Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER IV 

IDA'S FIRST ASCENT 

The party had spent another day or two beside the lake when, one drowsy afternoon, Kinnaird, who sat on the hot, white shingle by the water's edge, with a pair of glasses in his hand, sent for Weston. Miss Kinnaird and Ida Stirling were seated among the boulders not far away. 

"I understand that the river bends around the range, and the crest of the first rise seems no great height," he said. "There is evidently--a bench I think you call it--before you come to the snow, and the ascent should be practicable for a lady. Take these glasses and look at it." 

Weston, who took the glasses, swept them along the hillside across the lake. It rose very steeply from the water's edge, but the slope was uniform, and as a good deal of it consisted apparently of lightly-covered rock and gravel the pines were thinner, and there was less undergrowth than usual. Far above him the smooth ascent broke off abruptly, and, though he could not see beyond the edge, there certainly appeared to be a plateau between it and the farther wall of rock and snow. 

"I think one could get up so far without very much trouble, sir," he said. 

"That," replied Kinnaird, "is how it strikes me. My daughter is rather a good mountaineer, and Miss Stirling is just as anxious to make the ascent. I may say that we have had some experience in Switzerland, not to mention the hills among the English lakes. Do you know anything about climbing?" 

1. Who surveyed the landscape to determine the best path?
2. What was good about the slope he saw?
3. Anything else?
4. Is that it?
5. Could he see beyond the edge?
6. What appeared to be between the edge and the wall of rock and snow?
7. What did Weston remark to Kinnaird after surveying the land?
8. Did Kinnaird agree?
9. What did he say about his daughter?
10. and Miss Stirling?
11. Where did Kinnaird say they had prior experience?
12. Anywhere else?
13. Where?
14. How many days did the group spend near the lake?
15. Where was Kinnaird sitting?
16. What was it next to?
17. What was he holding in his hand?
18. Who did he send for?
19. Who else was sitting nearby?
20. Who else?

Numbered answers:
1. Weston
2. it was uniform
3. the pines were thinner
4. there was less undergrowth than usual
5. no
6. a plateau
7. "I think one could get up so far without very much trouble, sir,"
8. yes
9. she is a good mountaineer
10. she is anxious to make the ascent
11. Switzerland
12. yes
13. the hills among the English lakes
14. another day or two
15. the hot, white shingle
16. water's edge
17. pair of glasses
18. Weston
19. Miss Kinnaird
20. Ida Stirling