[ { "answer groups": [ "Devkinandan Sharma's Daughter understand the agony of Vishal", "Devkinandan Sharma" ], "distractor groups": [ "Manna Shetty", "Revati" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .", "question": "Which head constable's daughter understands the agony of Ramakant's younger son?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gervase Henshaw", "Gifford recognized Gervase Henshaw when he saw a head above the hedge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Leopard" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Late on the next Sunday afternoon Gifford had gone for a country walk which he had arranged to bring him round in time for the evening service at the little village church of Wynford standing just outside the park boundary.
Sent 2: His way took him by well-remembered field-paths which, although towards the end of his walk darkness had set in, he had no difficulty in tracing.
Sent 3: The last field he crossed brought him to a by-road joining the highway which ran through Wynford, the junction being about a quarter of a mile from the church.
Sent 4: As he neared the stile which admitted to the road he saw, on the other side of the hedge and showing just above it, the head of a man.
Sent 5: At the sound of his footsteps the man quickly turned, and, as for a moment the fitful moonlight caught his face, Gifford was sure he recognized Gervase Henshaw.
Sent 6: But he took no notice and kept on his way to the stile, which he crossed and gained the road.
Sent 7: As he did so he glanced back.
Sent 8: A horse and trap was waiting there with Henshaw in it.
Sent 9: He was now bending down, probably with the object of concealing his identity, and had moved on a few paces farther down the road.", "question": "Who did Gifford recognize when he saw a head above the hedge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That people do not feel the need to express sympathy, or to think about ways to avoid such incidents, but they feel the need to assert their \"rights\"", "People do not feel the need to express sympathy, or to think about ways to avoid such incidents, but they feel the need to assert their \"rights\" and to look for quick, simple answers -- as Busch states, gun owners wanted to \"hang [the child] from the highest tree\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Whether it was an actor", "Changing the chronology" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You write: \"Having created the desired impression, Moore follows with his Heston interview.\"
Sent 2: No, he doesn't.
Sent 3: You accuse Moore so often of changing the chronology, yet you have no problems changing it yourself.
Sent 4: The Heston interview is at the very end of the movie.
Sent 5: After the Flint rally comes a brief TV interview with Heston, where he is asked about Kayla Rolland (again, clear evidence that the local media in Flint raised questions about the NRA's presence), then an inteview with country prosecutor Arthur Busch, entirely ignored by critics of the film, who also mentions Heston's presence as notable, and refers to the immediate reactions of \"people from all over America\", gun owners/groups who, according to him, reacted aggressively to warnings of having guns accessible to children, much like spanking advocates react aggressively when anti-spankers point to a case of a child being killed or severely injured by a beating.
Sent 6: These people do not feel the need to express sympathy, or to think about ways to avoid such incidents, but they feel the need to assert their \"rights\" and to look for quick, simple answers -- as Busch states, gun owners wanted to \"hang [the child] from the highest tree\".
Sent 7: This is all not mentioned by critics of Moore's movie, who claim to be objective.
Sent 8: Perhaps the best example of the paranoia surrounding Moore's film is your sub-essay \"Is the end of the Heston interview itself faked?\"
Sent 9: Moore answers a simple question -- how could the scene have been filmed -- with a simple answer: two cameras.
Sent 10: From this, you construct an obscure conspiracy of \"re-enactment\": \"For all we can tell, Moore could have shouted 'Hey!'
Sent 11: to make Heston turn around and then remained silent as Heston left.\"
Sent 12: Even if your \"re-enactment\" theory is true (and I see no evidence that you have actually tried to ask the people involved in the filmmaking for their opinion), this itself is not unethical, and you have no evidence whatsoever that Moore has done anything unethical here, just like you have no evidence that Moore has unethically removed parts of the interview.
Sent 13: You use standard filmmaking technique as a basis to construct bizarre conspiracies which sound plausible to the gullible reader, without ever providing any evidence for the implicit or explicit claims of fraud and distortion.", "question": "What is not mentioned by critics of Moore's movie?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Not really, but you can create a new chemical change that will bring the substance back to its previous state.", "sometimes" ], "distractor groups": [ "never", "yes- all of the time" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chemical changes produce new substances.
Sent 2: For this reason, they often cannot be undone.
Sent 3: Some chemical changes can be reversed, sort of.
Sent 4: To do so requires another chemical change to take place.
Sent 5: For example, you can undo the tarnish on copper pennies by placing them in vinegar.
Sent 6: The acid in the vinegar reacts with the tarnish.
Sent 7: This is a chemical change that makes the pennies bright and shiny again.
Sent 8: You can try this yourself at home to see how well it works.
Sent 9: Other chemical changes cannot be reversed at all or may be difficult to do.
Sent 10: Rusting is a chemical change.
Sent 11: If metal rusts, the best you can do is to sand off the rust to get down to the shiny metal.
Sent 12: Although the metal may now be shiny, the rust was removed.
Sent 13: The rust was not changed back into the original metal.
Sent 14: Some chemical reactions occur in only one direction.
Sent 15: These reactions are called irreversible reactions.
Sent 16: For example, you cannot change a fried egg back into a raw egg.
Sent 17: Can you think of some other irreversible reactions related to cooking?
Sent 18: Would you like a piece of cake?", "question": "Can chemical changes be undone?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There are many ways living organisms can affect their ecosystem. One way is by managing fire. Another method can be done by mining", "Possible" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not Possible" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "Is it possible for a living organism to affect their ecosystem?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Maxon", "Farragut" ], "distractor groups": [ "Summerfield", "Mcllvain", "McIlvian's wife", "McIIvian", "The girlfriend", "Paul McIlvain", "The young American couple" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "Who does the father accompany to track down the young American couple?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Atta was flagged by the CAPPS system and his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft. Omari was not flagged by the system", "He went through CAPPS" ], "distractor groups": [ "It wasn't" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.
Sent 2: Millions of men and women readied themselves for work.
Sent 3: Some made their way to the Twin Towers, the signature structures of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.
Sent 4: Others went to Arlington, Virginia, to the Pentagon.
Sent 5: Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session.
Sent 6: At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour.
Sent 7: In Sarasota, Florida, President George W. Bush went for an early morning run.
Sent 8: For those heading to an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey.
Sent 9: Among the travelers were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who arrived at the airport in Portland, Maine.
Sent 10: Boston: American 11 and United 175.
Sent 11: Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport.
Sent 12: When he checked in for his flight to Boston, Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures.
Sent 13: Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft.
Sent 14: This did not hinder Atta's plans.
Sent 15: Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45.
Sent 16: Seven minutes later, Atta apparently took a call from Marwan al Shehhi, a longtime colleague who was at another terminal at Logan Airport.
Sent 17: They spoke for three minutes.
Sent 18: It would be their final conversation.", "question": "How was Atta's and Omari's trip through airport security different?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Another unit", "Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family" ], "distractor groups": [ "A log", "Sails" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man\u2002\u2014\u2002in 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts\u2002\u2014\u2002sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)\u2002\u2014\u2002known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).", "question": "What would be added to the wooden longhouses of the Iban people, when they were married?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hugh of Avalon created the eastern transept", "Hugh of Avalon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Remigius" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The mighty fane, with its three massive towers, rises majestically over the red roofs of the town.
Sent 2: Its most striking feature is the great Norman screen, running up without buttresses or projections to the parapet and hiding the bases of the square, richly decorated towers of the west front.
Sent 3: The plain centre of the screen is the work of Remigius, the first bishop.
Sent 4: The rest of it is relieved with rich arcading of Late Norman and Early English periods.
Sent 5: The wooden spires which crowned the towers were removed in 1807.
Sent 6: In 1192 Hugh of Avalon determined to rebuild the Norman building of Remigius, which an earthquake had shaken.
Sent 7: To him we owe the choir and eastern transept.
Sent 8: His successors completed the western transept and began the west end of the nave.
Sent 9: So much money had to be spent in rebuilding the central tower, which fell in 1239, that the canons could not rebuild the nave entirely, but had to incorporate the Norman end by Remigius.
Sent 10: Unfortunately the axis of the west front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too wide for its height.
Sent 11: The low vaulting is a serious defect in the choir built by St. Hugh, but of the superb beauty of the Angel Choir, which encloses his shrine, there can be no doubt.
Sent 12: In its richness of sculpture it is one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture in England.
Sent 13: The interior of the cathedral is remarkable for the harmony of its style, which is Lancet-Gothic, and the dim lighting of the nave only adds to its impressiveness.", "question": "Who created the eastern transept?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) was his second famous work", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "Did Tocqueville's Recollections become his second famous work?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was working for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society", "Cobb County office" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fleet Finance", "Hs own company", "Homeowners" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "Who was Barnes working pro bono for when he secured a $115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Roy Barnes", "Gov. Roy Barnes", "Congress" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atlanta Legal Aid Society", "Fleet Finance", "Cobb County", "Homeowners" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "Who handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Roy Barnes", "Gov. Roy Barnes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Senior citizens", "Cobb County", "Fleet Finance", "Homeowners", "Atlanta Legal Aid Society" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "Who secured a $115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Walk, go on adventures, pick blueberries, and sleep in the grass", "Go to an old cabin" ], "distractor groups": [ "Play fetch", "Turnning around to find that Max was not there" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mary loved walking through the woods with her dog, Max.
Sent 2: Max and Mary would go on all sorts of adventures together.
Sent 3: They really loved looking for blueberries together and then falling asleep next to each other in the tall grass.
Sent 4: One day, as Mary was picking the blueberries, she turned around to find that Max was not there.
Sent 5: She became worried and ran off to look for her dog.
Sent 6: She looked in all of their favorite spots...next to the stream, in their secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and even inside the old cabin that sat in the woods.
Sent 7: But poor Max was nowhere to be found.
Sent 8: Nonetheless, Mary would not give up.
Sent 9: She kept looking and she found him not very far away.
Sent 10: He had seen a squirrel and run to chase it.
Sent 11: When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went.", "question": "What did Max and Mary like to do in the woods?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was spanish territory", "Spain took control of Portugal which meant Portugal became involved in Spain's wars" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because it was torched", "Because Sagres did not have to be sacked", "Francis drake was on it" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "Why was the Algarve considered a legitimate target when it was attacked by Francis Drake?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Listening to the car radio", "The radio" ], "distractor groups": [ "Iris" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "How do the survivors hear the news report about the blackout?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, they all have the same structure and properties as all atoms of an element are the alike", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "Do atoms of Gold differ?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"The DJ's moving sermon,\" and \"people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the air\"", "A couple hundred people were testifying to the DJ\u00e2\u0080\u0099s moving sermon. On the dance floor, people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the air" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was just a little set-up where someone had stacked a few crates and brought something alcoholic to share, mostly beer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The old vaulted church was stripped down: there was no cloth on the altar, just a DJ's toolkit and his beer.
Sent 2: Through the dark, I could see three bolts left in the wall from where they'd taken down the crucifix.
Sent 3: A confessional too beaten-up to have been sold was shaking in a way that suggested activity inside, and where the pews had been taken out, a couple hundred people were testifying to the DJ's moving sermon.
Sent 4: Rachel stepped forward into the crowd while I took a moment to drink in the ceiling's blue-lit, shadowed vault and the light-catching haze from who-knows-what rising between the DJ and the crowd.
Sent 5: There was a terrific echo, each beat reverberating inside of the next, and the old stained-glass windows rattled in their frames.
Sent 6: On the dance floor, people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the air.
Sent 7: I danced with Rachel for a while, but then something by the bar seemed to be pulling her eyes.
Sent 8: She told me that she was heading for a drink and slipped out of the crowd.
Sent 9: When she hadn't come back halfway through the next song, I glanced over at the bar.
Sent 10: It was just a little set-up where someone had stacked a few crates and brought something alcoholic to share, mostly beer.
Sent 11: Rachel was standing with a plastic cup, looking like she was having a conversation, but I couldn't see anyone else there.
Sent 12: The next time the crowd split, I saw him.
Sent 13: He stood in front of a blue light, so I couldn't see him clearly, but what I saw was memorable.
Sent 14: He wore a jacket of what might have been blue velvet, and his hair gleamed black against his white skin.
Sent 15: The blue haze seemed to stop just shy of his pallor, setting off his striking face without illuminating its details, and his wrists flashed white in the darkness.
Sent 16: He didn't move, just stared and held his drink.
Sent 17: The next time I saw them, his mouth was moving.
Sent 18: She nodded and he took her arm.
Sent 19: I watched them through the crush of dancers as they squeezed along the wall, and the feeling came to me that something was very wrong.
Sent 20: Saturday morning, I woke up and saw that she still hadn't come home.", "question": "What phrases draw a parallel between this party scene and a typical church scene.A. It was just a little set-up where someone had stacked a few crates and brought something alcoholic to share, mostly beerB. \"The DJ's moving sermon,\" and \"people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the air\"C. A couple hundred people were testifying to the DJ\u00e2\u0080\u0099s moving sermon. On the dance floor, people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the airPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His ex-girlfriend Patricia was pregnant and Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide but saves her and this make the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective", "Patricia's pregnancy leads to suicide attempt" ], "distractor groups": [ "Destruction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "What caused Larry to make the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne were expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper Which made Dr. Jonathon Barnett to resign his teaching position", "To become advocate for the counterculture youth movement" ], "distractor groups": [ "Teaching position" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "What made Dr. Jonathon Barnett to resign his teaching position?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Federal style", "Federal" ], "distractor groups": [ "Townhouse" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "The home that Hamilton owned, which was completed in 1802, what was the styled of the house?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It gives it the potential to move", "The can fall", "Gravitational Potential Energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "They change color" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What affect does gravitational potential energy have on leaves?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ability to deliver a force and cause motion", "Deliver a force and do work", "Change , Motion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Shrink and expand objects" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What two things can gravitation potential energy do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville", "A series of 12 landscaping drawings and the request for her to comply with his pleasures" ], "distractor groups": [ "To keep him happy", "To make him dinner" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "What were the two parts of the contract that Mr. Neville had drew up for MRS. Virginia Herbert?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, one in which Mrs. Herbert agrees to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, it did not" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "Did the contract set up any sexual situations?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Male and female have different genes", "Mutations" ], "distractor groups": [ "Offspring", "By luck" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "What causes a variance in traits throughout reproduction?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Large firms, government posts", "Government post", "They lunch at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce and get box seats at Madison Square Garden", "Large firms" ], "distractor groups": [ "Start own practice", "Hospital lab", "University of new Mexico" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "Which two places does this article state typical lawyers go?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hospital lab specimens", "Urine samples", "Urine samples in a hospital lab" ], "distractor groups": [ "Paperwork", "Pro bono legal cases", "Teaching and tutoring law students" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "One partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse while the other handles what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, the skin does help maintain a constant body temperature and it does in two different ways", "Yes, two", "Yes it controls body temperature by sweat and sweat gland to cool the body", "Yes, and in 3 ways" ], "distractor groups": [ "Air conditioner", "Yes, three", "Yes, in 5 ways" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You couldnt survive without your skin.
Sent 2: It has many important functions.
Sent 3: The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body.
Sent 4: It prevents the loss of too much water from the body.
Sent 5: It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body.
Sent 6: The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature.
Sent 7: It keeps the body cool in two ways.
Sent 8: Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body.
Sent 9: Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen.
Sent 10: This action increases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 11: This allows more heat to reach the surface.
Sent 12: The heat is then able to radiate off the body.
Sent 13: The opposite happens to retain body heat.
Sent 14: Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow.
Sent 15: This decreases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 16: This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface.
Sent 17: When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air.", "question": "Does the skin have any control over body temperature and if so in how many ways does it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Subjugated Arawak population", "Death from disease", "Suicide", "Oppression", "The Europeans introduced slavery and disease. Many of the Arawak committed suicide. Their population decreased" ], "distractor groups": [ "Base called Nueva Sevilla", "Waiting in harbor", "Pig breeding" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by \"slash-and-burn\" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica \"Xaymaca\" (\"land of wood and water\").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.", "question": "In what ways was the coming of the Europeans to Jamaica bad for the Arawak people?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Evangelist Franklin Graham", "Samaritan's Purse" ], "distractor groups": [ "Us gov", "Sudan government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "Which group reported that four churches have been destroyed since August?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tag", "Hopscotch" ], "distractor groups": [ "Baseball", "Golf", "Tennis" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean.
Sent 2: They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing.
Sent 3: They liked to play tag instead of building sandcastles or swinging.
Sent 4: They liked tag because they liked to run.
Sent 5: They like to play hopscotch or jump rope but that day they wanted to play tag.
Sent 6: Other games aren't as fun.
Sent 7: They met Tony and Ally (who are best friends) and invited them to play tag too.
Sent 8: Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag.
Sent 9: Making new friends is important.
Sent 10: Tony and Ally would rather make friends than play their favorite games.", "question": "What game do Jan and Dean's children like to play more than building sandcastles or swinging?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wonderful Variety of Fireworks", "Lighting fireworks under Dean's window" ], "distractor groups": [ "Married Privately" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When he was at Oxford he had been well known for concealing under a slightly rowdy exterior the highest spirits of any of the undergraduates.
Sent 2: He was looked upon as the most fascinating of _farceurs_.
Sent 3: It seems that he had distinguished himself there less for writing Greek verse, though he was good at it, than for the wonderful variety of fireworks that he persistently used to let off under the dean's window.
Sent 4: It was this fancy of his that led, first, to his popularity, and afterwards to the unfortunate episode of his being sent down; soon after which he had married privately, chiefly in order to send his parents an announcement of his wedding in _The Morning Post_, as a surprise.
Sent 5: Some people had come in after dinner--for there was going to be a little _sauterie intime_, as Mrs Mitchell called it, speaking in an accent of her own, so appalling that, as Vincy observed, it made it sound quite improper.
Sent 6: Edith watched, intensely amused, as she saw that there were really one or two people present who, never having seen Mitchell before, naturally did not recognise him now, so that the disguise was considered a triumph.
Sent 7: There was something truly agreeable in the deference he was showing to a peculiarly yellow lady in red, adorned with ugly real lace, and beautiful false hair.
Sent 8: She was obviously delighted with the Russian prince.", "question": "What caused the individual in Sentence 4 to be \"sent down\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Separate groups set up by Hall's attorneys", "Hall, executive director of Texas Rural Legal Aid", "Texas Rural Legal Aid" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brendan Gill, executive director of Bexar Group", "David Hall" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: \"I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close,\" said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more \"high impact\" cases to court.
Sent 9: \"What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time,\" Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: \"I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points,\" Gill said.", "question": "Who operates a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid", "David Hall" ], "distractor groups": [ "Board members", "Brendan Gill, executive director of Bexar Group" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: \"I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close,\" said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more \"high impact\" cases to court.
Sent 9: \"What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time,\" Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: \"I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points,\" Gill said.", "question": "Who wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, they traveled to Bosnia to fight in the Balkans and also traveled to Afghanistan together", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not specified" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar.
Sent 2: KSM's original concept of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media statement was scrapped, but Bin Laden considered the basic idea feasible.
Sent 3: Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM developed an initial list of targets.
Sent 4: These included the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
Sent 5: According to KSM, Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to strike the World Trade Center, and all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.
Sent 6: No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.
Sent 7: Bin Laden also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives: Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazmi, Khallad, and Abu Bara al Yemeni.
Sent 8: During the al Matar meetings, Bin Laden told KSM that Mihdhar and Hazmi were so eager to participate in an operation against the United States that they had already obtained U.S. visas.
Sent 9: KSM states that they had done so on their own after the suicide of their friend Azzam (Nashiri's cousin) in carrying out the Nairobi bombing.
Sent 10: KSM had not met them.
Sent 11: His only guidance from Bin Laden was that the two should eventually go to the United States for pilot training.
Sent 12: Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi nationals, born in Mecca.
Sent 13: Like the others in this initial group of selectees, they were already experienced mujahideen.
Sent 14: They had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.
Sent 15: By the time Hazmi and Mihdhar were assigned to the planes operation in early 1999, they had visited Afghanistan on several occasions.
Sent 16: Khallad was another veteran mujahid, like much of his family.
Sent 17: His father had been expelled from Yemen because of his extremist views.
Sent 18: Khallad had grown up in Saudi Arabia, where his father knew Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Omar Abdel Rahman (the \"Blind Sheikh\").", "question": "Did Bin Laden's selectees know one another?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, all of the selectees were former Mujahideen, similar to Khallad" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not specified" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar.
Sent 2: KSM's original concept of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media statement was scrapped, but Bin Laden considered the basic idea feasible.
Sent 3: Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM developed an initial list of targets.
Sent 4: These included the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
Sent 5: According to KSM, Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to strike the World Trade Center, and all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.
Sent 6: No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.
Sent 7: Bin Laden also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives: Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazmi, Khallad, and Abu Bara al Yemeni.
Sent 8: During the al Matar meetings, Bin Laden told KSM that Mihdhar and Hazmi were so eager to participate in an operation against the United States that they had already obtained U.S. visas.
Sent 9: KSM states that they had done so on their own after the suicide of their friend Azzam (Nashiri's cousin) in carrying out the Nairobi bombing.
Sent 10: KSM had not met them.
Sent 11: His only guidance from Bin Laden was that the two should eventually go to the United States for pilot training.
Sent 12: Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi nationals, born in Mecca.
Sent 13: Like the others in this initial group of selectees, they were already experienced mujahideen.
Sent 14: They had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.
Sent 15: By the time Hazmi and Mihdhar were assigned to the planes operation in early 1999, they had visited Afghanistan on several occasions.
Sent 16: Khallad was another veteran mujahid, like much of his family.
Sent 17: His father had been expelled from Yemen because of his extremist views.
Sent 18: Khallad had grown up in Saudi Arabia, where his father knew Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Omar Abdel Rahman (the \"Blind Sheikh\").", "question": "Were the selectees for the attack experienced in warfare/terrorism?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hoffman was shocked when Strahm was brought out alive!", "When Strahm is brought out alive as well" ], "distractor groups": [ "He finds money" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Convicted murderer Seth Baxter awakens chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade .
Sent 2: A videotape informs him that crushing his hands between the presses will release him ; he does so , but the blade still swings down and violently cuts him in half , while someone watches through a hole in the wall .
Sent 3: The scene cuts to Agent Peter Strahm , who kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense and is sealed in the sickroom .
Sent 4: He finds a hidden passage with a tape recorder that warns him to stay in the sickroom , but ignores it .
Sent 5: He is attacked by a pig-masked figure in the passage and awakens with his head sealed in a box slowly filling with water , Which he survives by performing a tracheotomy using a pen .
Sent 6: Outside the plant , Detective Mark Hoffman delivers Corbett Denlon to the police and claims they are the only survivors , and is shocked when Strahm is brought out alive as well .
Sent 7: Jill Tuck is met by John Kramer's attorney , who is administering his will .
Sent 8: She is left a box and a videotape , in Which John stresses the importance of the box's contents .
Sent 9: She opens it with a key hung around her neck and then leaves without disclosing its contents .
Sent 10: In a memorial service held for David Tapp , Steven Sing , Allison Kerry , Eric Matthews , and Daniel Rigg , the five officers killed in action , Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant .
Sent 11: He is informed of the death of Agent Lindsey Perez while taking Strahm's phone and goes to the hospital to meet Strahm , who says that Hoffman's name was Perez's last words .", "question": "Why was detective Hoffman shocked when he went to deliver Corbett Denlon to the police?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant", "Detective lieutenant" ], "distractor groups": [ "Seargant" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Convicted murderer Seth Baxter awakens chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade .
Sent 2: A videotape informs him that crushing his hands between the presses will release him ; he does so , but the blade still swings down and violently cuts him in half , while someone watches through a hole in the wall .
Sent 3: The scene cuts to Agent Peter Strahm , who kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense and is sealed in the sickroom .
Sent 4: He finds a hidden passage with a tape recorder that warns him to stay in the sickroom , but ignores it .
Sent 5: He is attacked by a pig-masked figure in the passage and awakens with his head sealed in a box slowly filling with water , Which he survives by performing a tracheotomy using a pen .
Sent 6: Outside the plant , Detective Mark Hoffman delivers Corbett Denlon to the police and claims they are the only survivors , and is shocked when Strahm is brought out alive as well .
Sent 7: Jill Tuck is met by John Kramer's attorney , who is administering his will .
Sent 8: She is left a box and a videotape , in Which John stresses the importance of the box's contents .
Sent 9: She opens it with a key hung around her neck and then leaves without disclosing its contents .
Sent 10: In a memorial service held for David Tapp , Steven Sing , Allison Kerry , Eric Matthews , and Daniel Rigg , the five officers killed in action , Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant .
Sent 11: He is informed of the death of Agent Lindsey Perez while taking Strahm's phone and goes to the hospital to meet Strahm , who says that Hoffman's name was Perez's last words .", "question": "What promotion does Hoffman receive before he's informed of the death of Perez?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A Legal Services attorney named Stephen St. Hilaire", "Legal services", "The Legal Services of New Jersey", "Legal aid" ], "distractor groups": [ "The neighbors dog", "A judge", "No one" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.
Sent 2: Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
Sent 3: The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling.
Sent 4: Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival.
Sent 5: She desperately sought political asylum.
Sent 6: Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
Sent 7: The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, \"Quest for Justice,\" to be aired 9 p.m.
Sent 8: today on New Jersey Network.
Sent 9: Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation.
Sent 10: Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Sent 11: Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.
Sent 12: \"With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs,\" he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm.
Sent 13: \"If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?\"
Sent 14: \"It was a compelling case,\" said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire.
Sent 15: \"The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries,\" he said.
Sent 16: Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming.
Sent 17: He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health.
Sent 18: \"But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off,\" he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.", "question": "Who helped native Haiti Jean-Claude Joseph when his landlord would not accommodate his disability?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power", "Terrorism", "Former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence" ], "distractor groups": [ "Trade", "To retrain his soldiers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: \"If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them,\" he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir \"touched on the case\" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had \"always felt\" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.", "question": "What subject did the United States meet with Mahathir about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days", "He took the direct route to the city via the Royal Road and stormed the Persian Gates" ], "distractor groups": [ "By force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its legendary treasury.
Sent 2: He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Royal Road.
Sent 3: Alexander himself took selected troops on the direct route to the city.
Sent 4: He had to storm the pass of the Persian Gates (in the modern Zagros Mountains) which had been blocked by a Persian army under Ariobarzanes and then hurried to Persepolis before its garrison could loot the treasury.
Sent 5: On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days.
Sent 6: Alexander stayed in Persepolis for five months.
Sent 7: During his stay a fire broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes and spread to the rest of the city.
Sent 8: Possible causes include a drunken accident or deliberate revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the Second Persian War.", "question": "How did Alexander take Persepolis?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Apple Records", "The apple venture", "The new business Apple Records", "The creation of Apple Records" ], "distractor groups": [ "His son", "Their meeting with the Yogi", "Freddie Lennon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "During the Beatles' press conference following their meeting with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, what are the journalists most curious about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Shelton and officers in the Pentagon, Berger and Clarke, and John Maher- the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations", "Berger and Clarke", "Shelton", "The Joint Staff" ], "distractor groups": [ "Afghanistan", "Zinni" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "Who approved of plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ringan and Grey", "Ringan" ], "distractor groups": [ "The author" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: I wondered if that were my case--if I rode out for honour, and not for the pure pleasure of the riding.
Sent 2: And I marvelled more to see the two of us, both lovers of one lady and eager rivals, burying for the nonce our feuds, and with the same hope serving the same cause.
Sent 3: We slept the night at Aird's store, and early the next morning found Ringan.
Sent 4: A new Ringan indeed, as unlike the buccaneer I knew as he was unlike the Quaker.
Sent 5: He was now the gentleman of Breadalbane, dressed for the part with all the care of an exquisite.
Sent 6: He rode a noble roan, in his Spanish belt were stuck silver-hafted pistols, and a long sword swung at his side.
Sent 7: When I presented Grey to him, he became at once the cavalier, as precise in his speech and polite in his deportment as any Whitehall courtier.
Sent 8: They talked high and disposedly of genteel matters, and you would have thought that that red-haired pirate had lived his life among proud lords and high-heeled ladies.
Sent 9: That is ever the way of the Highlander.
Sent 10: He alters like a clear pool to every mood of the sky, so that the shallow observer might forget how deep the waters are.", "question": "Who talked high and disposedly of genteel matters?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ringan", "Grey and the gentleman of breadalbane" ], "distractor groups": [ "His wife" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: I wondered if that were my case--if I rode out for honour, and not for the pure pleasure of the riding.
Sent 2: And I marvelled more to see the two of us, both lovers of one lady and eager rivals, burying for the nonce our feuds, and with the same hope serving the same cause.
Sent 3: We slept the night at Aird's store, and early the next morning found Ringan.
Sent 4: A new Ringan indeed, as unlike the buccaneer I knew as he was unlike the Quaker.
Sent 5: He was now the gentleman of Breadalbane, dressed for the part with all the care of an exquisite.
Sent 6: He rode a noble roan, in his Spanish belt were stuck silver-hafted pistols, and a long sword swung at his side.
Sent 7: When I presented Grey to him, he became at once the cavalier, as precise in his speech and polite in his deportment as any Whitehall courtier.
Sent 8: They talked high and disposedly of genteel matters, and you would have thought that that red-haired pirate had lived his life among proud lords and high-heeled ladies.
Sent 9: That is ever the way of the Highlander.
Sent 10: He alters like a clear pool to every mood of the sky, so that the shallow observer might forget how deep the waters are.", "question": "Who spoke of high and genteel mattersA. RinganB. His wifeC. Grey and the gentleman of breadalbanePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "0 and 30 days", "All of them, and immediately", "All of them, and 30 days" ], "distractor groups": [ "None, and immediately", "That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "How many defendants were ordered to pay the maximum fine of $1000, and how long after a PFA is filed does the plaintiff have to establish a custody order?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Kanawha County Comissioner Kent Carper, the Sheriff's office and the Volunteer Fire Department", "Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Buckwild producers and the Sheriff's Office", "His uncle, David Dwight Gandee, and Donald Robert Myers", "The eight castmembers from Buckwild" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show \"Buckwild,\" has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday.
Sent 2: \"This is a very sad and tragic event,\" Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said.
Sent 3: \"We live in a very small community.
Sent 4: Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family.\"
Sent 5: Gandee, 21, was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, authorities said.
Sent 6: 'Buckwild' producer talks about the show \"Earlier this day after releasing information Shain Gandee was missing, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area near Thaxton Hollow, Sissonville, Kanawha County WV,\" said a statement from the Sheriff's Office.
Sent 7: \"Deputies and members of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department used all terrain vehicles to access that vehicle, a 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family.
Sent 8: The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path.
Sent 9: Inside were the bodies of three people.\"
Sent 10: In a subsequent release, the Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud.
Sent 11: It was uneven but upright; its muffler was below the surface.
Sent 12: Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco's passenger side door, but the driver's side, where the younger Gandee sat, was free, the Sheriff's Office said.
Sent 13: Gandee was happy with life before death He was one of the nine cast members of \"Buckwild.\"
Sent 14: The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville, West Virginia, pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their all-terrain vehicles.
Sent 15: Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done \"every job from coal mining to being a garbage man.\"", "question": "Who was involved in the investigation of Gandee's death?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tokhtakhounov", "The Russian skating federation official", "Russian federation official" ], "distractor groups": [ "Phyllis Howard", "Lloyd Ward", "Gailhaguet" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official \"had called me from America\" to assure that \"we are going to make\" Anissina \"an Olympic champion.\"
Sent 2: He told her that the Russian skating federation official \"will help -- he has two or three judges.\"
Sent 3: On or about March 7, in a conversation between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina, she said she would have won the event without his assistance because the Russian judge did not vote for her and her partner.
Sent 4: She also apologized for not calling to thank him earlier, but that Gailhaguet had forbidden her.
Sent 5: She told Tokhtakhounov that she knew the FBI had interviewed Gailhaguet because of information that Tokhtakhounov \"was involved with the results\" of the ice dancing.
Sent 6: He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet \"knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more.\"
Sent 7: The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
Sent 8: Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy.
Sent 9: That Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics stunned Phyllis Howard, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
Sent 10: \"This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league,\" Howard said.
Sent 11: Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, \"Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field.\"", "question": "Who is going to help making Anissina \"an Olympic champion\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He met Mono Indians who were going to the valley for trout and acorns", "Mono Indian" ], "distractor groups": [ "China", "India" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears.
Sent 2: I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company.
Sent 3: Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.
Sent 4: They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits.
Sent 5: Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give.
Sent 6: Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake.", "question": "Who did the narrator meet on his journey and what were they on their way to do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Their taste for \"material pleasures\"", "France's taste for material pleasures" ], "distractor groups": [ "A deadly virus" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tocqueville thought the conquest of Algeria was important for two reasons: first, his understanding of the international situation and France's position in the world, and, second, changes in French society.
Sent 2: Tocqueville believed that war and colonization would \"restore national pride, threatened\", he believed, by \"The gradual softening of social mores\" in the middle classes.
Sent 3: Their taste for \"material pleasures\" was spreading to the whole of society, giving it \"an example of weakness and egotism\".
Sent 4: Applauding the methods of General Bugeaud, Tocqueville went so far to claim that \"war in Africa is a science.
Sent 5: Everyone is familiar with its rules and everyone can apply those rules with almost complete certainty of success.
Sent 6: One of the greatest services that Field Marshal Bugeaud has rendered his country is to have spread, perfected and made everyone aware of this new science.\"
Sent 7: Tocqueville advocated racial segregation in Algeria with two distinct legislations, one for European colonists and one for the Arab population.
Sent 8: Such a two-tier arrangement would be fully realised with the 1870 Cremieux decree and the Indigenousness Code, which extended French citizenship to European settlers and Algerian Jews, whereas Muslim Algerians would be governed by Muslim law and restricted to a second-class citizenship.", "question": "What did Tocqueville believe was spreading and which society was it spreading through?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, the remains of Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira were initially not correctly returned to the family. The remains were correctly identified, but due to a delivery error the family received the wrong Urn, No 104, instead of 134", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Relatives of a woman killed in a Spanish airline crash were erroneously given the remains of another victim, and then were asked by authorities to return them, CNN partner network CNN+ reported Thursday.
Sent 2: The victims of the crash were first laid out at a Madria convention center.
Sent 3: A Madrid judge has opened an investigation into the error, and judicial sources say the initial indication is that the mixup occurred not in the proper identification of the victim, but in delivering the wrong remains to the family in question, CNN+ reported.
Sent 4: The family Wednesday received an urn numbered 104, and were told it contained the ashes of their loved one, Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira, who died in the crash.
Sent 5: But as the family was preparing to leave Madrid, officials called to tell them about the error and asked for the return of urn 104, CNN+ reported.
Sent 6: Instead of urn 104, the family was supposed to have received urn 134, which actually contains the remains of Pilar Gonzalez, CNN+ reported, citing judicial sources and another family which also lost a relative in the crash.
Sent 7: The Spanair MD82 jet crashed last week at Madrid's airport as the plane was trying to take off, killing 154 people.
Sent 8: The aircraft, bound for Spain's Canary Islands, managed to rise only slightly before coming down quickly to the right of the runway, its tail section hitting the ground first, just off the asphalt.
Sent 9: Then the out-of-control plane skidded and bounced at least three times as it careered 1,200 meters (3,840 feet) across uneven terrain and exploded, coming to rest in a gully, a top official of the investigative commission told a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday.
Sent 10: Many of the bodies were badly charred from the fire, and authorities have used DNA samples to carry out numerous identifications.", "question": "Where all the remains returned correctly to the famalies?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Unexpectedly through a private door", "He sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming" ], "distractor groups": [ "The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.", "question": "What is Brent's usual method of coming home after a long absence?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wykham, Margaret, and Brent", "Wykham Delandre, Margaret and Geoffrey Brent" ], "distractor groups": [ "Personal belongings", "Sister" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.", "question": "Who were the characters in the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Geoffrey Brent", "Brent" ], "distractor groups": [ "Predator", "Margaret" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.", "question": "Who had a key?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New York", "The U.N. General Assembly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Evin Prison" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Where was President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in when a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued in Iran?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The U.N. General Assembly", "The UN Assembly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Evin Prison" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his provocative statements where was he visiting in New York?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Women's rights activists have been in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women", "A coordinated strategy against the women's movement" ], "distractor groups": [ "War against God", "Celebration of Norouz" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What was happening in Iran?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "The Iranian President", "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran" ], "distractor groups": [ "Shirin Ebadi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Who came to New York the evening Nazar Ahari was sentenced?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is possible", "Yes, by jumping up into the air or climbing stairs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Never" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "Can a person overcome gravity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fatwas are usually issued by a respected Islamic authority, which they were not", "Because Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law", "Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri were not scholars of Islamic Law" ], "distractor groups": [ "The English translation contained several errors", "Several pages were omitted", "It had no credible research" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a \"World Islamic Front.\"
Sent 2: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law.
Sent 3: Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the \"individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.\"
Sent 4: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Laden enlarged on these themes.
Sent 5: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.\"
Sent 6: It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,\" he said.
Sent 7: Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:\"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
Sent 8: Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.
Sent 9: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
Sent 10: As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.\"
Sent 11: Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames.
Sent 12: Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article \"al\" that would be part of their name in their own societies.
Sent 13: We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden.
Sent 14: Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.
Sent 15: We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.
Sent 16: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda.
Sent 17: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Sent 18: In August 1996, Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.", "question": "The fatwa that Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri arranged to published, what was the matter with it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, the papers were written in 1929 and the planet was discovered in 1977", "No. The planet was discovered in 1977" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as \"poet\" or \"writer\" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.", "question": "Did Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh discover the planet before The d'Archaic Papers were written?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He had been given humbling experiences", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "Was Dr. Stone as full of self-confidence at the end of the passage as he was at the beginning?" }, { "answer groups": [ "0", "Zero" ], "distractor groups": [ "Many astronauts will be aboard", "3,600", "Three" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit.
Sent 2: But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance.
Sent 3: Orion, the agency's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December.
Sent 4: In future missions, it will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond -- farther than humans have ever gone before.
Sent 5: Orion comes loaded with superlatives.
Sent 6: It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles.
Sent 7: It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made.
Sent 8: No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions.
Sent 9: Final work on the spacecraft is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Sent 10: Orion came one step closer to completion this month with the stacking of the crew module atop the service module.
Sent 11: \"Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day,\" Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer said in a statement.
Sent 12: A 3,600-mile journey When complete, the Orion capsule will resemble a fencing foil, with a tall spire shooting up from a rounded base.
Sent 13: At the top will sit a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction.
Sent 14: The bottom portion, the service module, will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage.
Sent 15: Nestled between the two will be the crew module, capable of supporting human life from launch until recovery.
Sent 16: Attached to the service module will be a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.
Sent 17: For the first time since the space shuttle's debut launch in 1981, the crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions.", "question": "How many astronauts will be aboard Orion's first mission?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jennifer Baum", "Jennifer Baum's" ], "distractor groups": [ "The CFO's", "All employees", "Janitorial staff", "More than 11,500 New Yorkers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "Who put up a sign outside her office that reads: \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"A. The CFO'sB. Jennifer BaumC. All employeesD. Janitorial staffE. Jennifer Baum'sF. More than 11,500 New YorkersPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jennifer Baum", "Jennifer Baum's" ], "distractor groups": [ "All employees", "The CFO's", "More than 11,500 New Yorkers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "Outside of whose office is a sign that reads must wear protective gear before coming in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Steven Xanthopoulos", "The organization's executive director" ], "distractor groups": [ "Margaret Cole", "John Tanner" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A West Tennessee nonprofit organization will use a 300,000 federal grant to hire an attorney and a Spanish-speaking paralegal to help provide legal assistance to domestic violence victims.
Sent 2: The U.S. Department of Justice two-year grant will begin Oct. 1, which is the start of domestic violence awareness month.
Sent 3: U.S. Rep. John Tanner announced Monday that the grant was awarded to West Tennessee Legal Services of Jackson.
Sent 4: The organization provides legal assistance and advocacy in 17 counties.
Sent 5: \"This award will offer assistance as we look for whatever ways possible to stop domestic violence and help the women, men and children who are victims of abuse,\" Tanner said in a news statement.
Sent 6: The organization doesn't have a staff member who speaks Spanish and the need is increasing with growing Hispanic populations, said the organization's executive director Steven Xanthopoulos.
Sent 7: He estimated the money will help handle at least another 180 cases next year.
Sent 8: The group closes about 2,500 cases a year.
Sent 9: The money was timed well because the legal group had recently lost about 120,000 in grant money due to a decrease in the poverty population in West Tennessee in Census 2000, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 10: \"The drop in poverty is a good thing, but there is still a great need out there,\" he said.
Sent 11: \"So this was a very good thing.\"
Sent 12: Having legal representation at divorce and child custody hearings is important in helping victims leave abusive and sometimes dangerous situations, said Margaret Cole, executive director of Wo/Men's Resource and Rape Assistance Program in Jackson.
Sent 13: Her organization and Northwest Safeline are partners in the grant.
Sent 14: Northwest Safeline, based in Dyersburg, is a family violence intervention project that serves Dyer, Obion, Lake and Crockett counties.", "question": "Who estimated that the grant money will help handle at least another 180 cases next year?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A ship", "The saviour ship" ], "distractor groups": [ "The writer was in a vacuum and could not see the light or hear the sound", "The weather" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hotel California My first thought: I was going crazy.
Sent 2: Twenty-four hours of silence (vacuum, remember); was I hallucinating noises now?
Sent 3: I heard it again.
Sent 4: It was a fine bell, reminiscent of ancient stone churches and the towering cathedrals I'd seen in documentaries.
Sent 5: And accompanying the bell, I saw a light.
Sent 6: Now, there were two things here that made ridiculously small amounts of sense.
Sent 7: First, the whole in-a-vacuum why's-there-a-bell thing.
Sent 8: Second, I was floating in the dark remnants of my broken ship, and any conceivable light sources were not within view; starlight is a distinctly different color and significantly less bright.
Sent 9: These signals were the heralds of my saviors.
Sent 10: The first words they said to me meant nothing.
Sent 11: I wasn't listening; I didn't care; I was going to live; I was going to keep breathing.
Sent 12: Next to those, nothing else mattered.
Sent 13: The recycled air tasted sweet in my mouth, and all thoughts that crossed my mind were cheap metaphors about life-giving substances and how breathing was like sex, only better.
Sent 14: (I reserved the right to revise this opinion later.) When I was done mentally exclaiming over my impossible rescue, I looked around.
Sent 15: The ship, it was odd and old, either so outdated or so heavily modified that I couldn't tell what make it was, and somehow, the crew standing around me fit the same description, a singularly atypical amalgamation of folk.
Sent 16: And me, I guess I was one more piece in their puzzle.
Sent 17: I was one more scrap to weld onto the rest, one more stranded survivor who was found.
Sent 18: I was now one of them.", "question": "Where did the sound and the light come from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Two cameras", "Filming with two cameras" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fruitful conspiracies", "Film splicing", "Unethically removing parts of the interview" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You write: \"Having created the desired impression, Moore follows with his Heston interview.\"
Sent 2: No, he doesn't.
Sent 3: You accuse Moore so often of changing the chronology, yet you have no problems changing it yourself.
Sent 4: The Heston interview is at the very end of the movie.
Sent 5: After the Flint rally comes a brief TV interview with Heston, where he is asked about Kayla Rolland (again, clear evidence that the local media in Flint raised questions about the NRA's presence), then an inteview with country prosecutor Arthur Busch, entirely ignored by critics of the film, who also mentions Heston's presence as notable, and refers to the immediate reactions of \"people from all over America\", gun owners/groups who, according to him, reacted aggressively to warnings of having guns accessible to children, much like spanking advocates react aggressively when anti-spankers point to a case of a child being killed or severely injured by a beating.
Sent 6: These people do not feel the need to express sympathy, or to think about ways to avoid such incidents, but they feel the need to assert their \"rights\" and to look for quick, simple answers -- as Busch states, gun owners wanted to \"hang [the child] from the highest tree\".
Sent 7: This is all not mentioned by critics of Moore's movie, who claim to be objective.
Sent 8: Perhaps the best example of the paranoia surrounding Moore's film is your sub-essay \"Is the end of the Heston interview itself faked?\"
Sent 9: Moore answers a simple question -- how could the scene have been filmed -- with a simple answer: two cameras.
Sent 10: From this, you construct an obscure conspiracy of \"re-enactment\": \"For all we can tell, Moore could have shouted 'Hey!'
Sent 11: to make Heston turn around and then remained silent as Heston left.\"
Sent 12: Even if your \"re-enactment\" theory is true (and I see no evidence that you have actually tried to ask the people involved in the filmmaking for their opinion), this itself is not unethical, and you have no evidence whatsoever that Moore has done anything unethical here, just like you have no evidence that Moore has unethically removed parts of the interview.
Sent 13: You use standard filmmaking technique as a basis to construct bizarre conspiracies which sound plausible to the gullible reader, without ever providing any evidence for the implicit or explicit claims of fraud and distortion.", "question": "Which standard filmmaking technique is used as a basis to construct conspiracies?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was out of town and claimed the building manager called lawyers that told the building manager wrongly to evict", "Out-of-town trip", "Out-of-town trip , building manager", "Sweat and Kemp", "Out of town" ], "distractor groups": [ "Company", "Utah", "Other neighbors" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "Where was Marion Willey when tenants were evicted and who did he claim was responsible?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Penny, the manager of the complex, its attorneys and government overseers", "Attorneys", "Penny Sweat was unaware of her rights", "Government overseers", "Penny Sweat", "Managers of the senior complex" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lee Kemp", "HUD", "Marty Blaustein" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "After the eviction of Penny Sweat, who was unaware of her rights?" }, { "answer groups": [ "While traveling 35,000 feet", "While travelling above eastern Ohio" ], "distractor groups": [ "When the operative likely intended to round out the team", "Eleven seconds into the descent", "While the first officer could be heard" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The hijackers attacked at 9:28.
Sent 2: While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet.
Sent 3: Eleven seconds into the descent, the FAA's air traffic control center in Cleveland received the first of two radio transmissions from the aircraft.
Sent 4: During the first broadcast, the captain or first officer could be heard declaring \"Mayday\" amid the sounds of a physical struggle in the cockpit.
Sent 5: The second radio transmission, 35 seconds later, indicated that the fight was continuing.
Sent 6: The captain or first officer could be heard shouting:\" Hey get out of here-get out of here-get out of here.\"
Sent 7: On the morning of 9/11, there were only 37 passengers on United 93-33 in addition to the 4 hijackers.
Sent 8: This was below the norm for Tuesday mornings during the summer of 2001.
Sent 9: But there is no evidence that the hijackers manipulated passenger levels or purchased additional seats to facilitate their operation.
Sent 10: The terrorists who hijacked three other commercial flights on 9/11 operated in five-man teams.
Sent 11: They initiated their cockpit takeover within 30 minutes of takeoff.
Sent 12: On Flight 93, however, the takeover took place 46 minutes after takeoff and there were only four hijackers.
Sent 13: The operative likely intended to round out the team for this flight, Mohamed al Kahtani, had been refused entry by a suspicious immigration inspector at Florida's Orlando International Airport in August.
Sent 14: Because several passengers on United 93 described three hijackers on the plane, not four, some have wondered whether one of the hijackers had been able to use the cockpit jump seat from the outset of the flight.
Sent 15: FAA rules allow use of this seat by documented and approved individuals, usually air carrier or FAA personnel.
Sent 16: We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijackers, or anyone else, sat there on this flight.
Sent 17: All the hijackers had assigned seats in first class, and they seem to have used them.
Sent 18: We believe it is more likely that Jarrah, the crucial pilot-trained member of their team, remained seated and inconspicuous until after the cockpit was seized; and once inside, he would not have been visible to the passengers.", "question": "When did Unit 93 drop?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, it is merely speculation", "No." ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes, Jarrah's ID was found near the seat in the wreckage", "yes", "Yes, Jarrah was placed there by a suspicious airline employee" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The hijackers attacked at 9:28.
Sent 2: While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet.
Sent 3: Eleven seconds into the descent, the FAA's air traffic control center in Cleveland received the first of two radio transmissions from the aircraft.
Sent 4: During the first broadcast, the captain or first officer could be heard declaring \"Mayday\" amid the sounds of a physical struggle in the cockpit.
Sent 5: The second radio transmission, 35 seconds later, indicated that the fight was continuing.
Sent 6: The captain or first officer could be heard shouting:\" Hey get out of here-get out of here-get out of here.\"
Sent 7: On the morning of 9/11, there were only 37 passengers on United 93-33 in addition to the 4 hijackers.
Sent 8: This was below the norm for Tuesday mornings during the summer of 2001.
Sent 9: But there is no evidence that the hijackers manipulated passenger levels or purchased additional seats to facilitate their operation.
Sent 10: The terrorists who hijacked three other commercial flights on 9/11 operated in five-man teams.
Sent 11: They initiated their cockpit takeover within 30 minutes of takeoff.
Sent 12: On Flight 93, however, the takeover took place 46 minutes after takeoff and there were only four hijackers.
Sent 13: The operative likely intended to round out the team for this flight, Mohamed al Kahtani, had been refused entry by a suspicious immigration inspector at Florida's Orlando International Airport in August.
Sent 14: Because several passengers on United 93 described three hijackers on the plane, not four, some have wondered whether one of the hijackers had been able to use the cockpit jump seat from the outset of the flight.
Sent 15: FAA rules allow use of this seat by documented and approved individuals, usually air carrier or FAA personnel.
