Q: Allie was trying to choose which costume she would wear for Halloween. She did not want to dress up as a scary monster. She could go as an angel all in white or as a rabbit with a basket of eggs. She thought that wings would be too hard to make. Allie went to ask her mom if she had any eggs to go in her basket. Her mom said that the eggs might break and told her to use carrots instead. Allie looked in the refrigerator but there were no carrots. She took some spinach instead. Allie got an old pillow case out of the hall closet. She would use it to carry the candy she would get. Allie's little sister, Grace, was going as a princess dressed in pink. She had a shiny, silver purse on her arm. Allie took Grace by the hand and led her down the sidewalk. The first door they knocked on was answered by a woman dressed as witch with a tall, black hat on her head. The witch gave both of the girls some candied apples.

1. which costume she would wear
2. the witch
3. Grace
4. yes
5. a rabbit
6. a pillow case
7. pink
8. there weren't any
9. spinach
10. yes
11. a purse

Numbered questions:
1. What was Allie trying to decide
2. who gave the girls candied apples
3. Who went trick or treating with Allie
4. Is Grace Allie's sister?
5. What did Allie decide to dress as
6. Allie used a what to collect her candy
7. What color did Grace wear
8. Why couldnt Allie use carrots
9. What did she bring instead
10. Did Allie watch after Grace while they were trick or treating
11. What was Grace carrying

Q: Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels of the 19th century. These were Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The youngest sister, Anne, was also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters'.

Their father was Patrick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children died, leaving the father to care of the remaining three girls and a boy.

Charlotte was born in 1816. Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew up largely self-educated. Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.

As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting. Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847, Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher , but there was no interest shown in Charlotte's book. (It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her works. Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847.

Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did not do so well. People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, too animal-like. But gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English language. Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book, and Anne died in 1849.

Charlotte published Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis as her sisters had.

1. Charlotte Bronte
2. 1855
3. yes
4. Arthur Bell
5. yes
6. Branwell
7. draw
8. 1820
9. female
10. Anne
11. 1849
12. 29
13. Charlotte
14. 1859
15. Wuthering Heights
16. yes
17. died of tuberculosis
18. Branwell's art education
19. Jane Eyre
20. Charlotte Bronte

Numbered questions:
1. Who had TB?
2. When?
3. Did she get married?
4. to whom?
5. Did she have a brother?
6. What was his name?
7. What did he like to do?
8. When was her youngest sibling born?
9. Was it male or female?
10. And her name?
11. How old was Anne when she died?
12. How old was she?
13. Which sister had a hard time getting her book published?
14. When did it get printed?
15. Which book was too wild for the time?
16. Was it ever widely accepted?
17. What happened to the oldest 2 siblings?
18. What inspired the sisters to earn an income?
19. Which novel sold the most at first?
20. Who wrote it?

Q: San Francisco (initials SF) (, Spanish for Saint Francis; Spanish: ), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. The consolidated city-county covers an area of about at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the fourth-most populous city in California, and the 13th-most populous in the United States, with a 2016 census-estimated population of 870,887. The population is projected to reach 1 million by 2033.

San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asis a few miles away, all named for St. Francis of Assisi. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.

1. San Francisco
2. 13th
3. June 29, 1776
4. St. Francis of Assisi.
5. 870,887
6. No
7. largest city on the West Coast
8. No
9. No
10. destroyed
11. earthquake and fire
12. birthplace of the United Nations in 1945

Numbered questions:
1. What is the fourth most populous city in California?
2. What does it rank in the US?
3. When was it founded?
4. What was it named for?
5. How many people live there?
6. During the gold rush was it a small city?
7. How big was it?
8. Is it part of Southern California?
9. Is it a conservative city?
10. What happened to the city in 1906?
11. by what?
12. What happened in 1945

Q: The kitchen comes alive at night in the Sanderson house. Vegetables, fruit, bread, and more come out to play. The knives and forks dance on the tables. There are games and prizes. Milk is used for swimming races. The cereal often wins those. Fruit gets used as balls in some games. Blueberries scream in joy as they are kicked into soccer goals in games between the spoons and vegetables like celery and carrots. Their cousins, the raspberries, like to watch the games. Everyone has a great time and laughs. They are happy to come out and be friends. If someone, like little John or his sister Kim, comes down to get water, they all hide until they leave. The father, Ryan, sometimes wakes up and thinks he hears something downstairs. His wife, Susan, tells him he needs to go back to bed. She tells him he is imagining things. He is not. The kitchen got too loud. They were having so much fun they woke up the family!

1. The kitchen
2. the Sanderson's
3. knives
4. forks

Numbered questions:
1. What comes alive at night?
2. In what house?
3. What dances on the tables?
4. And anything else?