Question:
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Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are decorated eggs that are usually used as gifts on the occasion of Easter or springtime celebration. As such, Easter eggs are common during the season of Eastertide (Easter season). The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in colourful foil, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as chocolate. Although eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth, in Christianity, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the empty tomb of Jesus, from which Jesus resurrected. In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the blood of Christ, shed as at that time of his crucifixion." This custom of the Easter egg can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Russia and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches. This Christian use of eggs may have been influenced by practices in "pre-dynastic period in Egypt, as well as amid the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete". 

The practice of decorating eggshells as part of spring rituals is ancient, with decorated, engraved ostrich eggs found in Africa which are 60,000 years old. In the pre-dynastic period of Egypt and the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago. These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.
1. what animal's eggs were found in africa that are 60,000 years old?
2. were they decorated?
3. what else are easter eggs called?
4. what season are they commonly used?
5. what is another name for the easter season?
6. in mesopotamia and crete, what were eggs associated with?
7. what else?
8. what did they decorate?
9. did they also use representations of eggs?
10. with what materials?
11. what do modern people substitute dyed eggs with?
12. is the foil used colorful?
13. what do Easter eggs symbolize to christians?
14. does it also resemble an empty tomb?
15. of who?
16. to what period can the custom of easter eggs be traced?

Numbered answers:
1. ostrich
2. yes
3. Paschal eggs
4. the Easter season
5. Eastertide
6. death and rebirth
7. kingship
8. ostrich eggs
9. yes
10. gold and silver
11. Chocolate or plastic eggs
12. yes
13. fertility and rebirth
14. yes
15. Jesus
16. the pre-dynastic period


Question:
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Jack is a twenty-year-old young man. Two years ago, when he finished middle school, he found work in a shop. Usually he works until ten o'clock in the evening. He is very tired when he gets home. After a quick supper he goes to bed and soon falls asleep. His grandma who lives downstairs is satisfied with him. One day, on his way home, he met Mary. They were both happy. He asked the girl to his house, she agreed happily. He bought some fruit and drinks for her. And they talked about their school, teachers, classmates and their future . They talked for a long time. "Have a look at your watch, please," said the girl. "What time is it now?" "Sorry, something is wrong with my watch," said Jack. "Where's yours?" "I left it at home." Jack thought for a moment and found a way. He began to stamp his foot on the floor, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" The sound woke his grandma up. The old woman shouted downstairs, "It's twelve o'clock in the night, Jack. Why are you still jumping upstairs?" ,.
1. What is the time?
2. Was someone wakened?
3. Who?
4. Who made her wake?
5. How old is he?
6. Who did he meet?
7. What did he serve her?
8. Did he complete school?
9. What type?
10. Is he employed?
11. Where?
12. What was his friend missing?
13. Where was it?
14. Did they have much to discuss?
15. What?
16. What time does he get off?
17. Am or pm?
18. What happens after dinner?
19. And after he eats?
20. Who does he live with?

Numbered answers:
1. twelve o clock at night
2. yes
3. grandma
4. Jack
5. 20
6. Mary
7. fruit and drinks
8. yes
9. middle school
10. yes
11. in a shop
12. her watch
13. home
14. yes
15. school, teachers, classmates, future
16. ten o'clock
17. evening
18. has a quick supper
19. falls asleep
20. His grandma


Question:
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Chapter 16: A Treasure Room. 

"'Tis infamous," Cacama said, as he paced up and down the room; "but what is to be done? They hold him in their hands as a hostage, in the heart of his own capital, and among his own people; and are capable of hanging him from the walls, should a hostile movement be made against them. 

"You were right, Roger Hawkshaw, in warning us against these men. They are without faith and honor, thus to seize a host who has loaded them with presents, who has emptied his treasuries to appease their greed, and who has treated them with the most extraordinary condescension. It is a crime unheard of, an act of base ingratitude, without a parallel. What is to be done?" 

Roger was silent. Such a situation, so strange and unlooked for, confounded him. 

"I should say," Cuitcatl burst out passionately, "that every Mexican should take up arms, and annihilate this handful of invaders. What though Montezuma fall? Better that a monarch should perish than a nation. Besides, Montezuma has shown himself unfit to govern. It is his weakness that has brought things to this pass. Think you that the white men could ever have advanced beyond the plateau of Tlascala, had all the forces of Mexico barred the way? Think you that they could ever have entered the capital, had it been defended with resolution? One moment he flattered the strangers and loaded them with gifts; the next he was ready to send his forces against them. The Cholulans had good reason for believing that he designed the annihilation of the Whites, if he did not actually order the attack upon them. 
1. Who is the hostage?
2. Where is he being held?
3. Who is holding him?
4. What do they plan to do with him?
5. Who is not fit to rule?
6. Why is he not fit?
7. What's an example of his weakness?
8. What did the Cholulans think of him?
9. Was he consistent in his treatment of outsiders?
10. How so?
11. What does Roger think of this?
12. Who is guilt of lack of thankfulness?
13. What does Cuitcatl think should be done?
14. Who asks him?


Numbered answers:
1. unknown
2. In the heart of his own capital.
3. Invaders.
4. Hang him from the walls.
5. Montezuma.
6. He is weak.
7. Because he didn't send forces out to stop the invaders early on.
8. They believed that he designed the annihilation of the Whites
9. No.
10. One moment he flattered the strangers and loaded them with gifts; the next he was ready to send his forces against them.
11. He doesn't approve.
12. The Choulans.
13. That all Mexicans should fight to annihilate the invaders.
14. Roger Hawkshaw.