Check your knowledge

— 1. What is the title of Edgar Allan Poe's poem which begins "Helen, thy beauty is to me ..."?

2.What does the word "fribble" mean?

3. Is it true or false that cabbage grows to maturity in about five months?

4. Blood that goes from the lungs to the heart is oxygenated or deoxygenated?

5. What is the sign of the goat in the zodiac?

6. Name the monetary unit of Japan.

7. Which U.S. president was noted for his "Fireside Chats"?

8. What does an apiculturist study?

9. Based on average income, what is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere?

Answers 1. "To Helen" 2. Waste of time, or a trifling act or thought 3. False. Cabbage, which is a cold weather crop, will mature in 2 to 2 1 /2 months.

4. Oxygenated blood flows from lungs to the heart and is then sent to organs and tissues.

Deoxygenated blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs.

5. Capricorn 6. Yen 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt 8. Bees 9. Haiti

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