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2. There are approximately __________ police agencies serving the American people
today.
@ Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify the influence of early societal development on
the emergencies of policing; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location:
Introduction; Question Type: MC
a. 4,000
b. 8,000
*c. 18,000
d. 34,000
5. The __________ system is a great example of a Chiefdom taking the informal means
of control that had existed in the bands and tribes and formalizing them for the
purpose of social control.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location:
Types of Societies and Policing; Question Type: MC
a. kin policing
*b. frankpledge
c. jurisdiction
d. court
8. Which position was added to protect the king’s interests throughout England?
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
English System of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. the constable
b. the night watch
*c. the sheriff
d. the ward
9. Which system in England is associated with the phrase “it takes a thief to catch a
thief?”
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
English System of Policing; Question Type: MC
*a. the parliamentary reward system
b. the Robin Hood system
c. the watch-and-ward system
d. the frankpledge system
10. The bow street runners are most similar to
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The English
System of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. the thief-taker system
b. modern-day judges
*c. a modern police force
d. federal inmates
12. What was the name of the first modern police department in the world?
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The
English System of Policing; Question Type: MC
*a. the London Metropolitan Police
b. the New York City Police Department
c. the Boston Police Department
d. the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
13. All of the following differentiated the Boston Police Department from the
London Metropolitan Police Department EXCEPT
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. it was smaller
b. officers did not wear uniforms
*c. they were more effective at reducing crime.
d. officers did not have identifying badges
14. Which national event precipitated the rapid expansion of police departments
across the United States?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The American System
of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. The colonial settlement in Jamestown, Virginia
*b. the Civil War
c. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
d. the Vietnam War
15. America is presently in the __________ era of policing.
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American
System of Policing; Question Type: MC
*a. homeland security
b. political
c. community
d. reform
17. Tom is a police officer during the political era. Joe is a modern-day officer. Which
task would Tom do that Joe would probably not?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Application; Answer Location: The American System
of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. patrolling a beat
b. making an arrest
c. responding to a crime
*d. running a soup kitchen
18. Which term most accurately describes the role of police in the political machines
of the late 1800s?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American
System of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. spoilers
*b. extortionists
c. patrons
d. moralists
19. Imagine you wanted to become a police officer under the patronage system in
New York City. Which step would you need to take first?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Application; Answer Location: The American System
of Policing; Question Type: MC
*a. pay a bribe
b. frequent a brothel
c. establish a relationship with the mayor
d. open a gambling hall
21. What was the catalyst for reforming the police in the early twentieth century?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American
System of Policing; Question Type: MC
*a. prohibition
b. the American Mafia
c. the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
d. the sinking of the Titanic
22. What surprising action did August Vollmer take after he was elected town
marshal in 1905?
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American System
of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. he opened a feed store
b. he prompted police use of the third degree
*c. he closed down gabling establishments
d. he created the Uniform Crime Reports
23. Which individual did not play a crucial role in policing during the reform era?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The American System
of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. J. Edgar Hoover
b. George Wickersham
*c. Thomas Byrnes
d. August Vollmer
24. Which individual was instrumental in the creation of the Uniform Crime
Reports?
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The American System of
Policing; Question Type: MC
*a. J. Edgar Hoover
b. George Wickersham
c. Thomas Byrnes
d. August Vollmer
25. During the reform era, the emphasis of the police was on
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American
System of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. the political machine
b. police brutality
c. the birth cohort
*d. crime control
26. During the 1960s, police typically used __________ to handle __________
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The American System of
Policing; Question Type: MC
a. crime prevention, community relations
*b. old tactics, new problems
c. rapid response, civil rights protestors
d. enhanced interrogation, campus unrest
28. Which agency is almost always part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force?
@ Learning Objective: 6-6: Describe five different federal police agencies; Cognitive
Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American System of Policing;
Question Type: MC
a. the Department of Homeland Security
*b. the Federal Bureau of Investigation
c. the Central Intelligence Agency
d. the National Institutes of Justice
29. While a sheriff’s department is subordinate to a county administrator, a sheriff’s
office is
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America
Today; Question Type: MC
a. subordinate to the police chief
*b. an independent government entity
c. elected by the citizens of a state
d. a temporary stop-gap measure
30. Most state police officers in upstate New York are referred to as state troopers.
This suggests that New York’s model of policing is the __________ model.
