Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Annie's sister, Julia, was having a birthday party in the afternoon. Annie's mother was going to bake the cake for the party. Mother asked Annie to help her bake the cake. They chose to make a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Annie got the bowls and the ingredients they would need for the cake. She helped measure the flour, the sugar and the cocoa. Once her mother added the rest of the ingredients, Annie was allowed to stir the ingredients in the bowl. She helped to pour the cake mix into two pans and then put them in the oven. The smell of the cake made Annie hungry. While the cake was baking, Annie helped her mother make the chocolate frosting. Her mother let her lick the spoon when they were done mixing the frosting. Once the cake was done, Annie and her mother took the cake out of the oven and let it cool, and then they frosted it. They ate the chocolate cake at Julia's party with scoops of vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries. Annie gave their dog, Sunny, a little piece of cake too!

1. Who was having a birthday party?
2. Was the party going to be at night?
3. When was it?
4. Who asked Annie to help make the cake?
5. Who got the bowls?
6. Did she also mix the batter?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Julia
2. no
3. the afternoon
4. Mother
5. Annie
6. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE BLACK BEAR.

"Somebody is coming!" ejaculated Sam. "I hope it is Dick, with Mr. Barrow!"

"So do I," returned Tom.

Without saying a word more, Jasper Grinder ran from the inner cave and joined Baxter and the guide. His face was pale, and he was evidently much disturbed.

Soon Baxter and his party were outside, and the Rover boys heard them moving up and down the gully. Several minutes passed, and then came a gunshot, followed by another.

"I hope they are not firing on Dick or Mr. Barrow," said Sam, with something of a shudder.

"I guess not," returned his brother. "If they were, we'd probably hear shots in return."

An hour went by, and then Dan Baxter and the others came back, the guide carrying several rabbits and a large fox. The rabbits were skinned and kept for eating, and the fox was skinned and the carcass thrown away.

Tom and Sam had expected Jasper Grinder to return to them, but if the former teacher desired to do this, he was prevented by Dan Baxter, who kept his companions close by him, around the fire.

Slowly the time went by until darkness was upon them. The fire was kept up, but Baxter screened it as much as possible, so that the glare might not penetrate to the forest beyond the gully and prove a beacon to guide Dick and John Barrow to the spot.

The boys were tired out, and soon Sam sank to sleep, with his hands still tied to the tree roots. Tom tried to keep awake, but half an hour later he, too, was in dreamland.

1. Who wanted to see Dick and Mr. Barrow?
2. Was he concerned for their safety?
3. Why?
4. Whom did he expect to come back?
5. What was he holding on to?
6. Was he sleepy?
7. Who was his brother?
8. How long did he stay up past Sam?
9. Why was he not as concerned about Dick as Sam?
10. What was Baxter's role?
11. What did they use the fox for?
12. Did Baxter want Dick and Barrow to find them?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Sam
2. yes
3. they heard gunshots
4. Jasper Grinder
5. several rabbits and a large fox
6. yes
7. Tom
8. half hour
9. they didn't hear shots in return
10. to screen the fire
11. the fox was skinned
12. no

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Sandra Bullock is one of the highest-profile actresses in Hollywood and also one of the world's most photographed moms. It's hard to pick up a tabloid that doesn't feature a photo of the Oscar-winner with her adopted 3-year-old son, Louis Bardot. And now Bullock is speaking out in support of a new law that increases penalties for paparazzi harassing the children of celebrities.

"We are fair game, I get it," Bullock told CNN at her handprint and footprint ceremony outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday. "Children should be allowed to be children and not be sold. You're taking a picture of a child and selling it!"

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the bill, which increases the penalties for intentional harassment of a child because of their parents' employment.

The effort gained momentum after actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner testified before the California Assembly Judiciary Committee in August to support the bill. The pair opened up about the hellish conditions faced by their children as a result of aggressive paparazzi.

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Bullock commends the two on their fight.

"I think it's brilliant," she explains."The girls worked so hard, the attorney worked so hard, and I think it's a good sign."

According to a release from the governor's office, the new law "increases the maximum jail time for harassment of a child or ward because of the person's employment from six months in the county jail to a year in the county jail."

1. How many kids does Sandra Bullock have?
2. Is it a girl or boy?
3. Did she give birth to him?
4. How did she get him?
5. How old is he?
6. What is Sandra's job?
7. What is she against people selling?
8. Who signed a bill?
9. What is is job?
10. What crime is the bill for
11. Who is it targeting?
12. Does it make the sentence harsher?
13. Where would they be sentenced to spend time?
14. What is the current length of stay?
15. What would it become?
16. Who did Bullock speak to about it?
17. When?
18. What day?
19. Where?
20. What does she think children should be

Numbered answers:

A:
1. One
2. boy
3. no
4. adoption
5. Three
6. Hollywood actress
7. pictures of children
8. Jerry Brown
9. Govenor of California
10. intentional harassment of a child because of their parents' employment.
11. aggressive paparazzi.
12. yes
13. the county jail
14. 6 months
15. a year
16. Bullock told CNN
17. at her handprint and footprint ceremony
18. on Wednesday
19. outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
20. "Children should be allowed to be children