Problem: CHAPTER II 

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"My boys! my boys!" 

Such was the cry given by Anderson Rover, when he caught sight of the occupants of the carriage, as the turnout swept up to the piazza of the comfortable farm home. 

"Home again! Home again Safe from a foreign shore!" 

sang out Tom, and leaping to the ground, he caught his father around the shoulders. "Aren't you glad to see us, father?" he went on. 

"Glad doesn't express it, Tom," replied the fond parent, as he embraced first one and then another. "My heart is overflowing with joy, and I thank God that you have returned unharmed, after having passed through so many grave perils. How brown all of you look!" 

"Tanned by the tropical sun," answered Sam. "Oh, here is Aunt Martha, and Uncle Randolph!" 

"Sam!" burst out the motherly aunt, as she kissed him. "Oh, how you must have suffered on that lonely island!" And then she kissed the others. 

"We've certainly had our fill of adventures," came from Dick, who was shaking hands with his Uncle Randolph. "And more than once we thought we should never see Valley Brook farm again." 

"We were real Robinson Crusoes," went on Sam. "And the girls were Robinson Crusoes, too." 

"Are the girls well?" questioned Mrs. Rover. 

"Very well, auntie. If they hadn't been we shouldn't have parted with them in San Francisco. They went back to Santa Barbara to finish their vacation." 

"I see. Well, it certainly was a wonderful trip. You'll have to tell us all the particulars this evening. I suppose you are as hungry as bears just now. Tom is, I'm sure." 
1. Who was tanned?
2. What did they arrive in?
3. What type of house was it?
4. Who did Tom see first?
5. Was his dad glad to see him?
6. Who was one other person there?
7. who?
8. Who came with Tom?
9. What was the name of the house?
10. Who did Sam compare themselves to?
11. Who did Mrs. Rover ask about?
12. Where did they go?
13. Why?
Answer: 1. the boys
2. A carriage
3. A farm home
4. his father
5. Yes
6. yes
7. Aunt Martha, and Uncle Randolph
8. Dick
9. Valley Brook farm
10. Robinson Crusoes
11. the girls
12. Santa Barbara
13. to finish their vacation.

Problem: (CNN)Abror Habibov, 30, operated kiosks at malls along the East Coast. He sold kitchenware and repaired mobile phones, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. 

Last fall, Habibov hired Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, to work at kiosks in Savannah, Georgia; Philadelphia and Chesapeake, Virginia. 

Abdurasul Juraboev, 24, a Uzbekistan native and legal permanent U.S. resident, worked at the Gyro King restaurant in Brooklyn. He asked his boss whether he could leave this weekend because he was traveling. 

Until their arrests Wednesday in connection with an alleged failed attempt to join ISIS in Syria, Saidakhmetov and Juraboev appeared to live the mundane lives of ordinary Brooklyn immigrants. 

They also appeared careless in planning their alleged plot. One man, for instance, showed up at U.S. Homeland Security offices to apply for a travel document, authorities said. They sometimes communicated online because they believed it would be harder for authorities to trace. 

Juraboev allegedly discussed assassinating President Barack Obama, according to the complaint. But he told an FBI agent that he "currently does not have the means or an imminent plan to do so." 

Juraboev and Saidakhmetov, authorities said, planned to embark on the journey to Turkey on Wednesday. 

Read the criminal complaint against trio 

One of them discussed the possibility of hijacking a commercial flight to Turkey and diverting it "to the Islamic State, so that the Islamic State would gain a plane," the complaint said. They also talked about joining the U.S. military in order to attack soldiers. 
1. Who talked about killing President Obama?
2. Where is he from?
3. How old is he?
4. Is he a permanent U.S. resident?
5. Where did he work?
6. In what city?
7. What did he ask his boss?
8. What did he tell the FBI agent?
9. Who was his partner in crime?
10. How old is he?
11. What did he do for work?
12. In how many cities?
13. What was the first city?
14. The second city?
15. And the third?
16. Who hired him to work there?
17. How old is he?
18. What was his job?
19. What was one of the ways they were careless in planning their alleged plot?
20. Where were they planning to go on Wednesday?
Answer: 1. Juraboev
2. Uzbekistan
3. 24
4. yes
5. Gyro King restaurant in Brooklyn
6. Brooklyn
7. whether he could leave this weekend because he was traveling
8. that he "currently does not have the means or an imminent plan to do so."
9. Akhror Saidakhmetov
10. 19
11. he worked at kiosks
12. Three
13. Savannah
14. Philadelphia
15. Chesapeake
16. Abror Habibov
17. 30
18. he operated kiosks at malls along the East Coast ... sold kitchenware and repaired mobile phones
19. They sometimes communicated online because they believed it would be harder for authorities to trace.
20. Turkey

Problem: Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy in English-language sources, was a constitutional union of the Austrian Empire (the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council, or "Cisleithania") and the Kingdom of Hungary (Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen or "Transleithania") that existed from 1867 to 1918, when it collapsed as a result of defeat in World War I. The union was a result of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and came into existence on 30 March 1867. Austria-Hungary consisted of two monarchies (Austria and Hungary), and one autonomous region: the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia under the Hungarian crown, which negotiated the Croatian–Hungarian Settlement ("Nagodba") in 1868. It was ruled by the House of Habsburg, and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg Monarchy. Following the 1867 reforms, the Austrian and the Hungarian states were co-equal. Foreign affairs and the military came under joint oversight, but all other governmental faculties were divided between respective states. 

Austria-Hungary was a multinational state and one of the world's great powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at , and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry of the world, after the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, electric industrial appliances and power generation apparatus for power plants, after the United States and the German Empire.
1. What is the 2nd largest European nation in size?
2. After which empire?
3. How does it rank population wise?
4. Which nations have more people?
5. How does it rank in machine factories?
6. Who beats it?
7. Does another nation manufacture more household appliances?
8. Which ones?
9. Which empire is the article about?
10. Does it have another name?
11. What type of union is it?
12. Of what?
13. How many years did it exist?
14. What caused its downfall?
15. Which compromise brought it into being?
16. How many kingdoms were involved?
17. And their names?
18. Were the 2 states equal?
19. When did this happen?
20. What is Transleithania
Answer:
1. Austria-Hungary
2. Russia and the German Empire
3. third
4. Russia and the German Empire
5. fourth-largest
6. United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom
7. yes
8. United States and the German Empire
9. Austro-Hungarian Empire
10. the Dual Monarchy
11. constitutional
12. of the Austrian Empire
13. 51
14. defeat in World War I
15. Austro-Hungarian Compromise
16. two
17. the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
18. yes
19. Following the 1867 reforms
20. the Kingdom of Hungary