Q: Delia was a young pianist. Her husband, Joe, was a young artist. Each of them was taking lessons: Joe with a famous art teacher, and Delia with a great pianist from Germany. Their teachers were the very best, so lessons were expensive, more than they could really afford, but...when you love your art, nothing is too much. But soon the money began to run out, and they couldn't afford the lessons any more. Then one day Delia came back home and told Joe that she had met a man whose daughter, Sally, wanted to learn the piano, and he was going to pay her $ 50 an hour. "Delia," Joe said, "I'll be much happier if you keep up your lessons," Delia said it didn't matter. "When I've had some money, I'll continue." But Joe also decided to stop his lessons, to draw pictures and sell them. A few days later, Joe came home and proudly took $ 200 from his pocket. "I met a man from Vermont," he said, "who bought one of my pictures. And he wants to buy more!" _ .They didn't have to worry any more about money. Then, one day, Joe came home and saw that Delia's hand was wrapped in a bandage . He asked her what had happened. "Oh," said Delia. "My student, Sally, asked me to make some coffee for her. I dropped the coffee and burned my hand. Sally went straight to the drugstore and got this bandage for me. " "Delia, what have you been doing the last two weeks?" Joe asked. She tried not to tell him, but the tears came. "Oh Joe, I couldn't get any students, so I worked as a waitress in a restaurant. Today, I burned my hand with hot water. So I can't work any more. But we'll still have money from the man in Vermont, won't we?" Joe looked at her. "There's no man in Vermont, " he said. "I've been working in a drugstore, and today someone came in to buy bandages for a woman who's burned her hand. So when I saw you, well, I guessed." They both laughed. [A story by O. Henry--adapted ]

1. Piano
2. 200
3. dropped the coffee burned my hand
4. Yes
5. No
6. working in a drugstore
7. selling pictures
8. teaching
9. Piano
10. Germany

Numbered questions:
1. What did Delia play?
2. How much money did Joe reveal?
3. How did Delia get hurt?
4. Did she lie to Joe?
5. Was Joe honest to Delia?
6. Where did he get the money?
7. How was Joe supposedly making money?
8. How was Delia supposedly earning money?
9. What was she teaching?
10. Where was Delia's instructor from?

Q: (CNN) -- A Tulane University football player who fractured his spine in a head-on collision with a teammate during a weekend game is "alert and responsive" after surgery, the school's athletic director said Monday.

Devon Walker is expected to remain in intensive care for the next few days after a three-hour operation at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday, the Tulane athletics department said. Walker, a safety for the Green Wave, was injured Saturday when he collided head-on with a teammate while trying to tackle a Tulsa ball carrier.

Rick Dickson, Tulane's athletic director, told reporters Monday afternoon that he was "absolutely thrilled" with the reports of Walker's condition, but had few details to offer.

"Devon is alert and responsive," Dickson said. "How that manifests beyond that, I don't know how to respond." He deferred questions about whether Walker was able to move parts of his body to doctors, saying the senior was "in the hands of extremely competent and dedicated professionals."

Film aims to show football's culture of playing despite concussions

Walker lay motionless on the Tulsa field as trainers and doctors rushed to him. Dr. Felix Savoie, an orthopedist for Tulane University and chief of sports medicine at the school, said after the game Walker suffered a "cervical spine fracture" as well as an edema, or swelling from a build-up of excess fluid, in his neck.

Tulane University's director of sports medicine Dr. Greg Stewart, who was with Walker on the field, said Sunday that, "for the most part, he was coherent" throughout the ordeal.

1. A Tulane University football player
2. he fractured his spine
3. in a head-on collision with a teammate
4. playing a weekend game
5. he is in intensive care
6. for the next few days
7. at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma
8. unknown
9. they aim to show football's culture of playing despite concussions
10. that he was "absolutely thrilled"
11. senior
12. a teammate
13. trying to tackle a Tulsa ball carrier

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Devon Walker?
2. What happened to him?
3. how?
4. what were they doing?
5. Is he okay?
6. Will he stay there long?
7. Where is he?
8. How does the school feel about this?
9. HOw does the school feel about his condition?
10. What did the athletic director say about his condition?
11. What grade is he in?
12. Who did he collide with?
13. what was he doing at the time?

Q: CHAPTER VI

A CLOUDY NIGHT

It was not needed that I should walk very far in order to find Seth Jepson. He was on the westerly side of the dock when I came into the square, talking to two or three lads whom I had good reason to believe were of Tory leanings.

Instead of appearing disconcerted because of my finding him in such company, he acted much as if it gave him pleasure that I was come, and straightway leaving his companions, advanced eagerly to meet me.

"Have you been up to the prison in the hope of having speech with Archie Hemming?" he asked as soon as we were within speaking distance, and I, suspicious of the lad, believed he thus counted on learning what we might have in mind to do, therefore replied with somewhat of sourness in my tone:

"It is too dangerous a matter to be seen loitering about that place, especially for a lad like me, whose father is known to be a Son of Liberty."

"I have seen Harvey Pearson there more than once, and thought most like you had sent him."

By this time it was clear to me that Seth was striving to learn if we had any plan on foot to release Archie, and striving to appear indifferent, as if to my mind the matter was so fraught with difficulties that it would be useless to make any attempt, I said:

"If Harvey chooses to loiter where there is great danger of being taken into custody, it is no affair of mine. On first learning that Archie had been imprisoned, I was so foolish as to say, without really believing it could be done, that we would form some plan for his rescue; but came to see right soon that it would be a piece of folly to raise our hands in such direction."

1. Seth Jepson
2. on the westerly side of the dock
3. no
4. talking
5. two or three lads
6. Tory
7. no
8. Archie Hemming
9. no
10. no
11. a Son of Liberty
12. Harvey Pearson
13. yes
14. unknown
15. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who was the narrator walking to meet?
2. Where did he find him?
3. Did he have to go a long way to get there?
4. What was Seth doing?
5. To whom?
6. What kind of sympathies did the narrator think they had?
7. Was Seth unhappy to run into the narrator?
8. Who did he ask the narrator about?
9. Did the narrator trust him?
10. Did the narrator admit going to the prison?
11. What did the narrator mention his dad was?
12. Who did Seth claim to have spotted at the jail?
13. Did he think the narrator had told him to go there?
14. How did the narrator try to present his appearance as?
15. Did he appear excited?