Sent 16: We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijackers, or anyone else, sat there on this flight.
Sent 17: All the hijackers had assigned seats in first class, and they seem to have used them.
Sent 18: We believe it is more likely that Jarrah, the crucial pilot-trained member of their team, remained seated and inconspicuous until after the cockpit was seized; and once inside, he would not have been visible to the passengers.", "question": "Was there any evidence that the jump seat was used on Flight 00?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gonzalez and Woodward", "Gonzalez", "Woodward" ], "distractor groups": [ "Flight attendants", "Ong" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "To whom Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events from the hijacked flight?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Taliban delegates", "Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia", "Mullah Omar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Priests", "William Milam" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than military options.
Sent 2: The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the Bin Laden network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it.
Sent 3: For a brief moment, it had seemed as if the August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up Bin Laden.
Sent 4: On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan.
Sent 5: Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia.
Sent 6: Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no.
Sent 7: Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government.
Sent 8: Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime.
Sent 9: (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.) Crown Prince Abdullah told President Clinton and Vice President Gore about this when he visited Washington in late September.
Sent 10: His account confirmed reports that the U.S. government had received independently.
Sent 11: Other efforts with the Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.S. agents to interrogate prisoners in Saudi custody.
Sent 12: The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.
Sent 13: Several officials told us, in particular, that the United States could not get direct access to an important al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib, who had been detained by the Saudi government in 1997.67Though U.S. officials repeatedly raised the issue, the Saudis provided limited information.
Sent 14: In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.S. access to Tayyib.
Sent 15: The United States never obtained this access.
Sent 16: An NSC staff-led working group on terrorist finances asked the CIA in November 1998 to push again for access to Tayyib and to see \"if it is possible to elaborate further on the ties between Usama bin Ladin and prominent individuals in Saudi Arabia, including especially the Bin Laden family.\"
Sent 17: One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000.
Sent 18: During these trips the NSC, Treasury, and intelligence representatives spoke with Saudi officials, and later interviewed members of the Bin Laden family, about Usama's inheritance.", "question": "Who met with the US Ambassador to discuss giving up Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "With federal legal aid dollars", "A $50,000 LSC grant", "LSC grant", "Federal aid dollars", "LSC funds" ], "distractor groups": [ "Kleinman dollars", "The Bar Association Dollars", "Charleston City dollars", "Proceeds from the sale of 607 Main St. in Conway" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: With a budget of 329 million, LSC provides civil legal assistance to low-income people in every county in America, Kleiman said.
Sent 2: NLAP was created in 1968.
Sent 3: A decade later, the agency used a 50,000 LSC grant to buy a building at 438 King St. in Charleston and 33,000 to buy a building at 201 King St. in Georgetown, according to Erlenborn's letter to Kaynard.
Sent 4: In 1980, NLAP used 63,000 in LSC funds to buy property at 607 Main St. in Conway, the letter said.
Sent 5: On Nov. 14, 2001, NLAP transferred title of the King Street building in Charleston to the Charleston County Bar Association, according to county property records.
Sent 6: The local bar paid 5 for the building, which sits between a redeveloped office building and an antique shop.
Sent 7: The local bar said it would maintain the building for \"legal services to indigent residents of Charleston County and coastal South Carolina,\" the records said.
Sent 8: The King Street building appears to be vacant.
Sent 9: Notices at the entrance direct visitors to the equal justice center on West Montague Avenue in North Charleston.
Sent 10: E. Douglas Pratt-Thomas, president of the local bar, was not available for comment.
Sent 11: Charleston County has not appraised the King Street property because it is tax-exempt.
Sent 12: But Randall Goldman, managing partner of Patrick Properties, which owns buildings from 440 to 456 King St., said he estimates 438 King St. would sell for between 700,000 and 900,000.
Sent 13: \"That building, which was purchased solely with federal legal aid dollars, should be used to provide legal services for poor people in South Carolina,\" Kleiman said.
Sent 14: LSC wants the title to go to the equal justice center in Charleston or \"we want 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of the building to stay in Charleston.
Sent 15: We are not contemplating taking that money out of South Carolina,\" he said.
Sent 16: Kleiman said if the neighborhood legal program in Charleston \"had honored their obligation, this would not be an issue.\"", "question": "What money was used to pay for the King Street property?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That they are a \"laboratory\"", "The rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for passing public health initiatives", "Looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are bossy", "That they are a good example in over-controlling the citizens", "They stretch the law where it shouldn't go", "They are too controlling of citizens", "That they are crazy", "That they are a nanny state" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What does the rest of the county think of California as according to Mark Horton?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Negritos", "Stone Age tools of the Negritos" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mongolians", "10000 b.c" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man\u2002\u2014\u2002in 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts\u2002\u2014\u2002sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)\u2002\u2014\u2002known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).", "question": "What are the oldest, human related relics on the Penisula?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Angel Choir", "The angle Choir which encloses shrine" ], "distractor groups": [ "Norman building of Remigiu" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The mighty fane, with its three massive towers, rises majestically over the red roofs of the town.
Sent 2: Its most striking feature is the great Norman screen, running up without buttresses or projections to the parapet and hiding the bases of the square, richly decorated towers of the west front.
Sent 3: The plain centre of the screen is the work of Remigius, the first bishop.
Sent 4: The rest of it is relieved with rich arcading of Late Norman and Early English periods.
Sent 5: The wooden spires which crowned the towers were removed in 1807.
Sent 6: In 1192 Hugh of Avalon determined to rebuild the Norman building of Remigius, which an earthquake had shaken.
Sent 7: To him we owe the choir and eastern transept.
Sent 8: His successors completed the western transept and began the west end of the nave.
Sent 9: So much money had to be spent in rebuilding the central tower, which fell in 1239, that the canons could not rebuild the nave entirely, but had to incorporate the Norman end by Remigius.
Sent 10: Unfortunately the axis of the west front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too wide for its height.
Sent 11: The low vaulting is a serious defect in the choir built by St. Hugh, but of the superb beauty of the Angel Choir, which encloses his shrine, there can be no doubt.
Sent 12: In its richness of sculpture it is one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture in England.
Sent 13: The interior of the cathedral is remarkable for the harmony of its style, which is Lancet-Gothic, and the dim lighting of the nave only adds to its impressiveness.", "question": "What has the richness of sculpture and is masterpiece of Gothic style in England?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Old Regime and the Revolution, a second book", "The Old Regime and the Revolution", "L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856)" ], "distractor groups": [ "Recollections" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "What is Tocqueville's second most famous publication?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alexis de Tocqueville", "Tocqueville" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gustave de Beaumont" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "Who kept a private journal of the Revolution of 1848 that was posthumously published by the author's wife and friend?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No", "No, it was published in two volumes and translated into English as Democracy in America" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "Was De la democratie en Amerique only written in French in one volume?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 was inspired by a trip to England", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "Was L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution inspired by a trip to England?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His run for Mayoralty", "The mayor elections" ], "distractor groups": [ "The robber raid", "The duel", "The grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.", "question": "What had Pudd'nhead Wilson assured his success in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The duelists' subordinates", "The duelist's subordinates also received honors" ], "distractor groups": [ "The heir of chief citizen", "The robbers", "Aunt Patsy Cooper", "President" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.", "question": "Besides the duelists, who else received the town's honors?" }, { "answer groups": [ "USS Cole attack", "The attack on the USS Cole" ], "distractor groups": [ "Galvanized", "9", "11" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "Following which attack did Bin Laden instruct the media committee, to produce a propaganda video?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Everyone", "Americans with an income of less than $11,075" ], "distractor groups": [ "No one" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "Who qualifies for a legal aid lawyer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hamburg", "Hamburg cell members" ], "distractor groups": [ "KSM and Binalshib", "Foreign government", "KSM", "Al Qaeda" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "Who supported themselves before Al Qaeda began giving them funding in late 1999?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Any foreign government", "Any person in the United States, any foreign government-or foreign government official", "Foreign government-or foreign government official" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hamburg", "Binalshibh", "Al Qaeda", "Al queda" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "Who do they believe did NOT give the terrorist money?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Hamburg cell members", "Hamburg" ], "distractor groups": [ "KSM", "Foreign government", "Al Queda", "Al Qaeda" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "Who supported themselves before late 1999?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Next to the stream, a secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and in the old cabin within the woods", "The Stream", "Old cabin", "Raspberry bushes" ], "distractor groups": [ "The beach" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mary loved walking through the woods with her dog, Max.
Sent 2: Max and Mary would go on all sorts of adventures together.
Sent 3: They really loved looking for blueberries together and then falling asleep next to each other in the tall grass.
Sent 4: One day, as Mary was picking the blueberries, she turned around to find that Max was not there.
Sent 5: She became worried and ran off to look for her dog.
Sent 6: She looked in all of their favorite spots...next to the stream, in their secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and even inside the old cabin that sat in the woods.
Sent 7: But poor Max was nowhere to be found.
Sent 8: Nonetheless, Mary would not give up.
Sent 9: She kept looking and she found him not very far away.
Sent 10: He had seen a squirrel and run to chase it.
Sent 11: When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went.", "question": "What are three of Max's favorite spots?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Easy to some extent, because of their strategic garrisons", "Portugal developed a trade empire rather than deal with bloodshed, but there were difficult times during the second half of the 16th century" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was easy", "Difficult", "It was hard throughout" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "How easy was it for Portugal to expand?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At an underground mixed martial arts fight", "An illegal mixed martial arts fighting ring", "Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring", "An illegal underground Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Big Ben", "Train station", "Washington D.C", "At a party" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Alex Cross is a psychiatrist and police lieutenant who lives in Detroit with his wife , Maria , their children , Damon and Janelle , and his grandmother , Nana Mama .
Sent 2: Upon learning that Maria is pregnant with their third child , Cross considers accepting a job as an FBI profiler , but fears Maria's reaction , as it 'd require them to relocate to Washington , D.C. Meanwhile , a man called Picasso attends to an illegal underground Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring , where he flirts with businesswoman Fan Yau .
Sent 3: After brutally beating his opponent , Picasso is invited to Fan Yau's house , where he sedates her while they 're having sex , tortures and kills her .
Sent 4: Police Captain Richard Brookwell calls Cross and his partner , Tommy Kane , to the crime scene .
Sent 5: On the way there , Cross tells Kane about Maria's pregnancy and the the FBI's offer , and Kane reveals that he is secretly dating their colleague , Monica Ashe .
Sent 6: Cross deduces that Picasso is a professional assassin , and finds a sketch made behind by Picasso , revealing that his next target is businessman Erich Nunemarcher .
Sent 7: Cross , Kane and Ashe go to Nunemarcher's office , but Nunemarcher ignores their claims .
Sent 8: Picasso manages to enter the building , but is prevented from killing Nunemarcher by Cross , and escapes after being shot by Kane .
Sent 9: Cross analyzes a drop of Picasso's blood and learns that he is a psychotic former member of the Special Forces and that his real target is billionaire CEO Leon Mercier .
Sent 10: Cross informs Mercier that Picasso might be trying to kill him .", "question": "Where did Picasso meet the woman he sedated?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Three", "Excluding the bathroom, there were 3 bedrooms" ], "distractor groups": [ "Four" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rolfe put down the little dog he had been holding, and went out into the hall.
Sent 2: The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion.
Sent 3: Rolfe first examined the bedroom that he had seen Inspector Chippenfield enter.
Sent 4: It was a small room, containing a double bed.
Sent 5: It was prettily furnished in white, with white curtains, and toilet-table articles in ivory to match.
Sent 6: A glance round the room convinced Rolfe that it was impossible for a man to secrete himself in it.
Sent 7: The door of the wardrobe had been flung open by the inspector, and the dresses and other articles of feminine apparel it contained flung out on the floor.
Sent 8: There was no other hiding-place possible, except beneath the bed, and the ruthless hand of the inspector had torn off the white muslin bed hangings, revealing emptiness underneath.
Sent 9: Rolfe went out into the hall again, and entered the room next the bedroom.
Sent 10: This apartment was apparently used as a dining-room, for it contained a large table, a few chairs, a small sideboard, a spirit-stand, a case of books and ornaments, and two small oak presses.
Sent 11: Plainly, there was no place in it where a man could hide himself.
Sent 12: The next room was the bathroom, which was also empty.
Sent 13: Opposite the bathroom was a small bedroom, very barely furnished, offering no possibility of concealment.
Sent 14: Then the passage opened into a large roomy kitchen, the full width of the rooms on both sides of the hall, and the kitchen completed the flat.", "question": "How many bedrooms were there?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The drawn bow", "It gains energy from the drawn bow" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is stored in a battery", "It is released", "Its shape", "With the help of magnetic field", "By position", "The potential energy in its rockets" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position.
Sent 2: This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move.
Sent 3: A moving ball can have energy from motion.
Sent 4: An arrow can also have the energy of motion.
Sent 5: Both are types of mechanical energy.
Sent 6: Can you think of some other examples?
Sent 7: Where does the energy of motion come from?
Sent 8: It comes from the energy created by position.
Sent 9: This energy is stored energy.
Sent 10: This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move.
Sent 11: How can you store energy?
Sent 12: The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow.
Sent 13: As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion.
Sent 14: Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position?", "question": "How is energy stored in a bow and arrow?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Layne", "His cousin Layne" ], "distractor groups": [ "Macy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "Which relative of Joe's discovers that his house is covered in plates of iron armor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to \"denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA\"", "He was devoted to nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom", "Camus said he spent his life denouncing nihilism and said he founded the Group for International Liaisons to \"denounce two ideologies found in USSR and the USA\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was an existentialist", "He said so in an interview" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albert Camus (French: [albeR kamy]; 7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher.
Sent 2: His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.
Sent 3: He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Sent 4: Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one, even in his lifetime.
Sent 5: In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: \"No, I am not an existentialist.
Sent 6: Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked...\".
Sent 7: Camus was born in Algeria to a Pied-Noir family, and studied at the University of Algiers.
Sent 8: In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to \"denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA\".", "question": "What clues are we given that Camus believed nihilism was a problem in the USA and USSR?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, as all atoms of gold have similar structures and are the same" ], "distractor groups": [ "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "Would two atoms of gold have 79 protons each?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, atoms of a single element are alike and differ from other elements", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "Are two atoms of different elements the same?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, as all the atoms of an element are alike and have the same structure and properties", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "Would the atoms of gold in a nugget be different from the atoms of gold in a ring?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Preparation of arsenic", "Arsenic" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sandwiches for luncheon", "Muro", "Penicillin" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elettra stuck the little slip of paper, on which the recipe was written, into her shabby pocket-book without looking at it.
Sent 2: She could read and write fairly well, and had been used to helping her husband the under-steward with his accounts at Muro, but even if she had looked at the recipe she would have understood nothing of the doctor's hieroglyphics and abbreviated Latin words.
Sent 3: The prescription was for a preparation of arsenic, which Matilde had formerly taken for some time.
Sent 4: The chemist would not make any difficulty about preparing twenty doses of it for the Countess Macomer, though the whole quantity of arsenic contained in so many would probably be sufficient to kill one not accustomed to the medicine, if taken all at once.
Sent 5: But though Matilde was so anxious to have the stuff before luncheon, she had a number of doses of it put away in a drawer, which she took out and counted, after Elettra had gone.
Sent 6: She opened one of the little folded papers and looked at the fine white powder it contained, took a little on the end of her finger and tasted it.
Sent 7: Then, from the same drawer, she took a package done up in coarser paper, and opened it likewise, looked at it, smelt it, and touched it with the tip of her tongue very cautiously indeed.
Sent 8: It was white, too, but coarser than the medicine.
Sent 9: She was very careful in tasting it, and she immediately rinsed her mouth with water, before she tied up the package again, shut the drawer, and put the key into her pocket.", "question": "What is the recipe for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rinsed her mouth with water", "She immediately rinsed her mouth with water, tied up the package again, shut the drawer, and put the key into her pocket" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elettra stuck the little slip of paper, on which the recipe was written, into her shabby pocket-book without looking at it.
Sent 2: She could read and write fairly well, and had been used to helping her husband the under-steward with his accounts at Muro, but even if she had looked at the recipe she would have understood nothing of the doctor's hieroglyphics and abbreviated Latin words.
Sent 3: The prescription was for a preparation of arsenic, which Matilde had formerly taken for some time.
Sent 4: The chemist would not make any difficulty about preparing twenty doses of it for the Countess Macomer, though the whole quantity of arsenic contained in so many would probably be sufficient to kill one not accustomed to the medicine, if taken all at once.
Sent 5: But though Matilde was so anxious to have the stuff before luncheon, she had a number of doses of it put away in a drawer, which she took out and counted, after Elettra had gone.
Sent 6: She opened one of the little folded papers and looked at the fine white powder it contained, took a little on the end of her finger and tasted it.
Sent 7: Then, from the same drawer, she took a package done up in coarser paper, and opened it likewise, looked at it, smelt it, and touched it with the tip of her tongue very cautiously indeed.
Sent 8: It was white, too, but coarser than the medicine.
Sent 9: She was very careful in tasting it, and she immediately rinsed her mouth with water, before she tied up the package again, shut the drawer, and put the key into her pocket.", "question": "After touching the tip of her tongue to the arsenic, what did Matilde do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes at 9:40a" ], "distractor groups": [ "No they were not concerned", "No, the secret Service was in charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "Did the CIA participate in discussion about the US President's safety?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "No, he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen.
Sent 2: By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene.
Sent 3: After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg.
Sent 4: In 1820 he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila, amidst much controversy about its subject and style.
Sent 5: Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals.
Sent 6: This angered the government, and led to his transfer from the capital (1820).
Sent 7: He went to the Caucasus and to the Crimea, then to Kamenka and Chisinau, where he became a Freemason.", "question": "Did Pushkin get involved in raucous intellectual youth culture and social reform?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The hippies", "Hero" ], "distractor groups": [ "Support", "Celebrates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "What Haight-Ashbury group supported the professor, a group he celebrates in return on the Joe Pyne Show.A. SupportB. The hippiesC. HeroD. CelebratesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective", "To make destroying the cult his primary objective" ], "distractor groups": [ "Vowing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "Larry shoot's Barnett after vowing what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weakened portugal", "The war left Portugal further weakened" ], "distractor groups": [ "It declared independence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Among the early blows struck for independence was a rebellion in the town of Olh\u00e3o.
Sent 2: On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones\u00a0\u2014\u00a0attacked and captured the local French garrison.
Sent 3: It's said that a party of local men then set sail from Olh\u00e3o all the way to Brazil, without maps or navigational aids, to tell the king of the insurrection.
Sent 4: The real battle, however, was waged under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, whose coalition forces expelled the French after two years of bitter fighting.
Sent 5: The war left Portugal further weakened, and in 1822 its major empire outpost, Brazil, declared independence.
Sent 6: At the same time, a dispute over the crown continually raged between Pedro IV, the absentee monarch who preferred to reign as Emperor of Brazil rather than return to Portugal, and his brother Miguel.
Sent 7: The power struggle, with strong overtones of absolutism versus liberalism, excited the interest and intervention of other powers.
Sent 8: With British help, Pedro defeated Miguel off Cape St. Vincent in 1833, and his expeditionary force marched to Lisbon.
Sent 9: Pedro took the throne, though armed struggle continued for months and the lingering bitterness long after that.
Sent 10: By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.
Sent 11: The seeds of discontent with absolutist rule were sown.
Sent 12: Kingdom's End Bloodshed would haunt the remaining years of the Portuguese monarchy.
Sent 13: On 1 February 1908, the royal family was riding in an open carriage along the Lisbon river front plaza, Terreiro do Pa\u00e7o, when an assassin opened fire and killed King Carlos and the heir to the throne, Prince Luis Filipe.
Sent 14: The prince's younger brother, Prince Manuel, was also hit, but he survived and was thus propelled to the throne at the tender age of 19.
Sent 15: Amid republican agitation, a surprise uprising led by elements within the armed forces deposed Manuel in 1910.
Sent 16: Having ruled for less than three years, Manuel died in exile in 1932 in England.
Sent 17: The sudden end of more than seven centuries of monarchy brought confusion and crisis to the country.
Sent 18: Presidents and prime ministers were ushered into and out of office an unbelievable 45 times between 1910 and 1926, until a military revolution suspended Portugal's problematic democracy.", "question": "Under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, what happened to Portugal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A rebellion", "On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk \u2014 armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones \u2014 attacked and captured the local French garrison" ], "distractor groups": [ "A ritual", "The independence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Among the early blows struck for independence was a rebellion in the town of Olh\u00e3o.
Sent 2: On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones\u00a0\u2014\u00a0attacked and captured the local French garrison.
Sent 3: It's said that a party of local men then set sail from Olh\u00e3o all the way to Brazil, without maps or navigational aids, to tell the king of the insurrection.
Sent 4: The real battle, however, was waged under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, whose coalition forces expelled the French after two years of bitter fighting.
Sent 5: The war left Portugal further weakened, and in 1822 its major empire outpost, Brazil, declared independence.
Sent 6: At the same time, a dispute over the crown continually raged between Pedro IV, the absentee monarch who preferred to reign as Emperor of Brazil rather than return to Portugal, and his brother Miguel.
Sent 7: The power struggle, with strong overtones of absolutism versus liberalism, excited the interest and intervention of other powers.
Sent 8: With British help, Pedro defeated Miguel off Cape St. Vincent in 1833, and his expeditionary force marched to Lisbon.
Sent 9: Pedro took the throne, though armed struggle continued for months and the lingering bitterness long after that.
Sent 10: By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.
Sent 11: The seeds of discontent with absolutist rule were sown.
Sent 12: Kingdom's End Bloodshed would haunt the remaining years of the Portuguese monarchy.
Sent 13: On 1 February 1908, the royal family was riding in an open carriage along the Lisbon river front plaza, Terreiro do Pa\u00e7o, when an assassin opened fire and killed King Carlos and the heir to the throne, Prince Luis Filipe.
Sent 14: The prince's younger brother, Prince Manuel, was also hit, but he survived and was thus propelled to the throne at the tender age of 19.
Sent 15: Amid republican agitation, a surprise uprising led by elements within the armed forces deposed Manuel in 1910.
Sent 16: Having ruled for less than three years, Manuel died in exile in 1932 in England.
Sent 17: The sudden end of more than seven centuries of monarchy brought confusion and crisis to the country.
Sent 18: Presidents and prime ministers were ushered into and out of office an unbelievable 45 times between 1910 and 1926, until a military revolution suspended Portugal's problematic democracy.", "question": "What happened in the town of Olh\u00e3o?" }, { "answer groups": [ "St. Nicholas Park", "It has been moved to St. Nicholas Park and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial", "Upper Manhattan on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate" ], "distractor groups": [ "New York City", "Columbia University" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "Where is the Grange located now?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No", "No the Portuguese were the first to settle in the region" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maybe" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory.
Sent 2: However, it would be wrong to dismiss the long history of the region itself.
Sent 3: Archaeologists today are working to uncover Hong Kong's past, which stretches back thousands of years.
Sent 4: You can get a glimpse into that past at Lei Cheng Uk Museum's 1,600-year-old burial vault on the mainland just north of Kowloon.
Sent 5: In 1992, when construction of the airport on Chek Lap Kok was begun, a 2,000-year-old village, Pak Mong, was discovered, complete with artifacts that indicated a sophisticated rural society.
Sent 6: An even older Stone Age site was discovered on Lamma Island in 1996.
Sent 7: While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East.
Sent 8: By a.d.
Sent 9: 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century.
Sent 10: In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the \"Five Great Clans\": Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man.
Sent 11: First to arrive was the Tang clan, which established a number of walled villages in the New Territories that still exist today.
Sent 12: You can visit Kat Hing Wai and Lo Wai, villages with their walls still intact.
Sent 13: Adjacent to Lo Wai is the Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall, built in the 16th century, which is still the center of clan activities.
Sent 14: The first Europeans to arrive in the Pearl River Delta were the Portuguese, who settled in Macau in 1557 and for several centuries had a monopoly on trade between Asia, Europe, and South America.
Sent 15: As Macau developed into the greatest port in the East, it also became a base for Jesuit missionaries; it was later a haven for persecuted Japanese Christians.
Sent 16: While Christianity was not a great success in China, it made local headway, evidenced today by the numerous Catholic churches in Macau's historic center.
Sent 17: Intermarriage with the local Chinese created a community of Macanese, whose culture can still be seen in Macau's architecture and cuisine.", "question": "Where the British the first Europeans to settle Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dangerous", "Turns nicotene and chemicals into vapor that is inhaled", "Highly addictive", "Because of the way they are marketed and also, they are not sure of the level of nicotine that is in the product" ], "distractor groups": [ "Safe", "Brands", "Cheap" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "Why is the FDA concerned about the e-cigarettes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Moors influence can be seen in their contribution of wells, waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the local people and the introduction of Islam as a religion", "Added wells, waterwheels, darker color of skin", "The complextions of their people and the name of the retion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Introduced latin", "Added a few water things" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "How did the Moors change Portugal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"Stepped into their divisions\"", "\"prepared to disembark\"", "\"Allan reviewed the troops\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "\"his very time away from her he loved best\"", "\"upsetting the apple cart of his life's plan\"", "\"his childhood friend a bride to-be\"" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Allan sat down at his desk and pulled the chair in close.
Sent 2: Opening a side drawer, he took out a piece of paper and his inkpot.
Sent 3: After filling his pen, Allan looked at his paper in the orange glow from the lantern set back in the desk's right-hand corner.
Sent 4: His pen cast a forbidding line of shadow slanting across the page, echoing the inky darkness crouching in the edges of the lantern's struggling glow.
Sent 5: The only other illumination came from a lurid moonlight filtered through thin branches and clouds, casting its bone-pale glow onto the pine floorboards.
Sent 6: Allan unfolded another page, this one crowded with ranks of letters in tight formation from left to right.
Sent 7: The lines of letters stepped into their divisions, in the shape of a story's outline: the loose, dry skeleton of a tale lay exposed beneath their feet, awaiting tendons, muscle and blushing skin.
Sent 8: Allan reviewed the troops, all prepared to disembark, their task to form the tale of a young man returning home from Life Abroad to find his childhood friend a bride to-be, thus upsetting the apple cart of his life's plan, clarified \u2013 of course \u2013 by his very time away from her he loved best.
Sent 9: Although the concept was a simple one, Allan thought it had potential.
Sent 10: Besides, the public liked a good, simple romance.
Sent 11: Perhaps this will be more saleable, he thought and began to write.
Sent 12: They gazed at each other, lost in the rapture of love based so deeply within their hearts that they had never seen it before.
Sent 13: \"What about Roger?\"
Sent 14: she asked, knowing that the answer no longer mattered.", "question": "What phrases characterize the letters as a group of military men?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Light and heat", "Chemical energy is changed into light and heat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sound" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "What is the stored energy in wood be turned into when burned in a campfire?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It has gravitational potential energy", "Because the skateboarder possesses gravitational potential energy which is causing motion" ], "distractor groups": [ "He is unstable" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "Why is the skateboarder, who is up on a ramp, able to move downward to the bottom of the ramp?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ordinary visitor", "With undercurrent of conjecture" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was heartwarming welcome", "Captive" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Duane was hungry, but he hurried through the ample supper that was set before him, urged on by curiosity and astonishment.
Sent 2: The only way he could account for his presence there in a ranger's camp was that MacNelly hoped to get useful information out of him.
Sent 3: Still that would hardly have made this captain so eager.
Sent 4: There was a mystery here, and Duane could scarcely wait for it to be solved.
Sent 5: While eating he had bent keen eyes around him.
Sent 6: After a first quiet scrutiny the rangers apparently paid no more attention to him.
Sent 7: They were all veterans in service--Duane saw that--and rugged, powerful men of iron constitution.
Sent 8: Despite the occasional joke and sally of the more youthful members, and a general conversation of camp-fire nature, Duane was not deceived about the fact that his advent had been an unusual and striking one, which had caused an undercurrent of conjecture and even consternation among them.
Sent 9: These rangers were too well trained to appear openly curious about their captain's guest.
Sent 10: If they had not deliberately attempted to be oblivious of his presence Duane would have concluded they thought him an ordinary visitor, somehow of use to MacNelly.
Sent 11: As it was, Duane felt a suspense that must have been due to a hint of his identity.", "question": "In Duane's opinion, how do the Ranger's perceive him?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Excellent hunting", "Because of the hunting", "Good air", "An early version of parliament, held a formal meeting there", "Air was invigorating" ], "distractor groups": [ "Women", "They were curious about it" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished.
Sent 2: Over a period of many centuries crucial in Spanish history, Madrid's significance was negligible.
Sent 3: The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid.
Sent 4: Armies of North African nomads, intent on disseminating Islam, invaded the peninsula in a.d.
Sent 5: Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain.
Sent 6: If Madrid played any role in these pivotal events, no record of it remains.
Sent 7: The first solid references to this obscure settlement on the Castilian plateau, guarded by the looming Guadarrama mountain range, appear in the 9th century.
Sent 8: The Arabic name for \"place of many springs,\" variously recorded as Magerit, Mayrit or Magrit, eventually evolved into Madrid.
Sent 9: The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.
Sent 10: Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alc\u00e1zar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.
Sent 11: After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
Sent 12: The Alc\u00e1zar became a fort of the crown of Castile.
Sent 13: During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Sent 14: The Moors were expelled from the town, but they remained in control of southern Spain for almost four centuries.
Sent 15: Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town.
Sent 16: From then on, the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid, where the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent.
Sent 17: Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs that united all the provinces of Spain, first visited Madrid in 1477.", "question": "What caused the kings of Spain to begin to visit MadridA. Excellent huntingB. WomenC. Because of the huntingD. Good airE. An early version of parliament, held a formal meeting thereF. They were curious about itG. Air was invigoratingPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Good air", "An early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town, the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent", "Because the air was invigorating and the hunting was excellent", "Good hunting" ], "distractor groups": [ "Women", "Because of a formal meeting" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished.
Sent 2: Over a period of many centuries crucial in Spanish history, Madrid's significance was negligible.
Sent 3: The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid.
Sent 4: Armies of North African nomads, intent on disseminating Islam, invaded the peninsula in a.d.
Sent 5: Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain.
Sent 6: If Madrid played any role in these pivotal events, no record of it remains.
Sent 7: The first solid references to this obscure settlement on the Castilian plateau, guarded by the looming Guadarrama mountain range, appear in the 9th century.
Sent 8: The Arabic name for \"place of many springs,\" variously recorded as Magerit, Mayrit or Magrit, eventually evolved into Madrid.
Sent 9: The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.
Sent 10: Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alc\u00e1zar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.
Sent 11: After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
Sent 12: The Alc\u00e1zar became a fort of the crown of Castile.
Sent 13: During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Sent 14: The Moors were expelled from the town, but they remained in control of southern Spain for almost four centuries.
Sent 15: Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town.
Sent 16: From then on, the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid, where the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent.
Sent 17: Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs that united all the provinces of Spain, first visited Madrid in 1477.", "question": "Why did kings of Spain visit Madrid?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, the CIA felt it would risk the president's life and they felt that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes", "Yes there was no disagreement between the two" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Did the CIA and the State Department agree on their advice to President Clinton in terms of his intention to visit both India and Pakistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To show his government's legitimacy", "It would be \"a reward for Pakistani cooperation\" and be \"a sign of his government's legitimacy.\"", "It would be personally beneficial to him", "It would be a sign of his government's legitimacy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mullah Omar wanted to meet him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Why did Musharraf want the President to visit Pakistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, as his drawings co", "Yes, a number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings, which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert" ], "distractor groups": [ "No he did not" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "Does Mr. Neville know anything about the murder of Mrs. Herbert?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, each sexual encounter was acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No it did not" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "Did the contract promote a demeaning type of relationship for Mrs. HerbertA. Yes, each sexual encounter was acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs HerbertB. No it did notC. YesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The battle of the Hydaspes River", "Hydaspes River" ], "distractor groups": [ "Alexander", "A considerable accession of power was granted him after the death of Philip", "Taxiles accompanied him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the death of Spitamenes and his marriage to Roxana (Roshanak in Bactrian) to cement relations with his new satrapies, Alexander turned to the Indian subcontinent.
Sent 2: He invited the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara, in the north of what is now Pakistan, to come to him and submit to his authority.
Sent 3: Omphis(Indian name Ambhi Kumar), the ruler of Taxila, whose kingdom extended from the Indus to the Hydaspes (Jhelum), complied, but the chieftains of some hill clans, including the Aspasioi and Assakenoi sections of the Kambojas (known in Indian texts also as Ashvayanas and Ashvakayanas), refused to submit.
Sent 4: Ambhi hastened to relieve Alexander of his apprehension and met him with valuable presents, placing himself and all his forces at his disposal.
Sent 5: Alexander not only returned Ambhi his title and the gifts but he also presented him with a wardrobe of \"Persian robes, gold and silver ornaments, 30 horses and 1000 talents in gold\".
Sent 6: Alexander was emboldened to divide his forces, and Ambhi assisted Hephaestion and Perdiccas in constructing a bridge over the Indus where it bends at Hund (Fox 1973), supplied their troops with provisions, and received Alexander himself, and his whole army, in his capital city of Taxila, with every demonstration of friendship and the most liberal hospitality.
Sent 7: On the subsequent advance of the Macedonian king, Taxiles accompanied him with a force of 5000 men and took part in the battle of the Hydaspes River.
Sent 8: After that victory he was sent by Alexander in pursuit of Porus, to whom he was charged to offer favourable terms, but narrowly escaped losing his life at the hands of his old enemy.
Sent 9: Subsequently, however, the two rivals were reconciled by the personal mediation of Alexander; and Taxiles, after having contributed zealously to the equipment of the fleet on the Hydaspes, was entrusted by the king with the government of the whole territory between that river and the Indus.
Sent 10: A considerable accession of power was granted him after the death of Philip, son of Machatas; and he was allowed to retain his authority at the death of Alexander himself (323 BC), as well as in the subsequent partition of the provinces at Triparadisus, 321 BC.
Sent 11: In the winter of 327/326 BC, Alexander personally led a campaign against these clans; the Aspasioi of Kunar valleys, the Guraeans of the Guraeus valley, and the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys.
Sent 12: A fierce contest ensued with the Aspasioi in which Alexander was wounded in the shoulder by a dart, but eventually the Aspasioi lost.
Sent 13: Alexander then faced the Assakenoi, who fought in the strongholds of Massaga, Ora and Aornos.
Sent 14: The fort of Massaga was reduced only after days of bloody fighting, in which Alexander was wounded seriously in the ankle.
Sent 15: According to Curtius, \"Not only did Alexander slaughter the entire population of Massaga, but also did he reduce its buildings to rubble\".
Sent 16: A similar slaughter followed at Ora.
Sent 17: In the aftermath of Massaga and Ora, numerous Assakenians fled to the fortress of Aornos.
Sent 18: Alexander followed close behind and captured the strategic hill-fort after four bloody days.", "question": "After what victory was Ambhi sent to pursue Porus?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A shoulder wound by Assakenoi and an ankle wound by the Aspasioi", "Shoulder wound" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hands" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the death of Spitamenes and his marriage to Roxana (Roshanak in Bactrian) to cement relations with his new satrapies, Alexander turned to the Indian subcontinent.
Sent 2: He invited the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara, in the north of what is now Pakistan, to come to him and submit to his authority.
Sent 3: Omphis(Indian name Ambhi Kumar), the ruler of Taxila, whose kingdom extended from the Indus to the Hydaspes (Jhelum), complied, but the chieftains of some hill clans, including the Aspasioi and Assakenoi sections of the Kambojas (known in Indian texts also as Ashvayanas and Ashvakayanas), refused to submit.
Sent 4: Ambhi hastened to relieve Alexander of his apprehension and met him with valuable presents, placing himself and all his forces at his disposal.
Sent 5: Alexander not only returned Ambhi his title and the gifts but he also presented him with a wardrobe of \"Persian robes, gold and silver ornaments, 30 horses and 1000 talents in gold\".
Sent 6: Alexander was emboldened to divide his forces, and Ambhi assisted Hephaestion and Perdiccas in constructing a bridge over the Indus where it bends at Hund (Fox 1973), supplied their troops with provisions, and received Alexander himself, and his whole army, in his capital city of Taxila, with every demonstration of friendship and the most liberal hospitality.
Sent 7: On the subsequent advance of the Macedonian king, Taxiles accompanied him with a force of 5000 men and took part in the battle of the Hydaspes River.
Sent 8: After that victory he was sent by Alexander in pursuit of Porus, to whom he was charged to offer favourable terms, but narrowly escaped losing his life at the hands of his old enemy.
Sent 9: Subsequently, however, the two rivals were reconciled by the personal mediation of Alexander; and Taxiles, after having contributed zealously to the equipment of the fleet on the Hydaspes, was entrusted by the king with the government of the whole territory between that river and the Indus.
Sent 10: A considerable accession of power was granted him after the death of Philip, son of Machatas; and he was allowed to retain his authority at the death of Alexander himself (323 BC), as well as in the subsequent partition of the provinces at Triparadisus, 321 BC.
Sent 11: In the winter of 327/326 BC, Alexander personally led a campaign against these clans; the Aspasioi of Kunar valleys, the Guraeans of the Guraeus valley, and the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys.
Sent 12: A fierce contest ensued with the Aspasioi in which Alexander was wounded in the shoulder by a dart, but eventually the Aspasioi lost.
Sent 13: Alexander then faced the Assakenoi, who fought in the strongholds of Massaga, Ora and Aornos.
Sent 14: The fort of Massaga was reduced only after days of bloody fighting, in which Alexander was wounded seriously in the ankle.
Sent 15: According to Curtius, \"Not only did Alexander slaughter the entire population of Massaga, but also did he reduce its buildings to rubble\".
Sent 16: A similar slaughter followed at Ora.
Sent 17: In the aftermath of Massaga and Ora, numerous Assakenians fled to the fortress of Aornos.
Sent 18: Alexander followed close behind and captured the strategic hill-fort after four bloody days.", "question": "What injuries did Alexander experience at the battles Aspasioi and Assakenoi?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lucrezia's mother, a woman of ill repute", "Lucrezia' mother, and confessor Brother Timoteo", "Lucrezia's mother", "Lucrezia's confessor", "Brother Timoteo her confessor, a priest of low morals" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ligurio", "Callimaco", "Ligurio the fixer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Who does Nicia get to help him to get Lucrezia to sleep with a stranger?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Combined forces will be retaking the streets of Alta Verapaz from cells of the street gang Los Zetas", "Drug gang" ], "distractor groups": [ "Carlos Menocal", "Alvaro Colom" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: \"Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz,\" a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities,\" AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: \"The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people,\" Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: \"In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive,\" he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.", "question": "From whom, will the combined forces be retaking the streets of Alta Verapaz?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Drug trafficking", "Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities. Also, they are overtaking towns and threatening residents" ], "distractor groups": [ "Doing good work", "Hughes", "Spreading goodwill" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: \"Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz,\" a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities,\" AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: \"The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people,\" Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: \"In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive,\" he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.", "question": "What is Los Zetas operation doing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In Puget Sound", "In an institution", "In Washington State", "The stepfather has been institutionalized in Puget Sound , Washington" ], "distractor groups": [ "Los Angeles" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surviving being shot and stabbed at the end of the previous film , the stepfather has been institutionalized in Puget Sound , Washington since , spending his time building model houses in the workshop .
Sent 2: Assigned a new doctor named Joseph Danvers the stepfather begins confiding in him to gain his trust , ultimately murdering the doctor during a session by stabbing him in the neck with a blade smuggled out of the workshop .
Sent 3: After killing Danvers the stepfather beats a suspicious guard named Ralph Smith to death with his own nightstick with only two strikes and takes his uniform , successfully sneaking out of the sanitarium .
Sent 4: Checking into a hotel after robbing and murdering a traveling salesman the stepfather alters his appearance , takes the name Doctor Gene F. Clifford from the newspaper obituaries and travels to Palm Meadows , Los Angeles after seeing an ad for it on an episode of Dream House .
Sent 5: Gene arrives in Palm Meadows and meets real estate agent Carol Grayland and leases a house just across the street from her and her son Todd .
Sent 6: During a session with the wives of the neighborhood , Gene learns Carol 's dentist husband , Philip had absconded with his mistress the previous year .
Sent 7: Gene begins courting Carol , eventually winning over her and Todd .
Sent 8: Gene 's plan to marry Carol is soon complicated when Phil returns , wanting to reconcile with his wife .
Sent 9: Needing Phil out of the way , Gene persuades Carol to send Phil over for a meeting , during which Gene kills him with a broken bottle , covering up Phil 's disappearance afterward by arranging it so that it looks as though he simply ran off again .", "question": "Before he murder the doctor and Ralph Smith, where did the stepfather reside?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Depends", "Some mutations are harmful and some can have great benefits" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bad", "Always good" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "Are mutations good or bad?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Young Hare", "Praying Hands" ], "distractor groups": [ "Meadow section" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Durer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.
Sent 2: De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Durer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.
Sent 3: A series of extant drawings show Durer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.
Sent 4: This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Sent 5: Durer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hande (English: Praying Hands, c.
Sent 6: 1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.
Sent 7: He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare (1502) and the Great Piece of Turf (1503, both also Albertina).", "question": "Which named works were made by Durer in Albertina, Vienna?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jacopo de' Barbari being unwilling to explain everything he knew", "De'Barbari didn't want to explain all he knew" ], "distractor groups": [ "To show his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces", "To become a lifelong preoccupation", "His still lifes of meadow sections" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Durer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.
Sent 2: De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Durer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.
Sent 3: A series of extant drawings show Durer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.
Sent 4: This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Sent 5: Durer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hande (English: Praying Hands, c.
Sent 6: 1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.
Sent 7: He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare (1502) and the Great Piece of Turf (1503, both also Albertina).", "question": "What caused Durer to begin his own studies and experiment with human features in his art work?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A stage design", "Translation of Goethe's original 'erstarrte.' to frozen" ], "distractor groups": [ "Students", "Cocytus" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Do not look for the Danteum in the Eternal City.
Sent 2: In true Dantean form, politics stood in the way of its construction in 1938.
Sent 3: Ironically this literature-inspired building can itself most easily be found in book form.
Sent 4: Reading this book I remembered Goethe's quote about frozen music.
Sent 5: Did Terragni try to freeze Dante's medieval miracle of song?
Sent 6: Certainly a cold-poem seems artistically repulsive.
Sent 7: Unflattering comparisons to the lake of Cocytus spring to mind too.
Sent 8: While I cannot read Italian, I can read some German.
Sent 9: After locating the original quotation I discovered that 'frozen' is a problematic (though common) translation of Goethe's original 'erstarrte.'
Sent 10: The verb 'erstarren' more properly means 'to solidify' or 'to stiffen.'
Sent 11: This suggests a chemical reaction in which the art does not necessarily chill in the transformation.
Sent 12: Nor can simple thawing yield the original work.
Sent 13: Like a chemical reaction it requires an artistic catalyst, a muse.
Sent 14: Indeed the Danteum is not a physical translation of the Poem.
Sent 15: Terragni thought it inappropriate to translate the Comedy literally into a non-literary work.
Sent 16: The Danteum would not be a stage set, rather Terragni generated his design from the Comedy's structure, not its finishes.", "question": "What did Teragni translate the Comedy into?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No answer", "Rob", "Does not apply" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bheema", "krishnan", "karnan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas .
Sent 2: Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occur in life .
Sent 3: The sons of Pandu and Dhritarashtra progeny break into an argument .
Sent 4: When Duryodhana insults the Pandavas as `` dependents '' , Bheema counters by saying that , the Kauravas are the progeny of a widow .
Sent 5: Duryodhana asks Veda Vyasa for an explanation .
Sent 6: He is then told that , since his mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father .
Sent 7: Duryodhana gains animosity towards the kingdom of Gandhara where the king , the father of his mother Gandhari , rules .
Sent 8: He attacks Gandhara and lays waste of the whole kingdom .
Sent 9: He them imprisons the royal family in his prison .
Sent 10: He gives them only one rice grain per prisoner .
Sent 11: The king of Gandhara then stops everyone from grabbing the little food that is provided .
Sent 12: He says that instead of everyone dying , they could keep at least one of their princes alive .
Sent 13: He chooses Sakuni to be alive .
Sent 14: Sakuni takes an oath that he will do everything he can to destroy the entire Kaurava clan .
Sent 15: He makes magic dice from his father's spinal cord .
Sent 16: The magic dice show exactly the number that he would want .
Sent 17: Duryodhana takes pity on the lone prisoner , Sakuni after the rest of the Gandhara royal family dies in prison out of starvation .
Sent 18: Sakuni joins the evil of coterie of Duryodhana , Karna and Dushyasana .", "question": "What is the name of the man who succumbs to Edwina's charms and saves her husband from a man-eating tiger during a safari?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cleveland Center", "FAA's Cleveland Center", "FAA" ], "distractor groups": [ "A hijaking at the world trade center", "Pentagon", "Boston Center", "Another possible hijacked aircraft", "World Trade Center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all.
Sent 3: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Sent 4: Remembering the \"we have some planes\" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked.
Sent 5: Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack.
Sent 6: NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.
Sent 7: The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too.
Sent 8: During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 9: The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second.
Sent 10: NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it.
Sent 11: The flight never turned off its transponder.
Sent 12: NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland.
Sent 13: But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93.
Sent 14: United Airlines Flight 93 FAA Awareness.
Sent 15: At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller.
Sent 16: This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.
Sent 17: Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard \"a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin.\"
Sent 18: The controller responded, seconds later: \"Somebody call Cleveland?\"This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming.", "question": "What entity did NEADS warn in response to a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms", "Decomposition" ], "distractor groups": [ "Carbon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy.
Sent 2: What do you think matter is used for?
Sent 3: One thing is to build bodies.
Sent 4: They also need it to carry out the processes of life.
Sent 5: Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient.
Sent 6: Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients.
Sent 7: Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Sent 8: You can see how in Figure 3.11.
Sent 9: Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
Sent 10: The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
Sent 11: The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
Sent 12: The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
Sent 13: When living things die, the cycle repeats.", "question": "What is the beginning of the life cycle?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deposition", "Process deposition" ], "distractor groups": [ "kinetic energy", "Loss energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "What is it called when rock and soil settle to the bottom of calm water?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years", "One works in a lab handling samples and one works with at a plumbing warehouse but all struggle initially", "Sometimes" ], "distractor groups": [ "They charge large fees and live comfortably", "It's easy", "Law is their side job", "Never" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "Do the lawyers practicing \"low bono\" work struggle and take side jobs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nuevo Acapulco in La Enciclopedia del Empirio de la Humanidad", "Nuevo Acapulco" ], "distractor groups": [ "Polaris II", "Vega IV", "N'apulco", "The Sleeping Flamingo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Let me begin again.
Sent 2: I like life on the resort worlds -- always have and, after the upcoming mindwipe, always will.
Sent 3: Last year, I rented a small house on Vega IV, a sea world, all islands and reefs and archipelagos, turquoise waters and aquamarine skies, sunrises like symphonies and sunsets like stars gone supernova.
Sent 4: There's only one city: called Nuevo Acapulco in La Enciclopedia del Empirio de la Humanidad, it's N'apulco to the locals.
Sent 5: The N'apulcans are mostly emigrants from Polaris II; the only difference between them and their Carribbean ancestors is that the ancestors fleeced NorAm tourists.
Sent 6: Now the N'apulcans profit from their Hispanic siblings.
Sent 7: I don't mean to sound cynical.
Sent 8: I suppose I wish to show that I'm still capable of a certain authorial distance, a semblance of dispassionate observation.
Sent 9: The following events may indicate otherwise.
Sent 10: In fine tourist tradition, most homes on Vega IV are named.
Sent 11: Mine was The Sleeping Flamingo, and its outer walls were coral pink.
Sent 12: Were they mood-sensitive, they would have changed as I first viewed them.
Sent 13: The rental agent, an attractive N'apulcan named Tasha Cortez, was not mood-sensitive either.
Sent 14: She said, \"It's beautiful, isn't it, Se\u00f1or Flynn?\"
Sent 15: My instinct was to gesture curtly with a cupped hand that she lift the wind boat and take me elsewhere.
Sent 16: But she was young and attractive (as I have said and may say again) and eager and so happy to be assisting the infamous Bernardo Flynn that I merely raised an eyebrow in mild scepticism.
Sent 17: And then, because a playwright cannot resist a promising line, I said, \"Your Sleeping Flamingo should be put to sleep.\"", "question": "What is the full name of the city Tasha Cortez came from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Moved to Villa de la Vega", "No", "No, they moved from Nueva Sevilla to Villa de la Vega due to mosquitoes and unhealthy conditions" ], "distractor groups": [ "Settled in St. Ann's Bay", "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by \"slash-and-burn\" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica \"Xaymaca\" (\"land of wood and water\").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.", "question": "After Esquival arrived, did the Spanish remain in Nueva Sevilla?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Computer skills, English, Spanish or Vietnamese", "A fifth grade vocabulary is used, and three languages are available: English, Vietnamese, and Spanish", "It sticks to 5th grade vocabulary and users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese" ], "distractor groups": [ "It offers a courthouse video tour", "Master degree, English, French, and Portugese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday.
Sent 2: The Garden Grove woman answered a series of questions to create and print a form to file with the court.
Sent 3: \"It's easy,\" said Adams, 25.
Sent 4: \"I thought I'd have all kinds of questions and have to take the forms home.\"
Sent 5: A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers.
