CHAPTER VI 

EXAMINATION DAY 

It was plain that Fred and Charley had spread the news of their descent into the Pit, and of their battle with the Simpson clan and the Fishes. He heard the nine-o'clock bell with feelings of relief, and passed into the school, a mark for admiring glances from all the boys. The girls, too, looked at him in a timid and fearful way--as they might have looked at Daniel when he came out of the lions' den, Joe thought, or at David after his battle with Goliath. It made him uncomfortable and painfully self-conscious, this hero-worshiping, and he wished heartily that they would look in some other direction for a change. 

Soon they did look in another direction. While big sheets of foolscap were being distributed to every desk, Miss Wilson, the teacher (an austere-looking young woman who went through the world as though it were a refrigerator, and who, even on the warmest days in the classroom, was to be found with a shawl or cape about her shoulders), arose, and on the blackboard where all could see wrote the Roman numeral "I." Every eye, and there were fifty pairs of them, hung with expectancy upon her hand, and in the pause that followed the room was quiet as the grave. 

Underneath the Roman numeral "I" she wrote: "_(a) What were the laws of Draco? (b) Why did an Athenian orator say that they were written 'not in ink, but in blood'?_" 

Forty-nine heads bent down and forty-nine pens scratched lustily across as many sheets of foolscap. Joe's head alone remained up, and he regarded the blackboard with so blank a stare that Miss Wilson, glancing over her shoulder after having written "II," stopped to look at him. Then she wrote:  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who told others the news?
2. Who let others know about the news?
3. Who was the news spread by?
Q2:
1. Who was the teacher?
2. What name did the teacher have?
3. What was the teacher called?
Q3:
1. What were Miss Wilson's pertinent qualities?
2. What qualities of Miss Wilson's stuck out?
3. What qualities were Miss Wilson's most notable ones?
Q4:
1. What were Miss Wilson's pertinent, besides austerity?
2. What qualities of Miss Wilson's stuck out, other than being austere looking?
3. What qualities were Miss Wilson's most notable ones, in addition to looking austere?
Q5:
1. Did Miss Wilson dress in a summery fashion?
2. Did Miss Wilson's way of dressing evoke the summer?
3. Did Miss Wilson tend to dress for summer?
Q6:
1. What is the biblical reference?
2. What biblical reference appears in the story?
3. Which story from the Bible does the passage refer to?
Q7:
1. What is the biblical reference, other than David v. Goliath?
2. What biblical reference appears in the story, in addition to David v. Goliath?
3. Which story from the Bible does the passage refer to, besides David v. Goliath?
Q8:
1. What was an aspect of the glances from the boys?
2. What accompanied the boys' glances?
3. 
Q9:
1. How many eyes were on Miss Wilson's hand?
2. What was the number of eyes on the teacher's hand?
3. How many eyes did Miss Wilson's hand have on it?
Q10:
1. Was the classroom silent?
2. Were all the students hushed?
3. Was the classroom completely quiet?
Q11:
1. Who does Miss Wilson quote concerning Draconian laws?
2. Who is the source of Miss Wilson's quote on Draconian laws?
3. Who does Miss Wilson give a citation from on the subject of Draconian laws?
Q12:
1. Did all the kids know the answer to the question that Miss Wilson asked?
2. Was the answer to Miss Wilson's question universally known by the children?
3. Did each child know how to respond to Miss Wilson's question?
