Question: Problem: Visitors to museums have to pay "voluntary" admission fees, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, urged yesterday. He said that encouraging visitors to set a value on museums and art galleries, which have been free since 2001, would work extremely well. Mr. Johnson held up New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as a model. Although New York's museums are officially free, visitors are strongly encouraged to pay a recommended entry fee of $20. At the Met, entry is impossible without first going to the ticket desk. Mr. Johnson's spokesman later admitted that free admission was a "huge draw" for London, but he said, "Having visited the Met last week, the mayor is impressed by how they maximize voluntary contributions and believes there are lessons to be learnt." Mark Jones, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, told The Timesthat the museum already requested a PS3 donation but was not as forceful as New York's institutions. He said, "I'm not in favor of anything that makes people feel they won't want to go because they feel like they will have to pay." When entrance fees to national museums were decided not to be charged here in 2001, there was a 70 percent increase in visitor numbers in the first year. Political parties have since been unwilling to suggest change, despite concerns about cost. Hugo Swire, the former Shadow Culture Secretary, was dismissed in 2007 for suggesting that "museums and galleries should have the right to charge if they wish". Some in the art community argue, however, that free entrance has done little to increase the breadth of visitors and has caused shortfalls in the budget for the museums. In response to it, Colin Tweedy, chief executive of Arts & Business, said that Britain was "leading the world" in allowing its treasures to be freely available. He said, "To return to museum charging would be a return to the dark ages." Ben Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, said, "The mayor showed his true intention when he suggested those who could afford it should be encouraged to contribute to the arts. I believe _ is a disaster for the culture, arts and sport." He thinks that free museums and galleries have once been one of this Government's great successes.
1. Who is Boris Johnson?
2. What did he speak of the other day?
3. How long have museums been free there?
4. Who is Ben Bradshaw?
5. Does he want voluntary admissions?
6. What is Johnson basing his opinion on admissions on?
7. What does this museum recommend?
8. What sort of donation is already asked for?
9. Who is Mark Jones?
10. Does he agree with admissions fee?
11. What was the increase after museums went free/
12. Who was the former Shadow Culture Secretary?
13. When was he fired?
14. What for?
15. How does the art community feel about admissions fee?
16. Who is Colin Tweedy?
17. What does he feel about Britain allowing free admissions?
Answer: 1. the mayor of London
2. "voluntary" admission fees
3. since 2001
4. Culture Secretary
5. No
6. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
7. entry fee of $20
8. PS3
9. director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
10. No
11. 70 percent increase
12. Hugo Swire
13. 2007
14. for suggesting that "museums and galleries should have the right to charge if they wish"
15. They agree
16. chief executive of Arts & Business
17. He likes it

Problem: CHAPTER II--A JACOBITE WAIF 

'Sac now he's o'er the floods sae gray, And Lord Maxwell has ta'en his good-night.' 

LORD MAXWELL'S _Good-night_. 

Madame La Comtesse de Bourke was by no means a helpless fine lady. She had several times accompanied her husband on his expeditions, and had only not gone with him to Madrid because he did not expect to be long absent, and she sorely rued the separation. 

She was very busy in her own room, superintending the packing, and assisting in it, when her own clever fingers were more effective than those of her maids. She was in her _robe de chambre_, a dark blue wrapper, embroidered with white, and put on more neatly than was always the case with French ladies in _deshabille_. The hoop, long stiff stays, rich brocade robe, and fabric of powdered hair were equally unsuitable to ease or exertion, and consequently were seldom assumed till late in the day, when the toilette was often made in public. 

So Madame de Bourke's hair was simply rolled out of her way, and she appeared in her true colours, as a little brisk, bonny woman, with no actual beauty, but very expressive light gray eyes, furnished with intensely long black lashes, and a sweet, mobile, lively countenance. 

Estelle was trying to amuse little Jacques, and prevent him from trotting between the boxes, putting all sorts of undesirable goods into them; and Ulysse had collected his toys, and was pleading earnestly that a headless wooden horse and a kite, twice as tall as himself, of Lanty's manufacture, might go with them. 
1. Who had Madame La comtesse de Bourke accompany on their missions?
2. What was she busy doing?
3. Was she considered a helpless lady?
4. What is it that Estelle was attempting to do?
5. and stopping him from doing what?
6. Who would Madame La comtesse de Bourked help with packing when they were having trouble?
7. Where was her husband at currently that she didn't go becuase he wasn't expected to have an long absence?
8. What was she considered unsuitable to ease or exertion?
9. What had Ulysses gathered?
10. Which ones was he begging to take with them?
11. What color were Madame de Bourke's eyes?
12. What was the manufacture/brand of the kite of Ulysse's?
Answer:
Answer: 1. Her husband.
2. Superintending the packing.
3. No.
4. Trying to amuse little Jacques.
5. Trotting between the boxes.
6. Her maids.
7. Madrid.
8. Fabric of powdered hair.
9. His toys,
10. A headless wooden horse.
11. Light gray.
12. Lanty.