question: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and executive orders, and federal regulations. The NARA also transmits votes of the Electoral College to Congress.

The Archivist of the United States is the chief official overseeing the operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The Archivist not only maintains the official documentation of the passage of amendments to the U.S. Constitution by state legislatures, but has the authority to declare when the constitutional threshold for passage has been reached, and therefore when an act has become an amendment.

The Office of the Federal Register publishes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large, among others. It also administers the Electoral College.
1. Who admins the Electoral College?
2. Does it publish anything?
3. What?
4. Who overseas the operation of the National Archives?
5. Does he maintain anything official?
6. Who can pass amendments to the U.S Constitution?
7. What authority does the Archivist have to declare?
8. Is the NARA an independent agency?
9. What is it charged with preserving?
10. Does it increase or decrease public access to them?
11. Who do those records comprise?
12. Can NARA declare something legally authentic?
13. What does it transmit?
14. To whom does it send them?
15. Are the copies of acts it publishes authoritative?
16. What type of proclamations does it publish?
17. What type of orders?
18. How about regulations?
19. Does the NARA do anything for the Russian government?
20. Who is the chief official that overseas it?
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answer: 1. The Office of the Federal Register
2. Yes
3. the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large
4. The Archivist of the United States
5. Yes
6. state legislatures
7. when the constitutional threshold for passage has been reached, and therefore when an act has become an amendment.
8. Yes
9. government and historical records
10. increases
11. acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and executive orders, and federal regulations.
12. Yes
13. votes of the Electoral College
14. Congress
15. Yes
16. presidential
17. executive orders
18. federal
19. No
20. The Archivist

question: Long long ago, there lived two girls named Emily and Tina. Both of them had long black hair and blue eyes. One day while they were playing in the back yard , Emily heard a tinkling sound. She jumped up. "Listen," she told her twin. They listened. The noise came again. This time Tina heard it. She sat up. "It came from over there," She whispered, looking at the zinnias far away. They came near to find it out. Then something flew out, making the same tinkling sound they had heard before. The children looked at one another. "Was it a bee?" asked Tina. "I don't think so," replied Emily. "Do bees make a sound like bells?" "Let's call it the Tinkle Bee anyway," said Tina. Emily nodded, listening with a little difficulty. What had made that noise? The next day, Emily and Tina brought their cookies outside. Tina took her plate by the zinnias. Suddenly she caught something. "Emily!" she called. "I've got the Tinkle Bee!" Emily rushed over. They sat down on the grass. Tina opened her hand very carefully. There was that sound! Something was shining in Tina's hand. They smiled. Then Emily cried, "It's a fairy !" Tina looked down at it in her hand. It looked like a girl. A _ girl with wings! Tina dropped it before she noticed that a wing was torn . The little fairy could not fly away so she took a piece of grass out of the ground and sat on it. Emily and Tina were surprised at what they saw. The fairy turned to Emily and said, "Hello, I am Marabella." Then she said again, "Marabella the Fairy." Emily smiled. "I'm Emily," she said. Tina said, "I'm Tina. Are you really a fairy?" "Oh, yes!" replied Marabella. "I've always been a fairy."
1. what color hair did the girls have?
2. what were their names?
3. who did they meet?
4. was she a frog?
5. what was she?
6. was she ok?
7. what was wrong with her?
8. were they indoors?
9. where were they?
10. what were they doing there?
11. did they have green eyes?
12. what color were their peepers?
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answer: 1. Both of them had long black hair
2. Emily and Tina
3. Marabella
4. No
5. a Fairy
6. No
7. her wing was torn
8. No
9. in the back yard
10. playing
11. no
12. blue

question: The baby elephant, Sheila, was moved out of Belfast Zoo because of fears she might be hit by bombers during the Belfast Blitz of 1941. She was one of the lucky ones. A lot of the animals were killed because of fears they might escape during the bombing and attack people. They included a tiger, a black bear, a wolf, a penguin, and two polar bears. But Sheila was walked down the road by zoo-keepers to a nearby house where a woman took her in and kept her in her backyard for several months until the bombing was over. The woman has never been identified and the zoo knows her only as "the elephant angel". As the zoo celebrates its 75thbirthday, people have decided to try to find the elephant's saver. Mark Challis is the manager of Belfast Zoo. He explained a bit more about Sheila's story. "Well, we know that Sheila, the elephant that was in the zoo at that time spent some time living with a lady relatively near to the zoo and we have one sweet photo, you can see it on our zoo website." "In the photo you can see the elephant with the lady in her back garden and that's almost all we know. So we're just trying to find a little bit more information and we are not even sure if the lady is alive today, but maybe her relatives or somebody will recognize the back of that house and we can fill in some detail on this story." Once the bombing was over, Sheila went back to the zoo and lived for another quarter of a century. She died of a skin disease in 1966.
1. What is the animal's name
2. Where was she moved from?
3. Where did she go?
4. Was is a man or a woman who took care of her?
5. Do they know who she was?
6. Is the zoo trying to figure that out?
7. where did she keep sheila
8. For how long?
9. When did she go back to the zoo?
10. Is she still alive?
11. When did the elephant pass away?
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answer:
1. Sheila
2. the Belfast Zoo
3. to a nearby house
4. woman
5. no
6. yes
7. in her backyard
8. several months
9. until the bombing was over
10. not sure
11. 1966.