Q: CHAPTER XI.

FOR AND AGAINST.

Saunders was excited or he would not have spoken so hastily or so bluntly.

Hal grew very pale, and clenched his hands.

"You say I entered Mr. Saunders' room?" he demanded, turning to Ferris.

"I do," replied the tall boy.

He had hardly spoken, when Hal strode over with such a determined air that Ferris was forced to beat a retreat until he backed up against a side table.

"You know you are saying what isn't so," said Hal, in a low voice. "And I want you to take it back."

"I--I am telling the truth," stammered Ferris.

"It is false. It is more likely that you entered Mr. Saunders' room yourself."

"When did you see Carson enter my room?" put in the dry-goods clerk.

"Just as I was getting ready to come down."

"Why didn't you speak of it before?" asked Mrs. Ricket.

"I thought he had gone in to see Tom."

"There is not a word of truth in what he says, and he knows it," said Hal, calmly. "It is merely a scheme to get me into trouble because he does not like me."

"No scheme about it," blustered Ferris. "If I were you I'd search his room."

"If the stolen things are there, Ferris put them there," added Hal, quickly.

"Mean to say I'm a thief?" roared Ferris, turning red in the face.

"I do."

"Take care, or I'll give you a sound thrashing."

"Similar to the one you gave me the other day, I presume," replied Hal. "I am ready for you at any time."

Answer the following questions:
1. what is the title?
2. was someone angry?
3. who?
4. was he arguing with someone?
5. who?
6. was he short?
7. why was Hal angry?
8. what?
9. what is he accused of doing there?
10. what?
A: 1. FOR AND AGAINST.
2. Yes
3. Hal
4. Yes
5. Ferris.
6. No
7. he was accused of something
8. entering Mr. Saunders' room .
9. stealing something
10. unknown
Q: CHAPTER XXXV. THE ITALIAN PEDLAR

This caitiff monk for gold did swear, That by his drugs my rival fair A saint in heaven should be.--SCOTT

A grand cavalcade bore the house of Quinet from Montauban--coaches, wagons, outriders, gendarmes--it was a perfect court progress, and so low and cumbrous that it was a whole week in reaching a grand old castle standing on a hill-side among chestnut woods, with an avenue a mile long leading up to it; and battlemented towers fit to stand a siege.

Eustacie was ranked among the Duchess's gentlewomen. She was so far acknowledged as a lady of birth, that she was usually called Madame Esperance; and though no one was supposed to doubt her being Theodore Gardon's widow, she was regarded as being a person of rank who had made a misalliance by marrying him. This Madame de Quinet had allowed the household to infer, thinking that the whole bearing of her guest was too unlike that of a Paris _bourgeoise_ not to excite suspicion, but she deemed it wiser to refrain from treating her with either intimacy or distinction that might excite jealousy or suspicion. Even as it was, the consciousness of a secret, or the remnants of Montauban gossip, prevented any familiarity between Eustacie and the good ladies who surrounded her; they were very civil to each other, but their only connecting link was the delight that every one took in petting pretty little Rayonette, and the wonder that was made of her signs of intelligence and attempts at talking. Even when she toddled fearlessly up to the stately Duchess on her canopied throne, and held out her entreating hands, and lisped the word '_nontre_,' Madame would pause in her avocations, take her on her knee, and display that wonderful gold and enamel creature which cried tic-tic, and still remained an unapproachable mystery to M. le Marquis and M. le Vicomte, her grandsons.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is quoted?
2. Was something lisped?
3. What?
4. What came to the house?
5. Where were they going?
6. Where was they from?
7. How long was the journey?
8. Was it an easy journey?
9. Who's husband died?
10. Who died?
A: 1. SCOTT
2. yes
3. nontre
4. coaches, wagons, outriders, gendarmes
5. a grand old castle standing on a hill-side
6. Montauban
7. a whole week
8. Yes but the group was awkward to travel
9. Madame Esperance
10. Theodore Gardon
Q: John the Baptist (, "Ioannes (h)o baptistes" or , "Ioannes (h)o baptizon", known as the Prophet Yahya in the Quran), also known as John the Baptizer, was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the early first century AD. John is revered as a major religious figure in Christianity, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and Mandaeism. He is called a prophet by all of these traditions, and is honoured as a saint in many Christian traditions.

John used baptism as the central symbol or sacrament of his messianic movement. Most scholars agree that John baptized Jesus. Some scholars believe Jesus was a follower or disciple of John. This idea is strongly controverted, however, by John the Baptist's own words in scripture, although several New Testament accounts report that some of Jesus' early followers had previously been followers of John. John the Baptist is also mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus. Some scholars maintain that John was influenced by the semi-ascetic Essenes, who expected an apocalypse and practiced rituals corresponding strongly with baptism, although no direct evidence substantiates this.

According to the New Testament, John anticipated a messianic figure greater than himself. Christians commonly refer to John as the precursor or forerunner of Jesus, since John announces Jesus' coming. John is also identified with the prophet Elijah.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was the prophet Yahya?
2. What else was he known as?
3. Is he only revered in Christian faiths?
4. How many faiths?
5. Who did he expect to come after him?
6. the same as he?
7. How do Christians refer to him?
8. What did he do?
9. What was his central sacrament?
10. Who did he baptize?
11. Which historian talked about him?
12. what idea about John and Jesus is controversial?
13. Where did many of Jesus' early followers come from?
14. What faith was he?
A:
1. John
2. John the Baptizer
3. No
4. 4 including Christianity
5. messianic figure
6. No
7. precursor or forerunner of Jesus
8. announced Jesus' coming
9. baptism
10. Jesus
11. Josephus
12. John was influenced by the semi-ascetic Essenes
13. John
14. Jewish