Problem: Mariupol, Ukraine (CNN)Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko declared a ceasefire went into effect at midnight Saturday local time (5 p.m. ET) between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian militants in the nation's east.

The separatist Donetsk People's Republic also announced the ceasefire.

But an apparent violation was reported less than 90 minutes after the ceasefire began when Ukraine's Anti-Terrorist Operation Command reported that a military post near Zolote in the Luhansk region has been shelled by mortars.

As a positive sign, CNN reporters in Ukraine reported the shelling quieted shortly after midnight.

The peace agreement signed in Minsk, Belarus, several days ago comes with many questions over how it will be implemented and whether it will stick. Mistrust is high on both sides, adding to the doubts.

The town of Debaltseve, a strategically located railroad hub in the east, is shaping up as a crucial piece of the ceasefire.

In his speech announcing the ceasefire, Poroshenko said Ukrainian troops control the town and warned militants to stay away.

"I think the fact of using the tense situation on the outskirts of Debaltseve by militants-terrorists-mercenaries poses a great threat, which can violate the ceasefire regime," Poroshenko said. "I am warning all participants of the Minsk negotiations, including the Russian Federation, which identifies itself as the guarantor of the reached agreements."

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, reporting from the eastern town of Donetsk, said separatists claim to have encircled Debaltseve.

"Debaltseve will be a vital flashpoint for the hours ahead," he said.

Poroshenko has warned that if the separatists do not abide by the ceasefire, he will impose martial law throughout Ukraine's territory, his spokesman Andrey Zhigulin told CNN.
1. Who is the Petro Poroshenko?
2. Of what country?
3. What did reporters in Ukraine report?
4. Who had called for a ceasefire?
5. Between who?
6. Did everyone adhere to it?
7. How long did it take for someone to violate it?
8. Where was the agreement signed?
9. What country is that in?
10. Do the two parties trust each other?
11. What town is becoming critical to the ceasefire?
12. Where is it located?
13. Who controls that city?
Answer: 1. the President
2. Ukraine
3. the shelling quieted
4. President Petro Poroshenko
5. the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian militants
6. No
7. less than 90 minutes
8. Minsk
9. Belarus
10. No
11. Debaltseve
12. in the east
13. Ukrainian troops

Problem: After the first World War, a small group of veterans returned to their village in Britain. Most of them managed to get along fairly well, but one--Francis Blustering, who had been wounded and who never recovered his strength-- was unable to work like others. In time he became very poor. Yet he was too proud to accept anything from the people in the village.

Once, these veterans held a reunion dinner in the home of Jules Grandin, who had made a good deal of money. Grandin produced a curiosity --a large old gold coin. Each man examined it with interest as it passed around the long table. All, however, had drunk wine freely and the room was full of noisy talk, so that the gold piece was soon forgotten. Later, when Grandin remembered it and asked for it, the coin was missing.

One of them suggested everyone be searched, to which all agreed, except Blustering. "You refuse, then?" asked Grandin. Blustering said with a red face, "Yes, I cannot allow it."

One by one, the others turned out their pockets. When the coin failed to appear, attention was focused on poor Blustering. Under the pitying stares of his friends, he walked out and returned to his home.

A few years later, Grandin made his house repaired. A workman found the gold coin, buried in dirt between planks of the floor. Hurrying to Blustering's home, Grandin apologized to him.

"But why didn't you allow yourself be searched?"

"Because I was a thief," Blustering said brokenly. "For weeks we had not had enough to eat and my pockets were full of food that I had taken from the table to carry home to my wife and hungry children."
1. When does this story take place?
2. Who returned to their village?
3. Did all of them do well?
4. Who didn't?
5. Why?
6. Did he have a job?
7. Who held a dinner?
8. What was the reason for the dinner?
9. What did Grandin show the men?
10. Did Grandin forget about the coin?
11. What did one of the men say they should do?
12. Did everyone say okay?
Answer: 1. Britain
2. small group of veterans
3. No
4. Francis Blustering
5. wounded and never recovered his strength
6. No
7. veterans
8. renunion dinner
9. a large old gold coin
10. Yes
11. One of them suggested everyone be searched.
12. No

Problem: CHAPTER XXXIII

RALPH FINDS THE DREAM MOUNTAIN

Now I must go back to that evening when we learned the great tidings from the lips of the lad Gaasha, whose life Ralph had saved after the attack by the Kaffirs upon the laager. There sat Gaasha on the ground staring, and there, not far away, Ralph was lying in his swoon, while Jan and I looked at each other like people who have suddenly beheld a sign from heaven.

"What evil magic is there in my words," said Gaasha presently, "that they should strike the Baas yonder dead like a spear?"

"He is not dead," I answered, "but for long he has sought that mountain Umpondwana of which you speak. Tell us now, did you hear of any white woman dwelling with the chieftainess Sihamba?"

"No, lady, I heard of none."

This answer of Gaasha's saddened me, for I made sure that if so strange a thing had happened as that a white woman had come to live among his tribe, the man who told him of the return of Sihamba would have told him of this also. Therefore, so I argued, either Suzanne was dead or she was in the power of Piet Van Vooren, or Sihamba had deserted her, though this last I did not believe. As it turned out afterwards, had not Gaasha been the stupidest of Kaffirs, we should have been saved those long days of doubt and trouble, for though he had not heard that Sihamba was accompanied by a white woman, he had heard that she brought with her a white _bird_ to the mountain Umpondwana. Of course if he had told us this we should have guessed that the white bird could be none other than Suzanne, whose native name was Swallow.
1. Who was on the ground?
2. Who was the most stupid of Kaffirs?
3. What was Suzanne's native name?
4. Whose life did Ralph save?
5. Who was lying in a swoon?
6. What mountain was being sought?
7. Did someone inquire about the presence of a white woman?
8. Was it possible that Suzanne was deceased?
9. Who possibly deserted her?
10. What color was the bird mentioned?
Answer:
1. Gaasha
2. she was
3. Swallow
4. Gaasha
5. Ralph
6. Umpondwana
7. yes
8. yes
9. Sihamba
10. white