Problem: CHAPTER XXX 

Selingman had the air of one who has achieved a personal triumph as, with his arm in Maraton's, he led him towards the man whom they had come to visit. 

"Behold!" he exclaimed. "It is a triumph, this! It is a thing to be remembered! I have brought you two together!" 

Maraton's first impressions of Maxendorf were curiously mixed. He saw before him a tall, lanky figure of a man, dressed in sombre black, a man of dark complexion, with beardless face and tanned skin plentifully freckled. His hair and eyes were coal black. He held out his hand to Maraton, but the smile with which he had welcomed Selingman had passed from his lips. 

"You are not the Maraton I expected some day to meet," he said, a little bluntly, "and yet I am glad to know you." 

Selingman shrugged his shoulders. 

"Max--my friend Max, do not be peevish," he begged. "I tell you that he is the Maraton of whom we have spoken together. I have heard him. I have been to Sheffield and listened. Don't be prejudiced, Max. Wait." 

Maxendorf motioned them to seats and stood with his finger upon the bell. 

"Yes," Selingman assented, "we will drink with you. You breathe of the Rhine, my friend. I see myself sitting with you in your terraced garden, drinking Moselle wine out of cut glasses. So it shall be. We will fall into the atmosphere. What a palace you live in, Max! Is it because you are an ambassador that they must house you so splendidly?" 
1. What two me walked arm in arm?
2. Who are they headed to meet?
3. What does he do for a living?
4. Did he live poorly?
5. What were Maraton's thoughts on him when they first met?
6. Was the man he met tall?
7. And his shape?
8. Did he have fair skin?
9. Did they shake hands?
10. What expression had passed from his face after he extended his hand?
11. Where would they take their drinks?
12. What would they drink out of?
13. What would they drink?
14. What type of home does Selingman say Max has?
Answer: 1. Selingman and Maraton'
2. Maxendorf
3. an ambassador
4. no
5. mixed
6. yes
7. lanky
8. dark complexion
9. unknown
10. smile
11. terraced garden
12. cut glasses
13. wine
14. a palace

Q: CHAPTER III. 

THE NIGHT-WATCHERS. 

What first struck Margaret in Thrums was the smell of the caddis. The town smells of caddis no longer, but whiffs of it may be got even now as one passes the houses of the old, where the lay still swings at little windows like a great ghost pendulum. To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin. The little minister was trying to look severe and old, but twenty-one was in his eye. 

"Look, mother, at that white house with the green roof. That is the manse." 

The manse stands high, with a sharp eye on all the town. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it, and so the back of the Tenements is always better behaved than the front. It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other. (Gavin made short work of him.) To the right-minded the Auld Licht manse was as a family Bible, ever lying open before them, but Beattie spoke for more than him-self when he said, "Dagone that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me." 

Answer the following questions:
1. What color is the top of the church?
2. Is it short?
3. Who behaves better?
4. Why?
5. Who killed himself?
6. How many attempts did it take?
7. Who never had a wife?
8. What pets did he keep?
9. Who felt the church was always staring at him?
10. Was he the only one?
11. Did someone else think differently about it?
12. Who?
13. Who did they see it?
14. Did the area have an odor?
15. Of what?
16. Who felt this way?
17. Did she think it was normal?
18. Does the narrator like the odor or dislike it?
19. What are the people who weave things wearing?
20. Who tried to look tough and elderly?
A: 1. green
2. No
3. the back of the Tenements
4. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it
5. Beattie
6. Two
7. Jamie Don
8. Ferrets
9. Beattie
10. No
11. Yes
12. The right-minded
13. as a family Bible, ever lying open before them,
14. Yes
15. The caddis
16. Margaret
17. No
18. He likes it
19. colored nightcaps and corduroys
20. The little minister

Problem: (CNN) -- A flurry of last-minute legal maneuvers Tuesday spared, for now, the life of John Ferguson, a Florida death row inmate who suffers from mental illness and at one point called himself the 'prince of God.' 

Ferguson, a diagnosed schizophrenic convicted of killing eight people, was scheduled to get the lethal injection Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET at a Florida State Prison. 

But an appeals court in Atlanta granted an emergency stay of execution Tuesday night. 

Florida officials then asked the Supreme Court to allow the lethal injection to proceed. Just before midnight the high court denied Florida's request, keeping in place the stay of execution, according to court documents. 

Some had questioned why authorities would kill a man who suffered from mental illness. 

Laurel Bellows, the president of the American Bar Association, released a statement earlier Tuesday saying she was concerned about how thoroughly Ferguson's competency was evaluated. 

"The American Bar Association is alarmed that Florida is poised to execute John Ferguson, a man diagnosed as severely mentally ill for more than 40 years, before the constitutionality of his execution is fully evaluated." 

Chris Handman, one of Ferguson's attorneys, told CNN. "We think the court should intervene to stop that execution from going forward." 

Handman said a court had earlier found that Ferguson was mentally ill and had delusions that caused him to think he is the "Prince of God." 

Ferguson is on death row for the murders of eight people in Hialeah and Carol City, Florida, in the late 1970s. 
1. What was given by an appeals court Tuesday?
2. Where?
3. Who received it?
4. Is he on death row?
5. Where?
6. Does he have an illness?
7. What kind?
8. Did a doctor say he's ill?
9. What is the name of his illness?
10. How long has he had that label?
11. Who is Laurel Bellows?
12. How does she say the Bar feels about this?
13. When did she say it?
14. Who is his lawyer?
15. What does he feel the court should do?
16. And do what?
17. Who did he murder?
18. when?
19. What were they planning to kill him with?
20. When?
Answer:
1. an emergency stay of execution
2. in Atlanta
3. John Ferguson
4. yup
5. Florida
6. yes
7. mentally ill
8. yes
9. schizophrenic
10. 40 years,
11. the president of the American Bar Association
12. They are alarmed
13. Tuesday
14. Chris Handman
15. intervene
16. stop that execution from going forward
17. eight people
18. the late 1970s
19. lethal injection
20. Tuesday