input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER VIII 

And these two, as I have told you, Were the friends of Hiawatha, Chibiabos, the musician, And the very strong man, Kwasind. 

--Hiawatha. 

TORPENHOW was paging the last sheets of some manuscript, while the Nilghai, who had come for chess and remained to talk tactics, was reading through the first part, commenting scornfully the while. 

'It's picturesque enough and it's sketchy,' said he; 'but as a serious consideration of affairs in Eastern Europe, it's not worth much.' 

'It's off my hands at any rate.... Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine slips altogether, aren't there? That should make between eleven and twelve pages of valuable misinformation. Heigho!' Torpenhow shuffled the writing together and hummed-- 

Young lambs to sell, young lambs to sell, If I'd as much money as I could tell, I never would cry, Young lambs to sell! 

Dick entered, self-conscious and a little defiant, but in the best of tempers with all the world. 

'Back at last?' said Torpenhow. 

'More or less. What have you been doing?' 

'Work. Dickie, you behave as though the Bank of England were behind you. Here's Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday gone and you haven't done a line. It's scandalous.' 

'The notions come and go, my children--they come and go like our 'baccy,' he answered, filling his pipe. 'Moreover,' he stooped to thrust a spill into the grate, 'Apollo does not always stretch his---- Oh, confound your clumsy jests, Nilghai!' 

'This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration,' said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow's large and workmanlike bellows to their nail on the wall. 'We believe in cobblers' wax. La!--where you sit down.'  1. What was to be sold?
2. Who was humming?
3. And what else at the time?
4. What?
5. Did Hiawatha have any friends?
6. How many?
7. Name one?
8. What does he do?
9. And the other?
10. Is he weak?
11. Who came in?
12. Was he in a good mood?
13. How many days had he not written anything?
14. Which days?
15. Who came to play a game?
16. What game?
17. What did they discuss?
18. How many sheets were of bad information?
19. What did he put in his pipe?
20. Where did the bellows go?
numbered_answers: 1. Young lambs.
2. Torpenhow
3. shuffled
4. The writing
5. Yes
6. Two
7. Chibiabos
8. A musician
9. Kwasind.
10. A very strong man
11. Dick
12. The best.
13. Three
14. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
15. The Nilghai.
16. Chess.
17. Tactics
18. Eleven to twelve.
19. 'baccy,'
20. To their nail on the wall

Q: Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. 

The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. Before his accession to the throne, he served as heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales for longer than any of his predecessors. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political power, and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties, and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and the Indian subcontinent in 1875 were popular successes, but despite public approval his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother. 

As king, Edward played a role in the modernisation of the British Home Fleet and the reorganisation of the British Army after the Second Boer War. He reinstituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialised. He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called "Peacemaker", but his relationship with his nephew, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, was poor. The Edwardian era, which covered Edward's reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism. He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Edward VII rule?
2. For how long?
3. What did he do before he became King?
4. What was his distinction as the holder of that title?
5. What did he embody?
6. What was his relationship with his mother like?
7. Why?
8. Who was his mother?
9. To whom was he the uncle?
10. What societal change happened while he was on the throne?
A:
1. United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India
2. 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910
3. he served as heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales
4. performing ceremonial public duties
5. . He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France
6. a sour relationship
7. because of the playboy image
8. Queen Victoria
9. Wilhelm II
10. He reinstituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialised.