Question:
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CHAPTER XXXVII 

"Come," says the White Logic, "and forget these Asian dreamers of old time. Fill your glass and let us look at the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday who dreamed their dreams on your own warm hills." 

I pore over the abstract of title of the vineyard called Tokay on the rancho called Petaluma. It is a sad long list of the names of men, beginning with Manuel Micheltoreno, one time Mexican "Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Inspector of the Department of the Californias," who deeded ten square leagues of stolen Indian land to Colonel Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo for services rendered his country and for moneys paid by him for ten years to his soldiers. 

Immediately this musty record of man's land lust assumes the formidableness of a battle--the quick struggling with the dust. There are deeds of trust, mortgages, certificates of release, transfers, judgments, foreclosures, writs of attachment, orders of sale, tax liens, petitions for letters of administration, and decrees of distribution. It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed. 

Who was this James King of William, so curiously named? The oldest surviving settler in the Valley of the Moon knows him not. Yet only sixty years ago he loaned Mariano G. Vallejo eighteen thousand dollars on security of certain lands including the vineyard yet to be and to be called Tokay. Whence came Peter O'Connor, and whither vanished, after writing his little name of a day on the woodland that was to become a vineyard? Appears Louis Csomortanyi, a name to conjure with. He lasts through several pages of this record of the enduring soil. 
1. Who loaned Mariano G. Vallejo $18,000?
2. How long ago?
3. Who said to forget the Asian dreamers of old?
4. Who was Manuel Micheltoreno?
5. What did he take from the Indians?
6. Who did he give it to?
7. Can you name a type of deed?
8. What is like a monster?
9. What was the abstract of title of the vineyard named?
10. What rancho was it on?
11. What won on the long, sad list?
12. Whose name was first on it?
13. Why was land deeded to Colonel Don Mariano?
14. What was called musty?
15. Who wrote his name on the woodland?
16. What was the woodland supposed to turn into?
17. Whose name lasts through several pages?
18. What were the pages of?
19. What did the White Logic say to do with your glass?
20. And then look at what?

Numbered answers:
1. James King
2. sixty years ago
3. the White Logi
4. Mexican "Governor,
5. Indian land
6. Colonel Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
7. deeds of trust,
8. the land
9. Tokay
10. Petaluma
11. the names of men
12. Manuel Micheltoreno
13. for services rendered his country
14. record of man's land lust
15. Peter O'Connor
16. a vineyard
17. Louis Csomortanyi
18. record of the enduring soil.
19. Fill it
20. the parchments of the dreamers of yesterday


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Rose sat behind Kate in the classroom. They got on well with each other. But one day, Rose didn't see her school IC card at lunch time. She asked her classmates and looked for it everywhere. But she couldn't find it. Later, one girl said that she saw Kate take a card from Rose's desk. Hearing this, Rose got very angry. When she met Kate in the afternoon, Rose shouted, "You have stolen my card!" Hearing this, Kate began to cry, "No, no, I didn't steal it! I only took it by mistake." But Rose didn't think so and she began to say bad words to Kate. Just then a teacher came up and asked what had happened. Kate told the whole story. She said a middle school classmate of hers came to see her in the morning. She was so excited that she took the card on the desk and rushed out. Then they went for lunch happily. "I used the card, but I had thought it was mine. I didn't know it was Rose's until she looked for it. I was too afraid to explain it to her. So I decided to put the card back with some money secretly. I am sorry, Rose." Kate said in a low voice. "It's just a misunderstanding !" said the teacher. Tears came into Rose's eyes. Then she said, "I was very sorry, Kate! I hope we are still good friends." Kate smiled when she heard the words. Hand in hand, they walked toward the classroom building.
1. What kind of card did Rose not see?
2. At what time did this occur?
3. Did someone tell her that her card was taken?
4. Who did she say took the card?
5. What was Rose's reaction to this information?
6. Did Kate end up using the card?
7. What did she leave with the card when she returned it?
8. Who was seated behind Rose in class?
9. Did they get along?
10. What did Rose yell at Kate that afternoon?
11. Upon hearing this, what was Kate's response?
12. Was she crying at this time?
13. At first, did Rose believe Kate's explanation?
14. What sort of classmate had come to visit Kate earlier?
15. Did she and the classmate then leave to go eat?
16. In the end, did Rose accept Kate's story?
17. Was Kate bored when her classmate came to see her?
18. What emotion did she feel?
19. Why didn't Kate initially explain what happened with the card to Rose?
20. Did Rose ask her classmates for help in locating the card?

Numbered answers:
1. IC card
2. lunch time
3. yes
4. Kate
5. angry.
6. yes
7. some money secretly
8. Kate
9. yes
10. "You have stolen my card!
11. "No, no, I didn't steal it! I only took it by mistake."
12. yes
13. no
14. middle school
15. yes
16. yes
17. No
18. excited
19. afraid
20. yes


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Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent. There is no consensus on the precise area it covers, partly because the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. There are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region". A related United Nations paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct". 

One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural entity: the region lying in Europe with the main characteristics consisting of Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian , and some Ottoman culture influences. Another definition was created during the Cold War and used more or less synonymously with the term "Eastern Bloc". A similar definition names the formerly communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe. Some historians and social scientists view such definitions as outdated or relegated, but they are still sometimes used for statistical purposes. 

Several other definitions of Eastern Europe exist today, but they often lack precision, are too general or outdated. These definitions vary both across cultures and among experts, even political scientists, as the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations.
1. What exact area does Eastern Europe cover?
2. What is one way it is defined?
3. How many influence does that say it has?
4. How many is that?
5. When did they come up with another way to define it?
6. What does it basically have for a synonym?
7. Which former communist states are named as being Eastern Europe?
8. Are these old definitions?
9. What are definitions missing?
10. Do all political scientists agree?
11. Are there a lot of connotations to the term?
12. Where is Eastern Europe?


Numbered answers:
1. no precise area
2. a cultural entity
3. Greek, Byzantine, Eastern Orthodox, Russian , and some Ottoman culture influences
4. Five
5. during the Cold War
6. Eastern Bloc
7. states outside the Soviet Union
8. Some historians and social scientists say so
9. precision
10. no
11. yes
12. the eastern part of the European continent