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Questions

1)	What happened in this neighborhood?

2)	Why does the author say ghost stories are mainly in Dutch communities?

3)	In the quote, "Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction…", what does "sufficient" mean?

4)	The author wrote, "There were several more that had been equally great in the field, not one of whom but was persuaded that he had a considerable hand in bringing the war to a happy termination." What does "several" mean in this context?

5)	In the same quote below, what does "termination" mean in this context? "There were several more that had been equally great in the field, not one of whom but was persuaded that he had a considerable hand in bringing the war to a happy termination."

6)	Were there any events that weren't clear to you?