Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

When Lew Alcindor was 13, and obviously still growing, a group of schools began offering him scholarships . The Alcindors decided to send their only child to Power Memorial Academy, a small school on Manhattan's West Side. At Power, Alcindor came under the control of Coach Jack Donohue, a strict young an who already gained his fame as one of the best coaches in the city.Donohue brought Alcindor along slowly.As a first-year student, the boy was not able to do much but wave his long skinny arms and shoot a basket now and then.But by the second year, when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, Alcindor was quick and skillful enough to make the high school All-American team and to lead Power to an undefeated season. From then on he simply got better.Some rival coaches used to take their teams quickly away from the floor before Power warmed up so that their players would not see him any sooner than they had to.Wearing size 16 D shoes and sucking a lollipop , Alcindor would loosen up by starting his leaping lay-ups .Then he would casually shoot the ball with either hand, to the delight of the fans. When reporters and photographers began to follow Alcindor closely, Donohue protected his boy firmly.He simply ordered Lew to talk to no member of the press, and this suited Lew fine.He was not comfortable talking to grown-ups, perhaps because he towered over them.Discouraged photographers began following him in secret as though he were an easily-frightened giraffe.Once after ducking into a subway to escape, Alcindor told a friend that it was all becoming like policemen and robbers."People want you not for yourself," Donohue warned him, "but because you're a basketball player.Don't forget that."

1. What is on the west side of the city?
2. Who was sent there?
3. At what age?
4. Who sent him?
5. Does he have many siblings?
6. Why not?
7. Is the school large?
8. Who watched after him while he was there?
9. Is he a good coach?
10. In which sport?
11. Did Alcindor have small feet?
12. What size are they?
13. Is he 7 feet tall?
14. What candy was he eating?
15. How would he warm up at first?
16. Where did he try to get away?
17. Who was he evading?
18. Were they stalking him?
19. What animal was he compared to?
20. Where is the school located?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Power Memorial Academy
2. Lew Alcindor
3. 13
4. his parents
5. no
6. he's an only child
7. no
8. Coach Jack Donohue,
9. yes
10. basketball
11. no
12. ize 16 D shoes
13. when he was 15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall, so probably taller now
14. a lolly
15. leaping lay-ups
16. A subway
17. photographers
18. The coach had ordered Lew to talk no journalist
19. an easily-frightened giraffe
20. Manhattan's West Side.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIII

DOWN THE STATEN ISLAND SHORE TO SANDY HOOK

"Dick! Dick! What ails you?"

"My head, Sam! Arnold Baxter struck me down," came with a groan.

"Can you get up? We want to follow them," cried Tom, as he caught his brother by the arm. He had just reached the factory on a dead run, lantern in hand, to find Dick.

"I guess I can stand, Tom. But I can't run yet."

"Here, take the lantern and I'll carry you," came quickly, and in a moment more Tom Rover had Dick on his back and was running for the _Searchlight_ as rapidly as the nature of the meadow land permitted, Dick holding the light over his head so that both might see.

The alarm had now become general, and by the time the yacht was gained two police officers, who had been on the hunt for harbor thieves, appeared.

"What's the row about?" demanded one of the officers of the law, as he came into view.

"Is that an officer?" questioned Dick feebly,

"I am an officer--yes."

"We are after some thieves and some parties who have abducted a girl. Will you help us?"

"Certainly, if what you say is true. Where is the crowd?"

"They ran off in that direction," came from Sam, as he loomed up out of the darkness. "They have a yacht out there somewhere."

"Then we can't catch them--unless we get a boat," answered Sergeant Brown.

"We have a boat, out this way," and Sam pointed with his hand. "But I guess we had better make certain that they go out first."

1. What is ailing Dick?
2. who asked him?
3. Why did it ail him?
4. how did he say it?
5. Was he standing?
6. could he?
7. run?
8. Who was Tom?
9. What did he want to do?
10. what was he holding?
11. WHat did Tom do?
12. and Dick?
13. what did he do with it?
14. why?
15. Who was hunting the theives?
16. What did the officer say?
17. How did Dick respond?
18. Who were dick and his brother looking for?
19. who stole what?
20. Did the officer agree?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. My head, Sam!
2. Sam
3. Arnold Baxter struck him down
4. with a groan
5. no
6. yes
7. no
8. his brother
9. to follow them,
10. lantern i
11. carried him
12. took the lantern
13. held it over his head
14. so that both might see
15. two police officers
16. What's the row about?
17. Is that an officer?
18. thieves
19. a girl
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Seedy the watermelon was a very special type of watermelon. He didn't have any seeds. He was green and he had stripes. All of his cousins had seeds, but he didn't have any. He felt very left out. He couldn't thing of why he was different. His mom told him it was because he was a very special watermelon. She also tells him she loves him the way he is. But Seedy didn't think it was a good thing. He wished he could be like everyone else and have seeds. One day, he rolled out to the lawn and looked at all of his new cousins growing in the garden. He rolled around until he found a little baby watermelon that didn't have any seeds either. He sat next to him and talked to him. He told him that he was very special, and was excited for him to be picked off the vine and be his special best friend. He would name him Seedy, Jr.

1. How was Seedy different?
2. What color was he?
3. What did his parent believe?
4. Did he believe that?
5. What did he think about another melon not having seeds?
6. What did he call this one?
7. Did they become friends then?
8. Were they family members?
9. Did Seedy accept himself?
10. What was his mother's name?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. He didn't have any seeds.
2. Green with stripes.
3. He was special.
4. But Seedy didn't think it was a good thing
5. He told him that he was very special.
6. Seedy Jr.
7. No.
8. Yes.
9. No.
10. unknown