input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Wide awake in Aunt Bet's Southern house, Annie Van Lew shivered at the sounds of distant guns. It was bad enough that America was at war, but the young Virginia girl was not used to battles being fought this close. _ .Annie sat up in bed and listened.Had a stranger broken in? Earlier, the family had heard that captured officers recently escaped from a prison nearby. 

Quietly opening her bedroom door, Annie walked out. A figure in a black gown was walking down the hall. It was Aunt Bet, carrying a candle in one hand and a plate of fried chicken in the other. 

Annie followed her aunt to a stairway at the far end of the house. Aunt Bet climbed to the top, and opened a door leading to the attic . Annie followed closely behind. 

In the attic, Aunt Bet stopped at a chest of drawers, moved it aside, and felt along the wall behind it. Slowly a door sprang open, revealing a hidden room. A thin man stepped out of the opening. As Aunt Bet handed him the plate of food, the young man saw Annie in the doorway and froze. 

Desperately shaking her head "no", the girl raised one finger to her lips. The officer understood and shifted his look. Quickly Annie went back downstairs and hid, waiting until after Aunt Bet left to return. Back inside the attic,Annie called softly to the man inside, who told her where to find the hidden spring. 

Soon the young officer stood in the open doorway. A small candle burned on a table behind him and, in its soft light, Annie studied his face. Clear eyes reflected the calm of one who faced death bravely. 

Smiling, he said,"What trouble you should have gotten into if your aunt had turned around!" That night, Annie learned Aunt Bet was one of many daring Southerners whose hatred of slavery drove them to risk their lives by spying for the North. The girl chatted as she dared, wishing her new friend luck when he said he would leave at dawn. 

Back in her room, Annie felt proud and was determined to guard her family's secret to the end. 1. What made Annie shiver?
2. Where was she staying?
3. What rumor had they heard?
4. Where had they fled from?
5. Who was in the hall?
6. What was she holding?
7. anything else?
8. where did she go?
9. what was up there?
10. where was he?
11. what covered the entrance?
12. what did the man do when he saw Annie?
13. when did she go back?
14. how did she find the secret latch?
15. did he seem afraid?
16. what was Aunt Bet doing?
17. for who?
18. when was the man leaving?
19. how did she feel?
20. why was Bet doing this?
numbered_answers: 1. sounds of distant guns
2. Aunt Bet's Southern house
3. captured officers recently escaped
4. a prison nearby
5. Aunt Bet
6. a candle in one hand
7. fried chicken
8. attic
9. A thin man
10. a hidden room
11. a chest of drawers
12. froze
13. after Aunt Bet left
14. The man told her where to find it.
15. No
16. spying
17. the North
18. at dawn
19. proud
20. hatred of slavery

Q: CHAPTER XXXVI. 

DESERTED. 





That was almost the last thing Granville Kelmscott knew. Some strange shadowy dreams, to be sure, disturbed the lethargy into which he fell soon after; but they were intermittent and indefinite. He was vaguely aware of being lifted with gentle care into somebody's arms, and of the somebody staggering along with him, not without considerable difficulty, over the rough stony ground of that South African plateau. He remembered also, as in a trance, some sound of angry voices--a loud expostulation--a hasty palaver--a long slow pause--a gradual sense of reconciliation and friendliness--during all which, as far as he could recover the circumstances afterwards, he must have been extended on the earth, with his back propped against a great ledge of jutting rock, and his head hanging listless on his sinking breast. Thenceforward all was blank, or just dimly perceived at long intervals between delirium and unconsciousness. He was ill for many days, where or how he knew not. 

In some half dreamy way, he was aware too, now and again, of strange voices by his side, strange faces tending him. But they were black faces, all, and the voices spoke in deep guttural tones, unlike even the clicks and harsh Bantu jerks with which he had grown so familiar in eighteen months among the Barolong. This that he heard now, or seemed to hear in his delirium, like distant sounds of water, was a wholly different and very much harsher tongue--the tongue of the Namaquas, in fact, though Granville was far too ill and too drowsy just then to think of reasoning about it or classifying it in any way. All he knew for the moment was that sometimes, when he turned round feebly on his bed of straw, and asked for drink or help in a faltering voice, no white man appeared to answer his summons. Black, faces all--black, black, and unfamiliar. Very intermittently he was conscious of a faint sense of loneliness. He knew not why. But he thought he could guess. Guy Waring had deserted him! 

Answer the following questions:
1. Did someone almost die?
2. Who?
3. Was he saved?
4. Who?
5. Did he know his saviors?
6. Did someone desert him?
7. Who?
8. Why?
9. Was there any noise?
10. What?
A:
1. Yes
2. Granville Kelmscott
3. Yes
4. Unknown black faces
5. No
6. Yes
7. Guy Waring
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. The sound of angry voices