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: Policing in America Today;
Question Type: MC
a. state police
b. municipal
*c. highway patrol
d. ranger
31. The majority of the federal law enforcement agencies in America fall under
either the Department of Justice or the
@ Learning Objective: 6-7: Explain how police departments are structured;
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America Today;
Question Type: MC
a. Department of Defense
b. Institute of Justice
c. Special Jurisdiction
*d. Department of Homeland Security
32. Research on organizations and management has shown that the span of control
for leaders is
@ Learning Objective: 6-7: Explain how police departments are structured;
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The Structure of Modern Police
Departments; Question Type: MC
a. 1 or 2 personnel
*b. between 5 and 7 personnel
c. a maximum of 50 individuals
d. as high as 5,000 individuals
33. Almost all police departments, regardless of size, are organized around the three
responsibilities of
@ Learning Objective: 6-7: Explain how police departments are structured;
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The Structure of Modern
Police Departments; Question Type: MC
*a. patrol, investigations, and administrations
b. span of control, division of labor, and specializations
c. captains, lieutenants, and sergeants
d. prevention, deterrence, and control
34. Officer Melendez stops a speeding vehicle and issues a warning rather than a
ticket to the driver. Officer Melendez is using
@ Learning Objective: 6-7: Explain how police departments are structured;
Cognitive Domain: Application; Answer Location: The Structure of Modern Police
Departments; Question Type: MC
a. division of labor
b. an abuse of power
*c. police discretion
d. corrupt tactics
36. While most countries around the world have a __________ government, America
has a__________ form of government.
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Introduction;
Question Type: MC
a. decentralized, centralized
*b. centralized, decentralized
c. autonomous, tyrannical
d. tyrannical, autonomous
38. Which police practice would have been common during the political era?
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: MC
a. preventive patrol
*b. police brutality
c. rapid response
d. community policing
39. The system for how police and emergency response agencies will organize their
response to attacks and disasters is called the
@ Learning Objective: 6-6: Describe five different federal police agencies; Cognitive
Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The American System of Policing; Question
Type: MC
a. Department of Homeland Security
b. Federal Emergency Management Agency
c. Joint Terrorism Task Force
*d. Incident Command System
42. The creation of the first modern police department in Boston looked almost
identical to that in London.
@ Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify the influence of early societal development on
the emergencies of policing; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location:
The American System of Policing; Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
43. The majority of countries around the world have one national police force.
@ Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify the influence of early societal development on
the emergencies of policing; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location:
Introduction; Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
44. The British term “Bobbies” refers to the first police department’s founder,
Robert Peel.
@ Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify the influence of early societal development on
the emergencies of policing; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The
English System of Policing; Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
45. Constables have all powers of sworn law enforcement officers EXCEPT the
power to arrest.
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America
Today; Question Type: MC
a. true
*b. false
46. Police during the political era patrolled the beat, responded to crimes, and made
arrests.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
47. The spoils system and the patronage system were vastly different.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: TF
a. true
*b. false
48. America’s move to Prohibition was the catalyst for reform in policing.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
49. The mafia first rose to power during the political era
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: TF
a. true
*b. false
50. Police during the political era were organized to protect and serve the political
machine.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
51. Following the era of homeland security, police have moved to an era of
community policing.
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The American
System of Policing; Question Type: TF
a. true
*b. false
52. The most common police agency in the U.S. is the state police.
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America
Today; Question Type: TF
a. true
*b. false
54. Native American reservations typically follow the laws of the tribe not those of
the United States.
@ Learning Objective: 6-5: Identify four types of special jurisdiction police agencies;
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America Today;
Question Type: TF
*a. true
b. false
55. The United States Marshals Service hunts down fugitives from __________ justice.
@ Learning Objective: 6-6: Describe five different federal police agencies; Cognitive
Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America Today; Question
Type: FIB
*a. federal
57. After a police applicant passes all required tests, he or she undergoes training at
the police academy, which is then followed by __________ training.
