For the Week of April 26

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1. Read the rest of Bark of the Bog Owl (chapters 23-Epilogue).

2. Answer the following questions:

Ch. 23

  1. What is Arliss’ role in the mission?
  2. What did the miners carry with them?
  3. What advice does Aidan give the miners on the walk to the cave?

Ch. 24

  1. Describe Aidan’s descent into the cave. Use imagery.
  2. Describe the first underground cavern.
  3. How long do the explorers have? Why? 
  4. Why don’t the miners take the SW fork since they need to go SW?

Ch. 25

  1. After they pass the SW tunnel, what do the miners have to do next?
  2. Why does Ernest disappear beneath the water?
  3. What happens because of saving Ernest? What do they do after this? 
  4. After they pass the tree root, what does Aidan have to do? 
  5. What do they find on the other side?
  6. What do Aidan and Arliss do in the cave?

Ch. 26. 

  1. What is stored in the cave on the Pyrthen side?
  2. What did Aidan and Arliss do with the flame powder?
  3. How do Aidan and Arliss get out after the cave in?

Ch. 27

  1. What happened to the Pyrthens and their camp?
  2. What happened to the Pyrthens in the Eechihoolee forest?

Epilogue

What does Aidan get for his bravery?

3. Read chapters 9 and 10 of Story of the World. 

Chapter Nine

The Dutch East Indies

  1. What is an archipelago?
  2. What country did the East Indies lie south of?
  3. What did merchants from the Netherlands do on these islands?
  4. Where was the island of Sumatra?
  5. What other country wanted Sumatra?
  6. What did the agreement between the British and the Dutch make Acheh into?
  7. List three things that the islands provided to the Dutch.
  8. How much time and land did the farmers of the East Indies have to set aside for the Dutch?
  9. How did the Dutch convince mayors and chiefs in the East Indies to help them?
  10. How did the local mayors and chiefs respond?
  11. What did the Sumatra Treaty allow the Dutch to do?
  12. Why did the Dutch want to take over the little kingdom of Acheh?
  13. What happened in 1873?
  14. Did the people of Acheh surrender?
  15. What is a guerrilla war?
  16. How did Tjoet Njak Dien and her husband trick the Dutch?
  17. How many years did the war drag on?
  18. Did the Dutch profit from the war?


The Sick Man of Europe

  1. What is an ambassador?
  2. Why did Nicholas I  call the Ottoman Turks “sick”?
  3. What did the Russians want the British to help them do?
  4. List two things that were weakening the Ottoman Empire.
  5. Did the British agree to help the Russians fight the Turks?
  6. What part of his empire did Abdul Aziz have trouble with?
  7. What two things did the Young Bulgarians want for their country?
  8. What happened to Bulgarian revolutionaries in April, 1876?
  9. How did other European countries react to this?
  10. What happened to Abdul Aziz after the April Uprising?
  11. What was Murad V, Aziz’s nephew like?
  12. How did Abdulhamid II try to improve the Ottoman Empire?
  13. What excuse did the Russian czar give for invading Ottoman land?
  14. Who helped the Russian soldiers fight against the Ottoman Turks?
  15. Who won the war between Russia and the Ottomans?
  16. What did the treaty between the two countries do to the Ottoman Empire?


Chapter Ten

The War of the Pacific

  1. What three countries fought in the War of the Pacific?
  2. What did Chile and Bolivia quarrel over?
  3. Why was the desert so dry?
  4. What were the three valuable things found in the Atacama Desert?
  5. What did Bolivia want miners from Chile todo?
  6. Why did Chilean soldiers march up to take control of the city of Antofagasta, in Bolivia?
  7. Why did Chile want control of Antofagasta?
  8. What country had Bolivia signed a treaty with?
  9. Where was the war between Chile and Bolivia-Peru alliance fought?
  10. Which country had the strongest navy?
  11. Which country had no navy?
  12. What did Peru have in its navy?
  13. What happened when the Chilean navy cornered the Peruvian warship Hudscar?
  14. What did Chilean soldiers do after the capture of the Hudscar?
  15. How many years was it before Peru surrendered?
  16. When Peru agreed to a peace treaty , what did it give up?
  17. What did Bolivia give up?
  18. What did Chile gain the rights to?
  19. What happened in Peru after the treaty was signed?

The Suez Canal

  1. What empire did Egypt become part of in the Middle Ages?
  2. What empire did Egypt become part of in the 1500s?
  3. What did Muhammad Ali want Egypt to be like?
  4. What did Muhammad Ali’s son Said Pasha, give permission to a French company to do?
  5. What was the canal called?
  6. How would the canal make trade with the Far East easier for European ships?
  7. How long did the canal take to finish?
  8. What title of honor did the Ottoman sultan give to Ismail Pasha, ruler of Egypt?
  9. What are two things Ismail Pasha did to make Egypt stronger?
  10. How did Ismail Pasha weaken Egypt?
  11. What did he do to raise extra money?
  12. What did France and Great Britain demand?
  13. When Ismail’s son Tawfiq became Khedive, who was really in control of Egypt?

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