Bill and Steve went to the park. It was a nice Saturday afternoon. They both rode their bicycles to the park. Bill and Steve were hoping to use the swings, but when they showed up, the swings were being used by Anne and Susan.

"Can we use the swings?" Bill asked the two girls, hoping they were almost done.

"Not now," said Anne. "We have only been here for a little bit."

Bill was disappointed, but there were so many other things to do at the park. Bill and Steve went to the slide. Up and down they went, faster and faster, every time! It became a race, Bill and Steve ran back to the ladder as quickly as they could so they could go down again.

After a half hour, the two boys were very tired from climbing the ladder and flying down the slide so quickly over and over. They went to their bikes to go back home. As they started going home, they saw Anne and Susan had left. They could use the swings before going home! What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who were the swings being used by?
2. Who did Bill go to the park with?
3. What day was it?
4. Was it morning?
5. How did they get to the park?
6. What did they hope to do when they got there?
7. What did they ask?
8. What did Anne say?
9. How did Bill feel?
10. Was there anything else to do?
11. Where did the boys go up and down?
12. Did it take them two hours to get tired?
13. How long did it take?
14. Why did they go to their bikes?
15. What did they see as they started home?
16. What could they do then?
17. How many kids total, were at the park?
Answer: 1. Anne and Susan
2. Steve
3. Saturday
4. no
5. on their bikes
6. use the swings
7. to use the swings
8. not now
9. disappointed
10. yes
11. the slide
12. no
13. half and hour
14. to go home
15. that Anne and Susan left
16. use the swings
17. four

CHAPTER XVIII

A MEETING OF SOCIALISTS

The _brasserie_ into which the two men pushed their way was smaller and less ornate than the one which they had last visited. Many of the tables, too, were laid for supper. The tone of the place was still entirely Teutonic. Kendricks and his companion seated themselves at a table.

"You will eat sausage?" Kendricks asked.

"I will eat anything," Julien replied.

"It is better," Kendricks remarked. "Here from the first we may be watched. We are certainly observed. Be sure that you do not let fall a single word of English. It might be awkward afterwards."

"It's a beastly language," Julien declared, "but the beer and sausages help. How many of the people here will be at the meeting?"

"Not a hundredth part of them," Kendricks answered. "It was a terrible job to get these tickets and I wouldn't like to guarantee now that we have them that we get there. Remember, if any questions are asked, you're an American, the editor or envoy of _The Coming Age._"

"The dickens I am!" Julien exclaimed. "Where am I published?"

"In New York; you're a new issue."

Julien ate sausages and bread and butter steadily for several minutes.

"To me," he announced, "there is something more satisfying about a meal of this description than that two-franc dinner where you stole my chicken."

"You have Teutonic instincts, without a doubt," Kendricks declared, "but after all, why not a light dinner and an appetite for supper? Better for the digestion, better for the pocket, better for passing the time. What are you staring at?" What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what was the tone like in the restaurant?
2. are they being watched?
3. what must they be careful not to do?
4. what meal of the day is it?
5. how is this place different than others they have been to?
6. Who is Julien pretending to be?
7. working where?
8. how does he feel about the English language?
9. what are the mens names in this story?
10. and?
11. What are they eating?
12. and drinking?
Answer: 1. Teutonic
2. Yes
3. let fall a single word of English
4. supper
5. It was less ornate
6. an American
7. In New York
8. It's a beastly language
9. Kendricks
10. Julien
11. sausages
12. beer

(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. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 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