Sent 6: Not only does the system make life easier for people who can't afford a lawyer, but it also might improve efficiency in the courts because the forms, which are printed out when completed, are easy to read and are being filled out correctly, the study found.
Sent 7: Since the program started in 2000, more than 6,000 people have used the free system, located in public buildings throughout Orange County.
Sent 8: The system was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about 800,000 in grants.
Sent 9: The program avoids legal jargon, offers a courthouse video tour and sticks to a fifth-grade vocabulary.
Sent 10: Users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese.
Sent 11: Kiosks are in courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library.
Sent 12: The program is also available online.
Sent 13: Bob Cohen, executive director of Legal Aid, said the study should clear the way for expansion throughout California.
Sent 14: Locally, a program for divorce petitions will be added this summer.
Sent 15: Cohen said the system proves the benefit of technology tailored to those who aren't computer-savvy.
Sent 16: He said much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access.
Sent 17: Low-income people, however, have less access to computers and less experience using them.
Sent 18: \"Our clients have to catch up, and they have to become a part of the mainstream,\" Cohen said.", "question": "What education and language needs are met?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Drugs", "Drug addiction" ], "distractor groups": [ "His break up with Horner", "Money" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dirk Diggler was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15 , 1961 outside of Saint Paul , Minnesota .
Sent 2: His parents were a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attended church every Sunday and believed in God .
Sent 3: Looking for a career as a male model , Diggler dropped out of school at age 16 and left home .
Sent 4: He was discovered at a falafel stand by Jack Horner .
Sent 5: Diggler met his friend , Reed Rothchild , through Horner in 1979 while working on a film .
Sent 6: Horner slowly introduced Diggler to the business until he became noticeable within the industry .
Sent 7: Diggler became a prominent model and began appearing in pornographic films , after Which his career took off .
Sent 8: He had critical and box office hits Which led him to stardom .
Sent 9: The hits and publicity led to fame and money Which led Diggler to the world of drugs .
Sent 10: With the amount of money Diggler was making he was able to support both his and Rothchild's addictions .
Sent 11: The drugs eventually caused a breakup between Diggler and Horner since Diggler was having issues with his performance on set .
Sent 12: After the breakup Diggler tried to make a film himself but the film was never completed .
Sent 13: He then attempted a music career Which was also successful but led him deeper into drugs because of the amount of money he was making .
Sent 14: He then starred in a TV show Which was a failure both critically and commercially .
Sent 15: Having failed and with no work , Diggler returned to the porn industry taking roles in low-budget homosexual films to help support his habit .", "question": "What has made Diggler Fail at his dreamA. DrugsB. His break up with HornerC. Drug addictionD. MoneyPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "American evangelist Franklin Graham", "Samaritan's Purse," ], "distractor groups": [ "Russian bommers", "President", "Uno" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "What is the name of the organization that supports the bible school?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Telephone", "Answering the phone" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tag" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Billy and Sally are brother and sister.
Sent 2: Billy is seven and Sally is eight.
Sent 3: Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone.
Sent 4: Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice.
Sent 5: On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice.
Sent 6: On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice.
Sent 7: Billy has blonde hair.
Sent 8: Sally has brown hair.
Sent 9: Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair.
Sent 10: He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is.
Sent 11: Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life.
Sent 12: One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair.
Sent 13: Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair.
Sent 14: Billy and Sally live on a farm.
Sent 15: They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack.
Sent 16: They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm.
Sent 17: Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh.
Sent 18: They have a fun life growing up on the farm.", "question": "What game do Billy and Sally play where they dress up?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An attorney at Inner City Law Center", "Julius Thompson" ], "distractor groups": [ "Neal Dudovitz", "Mintie", "William Martinez" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: And William Martinez, 28, who cut his medical school studies short because he couldn't afford the 39,000 in loans after two years of graduate school and four years of college.
Sent 2: Martinez works two jobs as a physician's assistant and supports his elderly parents and 8-year-old son.
Sent 3: Uncommon Good has a 22-member board of doctors, lawyers and representatives of Christian groups and is recruiting mentors.
Sent 4: One goal is to get the state Legislature to pass a law to provide loan forgiveness to medical professionals and lawyers who work with the poor.
Sent 5: Mintie said she hopes her organization can be a national model for other professions.
Sent 6: She is trying to bring legal aid services to the Inland Valley -- the closest legal aid office is in El Monte and represents 700,000 poor people throughout the San Fernando, San Gabriel and Inland valleys.
Sent 7: \"Unless the legal aid is in the community, you can't say you are serving the poor,\" Mintie said.
Sent 8: Neal Dudovitz is the executive director of Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, the legal aid office in El Monte.
Sent 9: He sees attorneys new to poverty law leave all the time because they can't afford the salary with their law school debt.
Sent 10: \"She's really opened a lot of eyes in terms of having people understand how the educational debt is limiting and reducing the services that are available to low-income communities,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 11: \"Nancy is light years ahead of the curve on this stuff.
Sent 12: Very little is being done practically to solve it.\"
Sent 13: Mintie, her colleagues say, could have made a lot of money in private practice.
Sent 14: \"She's very kind and pleasant,\" said Julius Thompson, 45, an attorney at Inner City Law Center and an Uncommon Good recipient.
Sent 15: \"But she's also a woman on a mission.
Sent 16: When she sets her sights on something, she's a formidable force.\"", "question": "Who said, \"She's a formidable force.\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hopscotch", "Hopscotch and jump rope are two activities that all four children like to play", "Tag", "Jump rope" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tennis" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean.
Sent 2: They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing.
Sent 3: They liked to play tag instead of building sandcastles or swinging.
Sent 4: They liked tag because they liked to run.
Sent 5: They like to play hopscotch or jump rope but that day they wanted to play tag.
Sent 6: Other games aren't as fun.
Sent 7: They met Tony and Ally (who are best friends) and invited them to play tag too.
Sent 8: Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag.
Sent 9: Making new friends is important.
Sent 10: Tony and Ally would rather make friends than play their favorite games.", "question": "What two activities do all four children play but didn't play on that day on the playground?" }, { "answer groups": [ ", a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya", "Ignacy Hryniewiecki" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dvorzhitsky", "Chief Dvorzhitsk", "Napoleon III of France" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France.
Sent 2: The emperor emerged shaken but unhurt.
Sent 3: Rysakov was captured almost immediately.
Sent 4: Police Chief Dvorzhitsky heard Rysakov shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd.
Sent 5: The surrounding guards and the Cossacks urged the emperor to leave the area at once rather than being shown the site of the explosion.
Sent 6: Nevertheless, a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing by the canal fence, raised both arms and threw something at the emperor's feet.
Sent 7: He was alleged to have shouted, \"It is too early to thank God\".
Sent 8: Dvorzhitsky was later to write:", "question": "Who was alleged to have shouted, \"It is too early to thank God\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The bulletproof carriage", "An explosion", "Bombing" ], "distractor groups": [ "His position", "Cossacks", "Luck" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France.
Sent 2: The emperor emerged shaken but unhurt.
Sent 3: Rysakov was captured almost immediately.
Sent 4: Police Chief Dvorzhitsky heard Rysakov shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd.
Sent 5: The surrounding guards and the Cossacks urged the emperor to leave the area at once rather than being shown the site of the explosion.
Sent 6: Nevertheless, a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing by the canal fence, raised both arms and threw something at the emperor's feet.
Sent 7: He was alleged to have shouted, \"It is too early to thank God\".
Sent 8: Dvorzhitsky was later to write:", "question": "What caused the emperor to emerge shaken but uninjured?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Shout out to someone else", "Someone else in the crowd", "Someone else in the gathering crowd", "Ignacy Hryniewiecki" ], "distractor groups": [ "His mother", "Chief Dvorzhitsky" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France.
Sent 2: The emperor emerged shaken but unhurt.
Sent 3: Rysakov was captured almost immediately.
Sent 4: Police Chief Dvorzhitsky heard Rysakov shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd.
Sent 5: The surrounding guards and the Cossacks urged the emperor to leave the area at once rather than being shown the site of the explosion.
Sent 6: Nevertheless, a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing by the canal fence, raised both arms and threw something at the emperor's feet.
Sent 7: He was alleged to have shouted, \"It is too early to thank God\".
Sent 8: Dvorzhitsky was later to write:", "question": "Who did Rysakov shout to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The woman is Madame Entera", "Madame Entera" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nephthys", "The Proprietor of the Bagota Looking house", "The Herb Cart Vendor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily.
Sent 2: I tried to keep myself calm.
Sent 3: Then, with a sigh, he said, \"I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed.
Sent 4: It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness.
Sent 5: My problem is that it was not made in this realm, but by a human, and only a human may handle it.
Sent 6: The herb vendor will tell you where you can find it.
Sent 7: If you would fetch me this stone, I would tell you what I can.\" \"Of course we will fetch you the stone,\" Nepthys assured him.
Sent 8: \"You have our thanks.\" Outside, the thing at the herb cart nodded when we mentioned the stone.
Sent 9: He told Nepthys the name of a woman who lived on a certain street, and we set off.
Sent 10: When we reached the street, I expected some sort of temple, or a row of antiquaries, or at least a sleazy, black-market relics merchant.
Sent 11: Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys.
Sent 12: Nepthys didn't need to warn me not to speak to them.
Sent 13: He took us to the door of a building like a short pagoda that had a sign hanging over it showing a face with hands uplifted, like a saint under G d's light, and handcuffed.
Sent 14: Inside, the entrance room was hung with bright silks and scattered with velvet cushions.
Sent 15: Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
Sent 16: A large woman, similarly decorated, quickly drifted up to us.
Sent 17: \"Good evening, gentlemen,\" she said.
Sent 18: \"May I invite you to have a cup of tea?\" \"No, thank you,\" said Nepthys, \"we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer.
Sent 19: Are you the proprietor of this shop?\" \"Yes,\" answered the woman.
Sent 20: \"I am Madame Entera, at your service.", "question": "Who is the large woman?" }, { "answer groups": [ "One of the residents", "Manuel Luna", "All the remaining residents of Mobile Park Plaza" ], "distractor groups": [ "One of representative of the East Wenatchee City Council", "Mayor Steve Lacy", "One of the lawyers", "Dan Jennings" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: \"We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over,\" said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: \"We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy.\"
Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: \"There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles,\" said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: \"Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone.\"
Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.", "question": "Who was grateful for the help of their attorneys?" }, { "answer groups": [ "One of the residents", "Manuel Luna", "All the residents who decided not to move" ], "distractor groups": [ "Patrick Pleas", "Dan Jennings", "An attorney from Northwest Justice Project" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: \"We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over,\" said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: \"We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy.\"
Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: \"There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles,\" said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: \"Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone.\"
Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.", "question": "Who was afraid that their family would have no place to go?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They have no remorse or emotion", "Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences. They begin to kill adults around them" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are siamese twins" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "What results when the babies are born during the total eclipse?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Meadowvale, California", "In meadowvale" ], "distractor groups": [ "Across the street" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "Where do Timmy and Joyce live?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because they were unmasking them", "Because Joyce and Timmy warned the neighbors (Sent 5) after realizing that Debbie, Curtis, and Steven were the murderers (Sent 4)" ], "distractor groups": [ "No reason" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "Why were Debbie, Curtis and Steven so upset with Joyce and Timmy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were born at the height of a total eclipse (Sent 1), which is when the sun and moon block Saturn, or planet said to be in control of emotions (Sent 2)", "Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences" ], "distractor groups": [ "They were ill" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "Why did these individuals show no remorse for anything they did?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial", "Moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible", "Time it takes from moving things from research laboraties into factories", "Lab to factory", "The time between the laboratory research and the fabrication of the product" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fabulous production", "Fabulous ideas", "Being highly competitive", "Strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than 2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made.
Sent 2: The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM.
Sent 3: But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York.
Sent 4: IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips.
Sent 5: It is spending more than 500 million a year on semiconductor research and development.
Sent 6: The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles.
Sent 7: The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage.
Sent 8: \"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market,\" said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Sent 9: An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial.
Sent 10: \"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,\" Kelly said.
Sent 11: \"If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia.\"
Sent 12: The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people.", "question": "What doe \"lab-to-fab\" time mean?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To be close to research laboratory in upstate New York, to minimize lab-to-fab time", "To produce cutting edge technology", "It was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial", "They wanted to be close to their lab" ], "distractor groups": [ "To be American made", "Cost", "They wanted to keep jobs in the US" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than 2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made.
Sent 2: The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM.
Sent 3: But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York.
Sent 4: IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips.
Sent 5: It is spending more than 500 million a year on semiconductor research and development.
Sent 6: The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles.
Sent 7: The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage.
Sent 8: \"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market,\" said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Sent 9: An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial.
Sent 10: \"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,\" Kelly said.
Sent 11: \"If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia.\"
Sent 12: The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people.", "question": "What was the reason IBM did not put the new factory in Asia?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger", "Samuel Berger", "Berger", "His chief aides" ], "distractor groups": [ "U.S. government", "Anything else", "Raed Hijazi", "George Bush", "Abu Zubaydah", "Usama Bin Laden", "American embassies", "Al Gore" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "President Clinton along with which top aid explore options regarding Bin Laden, including expulsion from Afghanistan and execution?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Temperatures rise and fall depending on the time of year", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may be wondering, how can a glacier get so big?
Sent 2: Why does it move?
Sent 3: These are both good questions.
Sent 4: In the winter months, precipitation falls as snow.
Sent 5: This solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatures stay cold enough.
Sent 6: As the temperature rises, the snow starts to melt.
Sent 7: The frozen water changes state back into a liquid state.
Sent 8: Nearer the poles, summer does not last very long.
Sent 9: If the summer is long enough and warm enough, all the snow may melt.
Sent 10: This is what typically happens now.
Sent 11: The earth was a little cooler 12,000 years ago.
Sent 12: As a result, during the summer months, that amount of snow did not melt.
Sent 13: It may have only been an inch or so of snow that melted.
Sent 14: The following winter, snow fell on top of this left-over snow.
Sent 15: This next winters snowfall had a head start.
Sent 16: Year after year, the snow that did not melt became thicker and thicker.
Sent 17: Inch by inch the snow started to build up.
Sent 18: Over many years, layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice.", "question": "Are temps always the same in glacier areas?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gravity", "Gravity and the table", "The table pulls the book upwards and the earth pulls it down" ], "distractor groups": [ "Median force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if two children push a swing at the same time?
Sent 2: Would the swing go higher?
Sent 3: Yes, together their force would be more.
Sent 4: It is common for forces to be combined.
Sent 5: Most objects on Earth have at least two forces acting on them.
Sent 6: Do you know what one of them is?
Sent 7: Of course, that force is gravity.
Sent 8: How many forces do you have on you right now?
Sent 9: Gravity pulls you down toward the center of Earth.
Sent 10: Your legs exert a downward force.
Sent 11: They hold you up against the pull of gravity.
Sent 12: Consider the example in Figure 1.3.
Sent 13: A book is resting on a table.
Sent 14: Gravity pulls the book downward.
Sent 15: It has a force of 20 newtons.
Sent 16: At the same time, the table pushes the book upward.
Sent 17: Its force is also 20 newtons.
Sent 18: The table opposes the pull of gravity.", "question": "What forces acts on a book on a table?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Boone County Legal Aid", "Private practice", "Alan Schroeder works as the supervisor at Boone County Legal Aid and he has a private practice as a city attorney" ], "distractor groups": [ "Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino", "Drake University", "Prairie Meadows" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Boone, Ia.
Sent 2: -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County.
Sent 3: Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a 10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded.
Sent 4: The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services.
Sent 5: \"It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact,\" said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid.
Sent 6: For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy.
Sent 7: He also has a private practice.
Sent 8: If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go.
Sent 9: The city of Boone gave Schroeder 6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer.
Sent 10: Without that, the program might already be closed.
Sent 11: \"All governments are having problems with finances,\" Boone Mayor George Maybee said.
Sent 12: \"No one else stepped in.
Sent 13: The county didn't.
Sent 14: The state didn't.\"
Sent 15: Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it.
Sent 16: Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester \"for a variety of reasons,\" Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail.
Sent 17: Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money.
Sent 18: Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years.", "question": "Where does Alan Schroeder work?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Prairie Meadows Racetrack", "Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino" ], "distractor groups": [ "Boone County", "Attorney Alan Schroeder", "Drake University", "Donovan Olson" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Boone, Ia.
Sent 2: -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County.
Sent 3: Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a 10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded.
Sent 4: The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services.
Sent 5: \"It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact,\" said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid.
Sent 6: For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy.
Sent 7: He also has a private practice.
Sent 8: If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go.
Sent 9: The city of Boone gave Schroeder 6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer.
Sent 10: Without that, the program might already be closed.
Sent 11: \"All governments are having problems with finances,\" Boone Mayor George Maybee said.
Sent 12: \"No one else stepped in.
Sent 13: The county didn't.
Sent 14: The state didn't.\"
Sent 15: Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it.
Sent 16: Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester \"for a variety of reasons,\" Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail.
Sent 17: Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money.
Sent 18: Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years.", "question": "Who is the primary source of funding going to come from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The State", "The County", "Anyone" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stanford University", "Boone's finance officer", "Columbia University", "Boone County" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Boone, Ia.
Sent 2: -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County.
Sent 3: Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a 10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded.
Sent 4: The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services.
Sent 5: \"It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact,\" said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid.
Sent 6: For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy.
Sent 7: He also has a private practice.
Sent 8: If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go.
Sent 9: The city of Boone gave Schroeder 6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer.
Sent 10: Without that, the program might already be closed.
Sent 11: \"All governments are having problems with finances,\" Boone Mayor George Maybee said.
Sent 12: \"No one else stepped in.
Sent 13: The county didn't.
Sent 14: The state didn't.\"
Sent 15: Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it.
Sent 16: Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester \"for a variety of reasons,\" Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail.
Sent 17: Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money.
Sent 18: Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years.", "question": "Who hasn't stepped in to help the funding?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Is immeasurable", "We don't learn anything about Patricia Philip's work in this passage" ], "distractor groups": [ "Her public interest work has influenced several other organizations to become more involved in Pro Bono work", "She's extremely well-versed in the law,", "She's very thorough in her research,", "She received the Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"The impact of her interest and work on the provision of legal services in the state of California is immeasurable,\" said Patricia Philips, senior of-counsel for Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster.
Sent 2: \"Its value is felt every day by someone who would otherwise be floundering around in the legal system yet dealing with very serious problems.\"
Sent 3: Zelon's public-interest work has not gone unnoticed.
Sent 4: Several organizations that share her commitment to public service - including the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the State Bar of California - have honored her.
Sent 5: Two years ago, Zelon received the Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award, which had been named for her one year earlier by the Law Firm Pro Bono Project, which she'd helped found.
Sent 6: \"I didn't find out until I was standing in the great hall of the Supreme Court, surrounded by 300 people who were there, that the award had been named for me and was thereafter going to be given in my name.
Sent 7: It's very hard to believe, for anyone who knows me well, but I was actually speechless for a period,\" Zelon said.
Sent 8: Zelon faced one of the greatest challenges of her legal career, she said, when her appointment to the bench forced her to switch gears from civil litigation to criminal law.
Sent 9: \"It was a steep learning curve for me,\" she said.
Sent 10: \"It's a whole different set of processes.
Sent 11: The rules are different.
Sent 12: The case law is a whole body unto itself.\"
Sent 13: Attorneys praise Zelon for her thorough understanding of the law.
Sent 14: \"She's extremely well-versed in the law,\" Leon said.
Sent 15: \"She's very thorough in her research,\" Wong said.
Sent 16: Of course, not all attorneys concur with every decision Zelon makes in court.
Sent 17: Some city attorneys disagree with her interpretation of evidentiary statutes when Zelon puts limits on their use of hearsay testimony.
Sent 18: But lawyers who have appeared before her say that they appreciate her intelligent interpretation of the law.", "question": "How did Patricia Philips' work and interest make an impact on the provision of legal services in the state of California?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Martian", "Martialist" ], "distractor groups": [ "European", "British" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the \"charny\" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of \"charny\" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.", "question": "What is her racial origin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "-charny-", "\"charny\"", "Charny" ], "distractor groups": [ "Illusions", "Europe", "Opiates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the \"charny\" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of \"charny\" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.", "question": "What is the name of the drug used in Mars?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, Democracy in America appeared in two volumes between 1835 and 1840", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, they were written afterwards" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Sent 2: In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
Sent 3: Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Sent 4: Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.
Sent 5: He retired from political life after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 6: He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.
Sent 7: The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals.
Sent 8: Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy.", "question": "Were any of Tocqueville's books written while he was active in french politics?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Bin Laden, KSM, and Atef were the only people involved in initial target selection" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, Hazmi was as well", "No, Yemeni was as well", "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar.
Sent 2: KSM's original concept of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media statement was scrapped, but Bin Laden considered the basic idea feasible.
Sent 3: Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM developed an initial list of targets.
Sent 4: These included the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
Sent 5: According to KSM, Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to strike the World Trade Center, and all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.
Sent 6: No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.
Sent 7: Bin Laden also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives: Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazmi, Khallad, and Abu Bara al Yemeni.
Sent 8: During the al Matar meetings, Bin Laden told KSM that Mihdhar and Hazmi were so eager to participate in an operation against the United States that they had already obtained U.S. visas.
Sent 9: KSM states that they had done so on their own after the suicide of their friend Azzam (Nashiri's cousin) in carrying out the Nairobi bombing.
Sent 10: KSM had not met them.
Sent 11: His only guidance from Bin Laden was that the two should eventually go to the United States for pilot training.
Sent 12: Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi nationals, born in Mecca.
Sent 13: Like the others in this initial group of selectees, they were already experienced mujahideen.
Sent 14: They had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.
Sent 15: By the time Hazmi and Mihdhar were assigned to the planes operation in early 1999, they had visited Afghanistan on several occasions.
Sent 16: Khallad was another veteran mujahid, like much of his family.
Sent 17: His father had been expelled from Yemen because of his extremist views.
Sent 18: Khallad had grown up in Saudi Arabia, where his father knew Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Omar Abdel Rahman (the \"Blind Sheikh\").", "question": "Bin Laden, KSM, and Atef were involved in initial target selection were these the only people involved?" }, { "answer groups": [ "When they are cut off from the rest of the river", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maybe" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rivers flowing over gentle slopes move more slowly.
Sent 2: They move much more slowly than a mountain stream.
Sent 3: These slow moving streams create different types of features than mountain streams.
Sent 4: Slow moving water erodes the sides of their channels more than the bottom.
Sent 5: Also, large curves in the stream form.
Sent 6: These curves are called meanders.
Sent 7: Meanders are caused by erosion and deposition.
Sent 8: Remember, faster moving water causes erosion more quickly.
Sent 9: Slower moving water erodes material more slowly.
Sent 10: If water is moving slowly enough, the sediment being carried may settle out.
Sent 11: This settling out, or dropping off, of sediment is deposition.
Sent 12: The curves are called meanders because they slowly wander over the land.
Sent 13: As meanders erode from side to side, they create a floodplain.
Sent 14: This is a broad, flat area on both sides of a river.
Sent 15: Eventually, a meander may become cut off from the rest of the river.
Sent 16: This forms an oxbow lake.", "question": "Do meanders cause oxbow lakes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Persepolis", "Via royal road" ], "distractor groups": [ "Via boat" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its legendary treasury.
Sent 2: He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Royal Road.
Sent 3: Alexander himself took selected troops on the direct route to the city.
Sent 4: He had to storm the pass of the Persian Gates (in the modern Zagros Mountains) which had been blocked by a Persian army under Ariobarzanes and then hurried to Persepolis before its garrison could loot the treasury.
Sent 5: On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days.
Sent 6: Alexander stayed in Persepolis for five months.
Sent 7: During his stay a fire broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes and spread to the rest of the city.
Sent 8: Possible causes include a drunken accident or deliberate revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the Second Persian War.", "question": "Where did Alexander take selected troops on a direct route?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Kelly", "Gov. George E. Pataki" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fishgill", "Samuel J. Palmisano", "Palmisano" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory.
Sent 2: He praised IBM for being \"a critical partner in our economic development efforts\" in New York state.
Sent 3: In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business.
Sent 4: \"To play to win in technology, you innovate and you lead,\" he said.
Sent 5: But manufacturing technology products is a costly and cyclical business.
Sent 6: In June, IBM announced that it was taking a charge of more than 2 billion against earnings.
Sent 7: The largest single reasons for the charge were the cost of getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage, which it sold to Hitachi, and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations.
Sent 8: But Kelly said the demand for advanced chips, like those produced at IBM's facility in Burlington, Vt., is strong.
Sent 9: \"I need more capacity in that end of the market,\" he said, \"and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand.\"
Sent 10: If IBM has miscalculated the demand, it will suffer badly as both the high operating costs and depreciation on the huge capital investment for the East Fishkill factory drag down earnings.
Sent 11: But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.", "question": "Who asked for more capacity in that end of the market?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Press Conferences", "They held a press conference" ], "distractor groups": [ "They write a report", "Radio Interview", "They were enthusiastic about it", "They were optimistic about the partnership", "Skeptical about the movie" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film , Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "How did the Beatles discuss their Film Magical Mystery Tour and their Business Apple Records?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Four", "His last book", "Underweysung der Messung" ], "distractor groups": [ "Three", "Piero della Francesca" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In architecture Durer cites Vitruvius but elaborates his own classical designs and columns.
Sent 2: In typography, Durer depicts the geometric construction of the Latin alphabet, relying on Italian precedent.
Sent 3: However, his construction of the Gothic alphabet is based upon an entirely different modular system.
Sent 4: The fourth book completes the progression of the first and second by moving to three-dimensional forms and the construction of polyhedra.
Sent 5: Here Durer discusses the five Platonic solids, as well as seven Archimedean semi-regular solids, as well as several of his own invention.
Sent 6: In all these, Durer shows the objects as nets.
Sent 7: Finally, Durer discusses the Delian Problem and moves on to the 'construzione legittima', a method of depicting a cube in two dimensions through linear perspective.
Sent 8: It was in Bologna that Durer was taught (possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the 'costruzione legittima' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.
Sent 9: He was also familiar with the 'abbreviated construction' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci.
Sent 10: Although Durer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles.
Sent 11: In addition to these geometrical constructions, Durer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.", "question": "In which book does Durer show the understanding of Euclidean principles?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The book \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\"", "\"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961)", "Seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts", "COPIA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "Julia Child is known for her throaty laugh which Europeans and Americans alike heard on her \"French Chef\" television series. What was the main contribution from Child that revolutionized cooking and eating?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Magical Mystery Tour", "Their newest movie" ], "distractor groups": [ "The yellow submarine", "Beatlemania", "Yogi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "What film is John skeptical about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Magical Mystery Tour", "The Beatles' newest movie" ], "distractor groups": [ "The yello submarine", "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi", "Beatlemania" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "WHat film is John skeptical about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His mother", "With his mom" ], "distractor groups": [ "The rabbitt", "Devadas", "The rabbit", "The friends", "President Obama", "Jaanu", "Col. Subbayya" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini .
Sent 2: While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole .
Sent 3: Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought .
Sent 4: While accompanying his mother to Madikeri , Preetam confronts a man named Jaanu .
Sent 5: Jaanu , who has been following Nandini , beats up Preetam thinking that he is in love with Nandini .
Sent 6: Preetam , unaware that Jaanu has vowed not to allow any one near Nandini , trashes Jaanu and his gang in return .
Sent 7: In Madikeri , Preetam meets Nandini unexpectedly .
Sent 8: He identifies himself and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage .
Sent 9: Nandini , who is already engaged rejects his request .
Sent 10: Still , Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again .
Sent 11: In the meantime , Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri , Col. Subbayya is Nandini's father , who is pretty much deaf , and Nandini's marriage is a just a week away .
Sent 12: Dejected , Preetam throws Nandini's heart-shaped watch away .
Sent 13: But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return .
Sent 14: Delighted , Preetam goes in search of her watch and brings it back .
Sent 15: While searching it , he spots a rabbit , Which he calls Devadas , and brings it along with him .
Sent 16: Since Nandini's friends are due to arrive from Mumbai for the marriage , Preetam takes Nandini to the railway station .
Sent 17: The train from Mumbai is delayed by five hours , so Nandini and Preetam decide to visit a nearby hill-temple .", "question": "Who was Preetam with, when he met Nandini unexpectedly?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To each his own", "To Each His Own and Suspension", "Suspicion" ], "distractor groups": [ "No More Ladies", "Burfield" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died \"very peacefully\" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film \"No More Ladies.\"
Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, \"No Bed of Roses,\" that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's \"Suspicion,\" beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for \"Hold Back the Dawn.\"
Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for \"To Each His Own.\"
Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: \"I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received,\" a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.", "question": "List 2 of the movies the Fontaine and De Havilland sisters won Oscars for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The bucaneer, the Quaker", "Bucaneer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Indian" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: I wondered if that were my case--if I rode out for honour, and not for the pure pleasure of the riding.
Sent 2: And I marvelled more to see the two of us, both lovers of one lady and eager rivals, burying for the nonce our feuds, and with the same hope serving the same cause.
Sent 3: We slept the night at Aird's store, and early the next morning found Ringan.
Sent 4: A new Ringan indeed, as unlike the buccaneer I knew as he was unlike the Quaker.
Sent 5: He was now the gentleman of Breadalbane, dressed for the part with all the care of an exquisite.
Sent 6: He rode a noble roan, in his Spanish belt were stuck silver-hafted pistols, and a long sword swung at his side.
Sent 7: When I presented Grey to him, he became at once the cavalier, as precise in his speech and polite in his deportment as any Whitehall courtier.
Sent 8: They talked high and disposedly of genteel matters, and you would have thought that that red-haired pirate had lived his life among proud lords and high-heeled ladies.
Sent 9: That is ever the way of the Highlander.
Sent 10: He alters like a clear pool to every mood of the sky, so that the shallow observer might forget how deep the waters are.", "question": "Who was the noble gentleman of Breadalbane unlikeA. IndianB. The bucaneer, the QuakerC. BucaneerPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The handwritten notes annotating the verses seemed intimate each time she passed her fingers over the text", "They did not belong to her" ], "distractor groups": [ "He asked for them back" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.
Sent 2: She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.
Sent 3: She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.
Sent 4: It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.
Sent 5: She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.
Sent 6: She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.
Sent 7: Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.
Sent 8: Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.
Sent 9: Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.", "question": "Since the books were given more as a gift than as a loan, why would Johnnie feel the need to return the books to Stoddard?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A set of small volumes of annotated English verse", "Small volumes of English verse" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fiction stories" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.
Sent 2: She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.
Sent 3: She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.
Sent 4: It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.
Sent 5: She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.
Sent 6: She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.
Sent 7: Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.
Sent 8: Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.
Sent 9: Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.", "question": "Which of the books loaned by Stoddard did Johnnie keep above all of the loaned books?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Schuylkill", "Schuylkill County" ], "distractor groups": [ "Valerie West", "PFA", "Pottsville" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "In what county were the statistics of \"48% guilty\" and \"27% dismissed or not guilty\" established?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Around 3000 b.c", "3000 B.C" ], "distractor groups": [ "They were forced to by other tribal groups", "The land was freely available", "First millennium a.d", "Their prey went away" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "When did the native Archaic Indians develop a hunting and gathering culture?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ong", "Betty Ong" ], "distractor groups": [ "Omari", "Nydia Gonzalez", "Gonzalez", "Lewis" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "Who took action outside of her training?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sri Maharajah", "Bengali peddlers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chinese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Who brought Islams to Melaka?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bengali peddlers", "Sri Maharaja" ], "distractor groups": [ "Parameswara", "Trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest but by who bringing it to the east coast?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Article in Physikalische Zeitschrift", "Physikalische Zeitschrift" ], "distractor groups": [ "Schrodinger's work of 1926" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God \"is not playing at dice.\"
Sent 2: Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in the theory, and attempted unsuccessfully to disprove it until he died at the age of 76.
Sent 3: In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser.
Sent 4: This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck's distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode.
Sent 5: This paper was enormously influential in the later development of quantum mechanics, because it was the first paper to show that the statistics of atomic transitions had simple laws.
Sent 6: Einstein discovered Louis de Broglie's work, and supported his ideas, which were received skeptically at first.
Sent 7: In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics.
Sent 8: This paper would inspire Schrodinger's work of 1926.", "question": "What did Einstein publish in that showed the statistics of absorption and proposed the possibility of stimulated emission?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The principals", "Decision makers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Al Qaeda", "The Captain of the USS Cole", "Interviewers", "Bill Clinton", "The Taliban", "Rice" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4.
Sent 2: On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note.
Sent 3: He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present.
Sent 4: The \"real question\" before the principals, he wrote, was \"are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat?
Sent 5: Is al Qida a big deal?
Sent 6: Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US,\" Clarke wrote.
Sent 7: \"What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier?
Sent 8: That future day could happen at any time.\"
Sent 9: Clarke then turned to the Cole.\"
Sent 10: The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack,\" he wrote.
Sent 11: \"Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price.\"", "question": "The real question' is 'is al Qida a big deal'. Who did Clarke expect to answer this?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Imagine themselves in a future terrorist attack and ask themselves what they could have done earlier", "Imagine themselves on a future day and answer the question re we serious about dealing with the al Qida [sic] threat", "Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day" ], "distractor groups": [ "Don't retaliate for the Cole", "Make decisions earlier", "Disband the CSG and have a meeting of the Principals Committee", "Decide", "Assess the threats of Al qida", "Have a meeting of the Principals Committee and contact the Captain of the USS Cole for advice" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4.
Sent 2: On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note.
Sent 3: He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present.
Sent 4: The \"real question\" before the principals, he wrote, was \"are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat?
Sent 5: Is al Qida a big deal?
Sent 6: Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US,\" Clarke wrote.
Sent 7: \"What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier?
Sent 8: That future day could happen at any time.\"
Sent 9: Clarke then turned to the Cole.\"
Sent 10: The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack,\" he wrote.
Sent 11: \"Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price.\"", "question": "What two things did Clarke urge decision makers to do because the future could happen at any time?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Oxygen", "Atoms that contain only one proton and atoms that contain many protons", "Helium", "Hydrogen" ], "distractor groups": [ "Pure", "Mixture" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of.
Sent 2: Matter can exist in two forms.
Sent 3: It can be a pure substance.
Sent 4: This means it is not mixed with anything.
Sent 5: It can also be a combination of different substances.
Sent 6: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms.
Sent 7: You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain.
Sent 8: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen.
Sent 9: Other atoms contain many protons.
Sent 10: There are many types of atoms.
Sent 11: For example, Helium has two protons.
Sent 12: An Oxygen atom has eight.
Sent 13: Water is composed of a two types of atoms.
Sent 14: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms.
Sent 15: There are only so many types of atoms.
Sent 16: These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances.
Sent 17: So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?", "question": "What are two types of atoms according to the paragraph?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A box shaped-urn", "Artifacts belonging to Mater Lachrymarum and a magic cloak that , when worn by Mater Lachrymarum , increases her powers significantly. Also, the cloak , a dagger , and three statues representing the three witches" ], "distractor groups": [ "A chain" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film begins with members of the Catholic Church digging up the body of a 19th century church official , whose casket has a box-shaped urn chained to it .
Sent 2: Inside the box they discover artifacts belonging to Mater Lachrymarum , the last surviving member of the Three Mothers ; an ancient trio of powerful black witches .
Sent 3: In particular , the box contains a magic cloak that , when worn by Mater Lachrymarum , increases her powers significantly .
Sent 4: The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome , where Sarah Mandy , an American studying art restorationworks .
Sent 5: Sarah is dating the curator Michael Pierce , a single father who is away from the museum that night .
Sent 6: With help from the assistant curator , Sarah opens the box and finds the cloak , a dagger , and three statues representing the three witches .
Sent 7: Sending Sarah to her office to retrieve tools to help her translate the text on the artifacts , the curator is promptly attacked by the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum .
Sent 8: Sarah arrives too late to save her boss and starts to flee the museum .
Sent 9: Unfortunately , she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarum 's familiar and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum .
Sent 10: Sarah tells the police what happened as she spends the night with Michael and his son .
Sent 11: Michael visits the Cardinal who sent him the urn only to find out that , shortly after mailing the urn to him , he had a severe stroke and is now in a coma .", "question": "What did the Catholic Church find in the casket of the body of a 19th century church official?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In delivering the wrong remains to the family in question and officials called to tell them about the error and asked for the return of urn 104", "A Madrid judge opened an investigation into the error, the wrong remains were delivered to the family in question. On Wednesday the family of Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira received an urn numbered 104, and were told it contained the ashes of their loved one. But as the family was preparing to leave Madrid, officials called to tell them about the error and asked for the return of urn 104" ], "distractor groups": [ "Barnett", "While identifying the remains of the victim, it was resolved by correctly identifying the victim" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Relatives of a woman killed in a Spanish airline crash were erroneously given the remains of another victim, and then were asked by authorities to return them, CNN partner network CNN+ reported Thursday.
Sent 2: The victims of the crash were first laid out at a Madria convention center.
Sent 3: A Madrid judge has opened an investigation into the error, and judicial sources say the initial indication is that the mixup occurred not in the proper identification of the victim, but in delivering the wrong remains to the family in question, CNN+ reported.
Sent 4: The family Wednesday received an urn numbered 104, and were told it contained the ashes of their loved one, Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira, who died in the crash.
Sent 5: But as the family was preparing to leave Madrid, officials called to tell them about the error and asked for the return of urn 104, CNN+ reported.
Sent 6: Instead of urn 104, the family was supposed to have received urn 134, which actually contains the remains of Pilar Gonzalez, CNN+ reported, citing judicial sources and another family which also lost a relative in the crash.
Sent 7: The Spanair MD82 jet crashed last week at Madrid's airport as the plane was trying to take off, killing 154 people.
Sent 8: The aircraft, bound for Spain's Canary Islands, managed to rise only slightly before coming down quickly to the right of the runway, its tail section hitting the ground first, just off the asphalt.
Sent 9: Then the out-of-control plane skidded and bounced at least three times as it careered 1,200 meters (3,840 feet) across uneven terrain and exploded, coming to rest in a gully, a top official of the investigative commission told a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday.
Sent 10: Many of the bodies were badly charred from the fire, and authorities have used DNA samples to carry out numerous identifications.", "question": "What was the source of the error, and how was it resolved?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The villagers and the Roundheads", "The Roundheads" ], "distractor groups": [ "Harry" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Halting just outside the village, Harry formed his men with a front across the whole road, and directed the lines to advance, twenty yards apart.
Sent 2: Then, placing himself at their head, he gave the word, and charged down the street upon the Roundheads.
Sent 3: The latter, occupied by their attack upon the houses, were unconscious of the presence of their foe until he was close upon them, and were taken utterly by surprise.
Sent 4: The force of the charge was irresistible, and the Roundheads, dispersed and on foot, were cut down in all directions.
Sent 5: Groups of twos and threes stood together and attempted resistance, but the main body thought only of regaining their horses.
Sent 6: In three minutes after the Royalists entered the village the surviving Roundheads were in full flight, hotly pursued by the victorious Cavaliers.
Sent 7: These, being for the most part better mounted, overtook and slew many of the Roundheads, and not more than half the force which had set out returned to their quarters at Didcot.
Sent 8: The pursuit continued to within half a mile of that place, and then Harry, knowing that there was a force of Roundhead infantry there, drew off from the pursuit, and returned to Chalcombe.
Sent 9: He found that more than half of Sir Ralph Willoughy's men had been killed, many having been cut down before they could betake themselves to their arms, those quartered in the inn, and at two or three of the larger houses, having alone maintained a successful resistance until the arrival of succor.", "question": "Who was taken by surprise at the presence of their foe?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Butchers", "Selenites" ], "distractor groups": [ "Officials", "Bulls" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We were cornered in a sort of way already.
Sent 2: But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs.
Sent 3: And that way lay escape.
Sent 4: Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision.
Sent 5: I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street.
Sent 6: But for all that, there seemed a tremendous crowd of them.
Sent 7: Very probably there was.
Sent 8: Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears.
Sent 9: It might be they had other surprises for us.... But, confound it!
Sent 10: if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us, and if we didn't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced.
Sent 11: Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare--guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes--this unknown world below our feet, this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle, might not presently send up to our destruction.
Sent 12: It became clear the only thing to do was to charge!
Sent 13: It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us.", "question": "Who was guarding the way to escape?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wykham Delandre", "Geoffrey Brent" ], "distractor groups": [ "Margaret", "The one person" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.", "question": "Who is the one person who could have settled all doubts just by interfering?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Grants of tax-free land had been given over the years to these members of the court aristocracy", "By grants of tax-free land over the years" ], "distractor groups": [ "By creating a hierarchy of shiki", "Atta's personalities" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "Why were the most powerful families able to obtain whole regions for themselves?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Aesthetic expression", "Aesthetics" ], "distractor groups": [ "Their price", "Their weight", "Their size", "Contribution to their country", "Complexity", "Their monetary value" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "In Heian court life, princes and princesses judge merits of creatures and items based on what category?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lord Esketh wants a divorce", "Her husband divorcing her", "Lord Esketh's intention to return to England and go through with a divorce", "Divorce proceedings" ], "distractor groups": [ "The earthquake", "Tom Ransome being an alcoholic", "The death of people after the flood", "The tiger" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In India to purchase some horses , British aristocrat , Lord Esketh and his wife , Edwina , come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani .
Sent 2: Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announces his intention to return to England and begin divorce proceedings .
Sent 3: The spoiled , insensitive Edwina scoffs at this .
Sent 4: She renews in Ranchipur an acquaintance with a former lover , Tom Ransome , now a dissolute alcoholic .
Sent 5: She also meets and attempts to seduce a distinguished Hindu physician , Dr. Rama Safti , a decent man who is the elderly Maharani's personal choice to succeed her someday .
Sent 6: Safti at first resists , but ultimately succumbs to Edwina's charms and falls hopelessly in love with her .
Sent 7: Lord Esketh becomes aware of this , but Safti saves him from a man-eating tiger during a safari .
Sent 8: Safti admits his love for Edwina to Lord Esketh , who is now sympathetic toward this good man's plight .
Sent 9: Ransome feels the same way , warning Edwina to stay away from Safti , a friend he admires .
Sent 10: Edwina similarly falls into disfavor with the Maharani , who explains that Safti has been raised to lead a pure life and that Edwina is unworthy of him .
Sent 11: Ranchipur suddenly is ravaged by a natural disaster , an earthquake and flood .
Sent 12: Dr. Safti is so busy saving lives that he can not personally care for Edwina , who has fallen ill .
Sent 13: Ransome looks after her as well as for young Fern Simon , who has declared her love for him .
Sent 14: When a dam is exploded by dynamite and as a result the flood waters recede , it is Dr. Safti who reveals that Ransome is the one who risked his personal safety to save the people of Ranchipur .", "question": "What does Lord Esketh's wife scoff at?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nazar Ahari" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Who visited the UN General Assembly last month?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison", "Shiva Nazar was sentenced to 6 years in prison" ], "distractor groups": [ "The misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What was the coordinated strategy against the women's movement?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To strike out at the regime's greatest vulnerability-internal legitimacy of its people", "The misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership" ], "distractor groups": [ "A prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What are the reasons behind the government targeting women activists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "The Iranian President" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jinous Sobhani" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Who is named to have made provocative statements to the western media?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fair share of provocative statements", "He makes provocative statements and mercurial rants" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nicely" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "How does the Iranian President speak to the Western media?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The town's public relations", "People who attended Hoover Dam's dedication" ], "distractor groups": [ "The state legislature", "Customers", "The residents" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers.
Sent 2: The railroad needed a way station, and Las Vegas was the place.
Sent 3: Growth continued for ten years, and by 1915 the town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population\u2002\u2014\u2002many of whom worked in the railroad repair shop.
Sent 4: But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
Sent 5: The growing competition in rail transport resulted in Union Pacific buying the Los Angeles\u2013Salt Lake line.
Sent 6: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility.
Sent 7: Additionally, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling.
Sent 8: These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
Sent 9: But the southwest's growing need for water, combined with Las Vegas's fortuitous proximity to the Colorado River, would give Las Vegas a second chance to achieve prosperity.
Sent 10: Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Sent 11: Providing an influx of 165 million to the southwestern economy, Hoover Dam played a major role in preventing Las Vegas from drying up, both financially and literally.
Sent 12: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Sent 13: More Government Help: The construction of Hoover Dam did not single-handedly save Las Vegas, however.
Sent 14: The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
Sent 15: The hordes of people who attended Hoover Dam's 1935 dedication set the city's now-formidable public relations machine into action.
Sent 16: They went to work on what has become one of the lengthiest citywide tourism campaigns ever attempted.
Sent 17: It didn't take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an \"anything goes\" attitude.
Sent 18: Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day (or night).", "question": "Who worked at making the lengthiest city wide tourism campaigns ever made?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The elimination of its repair facility and outlawed gambling", "Eliminating the repair facility", "Las Vegas was a part of Clark County which outlawed gambling" ], "distractor groups": [ "The temperatures of the desert were too overwhelming", "Shutting down the power" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers.
Sent 2: The railroad needed a way station, and Las Vegas was the place.
Sent 3: Growth continued for ten years, and by 1915 the town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population\u2002\u2014\u2002many of whom worked in the railroad repair shop.
Sent 4: But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
Sent 5: The growing competition in rail transport resulted in Union Pacific buying the Los Angeles\u2013Salt Lake line.
Sent 6: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility.
Sent 7: Additionally, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling.
Sent 8: These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
Sent 9: But the southwest's growing need for water, combined with Las Vegas's fortuitous proximity to the Colorado River, would give Las Vegas a second chance to achieve prosperity.
Sent 10: Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Sent 11: Providing an influx of 165 million to the southwestern economy, Hoover Dam played a major role in preventing Las Vegas from drying up, both financially and literally.
Sent 12: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Sent 13: More Government Help: The construction of Hoover Dam did not single-handedly save Las Vegas, however.
Sent 14: The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
Sent 15: The hordes of people who attended Hoover Dam's 1935 dedication set the city's now-formidable public relations machine into action.
Sent 16: They went to work on what has become one of the lengthiest citywide tourism campaigns ever attempted.
Sent 17: It didn't take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an \"anything goes\" attitude.
Sent 18: Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day (or night).", "question": "What stopped the progress of Las Vegas?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Geveden", "Rep. Charles Geveden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hamon", "Catron" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Backers of Legal Aid services for the poor are pushing a measure that would increase court filing fees in Kentucky to raise money for the program, which faces steep funding cuts.
Sent 2: The proposed bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Geveden, D-Wickliffe, would double the portion of the fee that goes to Legal Aid -- in district court to 10 from 5 and in circuit court to 20 from 10.
Sent 3: Kentucky's current fee for filing a case in district court is 50.50, and in circuit court 108.
Sent 4: The increase still would leave Kentucky's filing fee costs below those of surrounding states and would raise about 1.3 million a year -- almost enough to replace what Legal Aid is losing from federal and other sources, said Jamie Hamon, executive director of the Access to Justice Foundation, a state poverty law resource center in Lexington.
Sent 5: Geveden said his measure appears to be the only potential source of money for the program, which is being forced to lay off workers and close offices around the state.
Sent 6: Geveden said he's concerned because federal funding hasn't increased in recent years, and states with increased poverty are taking a greater share of the money.
Sent 7: ''If you don't come up with the money somewhere, legal services to people in need will diminish or go away,'' he said.
Sent 8: Hamon said the proposed bill has attracted a number of co-sponsors, and Legal Aid backers are hoping to get it passed in the upcoming legislative session.
Sent 9: Hamon said she knows fee increases aren't popular with lawmakers but hopes they realize the crisis Legal Aid is facing.
Sent 10: ''A lot of poor people are not going to get served,'' she said.
Sent 11: The measure has the endorsement of the Kentucky Bar Association.
Sent 12: The association's board of governors voted unanimously last month to back the bill, said KBA President Stephen Catron, a Bowling Green lawyer.
Sent 13: Legal Aid ''has been a godsend to a great number of people in this state,'' Catron said.
Sent 14: ''We simply must find a way to provide those services to the public.''
Sent 15: Larry York, executive director of Appalachian Regional Defense Fund, which provides Legal Aid services in 37 Eastern Kentucky counties and is a KBA board member, said he hopes the measure is approved.
Sent 16: ''It would really offset the current cuts,'' he said.", "question": "Who made the following remark: ''If you don't come up with the money somewhere, legal services to people in need will diminish or go away.\"A. GevedenB. HamonC. CatronD. Rep. Charles GevedenPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Swimming", "Jenny was free from school on summer break and 2 of her friends were going to the beach" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sleep", "Officials" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Jenny was a 13 year old girl with blond hair and blue eyes.
Sent 2: She had gotten out of her last day of school and was free for the summer.
Sent 3: Two of her friends were going to the nearby beach to do some swimming and enjoy the sun.
Sent 4: Jenny went with them and when they got there the beach was very full and there were people everywhere.
Sent 5: They changed into their bathing suits and went to the water.
Sent 6: The water was very cold.
Sent 7: They chose not swim and walked to the sand.
Sent 8: Then they laid down on some towels and enjoyed the sun.
Sent 9: After several hours Jenny and her friends fell asleep.
Sent 10: They woke up and the sun was beginning to set.
Sent 11: When Jenny sat up she found that it was painful to touch her skin.
Sent 12: When she looked down she saw that she had a very bad sunburn.
Sent 13: Her friends were also very badly sunburned so they went home.
Sent 14: Jenny's mother gave her a cream to put on the sunburn.
