Q: CHAPTER XI. THE ASHBURNS

Gregory Ashburn pushed back his chair and made shift to rise from the table at which he and his brother had but dined.

He was a tall, heavily built man, with a coarse, florid countenance set in a frame of reddish hair that hung straight and limp. In the colour of their hair lay the only point of resemblance between the brothers. For the rest Joseph was spare and of middle weight, pale of face, thin-lipped, and owning a cunning expression that was rendered very evil by virtue of the slight cast in his colourless eyes.

In earlier life Gregory had not been unhandsome; debauchery and sloth had puffed and coarsened him. Joseph, on the other hand, had never been aught but ill-favoured.

"Tis a week since Worcester field was fought," grumbled Gregory, looking lazily sideways at the mullioned windows as he spoke, "and never a word from the lad."

Joseph shrugged his narrow shoulders and sneered. It was Joseph's habit to sneer when he spoke, and his words were wont to fit the sneer.

"Doth the lack of news trouble you?" he asked, glancing across the table at his brother.

Gregory rose without meeting that glance.

"Truth to tell it does trouble me," he muttered.

"And yet," quoth Joseph, "tis a natural thing enough. When battles are fought it is not uncommon for men to die."

Gregory crossed slowly to the window, and stared out at the trees of the park which autumn was fast stripping.

Answer the following questions:
1. What color was Gregory's hair?
2. Was it curly?
3. What did it look like, then?
4. True or False: Joseph had not always been unattractive.
5. What about Gregory?
6. Who is worried by the lack of news?
7. True or False: Gregory and Joseph were father and son.
8. How were they related?
9. What does Joseph say often happens in battles?
10. What season was it?
11. And the month?
12. Did Joseph have brown eyes?
13. How did they look, then?
14. What had the brothers just finished doing?
15. What kind of window did Gregory look out of?
16. What does the window overlook?
17. Which brother is more heavily built?
18. What was the only physical feature they shared?
19. What did Joseph often do when speaking?
20. What had made Gregory unhandsome?
A: 1. reddish
2. no
3. it hung straight and limp
4. False.
5. No, not always.
6. Gregory
7. False.
8. They were brothers.
9. men die
10. autumn
11. unknown
12. No.
13. colourless
14. dining
15. mullioned windows
16. the trees of the park
17. Gregory
18. the colour of their hair
19. he would sneer
20. debauchery and sloth
Q: There was once a tiny pig who lived on a farm. He was a very cute animal, and he knew it. He liked to stay clean and soft and look as good as he could. When he had to go in the mud, he always wore black rain boots, a black rain hat, and a yellow rain coat. This helped keep the mud off. He didn't want it getting on his soft pink skin.

This tiny pig lived with his aunt, who loved to get dirty. "You shouldn't stay so clean!" she told him. "We're pigs! We love the mud!" But the tiny pig kept wearing his boots, coat, and hat.

One day, all the pigs were standing and eating their lunch. They had corn, oats, apples, and bread, and they all dug in. But the tiny pig wouldn't eat any of it. He had left his bib at home and didn't want to get his clothes dirty. He stood and looked sad as the other pigs ate their fill. They were getting brown mud all over them.

"Come on," said his aunt. "You can get some bread crumbs on yourself. It's okay." But the tiny pig only stood there and looked blue.

Suddenly, a car drove up. The driver was doing too fast and splashed some mud on the tiny pig. The tiny big was sad and mad. But then the people in the car got out.

"Look at how cute that little muddy pig is!" said one.

"He's so cute!" said the other.

"Really?" said the tiny pig.

"Yes!" said his aunt. "For the last time, everybody knows that pigs get muddy!"

So the tiny pig went and dug in to the food with all the other pigs. He ate a big piece of bread. He got crumbs all over himself.

Answer the following questions:
1. Is the story about cows?
A: 1. No
Q: (CNN) -- Two Kenyan aid workers who had been held by the al Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab since 2011 have been rescued near Somalia's border with Kenya, the African Union Mission in Somalia said Friday.

The rescue was carried out on the outskirts of Dhobley town in Somalia by peacekeepers for the mission, known by the acronym AMISOM, who were working with Somali forces, AMISOM said in a news release.

One of the rescued, James Kiarie Gichoi, was working for Care International when he was kidnapped near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

The other, Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike, was working as a driver's helper for a company contracted by the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres when he was kidnapped in Afmadow, a nearby town in Somalia.

Both men were receiving treatment Friday at an AMISOM medical facility in nearby Dhobley, Somalia, and were expected to be repatriated to Nairobi, Kenya.

AMISOM forces working with the Somali National Army have mounted an offensive that has liberated 10 towns that were among Al-Shabaab's strongholds, said AMISOM, the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

Al-Shabaab, designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, has a relationship with al Qaeda that goes back several years. In 2012, the two groups effectively merged, said CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen.

Al-Shabaab hopes to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, but has launched attacks in other countries as well.

In 2010, Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, amid crowds of soccer fans watching televised screenings of the World Cup final. The bombings left 74 people dead.

Answer the following questions:
1. where did the rescue happen?
2. who was being rescued?
3. who were they captured by?
4. who is linked to who?
5. where did one of the workers work?
6. what was his name?
7. aznd the others name?
8. did he work at the same place?
9. where then?
10. were they kidnapped in the same place?
11. who rescued them?
12. who were they working with?
13. where are the men now?
14. where?
15. will they stay there?
16. where are they headed next?
17. What does Al-Shabaabwant to do to Somalia?
18. What did they claim responsibility for in 2010?
19. where?
20. was anyone hurt?
A:
1. near Somalia's border with Kenya
2. Two Kenyan aid workers
3. by Al-Shabaab
4. al Qaeda
5. for Care International
6. James Kiarie Gichoi
7. Daniel Njuguna Wanyoike
8. no
9. a town in Somalia.
10. no
11. AMISOM did
12. Somali forces
13. at an AMISOM medical facility
14. in nearby Dhobley
15. probably not
16. to Nairobi, Kenya
17. they hope to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state
18. two suicide bombings
19. in Kampala, Uganda
20. yes