input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson. The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it's sent sprawling . When it doesn't get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there's safety. Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They're beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they've realized some small parts of what they set out to do ." 1. Who is the author who writes a book about a zoo animal?
2. What animal?
3. What time of life does the book focus on?
4. Does the mother seem to do something mean?
5. What?
6. Why does she do that?
7. Is she trying to hurt her baby?
8. What does she do after the baby gets up the first time?
9. Who wrote a book about greatness?
10. Who was one person that he wrote about?
11. Who else?
12. And another?
13. What did these people have in common?
14. Did those people achieve great things?
15. Did those people have easy lives?
16. How tall is a baby giraffe?
numbered_answers: 1. Gary Richmond
2. giraffe
3. new-born
4. YES
5. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby
6. She wants it to get up
7. no
8. kicks it off its feet again
9. Irving Stone
10. Michelangelo
11. Vincent van Gogh
12. Sigmund Freud
13. they sometime in their life have a dream of something
14. yes
15. no
16. 10 feet

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 in Gary, Indiana. Being the seventh child in his family, Michael was often physically abused by his father, beaten up and also orally abused. But Michael also owed his success to his father's strict discipline.

Michael was always an entertainer. Even when he just started school, he would perform in front of his friends and classmates. He started his professional music career at the age of 11, as a member of The Jackson Five.

He is well-known for increasing the popularity of MTV through his music videos. Before this, music videos were made just to promote the album. But Michael's videos managed to change that by making them an art and a big business. Some of the music videos that are good examples of this are Beat It, Billie Jean, and thriller. Through these works the world got caught onto the idea of music videos and focused on music video channels.

Michael _ his fans and audience with his style of singing, dressing, and his complex dance moves, especially the moonwalks all around the world to show their love for him.

Through his work and various foundations , Michael raised and donated millions to charity, which is much more than any showman. He supported 39 charities in all. Apart from that, he had a great love for children, especially the poor ones, and he felt that children were the best thing than God.

Michael planned to start a 50-concert tour in July 2009. Sadly on June 25th, 2009, Michael passed away at home. Besides a great performer, showman and entertainer, he was a good and charitable person. Nobody can be another graeter entertainer like Michael Jackson ever again. 1. Is Michael Jackson still alive?
2. Where did he die?
3. Where's that?
4. When it happen?
5. What was the cause?
6. Where did he grow up?
7. Did he have any siblings?
8. How many?
9. What was his dad known for?
10. Did his dad help him in any way?
11. How so?
12. What was his first musical group?
13. Was he on tv?
14. What channel?
15. What songs is he known for?
16. Was he religious?
numbered_answers: 1. no
2. at home
3. unknown
4. June 25th, 2009
5. unknown
6. unknown
7. yes
8. unknown
9. being abusive
10. yes
11. with his strict discipline
12. The Jackson Five
13. yes
14. MTV
15. Beat It, Billie Jean, and thriller
16. unknown

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chapter XV.

Return to the Congo Mouth.

In the evening there was a palaver.

I need hardly say that my guide, after being paid to show me Nsundi, never had the slightest intention to go beyond the Yellala. Irritated by sleeping in the open air, and by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen, he and his moleques had sat apart all day, the picture of stubborn discontent, and

"Not a man in the place But had discontent written large in his face."

I proposed to send back a party for rum, powder, and cloth to the extent of 150, or half the demand, and my factotum, Selim, behaved like a trump. Gidi Mavunga, quite beyond self-control, sprang up, and declared that, if the Mundele would not follow him, that obstinate person might remain behind. The normal official deprecation, as usual, made him the more headstrong; he rushed off and disappeared in the bush, followed by a part of his slaves, the others crying aloud to him, "Wenda!"-- get out! Seeing that the three linguisters did not move, he presently returned, and after a furious address in Fiote began a Portuguese tirade for my benefit. This white man had come to their country, and, instead of buying captives, was bent upon enslaving their Mfumos; but that "Branco" should suffer for his attempt; no "Mukanda" or book (that is, letter) should go down stream; all his goods belonged of right to his guide, and thus he would learn to sit upon the heads of the noblesse, with much of the same kind. 1. What was one of the things the narrator proposed to send a party for?
2. What's another?
3. And the third thing?
4. For how much?
5. Who behaved like a trump?
6. Where was the guide paid to show the narrator?
7. Where did he never have the intention of going behond?
8. What was one of the things that he was irritated by?
9. And what was another?
10. What did these make him and the moleques do all day?
11. What were they the picture of?
12. What did Gidi Mavunga say as he sprang up?
13. Where did he disappear to then?
14. Who followed him?
15. What did the other slaves yell out to him?
16. How many linguisters were there?
17. When he came back, what language was his address in?
18. But before Portuguese, what was he speaking in?
19. What was the white man bent on instead of buying captives?
20. What does "Mukanda" mean?
21. What chapter is this?
numbered_answers:
1. rum
2. powder
3. cloth
4. 150
5. Selim
6. Nsundi
7. Yellala
8. sleeping in the open air
9. total want of hospitality
10. sit apart
11. stubborn discontent
12. obstinate person might remain behind
13. in the bush
14. a part of his slaves
15. Wenda!"-- get out!
16. three
17. Portuguese
18. Fiote
19. enslaving their Mfumos
20. book
21. XV