Read the text and answer the questions.

Chapter II

An Unknown Path

Kirk blinked. He closed his eyes and opened them again. The automobile was still there, and he was still in it. Ruth was still gazing at him with the triumphant look in her eyes. The chauffeur, silent emblem of a substantial bank-balance, still sat stiffly at the steering-wheel.

"Rich?" Kirk repeated.

"Rich," Ruth assured him.

"I don't understand."

Ruth's smile faded.

"Poor father----"

"Your father?"

"He died just after you sailed. Just before Bill got ill." She gave a little sigh. "Kirk, how odd life is!"

"But-----"

"It was terrible. It was some kind of a stroke. He had been working too hard and taking no exercise. You know when he sent Steve away that time he didn't engage anybody else in his place. He went back to his old way of living, which the doctor had warned him against. He worked and worked, until one day, Bailey says, he fainted at the office. They brought him home, and he just went out like a burned-out candle. I--I went to him, but for a long time he wouldn't see me.

"Oh, Kirk, the hours I spent in the library hoping that he would let me come to him! But he never did till right at the end. Then I went up, and he was dying. He couldn't speak. I don't know now how he felt toward me at the last. I kissed him. He was all shrunk to nothing. I had a horrible feeling that I had never been a real daughter to him. But--but--you know, he made it difficult, awfully difficult. And then he died; Bailey was on one side of the bed and I was on the other, and the nurse and the doctor were whispering outside the door. I could hear them through the transom."

1. What's the name of this section?
2. Who was closing and opening their eyes?
3. Where was he?
4. Who was looking at him?
5. Who else was in the car?
6. Who died before Bill became sick?
7. When did he die?
8. What did he die of?
9. What caused it?
10. Who didn't he replace?
11. What does Bailey say happened to the father?
12. How did the father respond to her?
13. Where did she wait for a change?
14. When did the father see her?
15. What sign of affection does she show him?
16. Who was on the other bedside?
17. Who was outside the door?

Numbered answers:
1. An Unknown Path
2. Kirk blinked. He closed his ey
3. automobile
4. Ruth
5. The chauffeur
6. father
7. He died just after Kirk sailed.
8. a stroke
9. working too hard and taking no exercise
10. Steve
11. fainted at the office
12. wouldn't see her
13. library
14. as he was dying
15. she kissed him.
16. Bailey
17. nurse and the doctor