Sent 15: Afterwards she felt a lot better and went to sleep.", "question": "Why did Jenny go the beach?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Diversity", "Designed to shift flexibly" ], "distractor groups": [ "The 140,000-square-foot plant", "Hundreds of processing machines", "Research", "The automated manufacturing technology", "The human operators who catch errors", "donuts" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
Sent 2: \"The diversity is the big difference with this plant,\" said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm.
Sent 3: \"It gives IBM the capability to make so many different kinds of custom chips, and the world is going to custom chips.\"
Sent 4: The 140,000-square-foot plant is a testament to advanced manufacturing technology.
Sent 5: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Sent 6: They drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass, for each stage of processing and fabrication.
Sent 7: Throughout the 500 processing steps, which typically last 20 days, the wafers are not touched by human hands.
Sent 8: The circuits etched into the chips are less than one thousandth the width of a human hair.
Sent 9: Human operators are there to monitor the systems, catch errors and fine-tune the production process for maximum efficiency.
Sent 10: Because each of the hundreds of processing machines is self-enclosed, and essentially airtight, the uniforms operators wear are less constricting than in the previous generation of chip plants, which looked like space suits.
Sent 11: The operators at the East Fishkill factory wear light nylon uniforms, light blue shoe coverings and translucent hair nets made of paper.
Sent 12: They look more like workers in a bakery.
Sent 13: Yes, said Richard Brilla, director of the new facility, \"but the donuts are a lot more costly here.\"
Sent 14: Each wafer, holding hundreds of chips, is worth 6,000 to 10,000 apiece, depending on what insulation, circuitry and materials are used.", "question": "What enables IBM to make different kinds of custom chips?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Since they wear light uniforms, shoe coverings and hair nets", "This is because they wear light nylon uniforms, light blue shoe coverings and translucent hair nets made of paper" ], "distractor groups": [ "Since the processing machines are self-enclosed", "They make donuts", "Since they seem to wear space suits", "As the wafers are the size of a standard pizza" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
Sent 2: \"The diversity is the big difference with this plant,\" said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm.
Sent 3: \"It gives IBM the capability to make so many different kinds of custom chips, and the world is going to custom chips.\"
Sent 4: The 140,000-square-foot plant is a testament to advanced manufacturing technology.
Sent 5: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Sent 6: They drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass, for each stage of processing and fabrication.
Sent 7: Throughout the 500 processing steps, which typically last 20 days, the wafers are not touched by human hands.
Sent 8: The circuits etched into the chips are less than one thousandth the width of a human hair.
Sent 9: Human operators are there to monitor the systems, catch errors and fine-tune the production process for maximum efficiency.
Sent 10: Because each of the hundreds of processing machines is self-enclosed, and essentially airtight, the uniforms operators wear are less constricting than in the previous generation of chip plants, which looked like space suits.
Sent 11: The operators at the East Fishkill factory wear light nylon uniforms, light blue shoe coverings and translucent hair nets made of paper.
Sent 12: They look more like workers in a bakery.
Sent 13: Yes, said Richard Brilla, director of the new facility, \"but the donuts are a lot more costly here.\"
Sent 14: Each wafer, holding hundreds of chips, is worth 6,000 to 10,000 apiece, depending on what insulation, circuitry and materials are used.", "question": "Why do operators at the East Fishkill factory look like workers in a bakery?" }, { "answer groups": [ "East Fishkill", "East Fishkill factory" ], "distractor groups": [ "Envisioneering", "IBM", "Doherty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
Sent 2: \"The diversity is the big difference with this plant,\" said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm.
Sent 3: \"It gives IBM the capability to make so many different kinds of custom chips, and the world is going to custom chips.\"
Sent 4: The 140,000-square-foot plant is a testament to advanced manufacturing technology.
Sent 5: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Sent 6: They drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass, for each stage of processing and fabrication.
Sent 7: Throughout the 500 processing steps, which typically last 20 days, the wafers are not touched by human hands.
Sent 8: The circuits etched into the chips are less than one thousandth the width of a human hair.
Sent 9: Human operators are there to monitor the systems, catch errors and fine-tune the production process for maximum efficiency.
Sent 10: Because each of the hundreds of processing machines is self-enclosed, and essentially airtight, the uniforms operators wear are less constricting than in the previous generation of chip plants, which looked like space suits.
Sent 11: The operators at the East Fishkill factory wear light nylon uniforms, light blue shoe coverings and translucent hair nets made of paper.
Sent 12: They look more like workers in a bakery.
Sent 13: Yes, said Richard Brilla, director of the new facility, \"but the donuts are a lot more costly here.\"
Sent 14: Each wafer, holding hundreds of chips, is worth 6,000 to 10,000 apiece, depending on what insulation, circuitry and materials are used.", "question": "What is the name of the factory where Richard Brilla is a Director?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Adrienne", "Adrienne Saunders" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mary" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "Who is looking at the year book?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sullivan", "Frank Sullivan", "Frank" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jack" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "Who is Mary's real father?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He is named Frank Sullivan", "Adrienne doubts that her husband Jack had switched identities with high school classmate, Frank Sullivan which she confirms after seeing the yearbook" ], "distractor groups": [ "He is missing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "How does the yearbook confirm Adrienne's doubt about her husband's identity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A relative of Frank Sullivan's", "The relative" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mary" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "Who directs Adrienne to Frank's mother?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Art", "One Chinese nation under one government" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fire", "Bowls", "Dragons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "What did the second quasi-legendary dynasty give rise to the concept of?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Capturing fire", "Fire" ], "distractor groups": [ "Art", "Silk trade", "Civilization" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "The first Chinese invention involved a master of what subject?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were dug from mountains and Europeans had not discovered a use for the product", "Mountains, no" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes", "Ground" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "Where were black stones dug from and had the Europeans found a use for this?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, there are honors to him in Russia, Ireland, and Canada" ], "distractor groups": [ "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as \"poet\" or \"writer\" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.", "question": "Was Pushkin internationally known?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nigel Judah", "Peter Holland", "No successor was named. Reupke's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives" ], "distractor groups": [ "Michael Smith" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager to pursue unspecified interests, a move the news organization termed an \"amicable separation.\"
Sent 2: Mr. Reupke, 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran, had been the information-services company's general manager for only six months.
Sent 3: His appointment to that post, which has senior administrative, staff and policy responsibilities, followed a several-year tenure as Reuters's editor in chief.
Sent 4: No successor was named, and Mr. Reupke's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives, the company said.
Sent 5: In a telephone interview, Mr. Reupke said his departure was for \"personal reasons,\" which he declined to specify.
Sent 6: \"There is no business reason for my departure,\" nor any disagreement over policy, he added.
Sent 7: He also rejected reports that his departure stemmed from disappointment the general manager's post hadn't also led to a board directorship at the London-based news organization.
Sent 8: Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters's eight-person executive committee who didn't also serve on the company's board of directors.
Sent 9: \"If I were choosing the people of tomorrow, I would have chosen the people who are now on the board,\" he said.
Sent 10: A Reuters spokesman said the departure reflects \"no change in strategy or profits.\"
Sent 11: Mark Shepperd, an analyst at UBS Philips & Drew in London, said, \"I suspect (the departure) will be fairly irrelevant for the company.
Sent 12: I would be very surprised if his departure signals any change in strategy or change in profit expectations.\"
Sent 13: On London's Stock Exchange, Reuters shares rose five pence to 913 pence (14.43).
Sent 14: In the U.S. over-the-counter market, American depositary shares for Reuters, each representing three shares in the London market, closed unchanged at 43.875.
Sent 15: The senior of the three executives who will assume Mr. Reupke's duties is Nigel Judah, 58, finance director and a Reuters board director.
Sent 16: Peter Holland, 45, deputy general manager, becomes director of corporate affairs.
Sent 17: And Patrick Mannix, 46, international technical manager, becomes director of group quality programs.", "question": "Who is the successor named following Michael Reupke's resignation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention; opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention", "Member of the New York Manumission Society", "Believed the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites" ], "distractor groups": [ "Became the 2nd president of the New York society" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "Give examples that support Hamilton's pro-abolotionist views.A. Became the 2nd president of the New York societyB. Opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention; opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional ConventionC. Member of the New York Manumission SocietyD. Believed the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whitesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New York Manumission Society", "New York Manumission Society (NYMS)" ], "distractor groups": [ "A multiracial society", "Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government", "The government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "What society petitioned the New York legislature to end the slave trade?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An estimated 257 media outlets, including 66 radio stations and 67 television stations, with three national, 62 local and more than 50 cable TV stations", "257" ], "distractor groups": [ "50", "66", "67" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the public radio and TV broadcaster of Albania, founded by King Zog in 1938.
Sent 2: RTSH runs three analogue television stations as TVSH Televizioni Shqiptar, four digital thematic stations as RTSH, and three radio stations using the name Radio Tirana.
Sent 3: In addition, 4 regional radio stations serve in the four extremities of Albania.
Sent 4: The international service broadcasts radio programmes in Albanian and seven other languages via medium wave (AM) and short wave (SW).
Sent 5: The international service has used the theme from the song \"Keputa nje gjethe dafine\" as its signature tune.
Sent 6: The international television service via satellite was launched since 1993 and aims at Albanian communities in Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and northern Greece, plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe.
Sent 7: RTSH has a past of being heavily influenced by the ruling party in its reporting, whether that party be left or right wing.
Sent 8: According to the Albanian Media Authority, AMA, Albania has an estimated 257 media outlets, including 66 radio stations and 67 television stations, with three national, 62 local and more than 50 cable TV stations.
Sent 9: Last years Albania has organized several shows as a part of worldwide series like Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother Albania, Albanians Got Talent, The Voice of Albania, and X Factor Albania.", "question": "How many Albanian media outlets have been used to broadcast shows such as Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother Albania, Albanians Got Talent, The Voice of Albania, and X Factor Albania.A. An estimated 257 media outlets, including 66 radio stations and 67 television stations, with three national, 62 local and more than 50 cable TV stationsB. 257C. 50D. 66E. 67Please select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wetlands", "Tall grass prairies", "Prairies" ], "distractor groups": [ "Flatlands" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "Once home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison, what types of places are cleared for new homes and businesses?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ebysos", "Ebusus", "Yebisah", "Ibosim, Ebysos, Ebusus, Yebisah" ], "distractor groups": [ "The island", "Punishment" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago.
Sent 2: Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c.
Sent 3: Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim.
Sent 4: The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah.
Sent 5: The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c.
Sent 6: .
Sent 7: The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region.
Sent 8: Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry.
Sent 9: They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country.
Sent 10: The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century.
Sent 11: It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza.
Sent 12: The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza.
Sent 13: Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums.
Sent 14: The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c.
Sent 15: during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained.
Sent 16: Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c.
Sent 17: did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
Sent 18: For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life.", "question": "How did ancient settlers called Ibiza?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They knew they had lost American 77 and At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes", "We have some planes", "Hijacker on Board" ], "distractor groups": [ "A hunch", "No contact" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "What caused concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His pieces were larger and more finely cut , were far more complexed and balanced in compositoin AND he had a great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce and how to work with block cutters", "Larger and finely cut" ], "distractor groups": [ "Germany", "Elaborate designs", "Rome" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.", "question": "As a result of training in Wolgemut's studio, what defined and distinguished Durer's woodcut prints from the great majority of German woodcuts prior to him?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law", "Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period. Critics say the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions", "24-hour consent period" ], "distractor groups": [ "3 days waiting period", "Separation of church and state" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "What rules are already in place that render this law unnecessary in the eyes of critics?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Devices in our homes and offices", "Home devices", "Devices in our homes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Earth", "The ocean" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Our sun and other stars release light energy.
Sent 2: At least this is what we see.
Sent 3: Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light.
Sent 4: Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy.
Sent 5: This form of energy travels through space.
Sent 6: Electromagnetic energy includes the light we see.
Sent 7: It also includes much more.
Sent 8: Many of these things we know about, but dont always think about.
Sent 9: Electromagnetic energy includes radio waves, microwaves, and X rays.
Sent 10: We now have devices in our homes and offices that release these same forms of energy.
Sent 11: We use electromagnetic energy to make our lives better.", "question": "Besides the sun and the stars, what releases electromagnetic energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The sun and other stars", "Electromagnetic energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "From the hospital", "Earth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Our sun and other stars release light energy.
Sent 2: At least this is what we see.
Sent 3: Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light.
Sent 4: Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy.
Sent 5: This form of energy travels through space.
Sent 6: Electromagnetic energy includes the light we see.
Sent 7: It also includes much more.
Sent 8: Many of these things we know about, but dont always think about.
Sent 9: Electromagnetic energy includes radio waves, microwaves, and X rays.
Sent 10: We now have devices in our homes and offices that release these same forms of energy.
Sent 11: We use electromagnetic energy to make our lives better.", "question": "Where do X-rays, come from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mahender's grandfather", "His grandfather" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maya" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India .
Sent 2: It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately .
Sent 3: The movie starts with Mahender getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily .
Sent 4: A woman , Sudha , is already sitting in the waiting room .
Sent 5: On seeing him , she tries to hide her face from him but later they confront each other .
Sent 6: Mahender has an accomplished business dealing with photography .
Sent 7: He respects his grandfather immensely .
Sent 8: Incidentally , he had been engaged to Sudha for 5 years but always made some excuse to delay their wedding .
Sent 9: However , this time his grandfather has fixed the wedding on the first week of the following month .
Sent 10: He reveals to Sudha that he is having an affair with one of the most radical representations of feminism in a girl called Maya .
Sent 11: He returns to tell Maya , but Maya has disappeared , leaving him some poetry .
Sent 12: Mahender then marries Sudha and is quite happy , but the sudden return of Maya causes tensions in their married life .
Sent 13: Mahender frequently tells Sudha about all the beautifully poignant , loving and authentic things Maya did over the years that they lived together .
Sent 14: Later , Maya tries to commit suicide , and this leads to Mahender spending time with her over a few weeks .
Sent 15: Sudha , not knowing about Maya 's suicide attempt and therefore believing that Mahender is being unfaithful to her , feels that her marriage was a mistake , and questions Mahender about his intentions .", "question": "Who set the wedding date with the woman Mahender marries?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Maya", "Maya's suicide attempt", "Maya's attempted suicide" ], "distractor groups": [ "His grandfather's photography shop", "Tara" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India .
Sent 2: It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately .
Sent 3: The movie starts with Mahender getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily .
Sent 4: A woman , Sudha , is already sitting in the waiting room .
Sent 5: On seeing him , she tries to hide her face from him but later they confront each other .
Sent 6: Mahender has an accomplished business dealing with photography .
Sent 7: He respects his grandfather immensely .
Sent 8: Incidentally , he had been engaged to Sudha for 5 years but always made some excuse to delay their wedding .
Sent 9: However , this time his grandfather has fixed the wedding on the first week of the following month .
Sent 10: He reveals to Sudha that he is having an affair with one of the most radical representations of feminism in a girl called Maya .
Sent 11: He returns to tell Maya , but Maya has disappeared , leaving him some poetry .
Sent 12: Mahender then marries Sudha and is quite happy , but the sudden return of Maya causes tensions in their married life .
Sent 13: Mahender frequently tells Sudha about all the beautifully poignant , loving and authentic things Maya did over the years that they lived together .
Sent 14: Later , Maya tries to commit suicide , and this leads to Mahender spending time with her over a few weeks .
Sent 15: Sudha , not knowing about Maya 's suicide attempt and therefore believing that Mahender is being unfaithful to her , feels that her marriage was a mistake , and questions Mahender about his intentions .", "question": "What pushed Mahender to spend time away from Sudha?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deni Butler", "Administrator for the Eastern District Superior Court" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dudovitz", "Peck", "Scott Wheeler" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Still untaken are several steps that required goodwill from local bar associations and others who had opposed the combination.
Sent 2: \"[I am] not a fan of Neal's,\" admitted John Peck, a former board member of the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program and a Pasadena Bar Association board member.
Sent 3: Peck says bad feelings still linger among Ailies of the old program who feel left out.
Sent 4: \"They really screwed us.
Sent 5: We had a good program,\" Peck said.
Sent 6: An observer familiar with the reconfiguration debate who requested anonymity wondered why Dudovitz had not spent more time mending fences.
Sent 7: \"He ought to be bending over backwards for reconciliation, but if you want to do impact work and people in the San Gabriel Valley want direct services, you have to accommodate that or change your approach,\" the observer said.
Sent 8: \"Neal would never consider doing that.\"
Sent 9: More than a year after he officially incorporated the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, Dudovitz had not placed a local resident on the board of Neighborhood Legal Services or made the rounds of the private legal community to recruit the volunteer lawyers.
Sent 10: \"Our emphasis has been on having our potential clients know about us and deliver services to them,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 11: \"We have done that spectacularly.\"
Sent 12: He did not hire any of the old program's nine lawyers and has yet to permanently place any of his 18 new hires in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley.
Sent 13: The lack of a legal aid presence in Pomona prompted the bar association and court officials to start their own once-monthly family law clinic.
Sent 14: After learning of the effort, Dudovitz sent personnel to staff the clinic for three hours per week and is helping to write a grant application to fund a self-help kiosk for Pomona patterned on the center he pioneered in Van Nuys.
Sent 15: The help, although late, has earned Dudovitz some appreciation.
Sent 16: \"There has been a transition and [the clinic] has helped to fill some void,\" said Deni Butler, administrator for the Eastern District Superior Court.
Sent 17: \"But we are working together quite nicely contrary to what the other side issue is.\"
Sent 18: Scott Wheeler, president of the Eastern Bar Association of Los Angeles and an ally of the old program, said he mobilized his 200 members to staff the clinic after watching the ranks of unserved poor grow over the past year.", "question": "Who made the following remark?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork", "David Woolfork", "Sheriff David Woolfork" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rick Staples", "Chief Rick Staples", "Xanthopoulos" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 2: \"It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,\" he said.
Sent 3: More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics.
Sent 4: In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records.
Sent 5: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that.
Sent 6: I see this as helping that,\" Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant.
Sent 7: Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said.
Sent 8: And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.", "question": "Who made the following remark: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that. I see this as helping that,\"A. Rick StaplesB. Chief Rick StaplesC. XanthopoulosD. Madison County Sheriff David WoolforkE. David WoolforkF. Sheriff David WoolforkPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wolgemut's studio", "Wolgemut's" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Men's Bath House", "Special wood studio", "A mentor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.", "question": "Whose studio gave Durer a greater understanding of wood cuts that he might or might not have done himself.A. The Men's Bath HouseB. Special wood studioC. Wolgemut's studioD. Wolgemut'sE. A mentorPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She had precious little money and her bill was twice her monthly income", "More than twice her monthly income", "She has precious little money" ], "distractor groups": [ "When James realized she had been swindled", "Can't read or write" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Thelma James was a prime candidate for a real estate ripoff: She is 68, has precious little money and can't read or write.
Sent 2: \"I won't lie to you.
Sent 3: I was so-o-o excited,\" the widow and former duplex dweller said of the purchase of her first home, a sagging frame structure on Snowden.
Sent 4: \"I was glad to get me a house.\"
Sent 5: When James realized she had been swindled she turned to Memphis Area Legal Services, which represented her in a lawsuit.
Sent 6: Now, James's monthly house notes have dropped from 796 - more than twice her monthly income - to an affordable 247.
Sent 7: Some of the people who took advantage of her through a questionable loan program were sent to jail.
Sent 8: \"I don't know what I would have done without Legal Services,\" said James.
Sent 9: \"They solved a lot of my problems.\"
Sent 10: James is one of more than 3,000 clients served last year by MALS, which provides assistance for civil matters, such as domestic abuse and family-related problems, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, veterans, housing and consumer fraud cases.
Sent 11: Like James, most clients are elderly or female.
Sent 12: Some are handicapped.
Sent 13: Some need medical care or veteran's benefits.
Sent 14: Some are trying to escape eviction or an abusive marriage.
Sent 15: And 87 percent live at or below poverty level.
Sent 16: Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton recently said Legal Services is important for those who, because of poverty or other struggles in life, think justice is an empty word.
Sent 17: \"They must be given reason to believe that the law is for them too,\" said Wharton, a former executive director of MALS.
Sent 18: But MALS faces a funding crunch next year, brought on by a 200,000 shortfall from three revenue sources.", "question": "Which portions indicate that James had limited income?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The location of Alexander's remains is unknown", "Unknown, the fate of his tomb is not known" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum", "Memphis", "Alexandria", "Northern Greece" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.", "question": "Where are Alexander's remains?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It's located in Dubai and it's for companies engaged in e-commerce", "Free zone for e-commerce", "It is a free zone for e-commerce. e-commerce companies would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies" ], "distractor groups": [ "It's set to open at the same time as Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex)", "To encourage Internet use" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City.
Sent 2: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at 200 million.
Sent 3: Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that \"we want to make Dubai a new trading center.\"
Sent 4: The minister, who has his own website, also said: \"I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies.\"
Sent 5: He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies.
Sent 6: The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit.
Sent 7: The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East.", "question": "Why is it called Dubai Internet City?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The examination", "To impress the Colonel" ], "distractor groups": [ "To win the prize" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon.
Sent 2: Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood holding fast to the folds of her black habit, staring up at the strangers, while she explained the kind of instruction given, the system, and the order reigning in each department.
Sent 3: Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard.
Sent 4: Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling.
Sent 5: The children must have been very much bored with themselves that stormy Sunday, for they entered into the examination with a quite unnatural zest.
Sent 6: Two of the elder girls recited, and some specimens of penmanship and composition were shown.
Sent 7: The delicate complexion of the little nun flushed to a pretty wild-rose pink as these pupils of hers won the Colonel's old fashioned compliments.", "question": "What were the specimens of penmanship shown for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Stephen, Maurice and Iris", "Stephen, Iris, Maurice" ], "distractor groups": [ "Layne, macy, katrina" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "Of the people who had initially entered Joe's house with an intention of cleaning it up, who didn't make it out at the end?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The holographic projector", "Holographic message", "A holographic message projector" ], "distractor groups": [ "Program receptors", "Brain", "Several smaller robots which can be sent into dangerous areas", "An inflatable, hydrogen-filled balloon", "Audio box" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .", "question": "Of all the features with Which the probes are equipped, Which is primarily for communication with alien life forms?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Magical Mystery Tour", "The Beatles in Magical Mystery Tour" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi", "The yellow submarine", "Breathe" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "Which Beatles-related film is John skeptical about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nazar Ahari, Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat , Mahdiyeh Golrou", "Hengameh Shahidi", "Nazar Ahari", "Mahdiyeh Golrou", "Alieh Eghdam Doust", "Bahareh Hedayat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What are the names of five women who went to prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of women?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By late May 2000", "By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States. Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive", "May 2000" ], "distractor groups": [ "Late 1999", "September", "11", "9", "During 1990" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "When did al Qaeda members plotting the 9/11 attacks arrive in the U.S.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Juzo's upstairs neighbor", "Nozomi", "Nozomi Akai" ], "distractor groups": [ "Number 13", "Seki" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Juzo Murasaki arrives at a work construction area to take on his new job as a construction worker .
Sent 2: To his quiet dismay , his supervising boss turns out to be Toru Akai , who with his gang had made Juzo's middle school life a living hell .
Sent 3: Akai , however , does n't recognize Juzo .
Sent 4: Juzo's more disconcerted when he discovers that Akai lives with his wife , Nozomi Akai and their toddler son above Juzo's new apartment .
Sent 5: As Juzo emotionally struggles to handle these unexpected developments , a mysterious and seemingly malicious hooded figure appears .
Sent 6: It calls itself Number 13 .
Sent 7: As Juzo attempts to control increasing number of flashbacks and a spiral fall into psychological darkness , Akai constantly picks on Juzo and other work colleagues including Seki Hajime , a former middle school student who becomes Juzo's casual friend in spite of Juzo's anti-social tendencies , at work .
Sent 8: Meanwhile Akai's wife , Nozomi , attempts to make friends with Juzo and entrusting the care of her toddler son to Juzo .
Sent 9: She proudly shows Juzo her husband's school photos .
Sent 10: In one class photo , Juzo's space is marked with an X to show he was absent .
Sent 11: Juzo suffers a severe flashback to explain his absence that day : in their school's science room , Akai and his friends have thrown acid at Juzo's face .
Sent 12: Seki becomes suspicious about Juzo's increasingly odd behavior and goes to inform Arai at the work site , but Arai dismisses him without giving him a chance to speak .
Sent 13: During this incident , Seki does n't realize he's being watched by Number 13 , but as soon as he does , Number 13 kills him .", "question": "Who shows Juzo her husband's school photos?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Raed Hijazi", "Hijazi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Abu Hoshar", "Antything else", "Bin Laden", "Abu Zubaydah", "Usama Bin Laden", "Bill Clinton" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "Along with Abu Hoshar, who was one of the 15 terrorists arrested by Jordanian authorities?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He is working for free at a legal aid society rather than joining a prestigious law firm or business", "Previous governors have gone to prestigious law firms, joined corporate boards or returned to thriving businesses" ], "distractor groups": [ "Previous governors are working with Roy Barnes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Defeated last month for re-election, Gov. Roy Barnes announced Tuesday that he will spend his first six months out of office as an unpaid attorney for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, where he will represent poor people.
Sent 2: \"One day I'll probably do some legal work that I will charge a handsome fee for - at least I hope there are those that are still willing to pay,\" he told reporters.
Sent 3: \"But for now, I think it is important to fulfill my duty as a lawyer to help those who need it the most, to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves and to defend those whose life and livelihoods depend on it,\" he said.
Sent 4: Previous governors have gone to prestigious law firms, joined corporate boards or returned to thriving businesses.
Sent 5: \"I don't think I've ever heard of anybody doing this before,\" Emory University political science professor Merle Black said.
Sent 6: \"If he's actually going to represent individuals for that organization, they're going to get great representation.
Sent 7: You're going to get some powerful legal muscle there,\" Mr. Black said.
Sent 8: Mr. Barnes said he already has his first case, but he wouldn't say what it is.
Sent 9: Atlanta Legal Aid provides civil services to poor people in five metro Atlanta counties.
Sent 10: Mr. Barnes said he was hoping to send a message to other lawyers.
Sent 11: \"This privilege to practice law is just that - it's a privilege.
Sent 12: And it comes with a cost and it comes with a bill .
Sent 13: We as lawyers have a responsibility to make sure that everyone, regardless of whether they can afford it or not, has quality representation.
Sent 14: And if we don't do that, then we're not much of a profession,\" he said.
Sent 15: Steven Gottlieb, the society's executive director, said, \"I can't imagine anything that could be better than to have the governor of the state, in his first act as a private citizen, donate six months of his time to represent poor people .", "question": "How is Gov. Roy Barnes' career choice different from previous governors?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Keeping an emphasis on informing potential clients and delivering services to them", "Having their potential clients know about them", "Having potential clients know about him and deliver services to them", "His job" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sent personnel to staff the clinic", "Start a once-monthly clinic", "Successfully made amends to John Peck", "Worked amazingly as a team with Deni Butler" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Still untaken are several steps that required goodwill from local bar associations and others who had opposed the combination.
Sent 2: \"[I am] not a fan of Neal's,\" admitted John Peck, a former board member of the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program and a Pasadena Bar Association board member.
Sent 3: Peck says bad feelings still linger among Ailies of the old program who feel left out.
Sent 4: \"They really screwed us.
Sent 5: We had a good program,\" Peck said.
Sent 6: An observer familiar with the reconfiguration debate who requested anonymity wondered why Dudovitz had not spent more time mending fences.
Sent 7: \"He ought to be bending over backwards for reconciliation, but if you want to do impact work and people in the San Gabriel Valley want direct services, you have to accommodate that or change your approach,\" the observer said.
Sent 8: \"Neal would never consider doing that.\"
Sent 9: More than a year after he officially incorporated the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, Dudovitz had not placed a local resident on the board of Neighborhood Legal Services or made the rounds of the private legal community to recruit the volunteer lawyers.
Sent 10: \"Our emphasis has been on having our potential clients know about us and deliver services to them,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 11: \"We have done that spectacularly.\"
Sent 12: He did not hire any of the old program's nine lawyers and has yet to permanently place any of his 18 new hires in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley.
Sent 13: The lack of a legal aid presence in Pomona prompted the bar association and court officials to start their own once-monthly family law clinic.
Sent 14: After learning of the effort, Dudovitz sent personnel to staff the clinic for three hours per week and is helping to write a grant application to fund a self-help kiosk for Pomona patterned on the center he pioneered in Van Nuys.
Sent 15: The help, although late, has earned Dudovitz some appreciation.
Sent 16: \"There has been a transition and [the clinic] has helped to fill some void,\" said Deni Butler, administrator for the Eastern District Superior Court.
Sent 17: \"But we are working together quite nicely contrary to what the other side issue is.\"
Sent 18: Scott Wheeler, president of the Eastern Bar Association of Los Angeles and an ally of the old program, said he mobilized his 200 members to staff the clinic after watching the ranks of unserved poor grow over the past year.", "question": "What did Dudovitz feel he had done spectacularly?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Indianapolis Center", "Herndon Command Center", "Indianapolis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dulles", "Boston Center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "Which commandments went searching for American 77A. Indianapolis CenterB. Herndon Command CenterC. IndianapolisD. DullesE. Boston CenterPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Durer trained in Wolgemut's studio", "Wolgemut's", "Wolgemut" ], "distractor groups": [ "France", "An instructor's", "Mexico" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.", "question": "What studio did Durer train in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The security guard who is helping the toys.", "Ray Vernon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ginger", "Baby Oopsie Daisy , Jack Attack , Mr. Static , and Zombietoid", "the bum", "The toys", "Brick Bardo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film begins with Brick Bardo ( Tim Thomerson , from ( ( Dollman hitchhiking to get to the town of Pahoota , where he tries to find a girl named Nurse Ginger ( Melissa Behr , who was shrunken to 11 inches in ( ( Bad Channels , to prove to her that she's not alone .
Sent 2: Meanwhile , the film cuts to Judith Grey , who has a nightmare about the events that happened in the previous film a year before .
Sent 3: Ever since the events that took place a year before , Judith has been watching the Toyland Warehouse , believing that the toys are still alive .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , a bum breaks into the Warehouse , and starts to mess around with a clown tricycle , until he gets knocked in the head with a box of toys , causing him to hit his head on the ground , killing him .
Sent 5: However , his blood continues to flow over to the place where the demon was buried , and brings back : Baby Oopsie Daisy , Jack Attack , Mr. Static , and this time brings up a new killer toy named Zombietoid , a blonde GI JOE action figure with a sword as a weapon .
Sent 6: Judith , who's now inside the building , finally sees the toys in full view , but is then arrested for breaking into a secluded building .
Sent 7: After the police leave , the toys force the new security guard Ray Vernon to help them with their needs .
Sent 8: Meanwhile , Judith , who now knows about Nurse Ginger and Brick Bardo's history , bribes a news reporter to tell her where they 're at , and tells her they are in Pahoota .
Sent 9: Judith , after having a deal with Bardo and Ginger to help her kill the toys , they head off back to the Warehouse .", "question": "Who will Judith, Brick, and Ginger have to confront when they return to the warehouse?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She escaped by hiding in her mother's car (Sent 12) and convinced her mother that the boys set her up to escape arrest (Sent 13)", "She made it look like a setup" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "What happens to Debbie after Curtis and Steven are captured?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The city, the county and Drake University have cut or will be cutting funding to Boone County Legal Aid", "Drake University" ], "distractor groups": [ "An anonymous millionaire donor", "Prairie Meadows", "Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Boone, Ia.
Sent 2: -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County.
Sent 3: Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a 10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded.
Sent 4: The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services.
Sent 5: \"It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact,\" said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid.
Sent 6: For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy.
Sent 7: He also has a private practice.
Sent 8: If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go.
Sent 9: The city of Boone gave Schroeder 6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer.
Sent 10: Without that, the program might already be closed.
Sent 11: \"All governments are having problems with finances,\" Boone Mayor George Maybee said.
Sent 12: \"No one else stepped in.
Sent 13: The county didn't.
Sent 14: The state didn't.\"
Sent 15: Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it.
Sent 16: Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester \"for a variety of reasons,\" Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail.
Sent 17: Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money.
Sent 18: Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years.", "question": "Who has or will be cutting funding to Boone County Legal Aid?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Turned up anything worth the Insurrection's time", "The mission was about Rakal and the Arrallin species", "Finding a new habitat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Finding food and water", "To find a new planet to populate", "To escape from the terror of a poor dictator", "To find nebula cells for their energy source" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rakal, her first officer, was staring pensively at his panel.
Sent 2: He was what this was all about.
Sent 3: She watched his graceful fingers ending in thick black claws tap out calculations on the panel.
Sent 4: His pointed ears swiveled back and forth, catching every sound from the bridge, while his long tail swished to the rhythm of his thoughts.
Sent 5: Only those of the Arrallin Insurrection inner team knew he was no common 'beta furry'.
Sent 6: His silken fur, which would be tawny golden and striped with jet black bands, was dyed perfectly to a pure black, and his mane trimmed and thinned as to be indistinguishable from the rest of his coat.
Sent 7: His eyes had been treated and darkened to a rich purple to disguise the brilliant golden yellow color that would mark him as an Alpha Arrallin, and leader of his hive.
Sent 8: Right now, he looked like an overgrown wolf who'd learned touch-typing.
Sent 9: The scout ship re-emerged from the hole - a brilliant speck emerging from a sphere of velvety blackness.
Sent 10: It's hail crackled across the comm, and Tara spun to retake her seat at the helm.
Sent 11: \"Launch the second probe.
Sent 12: Won't Central be crushed to learn that another gateway has yielded little more than a class F planet and a white dwarf system.
Sent 13: Level 1 and 2 staffers should prepare to be briefed and move out.
Sent 14: This sounds like it's the one.\"
Sent 15: The distinctive whuffle of pleasure rippled through the betas on the bridge, and Rakal let loose a small growl, as if to caution his charges against false hope.
Sent 16: They'd scouted twenty-seven gates so far, and none had turned up anything worth the Insurrection's time.
Sent 17: Tara would not let giddy hopes drag them onto a rock that would spell the end for the project, and the Arrallin species.", "question": "What was the mission all about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Suicide attempt", "Patrica attempting suicide", "Abortion", "Dr. Barnett advising Patricia to have an abortion", "Barnett encouraging Patricia to have an abortion, Which led to her attempted suicide", "Patricia's suicide attempt" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dr. Barnett's promotion of LSD", "Bad trip", "Bad LSD trip", "Patricia's bad LSD trip", "Hippie Movement", "Dr. Barnett's profiting from hippies", "Dr. Barnett's assassination" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "Which event drives Larry to destroy the cult?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To arrest criminals", "The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant. Additionally, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz. The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things", "To arrest anti-government workers" ], "distractor groups": [ "To arrest honest public", "To nab good people", "Years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: \"Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz,\" a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities,\" AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: \"The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people,\" Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: \"In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive,\" he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.", "question": "What does the 30 day emergency rule allow the Guatemalan government to do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deborah", "His mom Deborah" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bob" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Billy and Sally are brother and sister.
Sent 2: Billy is seven and Sally is eight.
Sent 3: Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone.
Sent 4: Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice.
Sent 5: On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice.
Sent 6: On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice.
Sent 7: Billy has blonde hair.
Sent 8: Sally has brown hair.
Sent 9: Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair.
Sent 10: He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is.
Sent 11: Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life.
Sent 12: One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair.
Sent 13: Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair.
Sent 14: Billy and Sally live on a farm.
Sent 15: They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack.
Sent 16: They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm.
Sent 17: Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh.
Sent 18: They have a fun life growing up on the farm.", "question": "Who does Billy have the same color hair as?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, in his statement to CNN", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, he didn't like Gandee nor his family", "Government", "No, Kent Carper didn't talk on the subject", "No, it was the Sheriff" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show \"Buckwild,\" has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday.
Sent 2: \"This is a very sad and tragic event,\" Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said.
Sent 3: \"We live in a very small community.
Sent 4: Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family.\"
Sent 5: Gandee, 21, was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, authorities said.
Sent 6: 'Buckwild' producer talks about the show \"Earlier this day after releasing information Shain Gandee was missing, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area near Thaxton Hollow, Sissonville, Kanawha County WV,\" said a statement from the Sheriff's Office.
Sent 7: \"Deputies and members of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department used all terrain vehicles to access that vehicle, a 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family.
Sent 8: The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path.
Sent 9: Inside were the bodies of three people.\"
Sent 10: In a subsequent release, the Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud.
Sent 11: It was uneven but upright; its muffler was below the surface.
Sent 12: Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco's passenger side door, but the driver's side, where the younger Gandee sat, was free, the Sheriff's Office said.
Sent 13: Gandee was happy with life before death He was one of the nine cast members of \"Buckwild.\"
Sent 14: The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville, West Virginia, pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their all-terrain vehicles.
Sent 15: Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done \"every job from coal mining to being a garbage man.\"", "question": "Did Kent Carper say \"Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family.\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Eight Banks", "8" ], "distractor groups": [ "30", "13", "15", "45" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: First of America Bank Corp. said it completed its acquisition of Midwest Financial Group Inc. for about 250 million.
Sent 2: First of America, which now has 45 banks and 12.5 billion in assets, announced an agreement to acquire the Peoria, Ill., bank holding company in January.
Sent 3: Midwest Financial has 2.3 billion in assets and eight banks.
Sent 4: The Midwest Financial subsidiary banks will continue to operate under their current names until early 1990, when each will adopt the First of America name.
Sent 5: Kalamazoo, Mich.-based First of America said it will eliminate the 13 management positions of the former Midwest Financial parent company.
Sent 6: First of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America.
Sent 7: But it said that severance payments to those executives not staying with the company will reduce First of America's operating results for 1989 by 3 million to 4 million, or 15 cents to 20 cents a share.", "question": "How many subsidiary banks under Midwest Financial Group will adopt the First of America name, once they are acquired?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because that is how they were trained", "In an attempt to prevent terrorism", "They didn't operate within a democratic political institution" ], "distractor groups": [ "Got paid very little", "Because this is what was done" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: \"If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them,\" he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir \"touched on the case\" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had \"always felt\" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.", "question": "Why did the Indonesian military perpetrate human rights abuses?" }, { "answer groups": [ "kill bacteria in water and it is mixed in pool", "It kills germs and can be found in household cleaners and to keep pools germ free.", "we use it to keep our pools clean", "kill bacteria" ], "distractor groups": [ "used as air freshener", "used in breathing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Physical properties include the state of matter.
Sent 2: We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas.
Sent 3: Properties can also include color and odor.
Sent 4: For example, oxygen is a gas.
Sent 5: It is a major part of the air we breathe.
Sent 6: It is colorless and odorless.
Sent 7: Chlorine is also a gas.
Sent 8: In contrast to oxygen, chlorine is greenish in color.
Sent 9: It has a strong, sharp odor.
Sent 10: Have you ever smelled cleaning products used around your home?
Sent 11: If so, you have probably smelled chlorine.
Sent 12: Another place you might smell chlorine is at a public swimming pool.
Sent 13: The chlorine is used to kill bacteria that may grow in the water.
Sent 14: Other physical properties include hardness, freezing, and boiling points.
Sent 15: Some substances have the ability to dissolve in other substances.
Sent 16: Some substances cannot be dissolved.
Sent 17: For example, salt easily dissolves in water.
Sent 18: Oil does not dissolve in water.", "question": "Why is chlorine used in our everyday lives and how?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The duelists'", "The principals of the duel", "The chief citizen and Pudd'nhead Wilson" ], "distractor groups": [ "The names of the 400 people present for the dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen", "Aunt Patsy Cooper's", "The town's" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.", "question": "Whose names and praises were in everyone's mouths?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Arab Nations and Pakistan; they were unwilling to foster dynamic economies that could create jobs attractive to educated young men", "Pakistan", "Other arab countries like Pakistan", "Arab nations" ], "distractor groups": [ "Afghanistan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These experiments in political Islam faltered during the 1990s: the Iranian revolution lost momentum, prestige, and public support, and Pakistan's rulers found that most of its population had little enthusiasm for fundamentalist Islam.
Sent 2: Islamist revival movements gained followers across the Muslim world, but failed to secure political power except in Iran and Sudan.
Sent 3: In Algeria, where in 1991 Islamists seemed almost certain to win power through the ballot box, the military preempted their victory, triggering a brutal civil war that continues today.
Sent 4: Opponents of today's rulers have few, if any, ways to participate in the existing political system.
Sent 5: They are thus a ready audience for calls to Muslims to purify their society, reject unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia.
Sent 6: Social and Economic Malaise In the 1970s and early 1980s, an unprecedented flood of wealth led the then largely unmodernized oil states to attempt to shortcut decades of development.
Sent 7: They funded huge infrastructure projects, vastly expanded education, and created subsidized social welfare programs.
Sent 8: These programs established a widespread feeling of entitlement without a corresponding sense of social obligations.
Sent 9: By the late 1980s, diminishing oil revenues, the economic drain from many unprofitable development projects, and population growth made these entitlement programs unsustainable.
Sent 10: The resulting cutbacks created enormous resentment among recipients who had come to see government largesse as their right.
Sent 11: This resentment was further stoked by public understanding of how much oil income had gone straight into the pockets of the rulers, their friends, and their helpers.
Sent 12: Unlike the oil states (or Afghanistan, where real economic development has barely begun), the other Arab nations and Pakistan once had seemed headed toward balanced modernization.
Sent 13: The established commercial, financial, and industrial sectors in these states, supported by an entrepreneurial spirit and widespread understanding of free enterprise, augured well.
Sent 14: But unprofitable heavy industry, state monopolies, and opaque bureaucracies slowly stifled growth.
Sent 15: More importantly, these state-centered regimes placed their highest priority on preserving the elite's grip on national wealth.
Sent 16: Unwilling to foster dynamic economies that could create jobs attractive to educated young men, the countries became economically stagnant and reliant on the safety valve of worker emigration either to the Arab oil states or to the West.
Sent 17: Furthermore, the repression and isolation of women in many Muslim countries have not only seriously limited individual opportunity but also crippled overall economic productivity.
Sent 18: By the 1990s, high birthrates and declining rates of infant mortality had produced a common problem throughout the Muslim world: a large, steadily increasing population of young men without any reasonable expectation of suitable or steady employment-a sure prescription for social turbulence.", "question": "Which countries became economically stagnant and reliant on the safety valve of worker emigration?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A sexually attractive women", "A woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness", "A woman who is dangerously attractive" ], "distractor groups": [ "A white snake", "A nude female", "Feminism" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "What does the word \"Femme\" refer to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Develop new traits", "Blending in", "Random change", "Harmful traits", "Mutations enable living things to adapt to new conditions", "Beneficial traits" ], "distractor groups": [ "Changes to parents", "Nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "What can mutations enable?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That he needed to remain calm", "He noticed phones and pagers of the press ringing and he wished to remain calm and show strength in the face of the attacks" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sad", "Tragic", "To protect the children", "Happy", "To get out of there" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "What were some of the President's first thoughts upon hearing of the attacks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Eliza", "His wife", "Eliza Hamilton" ], "distractor groups": [ "Thomas E. Davis", "Settlers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "When the house was sold for $25,000, who used a part of the proceeds to purchase a townhouse?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Scholars believe that Balto-Slavic is most closely related to the Albanian language because of the phonetic vowel usages between \"a\" and \"o.\"", "Balto-Slavic, because of the vowel shift and innovatively used old relative jos" ], "distractor groups": [ "Germanic, because of isoglosses" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albanian was proved to be an Indo-European language in 1854 by the German philologist Franz Bopp.
Sent 2: The Albanian language comprises its own branch of the Indo-European language family.
Sent 3: Some scholars believe that Albanian derives from Illyrian while others claim that it derives from Daco-Thracian.
Sent 4: (Illyrian and Daco-Thracian, however, might have been closely related languages; see Thraco-Illyrian.) Establishing longer relations, Albanian is often compared to Balto-Slavic on the one hand and Germanic on the other, both of which share a number of isoglosses with Albanian.
Sent 5: Moreover, Albanian has undergone a vowel shift in which stressed, long o has fallen to a, much like in the former and opposite the latter.
Sent 6: Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives.
Sent 7: The cultural renaissance was first of all expressed through the development of the Albanian language in the area of church texts and publications, mainly of the Catholic region in the North, but also of the Orthodox in the South.
Sent 8: The Protestant reforms invigorated hopes for the development of the local language and literary tradition when cleric Gjon Buzuku brought into the Albanian language the Catholic liturgy, trying to do for the Albanian language what Luther did for German.", "question": "Of the languages that scholars compare to Albanian language, which is most closely related to the Albanian language and why?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Iberian Peninsula", "Iberian" ], "distractor groups": [ "North African", "Syberian" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished.
Sent 2: Over a period of many centuries crucial in Spanish history, Madrid's significance was negligible.
Sent 3: The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid.
Sent 4: Armies of North African nomads, intent on disseminating Islam, invaded the peninsula in a.d.
Sent 5: Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain.
Sent 6: If Madrid played any role in these pivotal events, no record of it remains.
Sent 7: The first solid references to this obscure settlement on the Castilian plateau, guarded by the looming Guadarrama mountain range, appear in the 9th century.
Sent 8: The Arabic name for \"place of many springs,\" variously recorded as Magerit, Mayrit or Magrit, eventually evolved into Madrid.
Sent 9: The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.
Sent 10: Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alc\u00e1zar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.
Sent 11: After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
Sent 12: The Alc\u00e1zar became a fort of the crown of Castile.
Sent 13: During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Sent 14: The Moors were expelled from the town, but they remained in control of southern Spain for almost four centuries.
Sent 15: Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town.
Sent 16: From then on, the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid, where the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent.
Sent 17: Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs that united all the provinces of Spain, first visited Madrid in 1477.", "question": "What peninsula did the Armies of North African nomads invade in a.d.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, she tries to terminate the contract", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes, very much" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "Does Mrs. Herbert enjoy her sexual encounters with Mr. Neville?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow", "He was born into nobility but his maternal great-grandfather was a slave from Cameroon", "Great grandfather was Abram Gannibal was a slave", "Born in a noble family but matrilineal descent is as slave" ], "distractor groups": [ "Under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police", "The founder of modern Russian literature" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (/'pUSkIn/; Russian: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, tr.
Sent 2: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; IPA: [aljI'ksandr sjI'rgjejIvjItc 'puskjIn]; 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 - 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Sent 3: Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow.
Sent 4: His matrilineal great grandfather was Abram Gannibal, who was brought over as a slave from what is now Cameroon.
Sent 5: Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
Sent 6: While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov.
Sent 7: His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Sent 8: Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought as many as twenty-nine duels, and was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthes.
Sent 9: Pushkin had accused D'Anthes, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment of attempting to seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina.", "question": "How can one say Pushkin was from a noble family but also was not?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weeping and Lamenting", "Christians", "Fast, and weep, and lament; and their religion became a very sad and melancholy one" ], "distractor groups": [ "Happy", "Reaction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: But I think it is certain that most of the early Christians understood these words of our Lord's ascension and coming again in glory.
Sent 2: They believed that He was coming again in a very little while during their own life-time, in a few months or years, to make an end of the world and to judge the quick and the dead.
Sent 3: And as they waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He did not come, a sadness fell upon them.
Sent 4: Christ seemed to have left the world.
Sent 5: The little while that He had promised to be away seemed to have become a very long while.
Sent 6: Hundreds of years passed, and yet Christ did not come in glory.
Sent 7: And, as I said, a sadness fell on all the Church.
Sent 8: Surely, they said, this is the time of which Christ said we were to weep and lament till we saw Him again--this is the time of which He said that the bridegroom should be taken from us, and we should fast in those days.
Sent 9: And they did fast, and weep, and lament; and their religion became a very sad and melancholy one--most sad in those who were most holy, and loved their Lord best, and longed most for His coming in glory.", "question": "What was the reaction Christians had?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ringan", "The gentleman of breadalbane" ], "distractor groups": [ "A lady" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: I wondered if that were my case--if I rode out for honour, and not for the pure pleasure of the riding.
Sent 2: And I marvelled more to see the two of us, both lovers of one lady and eager rivals, burying for the nonce our feuds, and with the same hope serving the same cause.
Sent 3: We slept the night at Aird's store, and early the next morning found Ringan.
Sent 4: A new Ringan indeed, as unlike the buccaneer I knew as he was unlike the Quaker.
Sent 5: He was now the gentleman of Breadalbane, dressed for the part with all the care of an exquisite.
Sent 6: He rode a noble roan, in his Spanish belt were stuck silver-hafted pistols, and a long sword swung at his side.
Sent 7: When I presented Grey to him, he became at once the cavalier, as precise in his speech and polite in his deportment as any Whitehall courtier.
Sent 8: They talked high and disposedly of genteel matters, and you would have thought that that red-haired pirate had lived his life among proud lords and high-heeled ladies.
Sent 9: That is ever the way of the Highlander.
Sent 10: He alters like a clear pool to every mood of the sky, so that the shallow observer might forget how deep the waters are.", "question": "Who was Grey presented to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Carbon and nitrogen", "Nitrogen", "Carbon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Decomposers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy.
Sent 2: What do you think matter is used for?
Sent 3: One thing is to build bodies.
Sent 4: They also need it to carry out the processes of life.
Sent 5: Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient.
Sent 6: Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients.
Sent 7: Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Sent 8: You can see how in Figure 3.11.
