question: CHAPTER I 

SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVER BOYS 

"Luff up a little, Sam, or the _Spray_ will run on the rocks." 

"All right, Dick. I haven't got sailing down quite as fine as you yet. How far do you suppose we are from Albany?" 

"Not over eight or nine miles. If this wind holds out we'll make that city by six o'clock. I'll tell you what, sailing on the Hudson suits me first-rate." 

"And it suits me, too," put in Tom Rover, addressing both of his brothers. "I like it ten times better than staying on Uncle Randolph's farm." 

"But I can't say that I like it better than life at Putnam Hall," smiled Sam Rover, as he threw over the tiller of the little yacht. "I'm quite anxious to meet Captain Putnam and Fred, Frank, and Larry again." 

"Oh, so am I," answered Tom Rover. "But an outing on the Hudson is just the best of a vacation. By the way, I wonder if all of our old friends will be back?" 

"Most of them will be." 

"And our enemies?" 

"Dan Baxter won't come back," answered Dick seriously. "He ran away to Chicago with two hundred dollars belonging to his father, and I guess that's the end of him--so far as Putnam Hall and we are concerned. What a bully he was!" 

"I feel it in my bones, Dick, that we'll meet Dan Baxter again," came from Sam Rover. 

"Don't you remember that in that note he left when he ran away he said he would take pains to get square with us some day?" 
1. How far were the men from Albany?
2. By what time were they to get there?
3. If what holds?
4. What river were they sailing on?
5. Were the men on the ship siblings?
6. On whose farm had Tom stayed on?
7. What hall did Sam like a lot?
8. Sam was looking forward to meeting how many people?
9. Did one of the men have a title?
10. Who?
11. Who were the other three men?
12. Who did Dick say would not return?
13. Where did he flee to?
14. With how much money?
15. Whose money was it?
16. Did Sam think they would encounter Dan again?
17. What did Dan leave before he left?
18. What did he say in it?
19. What is the title of this chapter?
20. And the number of it?
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answer: 1. eight or nine miles
2. by six o'clock
3. The wind
4. Hudson
5. yes
6. Uncle Randolph
7. Putnam Hall
8. Four
9. yes
10. Putnam
11. Fred, Frank, and Larry
12. Dan Baxter
13. Chicago
14. two hundred dollars
15. his fathers
16. Yes
17. A note
18. he said he would take pains
19. SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROVER BOYS
20. CHAPTER I


question: CHAPTER XX. 

THE FIRST EASTERN WAR. 

215-183. 

Scipio remained in Africa till he had arranged matters and won such a claim to Massinissa's gratitude that this king of Numidia was sure to watch over the interests of Rome. Scipio then returned home, and entered Rome with a grand triumph, all the nobler for himself that he did not lead Hannibal in his chains. He had been too generous to demand that so brave an enemy should be delivered up to him. He received the surname of Africanus, and was one of the most respected and beloved of Romans. He was the first who began to take up Greek learning and culture, and to exchange the old Roman ruggedness for the graces of philosophy and poetry. Indeed the Romans were beginning to have much to do with the Greeks, and the war they entered upon now was the first for the sake of spreading their own power. All the former ones had been in self-defence, and the new one did in fact spring out of the Punic war, for the Carthaginians had tried to persuade Philip, king of Macedon, to follow in the track of Pyrrhus, and come and help Hannibal in Southern Italy. The Romans had kept him off by stirring up the robber Ætolians against him; and when he began to punish these wild neighbors, the Romans leagued themselves with the old Greek cities which Macedon oppressed, and a great war took place. 

Titus Quinctius Flaminius commanded in Greece for four years, first as consul and then as proconsul. His crowning victory was at Cynocephalæ, or the Dogshead Rocks, where he so broke the strength of Macedon that at the Isthmian games he proclaimed the deliverance of Greece, and in their joy the people crowded round him with crowns and garlands, and shouted so loud that birds in the air were said to have dropped down at the sound. 
1. Who was called Africanus?
2. Did he become a popular man?
3. Who did he bring defeated to Rome?
4. Did he treat Hannibal as his prisoner?
5. Why not?
6. What did Scipio take up?
7. What did he give up for this?
8. In exchange for what?
9. What was different about this war?
10. What had all the other conflicts been for?
11. Who led in Greece for four years?
12. Did his position change?
13. What was he initially?
14. And then?
15. True or False: He was defeated at the Dogshead Rocks.
16. Whose power did he vanquish there?
17. What were the Rocks also called?
18. Why did the birds fall?
19. Were they happy?
20. Where did Flaminius announce that Greece was saved?
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answer:
1. Scipio.
2. yes
3. Hannibal
4. no
5. Because Hannibal was so brave an enemy.
6. Greek learning and culture
7. Roman ruggedness
8. For the graces of philosophy and poetry.
9. It was the first for the sake of spreading their own power.
10. self-defence
11. Titus Quinctius Flaminius
12. Yes.
13. Consul.
14. proconsul
15. False
16. Macedon
17. Cynocephalæ
18. The people shouted so loud.
19. Yes.
20. at the Isthmian games