input: CHAPTER II SHIPWRECKED

Upon the following morning Nigel Graheme told his visitors that he had determined to accept their offer, and would at once set to work to raise a company.

"I have," he said, "as you know, a small patrimony of my own, and as for the last eight years I have been living here looking after Malcolm I have been laying by any rents, and can now furnish the arms and accoutrements for a hundred men without difficulty. When Malcolm comes of age he must act for himself, and can raise two or three hundred men if he chooses; but at present he will march in my company. I understand that I have the appointment of my own officers."

"Yes, until you join the regiment," Munro said. "You have the first appointments. Afterwards the colonel will fill up vacancies. You must decide how you will arm your men, for you must know that Gustavus' regiments have their right and left wings composed of musketeers, while the centre is formed of pikemen, so you must decide to which branch your company shall belong."

"I would choose the pike," Nigel said, "for after all it must be by the pike that the battle is decided."

"Quite right, Nigel. I have here with me a drawing of the armour in use with us. You see they have helmets of an acorn shape, with a rim turning up in front; gauntlets, buff coats well padded in front, and large breast plates. The pikes vary from fourteen to eighteen feet long according to the taste of the commander. We generally use about sixteen. If your company is a hundred strong you will have two lieutenants and three ensigns. Be careful in choosing your officers. I will fill in the king's commission to you as captain of the company, authorizing you to enlist men for his service and to appoint officers thereto." 1. Did Graheme accept their offer
2. was would he dostraight away
3. what is he going to raise?
4. how long ha she looked after Malcom?
5. has he been living elsewhere?
6. what money has he been saving?
7. what can he afford now?
8. and?
9. for how many men?
10. how many can Malcom afford when he's old enough?
11. who's compnay will he march in?
12. who picks the officers?
13. until when?
14. who was talking?
15. who;ll appoint the rest?
16. What else must he decide?
17. what are the wings of the oposition armed with?
18. who's regiment is that?
19. what's the middle armed with?
20. Did his visiter agree? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. yes
2. no
3. a small patrimony
4. eight years
5. he's been there eight years
6. laying by any rents
7. arms
8. accoutrements
9. a hundred men
10. two or three hundred men
11. Nigel's
12. Nigel
13. he joins the regiment,
14. Munro
15. the colonel
16. how he will arm his men
17. musketeers
18. Gustavus
19. unknown
20. no

input: Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs. They loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses. One evening, Brownie's family noticed that their dog hadn't returned home. They went looking for him, but with no success. Brownie didn't show up the next day, and by the next week he was still missing. Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie's house alone. He barked loudly. But busy with their own lives, Brownie's family just ignored their neighbor's nervous little dog. Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take "no" for an answer. He followed Ted, Brownie's owner, everywhere he went. He barked, then rushed towards a nearby empty lot and back, as if to say, " Follow me!" Finally, Ted followed the dog across the empty lot. The dog led the man to a tree a half-mile from the house. There Ted found Brownie alive. One of his legs was crushed in a trap. Ted wished he had taken Spotty's earlier appeals seriously. Then Ted noticed something amazing. In a circle around the injured dog, he saw a lot of dog food. They were the remains of lots of meals. Spotty had been visiting Brownie every day. He had stayed with Brownie to protect him, snuggling with him at night to keep him warm and nuzzling him to . 1. Who caused the path in the grass?
2. Who are they?
3. How do they know each other?
4. Where did they make the path?
5. Who was missing?
6. How long was he gone?
7. Who looked for him?
8. Where was he?
9. What had happened to him?
10. Who showed Ted where he was?
11. How did Spotty try to tell them?
12. What did the family do?
13. How did he get them to listen?
14. What else?
15. Did Ted listen?
16. What did he do?
17. Was Brownie living?
18. was he hurt?
19. Who had been watching Brownie?
20. What did Scotty take him? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Brownie and Spotty
2. dogs
3. they're neighbors
4. between their houses
5. Brownie
6. at least a week
7. his family
8. a half-mile from home
9. he was caught in a trap
10. The dog
11. barking
12. ignored him
13. followed Ted everywhere
14. barked and rushed back and forth to a lot
15. yes
16. followed him
17. yes
18. yes
19. Spotty
20. meals

input: Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a space. For example, lowercase j would become binary 1101010 and decimal 106. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (many now obsolete) that affect how text and space are processed and 95 printable characters, including the space (which is considered an invisible graphic:223).

The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together, and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two columns (32 positions) were reserved for control characters.:220, 2368,9) The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20hex;:23710 for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes,:228, 23714 as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code. Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase. To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.:23818 The digits 09 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward. 1. What was this based on?
2. What are they converted to?
3. How many are there?
4. How many print?
5. What is a surprising printable character?
6. What is classified as an invisible picture?
7. What is its number?
8. What are the first two groups saved for?
9. What comes before them?
10. Why? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. the English alphabet
2. seven-bit integers
3. 128
4. 95
5. unknown
6. the space
7. 223
8. control characters
9. space
10. to make sorting easier,