Problem: School is out for the summer. Jake and Jimmy are playing on a baseball team. They are both nine years old this year. Their team is called the Knights. Jake plays first base and Jimmy is a pitcher. They both love baseball. They started playing when they were four years old. It is so fun for them. Their team has won three games so far. They beat the Jets, the Bluejays, and the Hawks so far. They have not lost any games yet. They are playing the Tigers today. The Tigers have not lost any games either. The score was one to one until the last inning. There were two outs. Jimmy came to the plate. The pitcher named Johnny threw the ball hard. Jimmy swung his bat too late and missed. He missed the next pitch too. It was too fast. He was ready for the next pitch. He hit it hard to center field. The Tiger player in center field jumped to catch it, but it went over his head and over the fence. It was a home run! The Knights won the game!
1. What season is it?
2. Is school out?
3. What kind of team are Jake and Jimmy playing on?
4. How old are they?
5. What is the teams name?
6. What position does Jake play?
7. What about Jimmy?
8. How many games have they won so far?
9. Do they like playing baseball?
10. How old were they when they started playing?
11. What teams have they beaten so far?
12. Had they lost any games?
13. Who are they playing today?
14. Had the Tigers lost any games yet?
15. Did Jimmy hit a home run?
16. How outs were they before he hit it?
17. Where did the ball go when he hit it?
18. Who ended up winning?
Answer: 1. summer
2. Yes
3. a baseball team
4. Nine
5. The Knights
6. first base
7. pitcher
8. Three
9. Yes
10. Four
11. Jets, BlueJays, and Hawks
12. No
13. The Tigers
14. No
15. Yes
16. Two
17. Over the fence
18. the knights

Problem: (CNN) -- Achtung, baby!

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a flamboyant Austrian fashionista in "Bruno."

There's a British theory that everything sounds funnier delivered with a Teutonic accent. That's tested to the limit in Sacha Baron Cohen's newest provocation, "Bruno," but it's not what comes out of his mouth that makes the Austrian fashionista such a handful.

The man in the tight yellow lederhosen knows that in our visually overstimulated culture, a picture is vorth a thousand vords. More if there's significant skin involved -- and he's happy to show us his wurst.

Cohen seems to believe that prudery is the enemy. Certainly, bad taste is his Trojan horse. An early montage of romantic coupling, Bruno-style, is enough to get tongues wagging -- or clucking in disapproval. It's the closest thing to gay porn most heterosexuals will see this side of "300."

Either way, Cohen's laughing: Properly managed, outrage is a useful marketing tool, as "Borat" showed.

Apparently permanently airbrushed right down to his backside, Bruno looks nothing like his hirsute Kazakh cousin, but the men share an ego; they're equally insensitive to other people and oblivious to notions of social decorum and the politically correct.

And they both invest heavily in the American Dream. Bruno hungers after fame as hungrily as Borat lusted for Pamela Anderson.

After a brief prologue in Europe -- and the distressing revelation of the vacuity of the fashion scene -- he sets out for Los Angeles, determined to become Austria's "biggest superstar since Hitler."

Perhaps inspired by another Cohen creation, Ali G, he sets out to make a celebrity interview show -- but sadly, the only dupes ignorant enough to participate are "American Idol" judges (Paula Abdul chats about her philanthropic pursuits while perched on the back of an immigrant laborer) and presidential candidates (take a bow, Ron Paul).
1. What does he star in?
2. What accent is thought to be funny?
3. Who think that?
4. What country is the star from?
5. What brightly colored outfit is he known to wear?
6. WHat is his "trojan horse"?
7. Who does he not resemble at all?
8. What do the men share?
9. and what are they not aware of?
10. What do they fully invest in?
11. What does the star hunger for?
12. Where does the film begin?
Answer: 1. Bruno
2. Teutonic
3. British
4. Austria
5. lederhosen
6. bad taste
7. his cousin
8. an ego
9. notions of social decorum and the politically correct
10. American Dream
11. fame
12. unknown

Problem: CHAPTER XXVIII

TWO OF THEM

When Tommy started impulsively on what proved to be his only Continental trip he had expected to join Mrs. Jerry and her stepdaughter at Bad-Platten. They had been there for a fortnight, and "the place is a dream," Mrs. Jerry had said in the letter pressing him to come; but it was at St. Gian that she met the diligence and told him to descend. Bad-Platten, she explained, was a horror.

Her fuller explanation was that she was becoming known there as the round lady.

"Now, am I as round as all that?" she said plaintively to Tommy.

"Mrs. Jerry," he replied, with emotion, "you must not ask me what I think of you." He always treated her with extraordinary respect and chivalry now, and it awed her.

She had looked too, too round because she was in the company of Lady Pippinworth. Everyone seemed to be too round or too large by the side of that gifted lady, who somehow never looked too thin. She knew her power. When there were women in the room whom she disliked she merely went and stood beside them. In the gyrations of the dance the onlooker would momentarily lose sight of her; she came and went like a blinking candle. Men could not dance with her without its being said that they were getting stout. There is nothing they dislike so much, yet they did dance with her. Tommy, having some slight reason, was particularly sensitive about references to his figure, yet it was Lady Pippinworth who had drawn him to Switzerland. What was her strange attraction?
1. What place is a dream?
2. Who had said this?
3. to whom?
4. Were they to meet up?
5. Did she change her mind?
6. why?
7. why did she think so?
8. Who was with Mrs. Jerry?
9. was she round also?
10. Was she very thin?
11. How did Tommy feel about Mrs. Jerry?
12. how did she feel about this?
13. What was her step daughter's name?
14. Where men attracted to her?
15. What happened to them when they danced with her?
16. Did they like this?
17. Who brought Tommy to Switzerland?
18. Was Tommy sensitve about his figure?
19. How did Mrs. James communicate with Tommy?
20. Did she ask Tommy about her roundness?
Answer:
1. Bad-Platten
2. Mrs. Jerry
3. Tommy
4. yes
5. Yes
6. Bad-Platten was a horror.
7. She was becoming known as the round lady.
8. Her stepdaughter
9. No
10. She never looked to thin.
11. He always treated her with respect and chivalry
12. it awed her.
13. Lady Pippinworth.
14. Yes
15. People said they were getting stout.
16. yes.
17. Lady Pippenworth drew him there.
18. Yes
19. By letter.
20. Yes.