Question:
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Don Ritchie, a famous Australian man. For nearly 50 years, he successfully stopped 160 people from killing themselves at a cliff called 'the Gap' - with just a kind word and a smile. Ritchie had served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. In 1964, he moved into a house on Old South Head Road. He began saving strangers soon after. Ritchie was a real gentleman who purposely chose to live right across the street from 'the Gap', just because he wanted to continue saving lives. He would wake up every morning and look out of the window for anyone standing too close to the edge of the cliff. If he saw someone and thought they might jump, he would simply walk over with a smile and say, "Is there something I could do to help you?" That sounds very simple, but it worked - Ritchie tried to have a talk with these people and ended up inviting them back to his house for tea or breakfast. In 2006, Ritchie was given the Medal of the Order of Australia for all his saving lives. In 2010, he and his wife were named Woollahra Council's citizens of the year and in 2011, he was given the Local Hero Award for Australia by the National Australia Day Council. In a situation where most would turn a blind eye, Don has taken action. With such simple actions Don has saved a number of lives. Don's story touched the hearts of all Australians and challenged us to rethink what it means to be a good neighbor.
1. Where were people committing suicide?
2. Who stopped them?
3. How many has he saved?
4. Did he ask them to come to his house?
5. For what?
6. What happened in 2011?
7. By who?
8. How long has he been saving lives?
9. What country ?
10. Was he in the army?
11. What then?
12. What war was he in?
13. What medal did he get in 2006?
14. What happened in 2010?
15. By who?
16. When did he move near the cliff area?
17. What was the road ?
18. What did he do every morning?
19. For what?
20. Was his method for saving people confusing?

Numbered answers:
1. at the Gap
2. Don Ritchie
3. 160
4. yes
5. tea or breakfast
6. he was given the Local Hero Award for Australia
7. the National Australia Day Council
8. For nearly 50 years
9. Australia
10. no
11. the Royal Australian Navy
12. World War II
13. the Medal of the Order of Australia
14. he and his wife were named  citizens of the year
15. Woollahra Council
16. In 1964
17. Old South Head Road
18. look out of the window
19. for anyone standing by the cliff
20. no


Question:
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West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the north (and, slightly, east), and Maryland to the northeast. West Virginia is the 10th smallest by area, is ranked 38th in population, and has the second lowest household income of the 50 United States. The capital and largest city is Charleston. 

West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, after the American Civil War had begun. Delegates from some Unionist counties of northwestern Virginia decided to break away from Virginia, although they included many secessionist counties in the new state. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the war. West Virginia was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, the first to separate from any state since Maine separated from Massachusetts, and was one of two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War (the other being Nevada). While a portion of its residents held slaves, most of the residents were yeomen farmers, and the delegates provided for gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution.
1. Was West Virginia one of the original states?
2. Was it a state at the beginning of the Civil War?
3. What year did it achieve statehood?
4. What area of Virginia did West Virginia come from?
5. Were all the counties loyal to the union?
6. Was it in a strategically important position during the war?
7. What was the last state to separate from another?
8. From New Hampshire?
9. From what?
10. How many other areas were given statehood during the Civil War?
11. What was it?
12. What did most people do for a living in early West Virginia?
13. Did any of the people have slaves?
14. Did that end abruptly?
15. What finally abolished slavery there?
16. What state is to its north?
17. Is Ohio on its southern border?
18. What is the area called that West Virginia is a part of?
19. Is it one of the larger U.S. states?
20. Is it wealthy?

Numbered answers:
1. no
2. yes
3. 1863
4. northwestern
5. no
6. yes
7. Maine
8. no
9. Massachusetts
10. One
11. Nevada
12. farming
13. yes
14. no
15. new state constitution
16. Pennsylvania
17. no
18. Appalachian
19. no
20. no


Question:
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CHAPTER VII. TOM RESPECTS THE FLEA 

"NOON!" says Tom, and so it was. His shadder was just a blot around his feet. We looked, and the Grinnage clock was so close to twelve the difference didn't amount to nothing. So Tom said London was right north of us or right south of us, one or t'other, and he reckoned by the weather and the sand and the camels it was north; and a good many miles north, too; as many as from New York to the city of Mexico, he guessed. 

Jim said he reckoned a balloon was a good deal the fastest thing in the world, unless it might be some kinds of birds--a wild pigeon, maybe, or a railroad. 

But Tom said he had read about railroads in England going nearly a hundred miles an hour for a little ways, and there never was a bird in the world that could do that--except one, and that was a flea. 

"A flea? Why, Mars Tom, in de fust place he ain't a bird, strickly speakin'--" 

"He ain't a bird, eh? Well, then, what is he?" 

"I don't rightly know, Mars Tom, but I speck he's only jist a' animal. No, I reckon dat won't do, nuther, he ain't big enough for a' animal. He mus' be a bug. Yassir, dat's what he is, he's a bug." 

"I bet he ain't, but let it go. What's your second place?" 

"Well, in de second place, birds is creturs dat goes a long ways, but a flea don't." 
1. Which direction was London?
2. What time was it?
3. What did Tom read about Railroads?
4. Can birds go that fast?
5. Is a flea a bird?
6. What is it?
7. Who thought it was a bird?
8. Did he learn what it was?
9. Who was Tom arguing with?
10. Were they related?
11. What characterized their surroundings?
12. Where were they?


Numbered answers:
1. North
2. Noon
3. About railroads in England going nearly a hundred miles an hour
4. No
5. No
6. A bug
7. Tom
8. No
9. Jim
10. unknown
11. sand and camels
12. unknown