Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER VIII 

THE HAND OF MISFORTUNE 

Between the two men, seated opposite each other in the large but somewhat barely furnished office, the radical differences, both in appearance and mannerisms, perhaps, also, in disposition, had never been more strongly evident. They were partners in business and face to face with ruin. Stephen Laverick, senior member of the firm, although an air of steadfast gloom had settled upon his clean-cut, powerful countenance, retained even in despair something of that dogged composure, temperamental and wholly British, which had served him well along the road to fortune. Arthur Morrison, the man who sat on the other side of the table, a Jew to his finger-tips notwithstanding his altered name, sat like a broken thing, with tears in his terrified eyes, disordered hair, and parchment-pale face. Words had flown from his lips in a continual stream. He floundered in his misery, sobbed about it like a child. The hand of misfortune had stripped him naked, and one man, at least, saw him as he really was. 

"I can't stand it, Laverick,--I couldn't face them all. It's too cruel--too horrible! Eighteen thousand pounds gone in one week, forty thousand in a month! Forty thousand pounds! Oh, my God!" 

He writhed in agony. The man on the other side of the table said nothing. 

"If we could only have held on a little longer! 'Unions' must turn! They will turn! Laverick, have you tried all your friends? Think! Have you tried them all? Twenty thousand pounds would see us through it. We should get our own money back--I am sure of it. There's Rendell, Laverick. He'd do anything for you. You're always shooting or playing cricket with him. Have you asked him, Laverick? He'd never miss the money." 

1. What are the men discussing?
2. Do the men work together?
3. What room are they in?
4. Who is it suggested to ask for money?
5. What game does he play with Laverick?
6. Are either of the men crying?
7. Who?
8. Is the other man emotional?
9. Are they seated beside one another?
10. How long did it take to lose the money?
11. Did they feel that they could have prevented it?
12. What?
13. Do they believe that they will?
14. Do they need all of the money back to turn things around?
15. How much do they need?
16. Would that be a burden for Rendell to give them?
1. The loss of forty thousand pounds.
2. Yes.
3. An office.
4. Rendell
5. Cricket.
6. Yes.
7. Arthur Morrison
8. no.
9. No.
10. A month
11. Yes.
12. By the Unions turning.
13. One seems to believe the will.
14. No.
15. Twenty thousand pounds
16. No