Q: Antioch on the Orontes (; , also Syrian Antioch) was an ancient Greco-Roman city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey, and lends the modern city its name.

Antioch was founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals. The city's geographical, military, and economic location benefited its occupants, particularly such features as the spice trade, the Silk Road, and the Persian Royal Road. It eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East. It was also the main center of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Most of the urban development of Antioch was done during the Roman Empire, when the city was one of the most important in the eastern Mediterranean area of Rome's dominions.

Antioch was called "the cradle of Christianity" as a result of its longevity and the pivotal role that it played in the emergence of both Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. The Christian New Testament asserts that the name "Christian" first emerged in Antioch. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis, and its residents were known as "Antiochenes". The city was a metropolis of half a million people during Augustan times, but it declined to relative insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes, and a change in trade routes, which no longer passed through Antioch from the far east following the Mongol conquests.

Answer the following questions:
1. WHen was Antioch founded?
2. By who?
3. WHo was he?
4. Where was it located?
5. Are any modern places near it?
6. What one?
7. What was one way the city's placement was a good one?
8. ANy other ways?
9. Was it near any particular trading lines?
10. What was one?
11. And another?
12. Was the city associated with any faiths?
13. How many?
14. WHat was one?
15. How is it connected to that religion?
16. WHat is the other faith?
17. How was it important to that one?
A: 1. Antioch was founded near the end of the 4th century BC
2. by Seleucus I Nicator
3. he was one of Alexander the Great's generals.
4. on the eastern side of the Orontes River
5. yes
6. Antakya
7. its economic location benefited its occupants
8. unknown
9. yes
10. the Persian Royal Road
11. the Silk Road
12. yes
13. two
14. Christianity.
15. The Christian New Testament asserts that the name "Christian" first emerged in Antioch.
16. Judaism
17. it played a pivotal role in its emergence

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

I'm Marie. I work in a nursing home and my job is to look after the old people. Alice is one of them. She's a very nice old woman. This year, Alice had a difficult time. She went to hospital twice. In November, I finally could get her back to her "home". Alice hoped that her daughter could come to visit her on Christmas Eve because she wanted to be with her family, like the old days. But her daughter was coming after Christmas, so she was very sad. I also felt sad because she would be alone on the holiday! On Christmas Eve, I took her to a candlelight service at church that night. I didn't take her to my church. I took her to the church in her old neighborhood. We got there early and I let her sit near the door, so people could see her when they came in. Soon some of her friends came to the church and they all talked to her and sat with her. Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there. She said she loved the gift like this. That night, I thought I got the best gift: the smile on Alice's face. .

1. What is Marie's job?
2. Is there one in particular?
3. What is her name?
4. Is Alice healthy?
5. Was she home the whole time?
6. Is she home now?
7. When did she get there?
8. Why was she sad?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. look after old people
2. yes
3. Alice
4. no
5. no
6. yes
7. In November
8. her daughter wouldn't be there on christmas eve

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXVI. MOONSHINE.

But still the lady shook her head, And swore by yea and nay My whole was all that he had said, And all that he could say. W. M. Praed.

Mrs. Brownlow had intended to go at once to London on her return to England, but the joint entreaties of Armine and Barbara prevailed on her to give them one week at Belforest, now in that early spring beauty in which they had first seen it.

How delightful the arrival was! Easter had been very late, so it was the last week of the vacation, and dear old Friar John's handsome face was the first thing they saw at the station, and then his father's portly form, with a tall pretty creature on each side of him, causing Babie to fall back with a cry of glad amazement, "Oh! Essie and Ellie! Such women!"

Then the train stopped, and there was a tumult of embracings and welcomes, in the midst of which Jock appeared, having just come by the down train.

"You'll all come to dinner this evening?" entreated Caroline. "My love to Ellen. Tell her you must all of you come."

It was a most delightsome barouche full that drove from the station. Jock took the reins, and turned over coachman and footman to the break, and in defiance of dignity, his mother herself sprang up beside him. The sky was blue, the hedges were budding with pure light-green above, and resplendent with rosy campion and white spangles of stitchwort below. Stars of anemone, smiling bunches of primrose, and azure clouds of bluebell made the young hearts leap as at that first memorable sight. Armine said he was ready to hurrah and throw up his hat, and though Elvira declared that she saw nothing to be so delighted about, they only laughed at her.

1. Was had planned a stop to London?
2. when?
3. to where?
4. why didn't she?
5. for what?
6. what season is it?
7. what season is near?
8. who did they see at the station?
9. who else?
10. when were they at the station?
11. how were the two females described?
12. who was happy to see them?
13. what was the reaction?
14. and said what?
15. who took control of the reins?
16. and did what?
17. was the weather nice?
18. who was ready to celebrate?
19. what did he want to toss?
20. Who disagreed with him?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Mrs. Brownlow
2. on her return
3. England
4. the joint entreaties of Armine and Barbara prevailed on her
5. to give them one week at Belforest
6. spring
7. Easter
8. Friar John
9. Essie and Ellie
10. the last week of the vacation
11. as tall pretty creatures
12. Babie
13. to fall back with a cry of glad amazement
14. "Oh! Essie and Ellie! Such women!"
15. Jock
16. turned over coachman and footman
17. yes
18. Armine
19. his hat
20. Elvira