Problem: Every evening at six o'clock an old man goes to a restaurant near his house. He eats dinner. After dinner, he drinks coffee and talks to the people at the restaurant. The old man's name is Bill. Bill eats at the restaurant every evening because he is lonely. His wife died and he has no children. Every evening the same waitress brings Bill to his dinner. Her name is Cara. She is 17 years old. Cara is kind to Bill. She knows he is lonely, so she talks to him. If Bill is late for dinner, she calls him on the telephone. "Are you OK?" she asks him. One evening Bill doesn't come to the restaurant. Cara calls him, but he doesn't answer the phone. Cara calls the police. "Please go to Bill's house." Cara tells the police. Later the police call Cara at the restaurant. "Bill died in his sleep," the police tell her. Bill was 82 years old. A week later, a man comes to the restaurant. "I have something for Cara," the man says. The man gives Cara a check for $500000. The money is from Bill. "This money is for me? From Bill?" Cara asks the man. "Yes," the man answers. "But...why?" Cara asks the man. "Bill liked you," the man says. "You were kind to him"
1. Where does Bill go to eat dinner every night?
2. at what time?
3. What is the name of the waitress that serves Bill every day?
4. Is she nice to Bill?
5. What does she do if he is late for dinner?
6. Is she close to Bill's age?
7. How old is she?
8. What did she do when Bill did not answer the phone one night?
9. What did she tell them to do?
10. How long after Bill died did a man go to visit Cara at her work?
11. Did he give her a check?
12. Who was it from?
13. What happened to Bill?
14. How old was he?
15. Did he have children?
16. Why did Bill leave money to Cara?
Answer: 1. restaurant near his house
2. six o'clock
3. Cara
4. Yes
5. she calls him on the telephone
6. No
7. 17 years old
8. Cara calls the police
9. Please go to Bill's house
10. A week later
11. Yes
12. The money is from Bill
13. Bill died in his sleep
14. 82 years old
15. he has no children
16. You were kind to him

Problem: (CNN) -- Noah Baumbach is emerging as an emotionally acute, not to say eviscerating, observer of the middle-class intelligentsia, the kind of people who write letters to "The New York Times" and might plausibly pop up in a Woody Allen movie.

Unlike the Woodman, Baumbach doesn't show his face on screen, but his films are no less personal for that: "The Squid and the Whale" was a sometimes wincingly autobiographical account of two boys torn between their divorcing parents, and he's not one to deflect an insight with a wisecrack. The cracks just cut deeper. I've rarely experienced an audience recoil from a character as passionately as they did to Nicole Kidman's toxically self-absorbed writer in "Margot at the Wedding" (maybe her best performance, incidentally). These are comedies in the sense that the characters are painfully ridiculous -- and all too recognizably real -- but Baumbach sure doesn't make it easy for himself, or us.

Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is another neurotic narcissist, a middle-aged loner who comes back to Los Angeles to house-sit while his brother enjoys a long vacation in the Far East. Greenberg (only his brother calls him Roger) can feed the family dog, but the truth is that he desperately needs to regroup and recharge after a spell in a mental hospital.

He has one friend, Ivan (Rhys Ifans), who still has time for him and a wider circle of former friends who don't. We soon learn that Greenberg used to front a band, but it fell apart after he turned down a recording deal, and he's been in New York ever since, under-achieving on a permanent basis.
1. Who is an observer of middle class intelligentsia?
2. Does he appear on screen?
3. What was the film about two boys?
4. Was it about their loving parents?
5. Who was in Margot at the Wedding?
6. Are these movies thrillers?
7. Who played Roger Greenberg?
8. What city does the character come back to?
9. To do what?
10. For whom?
11. Where was his brother going/
12. What does Greenburg do for the dog?
Answer: 1. Noah Baumbach
2. No
3. "The Squid and the Whale"
4. No
5. Nicole Kidman
6. No
7. Ben Stiller
8. Los Angeles
9. House-sit
10. His brother
11. Far East
12. Feed the family dog

Problem: To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in the United States with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, often challenged for its use of racial epithets.
1. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
2. When was it published?
3. Was it a hit at first?
4. What prize did it win?
5. What nationality was the author?
6. Did she make up the characters from scratch?
7. Was it based on an event?
8. Where?
9. In what year?
10. How old was she then?
11. What kind of story is it?
12. How many main themes are there?
13. What was one?
14. And the other?
15. Are gender roles addressed?
16. Is it taught in schools?
17. Does it contain racial names?
18. What are three other issues the book has?
19. Where in the US does the book take place?
Answer:
1. Harper Lee
2. 1960
3. yes
4. Pulitzer Prize
5. American
6. no
7. as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, yes
8. near her hometown
9. 1936
10. 10
11. Southern Gothic novel
12. two
13. racial injustice
14. the destruction of innocence
15. yes
16. yes
17. yes
18. class, courage, and compassion
19. Deep South