Problem: CHAPTER LXI

After throwing George Caresfoot into the bramble-bush, Arthur walked steadily back to the inn, where he arrived, quite composed in manner, at about half-past seven. Old Sam, the ostler, was in the yard, washing a trap. He went up to him, and asked when the next train started for London.

"There is one as leaves Roxham at nine o'clock, sir, and an uncommon fast one, I'm told. But you bean't a-going yet, be you, sir?"

"Yes, have the gig ready in time to catch the train."

"Very good, sir. Been to the fire, I suppose sir?" he went on, dimly perceiving that Arthur's clothes were torn. "It were a fine place, it wore, and it did blaze right beautiful."

"No; what fire?"

"Bless me, sir, didn't you see it last night?--why, Isleworth Hall, to be sure. It wore burnt right out, and all as was in it."

"Oh! How did it come to get burnt?"

"Can't say, sir, but I did hear say how as Lady Bellamy was a-dining there last night along with the squire; the squire he went out somewhere, my lady she goes home, and the footman he goes to put out the lamp and finds the drawing-room a roaring fiery furnace, like as parson tells us on. But I don't know how that can be, for I heard how as the squire was a-dying, so 'taint likely that he was a-going out. But, lord, sir, folk in these parts do lie that uncommon, 'taint as it be when I was a boy. As like as no, he's no more dying than you are. Anyhow, sir, it all burned like tinder, and the only thing, so I'm told, as was saved was a naked stone statty of a girl with a chain round her wrists, as Jim Blakes, our constable, being in liquor, brought out in his arms, thinking how as it was alive, and tried to rewive it with cold water."
1. Where was the fire last night?
2. Did it burn everything?
3. Who was eating out there last night?
4. With whom?
5. Who went to put out a lamp?
6. What did he find in the drawing-room?
7. Who recounted this tale to Old Sam?
8. Was any single thing saved from the blaze?
Answer: 1. Isleworth Hall
2. Yes
3. Lady Bellamy
4. The squire
5. Footman
6. A roaring fiery furnace
7. Arthur
8. A girl

Problem: Joe was moving to a different state. He wanted to make the move without spending much money. He thought about driving in his own vehicle, but didn't do that. So Joe found a shipping company that shipped boxes on trailer trucks. First, Joe packed all his stuff in boxes. Then, he borrowed a small truck from a friend. He brought his belongings to the company's location with the small truck. At the company's building, he packed his stuff into a trailer. After all his belongings were in the trailer, he sealed off the trailer with a wooden wall.

The company filled the rest of the trailer with their own stuff. Then they drove it to the same town where Joe was moving. After Joe flew to his new town, he borrowed another small truck. He drove to the company's location in his new town. There he took his stuff out of the trailer. He carried it to his new house in the small truck. It was more work than using a normal moving company, but Joe saved a lot of money.
1. Where was Joe moving?
2. Did he want to move without spending much money?
3. Did he use his car to move?
4. How did he decide to move?
5. What did he pack his stuff in?
6. What did he borrow?
7. Who from?
8. Where did he pack his stuff at the company's building?
9. Then what did he do?
10. What did the company do first?
11. What did they do next?
12. How did he get to his new town?
13. Did he borrow another small truck?
14. Where did he drive in the new town?
15. What did he do there?
16. What did he do next?
17. How?
18. Was it more work?
19. Was it a normal moving company?
20. Did he save money?
21. How much?
Answer: 1. to a different state
2. Yes.
3. No.
4. By using a shipping company.
5. Boxes.
6. A small truck.
7. A friend.
8. A trailer.
9. Sealed off the trailer with a wooden wall.
10. Filled the rest of the trailer with their own stuff
11. Drove it to the same town where Joe was moving
12. He flew.
13. Yes.
14. To the company's location.
15. Took his stuff out of the trailer.
16. Carried it to his new house.
17. In the small truck.
18. Yes.
19. No.
20. but Joe saved a lot of money.
21. A lot.

Problem: CHAPTER IX

DEFEAT OF MIRIAM

PAUL was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest of his love belonged to his mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or wounded his love for her, he could not bear it. Now it was spring, and there was battle between him and Miriam. This year he had a good deal against her. She was vaguely aware of it. The old feeling that she was to be a sacrifice to this love, which she had had when she prayed, was mingled in all her emotions. She did not at the bottom believe she ever would have him. She did not believe in herself primarily: doubted whether she could ever be what he would demand of her. Certainly she never saw herself living happily through a lifetime with him. She saw tragedy, sorrow, and sacrifice ahead. And in sacrifice she was proud, in renunciation she was strong, for she did not trust herself to support everyday life. She was prepared for the big things and the deep things, like tragedy. It was the sufficiency of the small day-life she could not trust.

The Easter holidays began happily. Paul was his own frank self. Yet she felt it would go wrong. On the Sunday afternoon she stood at her bedroom window, looking across at the oak-trees of the wood, in whose branches a twilight was tangled, below the bright sky of the afternoon. Grey-green rosettes of honeysuckle leaves hung before the window, some already, she fancied, showing bud. It was spring, which she loved and dreaded.
1. Who did Paul love the most?
2. Which season does the story take place in?
3. Who was Paul fighting with?
4. Did she believe she could have Paul?
5. How did she feel this relationship would bring?
6. What kind of plants were growing outside her window?
7. Where were the oak trees?
8. Did she have mixed emotions about the spring?
9. How did she feel about it?
10. What other plant was near her window?
11. What color were they?
Answer:
1. his mother
2. Spring
3. Miriam
4. No
5. tragedy
6. oak-trees
7. outside her bedroom window
8. Yes
9. she felt it would go wrong
10. rosettes of honeysuckle
11. Grey-green