input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER IX.THE MAD ELEPHANT.

From Middletown the circus went to Dover, and then to Grasscannon.

At each of these places a big business was done, and at every performance Leo did better.

The young gymnast became a great favorite with all but two people in the "Greatest Show on Earth."

These two people were Jack Snipper, who remained as overbearing as ever, and Jack Broxton, the fellow discharged for intoxication.

Broxton had been following up the circus ever since his discharge, in the vain hope of being reinstated.

But the rules in the "Greatest Show on Earth" are very strict, and no intoxication is allowed.

After leaving Grasscannon, the circus struck up through New York State, and at the end of the week arrived at Buffalo.

It was while at this place that Broxton tried to play a dangerous trick upon Leo.

He met the young gymnast on the street one night after the performance.

He was under the influence of liquor at the time, and in his pocket he carried what is known by the boys as a giant torpedo.

As Leo turned a corner he threw the torpedo at Leo's feet.

Luckily the torpedo failed to explode.

Had it gone off the young gymnast would have been sadly crippled.

"You rascal!" cried Leo, and he made for Broxton and landed him in the gutter.

Some of the other performers then came up.

"What's the row, Leo?"

"Look what Broxton threw at me," he replied, and handed the torpedo around for inspection. 1. Who was kicked out for being drunk?
2. Did he like Leo?
3. Who else did not like him?
4. True or False: Leo was steadily improving.
5. Where did the circus go after Middletown?
6. And after Grasscannon?
7. What did someone throw at Leo?
8. Who threw it?
9. Where did it land?
10. Did Leo fight Broxton?
11. Who went in the gutter?
12. Who came up and saw the torpedo?
13. What was Leo's role in the circus?
14. What was the circus called?
15. True or False: Broxton hoped to get his job back.
16. For how long had he been trying to make that happen?
17. Was he drunk when he threw the torpedo?
18. True or False: The torpedo exploded.
19. What did Leo call Broxton?
20. Would could have happened to Leo?
numbered_answers: 1. Broxton
2. no
3. Jack Snipper
4. true
5. Dover
6. New York State
7. giant torpedo
8. Broxton
9. at Leo's feet
10. yes
11. Broxton
12. other performers
13. gymnast
14. Greatest Show on Earth
15. true
16. ever since his discharge
17. yes
18. False
19. rascal
20. he would have been crippled

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at the age of 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials for the hamburger chain named for his daughter. "As long as it works", he said in 1991, "I'll continue to do those commercials."

Even though he was successful, Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. "He still won't let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had proper fitting shoes," Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother, he was adopted as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line, he'd beat me."

Moving out on his own at 15, Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants. But he had something much better in mind. "I thought if I owned a restaurant," he said, "I could eat for free." A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968.

In 1969, after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to-order burgers. With 6,000 restaurants worldwide, the chain now makes $ 6 billion a year in sales.

Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children. He started the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in 1992.

In 1993, Thomas, who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Creek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.

"The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave," says friend Pat Williams. "He wasn't a great actor or a great speaker . _ ." 1. How old was Dave Thomas when he passed away?
2. What high school did he graduate from in 1993?
3. Did Thomas grow up with his biological family?
4. What were his adoptive parents' names?
5. Was his adoptive father nice to him?
6. What age did he move out on his own?
7. How did he become wealthy before founding Wendy's?
8. What year did he start his first Wendy's?
numbered_answers: 1. 69
2. Coconut Creek High School
3. no
4. Rex and Auleva Thomas
5. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line, he'd beat me."
6. 15
7. a career as the manager of a Kentucky Chicken restaurant
8. 1969

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. NEW YORK (CNN) -- Just days before his death, the Brooklyn, New York, middle-school student who died from an antibiotic-resistant staph infection had visited a hospital with skin lesions and was treated with allergy medicine, according to the family's lawyer, Paul Weitz.

Omar Rivera, 12, a New York seventh-grader, died of drug-resistant staph on October 14.

Omar Rivera's mother, Aileen, took the 12-year-old boy to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn because she had been dissatisfied with the treatment he received at a clinic, Weitz told CNN. He said the hospital treated him with Benadryl, a common anti-allergy medicine.

According to hospital spokeswoman Hope Mason, Omar did not show signs of a staph infection when he was treated at the hospital.

"I can confirm the child was brought to the emergency room after midnight on Friday, October 12. He was treated for non-MRSA-related conditions and was released," said Mason. "We will be closely examining whether more could have been done to detect the infection at that time."

MRSA is short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and is responsible for more deaths in the United States each year than AIDS, according to new data. The germ resists all but the most powerful antibiotics.

Omar, a seventh-grader at Intermediate School 211, was pronounced dead on October 14 at Brookdale Hospital.

Twenty-five to 30 percent of the population carry the staph bacteria -- one of the most common causes of infection -- in their bodies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While such infections are typically minor, invasive MRSA infections can become fatal, because they are caused by drug-resistant staph. E-mail to a friend 1. How old was Omar Rivera?
2. What grade was he in?
3. What date did he die?
4. Cause of death?
5. Where was he from?
6. Where was he taken?
7. Was his mom satisfied with his treatment?
8. Who is her lawyer?
9. What news org did he speak to?
10. What was the name of Omar's school?
11. What was he given as medicine?
numbered_answers:
1. 12
2. seventh
3. October 14.
4. an antibiotic-resistant staph infection
5. Brooklyn, New York
6. Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn
7. no
8. Paul Weitz.
9. CNN
10. Intermediate School 211
11. Benadryl