Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Around 1300, centuries of prosperity and growth in Europe came to a halt. A series of famines and plagues, including the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death, reduced the population to around half of what it was before the calamities. Along with depopulation came social unrest and endemic warfare. France and England experienced serious peasant uprisings, such as the Jacquerie and the Peasants' Revolt, as well as over a century of intermittent conflict in the Hundred Years' War. To add to the many problems of the period, the unity of the Catholic Church was shattered by the Western Schism. Collectively these events are sometimes called the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. 

Despite these crises, the 14th century was also a time of great progress in the arts and sciences. Following a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman texts that took root in the High Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance began. The absorption of Latin texts had started before the Renaissance of the 12th century through contact with Arabs during the Crusades, but the availability of important Greek texts accelerated with the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks, when many Byzantine scholars had to seek refuge in the West, particularly Italy.

1. Was the 14th century a time of terrible disaster?
2. how many areas progressed?
3. what areas?
4. When did growth come to a halt in europe?
5. why?
6. what did that do to the people?
7. How many countries had  peasant uprisings?
8. name them
9. Who fought the hundred years war
10. What happened to the Roman Catholic Church?
11. by?
12. What  language texts were of interest in the high middle ages?
13. what did that start?
14. contact with who has begun the learning of latin texts?
15. During which events?
16. How did Greek texts arrive?
17. Who captured the city?
18. Which scholars sought help elsewhere?
19. Where did they go
20. When was the great famine?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. no
2. Two
3. arts and sciences
4. Around 1300
5. famines and plagues
6. halved the population
7. Two
8. France and England
9. France and England
10. the unity was shattered
11. Western Schism.
12. ancient Greek and Roman texts
13. the Italian Renaissance began
14. Atabs
15. the Crusades,
16. refugees from the fall of Constantinople
17. Ottoman Turks
18. many Byzantine scholars
19. Italy
20. 1315–1317

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

John and Sam were friends. They opened a small shop in a small village. One day, they sold out of all their wine , so they drove to the city to buy some. On their way home, the wind was strong and it was getting colder and colder. Both John and Sam wanted to drink some wine to keep warm, but they had a rule. They couldn't drink any wine because they had to sell it. According to the rule, if some-body wanted to drink some wine, he had to pay the other twice the price. John was a clever man. He took out ten cents and gave it to Sam. He said, "Here is ten cents. Would you please sell me some of your wine?" Sam was a businessman , so he said, "You give me money, so of course I will sell some to you." Then he passed John a cup of wine. After drinking the wine, John felt warm soon, but Sam was still cold. Then he took out the ten cents that John just gave to him and said to John, "Here is ten cents. Please sell me some of your wine." John agreed. Sam drank some wine and also felt much warmer. But after some time, they both felt cold again, so they kept buying wine from each other with the same ten cents. Soon they drank up all of the wine. "How could so much wine only cost ten cents?" the two friends asked each other.

1. What did John amd Sam open up?
2. Where did they open it up?
3. What did they sell out of?
4. Did they end up drinking all the wine they bought to replace it?
5. Why did they start drinking it in the first place?
6. What was the rule if someone wanted to drink wine?
7. Did Sam sell John some wine for 10 cents?
8. What did Sam end up buying wine from John with?
9. Did they keep selling each other wine?
10. Was was the wind like on the way home?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. small shop
2. village
3. wine
4. Yes
5. to keep warm
6. pay the other twice the price
7. Yes
8. cup
9. Yes
10. strong

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

John thought about things that he liked to do. 

Well, for one, he liked baseball. Compared to his friends, he was very good at the sport. He didn't even have to practice that much. He remembered that he once hit the ball so hard that it flew out of the park. Home run! 

He was also a fan of basketball. He enjoyed watching people on television pull off crazy tricks like slam dunking (but he didn't really like all of the passes). He wasn't quite that good yet, but he was pretty good at making shots from the three point line. He knew that if he kept practicing, he would be really great someday. 

Finally, he loved football. Unlike baseball and basketball, he didn't play football himself, but he was drawn to the games. He got a kick out of sitting in the stands, cheering on his team and friends. He once cheered so loud that he could barely speak at all for the rest of the day.

1. How many sports does John like?
2. How many does he actually play
3. Does he need to practice them both?
4. Which is he good at?
5. has he eve done really well?
6. what happened?
7. Where'd it go?
8. What does he like about basketball?
9. like?
10. Is he any good?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Three
2. Two
3. no
4. baseball
5. yes
6. he hit a home run
7. out of the park
8. watching people pull off tricks
9. slam dunking
10. no