Q: Randan's parents surprised her one day by bring home a small bunny. This was the first pet she had, so she started to shout and scream happily right when she saw it. After having keeping it in a cage in the house for a couple hours, she tried to take it outside to play. That was when everything went wrong. After she stepped outside, the cage fell and her thumb accidentally opened the cage, and the bunny ran away. Randan got very sad, but the bunny sounded like it was singing as it ran off. Later that night, Randan was still sad about the bunny as she was lying on her bed. All of a sudden, she heard a loud bang so everybody ran outside. They found the trash can tipped over and a lot of the food ate from it. Her dad wondered who did it, and Randan wondered if it was the bunny that ran away. She said to herself that it could not have done it. The bunny was way too small to even shake a trashcan. Nothing special happened for the rest of the week, until they heard a strange noise on another night. This time, only Randan and her Dad went outside to check out what the noise was. When they made it outside, they saw an animal the size of a bear digging in their yard before it went deep. Before they even knew it, they heard their mama screaming from inside the house. They both looked in the window to see the bunny cornering the mama, but it had grown ten times bigger and looked angry. The dad quickly gave Randan a magical glove that makes her grip one million times stronger. The dad got some glue and made the bunny's butt stuck on the carpet. Randan grabbed the bunny by the leg and threw it to space.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was surprised?
2. What did she keep in a cage?
3. How many pets has she had?
4. Who yelled from in their home?
5. Why was she startled?
6. Was it a happy rabbit?
7. What did they do about it?
8. How did that help?
9. What was her purpose with the magic gauntlet?
10. Was this the same rabbit her guardians brought to their home?
11. Did she throw the rabbit in the garbage bin?
12. what did she do with it?
A: 1. Randan.
2. A bunny.
3. None.
4. Their mama.
5. The bunny cornered her.
6. No.
7. Dad gave Randan a magical glove.
8. It makes her grip stronger.
9. To grab the bunny.
10. Yes.
11. No.
12. Threw it to space.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Shane Thomas is a 10-year-old pianist from England. He's being called the next Mozart because of his amazing abilities.

He has only been having piano lessons for four months, and practices four hours a week, but he has already played difficult classical pieces. He was just seven when he sat down at the piano, and could play at once. He also says he never gets nervous.

When Shane was three years old, he said that he could play the piano, but nobody took him seriously. At school, he could listen to the teacher and do his work while composing in his head. Shame remembers all the melodies ,and when he gets home he plays them on the piano, while his father records them. Shane loves playing the piano, and when he grows up he wants to be a composer.

His tutor, Richard Goffin-Lecar, says he is like Amadeus Mozart, who lived during the 18thcentury in Salzburg, Austria, and was one of the most famous composers ever. Mr. Goffin-lecar says, "I don't teach Shane very much. I just give him directions, then sit back and watch."

His father, a single parent with two other children, says that although he has little money, he wants to send Shane to a good music school. "I'm a single father, but I have this gifted child. I don't have much money, but I want to give him the best teachers, and also take him into a studio to record."

1. Who was Shane's tutor?
2. What does he say about Shane?
3. Who did he compare him to?
4. Where was Mozart from?
5. When was he alive?
6. How old is Shane?
7. Where does he live?
8. What is he becoming known as?
9. Because he looks like him?
10. Why?
11. How much does he practice?
12. When did his lessons start?
13. When does he feel nervous?
14. When did he start saying he could play piano?
15. Where does he make up songs?
16. What does his dad do?
17. Does he have siblings?
18. How many?
19. Is his dad married?
20. Where does he desire to send Shane?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Richard Goffin-Lecar
2. "I don't teach Shane very much. I just give him directions, then sit back and watch."
3. Amadeus Mozart
4. Salzburg, Austria
5. in the 18thcentury
6. 10
7. England
8. Mozart
9. no
10. because of his amazing abilities playing the piano
11. 4 hours a week
12. four months ago
13. never
14. at 3
15. at home
16. records him playing
17. yes
18. two
19. no
20. a good music school

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XII.

VENDEAN MARRIAGES.

The young General's good news had preceded him, and when he entered the room where his friends were assembled, they were one and all ready to embrace and congratulate their successful soldier; he received the blessing of his father, the praises of de Lescure, the thanks and admiration of Madame de Lescure, and what he valued more than all, Marie's acknowledgments of the promise she gave him, when last he left her side.

During his absence, three unexpected visitors had reached Laval; the first was Father Jerome, who had followed the army, and now brought them news from the side of Nantes, that Charette was still at the head of a large body of royalists, and was ready to join himself with the main army, somewhere to the north of the Loire, if any plan could be struck out for their future proceedings, to which both he and Henri could agree; and the others were perfect strangers. Two gentlemen had called at the guard-house, and asked for M. de Larochejaquelin: on hearing that he was not in Laval, they had desired to see M. de Lescure, and had, when alone with him, declared that they came from England, with offers of assistance, both in men and money; one of these gentlemen had with him a stick, and after having carefully looked round the room to see that no one but de Lescure could observe him, he had broken the stick in two, and taken from the hollow space within it, a letter addressed to the Commander-in-Chief of the Vendean army.

1. Did the soldier have good or bad news?
2. Who was there for the news?
3. How many visiting people were not expected?
4. Who was the first one?
5. Who did he bring news from?
6. What was the news?
7. Where at?
8. Who were the other visitors?
9. Where did they come from?
10. Why?
11. Assistance of what?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. good
2. his friends
3. three
4. Father Jerome
5. the side of Nantes
6. that Charette was still at the head of a large body of royalists, and was ready to join himself with the main army
7. somewhere to the north of the Loire
8. Two gentlemen
9. England
10. with offers of assistance
11. men and money