question: CHAPTER II 

PYRAMUS AND THISBE 

The two men turned up the street. They walked in silence. Arthur Mifflin was going over in his mind such outstanding events of the evening as he remembered--the nervousness, the relief of finding that he was gripping his audience, the growing conviction that he had made good; while Jimmy seemed to be thinking his own private thoughts. They had gone some distance before either spoke. 

"Who is she, Jimmy?" asked Mifflin. 

Jimmy came out of his thoughts with a start. 

"What's that?" 

"Who is she?" 

"I don't know what you mean." 

"Yes, you do! The sea air. Who is she?" 

"I don't know," said Jimmy, simply. 

"You don't know? Well, what's her name?" 

"I don't know." 

"Doesn't the Lusitania still print a passenger-list?" 

"She does." 

"And you couldn't find out her name in five days?" 

"No." 

"And that's the man who thinks he can burgle a house!" said Mifflin, despairingly. 

They had arrived now at the building on the second floor of which was Jimmy's flat. 

"Coming in?" said Jimmy. 

"Well, I was rather thinking of pushing on as far as the Park. I tell you, I feel all on wires." 

"Come in, and smoke a cigar. You've got all night before you if you want to do Marathons. I haven't seen you for a couple of months. I want you to tell me all the news." 

"There isn't any. Nothing happens in New York. The papers say things do, but they don't. However, I'll come in. It seems to me that you're the man with the news." 
1. Who was having a conversation?
2. How long had it been since they'd seen each other?
3. Where had Arthur come from?
4. How did he travel to get to Jimmy?
5. How did he get from New York?
6. What floor does Jimmy live on?
7. What does Jimmy want to Arthur to go inside with him and do?
8. And what else?
9. Did Jimmy have any news to tell him about?
10. Does he think anything happens in New York?
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answer: 1. Jimmy and Arthur Mifflin
2. a couple of months
3. New York.
4. walked
5. unknown
6. 2nd
7. Tell him all the news
8. smoke a cigar.
9. Arthur thinks he does
10. No

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. 

Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the English, Irish, and Scottish thrones on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead. 

After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of reformed groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views too Catholic. He supported high church ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall. 1. Who was Charles's father?
2. Was he an only child?
3. How many countries' thrones was Charles heir to?
4. What countries?
5. When did he become heir?
6. After the death of whom?
7. What was the brother's title?
8. What was his name?
9. Who did Charles marry?
10. OF what country?
11. And of what royal line?
12. True or False: Maria Anna was also a Bourbon.
13. Was Charles liked by Puritans?
14. Why not?
15. Who did he let down in the Thirty Years' War?
16. What conflict did Charles' actions lead to?
17. What did he try to do that caused the war?
18. Did the outcome of the conflict strengthen hid hold on the throne?
19. Who did it help instead?
20. What right did Charles believe in?
numbered_answers:
1. f King James VI
2. no
3. three
4. England, Ireland, and Scotland
5. 1612
6. his brother
7. Prince of Wales, in 1612
8. Henry Frederick
9. Henrietta Maria
10. France instead
11. Bourbon
12. False
13. no
14. because of his religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic
15. Protestant forces
16. the Bishops' Wars
17. he attempted force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices
18. no
19. it strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments
20. he believed in the divine right of kings