Sent 9: Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
Sent 10: The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
Sent 11: The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
Sent 12: The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
Sent 13: When living things die, the cycle repeats.", "question": "Non-living matter in living things is called nutrients and a couple of these nutrients are what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The effort of Tenet to give boost to CIA", "The 1998 supplemental appropriation, a boost in CIA funds, and another supplemental appropriation" ], "distractor groups": [ "The plans submitted to congressional leaders" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The after-action review had treated the CIA as the lead agency for any offensive against al Qaeda, and the principals, at their March 10 meeting, had endorsed strengthening the CIA's capability for that role.
Sent 2: To the CTC, that meant proceeding with \"The Plan,\" which it had put forward half a year earlier-hiring and training more case officers and building up the capabilities of foreign security services that provided intelligence via liaison.
Sent 3: On occasion, as in Jordan in December 1999, these liaison services took direct action against al Qaeda cells.
Sent 4: In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Laden unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.
Sent 5: Tenet told us he met with Berger to discuss funding for counterterrorism just two days after the principals' meeting.
Sent 6: While Clarke strongly favored giving the CIA more money for counterterrorism, he differed sharply with the CIA's managers about where it should come from.
Sent 7: They insisted that the CIA had been shortchanged ever since the end of the Cold War.
Sent 8: Their ability to perform any mission, counterterrorism included, they argued, depended on preserving what they had, restoring what they had lost since the beginning of the 1990s, and building from there-with across-the-board recruitment and training of new case officers, and the reopening of closed stations.
Sent 9: To finance the counterterrorism effort, Tenet had gone to congressional leaders after the 1998 embassy bombings and persuaded them to give the CIA a special supplemental appropriation.
Sent 10: Now, in the aftermath of the millennium alert, Tenet wanted a boost in overall funds for the CIA and another supplemental appropriation specifically for counterterrorism.
Sent 11: To Clarke, this seemed evidence that the CIA's leadership did not give sufficient priority to the battle against Bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Sent 12: He told us that James Pavitt, the head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, \"said if there's going to be money spent on going after Bin Laden, it should be given to him.
Sent 13: My view was that he had had a lot of money to do it and a long time to do it, and I didn't want to put more good money after bad.\"
Sent 14: The CIA had a very different attitude: Pavitt told us that while the CIA's Bin Laden unit did\"extraordinary and commendable work,\" his chief of station in London \"was just as much part of the al Qaeda struggle as an officer sitting in [the Bin Laden unit].\"
Sent 15: The dispute had large managerial implications, for Clarke had found Ailies in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).", "question": "What was the \"evidence\" in sentence 11 referring to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Temperature", "Oven setting is too high", "Raise in temperature" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wet road", "Fall in temperature", "Evaporation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven?
Sent 2: Do you know why things burn?
Sent 3: It all has to do with temperature.
Sent 4: Changes in matter are affected by temperature.
Sent 5: For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long?
Sent 6: What do you think will happen?
Sent 7: Thats right, it will probably burn.
Sent 8: The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat.
Sent 9: In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter.
Sent 10: Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster.
Sent 11: What about a physical change?
Sent 12: Are physical changes affected by temperature?
Sent 13: Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm.
Sent 14: This happens because the road surface is very warm.
Sent 15: The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly.
Sent 16: The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water.
Sent 17: The evaporation of water is a physical change.
Sent 18: So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs.", "question": "What causes things to burn?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Joe", "Joe's married life and family", "Joe McCall", "His best friend since kindergarten" ], "distractor groups": [ "Julie", "Sylvia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Charlie Y. Reader is a 35-year-old theatrical agent in New York , living a seemingly idyllic life as a bachelor .
Sent 2: Numerous women ( among them Poppy , Helen , and Jessica come and go , cleaning and cooking for him .
Sent 3: Charlie 's best friend since kindergarten , Joe McCall , who has a wife named Ethel and children in Indianapolis , comes to New York for a stay at Charlie 's apartment , claiming that the excitement is gone from his 11-year marriage and that he wants to leave his wife .
Sent 4: Joe envies and is amazed by Charlie 's parade of girlfriends , while Charlie professes admiration for Joe 's married life and family .
Sent 5: At an audition , Charlie meets singer-actress Julie Gillis .
Sent 6: She has her life planned to a tight schedule , determined to marry and retire from performing to a life of child-rearing by 22 .
Sent 7: Although at first she wards off Charlie 's advances , she comes to see him as the ideal man for her plans .
Sent 8: Julie demands that Charlie stop seeing other women .
Sent 9: Charlie balks , but he begins to fall in love with her .
Sent 10: Joe starts keeping company with Sylvia Crewes , a sophisticated classical musician and a typically neglected lover of Charlie 's .
Sent 11: Sylvia is approaching 33 and desires marriage as much as the younger Julie does .
Sent 12: One day , annoyed by Julie and possibly jealous of Joe 's attentions , Charlie blurts out a proposal of marriage to Sylvia .
Sent 13: She is thrilled , only to discover the morning after their engagement party that he has proposed to Julie as well .
Sent 14: Joe confesses his love to Sylvia and asks her to marry him .", "question": "Charlie professes his admiration for whose family life?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A habitat can be altered, but it could lead to extinction of a species.", "yes", "yes, habitat can be altered" ], "distractor groups": [ "There can't be any outcome", "no" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From a human point of view, a habitat is where you live.
Sent 2: It might be your city, town, or neighborhood.
Sent 3: Your habitat can be altered.
Sent 4: Most people move a few times in their lives.
Sent 5: But a plant cannot move.
Sent 6: An animal may not be suited to live in another area.
Sent 7: A habitat is the natural home or environment of an organism.
Sent 8: Humans often destroy the habitats of other organisms.
Sent 9: The loss of habitat can cause the extinction of species.
Sent 10: Extinction is when a species disappears forever.
Sent 11: Once a species is extinct, it can never be brought back.
Sent 12: Humans cause habitat destruction in many ways.
Sent 13: There are two common ways this happens.
Sent 14: Land may be cleared.
Sent 15: Another way is when an animal or plant is brought to an area where it does not belong.", "question": "Can a habitat be altered and if so what could be an outcome?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alfred Wegener", "Alfred", "Wegener" ], "distractor groups": [ "James Williams", "Scientist", "Africa scientist" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "Which scientist noticed that rocks were the same on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail, and 150 miles of airport runways and modernizing the air traffic control system", "A modernized and improved infrastructure", "A plan to rebuild 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways" ], "distractor groups": [ "A Democratic majority in the House and Senate", "Better roads" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "What does the proposal envision?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tricked", "He had an imaginary friend", "Daffy Duck had an invisible kangaroo friend named Hymie", "Half asleeep" ], "distractor groups": [ "He said he would be quiet", "Wide awake", "Trusted", "He said he would not bother him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "What made Porky not believe Daffy Duck?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1", "Out of 5 regents, one, Tokugawa had his own ambitions", "5; 1" ], "distractor groups": [ "10", "6; 2", "Three, one", "3" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "How many regents where there and how many had ambitions of their own?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No it is known for beaches and golf", "No, the Algarve region is mostly known for the many luxurious tourist apartments, hotels, golf courses, and beaches", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "It has lots of quaint towns", "Partially", "Clearly" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "Is the Algarve known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Issues deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation", "The economic, social and political future of the nation" ], "distractor groups": [ "The architects of the emancipation manifesto", "The existence of serfdom" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Soon after the conclusion of peace, important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies.
Sent 2: Plans were formed for building a great network of railways, partly for the purpose of developing the natural resources of the country, and partly for the purpose of increasing its power for defense and attack.
Sent 3: The existence of serfdom was tackled boldly, taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces and, hoping that their relations with the serfs might be regulated in a more satisfactory way (meaning in a way more satisfactory for the proprietors), he authorized the formation of committees \"for ameliorating the condition of the peasants,\" and laid down the principles on which the amelioration was to be effected.
Sent 4: This step had been followed by one even more significant.
Sent 5: Without consulting his ordinary advisers, Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia (serfdom was rare in other parts), containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the Governor-General of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
Sent 6: The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
Sent 7: The emancipation was not merely a humanitarian question capable of being solved instantaneously by imperial ukase.
Sent 8: It contained very complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation.
Sent 9: Alexander had to choose between the different measures recommended to him and decide if the serfs would become agricultural laborers dependent economically and administratively on the landlords or if the serfs would be transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors.
Sent 10: The emperor gave his support to the latter project, and the Russian peasantry became one of the last groups of peasants in Europe to shake off serfdom.
Sent 11: The architects of the emancipation manifesto were Alexander's brother Konstantin, Yakov Rostovtsev, and Nikolay Milyutin.
Sent 12: On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published.", "question": "Outside of posing the humanitarian question, what else did the emancipation serve?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The lightscreen", "He left quarters and he know about officials meet by lightscreen" ], "distractor groups": [ "A note" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fact: I wasn't dead.
Sent 2: After I realized this, I left my quarters.
Sent 3: The lightscreen provided had informed me when and where official meals were taking place, but I hadn't bothered to acknowledge the invitations.
Sent 4: It hadn't seemed relevant, somehow, given that I was still reeling over the explosion, the deaths of my crewmates, and the rescue.
Sent 5: I've heard there are a number of stages of grief and shock; I guess I was working my way through them.
Sent 6: Food was delivered to my quarters.
Sent 7: Initially, I couldn't figure out why\u2014I hadn't requested any be sent.
Sent 8: Then I realized, someone must have noticed I hadn't left, and was nice enough to send food my way.
Sent 9: The accompanying bottle of wine was a nice touch.
Sent 10: I must have consumed it, too, because later on, the plates and the bottle were both empty.
Sent 11: I spent a lot of time lying on my back on the bed, staring up at the little etched swirls in the ceiling, or slumped in the old-fashioned armchair, staring out the windows at the stars.
Sent 12: I did a lot of staring and not moving.
Sent 13: Man, was it good to be done with that stage.
Sent 14: It was time to find out what hell looked like.", "question": "What had he left after realizing he isn't dead, how he know about officials meet?" }, { "answer groups": [ "War", "Rival Fujiwara factions" ], "distractor groups": [ "Katakana System", "Love" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "What led to the Tiara army defeating the Minamoto armies?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The bomber", "Terrorist", "Member of the Narodnaya Volya", "The person responsible for the explosion and a member of the young member of the Narodnaya Volya" ], "distractor groups": [ "The driver", "Police", "The police chief" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France.
Sent 2: The emperor emerged shaken but unhurt.
Sent 3: Rysakov was captured almost immediately.
Sent 4: Police Chief Dvorzhitsky heard Rysakov shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd.
Sent 5: The surrounding guards and the Cossacks urged the emperor to leave the area at once rather than being shown the site of the explosion.
Sent 6: Nevertheless, a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing by the canal fence, raised both arms and threw something at the emperor's feet.
Sent 7: He was alleged to have shouted, \"It is too early to thank God\".
Sent 8: Dvorzhitsky was later to write:", "question": "Who is Rysakov?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hersey Kyota", "Kyota" ], "distractor groups": [ "Uighurs", "Ian Kelly", "Ambassador Palau" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday.
Sent 2: The map shows the Pacific island nation of Palau in relation to China.
Sent 3: Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador Hersey Kyota told CNN.
Sent 4: But Kyota said his country, a former U.S. Pacific trust territory, has agreed to take in the ethnic Uighur detainees \"for humanitarian reasons\" and because of the \"special relationship\" between Palau and the United States.
Sent 5: U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly would not comment on the announcement, telling reporters, \"We're still involved in ongoing discussions.\"
Sent 6: The agreement includes some U.S. aid for Palau, Kyota said, but he said those details remained to be worked out as well.
Sent 7: The country, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles west of Hawaii.
Sent 8: Palau has received nearly 900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for defense.
Sent 9: The \"Compact of Free Association\" between Palau and the United States is up for review, but Kelly said any additional aid offer \"is not linked to any other discussions we may be having with the government of Palau.\"
Sent 10: The Uighurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan.", "question": "Who is ambassador to the United States from Palau?" }, { "answer groups": [ "via pressurized air suits", "in enclosed areas", "They hear through air molecules in their spaceships.", "though electronics", "They are in enclosed space stations or pressurized suits.In both cases, they are surrounded by air molecules, but if they left their spaceship and did not use their electronics, they would not be able to hear each other." ], "distractor groups": [ "via gravity", "special training", "better hearing", "Boyle carries them with his empty jar." ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sound waves are mechanical waves.
Sent 2: They can travel only through matter.
Sent 3: They cannot travel through empty space.
Sent 4: This was demonstrated in the 1600s by a scientist named Robert Boyle.
Sent 5: Boyle placed a ticking clock in a sealed glass jar.
Sent 6: The clock could be heard ticking through the air and glass of the jar.
Sent 7: Then Boyle pumped the air out of the jar.
Sent 8: The clock was still running, but the ticking could not be heard.
Sent 9: Thats because the sound couldnt travel without air particles to transfer the sound energy.
Sent 10: Is there any other place where sound cannot be heard?
Sent 11: Here is a hint: is there any other place that does not have air molecules?
Sent 12: Thats right, in space sound cannot be transferred.
Sent 13: So can astronauts hear each other?
Sent 14: Yes, they can, because they are in enclosed space stations or pressurized suits.In both cases, they are surrounded by air molecules.
Sent 15: If they left their space ship and did not use their electronics, they would not be able to hear each other.
Sent 16: Next time you watch a science fiction movie, think about this factoid.
Sent 17: When spaceships are destroyed by hostile alien beings, there would be no sound heard.
Sent 18: Sound waves can travel through many kinds of matter.", "question": "How do astronauts hear each other?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mater Lachrymarum", "The Urn was box shaped and a (magical) cloak, a dagger and three statues were found all of which belonged to Mater Lachrymarum", "A magic cloak", "A box-shape" ], "distractor groups": [ "A hat", "A triangle", "Sarah" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film begins with members of the Catholic Church digging up the body of a 19th century church official , whose casket has a box-shaped urn chained to it .
Sent 2: Inside the box they discover artifacts belonging to Mater Lachrymarum , the last surviving member of the Three Mothers ; an ancient trio of powerful black witches .
Sent 3: In particular , the box contains a magic cloak that , when worn by Mater Lachrymarum , increases her powers significantly .
Sent 4: The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome , where Sarah Mandy , an American studying art restorationworks .
Sent 5: Sarah is dating the curator Michael Pierce , a single father who is away from the museum that night .
Sent 6: With help from the assistant curator , Sarah opens the box and finds the cloak , a dagger , and three statues representing the three witches .
Sent 7: Sending Sarah to her office to retrieve tools to help her translate the text on the artifacts , the curator is promptly attacked by the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum .
Sent 8: Sarah arrives too late to save her boss and starts to flee the museum .
Sent 9: Unfortunately , she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarum 's familiar and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum .
Sent 10: Sarah tells the police what happened as she spends the night with Michael and his son .
Sent 11: Michael visits the Cardinal who sent him the urn only to find out that , shortly after mailing the urn to him , he had a severe stroke and is now in a coma .", "question": "What was the shape of the urn, what were the specific artifacts were found in it and who did they belong too?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Die-Cutter", "He was a die-cutter by profession" ], "distractor groups": [ "Judge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Thorndike had risen, and, in farewell, was holding out his hand to Andrews.
Sent 2: He turned, and across the court-room the eyes of the financier and the stenographer met.
Sent 3: At the sight of the great man, Spear flushed crimson, and then his look of despair slowly disappeared; and into his eyes there came incredulously hope and gratitude.
Sent 4: He turned his head suddenly to the wall.
Sent 5: Mr. Thorndike stood irresolute, and then sank back into his chair.
Sent 6: The first man in the line was already at the railing, and the questions put to him by the judge were being repeated to him by the other assistant district attorney and a court attendant.
Sent 7: His muttered answers were in turn repeated to the judge.
Sent 8: \"Says he's married, naturalized citizen, Lutheran Church, die- cutter by profession.\" The probation officer, her hands filled with papers, bustled forward and whispered.
Sent 9: \"Mrs. Austin says,\" continued the district attorney, \"she's looked into this case, and asks to have the man turned over to her.
Sent 10: He has a wife and three children; has supported them for five years.\" \"Is the wife in court?\" the judge said.
Sent 11: A thin, washed-out, pretty woman stood up, and clasped her hands in front of her.
Sent 12: \"Has this man been a good husband to you, madam?\" asked the young judge.
Sent 13: The woman broke into vehement assurances.
Sent 14: No man could have been a better husband.
Sent 15: Would she take him back?
Sent 16: Indeed she would take him back.
Sent 17: She held out her hands as though she would physically drag her husband from the pillory.
Sent 18: The judge bowed toward the probation officer, and she beckoned the prisoner to her.", "question": "What was the profession of the first man in line?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She felt as if she would be giving up a part of herself", "She knew them by heart", "Even though she knew the poems by heart she liked to sit holding the books remembering the joy in reading the poems and handwritten annotations" ], "distractor groups": [ "She didn't want to see Stoddard again" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.
Sent 2: She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.
Sent 3: She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.
Sent 4: It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.
Sent 5: She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.
Sent 6: She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.
Sent 7: Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.
Sent 8: Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.
Sent 9: Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.", "question": "Why could Johnnie not bear to return the books?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Raised funds", "Helped raise funds and suggestions for initial programs" ], "distractor groups": [ "First professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem", "Sold the land", "He was the the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization", "Established it", "He opened it in 1925" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Assisting Zionist causes Einstein was a figurehead leader in helping establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which opened in 1925, and was among its first Board of Governors.
Sent 2: Earlier, in 1921, he was asked by the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, to help raise funds for the planned university.
Sent 3: He also submitted various suggestions as to its initial programs.
Sent 4: Among those, he advised first creating an Institute of Agriculture in order to settle the undeveloped land.
Sent 5: That should be followed, he suggested, by a Chemical Institute and an Institute of Microbiology, to fight the various ongoing epidemics such as malaria, which he called an \"evil\" that was undermining a third of the country's development.
Sent 6: Establishing an Oriental Studies Institute, to include language courses given in both Hebrew and Arabic, for scientific exploration of the country and its historical monuments, was also important.
Sent 7: Chaim Weizmann later became Israel's first president.
Sent 8: Upon his death while in office in November 1952 and at the urging of Ezriel Carlebach, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post.
Sent 9: The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer \"embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons\".
Sent 10: Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was \"deeply moved\", and \"at once saddened and ashamed\" that he could not accept it.", "question": "How did Einstein help establish the University of Jerusalem?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Indians", "The Indians" ], "distractor groups": [ "Aliens" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We waited for half an hour, watching the smoke curling over the house, and then, judging that the Indians had made off for fear of being ambushed, we crossed the clearing.
Sent 2: It took but a glance to read the story.
Sent 3: The women had been washing by the little brook before the cabin, with the children playing about them, when the Indians had come up and with a single volley killed them all except the child we had heard crying.
Sent 4: They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it.
Sent 5: We dragged out the body of the woman which had been thrown within, in the hope that a spark of life might yet remain, but she was quite dead.
Sent 6: Beneath the warrior Spiltdorph had shot we found the child.
Sent 7: It was a boy of some six or seven years, and so covered with blood that it seemed it must be dead.
Sent 8: But we stripped it and washed it in the brook, and found no wounds upon it except in the head, where it had been struck with a hatchet before its scalp had been stripped off.
Sent 9: The cold water brought it back to life and it began to cry again, whereat Spiltdorph took off his coat and wrapped it tenderly about it.", "question": "Who set fire to and looted the house.A. IndiansB. AliensC. The IndiansPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The height of his work on relativity, 1917", "1917" ], "distractor groups": [ "1926" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God \"is not playing at dice.\"
Sent 2: Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in the theory, and attempted unsuccessfully to disprove it until he died at the age of 76.
Sent 3: In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser.
Sent 4: This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck's distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode.
Sent 5: This paper was enormously influential in the later development of quantum mechanics, because it was the first paper to show that the statistics of atomic transitions had simple laws.
Sent 6: Einstein discovered Louis de Broglie's work, and supported his ideas, which were received skeptically at first.
Sent 7: In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics.
Sent 8: This paper would inspire Schrodinger's work of 1926.", "question": "When did Einstein publish an article that was aligned with Planck's distribution lawA. The height of his work on relativity, 1917B. 1926C. 1917Please select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The train uses magnets to move", "Magnets are used to keep the train up and move it forwards at speeds up to 480 kilometers (300 miles) per hour!", "Magnets are used to move it forward" ], "distractor groups": [ "Coal", "Electricity", "Air pressure", "Steam", "Future" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Take a look at this train in Figure 1.11.
Sent 2: It looks very futuristic.
Sent 3: What do you notice about it?
Sent 4: Did you notice that the train has no wheels?
Sent 5: How can a train have no wheels?
Sent 6: It doesn't need wheels.
Sent 7: It actually floats, or levitates, just above the track.
Sent 8: Magnets enable the train to do this.
Sent 9: This is not a normal train.
Sent 10: This is a maglev train.
Sent 11: The word maglev stands for magnetic levitation.
Sent 12: Because it has no wheels, there is no friction.
Sent 13: Some magnets hold the train up.
Sent 14: Other magnets are used to move the train forward.
Sent 15: This train can go very fast.
Sent 16: It can reach speeds up to 480 kilometers (300 miles) per hour!
Sent 17: Magnets are pretty cool.
Sent 18: What exactly is a magnet?
Sent 19: How is it able to exert such force?", "question": "How does the train move?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was designed to destroy tanks and needed to be re-designed to explode in a different way, and configured for precision strikes on moving vehicles", "It had been built to hit tanks, not people" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was malfunctioning", "Warhead" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about 3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator.\"
Sent 7: This was new ground,\"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B.\" Buzzy\" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the \"man in white.\"
Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.", "question": "Why did the Hellfire warhead need work?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Offspring will not match genes", "It cannot pass it to its offspring", "The mutations are not passed onto the offsprings" ], "distractor groups": [ "No advantages", "Nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "What is the advantage of the death of organism with harmful mutations?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mahdiyeh Golrou", "Bahareh Hedayat", "Hengameh Shahidi", "Alieh Eghdam Doust" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Who has been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The comedy of 'Nights with Karl and Groucho.'", "Comedy", "Nights with Karl and Groucho" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dream's End", "Oysters", "Emil Malaquez", "Sashimi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds.
Sent 2: Wondering about the reason for her extravagance, I asked how work had gone that day.
Sent 3: \"Emil came in.
Sent 4: He's taking Dream's End.\"
Sent 5: \"Emil?\"
Sent 6: \"You've no memory left, old one.
Sent 7: Emil Malaquez.\"
Sent 8: You did that to test my affections.\"
Sent 9: \"What?\"
Sent 10: \"Calling him by his first name.
Sent 11: I did that in a comedy once.'Nights with Karl and Groucho.'
Sent 12: It was before your time.\"
Sent 13: \"The critics liked it.\"
Sent 14: \"I'm glad.\"
Sent 15: A moment later: \"That's not why I called him 'Emil'.\"
Sent 16: \"No. We lunched together.
Sent 17: He's nice.\"", "question": "What did the critics like?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA instead of 30 days which places an undue burden on the plaintiff", "West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state" ], "distractor groups": [ "Surrounding the Schuylkill County", "OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist", "The minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is $100; the maximum fine is $1,000 and up to six months in jail" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "What solution is West offering and how is it different for a plaintiff from what is already being practiced?" }, { "answer groups": [ "National bankruptcy and absolutist government", "Discontent with Absolutist Rule", "Due to discontent with absolutist rule" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because he betrayed the nation", "His brother wanted the throne" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Among the early blows struck for independence was a rebellion in the town of Olh\u00e3o.
Sent 2: On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones\u00a0\u2014\u00a0attacked and captured the local French garrison.
Sent 3: It's said that a party of local men then set sail from Olh\u00e3o all the way to Brazil, without maps or navigational aids, to tell the king of the insurrection.
Sent 4: The real battle, however, was waged under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, whose coalition forces expelled the French after two years of bitter fighting.
Sent 5: The war left Portugal further weakened, and in 1822 its major empire outpost, Brazil, declared independence.
Sent 6: At the same time, a dispute over the crown continually raged between Pedro IV, the absentee monarch who preferred to reign as Emperor of Brazil rather than return to Portugal, and his brother Miguel.
Sent 7: The power struggle, with strong overtones of absolutism versus liberalism, excited the interest and intervention of other powers.
Sent 8: With British help, Pedro defeated Miguel off Cape St. Vincent in 1833, and his expeditionary force marched to Lisbon.
Sent 9: Pedro took the throne, though armed struggle continued for months and the lingering bitterness long after that.
Sent 10: By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.
Sent 11: The seeds of discontent with absolutist rule were sown.
Sent 12: Kingdom's End Bloodshed would haunt the remaining years of the Portuguese monarchy.
Sent 13: On 1 February 1908, the royal family was riding in an open carriage along the Lisbon river front plaza, Terreiro do Pa\u00e7o, when an assassin opened fire and killed King Carlos and the heir to the throne, Prince Luis Filipe.
Sent 14: The prince's younger brother, Prince Manuel, was also hit, but he survived and was thus propelled to the throne at the tender age of 19.
Sent 15: Amid republican agitation, a surprise uprising led by elements within the armed forces deposed Manuel in 1910.
Sent 16: Having ruled for less than three years, Manuel died in exile in 1932 in England.
Sent 17: The sudden end of more than seven centuries of monarchy brought confusion and crisis to the country.
Sent 18: Presidents and prime ministers were ushered into and out of office an unbelievable 45 times between 1910 and 1926, until a military revolution suspended Portugal's problematic democracy.", "question": "Why was King Carlos assassinated?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Auto and electrical industry demand for rubber, which dramatically increased during World War I", "Malaya producing 53 percent of the world's rubber, which had overtaken tin as its main source of income", "Malaya's rubber production", "The demand of motor vehicle companies for rubber", "Producing 53 Percent of world rubber", "Increased demand for rubber" ], "distractor groups": [ "The British overthrew the government", "The dismal financial aspects", "The Chinese fomented a revolution", "Ruling class", "The Ottomans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On to the Twentieth Century: The British extended their control over the peninsula by putting together the whole panoply of colonial administration\u2002\u2014\u2002civil service, public works, judiciary force, police force, post office, education, and land regulation\u2002\u2014\u2002with teams of British administrators, teachers, engineers, and doctors to go with it.
Sent 2: At the same time, the tin industry, dominated by Chinese using labor-intensive methods in the 19th century, passed increasingly into Western hands, who employed the modern technology of gravel pumps and mining dredges.
Sent 3: Petroleum had been found in northern Borneo, at Miri, and in Brunei, and the Anglo-Dutch Shell company used Singapore as its regional depot for its oil supplies and exports.
Sent 4: But the major breakthrough for the Malay economy was the triumph of rubber, when Singapore's new garden director, Henry Ridle (\"Rubber Ridley\" to his friends, \"Mad Ridley\" to all doubting Thomases) had developed new planting and tapping methods and painstakingly spread his faith in rubber around the peninsula.
Sent 5: World demand increased with the growth of the motor-car and electrical industries, and sky-rocketed during World War I. By 1920, Malaya was producing 53 percent of the world's rubber, which had overtaken tin as its main source of income.
Sent 6: The Malay ruling class again took a back seat.
Sent 7: Together with effective control of the rubber and tin industries, the British now firmly held the reins of government.
Sent 8: The sultans were left in charge of local and religious affairs, content with their prestige, prosperity, and security.
Sent 9: The census of 1931 served as an alarm signal for the Malay national consciousness.
Sent 10: Bolstered by a new influx of immigrants to meet the rubber and tin booms of the 1920s, non-Malays now slightly outnumbered the indigenous population.
Sent 11: The Great Depression of 1929 stepped up ethnic competition in the shrinking job market, and nationalism developed to safeguard Malay interests against the Chinese and Indians rather than the British imperial authority.
Sent 12: Though hampered by the peninsula's division into the States and the Straits Settlements, relatively conservative Muslim intellectuals and community leaders came together at the Pan-Malayan Malay Congress in Kuala Lumpur in 1939.
Sent 13: In Singapore the following year, they were joined by representatives from Sarawak and Brunei.
Sent 14: Teachers and journalists urged the revival of the common Malay-Indonesian consciousness, split by the Anglo-Dutch dismemberment of the region in the 19th century.
Sent 15: This spirit became a factor in the gathering clouds of war.", "question": "What caused the Malay ruling class to take a back seat?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gitex", "Gulf Information Technology Exhibition" ], "distractor groups": [ "The IT show", "Inagurate industrial free zone" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City.
Sent 2: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at 200 million.
Sent 3: Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that \"we want to make Dubai a new trading center.\"
Sent 4: The minister, who has his own website, also said: \"I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies.\"
Sent 5: He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies.
Sent 6: The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit.
Sent 7: The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East.", "question": "What other event was taking place when the Defense Minister announced that they wanted to make Dubai a trading center?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Domestic violence services center for catholic charities inc", "Director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp", "Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp" ], "distractor groups": [ "DHHS", "Director of Haven House Family Shelter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "The director of what entity claims legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Clues for earths past", "Make sense of events happened", "Give us clues from past", "They help people learn about Earths past by making sense of events and the order in which they occurred", "Clues of history of the Earth" ], "distractor groups": [ "Serve as energy", "Energy", "Geologists", "Extinct" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earth processes have not changed over time.
Sent 2: The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past.
Sent 3: Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away.
Sent 4: The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago.
Sent 5: As the environment changes, living creatures adapt.
Sent 6: They change over time.
Sent 7: Some organisms may not be able to adapt.
Sent 8: They become extinct.
Sent 9: Becoming extinct means they die out completely.
Sent 10: Some geologists study the history of the Earth.
Sent 11: They want to learn about Earths past.
Sent 12: They use clues from rocks and fossils.
Sent 13: They use these clues to make sense of events.
Sent 14: The goal is to place things in the order they happened.
Sent 15: They also want to know how long it took for those events to happen.", "question": "What purpose do rocks and fossils serve?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Her book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking", "The show, along with her seminal book", "Tv show, French Chef", "The French Chef cooking show and \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" book" ], "distractor groups": [ "Using olive oil", "Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco", "Using butter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "What two popular accomplishments did Julia Child revolutionize the way American's eat?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Governor", "Judge Eckels" ], "distractor groups": [ "General Johnston" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On the previous evening,--March 12th,--the monotony of the camp had been unexpectedly disturbed by the arrival, from the direction of Salt Lake City, of a horseman completely exhausted by fatigue and cold, who proved to be no other than Mr. Kane, whose mission to the Mormons by way of California was at that time totally unknown to the army.
Sent 2: The next morning he introduced himself to the Governor, was received as his guest, and remained in conference with him throughout the day.
Sent 3: What was the character of their communication is unknown, except by inference from its results.
Sent 4: When presented to Judge Eckels, on the following day, Mr. Kane exhibited to him the letters he bore from the President, and other letters, also, from Brigham Young, accrediting him as a negotiator in the existing difficulties.
Sent 5: To General Johnston he showed nothing; nor did the Governor, to the knowledge of the camp, acquaint either that officer or any other person with the purport of his business.
Sent 6: It was evident to everybody, however, that the Mormon leaders, conscious of their inability to resist the force by which they would be assailed so soon as the snow should melt upon the mountains, were engaged in an effort, of which Mr. Kane was the agent, to secure through the Governor, if possible, indemnity for their past offences, in consideration of acknowledgment of his authority.", "question": "What person was aware of Mr. Kane's purpose for arrival in town?" }, { "answer groups": [ "22", "22 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "20", "Bubble burst" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "How many years passed between when the VOC went into liquidation and when William of Orange was proclaimed king?" }, { "answer groups": [ "If the correct answer to her question is not given", "When asked about Alexander being dead or alive, the mermaid would only accept the words, \"He is alive and well and rules the world!\" This was the only response that would send her back to the depths of the sea without turning into the gorgon full of anger" ], "distractor groups": [ "If the tide is high" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy have been depicted in many cultures.
Sent 2: Alexander has figured in both high and popular culture beginning in his own era to the present day.
Sent 3: The Alexander Romance, in particular, has had a significant impact on portrayals of Alexander in later cultures, from Persian to medieval European to modern Greek.
Sent 4: Alexander may already have considered himself as the \"King of Asia\" after his victory at Issos, a conception strengthened by his subsequent successes.
Sent 5: The conception might have inspired the title given to Alexander in Babylonian documents, \"king of the world (since \"king of Asia\" had no meaning in Babylonian geography).
Sent 6: It might also be alluded in the sarcastic comments by Anaxarchus, trying to rouse Alexander after the murder of Cleitus.
Sent 7: or in the orator Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, \"The whole world would stink of his corpse\".
Sent 8: Alexander is called \"kosmokrator\", ruler of the world, in the later Alexander Romance.
Sent 9: Alexander features prominently in modern Greek folklore, more so than any other ancient figure.
Sent 10: The colloquial form of his name in modern Greek (\"O Megalexandros\") is a household name, and he is the only ancient hero to appear in the Karagiozis shadow play.
Sent 11: One well-known fable among Greek seamen involves a solitary mermaid who would grasp a ship's prow during a storm and ask the captain \"Is King Alexander alive?\".
Sent 12: The correct answer is \"He is alive and well and rules the world!\", causing the mermaid to vanish and the sea to calm.
Sent 13: Any other answer would cause the mermaid to turn into a raging Gorgon who would drag the ship to the bottom of the sea, all hands aboard.", "question": "What caused the mermaid within the well known fable to turn into a gorgon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Abdalonymus, the king of Sidon", "Abdalonymus" ], "distractor groups": [ "Alexander himself" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.", "question": "The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\" was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of who?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Christina", "Security guard" ], "distractor groups": [ "The son", "Father" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters , live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool .
Sent 2: A tall fence surrounds the property and the children have never been on the other side of it , for their parents have kept them unaware of the outside world , even of the existence of the telephone .
Sent 3: They are taught different meanings for everyday words .
Sent 4: For example , they are told that a `` zombie '' is `` a small yellow flower , '' and that `` sea '' is a chair .
Sent 5: The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth .
Sent 6: Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier , he never appears .
Sent 7: The only non-family member to come into the house is Christina , a young woman who works as a security guard at the father's factory .
Sent 8: She is driven by the father to the compound traveling both ways blindfolded where she performs sexual favors for the son .
Sent 9: Dissatisfied with his preference for intercourse , Christina seeks oral sex from the elder daughter in exchange for a headband.
Sent 10: The elder daughter obliges but does not recognize the significance of performing cunnilingus .
Sent 11: Later , she gives the headband to her younger sister , in exchange for being licked on the shoulder , Which is marked by an unexplained scar .
Sent 12: The parents have tricked the children into believing that overhead planes are merely toys .
Sent 13: They allow the children to search for toy planes that they have planted on the grounds , and the child that finds the toy owns it .", "question": "Who performs sexual favors in the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, motorcycles are included" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "No, only leatherjackets and laser guitar picks are included", "No, only Ace and Tobio are featured in the film" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Ace , a wannabe rock star , is on his way to a concert of the band Guitar Wolf when space aliens invade the Earth .
Sent 2: As a result the dead rise to their feet in the countryside setting of Asahi , Japan , with an appetite for flesh .
Sent 3: Enlisting the help of his rock 'n roll blood brother Guitar Wolf , Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight shorts , transsexuals , naked women shooting guns in the shower , and bloodthirsty zombies ready to tear them apart .
Sent 4: Leather jackets , loud over-modulated music , laser guitar picks , motorcycles , guns , muscle cars , and fire abound .
Sent 5: Guitar Wolf , a Japanese trio signed to Matador Records in the US and self-proclaimed coolest rock band in the world star as the well-coiffed heroes .
Sent 6: It is also a love story , between Ace and Tobio , a trans woman .
Sent 7: The music , in a garage punk vein , plays an important role in the film .
Sent 8: It features music from Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound and The Oblivians .
Sent 9: His 1997 song `` Twice as Deep '' by Greg Oblivian & the Tip Tops is featured .
Sent 10: This film is similar to another movie by a Spanish punk group , La matanza can bal de los garrulos lis rgicos produced by Siniestro Total", "question": "Do part of Ace and the band member's misadventures include motorcycles?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A spiritual duel", "A friendly spiritual duel" ], "distractor groups": [ "A game of chance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film is set in Igloolik in the Eastern Arctic wilderness at the dawn of the first millennium .
Sent 2: http://atanarjuat.com/legend/legend_film.php The wind is blowing over a bleak snowy landscape while a man tries to herd away some marauding dogs .
Sent 3: We hear the voice of an old man singing a childish song .
Sent 4: Inside a stone house a strange shaman by the name of Tungajuaq , who comes from up north , is singing playfully to the gathered community and camp leader Kumaglak .
Sent 5: But among the spectators there are some mistrustful faces .
Sent 6: Flash forward to another day .
Sent 7: Qulitalik is bidding goodbye to his sister Panikpak , wife of Kumaglak , promising to come if she calls for help in her heart .
Sent 8: She gives him her husband's rabbit's foot for spiritual power .
Sent 9: Qulitalik tells his sister , `` Tulimaq is the one they 'll go after now . ''
Sent 10: It seems that Qulitalik is leaving to escape a threat , and the hope is that one day he will return to help .
Sent 11: As Panikpak watches him leave , we hear a voice-over from a woman : `` We never knew what he was or why it happened .
Sent 12: Evil came to us like Death .
Sent 13: It just happened and we had to live with it . ''
Sent 14: Flash back to the original scene in the stone house .
Sent 15: The visitor and the camp leader Kumaglak are in a `` friendly '' spiritual duel involving binding in leather thongs .
Sent 16: But Panikpak is startled when the stone lamp in front of her breaks in half , and , to the horror of those present , Kumaglak falls over dead .
Sent 17: The visitor removes the leader's walrus-tooth necklace from Kumaglak's body , and , passing by Tulimaq , he puts the necklace around the neck of Sauri , the son of the murdered leader Kumaglak , saying , `` Be careful what you wish for '' .", "question": "Before Kumaglak falls over dead, what is he participating in?" }, { "answer groups": [ ": Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade", "Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was part of the society that organized the underground railroad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "What committee of the NYMS was Hamilton apart of?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis and Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services", "Sarah T. Casey and Valerie West, a manager", "Attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services" ], "distractor groups": [ "Judges", "Manager" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "Who believes that 'some changes are in order', what other lawyer regularly handles these kinds of cases (PFA's) and what are their job titles?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A second young member of the Narodnaya Volya", "Ignacy Hryniewiecki" ], "distractor groups": [ "The driver", "Chief Dvorzhitsk", "Cossacks" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France.
Sent 2: The emperor emerged shaken but unhurt.
Sent 3: Rysakov was captured almost immediately.
Sent 4: Police Chief Dvorzhitsky heard Rysakov shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd.
Sent 5: The surrounding guards and the Cossacks urged the emperor to leave the area at once rather than being shown the site of the explosion.
Sent 6: Nevertheless, a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing by the canal fence, raised both arms and threw something at the emperor's feet.
Sent 7: He was alleged to have shouted, \"It is too early to thank God\".
Sent 8: Dvorzhitsky was later to write:", "question": "Who shouted \"It is to early to thank god\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Brandy", "Spirits", "Haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe" ], "distractor groups": [ "Repose", "Poison", "Disgrace" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the \"charny\" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of \"charny\" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.", "question": "What are some of the comparisons used for \"charny\" as a drug?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weight and height above ground", "Gravitational Potential Energy is dependent on weight, and height above the ground", "Height , weight" ], "distractor groups": [ "Motion and friction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What are two things that Gravitational Potential Energy dependent on?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Language is their biggest obstacle,", "Language differences" ], "distractor groups": [ "Distrust of the agency", "Poverty", "Funding", "Domestic violence", "Meeting space" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What is the biggest obstacle NLS faced while trying to provide legal services to poor Asian populations?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The strikes in New York", "Strikes in New York" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hijacked planes", "Bin Laden", "FAA orders" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "What motivated Secret Service to enhance White House security?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is unknown", "Only in speculation", "It's possible" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot .
Sent 2: Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her .
Sent 3: He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster .
Sent 4: Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger .
Sent 5: Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger .
Sent 6: Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West .
Sent 7: The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother .
Sent 8: He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county .
Sent 9: The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive .", "question": "Is Jason the killer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Stephen St. Hilaire", "Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jean", "Martha", "Isaac Benjamin", "A 54-year-old naturalized citizen" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.
Sent 2: Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
Sent 3: The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling.
Sent 4: Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival.
Sent 5: She desperately sought political asylum.
Sent 6: Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
Sent 7: The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, \"Quest for Justice,\" to be aired 9 p.m.
Sent 8: today on New Jersey Network.
Sent 9: Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation.
Sent 10: Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Sent 11: Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.
Sent 12: \"With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs,\" he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm.
Sent 13: \"If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?\"
Sent 14: \"It was a compelling case,\" said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire.
Sent 15: \"The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries,\" he said.
Sent 16: Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming.
Sent 17: He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health.
Sent 18: \"But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off,\" he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.", "question": "Who thinks that it is difficult for people in Legal Services to decide whether to take cases.A. JeanB. Stephen St. HilaireC. MarthaD. Isaac BenjaminE. A 54-year-old naturalized citizenF. Legal Services attorney Stephen St. HilairePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Humans can climb a set of stairs or jump on a trampoline", "Climbing stairs", "Apply force larger than gravity", "Jumping" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is impossible", "Magic", "Traveling to Earth", "Have a giant rocket", "You can't" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "How can humans overcome gravity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He wanted to help young Spear", "Speak with the district attorney or Judge personally" ], "distractor groups": [ "He needed to do some business in relation to the Japanese loan", "He wanted to see the judge", "He liked the walk from there to his home" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As his car slid downtown on Tuesday morning the mind of Arnold Thorndike was occupied with such details of daily routine as the purchase of a railroad, the Japanese loan, the new wing to his art gallery, and an attack that morning, in his own newspaper, upon his pet trust.
Sent 2: But his busy mind was not too occupied to return the salutes of the traffic policemen who cleared the way for him.
Sent 3: Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft.
Sent 4: It was a charming morning.
Sent 5: The spring was at full tide, and the air was sweet and clean.
Sent 6: Mr. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence.
Sent 7: He regretted he had not given the probation officer a stronger letter.
Sent 8: He remembered the young man now, and favorably.
Sent 9: A shy, silent youth, deft in work, and at other times conscious and embarrassed.
Sent 10: But that, on the part of a stenographer, in the presence of the Wisest Man in Wall Street, was not unnatural.
Sent 11: On occasions, Mr. Thorndike had put even royalty\u2014 frayed, impecunious royalty, on the lookout for a loan\u2014at its ease.
Sent 12: The hood of the car was down, and the taste of the air, warmed by the sun, was grateful.
Sent 13: It was at this time, a year before, that young Spear picked the spring flowers to take to his mother.
Sent 14: A year from now where would young Spear be?
Sent 15: It was characteristic of the great man to act quickly, so quickly that his friends declared he was a slave to impulse.
Sent 16: It was these same impulses, leading so invariably to success, that made his enemies call him the Wisest Man.
Sent 17: He leaned forward and touched the chauffeur's shoulder.
Sent 18: \"Stop at the Court of General Sessions,\" he commanded.
Sent 19: What he proposed to do would take but a few minutes.
Sent 20: A word, a personal word from him to the district attorney, or the judge, would be enough.", "question": "What did Mr. Thorndike want to do at the Court of General Sessions?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history and they date rock layers", "Index fossils are commonly used to match rock layers; if two rock layers have the same index fossils, then they're probably about the same age", "They help to determineage of rock layers" ], "distractor groups": [ "To observe lifestyle changes of humans", "None of these above", "To create chemical energy", "They are collectable items" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils can be used to match up rock layers.
Sent 2: As organisms change over time, they look different.
Sent 3: Older fossils will look different than younger fossils.
Sent 4: Some organisms only survived for a short time before going extinct.
Sent 5: Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers.
Sent 6: Some fossils are better than others for this use.
Sent 7: The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history are called index fossils.
Sent 8: Index fossils are commonly used to match rock layers.
Sent 9: You can see how this works in Figure 2.30.
Sent 10: If two rock layers have the same index fossils, then they're probably about the same age.", "question": "How are index fossils used?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Grange", "The Grange, the only home Hamilton owned" ], "distractor groups": [ "A large statue of Hamilton" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "What structure from Hamilton's estate is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alfred Wegener", "Wegener" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tom Michaels", "Europe", "Researcher" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "Who thought that the rocks must have formed side by sideA. Alfred WegenerB. WegenerC. Tom MichaelsD. EuropeE. ResearcherPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces", "Wolgemut's studio" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bathhouse", "With the monks", "An eastern european country" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.", "question": "Durer was known in the early years of his workshop for his religious works, but he gained experience working on religious art where?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That she's pregnant", "Patricia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Realize", "Suicide" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "After Patricia's bad trip leads to a break-up, what does Patricia realize, leading to her suicide attempt?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Summerfield", "Warren Summerfield" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mcllvain", "McIlvian's wife", "Sam Farragut", "Paul McIlvain", "Maxon", "The girlfriend", "Farragut", "The young American couple" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "Who has been having an affair with McIlvain's wife, a situation his own wife is aware of?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Earthquakes", "Earthquakes on plate boundaries", "The evidence that earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries" ], "distractor groups": [ "Direction of plate movement", "Speed of plate movement" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust.
Sent 2: Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving.
Sent 3: This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates.
Sent 4: Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries.
Sent 5: This was evidence that continents can move.
Sent 6: The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics.
Sent 7: The Earths crust is divided into plates.
Sent 8: There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones.
Sent 9: Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains.
Sent 10: Scientists know he plates are in motion.
Sent 11: They now know the direction and speed of this motion .
Sent 12: Plates dont move very fast.
Sent 13: They move only a few centimeters a year.
Sent 14: This is about the same rate fingernails grow.
Sent 15: So you might wonder, what could cause this motion?
Sent 16: What supplies the energy to cause this change?", "question": "What showed scientists that continents can move?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That the child gains experience", "Experience" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dialogue and reasoning", "Freedom of speech" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In actual practice, however, we act too often as if we only cared for economic values.
Sent 2: If we are to live up to our educational profession, we must look our aim in the face and honestly practise what we believe.
Sent 3: While training of character and conduct is the accepted aim for education in general, to make this useful and practical each teacher must fix her attention on how this ultimate aim affects her own special part of the whole work.
Sent 4: By watching the free child she will discover how best she can help him: he knows his own business, and when unfettered by advice or command shows plainly that he is chiefly concerned with _gaining experience_.
Sent 5: He finds himself in what is to him a new and complex world of people and things; actual experience is the foundation for a complete living, and the stronger the foundation the better the result of later building.
Sent 6: _The first vital principle then is that the teacher of young children must provide life in miniature; that is, she must provide abundant raw material and opportunities for experience_.", "question": "The young child and the teacher both highly value what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The absence of an indigenous alphabet", "A need to adapt the complex ideograms of Chinese" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mexicans", "Shiki", "Heian-kyo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "What led to the development of the katakana system?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Attorney", "A Washington defense attorney", "Lawyer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Pelecanos", "Chef", "Politician", "Doctor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "As a private investigator, who does Spero Lucas work for in Pelecanos newest novel, \"The Cut\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Situation Room video teleconference", "Teleconference regarding the Plane" ], "distractor groups": [ "The safety Plan for the presidernt", "Coffee hour", "Secret service" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "To what did the CIA and FAA begin participating in at 9:40?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Government", "The people of the Heian court" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Chinese", "Slaves", "The Buddhists" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "Which people were able to experience, for example, literary party games in ornate palace gardens and expeditions to the best places to see the first spring cherry blossoms?" }, { "answer groups": [ "For excellence in Pro Bono work", "His three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission", "For his pro bono work" ], "distractor groups": [ "Being appointed to the state Supreme court", "For" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Growing up on a farm near St. Paul, L. Mark Bailey didn't dream of becoming a judge.
Sent 2: Even when he graduated from North Decatur High School in 1975, sitting on the bench someday seemed more like a leisurely activity than a career.
Sent 3: Somewhere along the line, all of that changed.
Sent 4: Bailey received his bachelor's degree from the University of Indianapolis in 1978 and a jurisprudence doctorate from Indiana University-Indianapolis in 1982.
Sent 5: After several years of private practice from 1982-90, he became the judge of Decatur County Court for a year.
Sent 6: The Indiana legislature renamed that judgeship and Bailey was tabbed Decatur Superior Court judge from 1992-98, winning reelection twice.
Sent 7: From there, his career continued on the fast track and Bailey was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to sit on the Indiana Court of Appeals First District, where he works today.
Sent 8: Despite his quick climb up the legal ladder, Bailey has always found time to help out in causes he feels strongly about.
Sent 9: It was for his dedication to the law and the people that are affected by it that he was recently recognized.
Sent 10: The Indiana Pro Bono Commission hosted its annual celebration event, the Randall T. Shepard Dinner, at French Lick Springs Spa in October.
Sent 11: More than 100 judges, lawyers and dignitaries were present for the gathering.
Sent 12: One of the highlights of the event was the presentation of the first-ever Randall T. Shepard award for excellence in pro bono work.
Sent 13: Bailey received the award for his three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission.
Sent 14: The award was named after the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court to honor his statewide vision on justice.
Sent 15: The qualifications for the award were based upon demonstrated dedication to the innovative development and delivery of legal services to the poor in one of the 14 pro bono districts of Indiana.
Sent 16: \"This award came as a real surprise to me.
Sent 17: It is truly an honor.
