Question: Probably no other musical instrument is as popular as the guitar around the world. Musicians use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument. 

Music experts do not agree about where the guitar was first played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the 12thcentury. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today. 

Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violins Niccole Paganism played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular. 

In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in 1952. It is called "Meet Mister Callaghan." 1. How popular is the guitar?
2. What kinds of music is it used in?
3. Do they know where the guitar first was played? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Probably no other musical instrument is as popular
2. almost all kinds of music
3. no


Question: CHAPTER IV. 

A LITTLE MUSIC. 

After lunch, Herbert Le Breton went off for his afternoon ride--a grave social misdemeanour, Ernest thought it--and Arthur Berkeley took Edie round to show her about the college and the shady gardens. Ernest would have liked to walk with her himself, for there was something in her that began to interest him somewhat; and besides, she was so pretty, and so graceful, and so sympathetic: but he felt he must not take her away from her host for the time being, who had a sort of proprietary right in the pleasing duty of acting as showman to her over his own college. So he dropped behind with Harry Oswald and old Mrs. Martindale, and endeavoured to simulate a polite interest in the old lady's scraps of conversation upon the heads of houses, their wives and families. 

'This is Addison's Walk, Miss Oswald,' said Berkeley, taking her through the gate into the wooded path beside the Cherwell; 'so called because the ingenious Mr. Addison is said to have specially patronised it. As he was an undergraduate of this college, and a singularly lazy person, it's very probable that he really did so; every other undergraduate certainly does, for it's the nearest walk an idle man can get without ever taking the trouble to go outside the grounds of Magdalen.' 

'The ingenious Mr. Addison was quite right then,' Edie answered, smiling; 'for he couldn't have chosen a lovelier place on earth to stroll in. How exquisite it looks just now, with the mellow light falling down upon the path through this beautiful autumnal foliage! It's just a natural cathedral aisle, with a lot of pale straw-coloured glass in the painted windows, like that splendid one we went to see the other day at Merton Chapel.'  1. Who went on an outing?
2. Where did they go?
3. Did Arthur wish he could be alone with her?
4. Who did?
5. Was she very plain looking?
6. When did they leave for the outing?
7. Who else went out?
8. Was he on foot?
9. Was it bright out?
10. Was it during the summer?
11. What time of year was it?
12. What was special about the windows?
13. Who was attending the school?
14. Had they seen anything similar before?
15. When?
16. Where?
17. Was Edie a callous person?
18. What is the trail called?
19. Why was it named that?
20. How is he described? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Ernest-Arthur Berkeley and Edie
2. The college and gardens.
3. No
4. Ernest
5. No, she was pretty.
6. After lunch
7. Herbert Le Breton
8. No, a ride
9. No, the light was mellow
10. no.
11. Autumn.
12. They were painted.
13. Mr. Addison
14. Yes.
15. The other day.
16. Merton Chapel.
17. No.
18. Addison's Walk
19. Mr. Addison patronised the path.
20. Ingenious


Question: CHAPTER VII. THE NUPTIALS OF RUTH WESTMACOTT 

Here was Sir Rowland Blake in high fettle at knowing himself armed with a portentous weapon for the destruction of Anthony Wilding. Upon closer inspection of it, however, he came to realize--as Richard had realized earlier--that it was double-edged, and that the wielding of it must be fraught with as much danger for Richard as for their common enemy. For to betray Mr. Wilding and the plot would scarce be possible without betraying young Westmacott, and that was unthinkable, since to ruin Richard--a thing he would have done with a light heart so far as Richard was himself concerned--would be to ruin his own hopes of winning Ruth. 

Therefore, during the days that followed, Sir Rowland was forced to fret in idleness what time his wound was healing; but if his arm was invalided, his eyes and ears were sound, and he remained watchful for an opportunity to apply the knowledge he had gained. Richard mentioned the subject no more, so that Blake almost came to wonder whether the boy remembered what in his cups he had betrayed. 

Meanwhile Mr. Wilding moved serene and smiling on his way. Daily there were great armfuls of flowers deposited at Lupton House--his lover's offering to his mistress--and no day went by but that some richer gift accompanied them. Now it was a collar of brilliants, anon a rope of pearls, again a priceless ring that had been Mr. Wilding's mother's. Ruth received with reluctance these pledges of his undesired affection. It were idle to reject them, considering that she was to marry him; yet it hurt her sorely to retain them. On her side she made no dispositions for the marriage, but went about her daily tasks as though she were to remain a maid at Lupton House for a time as yet indefinite.  1. Who is being courted?
2. Where does she reside?
3. Who sends her gifts?
4. Are they engaged?
5. Is she happy about it?
6. What type of gift does he send every day?
7. What is another gift he has sent?
8. And another?
9. Is Sir Rowland Blake in a calm and happy mood?
10. How does he feel about Ruth?
11. Does he have any injuries?
12. Are his ears functioning well?
13. Are his eyes good?
14. Is he planning some type of revenge or trouble? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Ruth
2. Lupton House
3. Richard
4. Yes
5. No
6. armfuls of flowers
7. collar of brilliants
8. a rope of pearls
9. No
10. and that the wielding of it must be fraught with as much danger
11. his arm was invalided
12. his eyes and ears were sound
13. Yes
14. Yes