Q: CHAPTER I

OUT IN THE STORM

"Jack, it looks as if we were in for another storm."

"Yes, and it's starting right now," declared Captain Jack Rover, as he glanced through the trees to the overcast sky. "Don't you hear it on the leaves?"

"It does beat everything!" declared Andy Rover, his usually bright face clouding a bit. "It has rained enough in the past two weeks to last a year."

"Do you know, I like these constant rains less than I liked being snowbound up at Cedar Lodge," put in Lieutenant Fred Rover.

"Oh, there was some fun in being snowbound," declared Randy Rover. "A fellow could go out in it and have the best time ever. But what can a chap do when the rain is coming down to beat the band?"

"Well, you can go out and get a shower-bath free of charge," commented his twin gaily.

"I'll take my showers in the gym," was the quick reply. "Gee! listen to that, will you?"

There was no need for any of the four Rover boys to listen, or to look, either. A blinding flash of lightning had swept the sky, followed almost immediately by a crash of thunder in the woods behind them. Then followed another crash, as of falling timber.

"It struck a tree, I'll bet a new cap!" exclaimed Jack.

"Yes, and it was a little bit too close for comfort, too," answered his cousin Fred.

The thunder and lightning were followed by a sudden rush of wind which caused the trees of the forest to sway violently. Then the downfall of rain increased until it was little short of a deluge.

Answer the following questions:
1. Does Fred Rover like the rain better than being snowbound?
2. Does Randy Rover think there's fun in being snowbound?
3. What is Jack Rover's rank?
4. What is Fred's?
5. How many Rover boys total are there?
6. Are any of them twins?
7. What Lodge is mentioned?
8. What did one of the boys say you could get free of charge in the rain?
9. Where did another prefer to take his?
10. What did Jack bet?
11. What was he betting about?
12. What followed the thunder and lightning?
A: 1. No
2. Yes
3. Captain
4. Lieutenant
5. four
6. Yes
7. Cedar Lodge
8. a shower-bath
9. in the gym
10. a new cap
11. lightning struck a tree
12. another crash
Q: Thousands of protesters surrounded Bangkok's Government House on Friday seeking the removal of Thailand's embattled caretaker government amid soaring political tensions following the ouster of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

The People's Democratic Reform Committee, which has been protesting the government since November, is pushing to replace the caretaker administration with an unelected interim government.

Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told those gathered: "We will sleep here tonight, we will eat here."

The PDRC has been seeking to rid Thai politics of the alleged influence of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Thaksin is Yingluck's brother and a telecommunications tycoon who was overthrown in a 2006 military coup. He has since lived in self-imposed exile to avoid a corruption conviction.

"If the speaker is a slave of Thaksin, there will be one treatment; if not, there will be another treatment for them," Thaugsuban said.

Some 20,000 protesters massed in the capital and split into groups. About 4,000 or 5,000 gathered outside Government House. That is the former prime minister's residence, but Yingluck has already vacated it.

Lt. Gen. Paradon Patthanathabut, security adviser to the government, told CNN the PDRC had mobilized supporters from the countryside to join the protests in the capital.

He said smaller groups also gathered at Bangkok television stations and other locations around the city.

"We are monitoring (the situation) closely," he said, adding that 60,000 security forces were on standby.

At the Royal Thai Police Club, command center of the temporary security task force, the Center for the Administration for Peace and Order, police used tear gas and water cannon on protesters who attempted to enter the complex, said Paradon. Four people were injured.

Answer the following questions:
1. Why did protesters go to Bangkok's Government House?
2. Who is Suthep Thaugsuban?
3. What does PDRC stand for?
4. How many security forces were on standby?
5. In what country was this happening?
6. How many total protesters faced the 60000 security forces?
7. What is the name of the prime minister?
8. And so who is his brother?
9. What job did he used to have?
10. What happened with this old job?
11. Where is he living now?
12. Why is that?
13. And what happened with his brother Yingluck?
14. Who or what is governing Thailand now?
15. Was the interim government elected?
16. W?
17. Who is the security adviser to the government?
18. And what did he tell CNN?
A: 1. Wanted to oust the government
2. former Prime Minister
3. People's Democratic Reform Committee
4. 60,000
5. Thailand
6. Some 20,000
7. Yingluck Shinawatra
8. Thaksin Shinawatra
9. Prime Minister
10. overthrown in a military coup
11. self-imposed exile
12. to avoid a corruption conviction.
13. vacated his house
14. unknown
15. No
16. caretaker government
17. Lt. Gen. Paradon Patthanathabut
18. the PDRC had mobilized supporters from the countryside to join the protests in the capital.
Q: Chapter II

An Unknown Path

Kirk blinked. He closed his eyes and opened them again. The automobile was still there, and he was still in it. Ruth was still gazing at him with the triumphant look in her eyes. The chauffeur, silent emblem of a substantial bank-balance, still sat stiffly at the steering-wheel.

"Rich?" Kirk repeated.

"Rich," Ruth assured him.

"I don't understand."

Ruth's smile faded.

"Poor father----"

"Your father?"

"He died just after you sailed. Just before Bill got ill." She gave a little sigh. "Kirk, how odd life is!"

"But-----"

"It was terrible. It was some kind of a stroke. He had been working too hard and taking no exercise. You know when he sent Steve away that time he didn't engage anybody else in his place. He went back to his old way of living, which the doctor had warned him against. He worked and worked, until one day, Bailey says, he fainted at the office. They brought him home, and he just went out like a burned-out candle. I--I went to him, but for a long time he wouldn't see me.

"Oh, Kirk, the hours I spent in the library hoping that he would let me come to him! But he never did till right at the end. Then I went up, and he was dying. He couldn't speak. I don't know now how he felt toward me at the last. I kissed him. He was all shrunk to nothing. I had a horrible feeling that I had never been a real daughter to him. But--but--you know, he made it difficult, awfully difficult. And then he died; Bailey was on one side of the bed and I was on the other, and the nurse and the doctor were whispering outside the door. I could hear them through the transom."

Answer the following questions:
1. What's the name of this section?
2. Who was closing and opening their eyes?
3. Where was he?
4. Who was looking at him?
5. Who else was in the car?
6. Who died before Bill became sick?
7. When did he die?
8. What did he die of?
9. What caused it?
10. Who didn't he replace?
11. What does Bailey say happened to the father?
12. How did the father respond to her?
13. Where did she wait for a change?
14. When did the father see her?
15. What sign of affection does she show him?
16. Who was on the other bedside?
17. Who was outside the door?
A:
1. An Unknown Path
2. Kirk blinked. He closed his ey
3. automobile
4. Ruth
5. The chauffeur
6. father
7. He died just after Kirk sailed.
8. a stroke
9. working too hard and taking no exercise
10. Steve
11. fainted at the office
12. wouldn't see her
13. library
14. as he was dying
15. she kissed him.
16. Bailey
17. nurse and the doctor