Q: 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. 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.

Numbered questions:
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?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- The man closest to Tiger Woods when he plays golf says he had no idea about the extramarital affairs that have sidelined Woods from the game. 

Steve Williams, Woods' caddy and confidant for nearly a decade, talked to New Zealand's TV3 about the scandal. 

"I knew nothing," Williams said in an interview posted on the station's Web site Thursday. "I don't need to clarify it, extend that answer. I knew nothing." 

Williams said he's heard the calls from some that he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall. "In some people's perception, I'm involved with it, and I've committed a crime or done wrong," he said. 

"If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing, it would be very difficult for the caddy not to know," he said. "But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that." 

Williams' wife, Kirsty, defended her husband, insisting he would not have been able to keep the secret from her or Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren. 

"The four of us are so close," she told TV3. "Being so close, he couldn't know and not say something to Elin or myself. You know, it's just, that's the way it is." 

Woods, 34, apologized last month in a tightly controlled televised statement for his "irresponsible and selfish" behavior, which he said included infidelity. 

The February 19 statement was his first public appearance since he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in November. The crash and reports about why it happened sparked a barrage of infidelity allegations against the golfer, who has two children with his wife.  1. Who interviewed Tiger Woods?
2. Who is Williams wifE?
3. When was his first public appearance after he crashed?
4. What was he driving when he crashed?
5. What type of allegations was made about him?
numbered_answers: 1. unknown
2. Kirsty
3. The February 19
4. a Cadillac Escalade
5. infidelity allegations

Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data and is described as the branch of economics that aims to give empirical content to economic relations. More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference". An introductory economics textbook describes econometrics as allowing economists "to sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships". The first known use of the term "econometrics" (in cognate form) was by Polish economist Paweł Ciompa in 1910. Jan Tinbergen is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Ragnar Frisch is credited with coining the term in the sense in which it is used today. 

The basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. Econometric theory uses statistical theory and mathematical statistics to evaluate and develop econometric methods. Econometricians try to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties including unbiasedness, efficiency, and consistency. "Applied econometrics" uses theoretical econometrics and real-world data for assessing economic theories, developing econometric models, analyzing economic history, and forecasting. 

The basic tool for econometrics is the multiple linear regression model. In modern econometrics, other statistical tools are frequently used, but linear regression is still the most frequently used starting point for an analysis. Estimating a linear regression on two variables can be visualized as fitting a line through data points representing paired values of the independent and dependent variables. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what method is being discussed?
2. what is it?
3. what does it try to do?
4. what else is it considered to be?
5. based on what?
6. what does it allow economists to do?
7. when was the word first used?
8. by who?
9. who is he?
10. who made up the term that we now use?
11. who else played an important role in coming up with it?
12. to what extent?
13. what is the most important tool for econometrics?
14. what does this theory use?
15. to accomplish what?
16. which is the most used tool?
17. how is this done?
18. how is it visualized?
19. of what?
20. what is the main goal of an econometrician?
Answer:
1. Econometrics
2. the application of statistical methods to economic data
3. give empirical content to economic relations
4. the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena
5. the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference
6. sift through mountains of data to extract simple relationships
7. 1910
8. Paweł Ciompa
9. a Polish economist
10. Ragnar Frisch
11. Jan Tinbergen
12. considered by many to be one of the founding fathers
13. the multiple linear regression model
14. statistical theory and mathematical statistics
15. to evaluate and develop econometric methods
16. linear regression
17. unknown
18. as fitting a line through data points representing paired values
19. the independent and dependent variables
20. to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties