5. All the education of the middle ages was to be found in the monasteries.
From this fact which would you expect to find the better educated, churchmen or soldiers?
6. If pink is lighter than red, and red is lighter than purple, which of these colors is darker than red?
[A TRIP TO THE MOON]
You should all begin reading at the same time.
This is a selection that you can read easily. You will have to pay close attention, however, because you will be asked questions about the interesting facts told here.
Your teacher will decide when to have you close your books. Then she will have a contest between the boys and girls or between sections of the class to see which group can answer the questions better.
When we were very young we had a nursery rhyme which told of an old witch who rode away upon a broomstick to sweep the cobwebs from the sky. Of course we understood that it was just a nonsense rhyme. But nowadays when people can really fly up in the air, not on broomsticks but on aeroplanes, it does not seem so nonsensical.
Suppose we agree to take a trip, in our imagination, right away up into the sky till we reach the moon! Of course, we can never hope really to fly to the moon. One reason is that the air goes up only a comparatively short distance. But you can do wonderful things in your imagination! We shall suppose we have a machine that does not require air in which to fly, and that we can live very comfortably in an enclosed cabin attached to this wonderful flying machine.
At what speed are we going to make our machine fly? Some aeroplanes have traveled more than one hundred miles in an hour, but that speed will be far too slow for us because we have such great distances to go.