question: (CNN) -- If George Orwell and Lucille Ball had a love child, his name would be Stephen Colbert. 

In the last century, the great critics of corrupt political language were British authors who wrote dystopian novels. In "1984," Orwell described a totalitarian society in which meaningless political language, dubbed Newspeak, veiled horrible truths. 

Earlier, In "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley described toddlers conditioned in laboratories to be afraid of books. And in "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess imagined a world in which ultraviolent teens rampaged in a distinctive English-Russian patois that defined their alienation from society and authority. 

Now in the 21st century, there is Colbert's "truthiness" -- political half-truths, quarter-truths and what the website Politifact describes as "Pants-on-Fire" prevarications. 

On his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report," he introduced "The Word," a regular deconstruction of language contortion designed, in Orwell's notion, to defend the indefensible. (One example: "A Perfect World," as in, journalists should demand to investigate torture, but it's not a perfect world.) 

It's sharp political humor and a canny critique of American culture, language and iconography. And it's helped the comic emerge as this nation's court jester, licensed by the youthful cable TV audience to speak truth to power. 

Such is Colbert's power and influence that he has been invited to testify before Congress today on the issue of illegal immigration -- and to testify in character. It's as if the Congress of the Eisenhower years invited Harpo Marx to offer testimony by beeping his bicycle horn. 

Colbert has long been on to something important about the nature of our political discourse at the beginning of a new postmodern millennium: that ideology has become the lens through which Americans found their particular truth, let the evidence be damned. 
1. Who has a show?
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answer: 1. Colbert.


question: CHAPTER XXIII 

A NIGHT RIDE 

It was six o'clock in the evening. Curtis had just finished his supper and sat drowsily content in his quarters at the police post after being out in the frost all day. The temperature had steadily fallen since morning and the cold was now intensified by a breeze that drove scattered clouds across the moon and flung fine snow against the board walls, but the stove, which glowed a dull red, kept the room comfortable. A nickeled lamp shed down a cheerful light, and the tired corporal looked forward to a long night's rest. Private Stanton sat near him, cleaning a carbine. 

"It's curious you have heard nothing from Regina since you sent up those clothes," he remarked. "It looked pretty bad for Prescott." 

"I don't know," said Curtis. "Have you ever seen him with that suit on?" 

"No." 

"Nor has anybody else, so far as I can learn. There's another point--the land agent talked of a tall, stoutish man. You wouldn't call Prescott that." 

"Those clothes were 'most as good as new; he might have only had them on the once," Stanton persisted. 

"That's what struck me; I don't know how they looked so good, if they'd been lying where Jernyngham found them, since last summer." 

"It's a thing I might have thought of." 

"You have a good deal to learn yet." Curtis smiled tolerantly. 

"Anyhow, I found you a photograph of Prescott, and you were glad to send it along to Regina. What do you think our bosses are doing about it?" 
1. Who was having his meal?
2. What time was that?
3. Where is he?
4. Where is it?
5. Where was he all day long?
6. How was the weather all day?
7. Did the temperature fall even farther?
8. What made the temperature drop?
9. Was the moon visible?
10. Was it snowing too?
11. Despite all this was he comfortable?
12. What made the room comfortable?
13. What was the source of light for them?
14. Who sat by him?
15. What was he doing?
16. Who did he not hear from?
17. What he sent her?
18. Did the clothes look good?
19. Who found them?
20. Whose photograph was found?
21. Who it was send to?
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answer: 1. Curtis
2. six o'clock
3. in his quarters
4. at the police post
5. outside
6. frosty
7. yes
8. breeze
9. yes
10. yes
11. yes
12. stove
13. A nickeled lamp
14. Private Stanton
15. cleaning a carbine
16. Regina
17. clothes
18. yes
19. Jernyngham
20. Prescott
21. Regina


question: There once was a boy named Kevin. He met Jessica one afternoon at a park on a hot summer day. They both started talking and became great friends. They spent the whole day together and ate their lunches together next to the pond. Kevin sure enjoyed the park more than he liked going to the beach or store. There were many ducks, frogs, birds and chipmunks playing around the pond. In fact, one of the chipmunks even came up and stole Kevin's car keys when he was eating! Kevin knew that he needed to go have his keys, but the chipmunk ran with an evil smile on its face. Eventually, the chipmunk ran into its hole that he called home. Kevin tried everything he could to have the chipmunk come out with his keys, but he couldn't find out how to make the little guy give up. Finally, Jessica came over and placed a potato chip at the opening to the hole. In seconds, the chipmunk came out with the keys and dropped them in front of Kevin right before grabbing the chip and running back into the hole. The chipmunk then went in to have his snack and left Kevin and Jessica alone. Kevin thought that maybe next time he could go to the park in the early spring or winter so that the chipmunks would be busy sleeping during the cold weather months. Kevin then said goodbye to Jessica and went home.
1. What was the boy's name?
2. Who did he meet at the park?
3. Was it hot that day?
4. Did they talk?
5. Did they spend the whole day together?
6. Where did they eat lunch?
7. Did he enjoy the park?
8. How many kinds of animals were there?
9. Who stole his car keys?
10. Did it have an evil smile?
11. Where did it run to?
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answer:
1. Kevin.
2. Jessica.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. Next to the pond.
7. Yes.
8. Four.
9. One of the chipmunks.
10. Yes.
11. Its hole.