Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- As violence continues to wrack Iraq, another ethnic slaughter may be in the making by Sunni extremists from ISIS. 

ISIS fighters have besieged the ethnic Turkmen Shiite town of Amerli in the north for two months, and its fewer than 20,000 residents are without power and running out of food, water and medical supplies. 

"The situation of the people in Amerli is desperate and demands immediate action to prevent the possible massacre of its citizens," said Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for Iraq. 

He said the suffering was "unspeakable" and demanded that the Shiite majority Iraqi government "relieve the siege" on Amerli. 

Small town fights ISIS 

About 5,000 families live in Amerli, which has been under siege for 70 days, according to Dr. Ali Albayati, head of the Turkmen Saving Foundation. He told CNN the town is running without electricity, is out of medicine and can only turn to wells for water. 

Nearly three dozen villages surrounding Amerli are already under ISIS control, Albayati said. The people of Amerli are relying on the Iraqi government to take them out by helicopter or support them with food drops, Albayati said. In the past 10 days, he added, only one flight has delivered food. 

Surrounded on four sides, the 17,400 residents have had to defend themselves with only the help of local police, said Masrwr Aswad of Iraq's Human Rights Commission. 

Their situation echoes the ordeal of Iraq's ethnic Yazidis, whose plight after they were forced to flee into the mountains to escape militants ISIS triggered U.S. aid drops and the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How long has Amerli been under siege?
2. Who is responsible to them being under siege?
3. How many people reside there?
4. Where are residents going for their water?
5. Who is reporting this information?
6. Anyone specific?
7. What does he do?
8. How is food getting to the people?
9. Who is doing the food drops?
10. How many have there been recently?
11. Have the residents had to defend themselves?
12. Is anyone helping?
13. Who?
14. Are they at any sort of disadvantage?
15. How so?
16. Does this story remind us of any other?
17. What happened?
18. Did anyone help them?
19. Who?
20. How?
21. What was noteworthy about that?
Answer: 1. 70 days
2. ISIS
3. fewer than 20,000
4. wells
5. CNN
6. Dr. Ali Albayati
7. head of the Turkmen Saving Foundation
8. food drops
9. the Iraqi government
10. only one
11. yes
12. yes
13. local police
14. yes
15. they're surrounded on four sides
16. yes
17. The Yazidis were forced to flee into the mountains
18. yes
19. the U.S.
20. aid drops and airstrikes against ISIS
21. they were the first U.S. airstrikes against ISIS

CHAPTER VII 

HOW JOB HASKERS WENT SLEIGH-RIDING 

On the instant the noise in Dormitory No. 12 came to an end. Shadow Hamilton dropped the chair and sat upon it and Luke Watson swung his banjo out of sight under a bedspread. Dave remained on one knee, picking up the books that had been scattered. 

"You--you young rascals!" spluttered Job Haskers, when he could speak. "How dare you throw books at me?" 

He glared around at the students, then strode into the dormitory and caught Dave by the shoulder. 

"I say how dare you throw books at me?" he went on. 

"I haven't thrown any books, Mr. Haskers," answered Dave, calmly. 

"What!" 

"I threw that book, Mr. Haskers," said Roger, promptly. "But I didn't throw it at you." 

"Ahem! So it was you, Master Morr! Nice proceedings, I must say. Instead of going to bed you all cut up like wild Indians. This must be stopped. Every student in this room will report to me to-morrow after school. I will take down your names." The teacher drew out a notebook and began to write rapidly. "Who knocked over that stand?" 

"I did," answered Shadow. "It was an--er--an accident." 

"Who was making that awful noise dancing?" 

"I was dancing," answered Sam. "But I don't think I made much noise." 

"It is outrageous, this noise up here, and it must be stopped once and for all. Now go to bed, all of you, and not another sound, remember!" And with this warning, Job Haskers withdrew from the room, closing the door sharply after him.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was Mr. Haskers?
2. Who said he hadn't thrown any books?
3. What number Dormitory were people in?
4. Did someone have a banjo?
5. Who?
6. What did he do with it?
7. Who said he threw the book?
8. What did the teacher tell everyone they had to do tomorrow?
9. What did Haskers start to write in?
10. Was someone dancing?
11. Who?
12. Whose last name was Morr?
13. What did Haskers compare the noisy students to?
14. Who felled the stand?
15. Was someone cleaning up the books?
16. Who?
17. Where exactly did Luke hide the banjo?
18. Who was bent down cleaning up?
19. Who dropped a chair?
20. And who was taken by the shoulder?
Answer:
1. the teacher
2. Dave
3. No. 12
4. yes
5. Luke Watson
6. swung it out of sight
7. Roger
8. report to him
9. a notebook
10. yes
11. Sam
12. Roger's
13. wild Indians
14. Shadow
15. yes
16. Dave
17. under a bedspread
18. Dave
19. Shadow Hamilton
20. Dave