question: When Paul was a boy growing up in Utah, he happened to live near a copper smelter , and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to be a beautiful forest. One day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on, something happened inside him. 

Years later Paul was back in the area, and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The answer from that big industry was "No". 

Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately, his teachers said there weren't any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that, he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected, he wouldn't get his idea accepted. 

Paul later got married but his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote, "It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges." Under the cover of darkness, he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting. 

And every week, he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against _ . Slowly rabbits appeared. Later, as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment, the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing. 

Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes, and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair turned white, but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.
1. Who went to college?
2. Where did he grow up?
3. Was he a single man?
4. Where was his childhood residence by?
5. Was it good for the surroundings?
6. What was his dream?
7. Was he encouraged to do so?
8. What did he major in at school?
9. What did the smelter destroy?
10. What did he sneak around and do under the cover of darkness?
11. How many acres was it?
12. Did animal life start to appear?
13. Was he acknowledged for his tasks?
14. Was he a young man when he achieved it?
15. In his younger years was he ever violent?
16. What did he do?
17. why?
18. Who wrote the quote that encouraged him?
19. Did he gain employment for the cause he was trying to achieve?
20. Was the legal system every involved?
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answer: 1. Paul
2. Utah
3. Yes, in college
4. a copper smelter
5. no
6. to try to bring the trees back
7. No
8. the science of plants.
9. a beautiful forest
10. started planting
11. fourteen thousand
12. yes
13. yes
14. no
15. yes
16. he knocked someone down
17. he called the wasteland an awful area
18. Samuel Johnson
19. yes
20. yes

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

THREE INTERVIEWS 

The next day was a Sunday, and the Colonel went to church, wearing a hat-band four inches deep. Morris, however, declined to accompany him, saying that he had a letter to write to Mary; whereon his father, who at first was inclined to be vexed, replied that he could not be better employed, and that he was to give her his love. Then he asked if Miss Fregelius was coming, but somewhat to his disappointment, was informed that she wished to stay with her father. 

"I wonder," thought the Colonel to himself as he strolled to the church, now and again acknowledging greetings or stopping to chat with one of the villagers--"I wonder if they are going to have a little sacred music together in the chapel. If so, upon my soul, I should like to make the congregation. And that pious fellow Morris, too--the blameless Morris--to go philandering about in this fashion. I hope it won't come to Mary's ears; but if it does, luckily, with all her temper, she is a sensible woman, and knows that even Jove nods at times." 

After the service the Colonel spoke to various friends, accepted their condolences upon the death of Mr. Porson, and finally walked down the road with Eliza Layard. 

"You must have found that all sorts of strange things have happened at the Abbey since you have been away, Colonel Monk," she said presently in a sprightly voice. 

"Well, yes; at least I don't know. I understand that Morris has improved that blessed apparatus of his, and the new parson and his daughter have floated to our doors like driftwood. By the way, have you seen Miss Fregelius?"  1. who went to church
2. who wanted to stay home with her dad
3. who did not want to go with the colonel
4. who walked down the road
5. who did he go with
6. who came in the door lake floating wood
7. who wrote a letter
8. was he to send his love for someone to her
9. who has a temper
10. does the parson have a daughter
11. what does Jove do at times
12. how deep is the hat band
13. who is blameless
14. did colonel talk to talk with the town folk
15. who passed away
16. what day was it
17. where did odd things happen
18. who was vexed
19. was someones sur name Layard
20. did colonel have many friends
numbered_answers:
1. The Colonel
2. Miss Fregelius
3. Morris
4. The Colonel
5. Eliza Layard.
6. the new parson and his daughter
7. Morris
8. Yes
9. Mary
10. Yes
11. He nods
12. 4 inches
13. Morris
14. Yes
15. Mr. Porson
16. Sunday
17. At the Abbey
18. Morris' father
19. Yes
20. Yes