Problem: West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north (and, slightly, east), and Maryland to the northeast. West Virginia is the 10th smallest by area, is ranked 38th in population, and has the second lowest household income of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston.

West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, after the American Civil War had begun. Delegates from some Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from Virginia, although they included many secessionist counties in the new state. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the war. West Virginia was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, the first to separate from any state since Maine separated from Massachusetts, and was one of two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War (the other being Nevada). While a portion of its residents held slaves, most of the residents were yeomen farmers, and the delegates provided for gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution.
1. Was West Virginia one of the original states?
2. Was it a state at the beginning of the Civil War?
3. What year did it achieve statehood?
4. What area of Virginia did West Virginia come from?
5. Were all the counties loyal to the union?
6. Was it in a strategically important position during the war?
7. What was the last state to separate from another?
8. From New Hampshire?
9. From what?
10. How many other areas were given statehood during the Civil War?
11. What was it?
12. What did most people do for a living in early West Virginia?
13. Did any of the people have slaves?
14. Did that end abruptly?
15. What finally abolished slavery there?
16. What state is to its north?
17. Is Ohio on its southern border?
18. What is the area called that West Virginia is a part of?
19. Is it one of the larger U.S. states?
20. Is it wealthy?
Answer: 1. no
2. yes
3. 1863
4. northwestern
5. no
6. yes
7. Maine
8. no
9. Massachusetts
10. One
11. Nevada
12. farming
13. yes
14. no
15. new state constitution
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Appalachian
19. no
20. no

Problem: CHAPTER XIII

SAM ON THE ROAD

The next few days were very busy ones for Sam because he had a number of important classes to attend, and he was hard at work finishing his theme on "Civilization in Ancient Central America." It was impossible to call on Grace, and so he did nothing to find out the truth about Chester Waltham because he did not wish to ask the girl about this over the telephone, nor did he see his way clear to expressing his thoughts on paper.

Sunday came and went, and Monday morning brought a letter to the youngest Rover which he read with much interest. It was from Belright Fogg, a long-winded and formal communication, in which the lawyer stated that he had been under medical treatment because of being hit in the head by a snowball thrown by Sam, and he demanded fifty dollars damages. If the same was not paid immediately, he stated that he would begin suit.

"Anything wrong, Sam?" questioned Songbird, who was present while Sam was reading the letter. "You look pretty serious."

"Read it for yourself, Songbird," was the reply, and Sam passed the communication over.

"Well, of all the gall!" burst out the would-be poet of Brill. "Fifty dollars! Of course you won't pay any such bill as this?"

"Not so you can notice it," returned Sam, sharply. "If he had sent me a bill for five dollars or less I might have let him have the money just to shut him up. But fifty dollars! Why, it's preposterous!"
1. Who is the story's main character?
2. What is the title of his paper?
3. What did he receive on Monday?
4. Who sent it?
5. What is his occupation?
6. Why did he send the letter?
7. What kind of damages?
8. Why did he need that?
9. Who hit him?
10. Is Sam excited to pay him?
11. Is there an amount Sam would be willing to pay?
12. Does Sam's friend think he should pay?
13. What was her name?
Answer: 1. Sam
2. Civilization in Ancient Central America
3. a letter
4. Belright Fogg
5. lawyer
6. he demanded fifty dollars damages
7. medical treatment
8. being hit in the head by a snowball
9. Sam
10. No
11. five dollars or less
12. No
13. Songbird

Problem: CHAPTER III.

FACE TO FACE.

When Eustace Le Neve returned to lunch at Penmorgan that day he was silent to his host about Trevennack of Trevennack. To say the truth, he was so much attracted by Miss Cleer's appearance that he didn't feel inclined to mention having met her. But he wanted to meet her again for all that, and hoped he would do so. Perhaps Tyrrel might know the family, and ask them round to dine some night. At any rate, society is rare at the Lizard. Sooner or later, he felt sure, he'd knock up against the mysterious stranger somewhere. And that involved the probability of knocking up against the mysterious stranger's beautiful daughter.

Next morning after breakfast, however, he made a vigorous effort to induce Walter Tyrrel to mount the cliff and look at the view from Penmorgan Point toward the Rill and Kynance. It was absurd, he said truly, for the proprietor of such an estate never to have seen the most beautiful spot in it. But Tyrrel was obdurate. On the point of actually mounting the cliff itself he wouldn't yield one jot or tittle. Only, after much persuasion, he consented at last to cross the headland by the fields at the back and come out at the tor above St. Michael's Crag, provided always Eustace would promise he'd neither go near the edge himself nor try to induce his friend to approach it.

Satisfied with this lame compromise--for he really wished his host to enjoy that glorious view--Eustace Le Neve turned up the valley behind the house, with Walter Tyrrel by his side, and after traversing several fields, through gaps in the stone walls, led out his companion at last to the tor on the headland.
1. who wanted Walter Tyrrel to mount the cliff?
2. what could be seen from there?
3. had the proprietor of the estate ever been there?
4. who was the proprietor of the estate?
5. who was Eustace attracted to?
6. did he want to meet her again?
7. what is rare at the Lizard?
8. did Tyrrel want to go up the cliff?
9. did he yield at all on that topic?
10. how so?
11. did he have any conditions?
12. what did Eustace think of the comprimise?
13. did he think it was lame?
14. what did they traverse together?
15. what did they go through?
Answer:
1. Eustace Le Neve
2. the view from Penmorgan Point
3. No
4. Tyrrel
5. Miss Cleer
6. Yes
7. society
8. No
9. Yes
10. he consented to go tothe tor above St. Michael's Crag
11. Eustace would promise he'd neither go near the edge himself nor try to induce his friend to approach it.
12. He was satisfied.
13. Yes
14. fields
15. gaps in the stone walls