Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER III 

SAM BRINGS NEWS 

As Tom ran over to his brother's side he could not help but give a glance at the flying machine, which was rising higher and higher in the air, with a noise from the engine that sounded like a battery of gattling guns in action. 

"Hi! hi! Wot's that?" came in a startled voice from the other side of the barn, and Jack Ness, the Rovers hired man, came running into view. "By gum, if them boys ain't gone an' flew without waitin' fer that man to show 'em! Who's doin' it? I don't see nobuddy." And the hired man blinked in amazement at the sight before him. "Is Sam in there?" 

"Nobody is in the machine," answered Tom, who was kneeling beside his brother. "Oh, gracious! Look at that!" he exclaimed. 

"There goes the chimbley!" roared Jack Ness, as the biplane swooped just high enough to clear the roof of the Rover homestead. One of the wheels underneath struck a chimney a glancing blow, hurling the bricks in all directions. As they came clattering down, from the house out ran Mrs. Rover, followed by her husband and the hired help. Anderson Rover was away on business. 

"What is the matter--is it a--er--a cyclone?" gasped Randolph Rover. 

"I don't know, I'm sure," answered Mrs. Rover. "But it's a terrible noise." 

"Look! look!" shrieked the cook, pointing upward. "Saints preserve us!" she moaned. "'Tis the end of the world!" 

"A flying machine!" murmured Randolph Rover. He gazed around hurriedly. "Can it be the boys?" 
1. who's side did he run to?
2. what did he glance at
3. what  sounded like a battery of gattling guns in action.
4. what did she moan
5. who was the hired man
6. who as int he machine
7. where was Anderson Rover
8. who blinked
9. what struck the chimney
10. who ran out of the house

Numbered answers:
1. his brothers
2. the flying machine
3. the noise from the engine
4. "Saints preserve us
5. Jack Ness
6. Nobody is in the machine or possibly the boys it's not disclosed
7. was away on business
8. Jack Ness the hired man
9. the plane
10. Mrs. Rover


Question:
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Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia). Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French "Australasie") in "Histoire des navigations aux terres australes" (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India. 

Physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia (including Tasmania), and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47° south. Physiographically, Australasia includes the Australian landmass (including Tasmania), New Zealand, and New Guinea. The independent country of Papua New Guinea also includes approximately 600 offshore islands. 

Most of Australasia lies on the southern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south. Peripheral territories lie on the Eurasian Plate to the northwest, the Philippine Plate to the north, and in the Pacific Ocean – including numerous marginal seas – atop the Pacific Plate to the north and east.
1. Is New Zealand in Australasia?
2. How about Australia?
3. New Guinea too?
4. Why?
5. Who came up with this terminology?
6. When?
7. Where?
8. How New Zealand can be part of it too?
9. Is Melanesia part of it Physiographically?
10. What latitude demarcate it?

Numbered answers:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. sometimes
4. usually considered part of Melanesia
5. Charles de Brosses
6. 1756
7. "Histoire des navigations aux terres australes"
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. 47° south


Question:
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Washington (CNN) -- The Virginia governor's race has often been looked to as an off-year barometer of national political sentiment. 

This year's grind-it-out race, an acrimonious spitball contest between two candidates only slightly more likeable than Walter White, is anything but. 

In a lesser-of-two-evils campaign, Terry McAuliffe, the longtime Democratic fundraiser and confidante to former President Bill Clinton, is clinging to a modest but sturdy lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the state's attorney general. 

Republicans have pilloried McAuliffe as a sleazy political operator and failed businessman who exploited his Washington connections to help his sputtering car company, GreenTech Automotive. Cuccinelli has been targeted as a far-right social crusader who would curb abortion rights and access to contraception. Democrats on Twitter are fond of calling him #creepyken. 

McAuliffe is leading Cuccinelli among likely voters by an eight-point margin, 47% to 39%, according to a Washington Post poll out this week. 

McAuliffe is hardly bulletproof: A federal investigation into GreenTech has sullied his reputation, and only two-thirds of Democrats -- his own party -- consider him "honest and trustworthy." 

But Cuccinelli is on much shakier ground. While Republicans are slightly more fired up about voting for him than Democrats are for McAuliffe, Cuccinelli's favorable ratings are next-to-toxic: More than half of likely voters view him unfavorably. 

Enter Robert Sarvis. 

As public dismay with the two main candidates calcifies, the baby-faced 37-year old Libertarian candidate from Fairfax has quietly crept northward in the polls, reaching 10% in the Post poll. 

That's not nearly enough to win in November -- with just five weeks until Election Day, even Sarvis admits "we have to get a lot higher" -- but he looks increasingly likely to play the role of spoiler by siphoning conservative votes away from Cuccinelli. 
1. Who has a face like an infant?
2. What is his age?
3. Where is he from?
4. What's his political group?
5. What percentage is he expected to receive?
6. What percentage is Sarvis expected to get?
7. Which direction are his numbers going?
8. Who raised money for the Dems?
9. Who confided in him?
10. Who is he ahead of?
11. What hashtag is used for him?
12. What's is position?
13. Which state?
14. Who released the pollster results?
15. According to Washington Post poll, what is the margin?
16. When was the 8 point margin poll released?
17. Who is ahead now?
18. Says who?
19. Which business are the Feds investigating?
20. How many of his group think highly of McAuliffe?


Numbered answers:
1. Robert Sarvis.
2. 37
3. Fairfax
4. Libertarian
5. , 47% to 39%
6. 10%
7. northward
8. Terry McAuliffe,
9. President Bill Clinton
10. Republican Ken Cuccinelli,
11. #creepyken.
12. the state's attorney general
13. unknown
14. unknown
15. , 47% to 39%
16. unknown
17. Terry McAuliffe
18. Washington Post
19. GreenTech
20. two-thirds of Democrats -- his own party -- consider him "honest and trustworthy.