Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

DINNER AT BICKERSTAFF'S--HIFFERNAN AND HIS IMPECUNIOSITY--KENRICK'S EPIGRAM--JOHNSON'S CONSOLATION--GOLDSMITH'S TOILET--THE BLOOM-COLORED COAT--NEW ACQUAINTANCES--THE HORNECKS--A TOUCH OF POETRY AND PASSION--THE JESSAMY BRIDE

In October Goldsmith returned to town and resumed his usual haunts. We hear of him at a dinner given by his countryman, Isaac Bickerstaff, author of Love in a Village, Lionel and Clarissa, and other successful dramatic pieces. The dinner was to be followed by the reading by Bickerstaff of a new play. Among the guests was one Paul Hiffernan, likewise an Irishman; somewhat idle and intemperate; who lived nobody knew how nor where, sponging wherever he had a chance, and often of course upon Goldsmith, who was ever the vagabond's friend, or rather victim. Hiffernan was something of a physician, and elevated the emptiness of his purse into the dignity of a disease, which he termed _impecuniosity_, and against which he claimed a right to call for relief from the healthier purses of his friends. He was a scribbler for the newspapers, and latterly a dramatic critic, which had probably gained him an invitation to the dinner and reading. The wine and wassail, however, befogged his senses. Scarce had the author got into the second act of his play, when Hiffernan began to nod, and at length snored outright. Bickerstaff was embarrassed, but continued to read in a more elevated tone. The louder he read, the louder Hiffernan snored; until the author came to a pause. "Never mind the brute, Bick, but go on," cried Goldsmith. "He would have served Homer just so if he were here and reading his own works."

1. What chapter are we discussing?
2. What month is it?
3. What happened in October?
4. Where did he go?
5. Who was giving the dinner?
6. Who was Isaac Bickerstaff?
7. What did he write?
8. What was he going to read?
9. who else was attending?
10. What was his profession
11. Do he do anything else?
12. Was he drunk?
13. What did that cause him to do?
14. Was he loud?
15. What country was he from?
16. Did the snoring make him quit?
17. Who encouraged him to continue?
18. Did Hifferman ever take advantage of Goldsmitih?
19. Did they know where he lived?
20. Where did he get his money when he could?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
2. October
3. Goldsmith returned to town and resumed his usual haunts
4. to a dinner
5. A dinner that was to be followed by the reading by Bickerstaff
6. An author
7. Love in a Village, Lionel and Clarissa, and other successful dramatic pieces.
8. a new play
9. Paul Hiffernan
10. a physician
11. a scribbler for the newspapers, and a dramatic critic,
12. yes
13. He began to nod, and at length snored outright
14. Yes
15. He was Irish in decent
16. Bickerstaff didn't stop his reading
17. Goldsmith
18. yes
19. It doesn't explicitly say
20. sponging wherever he had a chance, and often of course upon Goldsmith

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XIV

"Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him."--JOB XL. 9.

A few moments later Licinia came running back into the room.

"Augusta!" she exclaimed excitedly even before she had crossed the threshold. "Augusta! quick! the Csar!"

Dea Flavia started, for she had indeed been suddenly awakened from a dream. Slowly, and with eyes still vague and thoughtful, she turned to her slave.

"The Csar?" she repeated, whilst a puzzled frown appeared between her brows and the young blood faded from her cheeks. "The Csar?"

"Aye," said the old woman hurriedly. "He is in the atrium even now, having just arrived, and his slaves fill the vestibule. He desires speech with thee."

"He does not often come at this hour," said Dea Flavia, whose face had become very white and set at mention of a name which indeed had the power of rousing terror in every heart just now. "Doth he seem angered?" she asked under her breath.

"No, no," said Licinia reassuringly, "how could he be angered against thee, my pet lamb? But come quickly, dear, to thy robing room; what dress wilt put on to greet the Csar in?"

"Nay, nay," she said with a tremulous little laugh, "we'll not keep my kinsman waiting. That indeed might anger him. He has been in this room before and hath liked to watch me at my work. Let him come now, an he wills."

Licinia would have protested for she loved to deck her darling out in all the finery that, to her mind, rendered the Augusta more beautiful than a goddess, but there was no time to say anything for even now the Csar's voice was heard at the further end of the atrium.

1. Who was in the atrium?
2. What did Licinia like to dress Augusta in?
3. Was the Caesar angry?
4. Where were his slaves?
5. What did Caesar want?
6. With who?
7. Why had Dea Flavia been startled?
8. Who woke her?
9. Did Dea become worried?
10. Why?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. it was the Caesar
2. in all the finery that rendered the Augusta more beautiful than a goddness
3. NO
4. In the room
5. He desired speech with thee
6. With Dea Flavia
7. she was suddenly awakened from a dream
8. Licinia
9. Yes
10. he just arrived.