Sent 18: Just being the first chair of the commission which began the implementation of the pro bono process was somewhat humbling.", "question": "Why did he win the Randel T Shepard AwardA. For excellence in Pro Bono workB. Being appointed to the state Supreme courtC. ForD. His three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono CommissionE. For his pro bono workPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Looking for a location to shoot a commercial", "By suggesting that they are looking for a location to shoot a commercial", "Looking for a commercial shoot location" ], "distractor groups": [ "Suicide", "Competition", "Looking for a location to eat", "A getaway trip", "By suggesting that there is a hidden gem in the Baja desert" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "Farragut, who's manipulating the men for his own personal pleasure, offers what explanation as a ruse to get them involved?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He did not seeBarney", "Elisha Boone" ], "distractor groups": [ "Barney" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dick was enraged to see how contentedly the men bore the irksome confinement, the meager food, and harsh peremptoriness of the beardless boys set over them as guards.
Sent 2: Most of the prisoners passed the time in cards, playing for buttons, trinkets, or what not that formed their scanty possessions.
Sent 3: Dick learned that all the commissioned officers of the company with Wesley Boone had been wounded or killed in the charge near the stone bridge.
Sent 4: Wesley had been with the prisoners at first.
Sent 5: He had been struck on the head, and was in a raging fever when his father and sister came to the prison to take him away.
Sent 6: No one could tell where he was now, but Dick knew that he must be in the city, since there were no exchanges, the Confederates allowing no one to leave the lines except women with the dead, or those who came from the North on special permits.
Sent 7: Then he visited the provost headquarters, and was shown the complete list of names recorded in the books there; but Barney's was not among them.
Sent 8: At the Spottswood Hotel, the day after his coming, he met Elisha Boone, haggard, depressed, almost despairing.
Sent 9: Dick had no love for the hard-headed plutocrat, but he couldn't resist making himself known.", "question": "Having a list of names who did Dick see?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She confronts Debbie (Sent 7), and then tells her that she is no longer allowed to spend time with Curtis and Steven (Sent 8)", "She confronts her sister" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "What actions does Beverly take after discovering that her sister is a killer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves", "Hamilton never supported forced emigration on freed salves and thus may have been comfortable in a multiracial society" ], "distractor groups": [ "He had paid employees" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "What has been inferred from Hamilton's policy among freed slaves?" }, { "answer groups": [ "FAA manager and fmcc manager", "The NMCC officer and the FAA manager" ], "distractor groups": [ "CIA", "FBI", "Officials" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "Which two participants agreed that the hijacking teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By looking at seed magazine", "She chose vegetables that grew in her area, she selected the tastiest vegetables, and selected the prettiest flowers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Asking people", "Searching online", "Her friend" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Josie started planning her new garden in the winter.
Sent 2: She chose flowers and vegetables that could grow in her area.
Sent 3: She looked through the seed magazines.
Sent 4: She ordered the tastiest kind of each vegetable and the prettiest kind of each flower.
Sent 5: She talked to a friend about her plans.
Sent 6: It seemed like the snow would never melt.
Sent 7: But Josie didn't have to wait for spring to get started.
Sent 8: Six weeks before the last frost, Josie planted seeds indoors.
Sent 9: The tiny seedlings pushed up through the soil and began to grow.
Sent 10: Finally spring arrived.
Sent 11: Each day, Josie moved the seedlings outside for a few hours so they could get used to the cooler temperatures.
Sent 12: Josie worked in her garden, digging the soil.
Sent 13: She added a special growing mix from the garden store to make the soil better.
Sent 14: When everything was ready, she removed the seedlings from their trays and planted them in her garden.
Sent 15: The warm sun and rich soil helped her vegetables and flowers grow.", "question": "How did Josie determine what to plant in her garden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The physical security of the President, the White House and the federal agencies", "The presidents location and safety" ], "distractor groups": [ "Planning retaliation", "Finding the planes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "The teleconference in the Situation Room, determined its first topic would be what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Marriages created new families", "They added a unit any time a new family was made through marriage", "They grew each time a marriage made a new family" ], "distractor groups": [ "When new migrants came in", "They addes houses all over the area" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man\u2002\u2014\u2002in 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts\u2002\u2014\u2002sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)\u2002\u2014\u2002known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).", "question": "Why did the wooden longhouses grow larger over time?" }, { "answer groups": [ "International Association of Culinary Professionals", "The scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals which Child co-founded," ], "distractor groups": [ "COPIA", "Art of French Cooking" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "As Julia Child turns 90, she will celebrate in San Francisco. The celebration will host many sold out dinners that will benefit which dear charity of Child's?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jake's Grandfather", "Grandfather" ], "distractor groups": [ "Frank" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Jake was walking to the park to play baseball with his friends.
Sent 2: He loved being outside on sunny days, and now that school was over for the year, he was playing baseball every day.
Sent 3: The more he played, the better he got.
Sent 4: Only Frank was better than he was.
Sent 5: He liked playing third base, but he often played in the field.
Sent 6: He was carrying his favorite mitt that his Grandfather had bought him.
Sent 7: His Grandfather had taught him to catch.
Sent 8: He loved spending time with him when he was younger, but he had moved last year.
Sent 9: Now he only saw his Grandfather in the summer.
Sent 10: Jake was really excited to show him his skills when he came to their next game.
Sent 11: He could throw really fast now.
Sent 12: He was sure his Grandfather would want to sit in the front to watch him.
Sent 13: He knew he would jump up and down.
Sent 14: Jake happily ran the rest of the way to the park thinking about how much fun he was going to have playing baseball this year.", "question": "Who is coming to see Jake next game?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Grants of tax-free land to members of the court aristocracy and Buddhist temples", "Grants of tax-free land" ], "distractor groups": [ "By creating a hierarchy of shiki", "The emperor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "What allowed powerful families to claim large regions before the height of Japanese feudalism?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision", "On July 2011 he directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1" ], "distractor groups": [ "Preparation", "It needed to be desinged to explode on target" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about 3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator.\"
Sent 7: This was new ground,\"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B.\" Buzzy\" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the \"man in white.\"
Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.", "question": "What kind of time frame did Hadley set for the preparation of the armed missile?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They still wait for his arrival", "They waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He did not come" ], "distractor groups": [ "They prays" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: But I think it is certain that most of the early Christians understood these words of our Lord's ascension and coming again in glory.
Sent 2: They believed that He was coming again in a very little while during their own life-time, in a few months or years, to make an end of the world and to judge the quick and the dead.
Sent 3: And as they waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He did not come, a sadness fell upon them.
Sent 4: Christ seemed to have left the world.
Sent 5: The little while that He had promised to be away seemed to have become a very long while.
Sent 6: Hundreds of years passed, and yet Christ did not come in glory.
Sent 7: And, as I said, a sadness fell on all the Church.
Sent 8: Surely, they said, this is the time of which Christ said we were to weep and lament till we saw Him again--this is the time of which He said that the bridegroom should be taken from us, and we should fast in those days.
Sent 9: And they did fast, and weep, and lament; and their religion became a very sad and melancholy one--most sad in those who were most holy, and loved their Lord best, and longed most for His coming in glory.", "question": "How do we know that most of the early Christians understood these words of our Lord's ascension and coming again in glory?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Blinky McQuade", "The Spider", "Richard Wentworth" ], "distractor groups": [ "The octopus", "Ram Singh", "Norvell Page" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: `` The Octopus , '' a masked crime lord , is bent on crippling the nation with a wave of terror .
Sent 2: He starts with the transportation system and then moves onto industry .
Sent 3: He demands tribute from railroad magnates and other captains of industry .
Sent 4: Richard Wentworth , an amateur criminologist who is friendly with the police , is secretly `` The Spider , '' a masked vigilante equally determined to wipe the Octopus and his gang off the face of the earth .
Sent 5: Pleasant and smiling in civilian life , Wentworth is often ruthless as the Spider , slinging two guns against the public enemies who attack him .
Sent 6: Wentworth also masquerades as affable underworld lowlife Blinky McQuade .
Sent 7: Disguised as McQuade , Wentworth can infiltrate gangland at the hired-gun level and keep current on the gang's plans .
Sent 8: The only people who know Wentworth's other identities are his assistants Jackson and Ram Singh , his butler Jenkins , and his fianc e Nita .
Sent 9: The Octopus was a villain in a single issue pulp believed to have been written by Norvell Page who wrote most of The Spider pulp stories .
Sent 10: He is garbed completely in white and is only ever seen sitting in a chair .
Sent 11: Unlike the pulps , The Spider is garbed in a lightweight full length costume with web-like markings on it Which resemble Spiderman's costume .
Sent 12: The serial follows the standard formula of fights , shoot-outs , Wentworth's friends being kidnapped at various times and having to be rescued .
Sent 13: Each chapter ends with The Spider or his friends in deep trouble , often about to be killed , but the effect is spoiled by a trailer for the next episode Which shows them in full health and fighting the villains .", "question": "Who is trying to stop the crippling wave of terror?" }, { "answer groups": [ "George Pelecanos", "Pelecanos" ], "distractor groups": [ "John Grisham", "Stephen King" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "Who is the best-selling and award-winning author of \"The Cut?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Enrique Pi Eyro", "Director Pi eyro" ], "distractor groups": [ "General Juan Carlos Ongan", "Juan Carlos", "Ezeiza" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation , and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force .
Sent 2: The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since the military takeover of General Juan Carlos Ongan a in 1966 .
Sent 3: The producer/director , Enrique Pi eyro , claims Argentina and Nigeria are the only countries whose air force controls and regulates the airline industry .
Sent 4: Pi eyro , a former Argentine airline pilot , makes his case in the documentary using diagrams , 3D animations , interviews , hidden cameras in the control tower , and a few props .
Sent 5: For example , at one point he spills out a bag of plastic airplanes and equates it to the number of planes the air force has lost due to negligence .
Sent 6: The film is heavily based on the Austral L neas A reas Flight 2553 plane crash .
Sent 7: Enrique Pi eyro takes his camera , secretly , into the control tower of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport also-known-as Ezeiza , the international airport at Buenos Aires .", "question": "Which director uses a bag of plastic airplanes to demonstrate the poor state of the Argentinian civil aviation industry?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Started in 2000 by the legal aid society of Orange County", "It was was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about $800,000 in grants", "The program was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about $800,000 in grants" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fromt the researcher of California univerisity", "It was set up by the courthouses in Fullerton and Orange" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday.
Sent 2: The Garden Grove woman answered a series of questions to create and print a form to file with the court.
Sent 3: \"It's easy,\" said Adams, 25.
Sent 4: \"I thought I'd have all kinds of questions and have to take the forms home.\"
Sent 5: A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers.
Sent 6: Not only does the system make life easier for people who can't afford a lawyer, but it also might improve efficiency in the courts because the forms, which are printed out when completed, are easy to read and are being filled out correctly, the study found.
Sent 7: Since the program started in 2000, more than 6,000 people have used the free system, located in public buildings throughout Orange County.
Sent 8: The system was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about 800,000 in grants.
Sent 9: The program avoids legal jargon, offers a courthouse video tour and sticks to a fifth-grade vocabulary.
Sent 10: Users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese.
Sent 11: Kiosks are in courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library.
Sent 12: The program is also available online.
Sent 13: Bob Cohen, executive director of Legal Aid, said the study should clear the way for expansion throughout California.
Sent 14: Locally, a program for divorce petitions will be added this summer.
Sent 15: Cohen said the system proves the benefit of technology tailored to those who aren't computer-savvy.
Sent 16: He said much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access.
Sent 17: Low-income people, however, have less access to computers and less experience using them.
Sent 18: \"Our clients have to catch up, and they have to become a part of the mainstream,\" Cohen said.", "question": "How did the program come about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They introduced Christianity", "Through buillding, agriculture, language and religion", "Language, agriculture, construction" ], "distractor groups": [ "Made society a whole", "Built squat white houses" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "How did the Romans influence or change the area?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Noether's theory", "Noether" ], "distractor groups": [ "Einstein", "Landau", "Lifshitz" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: General relativity includes a dynamical spacetime, so it is difficult to see how to identify the conserved energy and momentum.
Sent 2: Noether's theorem allows these quantities to be determined from a Lagrangian with translation invariance, but general covariance makes translation invariance into something of a gauge symmetry.
Sent 3: The energy and momentum derived within general relativity by Noether's presecriptions do not make a real tensor for this reason.
Sent 4: Einstein argued that this is true for fundamental reasons, because the gravitational field could be made to vanish by a choice of coordinates.
Sent 5: He maintained that the non-covariant energy momentum pseudotensor was in fact the best description of the energy momentum distribution in a gravitational field.
Sent 6: This approach has been echoed by Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, and others, and has become standard.
Sent 7: The use of non-covariant objects like pseudotensors was heavily criticized in 1917 by Erwin Schrodinger and others.", "question": "Who's theory did not have a more precise symmetry for conserved energy and momentum?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Choppers", "Soliders" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bombers", "Tyrannosaurus rex" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .", "question": "What do the army send after the gargantuan dinosaur?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he", "The Directors questions were, \"What is the Chain of Command?\", \"Who takes the Shot?\", and \"Are American leaders comfortable with the CIA going outside of normal military command and control?\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Who had the money to fund this venture?", "Operation", "Director of Intelligence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about 3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator.\"
Sent 7: This was new ground,\"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B.\" Buzzy\" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the \"man in white.\"
Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.", "question": "What key questions did the Director of Intelligence have about the CIA's operation of The Predator?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mary Saunders", "Mary" ], "distractor groups": [ "Angela" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "What is Jack's daughter's name?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Binalshibh", "Shehhi", "Jarrah", "Atta" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bahaji", "Ansar", "Jihad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Hamburg, Jarrah had a succession of living accommodations, but he apparently never resided with his future co-conspirators.
Sent 2: It is not clear how and when he became part of Atta's circle.
Sent 3: He became particularly friendly with Binalshibh after meeting him at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, which Jarrah began attending regularly in late 1997.
Sent 4: The worshippers at this mosque featured an outspoken, flamboyant Islamist named Mohammed Haydar Zammar.
Sent 5: A well-known figure in the Muslim community (and to German and U.S. intelligence agencies by the late 1990s), Zammar had fought in Afghanistan and relished any opportunity to extol the virtues of violent jihad.
Sent 6: Indeed, a witness has reported hearing Zammar press Binalshibh to fulfill his duty to wage jihad.
Sent 7: Moreover, after 9/11, Zammar reportedly took credit for influencing not just Binalshibh but the rest of the Hamburg group.
Sent 8: In 1998, Zammar encouraged them to participate in jihad and even convinced them to go to Afghanistan.
Sent 9: Owing to Zammar's persuasion or some other source of inspiration, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah eventually prepared themselves to translate their extremist beliefs into action.
Sent 10: By late 1999, they were ready to abandon their student lives in Germany in favor of violent jihad.
Sent 11: This final stage in their evolution toward embracing Islamist extremism did not entirely escape the notice of the people around them.
Sent 12: The foursome became core members of a group of radical Muslims, often hosting sessions at their Marienstrasse apartment that involved extremely anti-American discussions.
Sent 13: Meeting three to four times a week, the group became something of a \"sect\" whose members, according to one participant in the meetings, tended to deal only with each other.
Sent 14: Atta's rent checks for the apartment provide evidence of the importance that the apartment assumed as a center for the group, as he would write on them the notation \"Dar el Ansar,\" or \"house of the followers.\"
Sent 15: In addition to Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah, the group included other extremists, some of whom also would attend al Qaeda training camps and, in some instances, would help the 9/11 hijackers as they executed the plot: Said Bahaji, son of a Moroccan immigrant, was the only German citizen in the group.
Sent 16: Educated in Morocco, Bahaji returned to Germany to study electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg.
Sent 17: He spent five months in the German army before obtaining a medical discharge, and lived with Atta and Binalshibh at 54 Marienstrasse for eight months between November 1998 and July 1999.
Sent 18: Described as an insecure follower with no personality and with limited knowledge of Islam, Bahaji nonetheless professed his readiness to engage in violence.", "question": "Who were some of the individuals in the sect?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was created in 1974 to provide funding to states for families who need civil legal services but are under 125% of the federal poverty line. They help in domestic abuse, custody matters, and other matters", "A quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor" ], "distractor groups": [ "To help people with finances" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), a quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor, would receive 329 million in fiscal 2004 under President Bush's proposal - the same amount requested in 2003 and approved for 2002 and 2001.
Sent 2: If approved, the hold-the-line request for LSC means its budget would erode with inflation for another year, but it could be worse for the organization: Many conservatives fought for years to do away with the LSC altogether, saying legal services attorneys were spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government instead of representing the needy.
Sent 3: Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996, when Congress approved restrictions (PL 104-134) on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take.
Sent 4: (1996 Almanac, p.
Sent 5: 5-36) Republicans cut the organization's budget deeply in 1996, but its funding has recovered slowly.
Sent 6: Last month, in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2003, the Senate added a onetime increase of 19 million, which, if approved in the final version, would bring the LSC budget to 348 million.
Sent 7: The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households.
Sent 8: If the extra money survives a conference with the House and makes it to the president's desk, LSC supporters may try to include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding.
Sent 9: The federal government began funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor in the late 1960s; the Legal Services Corporation was created in 1974 (PL 93-355).
Sent 10: LSC gives nearly all its money to state and local agencies, which provide civil legal assistance to those whose income is less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level - 11,075 a year for an individual and 22,625 for a family of four.
Sent 11: Funding for legal services goes to defend needy clients in domestic violence cases, custody cases and other such matters, according to LSC.
Sent 12: Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs", "question": "Provide the year in which the LSC was created and a summary of its services.A. It was created in 1974 to provide funding to states for families who need civil legal services but are under 125% of the federal poverty line. They help in domestic abuse, custody matters, and other mattersB. To help people with financesC. A quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poorPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "One day I'll probably do some legal work that I will charge a handsome fee for - at least I hope there are those that are still willing to pay", "He wants to send a message to other lawyers that everyone has a right to counsel and help those in need" ], "distractor groups": [ "Just for sake of information" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Defeated last month for re-election, Gov. Roy Barnes announced Tuesday that he will spend his first six months out of office as an unpaid attorney for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, where he will represent poor people.
Sent 2: \"One day I'll probably do some legal work that I will charge a handsome fee for - at least I hope there are those that are still willing to pay,\" he told reporters.
Sent 3: \"But for now, I think it is important to fulfill my duty as a lawyer to help those who need it the most, to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves and to defend those whose life and livelihoods depend on it,\" he said.
Sent 4: Previous governors have gone to prestigious law firms, joined corporate boards or returned to thriving businesses.
Sent 5: \"I don't think I've ever heard of anybody doing this before,\" Emory University political science professor Merle Black said.
Sent 6: \"If he's actually going to represent individuals for that organization, they're going to get great representation.
Sent 7: You're going to get some powerful legal muscle there,\" Mr. Black said.
Sent 8: Mr. Barnes said he already has his first case, but he wouldn't say what it is.
Sent 9: Atlanta Legal Aid provides civil services to poor people in five metro Atlanta counties.
Sent 10: Mr. Barnes said he was hoping to send a message to other lawyers.
Sent 11: \"This privilege to practice law is just that - it's a privilege.
Sent 12: And it comes with a cost and it comes with a bill .
Sent 13: We as lawyers have a responsibility to make sure that everyone, regardless of whether they can afford it or not, has quality representation.
Sent 14: And if we don't do that, then we're not much of a profession,\" he said.
Sent 15: Steven Gottlieb, the society's executive director, said, \"I can't imagine anything that could be better than to have the governor of the state, in his first act as a private citizen, donate six months of his time to represent poor people .", "question": "Why is Gov. Roy Barnes donating his time after being in office?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Persepolis", "Xerxeles" ], "distractor groups": [ "Greece" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its legendary treasury.
Sent 2: He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Royal Road.
Sent 3: Alexander himself took selected troops on the direct route to the city.
Sent 4: He had to storm the pass of the Persian Gates (in the modern Zagros Mountains) which had been blocked by a Persian army under Ariobarzanes and then hurried to Persepolis before its garrison could loot the treasury.
Sent 5: On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days.
Sent 6: Alexander stayed in Persepolis for five months.
Sent 7: During his stay a fire broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes and spread to the rest of the city.
Sent 8: Possible causes include a drunken accident or deliberate revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the Second Persian War.", "question": "During his stay in what city did a fire break out to rest of the area?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In her sleep", "In her home of natural causes", "Natural causes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tragedy", "Car accident" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died \"very peacefully\" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film \"No More Ladies.\"
Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, \"No Bed of Roses,\" that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's \"Suspicion,\" beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for \"Hold Back the Dawn.\"
Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for \"To Each His Own.\"
Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: \"I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received,\" a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.", "question": "Explain the circumstances of Fontaine's death?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci", "Leonardo da Vinci", "Giovanni Bellini", "Raphael" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maximilian I", "Apocolypse", "European" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albrecht Durer (/'dU@r@r, 'djU@r@r/; German: ['albRect 'dy:Ra]; 21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Sent 2: Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
Sent 3: He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I. His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books.
Sent 4: The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
Sent 5: His well-known engravings include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.
Sent 6: His watercolours also mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.
Sent 7: Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
Sent 8: This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.", "question": "Durer secured his reputation in Northern Europe by the knowledge of what specific artists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1990's; the repression and isolation of women in many Muslim countries crippled overall economic productivity", "1990s", "1990" ], "distractor groups": [ "1970", "1980s" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These experiments in political Islam faltered during the 1990s: the Iranian revolution lost momentum, prestige, and public support, and Pakistan's rulers found that most of its population had little enthusiasm for fundamentalist Islam.
Sent 2: Islamist revival movements gained followers across the Muslim world, but failed to secure political power except in Iran and Sudan.
Sent 3: In Algeria, where in 1991 Islamists seemed almost certain to win power through the ballot box, the military preempted their victory, triggering a brutal civil war that continues today.
Sent 4: Opponents of today's rulers have few, if any, ways to participate in the existing political system.
Sent 5: They are thus a ready audience for calls to Muslims to purify their society, reject unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia.
Sent 6: Social and Economic Malaise In the 1970s and early 1980s, an unprecedented flood of wealth led the then largely unmodernized oil states to attempt to shortcut decades of development.
Sent 7: They funded huge infrastructure projects, vastly expanded education, and created subsidized social welfare programs.
Sent 8: These programs established a widespread feeling of entitlement without a corresponding sense of social obligations.
Sent 9: By the late 1980s, diminishing oil revenues, the economic drain from many unprofitable development projects, and population growth made these entitlement programs unsustainable.
Sent 10: The resulting cutbacks created enormous resentment among recipients who had come to see government largesse as their right.
Sent 11: This resentment was further stoked by public understanding of how much oil income had gone straight into the pockets of the rulers, their friends, and their helpers.
Sent 12: Unlike the oil states (or Afghanistan, where real economic development has barely begun), the other Arab nations and Pakistan once had seemed headed toward balanced modernization.
Sent 13: The established commercial, financial, and industrial sectors in these states, supported by an entrepreneurial spirit and widespread understanding of free enterprise, augured well.
Sent 14: But unprofitable heavy industry, state monopolies, and opaque bureaucracies slowly stifled growth.
Sent 15: More importantly, these state-centered regimes placed their highest priority on preserving the elite's grip on national wealth.
Sent 16: Unwilling to foster dynamic economies that could create jobs attractive to educated young men, the countries became economically stagnant and reliant on the safety valve of worker emigration either to the Arab oil states or to the West.
Sent 17: Furthermore, the repression and isolation of women in many Muslim countries have not only seriously limited individual opportunity but also crippled overall economic productivity.
Sent 18: By the 1990s, high birthrates and declining rates of infant mortality had produced a common problem throughout the Muslim world: a large, steadily increasing population of young men without any reasonable expectation of suitable or steady employment-a sure prescription for social turbulence.", "question": "What year did high birthrates and declining rates of infant mortality begin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Senor Flynn", "The narrator", "Bernardo Flynn", "Flynn" ], "distractor groups": [ "Polaris II", "Tasha Cortez", "Nuevo Acapulco", "Sleeping Flamingo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Let me begin again.
Sent 2: I like life on the resort worlds -- always have and, after the upcoming mindwipe, always will.
Sent 3: Last year, I rented a small house on Vega IV, a sea world, all islands and reefs and archipelagos, turquoise waters and aquamarine skies, sunrises like symphonies and sunsets like stars gone supernova.
Sent 4: There's only one city: called Nuevo Acapulco in La Enciclopedia del Empirio de la Humanidad, it's N'apulco to the locals.
Sent 5: The N'apulcans are mostly emigrants from Polaris II; the only difference between them and their Carribbean ancestors is that the ancestors fleeced NorAm tourists.
Sent 6: Now the N'apulcans profit from their Hispanic siblings.
Sent 7: I don't mean to sound cynical.
Sent 8: I suppose I wish to show that I'm still capable of a certain authorial distance, a semblance of dispassionate observation.
Sent 9: The following events may indicate otherwise.
Sent 10: In fine tourist tradition, most homes on Vega IV are named.
Sent 11: Mine was The Sleeping Flamingo, and its outer walls were coral pink.
Sent 12: Were they mood-sensitive, they would have changed as I first viewed them.
Sent 13: The rental agent, an attractive N'apulcan named Tasha Cortez, was not mood-sensitive either.
Sent 14: She said, \"It's beautiful, isn't it, Se\u00f1or Flynn?\"
Sent 15: My instinct was to gesture curtly with a cupped hand that she lift the wind boat and take me elsewhere.
Sent 16: But she was young and attractive (as I have said and may say again) and eager and so happy to be assisting the infamous Bernardo Flynn that I merely raised an eyebrow in mild scepticism.
Sent 17: And then, because a playwright cannot resist a promising line, I said, \"Your Sleeping Flamingo should be put to sleep.\"", "question": "Who rented a small house on Vega IV?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Create rights and make landlords heat apartments", "They can help get landlords to heat apartments when tenants are sick", "Lawyers can help patients avoid debt disputes and can make landlord heat the apartment if the patient need it for Medical purposes. They can also create rights transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders and monitor its use" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is the Lawyers duty to help Older Oklahomans", "They can get prescriptions for them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: It's just this hard when I try to answer the question: Why do older Oklahomans need lawyers?
Sent 2: The answers are important enough that they will be a discussion topic of this year's Senior Day at 9 a.m.
Sent 3: March 25 in the House Chamber at the Capitol.
Sent 4: The following is a preview of some of the answers for review: We can all agree that older Oklahomans need medical care.
Sent 5: But even the best care is worthless if an older patient can't drive to the doctor for ongoing treatment because his or her car has been wrongfully seized in a debt dispute.
Sent 6: Therefore, lawyers are part of the prescription for regular medical care for many of the 600,000 Oklahomans age 60 and older.
Sent 7: Another example: if a doctor treats an elderly patient for a lung ailment, the doctor's treatment will be undone and he will see the patient again and again, if the patient is sent home to an unheated apartment.
Sent 8: Lawyers know how to make landlords heat apartments so the medical treatment can stick.
Sent 9: (By the way, a May 16, 2001, article in The New York Times reports on a program at Boston Medical Center providing a walk-in legal clinic in the hospital to help fight their patients' legal and administrative battles.) We also can agree that older Oklahomans - like all citizens - have rights to control their health care until they become incapacitated or these rights are transferred to another by legal document or process.
Sent 10: \"Old\" is not a legal classification that results in automatic loss of these rights.
Sent 11: Moreover, having an old parent does not automatically confer on children the right to make the parents' health care choices.
Sent 12: It follows that an important role lawyers provide for aging Oklahomans is not only to create rights - transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders, but also to monitor their use.
Sent 13: In family situations, for example, lawyers must ensure that powers of attorney and guardianships are used to serve only the person transferring or losing rights.
Sent 14: They are not to be used to help a family \"manage\" their mother or help a doctor or nursing home get permission for a pill or procedure they feel is in the best interest of a patient.
Sent 15: Good news: Oklahoma now has a Public Guardianship Program, albeit unfunded, that will supply lawyers to perform this rights-monitoring process Oklahoma grandparents should be able to enjoy their grandchildren, not raise them.
Sent 16: But owing to the social problems of divorce and drug use, grandparents are increasingly being called on to raise their grandchildren because of missing parents.
Sent 17: Adding to the physical, emotional and financial burden they take on, grandparents face legal problems.
Sent 18: All the decisions parents made without a second thought now require evidence of legal authority when made by grandparents.", "question": "What can lawyers do for old people?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Women activists on the frontline and their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress", "The broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade" ], "distractor groups": [ "A prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What does the Iranian government fear and why?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disk for storage", "The cost o getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations", "The cost of getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage, which it sold to Hitachi, and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations" ], "distractor groups": [ "Factory is critical to meeting that growing demand", "Needing more capacity", "Demand for advanced chips", "The plant should be insulated from a falloff" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory.
Sent 2: He praised IBM for being \"a critical partner in our economic development efforts\" in New York state.
Sent 3: In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business.
Sent 4: \"To play to win in technology, you innovate and you lead,\" he said.
Sent 5: But manufacturing technology products is a costly and cyclical business.
Sent 6: In June, IBM announced that it was taking a charge of more than 2 billion against earnings.
Sent 7: The largest single reasons for the charge were the cost of getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage, which it sold to Hitachi, and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations.
Sent 8: But Kelly said the demand for advanced chips, like those produced at IBM's facility in Burlington, Vt., is strong.
Sent 9: \"I need more capacity in that end of the market,\" he said, \"and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand.\"
Sent 10: If IBM has miscalculated the demand, it will suffer badly as both the high operating costs and depreciation on the huge capital investment for the East Fishkill factory drag down earnings.
Sent 11: But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.", "question": "What was the main reason IBM gave for putting $2 billion dollars against earnings?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A glacier", "A long time ago, it was covered by a mile thick sheet of ice", "The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land" ], "distractor groups": [ "The ground is capable of supporting grass and trees, so wind erosion would not explain it", "River erosion", "Tornado erosion", "Wind erosion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine you are standing in a farm field in central Illinois.
Sent 2: The land is so flat you can see for miles and miles.
Sent 3: On a clear day, you might see a grain silo 20 miles away.
Sent 4: You might think to yourself, it sure is flat around here.
Sent 5: If you drive one hundred miles to the south, the landscape changes.
Sent 6: In southern Illinois, there are rolling hills.
Sent 7: Why do you think this is?
Sent 8: What could have caused these features?
Sent 9: There are no big rivers that may have eroded and deposited this material.
Sent 10: The ground is capable of supporting grass and trees, so wind erosion would not explain it.
Sent 11: To answer the question, you need to go back 12,000 years.
Sent 12: Around 12,000 years ago, a giant ice sheet covered much of the Midwest United States.
Sent 13: Springfield, Illinois, was covered by over a mile of ice.
Sent 14: Its hard to imagine a mile thick sheet of ice.
Sent 15: The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land you see today.
Sent 16: Where did glaciers go?
Sent 17: Where can you see them today?
Sent 18: Glaciers are masses of flowing ice.", "question": "Why does Springfield have its features?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Inciting of the English to make extravagant demands", "Old policies and extravagant demands", "Demands", "Old Policy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Law to join the Nawab", "Requests", "Ranjit Rai forging letters for the Seths" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These contradictory orders, and even letters of recall, reached Law on his march, but though he sent back M. Sinfray with letters to M. Bugros and Coja Wajid--which the latter afterwards made over to Clive--he continued his march to Patna, where he arrived on the 3rd of June, and was well received by Raja Ramnarain, and where he was within four or five days' march or sail from Sooty, the mouth of the Murshidabad or Cossimbazar river, and therefore in a position to join the Nawab whenever it might be necessary.
Sent 2: In the mean time fate had avenged Law on one of his lesser enemies.
Sent 3: This was that Ranjit Rai, who had insulted him during his interview with the Seths.
Sent 4: The latter had pursued their old policy of inciting the English to make extravagant demands which they at the same time urged the Nawab to refuse.
Sent 5: To justify one such demand, the English produced a letter in the handwriting of Ranjit Rai, purporting to be written at the dictation of the Seths under instructions from the Nawab.
Sent 6: The latter denied the instructions, and the Seths promptly asserted that the whole letter was a forgery of their agent's.", "question": "What did the letter pursue?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fire breaking out in the eastern palace of Xerxes", "A fire broke out" ], "distractor groups": [ "A flood" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its legendary treasury.
Sent 2: He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Royal Road.
Sent 3: Alexander himself took selected troops on the direct route to the city.
Sent 4: He had to storm the pass of the Persian Gates (in the modern Zagros Mountains) which had been blocked by a Persian army under Ariobarzanes and then hurried to Persepolis before its garrison could loot the treasury.
Sent 5: On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days.
Sent 6: Alexander stayed in Persepolis for five months.
Sent 7: During his stay a fire broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes and spread to the rest of the city.
Sent 8: Possible causes include a drunken accident or deliberate revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the Second Persian War.", "question": "What retribution may have taken place due to the burning of the Acropolis of Athens?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Reb Randall's presence", "The strangers presence" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jason was in love with Susan", "A saloon singer", "A barbecue" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot .
Sent 2: Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her .
Sent 3: He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster .
Sent 4: Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger .
Sent 5: Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger .
Sent 6: Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West .
Sent 7: The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother .
Sent 8: He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county .
Sent 9: The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive .", "question": "What is the root cause of all the violence?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Eroded rock stacks", "Orange cliffs and eroded rock stacks", "Orange cliffs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Volcanoes", "North African landscape", "Cosmopolitan cities", "Beautiful beaches", "Golf facilities" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "What notable geological features are located west of Algarve?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Heavily fortified and built stronghold on a hill", "The stronghold was heavily fortified and built on a hill, requiring a siege" ], "distractor groups": [ "The river and canals" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When Alexander destroyed Tyre, most of the towns on the route to Egypt quickly capitulated.
Sent 2: A later tradition recorded his entry into Jerusalem: according to Josephus, Alexander was shown the Book of Daniel's prophecy, presumably chapter 8, which described a mighty Greek king who would conquer the Persian Empire.
Sent 3: He spared Jerusalem and pushed south into Egypt.
Sent 4: However, Alexander met with resistance at Gaza.
Sent 5: The stronghold was heavily fortified and built on a hill, requiring a siege.
Sent 6: When \"his engineers pointed out to him that because of the height of the mound it would be impossible... this encouraged Alexander all the more to make the attempt\".
Sent 7: After three unsuccessful assaults, the stronghold fell, but not before Alexander had received a serious shoulder wound.
Sent 8: As in Tyre, men of military age were put to the sword and the women and children were sold into slavery.
Sent 9: Alexander advanced on Egypt in later 332 BC, where he was regarded as a liberator.
Sent 10: He was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
Sent 11: Henceforth, Alexander often referred to Zeus-Ammon as his true father, and after his death, currency depicted him adorned with rams horn as a symbol of his divinity.
Sent 12: During his stay in Egypt, he founded Alexandria-by-Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom after his death.", "question": "What caused resistance in Gaza?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nazar Ahari", "Shiva Nazar Ahari, a young female defender of human rights, received a sentence of six years in prison" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Who received a prison sentence on the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Caps are up", "The Vice President inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up", "Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"", "Hearing the Vice President inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up. Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\" Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"", "Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP", "Inbound aircraft heading toward Washington", "He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert", "He said the President signed off on that concept", "The projected path of United 93" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP.
Sent 2: He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert.
Sent 3: He said the President signed off on that concept.
Sent 4: The President said he remembered such a conversation, and that it reminded him of when he had been an interceptor pilot.
Sent 5: The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 6: The Vice President's military aide told us he believed the Vice President spoke to the President just after entering the conference room, but he did not hear what they said.
Sent 7: Rice, who entered the room shortly after the Vice President and sat next to him, remembered hearing him inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up.
Sent 8: Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\"
Sent 9: Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"
Sent 10: She believed this conversation occurred a few minutes, perhaps five, after they entered the conference room.
Sent 11: We believe this call would have taken place sometime before 10:10 to 10:15.
Sent 12: Among the sources that reflect other important events of that morning, there is no documentary evidence for this call, but the relevant sources are incomplete.
Sent 13: Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did not note a call between the President and Vice President immediately after the Vice President entered the conference room.
Sent 14: At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington.
Sent 15: That aircraft was United 93.
Sent 16: The Secret Service was getting this information directly from the FAA.
Sent 17: The FAA may have been tracking the progress of United 93 on a display that showed its projected path to Washington, not its actual radar return.
Sent 18: Thus, the Secret Service was relying on projections and was not aware the plane was already down in Pennsylvania.", "question": "What did Rice recall hearing of the President and Vice President's conversation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To test the other's affections", "Because they had lunched together at some point", "They lunched together" ], "distractor groups": [ "To be fresh", "Couldn't remember the surname" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds.
Sent 2: Wondering about the reason for her extravagance, I asked how work had gone that day.
Sent 3: \"Emil came in.
Sent 4: He's taking Dream's End.\"
Sent 5: \"Emil?\"
Sent 6: \"You've no memory left, old one.
Sent 7: Emil Malaquez.\"
Sent 8: You did that to test my affections.\"
Sent 9: \"What?\"
Sent 10: \"Calling him by his first name.
Sent 11: I did that in a comedy once.'Nights with Karl and Groucho.'
Sent 12: It was before your time.\"
Sent 13: \"The critics liked it.\"
Sent 14: \"I'm glad.\"
Sent 15: A moment later: \"That's not why I called him 'Emil'.\"
Sent 16: \"No. We lunched together.
Sent 17: He's nice.\"", "question": "Why did one of the characters from the passages call Emil by his first name?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gervase Henshaw", "Gervase Henshaw was trying to conceal his identity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wynford" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Late on the next Sunday afternoon Gifford had gone for a country walk which he had arranged to bring him round in time for the evening service at the little village church of Wynford standing just outside the park boundary.
Sent 2: His way took him by well-remembered field-paths which, although towards the end of his walk darkness had set in, he had no difficulty in tracing.
Sent 3: The last field he crossed brought him to a by-road joining the highway which ran through Wynford, the junction being about a quarter of a mile from the church.
Sent 4: As he neared the stile which admitted to the road he saw, on the other side of the hedge and showing just above it, the head of a man.
Sent 5: At the sound of his footsteps the man quickly turned, and, as for a moment the fitful moonlight caught his face, Gifford was sure he recognized Gervase Henshaw.
Sent 6: But he took no notice and kept on his way to the stile, which he crossed and gained the road.
Sent 7: As he did so he glanced back.
Sent 8: A horse and trap was waiting there with Henshaw in it.
Sent 9: He was now bending down, probably with the object of concealing his identity, and had moved on a few paces farther down the road.", "question": "Who was trying to conceal his identity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Billy Buckett", "Rafael", "The suspects are Rafael Moreno, Jason Carberry, and Billy Buckett", "Jason Carberry", "Jason" ], "distractor groups": [ "Susan", "Kate", "The stranger", "Judge Wallace Wintrop", "Sheila" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot .
Sent 2: Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her .
Sent 3: He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster .
Sent 4: Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger .
Sent 5: Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger .
Sent 6: Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West .
Sent 7: The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother .
Sent 8: He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county .
Sent 9: The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive .", "question": "Who are the people suspected to have killed Robin Randall?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Burfield", "Fontaine", "Fontaine and Burfield" ], "distractor groups": [ "Olivia", "Havilland" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died \"very peacefully\" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film \"No More Ladies.\"
Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, \"No Bed of Roses,\" that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's \"Suspicion,\" beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for \"Hold Back the Dawn.\"
Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for \"To Each His Own.\"
Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: \"I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received,\" a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.", "question": "What two last names did Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland use for her career?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He thought the option was feasible", "He thought the AC-130 option feasible", "He thought it was feasible but that serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia" ], "distractor groups": [ "He wanted to block it", "He opposed their use", "He worried the Pakistani authorities would not get adequate warning", "He didn't care" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "What did the head of special operation command think of the optionA. He wanted to block itB. He opposed their useC. He worried the Pakistani authorities would not get adequate warningD. He didn't careE. He thought the option was feasibleF. He thought the AC-130 option feasibleG. He thought it was feasible but that serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South AsiaPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Through the roots", "The roots take up the nutrients they are passed on to those that eat the plants and then are passed to higher level consumer who eat the lower ones" ], "distractor groups": [ "By eating" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy.
Sent 2: What do you think matter is used for?
Sent 3: One thing is to build bodies.
Sent 4: They also need it to carry out the processes of life.
Sent 5: Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient.
Sent 6: Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients.
Sent 7: Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Sent 8: You can see how in Figure 3.11.
Sent 9: Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
Sent 10: The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
Sent 11: The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
Sent 12: The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
Sent 13: When living things die, the cycle repeats.", "question": "How are the nutrients processed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were able to name only whiskey and tobacco", "Whisky and tobacco" ], "distractor groups": [ "Drugs", "Food", "Gold" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears.
Sent 2: I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company.
Sent 3: Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.
Sent 4: They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits.
Sent 5: Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give.
Sent 6: Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake.", "question": "Which two products were the mono Indians able to name?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alexander had significant impact within the Persian, medieval European and modern Greek cultures. You can run across this content while reading sentence number three in the paragraph", "Greek" ], "distractor groups": [ "Persian" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy have been depicted in many cultures.
Sent 2: Alexander has figured in both high and popular culture beginning in his own era to the present day.
Sent 3: The Alexander Romance, in particular, has had a significant impact on portrayals of Alexander in later cultures, from Persian to medieval European to modern Greek.
Sent 4: Alexander may already have considered himself as the \"King of Asia\" after his victory at Issos, a conception strengthened by his subsequent successes.
Sent 5: The conception might have inspired the title given to Alexander in Babylonian documents, \"king of the world (since \"king of Asia\" had no meaning in Babylonian geography).
Sent 6: It might also be alluded in the sarcastic comments by Anaxarchus, trying to rouse Alexander after the murder of Cleitus.
Sent 7: or in the orator Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, \"The whole world would stink of his corpse\".
Sent 8: Alexander is called \"kosmokrator\", ruler of the world, in the later Alexander Romance.
Sent 9: Alexander features prominently in modern Greek folklore, more so than any other ancient figure.
Sent 10: The colloquial form of his name in modern Greek (\"O Megalexandros\") is a household name, and he is the only ancient hero to appear in the Karagiozis shadow play.
Sent 11: One well-known fable among Greek seamen involves a solitary mermaid who would grasp a ship's prow during a storm and ask the captain \"Is King Alexander alive?\".
Sent 12: The correct answer is \"He is alive and well and rules the world!\", causing the mermaid to vanish and the sea to calm.
Sent 13: Any other answer would cause the mermaid to turn into a raging Gorgon who would drag the ship to the bottom of the sea, all hands aboard.", "question": "What three cultures did Alexander have the most significant impact on?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ria is from Dublin and Marilyn is from the U.S", "Dublin", "Ireland & US" ], "distractor groups": [ "Michigan", "Not specified", "India" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Two women trade houses without ever having met .
Sent 2: They 're both looking for an escape from their problems , but by running away , both come to discover a great deal about themselves .
Sent 3: Ria Lynch is married to Danny Lynch and they have a daughter and a son .
Sent 4: Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children .
Sent 5: Ria believes another baby is the solution , and is shocked to find out that indeed her husband is going to be a father - but to a child from an affair he has been having .
Sent 6: Her husband's unfaithfulness is the event that leads Ria into her decision to switch homes with a woman from the US called Marilyn who lost her teenage son to a motorcycle accident on his birthday .
Sent 7: Marilyn is struggling to come to terms with her son's death and has become estranged from her husband .
Sent 8: She hopes her time in Dublin will cease her grief .
Sent 9: Ria and Marilyn discover deep , dark secrets about the other during the summer .
Sent 10: The two become close friends but do not reveal the secrets .
Sent 11: { { Expand section } }", "question": "Where are the women from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and also his appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD", "Opportunity to earn profit from users Dr. Barnett's speaches" ], "distractor groups": [ "Use of LSD" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne , two students in a San Francisco school , become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper .
Sent 2: As a result , a philosophy professor , Dr. Jonathon Barnett , resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and , specifically , the use of LSD .
Sent 3: The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district first see him as a hero and then as something even more .
Sent 4: Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD .
Sent 5: One scheming young man sees the opportunity to build Dr. Barnett as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD .
Sent 6: He hopes to earn profit from the users , Dr. Barnett's speeches known as `` happenings , '' and their lifestyles .
Sent 7: At a massive LSD-fueled dance , Patricia begins to have a bad trip Which leads to an argument between her and Pat , ultimately splitting the couple up .
Sent 8: After Patricia realizes that she's pregnant , Dr. Barnett advises her to have an abortion , ultimately leading to Patricia attempting suicide .
Sent 9: However , Larry saves her and makes the destruction of Dr. Barnett's cult his primary objective .
Sent 10: Larry shoots Dr. Barnett from the crowd at one of his massive speeches .
Sent 11: As another hippie in attendance calms the audience and Elliot sees his new leader for their cult-like organization , Larry realizes that his assassination of Dr. Barnett simply made him a martyr for the hippie movement .", "question": "Why was Dr. Barnett seen as the head of a cult centered around the use of LSD?" }, { "answer groups": [ "California has 151,002 health and safety laws. Also, Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings", "They have healthier habits", "Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings" ], "distractor groups": [ "They get sick less than other states", "They weigh less", "They attend universities more regularly", "There are few workout fanatics hanging out at the beach", "There are many children", "It's expensive" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What brought about the perception that California has more safety and health conscious individuals?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Celiphate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Allah", "The bible", "Qutb" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Who calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"A. Bin LadenB. AllahC. The bibleD. CeliphateE. QutbPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rep. Charles Geveden", "Geveden", "Gevden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hamon", "Stephen Catron", "Jamie Hamon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Backers of Legal Aid services for the poor are pushing a measure that would increase court filing fees in Kentucky to raise money for the program, which faces steep funding cuts.
Sent 2: The proposed bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Geveden, D-Wickliffe, would double the portion of the fee that goes to Legal Aid -- in district court to 10 from 5 and in circuit court to 20 from 10.
Sent 3: Kentucky's current fee for filing a case in district court is 50.50, and in circuit court 108.
Sent 4: The increase still would leave Kentucky's filing fee costs below those of surrounding states and would raise about 1.3 million a year -- almost enough to replace what Legal Aid is losing from federal and other sources, said Jamie Hamon, executive director of the Access to Justice Foundation, a state poverty law resource center in Lexington.
Sent 5: Geveden said his measure appears to be the only potential source of money for the program, which is being forced to lay off workers and close offices around the state.
Sent 6: Geveden said he's concerned because federal funding hasn't increased in recent years, and states with increased poverty are taking a greater share of the money.
Sent 7: ''If you don't come up with the money somewhere, legal services to people in need will diminish or go away,'' he said.
Sent 8: Hamon said the proposed bill has attracted a number of co-sponsors, and Legal Aid backers are hoping to get it passed in the upcoming legislative session.
Sent 9: Hamon said she knows fee increases aren't popular with lawmakers but hopes they realize the crisis Legal Aid is facing.
Sent 10: ''A lot of poor people are not going to get served,'' she said.
Sent 11: The measure has the endorsement of the Kentucky Bar Association.
Sent 12: The association's board of governors voted unanimously last month to back the bill, said KBA President Stephen Catron, a Bowling Green lawyer.
Sent 13: Legal Aid ''has been a godsend to a great number of people in this state,'' Catron said.
Sent 14: ''We simply must find a way to provide those services to the public.''
Sent 15: Larry York, executive director of Appalachian Regional Defense Fund, which provides Legal Aid services in 37 Eastern Kentucky counties and is a KBA board member, said he hopes the measure is approved.
Sent 16: ''It would really offset the current cuts,'' he said.", "question": "Who said legal services will go away if funding is not increase?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A vast social campaign", "\"The People's Republic of Albania\"", "The People's Republic" ], "distractor groups": [ "The University of Tirana", "Albania" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the establishment of the People's Republic, Albania's illiteracy rate was as high as 85%.
Sent 2: Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.
Sent 3: When the People's Republic was established in 1945, the Party gave high priority to wiping out illiteracy.
Sent 4: As part of a vast social campaign, anyone between the ages of 12 and 40 who could not read or write was mandated to attend classes to learn.
Sent 5: By 1955, illiteracy was virtually eliminated among Albania's adult population.
Sent 6: Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7%; the male literacy rate is 99.2% and female literacy rate is 98.3%.
Sent 7: With large population movements in the 1990s to urban areas, the provision of education has undergone transformation as well.
Sent 8: The University of Tirana is the oldest university in Albania, having been founded in October 1957.", "question": "Who mandated that people in Albania between the ages of 12 and 40 who could not read or write attend classes to learn?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1", "1 year", "He created the scene a year after opening his workshop" ], "distractor groups": [ "2", "4", "Some months after" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.", "question": "How long after opening his workshop did Durer did he create The Men's Bath House?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Charny", "Alcohol", "\"charny\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Opiates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the \"charny\" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of \"charny\" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.", "question": "The Secret use of what kind of stimulants was a Martial equivalent for women?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The business is successful, offers new innovations, and is now the largest government-funded group in LA", "New innovations", "Today, the programs operate seamlessly, offering new innovations - including toll-free multilingual phone advisers, expanded hours for domestic-violence clinics, and renewed immigration and consumer aid - built on the foundations of the old program. The organization is Los Angeles' largest government-funded group, with a budget of $11 million leveraged into $40 million in legal services to the poor", "Renewed immigration and consumer aid" ], "distractor groups": [ "Less funding", "Audit", "More legal aid companies", "Corruption", "Less services available to the poor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A government-sponsored coup last year made Bruce Iwasaki and Neal Dudovitz the kings of Los Angeles County's federally funded legal aid community.
