Question: (Entertainment Weekly) -- In the movies, "the suburbs" are never just a place. They're a state of mind, a mythology we all know in our bones.

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio share a happy moment in "Revolutionary Road."

The myth goes something like this: The suburbs are comfortable, maybe even beautiful, but their serenity is rooted in a friendly American conformity, so that the people who live there have to repress their true selves, which will emerge when they drink too much and have affairs, or rage at each other for their dishonesty, which was all caused in the first place by ... the suburbs.

The best thing about "Revolutionary Road," a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie. It only begins there.

Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) are about 30, with two kids, and both believe they can evade the traps of the existence they've chosen. The year is 1955, and Frank has a New York job that bores him, marketing business machines. He takes solace in feeling superior to his work, and also in his midday martinis and occasional dip into the secretarial pool. April, meanwhile, wanted to be an actress, and still feels she's meant for higher things. Watch DiCaprio and Winslet talk about their reunion "

Moved to reach for something more, April comes up with a plan: She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris, where she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself. (It's like a '60s fantasy a decade ahead of time.) "Revolutionary Road" was directed by Sam Mendes, who made the glibly scathing "American Beauty," only here he wants us to share not just Frank and April's misery but the frail reveries that hold them together. 1. What movie is the article about?
2. Who is the director?
3. Is this his first directing job?
4. What else has he done?
5. Is the movie an original screenplay?
6. Was it a book?
7. Who wrote the novel?
8. What year?
9. What is it about?
10. Who stars in the movie?
11. Why are they unhappy?
12. What do they do?
13. What characters do DiCaprio and Winslet play?
14. Do they have kids?
15. How many?
16. Does Frank Wheeler work?
17. What does he do?
18. What does April Wheeler do?
19. What do they decide to do?
20. What will that do? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Revolutionary Road
2. Sam Mendes
3. No
4. American Beauty
5. No
6. Yes
7. Richard Yates
8. 1961
9. a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple
10. Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio
11. people who live in the suburbs have to repress their true selves
12. drink too much and have affairs
13. Frank and April Wheeler
14. Yes
15. two
16. Yes
17. marketing business machines
18. wanted to be an actress
19. She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris
20. she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself.

Question: There are many kinds of heroes.Even animals can be heroes.This passage tells about three amazing animals.Each one is a hero! Thumper, the Dog Thumper was a dog that lived with a family which had a three-year-old son named Benjamin.One day Benjamin wandered into a large field. The grass in the field was taller than he was, so he could not find his way out.Hundreds of people began to search for Benjamin.When they found him, they saw Thumper stayed with Benjamin and kept him warm.So Benjamin had stayed safe. Lulu, the Pig The Altsmans had a pet pig named Lulu.One summer the couple went camping and took Lulu with them.The husband went fishing one morning.The wife didn't feel well, so she and Lulu stayed in the camper.Suddenly Mrs.Altsman fell to the floor.Lulu pushed the camper door open and climbed out for help.When a car came by, she lay down in front of it.When the driver got out, Lulu led him back to the camper.The man called for help and Mrs.Altsman was taken to hospital. Sugar, the Cat Sugar was a beautiful cat.Three years ago she wandered onto the Woods' farm in California and Mrs.Woods began feeding her.Mrs.Woods noticed something wrong with the cat's left leg, but this didn't make Sugar any less special.Mrs.Woods loved Sugar.Later the couple moved to a new farm in Oklahoma. They gave Sugar to a neighbor who would take good care of her, because they knew she wouldn't like riding in cars for days.However, Sugar walked across deserts and mountains and traveled more than 1,500 miles to the Woods' new farm! Mr.and Mrs.Woods could hardly believe their eyes.No one knows how Sugar found her way to Oklahoma. 1. How many animals are in the story?
2. How are the animals similar?
3. What was the first animal?
4. What was he named?
5. What did the dog do that was heroic?
6. Who was Benjamin?
7. How old was he?
8. Was the second animal also a dog?
9. What kind of animal was it?
10. Who was Lulu's family?
11. How did Lulu help Mrs. Altsman?
12. Why did she need help?
13. What was the third animal?
14. Named?
15. What state did she live in?
16. Did she ever go somewhere else?
17. Where?
18. Why did she go there?
19. Why wasn't she with them to begin with?
20. Why? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Three
2. Each one is a hero
3. A dog
4. Thumper
5. Thumper stayed with Benjamin and kept him warm.So Benjamin had stayed safe.
6. the son in the family Thumper lived with
7. three
8. No
9. a pig
10. The Altsmans
11. She stopped a car to get help from the driver
12. She didn't feel well and fell to the floor
13. a cat
14. Sugar
15. California
16. Yes
17. Oklahoma
18. To follow the Woods to their new farm
19. They had given her to a neighbor
20. because they knew she wouldn't like riding in cars for days