars?
16. what did surgeons reconstruct?
17. where did he have the surgery?
18. did he say he died in the process of the attack?
19. what prayer did he utter before he was shot?
20. who interviewed him?
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answer:
1. in the face
2. AK-47
3. yes
4. yes
5. 33
6. 13
7. Bolo Haram
8. church
9. Nigeria
10. He faked death
11. yes
12. local hospital
13. no
14. unknown
15. face, neck and arm
16. his face
17. London
18. yes
19. Blood of Jesus cover me
20. CNN.