Sent 2: The two men emerged atop a changed landscape that resulted from a decade of begging for a share of shrinking public dollars doled out by an unsympathetic GOP-controlled Congress.
Sent 3: That era was capped in 1998, when the Legal Services Corp. forced 275 legal aid providers nationwide to combine into 179.
Sent 4: To comply with the orders from their main funding source, a new species of poverty lawyer emerged - a tech-savvy and button-down breed who swapped neighborhood walkin offices for toll-free phone lines, self-help kiosks and Internet access to legal advice.
Sent 5: While some organizations made the dramatic change look effortless, for others, it did not come easy.
Sent 6: And few programs provide more dramatic illustrations of the promise and pitfalls of government-funded legal services than Los Angeles County's two largest providers of federally funded services - Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Pacoima-based Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County.
Sent 7: From his offices in Koreatown, Iwasaki, a soft-spoken former O'Melveny & Myers attorney, quietly engineered a merger between a much smaller Legal Aid Society of Long Beach and his program, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
Sent 8: The merger was completed peacefully within a year of the federal order.
Sent 9: Today, the programs operate seamlessly, offering new innovations - including toll-free multilingual phone advisers, expanded hours for domestic-violence clinics, and renewed immigration and consumer aid - built on the foundations of the old program.
Sent 10: The organization is Los Angeles' largest government-funded group, with a budget of 11 million leveraged into 40 million in legal services to the poor.", "question": "What was the result of the merger?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Each lawmaker individually addressed the chamber as they cast their vote", "Lawmakers voted one by one", "Lawmakers voted one by one and addressed the chamber as they cast their vote" ], "distractor groups": [ "Many lawmaker were indecisive", "It was cold out and people were sick" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will not be reinstated as head of state, an overwhelming majority of the Honduran congress voted Wednesday.
Sent 2: In an hours-long process, 111 lawmakers voted in favor of a motion not to return Zelaya to office.
Sent 3: A majority of 65 votes in the 128-member body was required to reject his reinstatement.
Sent 4: Zelaya was removed from office in a military-led coup on June 28 and replaced by congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.
Sent 5: On Wednesday, lawmakers voted one by one and addressed the chamber as they cast their vote, making for a slow process.
Sent 6: The vote was a key part of a U.S.-brokered pact that representatives for Zelaya and Micheletti signed October 29, giving Congress the power to decide Zelaya's fate.
Sent 7: The United States expressed disappointment Thursday over the latest rebuff to its diplomatic efforts to end the political crisis in Honduras.
Sent 8: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela continued to call on the Honduran government to allow Zelaya's return and to create a unity government in the interim period before the new president takes office next month.
Sent 9: \"We are disappointed by this decision since the United States had hoped the [Honduran] Congress would have approved his return,\" Valenzuela said in a conference call with journalists in Washington.
Sent 10: \"Our policy since June 28 has been consistently principled.
Sent 11: It has condemned the coup d'etat and continued to accept President Zelaya as the democratically elected and legitimate leader of Honduras throughout this political crisis.\"
Sent 12: The United States continues to call for Honduras to engage in national reconciliation and creation of a truth commission to investigate the crisis, in addition to the unity government.
Sent 13: \"The absence of democratic, constitutional order is the unacceptable status quo,\" a senior U.S. administration official said on the conference call, remaining anonymous under the ground rules of the call and because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Sent 14: \"The election is a step toward a day where Honduras will have an electorally legitimate government in place.\"", "question": "Why was voting going slow for the 128-member body?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ramzi Binalshibh", "Mohamed Atta Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah", "Ziad Jarrah", "Atta", "Marwan al Shehhi", "Mohamed Atta" ], "distractor groups": [ "Al Qaeda", "Hamburg", "USA", "Bin Laden", "Atef", "KSM", "Ziad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "Who is in the Hamburg groupA. Ramzi BinalshibhB. Al QaedaC. HamburgD. Mohamed Atta Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad JarrahE. USAF. Bin LadenG. Ziad JarrahH. AtefI. AttaJ. Marwan al ShehhiK. KSML. Mohamed AttaM. ZiadPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The FAA manager and a NMCC officer", "The NMCC and FAA Manager" ], "distractor groups": [ "DOJ and FBI", "CIA and FBI" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "Who confirmed that the teleconference was not important to the coordination of a response to the attack?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They last longer and so you won't need to repurchase the same item as soon", "Choose items that are well made so they will last longer", "Choose items that are well made so they will last longer; you'll buy fewer items in the long run, so you'll save money as well as resources" ], "distractor groups": [ "Packaging is reduced", "Buy from reputable sellers", "Shipping costs are eliminated", "Buy things without packing", "Buy something in solid packaging" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Reducing resource use means just what it says using fewer resources.
Sent 2: There are lots of ways to reduce our use of resources.
Sent 3: Buy durable goods.
Sent 4: Choose items that are well made so they will last longer.
Sent 5: Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources.
Sent 6: Thats a win-win!
Sent 7: Repair rather than replace.
Sent 8: Fix your bike rather than buying a new one.
Sent 9: Sew on a button instead of buying a new shirt.
Sent 10: Youll use fewer resources and save money.
Sent 11: Buy only what you need.
Sent 12: Dont buy a gallon of milk if you can only drink half of it before it spoils.
Sent 13: Instead, buy a half gallon and drink all of it.
Sent 14: You wont be wasting resources (or money!) Buy local.
Sent 15: For example, buy local produce at a farmers market, like the one in Figure 2.20.
Sent 16: A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances.
Sent 17: Products bought at farmers markets use less packaging, too!
Sent 18: About a third of what we throw out is packaging.", "question": "How does one buy durable goods to reduce resource use?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Cynetes (or Cunetes)", "Xelb", "Chelb", "Cunetes", "Cynetes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Europe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s southwestern extremity", "Stone age", "Libson", "Lisbon", "Phoenicians" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "What did the Greeks call the early Stone Age inhabitants?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Statistics of absorption and emission of light", "Article in Physikalische Zeitschrift" ], "distractor groups": [ "Schrodinger's work of 1926", "Physikalische Zeitschrift" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God \"is not playing at dice.\"
Sent 2: Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in the theory, and attempted unsuccessfully to disprove it until he died at the age of 76.
Sent 3: In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser.
Sent 4: This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck's distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode.
Sent 5: This paper was enormously influential in the later development of quantum mechanics, because it was the first paper to show that the statistics of atomic transitions had simple laws.
Sent 6: Einstein discovered Louis de Broglie's work, and supported his ideas, which were received skeptically at first.
Sent 7: In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics.
Sent 8: This paper would inspire Schrodinger's work of 1926.", "question": "What was the paper that was influential in the development of quantum mechanics about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Intel and East Asian chip makers", "Intel and East Asian chip producers", "Intel", "East Asian chip producers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Apple", "The personal computer business", "Westchester County", "Samsung" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than 2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made.
Sent 2: The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM.
Sent 3: But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York.
Sent 4: IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips.
Sent 5: It is spending more than 500 million a year on semiconductor research and development.
Sent 6: The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles.
Sent 7: The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage.
Sent 8: \"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market,\" said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Sent 9: An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial.
Sent 10: \"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,\" Kelly said.
Sent 11: \"If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia.\"
Sent 12: The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people.", "question": "Who does IBM see as their technological competition?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Natural resources", "Natural Resources" ], "distractor groups": [ "Music", "Money", "Vehicles" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.", "question": "What do we need to have funA. MusicB. Natural resourcesC. MoneyD. VehiclesE. Natural ResourcesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Using a landmark or cross streets as a point of reference", "Address", "Landmarks", "Street cross sections", "By reference to well known locations" ], "distractor groups": [ "Polar region", "By polar coordinates", "Phone number" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "What are some ways besides latitude and longitude in which people describe location?" }, { "answer groups": [ "People were skeptical", "Skepticism and ridicule", "Were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states" ], "distractor groups": [ "Widespread support", "The public was angry at being told what to do", "The public believed it was in the best interest of everyone", "Everyone loved them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What was the initial feeling about these major public health initiatives?" }, { "answer groups": [ "For Benjamin it is impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself", "Negotiating Social Security bureaucracy by himself", "Carrying his items upstairs", "Walking up the stairs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Looking good", "Paying his bills", "Singing", "Carrying groceries up the stairs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.
Sent 2: Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
Sent 3: The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling.
Sent 4: Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival.
Sent 5: She desperately sought political asylum.
Sent 6: Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
Sent 7: The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, \"Quest for Justice,\" to be aired 9 p.m.
Sent 8: today on New Jersey Network.
Sent 9: Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation.
Sent 10: Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Sent 11: Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.
Sent 12: \"With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs,\" he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm.
Sent 13: \"If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?\"
Sent 14: \"It was a compelling case,\" said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire.
Sent 15: \"The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries,\" he said.
Sent 16: Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming.
Sent 17: He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health.
Sent 18: \"But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off,\" he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.", "question": "What became impossible for Benjamin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Emil Malaquez", "Se\u00c3\u00b1or Malaquez's", "Emil Malaquez's", "Senor Malaquez" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tasha's", "Tasha", "Bernardo", "Bernardo's" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: I've been thinking about the mindwipe, now two days away.
Sent 2: Who said that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it?
Sent 3: I fear that may be true for me.
Sent 4: Add this to the reasons I write now: to remember something, perhaps even to learn -- Emil Malaquez arrived after sundown, carrying a small package wrapped in what looked like real paper.
Sent 5: His evening dress was formal, expensive, and slightly stained, as that of all forgetful artists should be.
Sent 6: He was a jovial man with an easy laugh, and even uglier than Tasha had suggested.
Sent 7: I liked him immediately.
Sent 8: \"Se\u00f1or Malaquez?\"
Sent 9: \"Please.
Sent 10: Call me Emil.
Sent 11: You must be Bernardo.
Sent 12: Tasha's told me much about you.\"
Sent 13: \"All of it outrageous praise?\"
Sent 14: \"All of it.\"
Sent 15: \"Ah, she is wonderfully perceptive.\"
Sent 16: He raised an eyebrow, then guffawed.
Sent 17: \"Has she said as much about me?\"
Sent 18: \"She thinks you are a genius.
Sent 19: Do come in.\"
Sent 20: \"Thank you.\"", "question": "Whose evening dress was formal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Las Vegas", "A city in Nevada" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dam Good Luck", "Clark County", "Clark", "Salt lake", "Lake Mead", "Hoover Dam" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers.
Sent 2: The railroad needed a way station, and Las Vegas was the place.
Sent 3: Growth continued for ten years, and by 1915 the town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population\u2002\u2014\u2002many of whom worked in the railroad repair shop.
Sent 4: But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
Sent 5: The growing competition in rail transport resulted in Union Pacific buying the Los Angeles\u2013Salt Lake line.
Sent 6: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility.
Sent 7: Additionally, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling.
Sent 8: These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
Sent 9: But the southwest's growing need for water, combined with Las Vegas's fortuitous proximity to the Colorado River, would give Las Vegas a second chance to achieve prosperity.
Sent 10: Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Sent 11: Providing an influx of 165 million to the southwestern economy, Hoover Dam played a major role in preventing Las Vegas from drying up, both financially and literally.
Sent 12: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Sent 13: More Government Help: The construction of Hoover Dam did not single-handedly save Las Vegas, however.
Sent 14: The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
Sent 15: The hordes of people who attended Hoover Dam's 1935 dedication set the city's now-formidable public relations machine into action.
Sent 16: They went to work on what has become one of the lengthiest citywide tourism campaigns ever attempted.
Sent 17: It didn't take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an \"anything goes\" attitude.
Sent 18: Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day (or night).", "question": "What town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population by 1915?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Oppression by the Spanish, European diseases and suicide", "Suicide", "Oppression", "Disease" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mosquitoes", "Realize", "Farming", "Breeding" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by \"slash-and-burn\" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica \"Xaymaca\" (\"land of wood and water\").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.", "question": "What are three causes of the Arawak's population decline?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Joe and Charlie", "Joe", "Charlie" ], "distractor groups": [ "Helen", "Sylvia", "Julie" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Charlie Y. Reader is a 35-year-old theatrical agent in New York , living a seemingly idyllic life as a bachelor .
Sent 2: Numerous women ( among them Poppy , Helen , and Jessica come and go , cleaning and cooking for him .
Sent 3: Charlie 's best friend since kindergarten , Joe McCall , who has a wife named Ethel and children in Indianapolis , comes to New York for a stay at Charlie 's apartment , claiming that the excitement is gone from his 11-year marriage and that he wants to leave his wife .
Sent 4: Joe envies and is amazed by Charlie 's parade of girlfriends , while Charlie professes admiration for Joe 's married life and family .
Sent 5: At an audition , Charlie meets singer-actress Julie Gillis .
Sent 6: She has her life planned to a tight schedule , determined to marry and retire from performing to a life of child-rearing by 22 .
Sent 7: Although at first she wards off Charlie 's advances , she comes to see him as the ideal man for her plans .
Sent 8: Julie demands that Charlie stop seeing other women .
Sent 9: Charlie balks , but he begins to fall in love with her .
Sent 10: Joe starts keeping company with Sylvia Crewes , a sophisticated classical musician and a typically neglected lover of Charlie 's .
Sent 11: Sylvia is approaching 33 and desires marriage as much as the younger Julie does .
Sent 12: One day , annoyed by Julie and possibly jealous of Joe 's attentions , Charlie blurts out a proposal of marriage to Sylvia .
Sent 13: She is thrilled , only to discover the morning after their engagement party that he has proposed to Julie as well .
Sent 14: Joe confesses his love to Sylvia and asks her to marry him .", "question": "Who proposes to the classical musician?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tree sap covers an organism, and then it hardens over time", "When tree sap dries", "By tree sap preserving an object" ], "distractor groups": [ "Underground", "Molding", "Casting", "Imprinting" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "How is amber made?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pelecanos", "George Pelecanos" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maya Angelou", "Meyers Briggs", "Stephen King" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "Who is a poet, a producer and a crime writer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was able to introduce classical motifs into his work, therefore securing him a reputation of one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance", "He was patronized by emperor Maximilian I" ], "distractor groups": [ "Secured his reputation", "Preferred technique in his later prints" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albrecht Durer (/'dU@r@r, 'djU@r@r/; German: ['albRect 'dy:Ra]; 21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Sent 2: Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
Sent 3: He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I. His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books.
Sent 4: The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
Sent 5: His well-known engravings include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.
Sent 6: His watercolours also mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.
Sent 7: Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
Sent 8: This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.", "question": "How did communication with major Italian artists at the time help him later in life?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Samuel J. Palmisano", "Samuel J Palmisano" ], "distractor groups": [ "Kelly", "Fishgill", "Gov. George E. Pataki", "George E Pataki" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory.
Sent 2: He praised IBM for being \"a critical partner in our economic development efforts\" in New York state.
Sent 3: In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business.
Sent 4: \"To play to win in technology, you innovate and you lead,\" he said.
Sent 5: But manufacturing technology products is a costly and cyclical business.
Sent 6: In June, IBM announced that it was taking a charge of more than 2 billion against earnings.
Sent 7: The largest single reasons for the charge were the cost of getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage, which it sold to Hitachi, and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations.
Sent 8: But Kelly said the demand for advanced chips, like those produced at IBM's facility in Burlington, Vt., is strong.
Sent 9: \"I need more capacity in that end of the market,\" he said, \"and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand.\"
Sent 10: If IBM has miscalculated the demand, it will suffer badly as both the high operating costs and depreciation on the huge capital investment for the East Fishkill factory drag down earnings.
Sent 11: But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.", "question": "Who delivered a short speech about playing to win in technology?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They have lots of cows grazing", "Milk, cider, good bread and butter and cheese are available at farmhouses" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are delivered daily", "They are made at the haras" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We drove about a great deal--the country at the back of Deauville, going away from the sea, is lovely--very like England--charming narrow roads with high banks and hedges on each side--big trees with spreading branches meeting overhead--stretches of green fields with cows grazing placidly and horses and colts gambolling about.
Sent 2: It is a great grazing and breeding country.
Sent 3: There are many haras (breeding stables) in the neighbourhood, and the big Norman posters are much in demand.
Sent 4: I have friends who never take their horses to the country.
Sent 5: They hire for the season a pair of strong Norman horses that go all day up and down hill at the same regular pace and who get over a vast amount of country.
Sent 6: We stopped once or twice when we were a large party, two or three carriages, and had tea at one of the numerous farmhouses that were scattered about.
Sent 7: Boiling water was a difficulty--milk, cider, good bread and butter, cheese we could always find--sometimes a galette, but a kettle and boiling water were entirely out of their habits.
Sent 8: They used to boil the water in a large black pot, and take it out with a big spoon.
Sent 9: However, it amused us, and the water really did boil.", "question": "Describe why the foods eaten in Deauville are fresh.A. They have lots of cows grazingB. Milk, cider, good bread and butter and cheese are available at farmhousesC. They are delivered dailyD. They are made at the harasPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He does not like them", "They are drivel", "They are glorified Grimm's tales" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are exciting", "They are inventive", "He adores them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank.
Sent 2: He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago.
Sent 3: He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers.
Sent 4: His eyes awoke with a passionate, determined flame, though the only light came from the glutted moon.
Sent 5: Allan filled page after page, the words escaping from his mind onto the paper.
Sent 6: Where before they had marched in regiments, practiced in ranks and followed their leaders' commands, the words now escaped in their true forms, unhindered by any stricture.
Sent 7: He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward.
Sent 8: Arthur looked up from the results of a night's frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye.
Sent 9: \"What is this?\"
Sent 10: he queried, indicating the pages he held in his left hand.
Sent 11: \"I decided that\u2026 since I wasn't having much success with more \u2013 traditional \u2013 stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely,\" Allan replied, somewhat less self-assured than he had been the previous night.
Sent 12: \"What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing,\" cried Arthur, nearly raising his voice.
Sent 13: \"After all I said the day before, why have you abandoned centuries of literary progress for some self-indulgent fantasy?\"
Sent 14: He shook the papers at Allan, raising them like a belt above the head of a disobedient son.
Sent 15: \"This is nothing but a glorified Grimm's tale, a miscarried child of Stoker, a creation less fit to be published than to be told around an open fire at the hovel of some peasant!\"
Sent 16: He spoke the last word with such heavy intonation that Allan shrank back before the physical wave of sound emanating from Arthur's throat.
Sent 17: \"Do you hate the modern system of literature?
Sent 18: Do you personally despise the works the Enlightenment or the progress made since Shakespeare?\"
Sent 19: For a moment, Allan could hardly do more than shake his head.
Sent 20: \"No, of course not\u2026 I\u2013 \" \"Then why,\" Arthur barreled on, \"do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel?", "question": "What does Arthur think of Allan's non-traditional stories?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weight of the object and its height above the ground", "Weight and height above ground", "Height", "Weight" ], "distractor groups": [ "Volume abd material" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What are the two things gravitational energy depends on?" }, { "answer groups": [ "As part of a legal experiment, litigants without lawyers across California were using computerized video kiosks to prepare court filings and seek legal advice", "To prepare common court filings and seek basic legal advice", "It was less expensive, and more convenient" ], "distractor groups": [ "Didn't want to go to an office", "He was too cheap to get a lawyer", "To save money" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When single father Thurman Williams needed help filling out papers in a custody suit recently, he didn't look to his lawyer for help.
Sent 2: He walked to a computerized kiosk at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange and started tapping the keys.
Sent 3: As part of a legal experiment, litigants without lawyers across California are using computerized video kiosks to prepare common court filings and seek basic legal advice.
Sent 4: The kiosk used by Williams is part of a statewide effort to cope with a flood of litigants who cannot afford or refuse to hire lawyers.
Sent 5: Court officials statewide fear the number of self-represented litigants has reached crisis levels and threatens to clog court calendars.
Sent 6: Like Williams, more than 6,000 Orange County litigants have initiated court actions on I-CAN!
Sent 7: kiosks or accessed the programs on the Internet, using home computers.
Sent 8: Similar programs are operating in Sacramento, San Diego and Ventura.
Sent 9: A recent study of the kiosks' first 18 months of operation concluded it is too soon to tell if the system will relieve pressure on court calendars.
Sent 10: But the report, by UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology, said users were overwhelmingly positive about the free legal assistance.
Sent 11: \"It's made life a lot easier for me,\" Williams said.
Sent 12: \"It's helped keep me from going to the poorhouse.\"
Sent 13: The 29-year-old Orange resident was directed to a kiosk in the Lamoreaux Justice Center by court staff.
Sent 14: After putting on headphones and following the directions of a videotaped instructor, Williams filled out a quarter-inch stack of paternity and custody documents.
Sent 15: The exercise took 20 minutes; it would have cost him about 800 if he had relied on a lawyer, he said.
Sent 16: \"It was a lot easier than I thought.\"
Sent 17: Whether they can't afford a lawyer or just want to save money, more Californians are going to court without a lawyer.
Sent 18: \"I'm just amazed at the numbers,\" said Commissioner Salvador Sarmiento, who hears between 40 and 90 child-support cases a day in Lamoreaux Justice Center.", "question": "Why did Thurman Williams walk to a computerized kiosk at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange and just start tapping keys, as oppose to finding a lawyer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deborah, his mother", "Deborah" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bob" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Billy and Sally are brother and sister.
Sent 2: Billy is seven and Sally is eight.
Sent 3: Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone.
Sent 4: Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice.
Sent 5: On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice.
Sent 6: On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice.
Sent 7: Billy has blonde hair.
Sent 8: Sally has brown hair.
Sent 9: Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair.
Sent 10: He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is.
Sent 11: Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life.
Sent 12: One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair.
Sent 13: Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair.
Sent 14: Billy and Sally live on a farm.
Sent 15: They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack.
Sent 16: They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm.
Sent 17: Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh.
Sent 18: They have a fun life growing up on the farm.", "question": "Billy has blonde hair like who?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Math and reading", "Accademics", "Reading and Math" ], "distractor groups": [ "Morality", "Prayer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon.
Sent 2: Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood holding fast to the folds of her black habit, staring up at the strangers, while she explained the kind of instruction given, the system, and the order reigning in each department.
Sent 3: Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard.
Sent 4: Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling.
Sent 5: The children must have been very much bored with themselves that stormy Sunday, for they entered into the examination with a quite unnatural zest.
Sent 6: Two of the elder girls recited, and some specimens of penmanship and composition were shown.
Sent 7: The delicate complexion of the little nun flushed to a pretty wild-rose pink as these pupils of hers won the Colonel's old fashioned compliments.", "question": "What do the students learn there?" }, { "answer groups": [ "LSC", "The Legal Services Corp. (LSC)" ], "distractor groups": [ "The NAACP", "Michigan", "The Republicans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), a quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor, would receive 329 million in fiscal 2004 under President Bush's proposal - the same amount requested in 2003 and approved for 2002 and 2001.
Sent 2: If approved, the hold-the-line request for LSC means its budget would erode with inflation for another year, but it could be worse for the organization: Many conservatives fought for years to do away with the LSC altogether, saying legal services attorneys were spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government instead of representing the needy.
Sent 3: Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996, when Congress approved restrictions (PL 104-134) on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take.
Sent 4: (1996 Almanac, p.
Sent 5: 5-36) Republicans cut the organization's budget deeply in 1996, but its funding has recovered slowly.
Sent 6: Last month, in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2003, the Senate added a onetime increase of 19 million, which, if approved in the final version, would bring the LSC budget to 348 million.
Sent 7: The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households.
Sent 8: If the extra money survives a conference with the House and makes it to the president's desk, LSC supporters may try to include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding.
Sent 9: The federal government began funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor in the late 1960s; the Legal Services Corporation was created in 1974 (PL 93-355).
Sent 10: LSC gives nearly all its money to state and local agencies, which provide civil legal assistance to those whose income is less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level - 11,075 a year for an individual and 22,625 for a family of four.
Sent 11: Funding for legal services goes to defend needy clients in domestic violence cases, custody cases and other such matters, according to LSC.
Sent 12: Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs", "question": "What organization did Congress approve restriction on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Many animals have natural compasses", "Few organisms live", "Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well", "Structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern" ], "distractor groups": [ "TTMP", "4200 Code", "Weather vein", "White House Absorption Technology", "Bird live", "Geiger Counter", "Barometer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms.
Sent 2: It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun.
Sent 3: Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south magnetic poles.
Sent 4: This is where Earths magnetic field is strongest.
Sent 5: This is also where relatively few organisms live.
Sent 6: Another benefit of Earths magnetic field is its use for navigation.
Sent 7: People use compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole.
Sent 8: Knowing this helps them tell direction.
Sent 9: Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well.
Sent 10: Birds like the garden warbler in Figure 1.36 use Earths magnetic field.
Sent 11: They use it to guide their annual migrations.
Sent 12: Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes.
Sent 13: These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern.", "question": "What works to detect Earth's magnetic north pole, telling direction besides people's compasses?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Satum Al Suqami", "Suqami" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ong", "Atta", "Lewis", "Omari" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "Which hijacker do they suspect stabbed a passenger who served 4 years as an officer in the Israeli Military?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Church", "Chruch" ], "distractor groups": [ "Paws", "Victor", "Hughes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Creed family moves into a new home , close to a road where truckers often drive unsafely .
Sent 2: They befriend their neighbor , Jud Crandall , who tells them about a nearby pet cemetery which was built on Indian burial grounds and is rumored to be haunted .
Sent 3: Later , Louis Creed , working at the University of Maine at Orono health center , treats Victor Pascow , who has been hit by a truck and incurred massive head injuries .
Sent 4: Pascow dies after grabbing Louis , addressing him by name , and uttering a cryptic message .
Sent 5: He also promises to `` come to '' him .
Sent 6: That night , in what is seemingly a dream , Victor visits Louis , warning him about the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery .
Sent 7: Louis wakes up to find his feet covered in dirt .
Sent 8: Church , a cat owned by Louis ' daughter Ellie , is killed by a truck on the road in front of their house while Rachel , Ellie and Gage are in Chicago .
Sent 9: Jud takes Louis to an ancient Micmac Indian burial ground beyond the pet cemetery they visited earlier and buries the cat .
Sent 10: Church is brought back to life , but is an evil shell of himself .
Sent 11: He attacks Louis and reeks of decomposition .
Sent 12: Louis asks if a person was ever buried in the grounds .
Sent 13: Jud replies , `` Christ on His throne , no. .
Sent 14: And whoever would? ''
Sent 15: Sometime later , Louis ' young son Gage is killed by a truck on the same road .
Sent 16: Louis considers burying Gage in the burial grounds .
Sent 17: Jud tries to dissuade him from doing so , telling him about a young man from town , Timmy Baterman , who died in service during World War II .", "question": "What is the name of the cat that was buried?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hamilton believed blacks had the same intellectual abilities as whites. He also warned that slaves would be armed by the British if patriots did not", "Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable" ], "distractor groups": [ "He supported the underground railroad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "Why does Chernow suspect Hamilton saw the Revolution and abolition as inseparable?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Salt to cure fish", "The natural resources" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lead mining", "Slave work" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago.
Sent 2: Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c.
Sent 3: Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim.
Sent 4: The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah.
Sent 5: The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c.
Sent 6: .
Sent 7: The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region.
Sent 8: Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry.
Sent 9: They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country.
Sent 10: The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century.
Sent 11: It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza.
Sent 12: The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza.
Sent 13: Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums.
Sent 14: The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c.
Sent 15: during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained.
Sent 16: Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c.
Sent 17: did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
Sent 18: For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life.", "question": "What did Carthaginians capitalize on in Ibiza?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Government", "Mrs. Herbert and Mrs. Talmann", "Mrs. Herbert" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mrs. Williams" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "Who did Mr. Neville have sexual encounters with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To handle inquirers", "To handle the incessant inquires", "To avoid inquiries in street" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was a wanted criminal", "He was a spy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the period before World War II, the New York Times published a vignette in their \"The Talk of the Town\" feature saying that Einstein was so well known in America that he would be stopped on the street by people wanting him to explain \"that theory\".
Sent 2: He finally figured out a way to handle the incessant inquiries.
Sent 3: He told his inquirers \"Pardon me, sorry!
Sent 4: Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.\"
Sent 5: Einstein has been the subject of or inspiration for many novels, films, plays, and works of music.
Sent 6: He is a favorite model for depictions of mad scientists and absent-minded professors; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyle have been widely copied and exaggerated.
Sent 7: Time magazine's Frederic Golden wrote that Einstein was \"a cartoonist's dream come true\".", "question": "Why did Einstein pretend to be mistaken for Professor Einstein?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Within section seven you will come across the creator of the phrase referring to Alexander's death. They state, \"The whole world would stink of his corpse.\"", "Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, \"The whole world would stink of his corpse\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "No one would notice" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy have been depicted in many cultures.
Sent 2: Alexander has figured in both high and popular culture beginning in his own era to the present day.
Sent 3: The Alexander Romance, in particular, has had a significant impact on portrayals of Alexander in later cultures, from Persian to medieval European to modern Greek.
Sent 4: Alexander may already have considered himself as the \"King of Asia\" after his victory at Issos, a conception strengthened by his subsequent successes.
Sent 5: The conception might have inspired the title given to Alexander in Babylonian documents, \"king of the world (since \"king of Asia\" had no meaning in Babylonian geography).
Sent 6: It might also be alluded in the sarcastic comments by Anaxarchus, trying to rouse Alexander after the murder of Cleitus.
Sent 7: or in the orator Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, \"The whole world would stink of his corpse\".
Sent 8: Alexander is called \"kosmokrator\", ruler of the world, in the later Alexander Romance.
Sent 9: Alexander features prominently in modern Greek folklore, more so than any other ancient figure.
Sent 10: The colloquial form of his name in modern Greek (\"O Megalexandros\") is a household name, and he is the only ancient hero to appear in the Karagiozis shadow play.
Sent 11: One well-known fable among Greek seamen involves a solitary mermaid who would grasp a ship's prow during a storm and ask the captain \"Is King Alexander alive?\".
Sent 12: The correct answer is \"He is alive and well and rules the world!\", causing the mermaid to vanish and the sea to calm.
Sent 13: Any other answer would cause the mermaid to turn into a raging Gorgon who would drag the ship to the bottom of the sea, all hands aboard.", "question": "What were the orator Demades' comments referring to Alexanders death?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Columbia and Mexico", "Columbia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brazil", "Argentina" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: \"Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz,\" a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities,\" AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: \"The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people,\" Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: \"In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive,\" he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.", "question": "Guatemalan officials believe the United States should allocate more resources to combat their growing drug cartel problem, instead of only focusing on which two countries?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Martha", "Immigration", "Martha was tortured in homeland and she was caught by immigration authorities while escaping", "Martha, Immigration authorities" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fred", "Stephen St. Hilaire", "The cops" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.
Sent 2: Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
Sent 3: The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling.
Sent 4: Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival.
Sent 5: She desperately sought political asylum.
Sent 6: Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
Sent 7: The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, \"Quest for Justice,\" to be aired 9 p.m.
Sent 8: today on New Jersey Network.
Sent 9: Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation.
Sent 10: Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Sent 11: Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.
Sent 12: \"With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs,\" he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm.
Sent 13: \"If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?\"
Sent 14: \"It was a compelling case,\" said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire.
Sent 15: \"The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries,\" he said.
Sent 16: Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming.
Sent 17: He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health.
Sent 18: \"But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off,\" he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.", "question": "Who was tortured in homeland and who caught her?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Spero Lucas", "Speros" ], "distractor groups": [ "Pelecanos", "Chris O'Dowd", "Sally Kups" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "Who is the Iraq war veteran that works for an attorney?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The force a magnet places on a material", "The force Magnets able to place on certain materials" ], "distractor groups": [ "Force exerted by wind" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "What is a magnetic force?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Joe's house", "Joe's" ], "distractor groups": [ "Layne's" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "Whose house was eventually blown up?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Distroyed choppers & did some damage to the city", "Agreesive", "Dangerous" ], "distractor groups": [ "Passive", "Calm" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .", "question": "What was Yonggary's behavior?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, gravity will eventually take hold of a person on earth", "Always" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sometimes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "Does gravity eventually win the battle between human and gravity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "If it was renewable", "By imagining it" ], "distractor groups": [ "You take a drink and there is less in the glass and you keep drinking and soon it is all gone, but you have more to refill your glass", "Keep refilling it", "If it was nonrewable" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine a glass of your favorite drink that never became empty.
Sent 2: Now think about what really happens.
Sent 3: You take a drink and there is less in the glass.
Sent 4: You keep drinking and soon it is all gone.
Sent 5: Good thing you have more to refill your glass.
Sent 6: What if there would never be any more of your favorite drink.
Sent 7: What would you do?
Sent 8: Now you know the difference between renewable and non-renewable.
Sent 9: Its too bad that many things here on Earth will run out.
Sent 10: This includes some of our natural resources we depend on.
Sent 11: Things like oil will not last forever.
Sent 12: There is a limited supply.
Sent 13: Someday, we will run out, so then what?
Sent 14: At current rates of use, coal will last about 300 years.
Sent 15: Petroleum will be used up in just a few decades.", "question": "How would a glass of your favorite drink never become empty?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Union Pacific consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility. As well, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling", "Union Pacific consolidating its' operations", "Elimination of railroad jobs and outlawing gambling", "Elimination of the Las Vegas repair facility and outlawing of gambling", "Clark County outlawing gambling" ], "distractor groups": [ "Growing competition and reducing population", "Construction of Hoover dam and legalizing gambling", "Creation of Lake Mead and desertification", "Drought and heat", "Influx of hordes of people", "Construction of the Hoover Dam", "The proximity of Las Vegas to the Colorado River" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers.
Sent 2: The railroad needed a way station, and Las Vegas was the place.
Sent 3: Growth continued for ten years, and by 1915 the town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population\u2002\u2014\u2002many of whom worked in the railroad repair shop.
Sent 4: But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
Sent 5: The growing competition in rail transport resulted in Union Pacific buying the Los Angeles\u2013Salt Lake line.
Sent 6: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility.
Sent 7: Additionally, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling.
Sent 8: These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
Sent 9: But the southwest's growing need for water, combined with Las Vegas's fortuitous proximity to the Colorado River, would give Las Vegas a second chance to achieve prosperity.
Sent 10: Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Sent 11: Providing an influx of 165 million to the southwestern economy, Hoover Dam played a major role in preventing Las Vegas from drying up, both financially and literally.
Sent 12: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Sent 13: More Government Help: The construction of Hoover Dam did not single-handedly save Las Vegas, however.
Sent 14: The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
Sent 15: The hordes of people who attended Hoover Dam's 1935 dedication set the city's now-formidable public relations machine into action.
Sent 16: They went to work on what has become one of the lengthiest citywide tourism campaigns ever attempted.
Sent 17: It didn't take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an \"anything goes\" attitude.
Sent 18: Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day (or night).", "question": "What circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents?" }, { "answer groups": [ "More than 10 large ones", "About a dozen large plates and several small ones" ], "distractor groups": [ "Less than 10", "Uncountable" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust.
Sent 2: Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving.
Sent 3: This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates.
Sent 4: Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries.
Sent 5: This was evidence that continents can move.
Sent 6: The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics.
Sent 7: The Earths crust is divided into plates.
Sent 8: There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones.
Sent 9: Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains.
Sent 10: Scientists know he plates are in motion.
Sent 11: They now know the direction and speed of this motion .
Sent 12: Plates dont move very fast.
Sent 13: They move only a few centimeters a year.
Sent 14: This is about the same rate fingernails grow.
Sent 15: So you might wonder, what could cause this motion?
Sent 16: What supplies the energy to cause this change?", "question": "How many plates is the earth's crust divided into?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bend over backwards for reconciliation", "Changing his approach", "Accommodating people who want direct services or changing his approach", "Making accommodations and" ], "distractor groups": [ "Apologizing to John Peck", "Changing his program for any reason", "Build fences for neighbors", "Volunteer at the once-monthly family law clinic" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Still untaken are several steps that required goodwill from local bar associations and others who had opposed the combination.
Sent 2: \"[I am] not a fan of Neal's,\" admitted John Peck, a former board member of the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program and a Pasadena Bar Association board member.
Sent 3: Peck says bad feelings still linger among Ailies of the old program who feel left out.
Sent 4: \"They really screwed us.
Sent 5: We had a good program,\" Peck said.
Sent 6: An observer familiar with the reconfiguration debate who requested anonymity wondered why Dudovitz had not spent more time mending fences.
Sent 7: \"He ought to be bending over backwards for reconciliation, but if you want to do impact work and people in the San Gabriel Valley want direct services, you have to accommodate that or change your approach,\" the observer said.
Sent 8: \"Neal would never consider doing that.\"
Sent 9: More than a year after he officially incorporated the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, Dudovitz had not placed a local resident on the board of Neighborhood Legal Services or made the rounds of the private legal community to recruit the volunteer lawyers.
Sent 10: \"Our emphasis has been on having our potential clients know about us and deliver services to them,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 11: \"We have done that spectacularly.\"
Sent 12: He did not hire any of the old program's nine lawyers and has yet to permanently place any of his 18 new hires in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley.
Sent 13: The lack of a legal aid presence in Pomona prompted the bar association and court officials to start their own once-monthly family law clinic.
Sent 14: After learning of the effort, Dudovitz sent personnel to staff the clinic for three hours per week and is helping to write a grant application to fund a self-help kiosk for Pomona patterned on the center he pioneered in Van Nuys.
Sent 15: The help, although late, has earned Dudovitz some appreciation.
Sent 16: \"There has been a transition and [the clinic] has helped to fill some void,\" said Deni Butler, administrator for the Eastern District Superior Court.
Sent 17: \"But we are working together quite nicely contrary to what the other side issue is.\"
Sent 18: Scott Wheeler, president of the Eastern Bar Association of Los Angeles and an ally of the old program, said he mobilized his 200 members to staff the clinic after watching the ranks of unserved poor grow over the past year.", "question": "According to an observer, what would Neal never consider doing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By an objects mass and volume", "By combining what you know about mass and volume. Simply the more mass in a smaller volume, the more dense", "By watching things float", "You can see a colorful demonstration in this video" ], "distractor groups": [ "By listening to friends", "By watching the environment", "By hearing a recording" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Density is also an important physical property of matter.
Sent 2: The concept of density combines what we know about an objects mass and volume.
Sent 3: Density reflects how closely packed the particles of matter are.
Sent 4: When particles are packed together more tightly, matter is more dense.
Sent 5: Differences in density of matter explain many phenomena.
Sent 6: It explains why helium balloons rise.
Sent 7: It explains why currents such as the Gulf Stream flow through the oceans.
Sent 8: It explains why some things float in or sink.
Sent 9: You can see this in action by pouring vegetable oil into water.
Sent 10: You can see a colorful demonstration in this video.", "question": "How can I understand density?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina", "Grady, South Carolina", "A small hamlet called Grady", "In Grady,South Carolina" ], "distractor groups": [ "South Dakota", "Mississippi", "South California", "Washington", "Beverly Hills" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "Where did Judge Evans live?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention. Also, the state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country", "Its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states", "Because they have pioneered major public health initiatives" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because of television", "They are battling the Heroine Craze", "They are tough on crime", "They have legalized marijuana" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "Why do some advocates believe that California is a forward thinking vanguard?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Groups of twos and threes stood together", "They tried in 3's" ], "distractor groups": [ "They attacked" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Halting just outside the village, Harry formed his men with a front across the whole road, and directed the lines to advance, twenty yards apart.
Sent 2: Then, placing himself at their head, he gave the word, and charged down the street upon the Roundheads.
Sent 3: The latter, occupied by their attack upon the houses, were unconscious of the presence of their foe until he was close upon them, and were taken utterly by surprise.
Sent 4: The force of the charge was irresistible, and the Roundheads, dispersed and on foot, were cut down in all directions.
Sent 5: Groups of twos and threes stood together and attempted resistance, but the main body thought only of regaining their horses.
Sent 6: In three minutes after the Royalists entered the village the surviving Roundheads were in full flight, hotly pursued by the victorious Cavaliers.
Sent 7: These, being for the most part better mounted, overtook and slew many of the Roundheads, and not more than half the force which had set out returned to their quarters at Didcot.
Sent 8: The pursuit continued to within half a mile of that place, and then Harry, knowing that there was a force of Roundhead infantry there, drew off from the pursuit, and returned to Chalcombe.
Sent 9: He found that more than half of Sir Ralph Willoughy's men had been killed, many having been cut down before they could betake themselves to their arms, those quartered in the inn, and at two or three of the larger houses, having alone maintained a successful resistance until the arrival of succor.", "question": "How did the Roundheads attempt resistance?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Remain calm", "The president who was with a classroom of school children felt that he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening and actually remained in the classroom for a few more minutes while the children continued reading", "To project calm" ], "distractor groups": [ "Get scared", "Get excited", "Run out the door to safety", "Jump up and down" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "What was the president's initial reaction, when at 9:05 AM, he learned of the terrorist attacks on 911?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Garnets", "Garnets and seemed budded roses" ], "distractor groups": [ "Zircons", "Topazes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam.
Sent 2: Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded.
Sent 3: The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts.
Sent 4: It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone.
Sent 5: Paul swore not to speak till his task was done.
Sent 6: The night that the jewel was worthy to give.
Sent 7: Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form.
Sent 8: His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech.
Sent 9: Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign.
Sent 10: The Shadow was dumb.", "question": "What were the hands of the watch studded with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Paesiello, Cherubini, and Spontini", "Paesiello,Cherubini and Spontini", "Paesiello", "Cherubini", "Spontini" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cecile Turette", "Mozart" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As for the Italians, we know that Paesiello, who was a famous intriguer against his musical rivals, was a devoted husband whose wife was an invalid and who died soon after her death.
Sent 2: Cherubini married Mademoiselle Cecile Turette, when he was thirty-five, and the marriage was not a success.
Sent 3: He left a son and two daughters.
Sent 4: Spontini, one of whose best operas was based on the life of that much mis-married enthusiast for divorce, John Milton, took to wife a member of the Erard family.
Sent 5: In the outer world Spontini was famous for his despotism, his jealousy, his bad temper, and his excessive vanity.
Sent 6: None of these qualities as a rule add much to home comfort, and yet, it is said that he lived happily with his wife.
Sent 7: We may feel sure that some of the bad light thrown on his character is due purely to the jealousy of rivals, when we consider his domestic content, his ardent interest in the welfare of Mozart's widow and children, and the great efforts he made to secure subscriptions for the widow's biography of Mozart.", "question": "Who were three Italians, whom this passage describes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Roxana miscarried at Babylon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander married twice: Roxana, daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, out of love; and Stateira II, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia, for political reasons.
Sent 2: He apparently had two sons, Alexander IV of Macedon of Roxana and, possibly, Heracles of Macedon from his mistress Barsine.
Sent 3: He lost another child when Roxana miscarried at Babylon.
Sent 4: Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble.
Sent 5: Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander.
Sent 6: This event may have contributed to Alexander's failing health and detached mental state during his final months.
Sent 7: Alexander's sexuality has been the subject of speculation and controversy.
Sent 8: No ancient sources stated that Alexander had homosexual relationships, or that Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion was sexual.
Sent 9: Aelian, however, writes of Alexander's visit to Troy where \"Alexander garlanded the tomb of Achilles and Hephaestion that of Patroclus, the latter riddling that he was a beloved of Alexander, in just the same way as Patroclus was of Achilles\".
Sent 10: Noting that the word eromenos (ancient Greek for beloved) does not necessarily bear sexual meaning, Alexander may have been bisexual, which in his time was not controversial.
Sent 11: Green argues that there is little evidence in ancient sources that Alexander had much carnal interest in women; he did not produce an heir until the very end of his life.
Sent 12: However, he was relatively young when he died, and Ogden suggests that Alexander's matrimonial record is more impressive than his father's at the same age.
Sent 13: Apart from wives, Alexander had many more female companions.
Sent 14: Alexander accumulated a harem in the style of Persian kings, but he used it rather sparingly; showing great self-control in \"pleasures of the body\".
Sent 15: Nevertheless, Plutarch described how Alexander was infatuated by Roxana while complimenting him on not forcing himself on her.
Sent 16: Green suggested that, in the context of the period, Alexander formed quite strong friendships with women, including Ada of Caria, who adopted him, and even Darius's mother Sisygambis, who supposedly died from grief upon hearing of Alexander's death.", "question": "Did one of Alexander's wives suffer a miscarriage?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were worried that terrorist would take advantage of breakdowns", "Terrorists would take advantage of the breakdowns" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chemical and biological weapons", "Nonstate actors" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "What was the concern of some officials when most people were concerned about computer breakdowns with Y2K?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He asked why should they support the $90 surcharge when people have difficult times?", "No Ration access to Justice", "\"Why should we support this when we face tough financial times?", "No Free Justice" ], "distractor groups": [ "No additional Judges", "The staff cuts", "No Increase in Filing Cost" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Washington Supreme Court is asking the Legislature to approve a 90 surcharge on a court filing fee to help provide legal help for the poor in civil cases, Chief Justice Gerry Alexander said Wednesday.
Sent 2: \"Some might say, why should we support this when we face tough financial times?\"
Sent 3: Alexander asked in his State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature.
Sent 4: \"It seems to me in America, where we rejoice in the fact that we are a nation devoted to the rule of law, we should not ration access to justice.\"
Sent 5: The recommendation comes from the court's Task Force on Civil Equal Justice Funding, created in 2001 to look for ways to cope with the sparse amount of money available for such cases.
Sent 6: As the task force was studying the issue, 900,000 was cut from state support for civil equal justice services.
Sent 7: That prompted the state's two main legal services providers - Columbia Legal Services and Northwest Justice Project - to cut their staffs, Alexander said.
Sent 8: The change would increase the cost of filing a lawsuit in Superior Court to 200.
Sent 9: The total fee would be split, with 54 percent going to counties and 46 percent going to the state for a newly created equal justice account.
Sent 10: Alexander also requested money for five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeships, arguing that increased caseloads require more judges.
Sent 11: Two of the Superior Court judges and the District Court judge would be in Clark County, with one Superior Court judge added in the joint district that serves Benton and Franklin counties and one each in Kittitas and Kitsap counties.", "question": "What did Gerry Alexander ask in his State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets", "Looked in the wrong direction", "Didn't turn on radar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wrong airline", "Wrong channel" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "What was one of the mistakes besides the air traffic control search that lead to America 77 flying for 36 min. undetected?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Director Pi eyro", "Enrique Pi Eyro" ], "distractor groups": [ "General Juan Carlos Ongan", "Ongan", "Ezeiza" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation , and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force .
Sent 2: The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since the military takeover of General Juan Carlos Ongan a in 1966 .
Sent 3: The producer/director , Enrique Pi eyro , claims Argentina and Nigeria are the only countries whose air force controls and regulates the airline industry .
Sent 4: Pi eyro , a former Argentine airline pilot , makes his case in the documentary using diagrams , 3D animations , interviews , hidden cameras in the control tower , and a few props .
Sent 5: For example , at one point he spills out a bag of plastic airplanes and equates it to the number of planes the air force has lost due to negligence .
Sent 6: The film is heavily based on the Austral L neas A reas Flight 2553 plane crash .
Sent 7: Enrique Pi eyro takes his camera , secretly , into the control tower of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport also-known-as Ezeiza , the international airport at Buenos Aires .", "question": "Which producer/director is also a former Argentine airline pilot?" }, { "answer groups": [ "When they drove off, listening to a news report on the radio", "When heard on car radio" ], "distractor groups": [ "When getting to joe's house" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "When did the survivors realize that their blackout experience also affects five western states and parts of Canada?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sri Maharajah, swapped allegiance to the Islam after marrying into the faith", "New ruler of melaka", "Sri Maharajah" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tun Perak", "Parameswara", "Admiral Cheng Ho", "Emperor Chu Ti" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Who was responsible for a swap in all in allegiance and by what means?" }, { "answer groups": [ "0", "None", "No one was injured at the school" ], "distractor groups": [ "2 milion", "100" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "How many people were injured in the Bible school that was destroyed in the bombing run?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Birds", "Birds ,Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sea turtles" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever seen an egg?
Sent 2: Some animals do not have live births.
Sent 3: Instead, they lay eggs.
Sent 4: The eggs contain the embryo.
Sent 5: The embryo matures in the egg.
Sent 6: With time, it will hatch.
Sent 7: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents.
Sent 8: They are ready to live on their own.
Sent 9: Other animals will still need the care of their parents.
Sent 10: Sea turtles break out of their shells.
Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean.
Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult.
Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks.
Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents.
Sent 15: They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly.
Sent 16: Some animals give birth to live offspring.
Sent 17: Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth.
Sent 18: Their offspring are born looking like mini adults.", "question": "Give an example of an animal that needs the care of its parents after birth.A. BirdsB. Sea turtlesC. Birds ,Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parentsPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is gaudy, graceless, and pretentious", "It's gaudy, graceless, pretentious -" ], "distractor groups": [ "Its ugly" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To say her face fell would do a disservice to Tasha and to literature.
Sent 2: (Allow me my self-indulgences as you would those of a dying man -- when I convince my mindsmith to permit the wipe, there will be another Bernardo Flynn, one who knows no more of Tasha Cortez or Vega IV than he reads here.) Her brows drew together, creasing the lovely, caramel-colored skin around her eyes and showing the pattern for an old woman's wrinkles on her forehead.
Sent 3: Her lower lip (a trifle too narrow for her face, perhaps her only physical flaw) thrust forward slightly as she started to speak.