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The Structure of
Modern Police Departments; Question Type: FIB
*a. field
60. The __________ was created as a response to the terrorist attacks on September 11,
2001.
@ Learning Objective: 6-6: Describe five different federal police agencies; Cognitive
Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: Policing in America Today; Question
Type: FIB
*a. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
61. During the reform era, police purchased __________ vehicles such as the Dodge
Dart and Chevy Caprice.
@ Learning Objective: 6-3: Explain the developments in policing during the four
main eras; Cognitive Domain: Knowledge; Answer Location: The American System
of Policing; Question Type: FIB
*a. police package
63. Identify four types of tests an applicant must take in order to become a police
officer.
@ Learning Objective: 6-4: Distinguish between municipal, county, state, and federal
police; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The Structure of
Modern Police Departments; Question Type: SA
*a. Answers vary; Written, oral, physical, background, medical, psychological, and
polygraph
66. Which two concepts revolutionized policing at the end of the 20th century?
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Comprehension; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: SA
*a. Answers vary; Community policing and problem-oriented policing
67. How does the form of government in America pertain to policing in the U.S.?
@ Learning Objective: 6-1: Identify the influence of early societal development on
the emergencies of policing; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location:
Introduction; Question Type: SA
*a. Answers vary; The police officers are hired and employed by the national
government, all wear the same uniform of their nation’s police, and they all have
vehicles marking them as the nation’s police force. In America, however, because we
have a more decentralized form of government and because policing from its
inception was seen as a local responsibility, there is no national police force in the
U.S. So, rather than having one police department serving the entire country, we
have over 18,000 police agencies serving the American people today.
69. Describe the political machine in the late 1800s and how this affected policing.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: ESS
*a. Answers vary; It was a very corrupt system that did anything and everything to
gain power and—once in power—keep that power. Elections were far more vicious
than they are today, with politicians bribing voters with money, liquor, and other
forms of vice, and using strong-men and gangs to prevent certain groups from
voting—all depending on which party was currently in power. There was also a
strong relationship between the politicians and the businesses, as well as the vice
lords. The politicians accepted money from the businessmen in order to get elected
and, once elected, they continued to accept money to prevent any laws from being
passed that might hurt their businesses. For instance, if workers wanted to organize
into labor unions, businesses would pay the politicians to prevent laws from being
passed that would allow such organizations to exist, thus remaining in power by
pleasing the businesses. The vice lords, which were running such illegal operations
as gambling casinos, brothels, and keeping saloons open on the Sabbath, also had to
pay off the politicians in order to keep their corrupt businesses running so that they
could remain open and profitable. At the center of all of this, as an extension of the
political machine, were the police. The police during the political era were simply
doing the bidding of the political machine.
70. Discuss the reasons that some argue that the Boston Police Department was
considered the first official police department in the United States.
@ Learning Objective: 6-2: Evaluate the influence of the English system of policing
on the American system; Cognitive Domain: Analysis; Answer Location: The
American System of Policing; Question Type: ESS
*a. Answers vary; The Boston Police did not wear uniforms and were not issued
identifying badges. Their presence was felt less than their counterparts in England
and they were not very successful in reducing crime, and in fact, they were not
officially created until 1854 when both the watch and the ward were disbanded.
This is why many argue that the New York City Police Department was the first
official police department in the United States as it formed in 1845
20.
What word is that, of two syllables, to which if you prefix one
letter, two letters, or two other letters, you form, in each instance, a
word of one syllable?
Answer
21.
What was the favorite salad at the South, in the spring of 1861?
Answer
22.
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23.
24.
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25.
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26.
The three most forcible letters in our alphabet?
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27.
The two which contain nothing?
Answer
28.
The four which express great corpulence?
Answer
29.
The four which indicate exalted station?
Answer
30.
The three which excite our tears?
Answer
31.
What foreign letter is an English title?
Answer
32.
What foreign letter is a yard and a half long?
Answer
33.
What letter will unfasten an Irish lock?
Answer
34.
When was B the first letter of the alphabet, while E and O were
the only vowels?
Answer
35.
