Read \"I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read\" to answer the ten questions below. 1. 10. As the story begins, the author says that more than a billion pencils are made each year. How many people does the author say actually know how to make a pencil? The author says that the cedar wood for pencils grows in California and Oregon. What are some of the tools, products, and services that are involved in getting the trees cut and moved to the pencil factory? How many people does the author estimate are involved in some way - directly or indirectly - in the making of pencils? Of the total of all the knowledge and skills involved in creating a pencil, how much does any single person contribute to the process, according to the author? The author says that people involved in the making of pencils do not work because they want a pencil. What is the reason they do their work cutting trees, mining graphite, or running a pencil factory? According to the author, is there any \"master mind\" or dictator forcing or directing everyone to do the particular jobs that are needed to make pencils? What is the \"miracle\" that is involved in the making of pencils? The author worries that many people believe that complex economic tasks like delivering mail, making automobiles, or even making pencils can be done best if a government runs the processes. What does he think leads people to that conclusion? What are some of the examples that the author mentions to show that when people are left alone, without government interference, they can accomplish amazing things? What is the lesson about freedom and free people that the author wants the reader to learn from this story