Problem: CHAPTER VII. 

THE OATH. 

From Eu the party travelled back to Rouen where there were feastings and entertainments in honour of Harold. Nothing could be more courteous than the duke's manner to his guest. He professed an almost fraternal affection for him, and handsome lodgings were assigned in the town to his thanes. A solemn court was held, at which Harold was knighted by William himself with much state and ceremonial, according to the rites of chivalry, which had then been but recently introduced, and had not as yet extended into England. There were great hunting parties in the forest, and to all outward appearance the friendship between William and Harold was of the warmest and most sincere nature. Harold himself was really gratified at the pains that William took to show the esteem in which he held him, and his thanes were all well satisfied with the attentions bestowed upon them by the Norman barons. 

Beorn and Wulf had nothing to do save to make friends with young Normans of their own age, to visit their castles and to join in the hunting parties. The duke lost no opportunity of showing the sincerity of the feelings of gratitude he had expressed to them for bringing him the news of Harold's presence in his dominions, and they were always specially invited to all court ceremonials, enjoying themselves exceedingly. Wulf occasionally expressed his surprise to his companion that no word was said as to their return to England, but Beorn's answer always silenced him. 
1. Who was knighted?
2. By whom?
3. Was it a modest ceremony?
4. What rites were new at that time?
5. Had they made it into England yet?
6. What was going  on in the woods?
7. Did it seem that William and Harold were close?
8. Was Harold happy that William was trying so hard to be friendly to him?
9. Were his thanes also happy?
10. What group had shown them a lot of attention?
11. Where did the party travel from?
12. To where?
13. Was a banquet waiting for them?
14. And what else?
15. All for whom?
16. Who was going to make friends with people their own age?
17. What places were they going to visit?
18. And then what were they going to do?
19. What were they constantly invited to?
20. Was anything mentioned about them going back to England?
Answer: 1. Harold
2. William
3. no
4. rites of chivalry
5. no
6. great hunting parties
7. yes
8. yes
9. yes
10. Norman barons
11. Eu
12. Rouen
13. yes
14. entertainments
15. Harold
16. Beorn and Wulf
17. their castles
18. join in the hunting parties
19. all court ceremonials
20. no

Problem: (CNN) -- Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm died at her home in New York on Sunday at the age of 95, her niece, Amy Phillips, confirmed. 

Holm, a star of the Broadway stage and movies, was admitted to New York's Roosevelt Hospital a week ago, but her husband took her home to her Manhattan home on Friday, Phillips said. 

"She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby," she said. 

Holm won the best supporting actress Academy Award for "Gentleman's Agreement" in 1947. She was nominated for the same honor in 1949 for "Come to the Stable" and 1950 for "All about Eve," according to the Academy database. 

Holm's stage career began in 1936 in a Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, stock company, which led to an understudy role in a touring production of "Hamlet" with Leslie Howard, according to her official biography. 

Her Broadway debut in "The Time of Your Life" in 1939 was a small part, but it brought her to the attention of New York critics. Four years later, she was cast as Ado Annie in the smash "Oklahoma!" because of her ability to "sing bad," the biography said. 

She signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox that began her film career in 1945, after she toured Europe entertaining troops with the USO. Her first Fox movie was "Three Little Girls in Blue" in 1946, a supporting role that earned her star billing for the musical "Carnival in Costa Rica" in 1947. 
1. Who died?
2. Who was she?
3. How old was she?
4. Is she survived by her husband?
5. Where did he take her in her last days?
6. From where?
7. When she got her first Academy Award?
8. In what category?
9. Was she active in stage too?
10. When did that start?
11. Where?
12. What was the name of the production?
13. Who was one of her coworkers there?
14. From where we learned this?
15. Was she in Broadway too?
16. When that started?
17. In which play?
18. How was it received by the critics?
19. For film who did she sign up with?
20. What was her first film with them?
Answer: 1. Celeste Holm
2. a star of the Broadway stage and movies
3. ninety-five
4. Yes
5. Home
6. Roosevelt Hospital
7. 1947
8. best supporting actress
9. Yes
10. 1936
11. Deer Lake, Pennsylvania
12. Hamlet
13. Leslie Howard
14. her official biography
15. Yes
16. 1939
17. "The Time of Your Life"
18. it brought her to their attention
19. 20th Century Fox
20. "Three Little Girls in Blue"

Problem: However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC). Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians were settled along the coast of Eastern Arabia, today's Persian Gulf region, before it flooded at the end of the Ice Age. 

Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Neo-Sumerian Empire or Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance) approximately 2100-2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been the world's first city, where three separate cultures may have fused — that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians.
1. When did Native Sumerian rule come back for a time?
2. What was that era called?
3. Did it have another name?
4. What was it?
5. Was there another language being used then as well?
6. What was that called?
7. What is thought to be the first city on earth?
8. What people lived there?
9. Is that on the Mediterranean?
10. How many cultures are said to have come together there?
11. Which of those followed sheep and goats?
12. Did they live in green tee pees?
13. What did the fishing culture live in?
14. Did they live in the mountains?
15. What people were they related to?
16. Who used water for their livlihood?
17. Do all scholars agree that there was one substrate language?
18. Where do they suspect the Sumerian language originated from?
19. Are their good historical records of this time period?
20. What happened to this region at the end of the ice age?
Answer:
1. 2100-2000 BC,
2. Neo-Sumerian Empire
3. yes
4. Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance)
5. yes
6. Akkadian
7. Eridu
8. Sumerians
9. no
10. Three
11. Semitic pastoralists
12. no
13. reed huts
14. no
15. Sumerians.
16. Ubaidian farmers
17. no
18. that of the hunter and fisher peoples
19. no
20. it flooded