(CNN) -- Henry Joseph Madden was a good student and track team member in high school, but he had a secret: He sometimes wore his mother's pantyhose and underwear under his clothes. 

Dr. Jennifer Madden, a family physician, began her transition to being female at age 48. 

"I really wanted to be a girl so bad, and that was one way for me to satisfy those feelings," Madden said. "I always felt like someone was looking over my shoulder." 

The desire to be female never went away. At age 48, Madden confessed these feelings to a doctor, and started seeing a gender therapist who suggested Madden was transgendered. 

Through reconstructive surgeries, electrolysis, laser procedures and voice lessons, Henry Joseph became Jennifer Elizabeth, known as Jenny. She is a practicing family physician in Nashua, New Hampshire. Watch Jenny's story » 

Chastity Bono, child of performer Cher and the late entertainer and politician Sonny Bono, announced Thursday the beginning of a transition from female to a male. 

While still relatively rare -- one advocate estimates that 0.25 to 0.5 percent of the American population is transgendered -- the idea of changing gender identity has become more widespread in recent years. The term "LGBT" (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) is more commonly recognized, and transgendered people have been portrayed in the 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry" as well as the 2002 book "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. 

Many people who have transitioned, including Madden, say they knew they had been born into the wrong gender from childhood. As early as age 3, Dr. Julie Praus, born male, didn't understand why her father wanted to play catch. As a boy, Praus learned how to fish and hunt, but enjoyed collecting Depression-era glassware vases. Praus, 48, a psychiatrist in Brattleboro, Vermont, started living as a woman in March 2008.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How much of the American population is transgendered?
2. Does that include Dr. Jennifer Madden?
3. What was her birth name?
4. Did Henry want to be a girl in high school?
5. Did that keep her from being a good student and extracurricular activities?
6. How old was she when she transitioned?
7. Whose idea was it, originally?
8. What kind of doctor is Jenny?
9. Is the idea of transitioning getting more common?
10. How about the term "LGBT?"
Answer: 1. 0.25 to 0.5 percent
2. yes
3. Henry Joseph Madden
4. yes
5. no
6. 48
7. her gender therapist
8. a family physician
9. yes
10. yes

Problem: CHAPTER III. SWEDENBORG AND THE SIBYL. 

MY narrative may move on again from the point at which it paused in the first chapter. 

Mary and I (as you may remember) had left the bailiff alone at the decoy, and had set forth on our way together to Dermody's cottage. 

As we approached the garden gate, I saw a servant from the house waiting there. He carried a message from my mother--a message for me. 

"My mistress wishes you to go home, Master George, as soon as you can. A letter has come by the coach. My master means to take a post-chaise from London, and sends word that we may expect him in the course of the day." 

Mary's attentive face saddened when she heard those words. 

"Must you really go away, George," she whispered, "before you see what I have got waiting for you at home?" 

I remembered Mary's promised "surprise," the secret of which was only to be revealed to me when we got to the cottage. How could I disappoint her? My poor little lady-love looked ready to cry at the bare prospect of it. 

I dismissed the servant with a message of the temporizing sort. My love to my mother--and I would be back at the house in half an hour. 

We entered the cottage. 

Dame Dermody was sitting in the light of the window, as usual, with one of the mystic books of Emanuel Swedenborg open on her lap. She solemnly lifted her hand on our appearance, signing to us to occupy our customary corner without speaking to her. It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books. We crept quietly into our places. Mary waited until she saw her grandmother's gray head bend down, and her grandmother's bushy eyebrows contract attentively, over her reading. Then, and then only, the discreet child rose on tiptoe, disappeared noiselessly in the direction of her bedchamber, and came back to me carrying something carefully wrapped up in her best cambric handkerchief. 
1. Who had a message waiting for them?
2. Who was the message for?
Answer: 1. a servant
2. a message for me

question: Way back in 1662,John Evelyn,a brilliant Englishman known for his detailed diaries,wrote 

About disastrous effects of coal-burning on the city of London .In it,he described an infernal scene of 

smog.air filled with "Columns and Clouds of Smoke''given out by small industries and residences 

that burned coal for fuel. 

I found the description in the 2003 book When Smoke Ran like Water,by epidemiologist and environmental advocator Devra Davis.In it,Davis looks back at several historic pollution events and their disastrous effect on human human health-and at how these phenomena were often Ignored or even actively covered up by then people in charge at that time. 

As Davis points out,John Evelyn was ahead of his time when writing about how London's 

polluted air affected the well-being of its residents.It wasn't until nearly 300 years later,after what 

became well-known as the Great Smog of 1952,that the government began to address the problem in a systematic way. 

For four days.Between December 5th"and 9th",due to all accident of the weather pattern,the city 

was buried in a heavy fog .People were still burning coal for fuel,and low-grade coal at that time, 

because 0f wartime condition.A temperature inversion trapped the smoke from the city's fires, 

creating a black cloud in which people could barely find their way down the most familiar streets 

Some tried to protect themselves,but most people simply went about their business 

But l952's fog was far worse than any other in memory.In the same week of the previous year, 

1852 people had died in London;inl952,that number was 4703 And the deaths didn't stop when 

the weather changed and the fog lifted.Davis and her colleagues analyzed data from the next several 

months and found that about 13000 more people died between December and March than one would 

have predicted from historical averages Many of them died of pneumonia .The government, 

she writes.Tried to blame a bad flu season.Her detailed analysis found that explanation simply did 

not pan out. 

Davis writes that even today in this country ,we still have not completely absorbed the lessons 

0f similar events.Sixty years the killer fog lifted in London,people are dying preventable 

deaths and suffering life.changing illnesses,simply because they must breathe the air of the cities 

where they live
1. who is Devra Davis?
2. what book did he write?
3. when?
4. what is it about?
5. what did he say about John Evelyn?
6. when was the Great Smog?
7. does Davis think we have learned a lesson?
8. who is John Evelyn?
9. is he Irish?
10. where is he from?
11. what did he write about?
12. what event was he writing about?
13. of what?
14. where was the smoke from?
15. why were they burning it?
****
answer:
1. epidemiologist and environmental advocator
2. When Smoke Ran like Water
3. 2003
4. historic pollution events
5. ahead of his time
6. 1952
7. no
8. known for his detailed diaries
9. no
10. England
11. smog
12. disastrous effects
13. of coal-burning
14. small industries and residences
15. burned coal for fuel.