question: Post-punk is a heterogeneous type of rock music that emerged in the wake of the punk movement of the 1970s. Drawing inspiration from elements of punk rock while departing from its musical conventions and wider cultural affiliations, post-punk music was marked by varied, experimentalist sensibilities and its "conceptual assault" on rock tradition. Artists embraced electronic music, black dance styles and the avant-garde, as well as novel recording technology and production techniques. The movement also saw the frequent intersection of music with art and politics, as artists liberally drew on sources such as critical theory, cinema, performance art and modernist literature. Accompanying these musical developments were subcultures that produced visual art, multimedia performances, independent record labels and fanzines in conjunction with the music.

The term "post-punk" was first used by journalists in the late 1970s to describe groups moving beyond punk's sonic template into disparate areas. Many of these artists, initially inspired by punk's DIY ethic and energy, ultimately became disillusioned with the style and movement, feeling that it had fallen into commercial formula, rock convention and self-parody. They repudiated its populist claims to accessibility and raw simplicity, instead seeing an opportunity to break with musical tradition, subvert commonplaces and challenge audiences. Artists moved beyonds punk's focus on the concerns of a largely white, male, working class population and abandoned its continued reliance on established rock and roll tropes, such as three-chord progressions and Chuck Berry-based guitar riffs. These artists instead defined punk as "an imperative to constant change", believing that "radical content demands radical form".
1. When was the term "post punk" first used?
2. Who first used it?
3. Why?
4. What type of music is it?
5. Is it classical or jazz?
6. What genre is it?
7. Where did the inspiration come from?
8. Was it conventional?
9. What was it marked by?
10. What was seen during this movement?
11. What did the artist's embrace?
12. What kind of subcultures developed?
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answer: 1. late 1970s
2. journalists
3. describe groups beyond punk's sonic template
4. heterogeneous
5. no
6. Post-punk
7. punk rock
8. no
9. varied, experimentalist sensibilities
10. music with art and politics,
11. electronic music, black dance styles and the avant-garde
12. visual art, multimedia performances, independent record labels and fanzines

question: Jim was a 15-year-old boy living with his little sister, Joy. Their parents had passed away long ago. Jim took care of Joy by himself. One day, Jim woke up at 3 in the morning as usual. When Joy was sleeping alone, Jim left their little house to deliver newspapers. As he did so, he found something unusual. One man was sitting in front of Jim's house. Jim was so surprised that he stopped to look at him closely. It was an icy morning and he looked very old. The poor old man didn't have anything to cover himself with. Jim went into his house to get the old man a blanket . However, there were no extra blankets, so Jim thought hard and took his father's coat. It was the only thing of his father's that he had left. Jim wrote a short note. "Sir, I found you sleeping in front of my house. This is my father's coat. I hope it fits you well." He put the note in a pocket of the coat, and covered the old man with the coat. Then he went to work. When he came back three hours later, both the man and the coat were gone. Jim thought that it was the best thing he could have done with his father's coat. That afternoon, Jim hurried home after school because Joy was at home alone. However, Joy and the old man were standing in front of the house, and Joy shouted to Jim, "Brother!He's our grandfather!" The grandfather smiled and said, "Jim, I have been looking for you all around the country for eight years. I'm not rich. But I can take care of you two. Thank you for giving me the coat and letting me know what a good person my grandson is. This coat was the very one that I gave my own son, a long time ago."
1. Who did Jim live with?
2. How were Jim and Joy related?
3. Who else did Jim and Joy meet?
4. Who met the grandfather first?
5. Where did he see his grandfather?
6. Who lived in the house?
7. Where were the mom and dad?
8. Was the grandpa related to their mom or dad?
9. What did he give the old fellow?
10. Why did he give him a jacket?
11. What was in the pocket?
12. Who wrote it?
13. Who was looking for the kids?
14. How long had he tried to find them?
15. Was he happy to find them?
16. Who had to go to work?
17. What was his job?
18. What time did he get up to go?
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answer: 1. Joy
2. siblings
3. Their grandfather
4. Jim
5. in front Jim's house
6. Jim and his sister
7. they passed away
8. dad
9. a coat
10. it was an icy morning
11. a note
12. Jim
13. the grandfather
14. eight years
15. yes
16. Jim
17. delivering newspapers
18. 3 in the morning

question: CHAPTER XXXIV

GUERRILLA WARFARE

"There are few pleasures," said Psmith, as he resumed his favourite position against the mantelpiece and surveyed the commandeered study with the pride of a householder, "keener to the reflective mind than sitting under one's own roof-tree. This place would have been wasted on Spiller; he would not have appreciated it properly."

Mike was finishing his tea. "You're a jolly useful chap to have by you in a crisis, Smith," he said with approval. "We ought to have known each other before."

"The loss was mine," said Psmith courteously. "We will now, with your permission, face the future for awhile. I suppose you realise that we are now to a certain extent up against it. Spiller's hot Spanish blood is not going to sit tight and do nothing under a blow like this."

"What can he do? Outwood's given us the study."

"What would you have done if somebody had bagged your study?"

"Made it jolly hot for them!"

"So will Comrade Spiller. I take it that he will collect a gang and make an offensive movement against us directly he can. To all appearances we are in a fairly tight place. It all depends on how big Comrade Spiller's gang will be. I don't like rows, but I'm prepared to take on a reasonable number of bravoes in defence of the home."

Mike intimated that he was with him on the point. "The difficulty is, though," he said, "about when we leave this room. I mean, we're all right while we stick here, but we can't stay all night."
1. Were did he lean?
2. What was he looking at?
3. Who was drinking a hot beverage?
4. What did he think of the first guy?
5. Were they aware of each other in the past?
6. Who are they facing now?
7. Who gave them the study?
8. What will Spiller do?
9. What will they have to fight them for?
10. Will they stay there all night?
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answer:
1. Against the mantelpiece
2. The study
3. Mike
4. That he's useful
5. No
6. Spiller
7. Outwood
8. Collect a gang.
9. The study
10. No