Question:
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Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 120,000 characters covering 129 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.

Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII character, all of which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters. UCS-2 uses a 16-bit code unit (two 8-bit bytes) for each character but cannot encode every character in the current Unicode standard. UTF-16 extends UCS-2, using one 16-bit unit for the characters that were representable in UCS-2 and two 16-bit units (4 8 bits) to handle each of the additional characters.
1. how many common encodes?
2. are they all still in use?
3. what one is not longer used?
4. what is the first common one?
5. how many bytes does it use?
6. for what?
7. what is the second one?

Numbered answers:
1. Three
2. No
3. UCS-2
4. UTF-8
5. one
6. any ASCII character
7. UTF-16

Question:
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CHAPTER XLVII.

KERRYCULLION.

Captain Clayton was thoroughly enjoying life, now perhaps, for the first time since he had had a bullet driven through his body. It had come to pass that everything, almost everything, was done for him by the hands of Edith. And yet Ada was willing to do everything that was required; but she declared always that what she did was of no avail. "Unless you take it to him, you know he won't eat it," she would still say. No doubt this was absurd, because the sick man's appetite was very good, considering that a hole had been made from his front to his back within the last month. It was still September, the weather was as warm as summer, and he insisted on lying out in the garden with his rugs around him, and enjoying the service of all his slaves. But among his slaves Edith was the one whom the other slaves found it most difficult to understand.

"I will go on," she said to her father, "and do everything for him while he is an invalid. But, when he is well enough to be moved, either he or I must go out of this."

Her father simply said that he did not understand it; but then he was one of the other slaves.

"Edith," said the Captain, one day, speaking from his rugs on the bank upon the lawn, "just say that one word, 'I yield.' It will have to be said sooner or later."
1. who was shot?
2. where did the bullet go
3. how is he doing now?
4. is it the first time since being shot?
5. who assisted him with everything?
6. was anyone else willing to help?
7. who?
8. what was she willing to do?
9. did she help?
10. how did she feel about helping?
11. what month was it?
12. was it cold out?
13. what season was it compared to?
14. who is Edith?
15. were there other slaves?
16. who?
17. who did they belong to?
18. who was the one he could't always understand?
19. who was Edith's father?
20. what does the Captain tell her to say?

Numbered answers:
1. Captain Clayton
2. through his body
3. he's thoroughly enjoying life
4. yes
5. Edith
6. yes
7. Ada
8. everything that was required
9. unknown
10. what she did was of no avail
11. September
12. no
13. summer
14. a slave
15. yes
16. Ada
17. Captain Clayton
18. Edith
19. a slave
20. 'I yield.'

Question:
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My name is Toby. I'm eighty-three years old now. I once knew the greatest man in England. William Shakespeare was his name. I first met William near a big field of apple trees in the town named Stratford in October, 1579. He told me he was 15 years old. He was two years older than me. He had a sister, Joan, and two younger brothers, Gilbert and Richard. And the next year he had another brother, Edmund. After William's parents died, he and his sister lived with his mother's brother. I became his friend from that day until he died. We met nearly every day. We were friends for thirty years.

I once worked with him in the theatre, through the good times and the bad times. William was good at acting. He could make all kinds of people pleased. By 1592, he became very famous. He was always busy day and night. I don't know when he slept. He not only acted in plays, but also wrote his own plays. In his whole life, William wrote 37 plays in all. He was the best _ in England.

He wrote a play about love in 1595. It was Romeo and Juliet. He once used my name, Toby, in his play--Twelfth Night. In this play, Sir Toby Belch was a big fat man, who liked drinking too much and having a good time. Queen Elizabeth the First watched this play on the 6thof January, 1601. She liked it.

William Shakespeare is dead now, of course. He has been dead for more than thirty years. There's no singing, no dancing, no plays. It isn't like that in my young days. But I can still think--and remember when William and I were young, we had a good time in London, William and I...
1. What famous person did Toby know?
2. Where did they meet?
3. When?
4. Who was older?
5. By how much?
6. What did the older person do in 1595?
7. What was it called?
8. Who was overweight in it?
9. Which of his works had an overweight character?
10. What else did the character do?
11. Did anyone of note see this one?
12. Who?
13. Did she have a good time?
Numbered answers:
1. William Shakespeare
2. Near a big field of apple trees in Stratford
3. October, 1579
4. William Shakespear
5. Two years
6. Wrote a play about love in 1595
7. Romeo and Juliet
8. unknown
9. Twelfth Night
10. Drinking too much and having a good time
11. Yes
12. Queen Elizabeth
13. Yes