question: CHAPTER XVII. THE GHOSTS OF THE TEMPLARS

'Tis said, as through the aisles they passed, They heard strange voices on the blast, And through the cloister galleries small, Which at mid-height thread the chancel wall, Loud sobs and laughter louder ran, And voices unlike the voice of man, As if the fiends kept holiday. Scott, LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL

'Ill news, Martin, I see by your look!' cried Eustacie, starting to her feet from the heap of straw on which she was sitting in his cowhouse, one early April day, about seven weeks since her evasion from the convent.

'Not so, I hope, Madame, but I do not feel at ease. Monsieur has not sent for me, nor told me his plans for the morrow, and I much doubt me whether that bode not a search here. Now I see a plan, provided Madame would trust herself to a Huguenot.'

'They would guard me for my husband's sake.'

'And could Madame walk half a league, as far as the Grange du Temple? There live Matthieu Rotrou and his wife, who have, they say, baffled a hundred times the gendarmes who sought their ministers. No one ever found a pastor, they say, when Rotrou had been of the congregation; and if they can do so much for an old preacher with a long tongue, surely they can for a sweet young lady; and if they could shelter her just for tomorrow, till the suspicion is over, then would I come for Madame with my cart, and carry her into Chollet among the trusses of hay, as we had fixed.'
1. What chapter is this?
2. Are we promised ghosts?
3. Of who?
4. Where had Eustacie been sitting?
5. On a day in which month?
6. How long had it been since she evaded the convent?
7. Who did she think was about to give her ill news?
8. Does Martin feel at ease?
9. Who hasn't sent for him?
10. What about sharing the plans for the morrow?
11. Who does Martin think Eustacie should trust herself to?
12. Why does she think they would guard her?
13. How far from them is the Grange du Temple?
14. Who lives there?
15. And?
16. Have they ever confused the guards who sought ministers?
17. Does Martin wonder if Eustacie could walk so far?
18. What does martin offer to come for her with?
19. But only after what is over?
20. Where will he take her, hidden among the trusses of hay?
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answer: 1. XVII
2. Yes
3. THE TEMPLARS
4. the heap of straw
5. April
6. seven weeks
7. Martin
8. No
9. Monsieur
10. No
11. a Huguenot
12. surely they can for a sweet young lady
13. half a league
14. Matthieu Rotrou
15. his wife
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. with my cart
19. the suspicion
20. into Chollet

question: Foday Gallah saw the sick child was distressed and felt he had to do something. So he picked the kid up to comfort him.

And with that act of kindness, the 37-year-old ambulance supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, contracted Ebola himself.

"Of course, he got vomit all over him and that's how he got Ebola," said photographer Jackie Nickerson, who shot Gallah's image for Time's "Person of the Year" magazine cover, which honors those on the front line of the Ebola epidemic.

They're "the ones who answered the call," the magazine said on its website Wednesday morning.

Nickerson expanded on why Gallah was chosen for one of the magazine's five covers: "He's the shining example of what the right thing to do is. He's a shining example that we should all try to follow. He really did touch me with his story. I don't usually like to use the word hero, but I have to use it here."

According to the latest World Health Organization figures, about 6,300 people have died from the disease, mainly in West Africa. Health workers are still battling more than 11,000 confirmed cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and more than 6,000 suspected and probable cases loom, according to WHO.

Though those countries mark the epicenter of the outbreak, isolated cases have spread wider, penetrating other African countries, Europe and even the United States.

Time magazine's editors decided to honor the "unprecedented numbers" of doctors and nurses who responded when Ebola overtook an already-weak public health infrastructure, and Time Editor Nancy Gibbs outlined how governments were ill-equipped to respond, WHO "was in denial and snarled in red tape" and first responders were accused of crying wolf as the disease spread.
1. What did Foday Gallah saw?
2. Who is the photographer?
3. What is the disease named?
4. How many person have lost their life from this disease?
5. What is the age of Gallah?
6. What is her profession?
7. Which area?
8. For which company is Jackie Nickerson working?
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answer: 1. A sick child
2. Jackie Nickerson
3. Ebola
4. About 6,300
5. 37
6. Ambulance supervisor
7. Monrovia, Liberia
8. Time magazine

question: CHAPTER XXVIII

A PAINFUL DUTY

Three months had slipped away since the evening on which Wheeler had discussed the subject of shingle-splitting with his companions. Nasmyth stood outside the shanty in the drenching rain. He was very wet and miry, and his face was lined and worn, for the three months of unremitting effort had left their mark on him. Wheeler had secured the timber rights in question, and that was one difficulty overcome, but Nasmyth had excellent reasons for believing that the men who had cast covetous eyes upon the valley had by no means abandoned the attempt to get possession of at least part of it.

He had had flood and frost against him, and his money was rapidly running out. A wild flood swept through the canon. The heading was filled up, so that no one could even see the mouth of it, and half the rock he had piled upon the shingle had been swept into the rapid, where it had formed a dam among the boulders that could be removed only at a heavy expenditure of time and powder when the water fell. He was worn out in body, and savage from being foiled by the swollen river at each attempt he made, but while the odds against him were rapidly growing heavier he meant to fight.

A Siwash Indian whom he had hired as messenger between the canon and the settlement had just arrived, and Gordon, who stood in the doorway of the shanty, took a newspaper out of the wet packet he had brought. Gordon turned to Nasmyth when he opened it.
1. what was running out quickly for him?
2. what else had gone badly?
3. what had happened to the stone he'd put on shingle?
4. what was it doing now?
5. was it easy to remove?
6. what type of chemical was going to be needed?
7. could it be done during the high water?
8. not until?
9. was he energized?
10. in good mood?
11. why not?
12. was he ready to give in?
13. how long since the discussion about shingles?
14. who was outdoors?
15. was he looking youthful
16. who got tree rights?
17. was that helpful?
18. what tribe was his messenger from?
19. who came with him?
20. where did he stand?
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answer:
1. money
2. He had had flood and frost against him
3. it had been swept into the rapid,
4. it had formed a dam
5. No
6. powder
7. No
8. the water fell.
9. No
10. No
11. from being foiled by the swollen river
12. No
13. Three months
14. Nasmyth
15. No
16. Wheeler
17. No
18. Siwash Indian
19. Gordon
20. in the doorway of the shanty,