The night dragged on with an endless, bitterly cold routine of pumping, steering and working the radio. We were getting no replies to our Mayday Calls - which was not surprising in this
remote corner of the world.
Sue's head had swollen alarmingly; she had two enormous black eyes, and now she showed us
a deep cut on her arm. When I asked why she hadn't made more of her injuries known before
this, she replied, “I didn't want to worry you when you were trying to save us all."
Questions:
1.
c. Agonizing
d. Endurable
a.
How was the night described?
a. Peaceful
b. Enjoyable
2. Mayday Calls refers to
call.
International distress
b. International peace
c. International hay
d. International fest
3. Sue comes forth as a girl with firm
a. disbelief
b. incredulity
4. What does enormous mean?
a. miniature
b. huge
in her parents.
C. skepticism
d. conviction
c. insignificant
d. compressed

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The night dragged on with an endless, bitterly cold routine of pumping, steering and working  the radio. We were getting no replies to our Mayday Calls - which was not surprising in this  remote corner of the world.

Sue's head had swollen alarmingly; she had two enormous black eyes, and now she showed us  a deep cut on her arm. When I asked why she hadn't made more of her injuries known before  this, she replied, “I didn't want to worry you when you were trying to save us all."

Questions:

1.  How was the night described?

a. Peaceful

b. Enjoyable

c. Agonizing

d. Endurable

2. Mayday Calls refers to

a. International distress

b. International peace

c. International hay

d. International fest

3. Sue comes forth as a girl with firm ___in her parents.

a. disbelief

b. incredulity

C. skepticism

d. conviction

4. What does enormous mean?

a. miniature

b. huge

c. insignificant

d. compressed

1.  How was the night described?

c. Agonizing

2. Mayday Calls refers to

a. International distress

3. Sue comes forth as a girl with firm ___in her parents.

d. conviction

4. What does enormous mean?

b. huge

Explanation:

The word "agonizing" refers to something that produces important physical or mental distress, such as the situation described.

A Mayday Call is the international radio distress signal for boats and planes.

Sue shows conviction, meaning a strong belief, on her parents' attempt to save them all.

The word "enormous" refers to something quite large.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.