Problem: Navassa Island (; ; also "La Navasse") is a small, uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. The island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute and is claimed as an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and Haiti which claimed sovereignty over Navassa since 1801 through its constitution, as the basis of its objection over the later 1850s' U.S. claim.

Navassa Island is about in area. It is located west of Haiti's southwest peninsula, south of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and about one-quarter of the way from mainland Haiti to Jamaica in the Jamaica Channel.

Navassa reaches an elevation of at Dunning Hill south of the lighthouse, Navassa Island Light. This location is from the southwestern coast or east of Lulu Bay.

The terrain of Navassa Island consists mostly of exposed coral and limestone, the island being ringed by vertical white cliffs high, but with enough grassland to support goat herds. The island is covered in a forest of just four tree species: short-leaf fig ("Ficus populnea" var. "brevifolia"), pigeon plum ("Coccoloba diversifolia"), mastic ("Sideroxylon foetidissimum"), and poisonwood ("Metopium brownei").

Navassa Island's topography, ecology, and modern history are similar to that of Mona Island, a small limestone island located in the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, which were once centers of guano mining, and are nature reserves for the United States. Transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on the island but the island is otherwise uninhabited. It has no ports or harbors, only offshore anchorages, and its only natural resource is guano; economic activity consists of subsistence fishing and commercial trawling activities.
1. Where is Navassa Island?
2. Who owns it?
3. Does anyone live there?
4. What is the terrain like?
5. Does it have a forest?
6. What are the indigenous trees?
7. Is the island similar to any others?
8. Which?
9. Where is that located?
10. Where is the Mona Passage?
Answer: 1. Caribbean Sea
2. United States and Haiti
3. no
4. mostly coral and limeston
5. Yes
6. short-leaf fig ("Ficus populnea" var. "brevifolia"), pigeon plum ("Coccoloba diversifolia"), mastic ("Sideroxylon foetidissimum"), and poisonwood ("Metopium brownei").
7. Yes
8. Mona
9. the Mona Passage
10. between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic

Q: Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of . The country's capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the North Solomon Islands (part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes outlying islands, such as Rennell and Bellona, and the Santa Cruz Islands.

The islands have been inhabited for thousands of years. In 1568, the Spanish navigator Alvaro de Mendana was the first European to visit them, naming them the "Islas Salomon". Britain defined its area of interest in the Solomon Islands archipelago in June 1893, when Captain Gibson R.N., of , declared the southern Solomon Islands a British protectorate. During World War II, the Solomon Islands campaign (19421945) saw fierce fighting between the United States and the Empire of Japan, such as in the Battle of Guadalcanal.

The official name of the then British overseas territory was changed from "the British Solomon Islands Protectorate" to "Solomon Islands" in 1975. Self-government was achieved in 1976; independence was obtained two years later. Today, Solomon Islands is a constitutional monarchy with the Queen of Solomon Islands, currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state. Manasseh Sogavare is the current prime minister.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where does the Solomon country take its name from?
2. What type of country is it?
3. How many major islands does it have?
4. and what about the smaller islands?
5. What is its capital
6. Which is located on which island?
7. Who was the first person to visit it?
8. In what year?
9. What type of monarchy is it now?
10. who is its head of state?
11. And its prime minister's name?
12. When was its self government achived?
A: 1. the Solomon Islands archipelago
2. it is a sovereign country
3. six
4. there are over 900 smaller islands
5. Honiara
6. Guadalcanal.
7. Alvaro de Mendana was the first European to visit
8. In 1568
9. a constitutional monarchy
10. currently Queen Elizabeth II
11. Manasseh Sogavare
12. in1976

Problem: CHAPTER XXIII

THE VISIT

There could be no question but that the man was coming for the sole and only purpose of paying them a visit, and Jet was quite confident he had grown suspicious he and his companion were being followed.

The boy's first thought was to edge farther into the shanty, in order to prevent his face from being seen so plainly; but he did not dare make very much of a move lest the man should be aware of his purpose.

"He knows what we're here for," Jim whispered, in a tone of fear.

"Don't let him see you think it. Act as if we wasn't talking of anything but hunting and fishing. Remember he'll kill us, if he knows the truth."

This was sufficient to drive away what little self-possession Jim had left, and he stood stupidly staring at the visitor until Jet said sharply:

"Pick up that hatchet and begin to cut wood; we haven't enough to last over night."

Jim would have obeyed almost any order at that moment. He was so dazed with fear as not to know what he was about, and mechanically he began to do as he was bidden.

Bob advanced leisurely, looked carelessly around at the boat, the stack of provisions and the weapons, after which he asked, much as if it was really a matter of no concern to him:

"Come up here on a hunting trip, eh?"

"More for fishing than anything else," Jet replied, keeping his face in the shadow as much as possible.
1. Who wanted to fish?
2. What did he try to hide?
3. What did he attempt to keep shadowed?
4. Who wanted to keep his head shadowed?
5. Who was questioning them?
6. What was in the vessel?
7. Who was scared?
8. Did he act robotical?
9. What would Bob do to the boys?
10. What tool did he use?
11. Why?
12. Did they have plenty?
13. How long would their supply last?
14. Where did Bob ask if they were going?
15. Was the visitor a woman?
Answer:
1. Jet
2. That they were there for hunting and fishing
3. unknown
4. Jet
5. Bob
6. stack of provisions and the weapons,
7. Jim
8. yes
9. Kill them
10. Hatchet
11. to cut wood
12. No
13. not over night
14. On a hunting trip
15. No