Problem: CHAPTER XXVII

A LEMON

That bulwark of _Peaceful Moments_, Pugsy Maloney, was rather the man of action than the man of tact. Otherwise, when, a moment later, he thrust his head up through the trap, he would have withdrawn delicately, and not split the silence with a raucous "Hey!" which acted on John and Betty like an electric shock.

John glowered at him. Betty was pink, but composed. Pugsy climbed leisurely on to the roof, and surveyed the group.

"Why, hello!" he said, as he saw Betty more closely.

"Well, Pugsy," said Betty. "How are you?"

John turned in surprise.

"Do you know Pugsy?"

Betty looked at him, puzzled.

"Why, of course I do."

"Sure," said Pugsy. "Miss Brown was stenographer on de poiper till she beat it."

"Miss Brown!"

There was utter bewilderment in John's face.

"I changed my name when I went to _Peaceful Moments_."

"Then are you--did you--?"

"Yes, I wrote those articles. That's how I happen to be here now. I come down every day and help look after the babies. Poor little souls, there seems to be nobody else here who has time to do it. It's dreadful. Some of them--you wouldn't believe--I don't think they could ever have had a real bath in their lives."

"Baths is foolishness," commented Master Maloney austerely, eying the scoured infants with a touch of disfavor.

John was reminded of a second mystery that needed solution.

"How on earth did you get up here, Pugsy?" he asked. "How did you get past Sam?"
1. Was Pugsy obnoxious?
2. Did he scare Betty?
3. Did they know each other?
4. How did John feel about this?
5. What name did Pugsy know her as?
6. Did John?
7. When did she change her name?
8. What did she do for a living?
9. On what?
10. What did she write?
11. Why did she come down every day?
12. Did she feel bad for them?
13. Why?
14. What did she feel some have never had?
15. What did MAster Maloney think of baths?
16. Did he like the babies?
17. Who did Pugsy get past?
18. Was that perceived as an easy task?
19. According to who?
Answer: 1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Surprised
5. Miss Brown
6. Yes
7. When she went to Peaceful Moments
8. Stenographer
9. On de poiper (paper)
10. Articles
11. To help look after the babies.
12. Yes
13. there's nobody else here who had time to look after them
14. A real bath
15. They are foolishness
16. No
17. Sam
18. No
19. John

Problem: Mexico City (CNN) -- Hours after Mexico's presumed president-elect, Enrique Pena Nieto, said it was time for his country to leave behind the political rancor of campaign season, his closest opponent in the polls refused to concede and said the vote had been "plagued by irregularities."

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who election authorities projected as the runner-up in Sunday's presidential vote, said Monday that he was awaiting the official election results, and prepared to contest them before judicial authorities if they didn't turn out in his favor.

"The election was plagued by irregularities before, during and after the process," said Lopez Obrador.

The Democratic Revolution Party candidate's declarations echoed comments he made in 2006, when election authorities said the leftist candidate narrowly lost the presidential race to Felipe Calderon. Lopez Obrador claimed election fraud and never conceded, referring to himself afterward as "the legitimate president of Mexico."

His supporters protested nationwide. In Mexico City, they staged sit-ins and blockades.

On Monday, Lopez Obrador called on his supporters to wait for the official results. The Federal Election Institute's verification of individual poll results begins Wednesday.

Earlier, Pena Nieto, who election authorities projected as the winner of Sunday's presidential vote, told CNN en Espanol he was ready to work across party lines to build a better Mexico.

"We have to be constructive and put aside our differences, which are only for competitions and electoral contests," Pena Nieto said Monday. "Yesterday I indicated that (after) this tense and divisive atmosphere, which is natural in all democratic contests, we have to turn the page and move on to enter another chapter, another moment in our political lives, with a willingness and spirit that are constructive and purposeful."
1. Who is Manuel Lopez Obrador?
2. Does he think something was wrong with the election?
3. What office was he running for?
4. In which country?
5. Did he ever run for that office before?
6. When?
7. Who won then?
8. Who won this time?
9. What did Obrador's supporters do?
10. Which agency is verifying the election results?
11. Which US news agency did the winner talk to?
12. What name did Obrador give himself after the 2006 election?
13. Has he conceded this election?
Answer: 1. the runner-up in Sunday's vote
2. he claimed election fraud
3. president
4. Mexico
5. yes
6. 2006
7. to Felipe Calderon
8. Pena Nieto
9. His supporters protested
10. The Federal Election Institute
11. CNN
12. the legitimate president of Mexico
13. no

Problem: Moses () is a prophet in the Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was adopted by an Egyptian princess, and later in life became the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah, or acquisition of the Torah from Heaven is traditionally attributed. Also called "Moshe Rabbenu" in Hebrew (, "lit." "Moses our Teacher"), he is the most important prophet in Judaism. He is also an important prophet in Christianity, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and a number of other Abrahamic religions.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in numbers and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies. Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Through the Pharaoh's daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slavemaster (because the slavemaster was smiting a Hebrew), Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered The Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb (which he regarded as the Mountain of God).
1. who is moses
2. who adopted him
3. who secretly hid him
4. who is queen bithia
5. who fled across the red sea
6. where was the burning bush
7. who did moses kill
8. what time was moses born
9. who ordered all newborns to be killed
10. who adopted him
Answer:
1. a prophet
2. an Egyptian princess
3. his mother
4. the Pharaoh's daughter
5. Moses
6. Mount Horeb
7. an Egyptian slavemaster
8. when the Israelites were increasing in numbers
9. the Egyptian Pharaoh
10. the Egyptian royal family