Problem: CHAPTER III. Rome

One warm, still day, late in the Roman autumn, our two young men were sitting beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi. They had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden-house, where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky corner which must seem to her the last possible stage of a lapse from Olympus. Then they had wandered out into the gardens, and were lounging away the morning under the spell of their magical picturesqueness. Roderick declared that he would go nowhere else; that, after the Juno, it was a profanation to look at anything but sky and trees. There was a fresco of Guercino, to which Rowland, though he had seen it on his former visit to Rome, went dutifully to pay his respects. But Roderick, though he had never seen it, declared that it could n't be worth a fig, and that he did n't care to look at ugly things. He remained stretched on his overcoat, which he had spread on the grass, while Rowland went off envying the intellectual comfort of genius, which can arrive at serene conclusions without disagreeable processes. When the latter came back, his friend was sitting with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. Rowland, in the geniality of a mood attuned to the mellow charm of a Roman villa, found a good word to say for the Guercino; but he chiefly talked of the view from the little belvedere on the roof of the casino, and how it looked like the prospect from a castle turret in a fairy tale.
1. What season was it?
2. what was the weather like?
3. how many people sat under a tree?
4. were they old?
5. were they men or women?
6. where were they?
7. under what tree?
8. what kind?
9. of what?
10. how long had they been there?
11. what mask is there?
12. what kind?
13. where does it stare?
14. with what look?
15. from where?
16. who found something nice to say?
17. about what?
18. what did he discuss?
19. from where?
20. where is that?
Answer: 1. autumn
2. warm
3. two
4. no
5. men
6. at the garden-house
7. pines
8. high-stemmed
9. the Villa Ludovisi
10. an hour
11. mask of the famous Juno
12. colossal
13. out
14. blank eyes
15. that dusky corner
16. Rowland
17. the Guercino
18. the view
19. the little belvedere
20. on the roof of the casino

Problem: Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; ), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; ), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; ). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones.

Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) use Eastern Standard Time.

Daylight saving time is used in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the ACT. It is not currently used in Western Australia, Queensland or the Northern Territory.

The standardization of time in Australia began in 1892, when surveyors from the six colonies in Australia met in Melbourne for the Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors. The delegates accepted the recommendation of the 1884 International Meridian Conference to adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the basis for standard time.

The colonies enacted time zone legislation, which took effect in February 1895. The clocks were set ahead of GMT by eight hours in Western Australia; by nine hours in South Australia (and the Northern Territory, which it governed); and by 10 hours in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. The three time zones became known as "Eastern Standard Time", "Central Standard Time", and "Western Standard Time". Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales also adopted Central Standard Time due to it being connected by rail to Adelaide but not Sydney at the time.
1. How many times zones does Australia have?
2. Who regulates time?
3. Do they all observe DST?
Answer: 1. three
2. ndividual state governments
3. no

Problem: The Ottoman Empire (/tmn/; Ottoman Turkish: Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanl Imparatorlugu or Osmanl Devleti), also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey or Turkey, was an empire founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia. After conquests in the Balkans by Murad I between 1362 and 1389, the Ottoman sultanate was transformed into a transcontinental empire and claimant to the caliphate. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a multinational, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states. Some of these were later absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.[dn 4]
1. What kind of empire was Ottoman during the 16th and 17th centuries?
2. Did it control anything?
3. What?
4. Anything else?
5. When was it founded?
6. Is it known as something else?
7. When did they end the Byzantine Empire?
8. How?
9. By whom?
10. How many providences did it have in the 17th century?
11. What happened in 1362 and 1389?
12. Who was it founded by?
Answer:
1. A multinational, multilingual empire.
2. Yes
3. Much of Southeast Europe, for one.
4. Western Asia,
5. 1299.
6. The Ottoman Empire (/tmn/; Ottoman Turkish: Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanl Imparatorlugu or Osmanl Devleti), also known as the Turkish Empire,
7. 1453
8. With the conquest of Constantinople.
9. Mehmed the Conqueror.
10. 32.
11. conquests in the Balkans
12. Murad.