Question:
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CHAPTER VIII--SNOBBISHNESS 



"Why then should vain repinings rise, That to thy lover fate denies A nobler name, a wide domain?"--SCOTT. 

The friendship with the Sisters was about three weeks old when, one morning, scaffold poles were being erected in the new side aisle of St. Kenelm's Church, and superintending them was a tall dark-haired young man. There was a start of mutual recognition; and by and by he met Paula and Vera in the porch, and there were eager hand-clasps and greetings, as befitted old friends meeting in a strange place. 

"Mr. Hubert! I heard you were coming!" 

"Miss Vera! Miss Paula! This is a pleasure." 

Then followed an introduction of Sister Mena, whose elder companion was away, attending a sick person. 

"May I ask whether you are living here?" 

"Two miles off at the Goyle, at Arnscombe, with our sister." 

"So I heard! I shall see you again." And he turned aside to give an order, bowing as he did so. 

"Is he the artist of those sweet designs?" asked Sister Mena. 

"Did we not tell you?" 

"And now he is going to execute them? How delicious!" 

"I trust so! We must see him again. We have not heard of Edie and Nellie, nor any one." 

"He will call on you?" said Sister Mena. 

"I do not think so," said Paula. "At least his father is really an artist, but he is drawing-master at the High School, and Hubert works for this firm. They are not what you call in society, and our sister is all for getting in with Lady Merrifield and General Mohun and all the swells, so it would never do for him to call." 
1. What was being installed in the new side aisle?
2. Where was this happening?
3. Who was in charge of the operation?
4. What was his name?
5. Who did he meet?
6. Who else?
7. Where did they meet?
8. Was he happy to see them?
9. Who else was introduced?
10. Where did the women live?
11. Which is located where?
12. Who else lives there?
13. How far away is it?
14. Does Paula think Mr. Hubert will actually visit?
15. Why not?
16. Was Sister Mena impressed with Mr. Hubert's work?
17. What did Mr. Hubert do as he gave orders?
18. How long after becoming friends with the Sisters did they meet Mr. Hubert?
19. Did they recognize each other?
20. Was Sister Mena's partner present at the meeting?

Numbered answers:
1. scaffold poles
2. St. Kenelm's Church
3. a tall dark-haired young man.
4. Mr. Hubert
5. Paula
6. Vera
7. the porch
8. Yes.
9. Sister Mena
10. at the Goyle
11. Arnscombe
12. their sister
13. Two miles
14. No.
15. He is not "in society"
16. Yes.
17. bowed
18. three weeks
19. Yes.
20. No.


Question:
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over the course of his career. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory during World War II. He led the Conservative Party for fifteen years from 1940 to 1955. 

Churchill was born into an aristocratic family, the son of an English politician and American socialite. Joining the British Army, he saw action in British India, the Anglo–Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Moving into politics, before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of Asquith's Liberal government. During the war, Churchill departed from government following the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign. He briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government under Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. After two years out of Parliament, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Baldwin's Conservative government of 1924–1929, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy.
1. what kind of family did Churchill grow up in?
2. what did his parents do?
3. where was he a commander?
4. where was he the Chancellor?
5. how long was he prime minister?
6. did he lead Britain to victory?
7. what war?
8. what party was he a member of?
9. when did he start politics?
10. when did he leave the government?

Numbered answers:
1. an aristocratic family
2. English politician and American socialite
3. Royal Scots Fusiliers.
4. Exchequer
5. 10 years in total
6. Yes
7. World War II
8. Conservative Party
9. before the First World War
10. 1955


Question:
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CHAPTER III. Rome 

One warm, still day, late in the Roman autumn, our two young men were sitting beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi. They had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden-house, where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky corner which must seem to her the last possible stage of a lapse from Olympus. Then they had wandered out into the gardens, and were lounging away the morning under the spell of their magical picturesqueness. Roderick declared that he would go nowhere else; that, after the Juno, it was a profanation to look at anything but sky and trees. There was a fresco of Guercino, to which Rowland, though he had seen it on his former visit to Rome, went dutifully to pay his respects. But Roderick, though he had never seen it, declared that it could n't be worth a fig, and that he did n't care to look at ugly things. He remained stretched on his overcoat, which he had spread on the grass, while Rowland went off envying the intellectual comfort of genius, which can arrive at serene conclusions without disagreeable processes. When the latter came back, his friend was sitting with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands. Rowland, in the geniality of a mood attuned to the mellow charm of a Roman villa, found a good word to say for the Guercino; but he chiefly talked of the view from the little belvedere on the roof of the casino, and how it looked like the prospect from a castle turret in a fairy tale. 
1. What season was it?
2. what was the weather like?
3. how many people sat under a tree?
4. were they old?
5. were they men or women?
6. where were they?
7. under what tree?
8. what kind?
9. of what?
10. how long had they been there?
11. what mask is there?
12. what kind?
13. where does it stare?
14. with what look?
15. from where?
16. who found something nice to say?
17. about what?
18. what did he discuss?
19. from where?
20. where is that?


Numbered answers:
1. autumn
2. warm
3. two
4. no
5. men
6. at the garden-house
7. pines
8. high-stemmed
9. the Villa Ludovisi
10. an hour
11. mask of the famous Juno
12. colossal
13. out
14. blank eyes
15. that dusky corner
16. Rowland
17. the Guercino
18. the view
19. the little belvedere
20. on the roof of the casino