What letter is always more or less heavily taxed?
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36.
What letter is entirely out of fashion?
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37.
Why is praising people like a certain powerful opiate?
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38.
Prove that a man has five feet.
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39.
WHAT AM I?
I was once the harbinger of good to prisoners.
I add to the magnitude of a mighty river.
I am a small portion of a large ecclesiastical body.
I represent a certain form of vegetable growth.
A term used by our Lord in speaking to His disciples.
A subordinate part of a famous eulogy.
I am made useful in connection with the Great Western Railway.
Answer
40.
5005E1000E,
5005E1000E.
The name of a modern novel.
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41.
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42.
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43.
My FIRST is company; my SECOND shuns company; my THIRD calls
together a company; and my WHOLE entertains company.
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44.
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45.
Dr. Whewell being asked by a young lady for his name “in cipher,”
handed her the following lines:
Answer
46.
Why was the execution of Charles the First voluntary on his part?
Answer
47.
How is Poe’s “Raven” shown to have been a very dissipated
bird?
Answer
48.
Set down four 9’s so as to make one hundred.
Answer
49.
The cc 4 put 00000000.
si
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50.
John Doe to Richard Roe, Dr.
To 2 bronze boxes $3 00
1 wooden do 1 50
1 wood do 1 50
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52.
What animal comes from the clouds?
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53.
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54.
55.
Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head
was cut off.
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56.
At the time of a frightful accident, what is better than presence of
mind?
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57.
Why was the year preceding 1871 the same as the year following
it?
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58.
Why do “birds in their little nests agree?”
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59.
What did Io die of?
Answer
60.
Why did a certain farmer out West name his favorite rooster
ROBINSON?
Answer
61.
How do sailors know there’s a man in the moon?
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62.
How do sailors know Long Island?
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63.
What does a dog wear in warm weather, besides his collar?
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64.
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66.
Translate:
Je suis capitaine de vingt-cinq soldats; et, sans moi, Paris serait
pris.
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67.
Je suis ce que je suis, et je ne suis pas ce que je suis. Si j’étais
ce que je suis, je ne serais pas ce que je suis.
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68.
69.
Mens tuum ego!
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70.
The title of a book: Castra tintinnabula Poëmata.
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71.
Motto on a Chinese box: Tu doces!
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72.
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73.
Translate:
Quis crudus enim lectus, albus, et spiravit!
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74.
Ecrivez: “J’ai grand appétit,” en deux lettres.
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75.
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77.
In my FIRST my SECOND sat; my THIRD and FOURTH I ate; and yet I
was my WHOLE.
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80.
81.
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82.
To divide eight gallons of vinegar equally between two persons;
using only an eight-gallon, a five-gallon, and a three-gallon
measure?
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83.
A certain miller takes “for toll” one tenth of the meal or flour he
grinds. What quantity must he grind in order that a customer may
have just a bushel of meal after the toll has been taken?
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84.
To prove that two are equal to one:
Let x = a: Then, x2 = ax,
x2 − a2 = ax − a2,
(x + a)(x − a) = a(x − a),
x + a = a,
2a = a,
2 = 1. Q. E. D.
Where is the fallacy?
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85.
As two Arabs, who had for sole provision, the one five, and the
other three loaves of bread, were about to take their noonday meal
in company, they were joined by a stranger who proposed to
purchase a third part of their food. In payment he gave them, when
their repast was finished, eight pieces of silver, and they, unable to
agree as to the division of the sum referred the matter to the nearest
Cadi, who gave seven pieces to the owner of the five loaves, and but
one piece to the owner of the three loaves. And the Cadi was right.
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86.
A man went to a store and bought a pair of boots for six dollars.
He put down a ten dollar bill, and the merchant having no change,
sent for it to a neighboring bank, and gave it to him. Later in the day
one of the bank clerks came in to say that the ten dollar bill was a
bad one, and insisted that the merchant should make it right, which
he did. Now, how much did he lose by the whole transaction?
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87.
A man bought twelve herrings for a shilling; some were two
pence apiece, some a halfpenny, and some a farthing. How many
did he buy of each kind?
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88.
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90.
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