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CHAPTER FIFTY THREE.

ON SAN MINIATO.

"I would speak with you," said Baldassarre, as Romola looked at him in silent expectation. It was plain that he had followed her, and had been waiting for her. She was going at last to know the secret about him.

"Yes," she said, with the same sort of submission that she might have shown under an imposed penance. "But you wish to go where no one can hear us?"

"Where _he_ will not come upon us," said Baldassarre, turning and glancing behind him timidly. "Out--in the air--away from the streets."

"I sometimes go to San Miniato at this hour," said Romola. "If you like, I will go now, and you can follow me. It is far, but we can be solitary there."

He nodded assent, and Romola set out. To some women it might have seemed an alarming risk to go to a comparatively solitary spot with a man who had some of the outward signs of that madness which Tito attributed to him. But Romola was not given to personal fears, and she was glad of the distance that interposed some delay before another blow fell on her. The afternoon was far advanced, and the sun was already low in the west, when she paused on some rough ground in the shadow of the cypress-trunks, and looked round for Baldassarre. He was not far off, but when he reached her, he was glad to sink down on an edge of stony earth. His thickset frame had no longer the sturdy vigour which belonged to it when he first appeared with the rope round him in the Duomo; and under the transient tremor caused by the exertion of walking up the hill, his eyes seemed to have a more helpless vagueness.

1. Who is the first character to speak in the passage?
2. Who was he speaking to?
3. Did one of them follow the other?
4. Who followed whom?
5. Where do they decide to go next?
6. Why do they decide to go there?
7. Do they travel there together?
8. Has Romola been to San Miniato before?
9. And Baldassarre?
10. Who has a secret?
11. Is Romola easily frightened?
12. What time of day is it?
13. Was San Miniato nearby?
14. What kind of trees did they stop by?
15. Was Baldassarre in good shape?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Baldassarre
2. Romola
3. Yes
4. Baldassarre followed Romola
5. San Miniato
6. So no one could hear them.
7. No
8. Yes
9. unknown
10. Baldassarre
11. No
12. Late afternoon
13. No
14. Cypress-trunks
15. No

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The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the , was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from October 10 to 24, 1964. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's invasion of China, before ultimately being canceled because of World War II.

The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports. (South Africa was, however, allowed to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, also held in Tokyo, where it made its Paralympic Games debut.) Tokyo was chosen as the host city during the 55th IOC Session in West Germany, on May 26, 1959.

These games were also the first to be telecast internationally without the need for tapes to be flown overseas, as they had been for the 1960 Olympics four years earlier. The games were telecast to the United States using Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, and from there to Europe using Relay 1. These were also the first Olympic Games to have color telecasts, albeit partially. Certain events like the sumo wrestling and judo matches, sports huge in Japan, were tried out using Toshiba's new color transmission system, but only for the domestic market. History surrounding the 1964 Olympics was chronicled in the 1965 documentary film "Tokyo Olympiad", directed by Kon Ichikawa.

1. Who was banned for the first time?
2. Why?
3. Were they allowed to compete in another event?
4. Which one?
5. What year were these Summer Olympics held?
6. And where?
7. Was the country supposed to host the Olympics before?
8. When?
9. Why did it not work out for them?
10. Who was supposed to take over?
11. Did that happen?
12. Why not?
13. From what day to what day were the 1964 Olympics held?
14. What was significant about the international telecasting?
15. What was used to telecast them to the US?
16. How about to Europe?
17. Was it in color or black and white?
18. What was the documentary about it called?
19. Who directed it?
20. When was it made?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. South Africa
2. apartheid system in sports.
3. yes
4. Paralympics,
5. 1964
6. held in Tokyo, Japan
7. yes
8. 1940
9. ecause of Japan's invasion of China
10. Helsinki
11. no
12. ultimately being canceled because of World War II
13. October 10 to 24, 1964
14. they were broadcast without the need for tapes to be flown overseas,
15. Syncom 3
16. from the US via Syncom3 then Europe on Relay 1.
17. both , some was in color, some not
18. Tokyo Olympiad
19. Kon Ichikawa.
20. 1965

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Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is one of six areas in the world where ancient civilization arose independently, and the second in the Americas along with Norte Chico (Caral-Supe) in present-day northern coastal Peru.

As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. Beginning as early as 7000 BC, the domestication of cacao, maize, beans, tomato, squash and chili, as well as the turkey and dog, caused a transition from paleo-Indian hunter-gatherer tribal grouping to the organization of sedentary agricultural villages. In the subsequent Formative period, agriculture and cultural traits such as a complex mythological and religious tradition, a vigesimal numeric system, and a complex calendric system, a tradition of ball playing, and a distinct architectural style, were diffused through the area. Also in this period, villages began to become socially stratified and develop into chiefdoms with the development of large ceremonial centers, interconnected by a network of trade routes for the exchange of luxury goods, such as obsidian, jade, cacao, cinnabar, "Spondylus" shells, hematite, and ceramics. While Mesoamerican civilization did know of the wheel and basic metallurgy, neither of these technologies became culturally important.

1. What civilization was aware of the wheel?
2. Were they familiar with metallurgy?
3. Did either of those make much impact on Mesoamerica?
4. Is it diverse in culture?
5. When did they start growing cacao?
6. Was that the same time as maize?
7. What animals were being domesticated around that time?
8. That helped transform them from a hunter-gatherer tribe to what?
9. What period came after that?
10. Besides a vigesimal numeric system, what's another thing that came to be?
11. Did they create a calendar?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Mesoamerican civilization
2. yes
3. no
4. yes
5. as early as 7000 BC
6. yes
7. turkeys and dogs
8. to sedentary agricultural villages
9. the Formative period
10. a complex calendric system
11. yes