Q: The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Kodorosese ti Beafrika; French: Republique centrafricaine pronounced: [epyblik stafikn], or Centrafrique [stafik]) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo to the south and Cameroon to the west. The CAR covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi) and had an estimated population of around 4.7 million as of 2014[update].

What is today the Central African Republic has been inhabited for millennia; however, the country's current borders were established by France, which ruled the country as a colony starting in the late 19th century. After gaining independence from France in 1960, the Central African Republic was ruled by a series of autocratic leaders; by the 1990s, calls for democracy led to the first multi-party democratic elections in 1993. Ange-Felix Patasse became president, but was later removed by General Francois Bozize in the 2003 coup. The Central African Republic Bush War began in 2004 and, despite a peace treaty in 2007 and another in 2011, fighting broke out between various factions in December 2012, leading to ethnic and religious cleansing of the Muslim minority and massive population displacement in 2013 and 2014.

1. Ange-Felix Patasse
2. in 2003
3. General
4. The Central African Republic
5. no
6. it is landlocked
7. Central Africa
8. Chad
9. the Democratic Republic of the Congo
10. South Sudan
11. yes
12. the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo
13. france
14. no
15. in 1960
16. in 1993
17. Ange-Felix Patasse
18. president
19. in 2004
20. The Central African Republic Bush War

Numbered questions:
1. Who was removed in the coup?
2. When?
3. What was his title?
4. What is the CAR?
5. Does it have a coast line?
6. Why not?
7. What continent is it in?
8. Which nation is northward?
9. And westward?
10. What about eastward?
11. Does it have a southward neighbor?
12. Who?
13. What nation was it a colony of?
14. Does France still rule over them?
15. When did they gain their independence?
16. When was the first election?
17. Who won?
18. What was his title?
19. When did war break out?
20. What was it callled?

Q: The angel alligator was quite the sight! It loved to scream with all its might!

It loved to roll in mud and sun. Then it would go for a run.

But why did it run? Why did it scream?

It had a fork in its butt!

It sat in a trashcan. This was not a smart thing to do! But he did it, oh yes, oh me, oh you!

The alligator had a beard. It was a great beard. But nobody ever talked about his beard. Why? Because they would only see the fork in its butt!

But one day, the alligator made a friend. The friend needed a fork. How was he to eat his spaghetti without a fork?

But...I'm not sure a butt fork is the best way to eat spaghetti.

Do you?

1. It had a fork in its butt
2. unknown
3. a beard
4. no
5. the fork in its butt
6. made a friend
7. a fork
8. to eat his spaghetti
9. roll in mud and sun
10. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. Why did the angel alligator scream?
2. How did that happen?
3. What facial feature did he have?
4. Did anyone notice?
5. What did they focus on instead?
6. What did the animal do next?
7. What did he require?
8. Why
9. What did the animal love to do?
10. Why did it gallop away?

Q: CHAPTER TWENTY.

NEW PLANS--OUR TRAVELLERS JOIN THE FUR-TRADERS, AND SEE MANY STRANGE THINGS--A CURIOUS FIGHT--A NARROW ESCAPE, AND A PRISONER TAKEN.

Not long after the events related in the last chapter, our four friends, Dick, and Joe, and Henri, and Crusoe, agreed to become for a time members of Walter Cameron's band of trappers. Joe joined because one of the objects which the traders had in view was similar to his own mission, namely, the promoting of peace among the various Indian tribes of the mountains and plains to the west. Joe, therefore, thought it a good opportunity of travelling with a band of men who could secure him a favourable hearing from the Indian tribes they might chance to meet with in the course of their wanderings. Besides, as the traders carried about a large supply of goods with them, he could easily replenish his own nearly exhausted pack by hunting wild animals and exchanging their skins for such articles as he might require.

Dick joined because it afforded him an opportunity of seeing the wild, majestic scenery of the Rocky Mountains, and shooting the big-horned sheep which abounded there, and the grizzly "bars," as Joe named them, or "Caleb," as they were more frequently styled by Henri and the other men.

Henri joined because it was agreeable to the inclination of his own rollicking, blundering, floundering, crashing disposition, and because he would have joined anything that had been joined by the other two.

Crusoe's reason for joining was single, simple, easy to be expressed, easy to be understood, and commendable. _He_ joined--because Dick did.

1. four
2. Walter Cameron's band of trappers
3. seeing the Rocky Mountains
4. big-horned sheep
5. it was agreeable to his disposition,
6. Yes
7. promoting of peace among the various Indian tribes
8. the mountains and plains to the west.
9. the traders
10. He_ joined--because Dick did.
11. No
12. hunting wild animals
13. exchanging for articles
14. traders
15. Yes
16. Indian tribes
17. in the course of their wanderings
18. Walter Cameron's band of trappers
19. Henri
20. "bars,"

Numbered questions:
1. How many friends does Joe have?
2. What group did they join?
3. What was Dick's reason for coming into the group?
4. What kind of animals did he was to hunt?
5. Why did Henri join?
6. Would he have followed his friends anyway?
7. What about Joe's reason?
8. In what location?
9. Was someone else planning to do this too?
10. What about Crusoe's reason?
11. Is this hard to understand?
12. How would Joe replace his supplies?
13. What would he do with the skin?
14. With who?
15. Did they have plenty of stuff?
16. Who is Joe hoping to meet with?
17. Where is he hoping to run across them?
18. Who does he think can help him with this?
19. Who has a fun loving personality?
20. What did Joe call bears?