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

MYSTERIES IN MAYFAIR 

That night, and for many nights afterwards, Macheson devoted himself to his work in the East End. The fascination of the thing grew upon him; he threw himself into his task with an energy which carried him often out of his own life and made forgetfulness an easy task. Night after night they came, these tired, white-faced women, with a sprinkling of sullen, dejected-looking men; night after night he pleaded and reasoned with them, striving with almost passionate earnestness to show them how to make the best of the poor thing they called life. Gradually his efforts began to tell upon himself. He grew thinner, there were shadows under his eyes, a curious intangible depression seemed to settle upon him. Holderness one night sought him out and insisted upon dinner together. 

"Look here, Victor," he said, "I have a bone to pick with you. You'd better listen! Don't sit there staring round the place as though you saw ghosts everywhere." 

Macheson smiled mirthlessly. 

"But that is just what I do see," he answered. "The conscience of every man who knows must be haunted with them! The ghosts of starving men and unsexed women! What keeps their hands from our throats, Dick?" 

"Common sense, you idiot," Holderness answered cheerfully. "There's a refuse heap for every one of nature's functions. You may try to rake it out and cleanse it, but there isn't much to be done. Hang that mission work, Victor! It's broken more hearts than anything else on earth! A man can but do what he may." 
1. WHo is the main character?
2. What was he devoted to?
3. What location?
4. Who wanted to have dinner?
5. Who grew thinner?
6. Was anyone angry at Victor?
7. Who?
8. What did he say?
9. Did Macheson smile?
10. In what way?

Numbered answers:
1. Macheson
2. work
3. East End
4. Holderness
5. Macheson
6. Yes
7. Holderness
8. I have a bone to pick with you
9. Yes
10. mirthlessly


Question:
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CHAPTER VII. THE SIEGE OF FAENZA 

The second campaign of the Romagna had opened for Cesare as easily as had the first. So far his conquest had been achieved by little more than a processional display of his armed legions. Like another Joshua, he reduced cities by the mere blare of his trumpets. At last, however, he was to receive a check. Where grown men had fled cravenly at his approach, it remained for a child to resist him at Faenza, as a woman had resisted him at Forli. 

His progress north from Pesaro was of necessity slow. He paused, as we have seen, at Rimini, and he paused again, and for a rather longer spell, at Forli, so that it was not until the second week of November that Astorre Manfredi--the boy of sixteen who was to hold Faenza--caught in the distance the flash of arms and the banners with the bull device borne by the host which the Duke of Valentinois led against him. 

At first it had been Astorre's intent to follow the examples set him by Malatesta and Sforza, and he had already gone so far as to remove his valuables to Ravenna, whither he, too, meant to seek refuge. But he was in better case than any of the tyrants so far deposed inasmuch as his family, which had ruled Faenza for two hundred years, had not provoked the hatred of its subjects, and these were now ready and willing to stand loyally by their young lord. But loyalty alone can do little, unless backed by the might of arms, against such a force as Cesare was prepared to hurl upon Faenza. This Astorre realized, and for his own and his subjects' sake was preparing to depart, when, to his undoing, support reached him from an unexpected quarter. 
1. whose example did Astorre want to follow?
2. what had he done so far?
3. Did his family rule anywhere?
4. how many years?
5. did the people there like them?
6. what had opened for Cesare?
7. was it easy for him?
8. what did he display?
9. what reduced the cities?
10. was he ever resisted by a woman?
11. where?
12. who would resist him at Faenza?
13. was he young?
14. did Cesare see him as a child?
15. was his progress north quick?
16. where did he stop?
17. were Astorre's people willing to be with him?
18. but what was more important?
19. what month did Astorre see the Duke in the distance?
20. what did he want to do for his people's sake?

Numbered answers:
1. Malatesta and Sforza
2. Removed his valuables to Ravenna,
3. Faenza
4. 200 years
5. Yes
6. The second campaign of the Romagna
7. Yes
8. His armed legions
9. The blare of his trumpets.
10. Yes
11. Forli
12. Astorre Manfredi
13. 16
14. Yes
15. No
16. Rimini
17. Yes
18. The might of arms
19. November.
20. Depart


Question:
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CHAPTER XII 

A STROKE OF LIGHTNING 

"Look out!" 

"We are going into that tree!" 

"Jam on both brakes, Dave, just as hard as you can!" cried Dunston Porter. 

Even before his uncle had spoken Dave had pressed down both feet hard, thus putting on the foot-brake and releasing the gear-clutch. Now his hand shot over to the emergency brake, and this came up with all the power at his command. But the grade was downward, and the road slippery from the rain, and instead of stopping, the touring-car went on, sliding through the mud and over the rocks until it was practically on top of the tree. Then came a jar that threw everybody forward. The steering-wheel saved Dave, but his uncle's elbow struck the windshield, cracking it in several places. 

"Look, we've run into a tree!" 

"Did the lightning hit the machine?" 

"Say, Roger, take yourself off my feet; will you?" 

This last cry came from Phil, who was huddled up in a corner of the tonneau. 

"It isn't me, it's the handbag, Phil," gasped out Roger, who hung partly over the front seat of the touring-car. 

"Anybody hurt?" questioned Dunston Porter quickly, as soon as the shock had come to an end. 

"I--I--think I am all right, Uncle Dunston," panted Laura. "But dear me! wasn't it awful?" 

"I thought I was going to fly right over Dave's head," wailed Jessie, who had come up behind the youth with a great thump. "Oh, Dave, did I hurt you?" 

"Knocked a little of the wind out of me, Jessie; that's all," he answered. "But I won't mind that if only you are not hurt." 
1. Who is going into the tree?
2. who needs to hit the brakes?
3. who screamed at him to hit them?
4. how are they related?
5. where did his hand go?
6. did the car stop?
7. why not?
8. what saved dave?
9. what did they hit?
10. was any one hurt?
11. who got the wind knocked out of them?
12. who cried last?
13. where was Phil
14. what did they slide thru?
15. what struck the windshield?
16. how did it break?
17. what type of car?
18. who knocked the wind out of dave?


Numbered answers:
1. We are
2. , Dave
3. Dunston Porter.
4. He's dave'suncle
5. to the emergency brake,
6. no
7. it was downhiull and the road was wet
8. The steering-wheel
9. a tree
10. no
11. Dave
12. Jessie,
13. huddled in a corner
14. the mud
15. Porter's elbow
16. cracked  it in several places.
17. the touring-car
18. Jessie