Q: CHAPTER VIII.

POMPEII.

On the evening of the day on which the excursion to Vesuvius was made, Rollo came into Mrs. Gray's room, wearing a somewhat disturbed countenance. He told Mrs. Gray that he had got some bad news for her.

"Ah," said Mrs. Gray, "I'm sorry to hear that. What is the bad news?"

"Philippe is engaged for to-morrow," said Rollo, "and so he cannot go with us to Pompeii."

"O, how sorry I am!" said Josie. "What shall we do?"

"How is he engaged?" asked Mrs. Gray.

"He is going with a party to Bai."

"Where is Bai?" asked Josie. "Is it any where near Pompeii?"

"No," said Rollo; "it is exactly in the opposite direction. It is on the sea coast to the west, and Pompeii is on the sea coast to the east."

"What is there to be seen at Bai?" asked Mrs. Gray.

"Nothing but old ruins," said Rollo, contemptuously. "I don't see why people should want to go so far, and take away our guide, just to see old ruins. Besides, there are plenty of old ruins at Pompeii.

"But, Mrs. Gray," continued Rollo, "I don't think we need any guide at all to go to Pompeii. We can go by ourselves."

"Do you think so?" said Mrs. Gray.

"Why, you see I can engage a carriage to take us there myself," said Rollo. "I shall say 'Pompeii!' to the coachman, and point that way. And when we get to Pompeii, we shall find uncle George there, and then we shall get along well enough."

1. old ruins
2. Philippe
3. Rollo
4. Yes.
5. he had got some bad news
6. unknown
7. Pompeii
8. No
9. exactly in the opposite direction.
10. unknown
11. Yes.
12. No.
13. Rollo
14. a carriage
15. Yes.
16. the coachman
17. 'Pompeii!'
18. find uncle George
19. yes
20. Yes.

Numbered questions:
1. What is in Bai?
2. Who was going?
3. Who told Mrs. Gray?
4. Was he upset?
5. Why?
6. Was Mrs. Gray upset?
7. Where was philippe supposed to go?
8. Is it near where Philippe is going?
9. Where was it in relation to Bai?
10. Was Philippe a friend of theirs?
11. Was Philippe their guide?
12. Did they feel they needed him to go?
13. Who felt that they could take his place?
14. What was his plan? To engage what?
15. Would he speak to anyone?
16. Who?
17. What would he say?
18. What would they do once there>
19. Did he feel they would be alright then?
20. Did Mrs. Gray question their ability to do this?

Q: Michael froze as he heard the voice on the radio saying that a man had been murdered by a bullet that had come from the sky. Thinking that the shot they had fired possibly was the shot that killed Mr. Ward, he immediately drove off. For the next two months, Michael and Joe hid the secret that the bullet had actually shot Mr. Ward.

During this time, Jenna Ward started to realize life without her father. While Jenna mourned the death of her father, a strange boy started to appear at the front steps of the church. After many nights of watching this boy, she finally recognized that it was Michael who was sitting on the steps every night.

After months of finding out where the shot came, the police arrived at Michael's house. His dad mentioned the gun that Michael had received from his grandpa at his birthday party. Michael told the police that Joe had borrowed the gun. Upon this, Joe said that the gun had been stolen out of his car along with his CD player. After the police were gone, Michael met Joe and told Joe the gun was under the wood pile in his backyard.

One day , Michael came home to find the police searching his backyard with metal detectors .When the Sergeant went into the woods behind the house , he came out with a bullet that Joe and he had shot off on his birthday .The bullet matched the one that they had recovered from Mr Ward , but without the gun , the police could not place Michael as the killer.

With the pressure increasing .Michael finally broke down and realized he had to give up .On a Saturday morning , he went to Jenna's house to confess to her and her mother and then turned himself in .

1. Mr. Ward
2. Michael
3. Jenna
4. Michael
5. Michael's friend
6. under the wood pile in his backyard.
7. Yes
8. the gun
9. two months
10. his grandpa

Numbered questions:
1. Who was killed?
2. Who was guilty?
3. What was Mr Ward's daughter's name?
4. Who was sitting at the steps of the church?
5. Who was Joe?
6. Where did Michael keep the gun?
7. Did Michael confess at the end?
8. What was stolen along with a CD player?
9. How long did Michael and Joe hide that their bullet had shot Mr Ward?
10. Where did Michael receive the gun from?

Q: Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary.

The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at the helm of the Defense Department emblematic of a White House that puts politics above U.S. national security.

"It seems what the administration is looking for is a defense secretary who will follow the orders of a political White House rather than focus on defending the national security interests of this country," Cruz said. "At a time when the threats are this grave, we shouldn't see turnover at the Defense Department than one has at a typical Burger King."

Cruz said he did not know Ashton Carter, the former No. 2 man at the Pentagon who is expected to be Obama's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, but Cruz said he looks forward to learning more about Carter and his "good reputation."

But Cruz emphasized he was unsettled to see several potential picks pull their names out of the running to head the department, including former Pentagon official Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed.

"It says something that so many people are saying, 'No, thank you, I don't want to serve in an administration that overrides the Defense Department, that treats the defense secretary as subservient to political lackeys in the White House," Cruz said.

Cruz made the remarks Tuesday at an event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and the conservative publication The Weekly Standard during which he bore out his hawkish foreign policy and staked out positions starkly in contrast to Obama.

1. Ted Cruz
2. Senator
3. Texas
4. Republican
5. On Tuesday
6. No
7. Burger KIng
8. An event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and The Weekly Standard
9. Michele Fluornoy
10. She was a Pentagon official
11. No
12. Jack Reed
13. A senator

Numbered questions:
1. Who thought there was a failure at the White House?
2. What position does he hold?
3. For what state?
4. What party?
5. When did Cruz make the comment?
6. Did he think the defense department was doing a good job?
7. What kind of establishment did he compare them to?
8. What event did he say these things at?
9. Who had decided not to run as the head of the department?
10. What did she do?
11. Does she still work there?
12. Who else had pulled out?
13. Who is he?