NOTE TO STUDENTS:  Read the "Background" below before answering the questions.

1.  a) What is the Python Challenge 2013?  Be specific.
b)  Who is sponsoring the competition?

2.  What is the goal of the Python Challenge?

3.  What will the competition help the Fish and Wildlive Commission determine?

4.  How many people from how many states have entered the contest as of this week?

5.  How did the Burmese python come to inhabit the Everglades?

6.  Contestant Ron Polster of Ohio said of his fellow competitors: "I was hoping there would be a lot of machetes and not a lot of guns. [I'm concerned that] "these idiots will be firing all over the place." What do you think of Mr. Polster's decision to attend the competition when he regards other contestants from this viewpoint?