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

DESCRIBES A HAPPY HOME AND A HAPPIER MEETING. 

In a small wayside cottage in the outskirts of one of those picturesque villages which surround London, an old woman sat at the head of a small deal table, with a black teapot, a brown sugar-basin, a yellow milk jug, and a cracked tea-cup before her. 

At the foot of the same table sat a young man, with a large knife in one hand, a huge loaf of bread in the other, and a mass of yellow butter in a blue plate in front of him. 

The young man was James Slagg; the old woman was his mother. Jim had no brothers or sisters, and his father chanced to be absent at market, so he had the "old lady" all to himself. 

"Well, well, Jim," said Mrs Slagg, with a loving look at her son's flushed face, "you've told me a heap o' wonderful tales about telegrumphs, an' tigers, an' electricity an' what not. If you was as great a liar as you was used to be, Jim, I tell 'ee plain, lad, I wouldn't believe one word on it. But you're a better boy than you was, Jim, an' I do believe you--indeed I do, though I must confess that some on it is hard to swallow." 

"Thank 'ee, mother," said Jim, with a pleasant nod, as he cut an enormous slice from the loaf, trowelled upon it a mass of the yellow butter, and pushed in his cup for more tea.  1. Who sat at the foot of the table?
2. What did she have before her?
3. What was her name?
4. Who sat at the foot of the table?
5. What was he holding in one hand?
6. And in the other?
7. What did he have before him?
8. What was his name?
9. What was the woman's relationship to him?
10. Where were his brothers and sisters?
11. And his dad?
12. Was his face pale?
13. What had he been telling his mom?
14. Did she believe them?
15. But were they easy to believe?
16. Did he thank his mom?
17. What did he use his knife for?
18. What did he put on it?
19. Did he ask for more to drink?
numbered_answers: 1. an old woman
2. a black teapot, a brown sugar-basin, a yellow milk jug, and a cracked tea-cup
3. Mrs Slagg
4. a young man
5. a large knife
6. a huge loaf of bread
7. a mass of yellow butter in a blue plate
8. Jim
9. his mother
10. Jim had no brothers or sisters
11. at market,
12. no
13. a heap o' wonderful tales
14. yes
15. no
16. yes
17. he cut an enormous slice from the loaf
18. a mass of the yellow butter
19. yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Once there was a boy named Fritz who loved to draw. He drew everything. In the morning, he drew a picture of his cereal with milk. His papa said, "Don't draw your cereal. Eat it!" After school, Fritz drew a picture of his bicycle. His uncle said, "Don't draw your bicycle. Ride it!" At nighttime, after he finished washing his face, he drew a picture of the toothpaste on the sink. His mama said, "Don't draw the toothpaste. Brush your teeth!" 

One day Fritz got a splinter in his foot. It hurt. He wanted to take the splinter out. But first, he drew a picture of his foot with the splinter in it. He said, "Now I can remember what my foot looks like with a splinter in it." Then he took the splinter out all by himself. He told his friend Stephen that he took the splinter out all by himself. Stephen did not believe him. Fritz showed him the picture. Then Stephen believed him. 1. What did Fritz enjoy doing?
2. What did he draw?
3. What did he draw in the morning?
4. Was his father pleased?
5. When did he draw a bicycle?
6. Whose bike was it?
7. Was his uncle pleased?
8. What did he wash at nighttime?
9. Did he draw something afterwards?
10. What?
11. Who was displeased this time?
12. Where did Fritz get a splinter?
13. What did he draw when this happened?
14. Why?
15. Did he go to the doctor?
16. Who removed the splinter?
17. Who did he tell?
18. Did his friend believe him?
19. What changed Stephen's mind?
numbered_answers: 1. drawing
2. everything
3. a picture of his cereal
4. no
5. After school
6. his
7. no
8. his face
9. yes
10. toothpaste
11. His mama
12. his foot
13. a picture of his foot with splinter
14. so he could remember what the foot looked like
15. no
16. he did
17. his friend
18. no
19. the picture

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary. 

The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at the helm of the Defense Department emblematic of a White House that puts politics above U.S. national security. 

"It seems what the administration is looking for is a defense secretary who will follow the orders of a political White House rather than focus on defending the national security interests of this country," Cruz said. "At a time when the threats are this grave, we shouldn't see turnover at the Defense Department than one has at a typical Burger King." 

Cruz said he did not know Ashton Carter, the former No. 2 man at the Pentagon who is expected to be Obama's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, but Cruz said he looks forward to learning more about Carter and his "good reputation." 

But Cruz emphasized he was unsettled to see several potential picks pull their names out of the running to head the department, including former Pentagon official Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed. 

"It says something that so many people are saying, 'No, thank you, I don't want to serve in an administration that overrides the Defense Department, that treats the defense secretary as subservient to political lackeys in the White House," Cruz said. 

Cruz made the remarks Tuesday at an event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and the conservative publication The Weekly Standard during which he bore out his hawkish foreign policy and staked out positions starkly in contrast to Obama.  1. How many Secretaries of Defense has the President already nominated during this term?
numbered_answers:
1. three