Q: Istanbul (CNN) -- A Turkish prosecutor has openly accused police of interfering with a high-level corruption investigation.

"Court orders have not been carried out and there has been open pressure on the judicial process from both the chief prosecutor's office and from the police force, which is supposed to carry out the decisions of the courts," Muammer Akkas said in a Thursday statement.

He spoke one day after three Cabinet ministers resigned their posts, after their sons were arrested or temporarily detained in an anti-graft sting, semiofficial news agency Anadolu reported.

One of them, Urbanization and Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar, went further than the other two, not just resigning his Cabinet position but also calling on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to step down.

Turkish media reported a possible second wave of detentions as imminent late Wednesday, but the raids did not materialize.

Instead, an apparent deadlock within the judiciary emerged as Akkas, the prosecutor, issued his statement saying the judiciary was under the heel of the government.

Akkas accused police and prosecutors of ignoring a decision of the courts by refusing to carry out more raids.

In a televised statement, Chief Istanbul Prosecutor Turan Colakkadi fired back, saying that Akkas had mishandled the investigation and leaked information to the press, leading to his removal from the case.

Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan and Interior Minister Muammer Guler, whose sons were also arrested in the investigation, also resigned Wednesday. Erdogan accepted the resignations, Anadolu reported.

The sons were detained in a roundup that included the head of a public bank, several bureaucrats and high-profile businessmen. The roundup came after a two-year investigation by the Istanbul Prosecutor's Office into allegations of corruption including money laundering, gold smuggling and bribery.

1. A Turkish prosecutor
2. of interfering
3. investigation
4. a high-level corruption investigation.
5. yes
6. reported a possible second wave
7. of detentions
8. late Wednesday,
9. no
10. yes
11. Muammer Guler
12. Interior Minister
13. yes
14. Zafer Caglayan
15. Minister

Numbered questions:
1. who is accused?
2. accused of what?
3. interfering with what?
4. what type of investigation?
5. did the media report?
6. what did they report?
7. a second wave of what?
8. when was this to happen?
9. did the detentions occur?
10. did anyone resign?
11. who resigned?
12. what does he do?
13. did anyone else resign?
14. who?
15. what was his position?

Q: CHAPTER XXIII

AN EVENING AT APPLEYARD

Rankine had got a few days' leave and was spending it at Appleyard. He sat beside Elsie in a corner of the billiard-room, where the party had gathered after dinner. He had arrived during the afternoon, and Andrew was not altogether pleased to see him, although he liked the man. Elsie had suggested that Dick should invite him, and had added that he might as well come when Madge Whitney was there. Since Elsie had not seen Rankine until he arrived, Andrew wondered what she meant; but he admitted that she generally had a reason for what she did.

Nobody had been playing billiards or wanted to begin. Elsie and Mrs. Woodhouse were knitting and the others were talking quietly, while they waited for the evening newspaper.

Presently Staffer made a remark about the Navy, and Madge Whitney looked at Rankine with a smile.

"Don't you feel that you must answer that?"

"I don't know that I can," Rankine answered good-naturedly. "To some extent, Mr. Staffer's right. The Navy certainly occupies the background of the stage, just now."

"It strikes me as being out of sight altogether," Staffer said.

"Well, perhaps that's its proper place. But I expect it will emerge from obscurity when it's wanted."

"We must hope so," Staffer returned. "No doubt, your commanders are waiting for the right moment to make a dramatic entry on the scene; but one imagines that ambitious young officers must find being kept in the background rather galling."

1. CHAPTER XXIII
2. AN EVENING AT APPLEYAR
3. Rankine
4. He had arrived during the afternoon
5. corner of the billiard-room
6. during the afternoon
7. Andrew
8. Elsie
9. unknown
10. Dick
11. playing billiards
12. talking quietly
13. knitting
14. unknown
15. Staffer

Numbered questions:
1. What is the chapter number?
2. What is the name of the chapter?
3. Who was sitting next to Elsie?
4. How was he able to be at the Appleyard?
5. Where was he sitting with her?
6. When did they go there?
7. Who was not happy with his arrival?
8. Who suggested he should be invited?
9. Who should be present when he came?
10. Who was to invite him?
11. What common thing were Elsie and Mrs. Woodhouse doing?
12. What were the others doing?
13. And what were Elsie and Mrs. Woodhouse doing?
14. Who broke the silence?
15. Who made a comment about the military?

Q: CHAPTER IX

THE SMITING OF AMON

That evening I sat ill at ease in my work-chamber in Seti's palace, making pretence to write, I who felt that great evils threatened my lord the Prince, and knew not what to do to turn them from him. The door opened, and old Pambasa the chamberlain appeared and addressed me by my new titles, saying that the Hebrew lady Merapi, who had been my nurse in sickness, wished to speak with me. Presently she came and stood before me.

"Scribe Ana," she said, "I have but just seen my uncle Jabez, who has come, or been sent, with a message to me," and she hesitated.

"Why was he sent, Lady? To bring you news of Laban?"

"Not so. Laban has fled away and none know where he is, and Jabez has only escaped much trouble as the uncle of a traitress by undertaking this mission."

"What is the mission?"

"To pray me, if I would save myself from death and the vengeance of God, to work upon the heart of his Highness, which I know not how to do----"

"Yet I think you might find means, Merapi."

"----save through you, his friend and counsellor," she went on, turning away her face. "Jabez has learned that it is in the mind of Pharaoh utterly to destroy the people of Israel."

"How does he know that, Merapi?"

"I cannot say, but I think all the Hebrews know. I knew it myself though none had told me. He has learned also that this cannot be done under the law of Egypt unless the Prince who is heir to the throne and of full age consents. Now I am come to pray you to pray the Prince not to consent."

1. Hebrews
2. that Pharoah wishes to destroy Hebrews
3. Jabez
4. Merapi
5. Seti's
6. no
7. threats to his Prince
8. yes
9. Pambasa
10. chamberlain
11. to announce Merapi
12. Jabez
13. yes
14. Jabez is her uncle
15. Laban
16. by sending Merapi to plead

Numbered questions:
1. What people all have a certain knowledge?
2. What do they know?
3. According to whom?
4. Who agrees with this idea?
5. Whose place did someone try to do their job in?
6. Were they writing enthusiastically?
7. What did they fear?
8. Did someone enter?
9. Who?
10. What was her job?
11. What did she want?
12. Who had Merapi recently interacted with?
13. Are they related?
14. How so?
15. Who had run and is missing?
16. How has her relative avoided problems?