Sent 4: She caught herself, slid her jaw infinitesimally back into place, and said, \"You don't like it?\"
Sent 5: I laughed.
Sent 6: What could I do?
Sent 7: I clapped her shoulder to show I was not laughing at her.
Sent 8: \"Like it?
Sent 9: I hate it, despise it, abhor it!
Sent 10: It's gaudy, graceless, pretentious -- That house is an affront to taste and intelligence.
Sent 11: I should buy it to raze it, but I am not so kind-hearted.
Sent 12: I might, however, rent it.\"
Sent 13: I think she only heard the last words of my speech.
Sent 14: \"You will?\"
Sent 15: \"It amuses me.
Sent 16: Show me around, and then I shall decide.\"
Sent 17: \"Of course, Se\u00f1or Flynn.\"
Sent 18: \"And stop calling me 'se\u00f1or'.
Sent 19: Not even Los Mundos is so polite.
Sent 20: Call me Bernardo.\"", "question": "Why does Bernardo despise the house?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Re-enactment", "The end of the Heston interview fake", "Changed chronology" ], "distractor groups": [ "The entire movie is false" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You write: \"Having created the desired impression, Moore follows with his Heston interview.\"
Sent 2: No, he doesn't.
Sent 3: You accuse Moore so often of changing the chronology, yet you have no problems changing it yourself.
Sent 4: The Heston interview is at the very end of the movie.
Sent 5: After the Flint rally comes a brief TV interview with Heston, where he is asked about Kayla Rolland (again, clear evidence that the local media in Flint raised questions about the NRA's presence), then an inteview with country prosecutor Arthur Busch, entirely ignored by critics of the film, who also mentions Heston's presence as notable, and refers to the immediate reactions of \"people from all over America\", gun owners/groups who, according to him, reacted aggressively to warnings of having guns accessible to children, much like spanking advocates react aggressively when anti-spankers point to a case of a child being killed or severely injured by a beating.
Sent 6: These people do not feel the need to express sympathy, or to think about ways to avoid such incidents, but they feel the need to assert their \"rights\" and to look for quick, simple answers -- as Busch states, gun owners wanted to \"hang [the child] from the highest tree\".
Sent 7: This is all not mentioned by critics of Moore's movie, who claim to be objective.
Sent 8: Perhaps the best example of the paranoia surrounding Moore's film is your sub-essay \"Is the end of the Heston interview itself faked?\"
Sent 9: Moore answers a simple question -- how could the scene have been filmed -- with a simple answer: two cameras.
Sent 10: From this, you construct an obscure conspiracy of \"re-enactment\": \"For all we can tell, Moore could have shouted 'Hey!'
Sent 11: to make Heston turn around and then remained silent as Heston left.\"
Sent 12: Even if your \"re-enactment\" theory is true (and I see no evidence that you have actually tried to ask the people involved in the filmmaking for their opinion), this itself is not unethical, and you have no evidence whatsoever that Moore has done anything unethical here, just like you have no evidence that Moore has unethically removed parts of the interview.
Sent 13: You use standard filmmaking technique as a basis to construct bizarre conspiracies which sound plausible to the gullible reader, without ever providing any evidence for the implicit or explicit claims of fraud and distortion.", "question": "Name three criticisms of Moore's movie.A. The entire movie is falseB. Re-enactmentC. The end of the Heston interview fakeD. Changed chronologyPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The altar, the confessional box, and the bolts on which a crucifix was hung", "Three bolts left in the wall from where they\u00e2\u0080\u0099d taken down the crucifix" ], "distractor groups": [ "The overall architecture and crosses on the roof", "DJ's toolkit and his beer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The old vaulted church was stripped down: there was no cloth on the altar, just a DJ's toolkit and his beer.
Sent 2: Through the dark, I could see three bolts left in the wall from where they'd taken down the crucifix.
Sent 3: A confessional too beaten-up to have been sold was shaking in a way that suggested activity inside, and where the pews had been taken out, a couple hundred people were testifying to the DJ's moving sermon.
Sent 4: Rachel stepped forward into the crowd while I took a moment to drink in the ceiling's blue-lit, shadowed vault and the light-catching haze from who-knows-what rising between the DJ and the crowd.
Sent 5: There was a terrific echo, each beat reverberating inside of the next, and the old stained-glass windows rattled in their frames.
Sent 6: On the dance floor, people moved with their eyes closed and their hands in the air.
Sent 7: I danced with Rachel for a while, but then something by the bar seemed to be pulling her eyes.
Sent 8: She told me that she was heading for a drink and slipped out of the crowd.
Sent 9: When she hadn't come back halfway through the next song, I glanced over at the bar.
Sent 10: It was just a little set-up where someone had stacked a few crates and brought something alcoholic to share, mostly beer.
Sent 11: Rachel was standing with a plastic cup, looking like she was having a conversation, but I couldn't see anyone else there.
Sent 12: The next time the crowd split, I saw him.
Sent 13: He stood in front of a blue light, so I couldn't see him clearly, but what I saw was memorable.
Sent 14: He wore a jacket of what might have been blue velvet, and his hair gleamed black against his white skin.
Sent 15: The blue haze seemed to stop just shy of his pallor, setting off his striking face without illuminating its details, and his wrists flashed white in the darkness.
Sent 16: He didn't move, just stared and held his drink.
Sent 17: The next time I saw them, his mouth was moving.
Sent 18: She nodded and he took her arm.
Sent 19: I watched them through the crush of dancers as they squeezed along the wall, and the feeling came to me that something was very wrong.
Sent 20: Saturday morning, I woke up and saw that she still hadn't come home.", "question": "What visual evidence suggests this building used to be a church?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Litigation", "Conspiracy allegations, which became mired in litigations" ], "distractor groups": [ "Divorce", "There was no one to claim the statue so they were not going to build it" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In 1990, the U.S. Custom House in New York City was renamed after Hamilton.
Sent 2: In 1880, his son John Church Hamilton commissioned Carl Conrads to sculpt a granite statue, now located in Central Park, New York City.
Sent 3: One statue honoring Alexander Hamilton in Chicago was mired in controversy, at least concerning the surrounding architecture.
Sent 4: Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937), of the Buckingham Fountain family, commissioned the monument.
Sent 5: Its impetus was that Treasury Secretary Hamilton \"secured the nation's financial future and made it possible for her own family to make its fortune in grain elevators and banking.
Sent 6: Consequently, John Angel was hired to model a figurative sculpture and the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was to create a \"colossal architectural setting\" for it.
Sent 7: The proposed 80-foot tall columned shelter was poorly received.
Sent 8: By Ms. Buckingham's death in 1937, the sculpture's setting.
Sent 9: location and design were uncertain.
Sent 10: Conspiracy allegations surfaced, and the matter became mired in litigation.
Sent 11: After the courts ordered the construction to be completed by 1953, the trustees hired architect Samuel A. Marx.
Sent 12: The structure was completed, had structural problems, and was eventually demolished in 1993.
Sent 13: The statue was gilded, and is still on display.
Sent 14: A statue, by James Earle Fraser, was dedicated on May 17, 1923, on the south terrace of the Treasury Building, in Washington.", "question": "From 1937 to 1953 what legal proceeding tied up the construction of the statue?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Atoms of gold are always the same no matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring", "They're all the same" ], "distractor groups": [ "They're all different" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "What could be said about the properties of gold atoms?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They offered intelligence and took direct action against al Qaeda", "Provided intelligence by hired case officers with increased capabilities" ], "distractor groups": [ "They provided fund for the plans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The after-action review had treated the CIA as the lead agency for any offensive against al Qaeda, and the principals, at their March 10 meeting, had endorsed strengthening the CIA's capability for that role.
Sent 2: To the CTC, that meant proceeding with \"The Plan,\" which it had put forward half a year earlier-hiring and training more case officers and building up the capabilities of foreign security services that provided intelligence via liaison.
Sent 3: On occasion, as in Jordan in December 1999, these liaison services took direct action against al Qaeda cells.
Sent 4: In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Laden unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.
Sent 5: Tenet told us he met with Berger to discuss funding for counterterrorism just two days after the principals' meeting.
Sent 6: While Clarke strongly favored giving the CIA more money for counterterrorism, he differed sharply with the CIA's managers about where it should come from.
Sent 7: They insisted that the CIA had been shortchanged ever since the end of the Cold War.
Sent 8: Their ability to perform any mission, counterterrorism included, they argued, depended on preserving what they had, restoring what they had lost since the beginning of the 1990s, and building from there-with across-the-board recruitment and training of new case officers, and the reopening of closed stations.
Sent 9: To finance the counterterrorism effort, Tenet had gone to congressional leaders after the 1998 embassy bombings and persuaded them to give the CIA a special supplemental appropriation.
Sent 10: Now, in the aftermath of the millennium alert, Tenet wanted a boost in overall funds for the CIA and another supplemental appropriation specifically for counterterrorism.
Sent 11: To Clarke, this seemed evidence that the CIA's leadership did not give sufficient priority to the battle against Bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Sent 12: He told us that James Pavitt, the head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, \"said if there's going to be money spent on going after Bin Laden, it should be given to him.
Sent 13: My view was that he had had a lot of money to do it and a long time to do it, and I didn't want to put more good money after bad.\"
Sent 14: The CIA had a very different attitude: Pavitt told us that while the CIA's Bin Laden unit did\"extraordinary and commendable work,\" his chief of station in London \"was just as much part of the al Qaeda struggle as an officer sitting in [the Bin Laden unit].\"
Sent 15: The dispute had large managerial implications, for Clarke had found Ailies in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).", "question": "How were liaisons involved in \"The Plan\" against al Qaeda cells?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nazar Ahari", "Bahareh Hedayat", "Mahdiyeh Golrou", "Shirin Ebadi", "Hengameh Shahidi", "Alieh Eghdam Doust" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What are the names of some of the women in prison charged for being women's activists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Meadowvale , California", "Meadowvale" ], "distractor groups": [ "kingstown" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "Where is the neighborhood located at?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sea trench", "Deep sea trench" ], "distractor groups": [ "Heat", "Conveyor belt", "Convection" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Heat supplies the energy that causes motion.
Sent 2: The deeper you go into toward the Earths core, the hotter it gets.
Sent 3: At the core it is really hot.
Sent 4: All that heat tries to rise toward the surface.
Sent 5: In the Mantle, the rock is partially melted and is able to move.
Sent 6: As it is heated, the material in the mantle moves toward the surface.
Sent 7: As the mantle material rises, it cools.
Sent 8: When it reaches the Earths crust, it is mostly stopped.
Sent 9: A little of the material can break through the surface, but not all.
Sent 10: Instead, it begins to move horizontally.
Sent 11: The mantle material moves horizontally away from a mid-ocean ridge crest.
Sent 12: Toward the surface, the mantle material starts to cool.
Sent 13: As it cools it sinks back down into the mantle.
Sent 14: These areas are where deep sea trench occur.
Sent 15: The material sinks back down to the core.
Sent 16: The system operates like a giant conveyor belt.
Sent 17: The motion due to heating and cooling is called convection.", "question": "What kind of feature occurs where cooled mantle material sinks back down into the mantle?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The refused to uphold the funding request . The stopgap measure was refused because funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus of providing direct services for crime victims", "Not they did not", "They denied the request because it did not provide direct services for crime victims" ], "distractor groups": [ "The organization had already lost some staff" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Low-income domestic violence victims may find long-term legal help -- representation in divorces or child-custody disputes -- hard to come by, if two organizations now providing such help can't replace their lost funding.
Sent 2: The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and Utah Legal Services are already facing cutbacks after they were refused a federal grant of more than 450,000 in September.
Sent 3: The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations [CVR] has voted to deny a stopgap funding request from the two organizations.
Sent 4: While describing the request as a worthy cause, board members agreed Tuesday that funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus -- providing direct services for crime victims.
Sent 5: The 175,000 requested would have allowed the legal aid groups to maintain a skeleton staff to continue providing help beyond emergency protective orders for victims, completing existing cases and offering services in limited cases.
Sent 6: The groups also plan to enlist more pro bono attorneys through coordination with the Utah State Bar. \"We don't have a lot more options,\" said Anne Milne, executive director of Utah Legal Services, after learning of the CVR refusal Wednesday.
Sent 7: The organization has already lost some staff through attrition and has turned away some cases, she said.
Sent 8: Milne said she may ask the board overseeing her organization to give her until November to seek funding from additional sources.
Sent 9: Without additional funding, the outlook for longer-term legal help is unclear.
Sent 10: For two years, the groups had received 18-month civil legal assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and had used them to provide such assistance.
Sent 11: But last month, a third request was denied.
Sent 12: Funding used to help victims obtain emergency protective orders remains in place, said Milne and Stewart Ralphs, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.
Sent 13: Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days.
Sent 14: Many judges are reluctant to address those issues in emergency protective orders, since the decrees stay in effect for such a short time, Milne and Ralphs said.
Sent 15: \"The likelihood a victim will return to her abuser increases if she cannot permanently sever the relationship and establish workable support, custody and property arrangements,\" the funding request to CVR said.
Sent 16: The Department of Justice said it denied the grant application, in part, because evaluators did not see enough collaboration between the organizations and victims' advocates, Ralphs and Milne told CVR board members.
Sent 17: While the two said they believe their organizations coordinate well, the organizations cannot appeal the grant denial.
Sent 18: Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.", "question": "Did the Office of Crime Victim Reparations vote to uphold the funding request and if not, why was the stopgap measure refused?" }, { "answer groups": [ "FAA personnel at Dulles", "Several of the Dulles controllers", "FAA personnel at Reagan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Boston Center", "Indianapolis Center", "Secret service" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "Who notified the secret serviceA. FAA personnel at DullesB. Several of the Dulles controllersC. Boston CenterD. Indianapolis CenterE. Secret serviceF. FAA personnel at ReaganPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sheltered Harbor", "Malaka was the trading and business hub of in the region", "It had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra" ], "distractor groups": [ "The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish", "It had an immense wealth of resources", "They offered a dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "What is a positive point about Melaka?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Army and Yongarry", "Soliders", "Yogarry" ], "distractor groups": [ "Aliens", "Rocks", "President" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .", "question": "Who or what are fighting when Hughes and Holly figure out the diamond on Yongarry's forehead is the device giving the aliens control over Yongarry?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because they were upset that the Dutch were supplying the British colonies with ammunition", "The Dutch were sending the English colonies caches of arms and ammunition", "Influencing british colonies" ], "distractor groups": [ "More control", "Because the golden age was dead" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "Why did Britain go to war with the Netherlands in 1780?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gun homicides", "The United States Homicide Rate (Both Gun and Non-Gun)" ], "distractor groups": [ "Poverty comparisons", "Humanitarian aid comparisons", "Violent crime", "Opium", "The film about his website" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Taliban and American aid.
Sent 2: After the September 11 attacks, it was necessary for conservatives to somehow explain away the fact that the US government gave 245 million dollars to the new evildoers du jour.
Sent 3: Never mind the fact that authors such as Robert Scheer warned of aiding the Taliban as early as in May 2001.
Sent 4: Never mind that they did so not out of some humanitarian motivation, but because of the Taliban's violent enforcement of the ban on opium poppies.
Sent 5: Never mind that in a regime that is controlled by warlords, it does not matter who is authorized to distribute the aid -- the ruling regional warlords will seize control of it and use it to their own advantage.
Sent 6: Never mind that this very argument has been used by hawks in opposition to sending humanitarian aid to Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Sent 7: Never mind that the Taliban continued selling opium in spite of the deal.
Sent 8: Never mind that this is all documented on Michael Moore's website about the film.
Sent 9: Gun homicides.
Sent 10: Statistics are Moore's weakest point, and it is surprising that his critics don't dwell on them longer.
Sent 11: That's because they know all too well that Moore is correct: The United States have a far greater homicide rate (both gun- and non-gun) than most other first world countries.
Sent 12: His main mistake is that he does not use population corrected data, his second mistake is that he does not cite his sources (and, as you correctly point out, he probably uses different reporting methods for the different countries).
Sent 13: A good comparison of international homicide rates can be found on the relatively neutral guncite.com website.", "question": "For what topic does Michael Moore fail to cite his sources?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Poetics of Sexual Myth", "His writing", "His writings" ], "distractor groups": [ "Intellectually and physically", "Filmmaking" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Modern criticism of Pope focuses on the man, his circumstances and motivations, prompted by theoretical perspectives such as Marxism, feminism and other forms of post-structuralism.
Sent 2: Brean Hammond focuses on Pope's singular achievement in making an independent living solely from his writing.
Sent 3: Laura Brown (1985) adopts a Marxist approach and accuses Pope of being an apologist for the oppressive upper classes.
Sent 4: Hammond (1986) has studied Pope's work from the perspectives of cultural materialism and new historicism.
Sent 5: Along Hammond's lines, Raymond Williams explains art as a set of practices influenced by broad cultural factors rather than simply the vague ideas of genius alone.
Sent 6: Hayden Carruth, wrote that it was \"Pope's rationalism and pandeism with which he wrote the greatest mock-epic in English literature.\"
Sent 7: In Politics and Poetics of Transgression (1985) Peter Stallybrass and Allon White charge that Pope drew upon the low culture which he despised in order to produce his own \"high art\".
Sent 8: They assert Pope was implicated in the very material he was attempting to exclude, not dissimilar to observations made in Pope's time.
Sent 9: Colin Nicholson reads the poetry in terms of the Financial Revolution, showing how Pope responded to the corruption of the traditional 'landed interest' by the newly dominant 'moneyed interest'.
Sent 10: Feminists have also criticised Pope's works.
Sent 11: Ellen Pollak's The Poetics of Sexual Myth (1985) argues that Pope followed an anti-feminist tradition, that regarded women as inferior to men both intellectually and physically.
Sent 12: Carolyn Williams contends that a crisis in the male role during the 18th century in Britain impacted Pope and his writing.", "question": "Pope is being criticized/supported for what type of work?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Columbia University", "His alma mater, Columbia University has published his complete works" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hamilton College" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "Where is Hamilton's complete works published?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sandwiches", "The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock", "Margret's relationship with Brent" ], "distractor groups": [ "In the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.", "question": "What were Margaret and Wykham quarreling about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It's unclear", "It was in a muddy area along a worn path" ], "distractor groups": [ "The vehicle was nowhere near mud", "The driver got it stuck on purpose", "The killers did that on purpose", "Ramzi Binalshibh" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show \"Buckwild,\" has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday.
Sent 2: \"This is a very sad and tragic event,\" Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said.
Sent 3: \"We live in a very small community.
Sent 4: Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family.\"
Sent 5: Gandee, 21, was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, authorities said.
Sent 6: 'Buckwild' producer talks about the show \"Earlier this day after releasing information Shain Gandee was missing, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area near Thaxton Hollow, Sissonville, Kanawha County WV,\" said a statement from the Sheriff's Office.
Sent 7: \"Deputies and members of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department used all terrain vehicles to access that vehicle, a 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family.
Sent 8: The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path.
Sent 9: Inside were the bodies of three people.\"
Sent 10: In a subsequent release, the Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud.
Sent 11: It was uneven but upright; its muffler was below the surface.
Sent 12: Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco's passenger side door, but the driver's side, where the younger Gandee sat, was free, the Sheriff's Office said.
Sent 13: Gandee was happy with life before death He was one of the nine cast members of \"Buckwild.\"
Sent 14: The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville, West Virginia, pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their all-terrain vehicles.
Sent 15: Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done \"every job from coal mining to being a garbage man.\"", "question": "Why was the Gandee family's 1984 Ford Bronco partially submerged in mud?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Satam al Suqami", "Satam al Suqami on of the hijackers", "Satam al Suqam" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atta", "Nydia Gonzalez", "Omari", "Daniel Lewin", "A passenger", "A disgruntled Rival", "Lewin" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "Who likely stabbed the man who served four years in the Israeli military?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar. In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence. In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack", "Fled to desert near Kabul" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hid in Afghanistan", "Evacuation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "What actions did Bin Laden take fearing retaliation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because. parliamentary democracy has majority rule and Hindus were the majority", "They were socialists and wanted all groups to have a say in how the new country was run, to avoid further violence" ], "distractor groups": [ "To elect a king", "To become a part of Japan", "To upset Britain", "Since he wanted to rule" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus\u2002\u2014\u2002and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning \"pure\"), and adding \"stan,\" the Persian suffix for the word \"country.
Sent 9: \" The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a \"Quit India\" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was\u2002\u2014\u2002six months after his arrival\u2002\u2014\u2002but not smooth.", "question": "Why would Nehru's largely Hindu Congress Party want a parliamentary democracy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo", "The first figures of the Buddha were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo", "Portrayals of Buddha were modeled on statues of Apollo" ], "distractor groups": [ "Food placed on altars", "The burning of incense in art", "Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 BC - 10 CE) in modern Afghanistan and India.
Sent 2: There on the newly formed Silk Road Greek culture apparently hybridized with Indian, and especially Buddhist culture.
Sent 3: The resulting syncretism known as Greco-Buddhism heavily influenced the development of Buddhism and created a culture of Greco-Buddhist art.
Sent 4: These Greco-Buddhist kingdoms sent some of the first Buddhist missionaries to China, Sri Lanka, and the Mediterranean (Greco-Buddhist monasticism).
Sent 5: The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo.
Sent 6: Several Buddhist traditions may have been influenced by the ancient Greek religion: the concept of Boddhisatvas is reminiscent of Greek divine heroes, and some Mahayana ceremonial practices (burning incense, gifts of flowers, and food placed on altars) are similar to those practiced by the ancient Greeks.
Sent 7: One Greek king, Menander I, probably became Buddhist, and was immortalized in Buddhist literature as 'Milinda'.
Sent 8: The process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD.
Sent 9: For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth.
Sent 10: The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts in particular show Greek influence.", "question": "Give an example of how Hellenized artforms were used in Indian art.A. The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of ApolloB. Food placed on altarsC. The burning of incense in artD. The first figures of the Buddha were modeled on Greek statues of ApolloE. Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day AfghanistanF. Portrayals of Buddha were modeled on statues of ApolloPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Light", "Heat", "Light and heat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Forest fires", "Food", "Chinese invention" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "What did a mastery of fire achieve for Peking Man?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By pouring vegetable oil into water", "By watching the animation or by adding oil to water yourself", "Differences in density of matter explain many phenomena" ], "distractor groups": [ "Watching rocks", "By pouring water into ilk", "Watching the stars", "Watching the moon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Density is also an important physical property of matter.
Sent 2: The concept of density combines what we know about an objects mass and volume.
Sent 3: Density reflects how closely packed the particles of matter are.
Sent 4: When particles are packed together more tightly, matter is more dense.
Sent 5: Differences in density of matter explain many phenomena.
Sent 6: It explains why helium balloons rise.
Sent 7: It explains why currents such as the Gulf Stream flow through the oceans.
Sent 8: It explains why some things float in or sink.
Sent 9: You can see this in action by pouring vegetable oil into water.
Sent 10: You can see a colorful demonstration in this video.", "question": "How can I observe the role density plays?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because he wants to compete for his business, so he suggest looking for a place to shoot a commercial", "Location for commercial shooting", "To film a commercial" ], "distractor groups": [ "killing", "For a getaway trip", "Suicide", "Because he wants to explore the Baja desert since one of their advertising clients asked them to", "For fun", "Murder" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "Under what pretext does a sociopathic company executive organize the motorcycle trip?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Between $400,000 and $500,000. Nearly $10,000 by the operators", "Plotters spent somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and conduct their attack. Hamburg cell members each received $5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States", "Around $500,000", "$5,000" ], "distractor groups": [ "$150,000", "$10,000", "$10,000 -$56000. $25000 by operators" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "How much did the 9/11 plotters spend and how much was given to Hamburg operators in regards to their role in the plot?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"Treme\", \"The Wire\", and \"The Pacific.\"", "Treme", "The Pacific", "The Wire" ], "distractor groups": [ "Veep", "Dancing with the Stars", "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", "LockUp Abroad", "Search party", "Game of thrones" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "George Pelecanos has been involved as a writer and producer for which television shows?" }, { "answer groups": [ "U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela", "The United States" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ecuadaor", "Britain" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will not be reinstated as head of state, an overwhelming majority of the Honduran congress voted Wednesday.
Sent 2: In an hours-long process, 111 lawmakers voted in favor of a motion not to return Zelaya to office.
Sent 3: A majority of 65 votes in the 128-member body was required to reject his reinstatement.
Sent 4: Zelaya was removed from office in a military-led coup on June 28 and replaced by congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.
Sent 5: On Wednesday, lawmakers voted one by one and addressed the chamber as they cast their vote, making for a slow process.
Sent 6: The vote was a key part of a U.S.-brokered pact that representatives for Zelaya and Micheletti signed October 29, giving Congress the power to decide Zelaya's fate.
Sent 7: The United States expressed disappointment Thursday over the latest rebuff to its diplomatic efforts to end the political crisis in Honduras.
Sent 8: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela continued to call on the Honduran government to allow Zelaya's return and to create a unity government in the interim period before the new president takes office next month.
Sent 9: \"We are disappointed by this decision since the United States had hoped the [Honduran] Congress would have approved his return,\" Valenzuela said in a conference call with journalists in Washington.
Sent 10: \"Our policy since June 28 has been consistently principled.
Sent 11: It has condemned the coup d'etat and continued to accept President Zelaya as the democratically elected and legitimate leader of Honduras throughout this political crisis.\"
Sent 12: The United States continues to call for Honduras to engage in national reconciliation and creation of a truth commission to investigate the crisis, in addition to the unity government.
Sent 13: \"The absence of democratic, constitutional order is the unacceptable status quo,\" a senior U.S. administration official said on the conference call, remaining anonymous under the ground rules of the call and because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Sent 14: \"The election is a step toward a day where Honduras will have an electorally legitimate government in place.\"", "question": "Who called to engage in national reconciliation and creation of a truth commission to investigate the crisis, in addition to the unity government, before the new president takes office next month?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There is a large convention being held in the city", "A convention in town", "There are no vacancies", "An event", "A convention" ], "distractor groups": [ "Duck migration", "He does not have any money", "A game", "Rooms are too expensive" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "Why is Porky having some difficulty with getting a room?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Some of the FAA officials", "Boston and New England" ], "distractor groups": [ "Officials", "CIA", "ATC" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "Which officials knew there was a highjacker aboardA. Some of the FAA officialsB. Boston and New EnglandC. OfficialsD. CIAE. ATCPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County", "To find legal representation and face their abuser" ], "distractor groups": [ "She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed", "To reach an agreement" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most of the surrounding counties the criminal contempt charge is what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Raed Hijaz", "Raed Hijazi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Abu Zubaydah", "Khadr Abu Hoshar" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "What was the name of the terrorist born in California that Jordanian police arrested with 15 others?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because CIA had been shortchanged ever since the end of the Cold War", "The CIA had been shortchanged and needed to preserve what it had to fight terrorism" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because CIS needs money to buy machineries" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The after-action review had treated the CIA as the lead agency for any offensive against al Qaeda, and the principals, at their March 10 meeting, had endorsed strengthening the CIA's capability for that role.
Sent 2: To the CTC, that meant proceeding with \"The Plan,\" which it had put forward half a year earlier-hiring and training more case officers and building up the capabilities of foreign security services that provided intelligence via liaison.
Sent 3: On occasion, as in Jordan in December 1999, these liaison services took direct action against al Qaeda cells.
Sent 4: In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Laden unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.
Sent 5: Tenet told us he met with Berger to discuss funding for counterterrorism just two days after the principals' meeting.
Sent 6: While Clarke strongly favored giving the CIA more money for counterterrorism, he differed sharply with the CIA's managers about where it should come from.
Sent 7: They insisted that the CIA had been shortchanged ever since the end of the Cold War.
Sent 8: Their ability to perform any mission, counterterrorism included, they argued, depended on preserving what they had, restoring what they had lost since the beginning of the 1990s, and building from there-with across-the-board recruitment and training of new case officers, and the reopening of closed stations.
Sent 9: To finance the counterterrorism effort, Tenet had gone to congressional leaders after the 1998 embassy bombings and persuaded them to give the CIA a special supplemental appropriation.
Sent 10: Now, in the aftermath of the millennium alert, Tenet wanted a boost in overall funds for the CIA and another supplemental appropriation specifically for counterterrorism.
Sent 11: To Clarke, this seemed evidence that the CIA's leadership did not give sufficient priority to the battle against Bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Sent 12: He told us that James Pavitt, the head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, \"said if there's going to be money spent on going after Bin Laden, it should be given to him.
Sent 13: My view was that he had had a lot of money to do it and a long time to do it, and I didn't want to put more good money after bad.\"
Sent 14: The CIA had a very different attitude: Pavitt told us that while the CIA's Bin Laden unit did\"extraordinary and commendable work,\" his chief of station in London \"was just as much part of the al Qaeda struggle as an officer sitting in [the Bin Laden unit].\"
Sent 15: The dispute had large managerial implications, for Clarke had found Ailies in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).", "question": "Why did Clarke feel it was important to fund the CIA and counterterrorism more?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes- by making a part of the plant die" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sometimes in mild cases", "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When you get sick, your body springs to action.
Sent 2: Your body starts to fight the illness.
Sent 3: Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep.
Sent 4: You need a strong immune system to fight off illness.
Sent 5: Plants dont have an immune system.
Sent 6: That does not mean they do not get sick.
Sent 7: Plants are affected by disease just like us.
Sent 8: Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant.
Sent 9: This prevents the infection from spreading.
Sent 10: Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease.
Sent 11: For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria.
Sent 12: The same compound is used in many acne products.
Sent 13: You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think.
Sent 14: No, they cannot talk to each other.
Sent 15: They may be able to send messages, though.", "question": "Can plants fight infection without releasing special chemicals?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"No direct conversation between them\"", "What to do with the low-flying plane", "An Order to Shoot Down the Plane" ], "distractor groups": [ "Who was behind the attacks", "When he would return to Washington", "\"President was told that the Vice President had executed the order\"" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "What was the conversation between the Vice President and President about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries", "Baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries" ], "distractor groups": [ "Baby shoes", "Spring-time meals in the middle of winter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Captured Moments by Will Shetterly I remember Papa's stopbox, a teal blue Tiempo Capturado that Mama brought home for his birthday.
Sent 2: It was huge and inefficient, and she should never have spent so many pesos on a toy, but Papa would not let her return it.
Sent 3: He used it to preserve baby tomatoes, cucumbers, and strawberries in translucent cubes that he stored in the pantry for spring-time meals in the middle of winter.
Sent 4: Mama kept her mink jacket, a family hand-me-down, safe from time in a stopbox, and lent the capturador to my uncle for his stamp collection.
Sent 5: Sometimes they would let us little ones to seal a treasured toy or a last piece of birthday cake until we begged them for its release, usually a few hours after enclosing it.
Sent 6: When my father died, a year after my mother, my sisters and I cleaned out their apartment.
Sent 7: We found our baby shoes protected in stopboxes.
Sent 8: I took mine home, where they sat above my computer while I worked on my first play.
Sent 9: One night when I did not believe love had ever existed for anyone, I used my own capturador, a sleek titanium Sanyo Tardar Ahora, to undo the stopbox.
Sent 10: Bringing my face close to the shoes, I breathed deeply of air that my parents had trapped while closing up that symbol of their love for me.
Sent 11: The instant would have been improved had my baby shoes been cleaned before they were encased.
Sent 12: But as soon as I coughed, I laughed, and I did not try to kill myself that night.", "question": "What did papa preserve?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hughes", "Howard Hughes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Steve Jobs", "Donald Trump", "Steve Wynn", "Wynn" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas\u2002\u2014\u2002corporate cash.
Sent 2: Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities.
Sent 3: That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
Sent 4: A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos.
Sent 5: True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse.
Sent 6: Several weeks later he was asked\u2002\u2014\u2002then ordered\u2002\u2014\u2002to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.
Sent 7: Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, 300-million Las Vegas buying spree.
Sent 8: When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains.
Sent 9: Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting.
Sent 10: Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant.
Sent 11: That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city.
Sent 12: Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
Sent 13: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Sent 14: What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
Sent 15: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Sent 16: The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget.
Sent 17: In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort.
Sent 18: He bought several Strip properties\u2002\u2014\u2002the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them\u2002\u2014\u2002and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort\u2002\u2014\u2002Mirage\u2002\u2014\u2002 which became an instant success.", "question": "Who bought the Desert Inn and fire the management?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lightning bolts", "Lightening bolts", "Lightning", "Bolts" ], "distractor groups": [ "Short circuit", "Earthquake", "Irritation", "Water to rise", "Pain", "Fire" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You approach the door of your friends house.
Sent 2: What is the first thing you do before entering?
Sent 3: Of course, you wipe your feet.
Sent 4: You are a thoughtful visitor.
Sent 5: Fortunately, there is a nice piece of carpet by the door to wipe your shoes.
Sent 6: Too bad your caring comes at a price.
Sent 7: After wiping your feet on the mat you reach out to touch the brass knocker on the door.
Sent 8: A spark suddenly jumps between your hand and the metal.
Sent 9: You feel an electric shock.
Sent 10: Why do you think an electric shock occurs?
Sent 11: An electric shock occurs when there is a sudden discharge of static electricity.
Sent 12: Has this ever happened to you?
Sent 13: You reached out to touch a metal doorknob and received an unpleasant electric shock?
Sent 14: The reason you get a shock is because of moving electric charges.
Sent 15: Moving electric charges also create lightning bolts.
Sent 16: It is also the same reason electric current flows through cables and wires.", "question": "You get shocked because of moving electric charges and moving electric charges also creates what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cryptic", "Christians", "Crytpic" ], "distractor groups": [ "Morse code", "A note" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Creed family moves into a new home , close to a road where truckers often drive unsafely .
Sent 2: They befriend their neighbor , Jud Crandall , who tells them about a nearby pet cemetery which was built on Indian burial grounds and is rumored to be haunted .
Sent 3: Later , Louis Creed , working at the University of Maine at Orono health center , treats Victor Pascow , who has been hit by a truck and incurred massive head injuries .
Sent 4: Pascow dies after grabbing Louis , addressing him by name , and uttering a cryptic message .
Sent 5: He also promises to `` come to '' him .
Sent 6: That night , in what is seemingly a dream , Victor visits Louis , warning him about the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery .
Sent 7: Louis wakes up to find his feet covered in dirt .
Sent 8: Church , a cat owned by Louis ' daughter Ellie , is killed by a truck on the road in front of their house while Rachel , Ellie and Gage are in Chicago .
Sent 9: Jud takes Louis to an ancient Micmac Indian burial ground beyond the pet cemetery they visited earlier and buries the cat .
Sent 10: Church is brought back to life , but is an evil shell of himself .
Sent 11: He attacks Louis and reeks of decomposition .
Sent 12: Louis asks if a person was ever buried in the grounds .
Sent 13: Jud replies , `` Christ on His throne , no. .
Sent 14: And whoever would? ''
Sent 15: Sometime later , Louis ' young son Gage is killed by a truck on the same road .
Sent 16: Louis considers burying Gage in the burial grounds .
Sent 17: Jud tries to dissuade him from doing so , telling him about a young man from town , Timmy Baterman , who died in service during World War II .", "question": "What kind of message did Victor give when he told Louis he would come to him after dying?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Hamburg cell", "Hamburg cell members", "Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mustafa al Hawsawi", "Al Qaeda", "KSM", "KSM, Binalshibh" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "What cell operatives arrived in the US shortly after May 2000?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The humanities building and the organizations for Marine and ROTC candidates", "Student group for ROTC cadets and Marine Officer candidates", "Hamilton Hall" ], "distractor groups": [ "The university press" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "What at Columbia carried Hamilton's name?" }, { "answer groups": [ "House of the followers", "Dar el Ansar, which means house of the followers", "Dar el Ansar" ], "distractor groups": [ "House of the leader", "For every rent check he would write a different message in code", "Atta's circle", "Evidence of the importance that the apartment was a center for the group" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Hamburg, Jarrah had a succession of living accommodations, but he apparently never resided with his future co-conspirators.
Sent 2: It is not clear how and when he became part of Atta's circle.
Sent 3: He became particularly friendly with Binalshibh after meeting him at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, which Jarrah began attending regularly in late 1997.
Sent 4: The worshippers at this mosque featured an outspoken, flamboyant Islamist named Mohammed Haydar Zammar.
Sent 5: A well-known figure in the Muslim community (and to German and U.S. intelligence agencies by the late 1990s), Zammar had fought in Afghanistan and relished any opportunity to extol the virtues of violent jihad.
Sent 6: Indeed, a witness has reported hearing Zammar press Binalshibh to fulfill his duty to wage jihad.
Sent 7: Moreover, after 9/11, Zammar reportedly took credit for influencing not just Binalshibh but the rest of the Hamburg group.
Sent 8: In 1998, Zammar encouraged them to participate in jihad and even convinced them to go to Afghanistan.
Sent 9: Owing to Zammar's persuasion or some other source of inspiration, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah eventually prepared themselves to translate their extremist beliefs into action.
Sent 10: By late 1999, they were ready to abandon their student lives in Germany in favor of violent jihad.
Sent 11: This final stage in their evolution toward embracing Islamist extremism did not entirely escape the notice of the people around them.
Sent 12: The foursome became core members of a group of radical Muslims, often hosting sessions at their Marienstrasse apartment that involved extremely anti-American discussions.
Sent 13: Meeting three to four times a week, the group became something of a \"sect\" whose members, according to one participant in the meetings, tended to deal only with each other.
Sent 14: Atta's rent checks for the apartment provide evidence of the importance that the apartment assumed as a center for the group, as he would write on them the notation \"Dar el Ansar,\" or \"house of the followers.\"
Sent 15: In addition to Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah, the group included other extremists, some of whom also would attend al Qaeda training camps and, in some instances, would help the 9/11 hijackers as they executed the plot: Said Bahaji, son of a Moroccan immigrant, was the only German citizen in the group.
Sent 16: Educated in Morocco, Bahaji returned to Germany to study electrical engineering at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg.
Sent 17: He spent five months in the German army before obtaining a medical discharge, and lived with Atta and Binalshibh at 54 Marienstrasse for eight months between November 1998 and July 1999.
Sent 18: Described as an insecure follower with no personality and with limited knowledge of Islam, Bahaji nonetheless professed his readiness to engage in violence.", "question": "The four became somewhat of a sect meeting 3 to 4 times a week and what was it that Atta would write on the rent checks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Run for mayor", "Run for mayoralty" ], "distractor groups": [ "Attend the grand reception", "Warhead", "Participate in another duel", "kick the heir of the chief citizen" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.", "question": "What was Pudd'nhead Wilson asked to do on Saturday?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jack was in town", "Adrienne doubts that her husband Jack was in town when he claimed to be on out on a business trip but he assures her that he was indeed out of town after she confronts him", "She confronts him" ], "distractor groups": [ "He has a son" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "What disturbing information does Adrienne hear from a friend and how does she clarify it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alien Planet", "Alien Planet with Von Braun" ], "distractor groups": [ "Isaac Newton", "Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter", "Horus", "Balboa", "Leonardo da Vinci" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .", "question": "Which planet reaches Darwin IV by traveling at 20% the speed of light?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mary was picking blueberries", "Picking blueberries" ], "distractor groups": [ "She was calling Max's name", "Reading" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mary loved walking through the woods with her dog, Max.
Sent 2: Max and Mary would go on all sorts of adventures together.
Sent 3: They really loved looking for blueberries together and then falling asleep next to each other in the tall grass.
Sent 4: One day, as Mary was picking the blueberries, she turned around to find that Max was not there.
Sent 5: She became worried and ran off to look for her dog.
Sent 6: She looked in all of their favorite spots...next to the stream, in their secret hiding place behind the raspberry bushes, and even inside the old cabin that sat in the woods.
Sent 7: But poor Max was nowhere to be found.
Sent 8: Nonetheless, Mary would not give up.
Sent 9: She kept looking and she found him not very far away.
Sent 10: He had seen a squirrel and run to chase it.
Sent 11: When Mary called Max's name he left the squirrel and happily returned to Mary, wagging his tail as he went.", "question": "What was Mary doing when Max saw a squirrel?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and kept it alight", "They learned to retain flame from another source, like a forest fire, and it provided warmth and light", "Light and heat", "He got fire from a forest fire and it provided heat and light" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rubbing two sticks together and it provided heat", "A way to cook food", "Accidental discovery from lightening strike" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "Where did man get fire and what luxuries did it provide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ransome", "Tom Ransome" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maharani", "Safti", "Lord Esketh", "Dr. Safti" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In India to purchase some horses , British aristocrat , Lord Esketh and his wife , Edwina , come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani .
Sent 2: Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announces his intention to return to England and begin divorce proceedings .
Sent 3: The spoiled , insensitive Edwina scoffs at this .
Sent 4: She renews in Ranchipur an acquaintance with a former lover , Tom Ransome , now a dissolute alcoholic .
Sent 5: She also meets and attempts to seduce a distinguished Hindu physician , Dr. Rama Safti , a decent man who is the elderly Maharani's personal choice to succeed her someday .
Sent 6: Safti at first resists , but ultimately succumbs to Edwina's charms and falls hopelessly in love with her .
Sent 7: Lord Esketh becomes aware of this , but Safti saves him from a man-eating tiger during a safari .
Sent 8: Safti admits his love for Edwina to Lord Esketh , who is now sympathetic toward this good man's plight .
Sent 9: Ransome feels the same way , warning Edwina to stay away from Safti , a friend he admires .
Sent 10: Edwina similarly falls into disfavor with the Maharani , who explains that Safti has been raised to lead a pure life and that Edwina is unworthy of him .
Sent 11: Ranchipur suddenly is ravaged by a natural disaster , an earthquake and flood .
Sent 12: Dr. Safti is so busy saving lives that he can not personally care for Edwina , who has fallen ill .
Sent 13: Ransome looks after her as well as for young Fern Simon , who has declared her love for him .
Sent 14: When a dam is exploded by dynamite and as a result the flood waters recede , it is Dr. Safti who reveals that Ransome is the one who risked his personal safety to save the people of Ranchipur .", "question": "Who looks after Edwina and Fern after the flood and earthquake?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Some aren't", "Some are, some aren't, depending on how we use them" ], "distractor groups": [ "Always" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.", "question": "Are natural resources renewable?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Stored energy in the wood", "Energy stored in the wood" ], "distractor groups": [ "It comes from the chemical energy it inherently possesses", "It comes from the heat and light it produces", "It comes from the light it gives out" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "When you sit in front of a campfire, where does the energy of the fire come from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Arturo Valenzuela", "The United States", "The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Roberto Micheletti", "Ecuador" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will not be reinstated as head of state, an overwhelming majority of the Honduran congress voted Wednesday.
Sent 2: In an hours-long process, 111 lawmakers voted in favor of a motion not to return Zelaya to office.
Sent 3: A majority of 65 votes in the 128-member body was required to reject his reinstatement.
Sent 4: Zelaya was removed from office in a military-led coup on June 28 and replaced by congressional leader Roberto Micheletti.
Sent 5: On Wednesday, lawmakers voted one by one and addressed the chamber as they cast their vote, making for a slow process.
Sent 6: The vote was a key part of a U.S.-brokered pact that representatives for Zelaya and Micheletti signed October 29, giving Congress the power to decide Zelaya's fate.
Sent 7: The United States expressed disappointment Thursday over the latest rebuff to its diplomatic efforts to end the political crisis in Honduras.
Sent 8: U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela continued to call on the Honduran government to allow Zelaya's return and to create a unity government in the interim period before the new president takes office next month.
Sent 9: \"We are disappointed by this decision since the United States had hoped the [Honduran] Congress would have approved his return,\" Valenzuela said in a conference call with journalists in Washington.
Sent 10: \"Our policy since June 28 has been consistently principled.
Sent 11: It has condemned the coup d'etat and continued to accept President Zelaya as the democratically elected and legitimate leader of Honduras throughout this political crisis.\"
Sent 12: The United States continues to call for Honduras to engage in national reconciliation and creation of a truth commission to investigate the crisis, in addition to the unity government.
Sent 13: \"The absence of democratic, constitutional order is the unacceptable status quo,\" a senior U.S. administration official said on the conference call, remaining anonymous under the ground rules of the call and because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Sent 14: \"The election is a step toward a day where Honduras will have an electorally legitimate government in place.\"", "question": "Who has continued to accept President Zelaya as the democratically elected and legitimate leader of Honduras following the coup d'etat?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Brandy or Geneva", "Haschisch", "Bhang" ], "distractor groups": [ "Only for men", "For everyone", "Alcohol" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the \"charny\" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of \"charny\" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.", "question": "What was the luxury intoxication of Europe?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It says opposition was happening, but the opposition cooled after their budget was cut, and many types of cases were no longer allowed to be handled by LSC funded legal aid", "Spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government" ], "distractor groups": [ "There were too many parties" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), a quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor, would receive 329 million in fiscal 2004 under President Bush's proposal - the same amount requested in 2003 and approved for 2002 and 2001.
Sent 2: If approved, the hold-the-line request for LSC means its budget would erode with inflation for another year, but it could be worse for the organization: Many conservatives fought for years to do away with the LSC altogether, saying legal services attorneys were spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government instead of representing the needy.
Sent 3: Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996, when Congress approved restrictions (PL 104-134) on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take.
Sent 4: (1996 Almanac, p.
Sent 5: 5-36) Republicans cut the organization's budget deeply in 1996, but its funding has recovered slowly.
Sent 6: Last month, in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2003, the Senate added a onetime increase of 19 million, which, if approved in the final version, would bring the LSC budget to 348 million.
Sent 7: The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households.
Sent 8: If the extra money survives a conference with the House and makes it to the president's desk, LSC supporters may try to include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding.
Sent 9: The federal government began funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor in the late 1960s; the Legal Services Corporation was created in 1974 (PL 93-355).
Sent 10: LSC gives nearly all its money to state and local agencies, which provide civil legal assistance to those whose income is less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level - 11,075 a year for an individual and 22,625 for a family of four.
Sent 11: Funding for legal services goes to defend needy clients in domestic violence cases, custody cases and other such matters, according to LSC.
Sent 12: Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs", "question": "What actions taken toward the LSC makes us think the view of the LSC might be a politically motivated one?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were evangelical", "Christian" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hindu", "Muslim", "Budhist" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "What religion did these churches worship?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Other part of rock", "The rocks", "Other part of the rocks that formed side by side" ], "distractor groups": [ "Continent", "Flowers", "Africa", "Atlantic Ocean" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "What stayed in europeA. ContinentB. FlowersC. Other part of rockD. The rocksE. AfricaF. Other part of the rocks that formed side by sideG. Atlantic OceanPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership", "Because the Iranian authorities want to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people", "Women activies" ], "distractor groups": [ "government crackdown", "CNN.com opinion articles", "for more than a decade" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "What is the reason that the Iranian government has increasingly targeted the reform movement of women activists since 2009?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Women with the dead, or those who came from the North on special permits", "The women and those from the North on special permits" ], "distractor groups": [ "Special operatives" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dick was enraged to see how contentedly the men bore the irksome confinement, the meager food, and harsh peremptoriness of the beardless boys set over them as guards.
Sent 2: Most of the prisoners passed the time in cards, playing for buttons, trinkets, or what not that formed their scanty possessions.
Sent 3: Dick learned that all the commissioned officers of the company with Wesley Boone had been wounded or killed in the charge near the stone bridge.
Sent 4: Wesley had been with the prisoners at first.
Sent 5: He had been struck on the head, and was in a raging fever when his father and sister came to the prison to take him away.
Sent 6: No one could tell where he was now, but Dick knew that he must be in the city, since there were no exchanges, the Confederates allowing no one to leave the lines except women with the dead, or those who came from the North on special permits.
Sent 7: Then he visited the provost headquarters, and was shown the complete list of names recorded in the books there; but Barney's was not among them.
Sent 8: At the Spottswood Hotel, the day after his coming, he met Elisha Boone, haggard, depressed, almost despairing.
Sent 9: Dick had no love for the hard-headed plutocrat, but he couldn't resist making himself known.", "question": "Who did the Confederates let leave?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It can preserve an organism, including the DNA of creatures that don't exist on earth anymore", "Scientists are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer exist on Earth", "It completely preserves the object" ], "distractor groups": [ "It looks beautiful", "Because they see a real animal", "Because it leaves a mold", "Because it leaves a cast" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "Why is amber so exciting for scientists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, he believes it's not inconsistent because exposure to the US military could impact them in a positive way and his trip highlighted thes moral ambiguities", "Yes as seeing military organization operate in a democratic institutions tends to rub off on young officers in the armed forces" ], "distractor groups": [ "Often criticized", "It is necessary for the greater good", "Sometimes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: \"If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them,\" he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir \"touched on the case\" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had \"always felt\" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.", "question": "Does Powell think America should work with other governments on counterterrorism efforts, even if those governments have a history of human rights abuses?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Conference Room", "At the conference room table", "\"Bolten watched the exchange\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "\"confirm the engage order\"", "Oval Office", "Air Force One" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "Where was Joshua Bolten when he suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order?" }, { "answer groups": [ "More domestic violence assaults occurred in Jackson last year", "In Jackson" ], "distractor groups": [ "In Madison County" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 2: \"It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,\" he said.
Sent 3: More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics.
Sent 4: In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records.
Sent 5: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that.
Sent 6: I see this as helping that,\" Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant.
Sent 7: Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said.
Sent 8: And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.", "question": "Where more domestic violence assaults were reported last year, in Madison County or in Jackson?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little", "Bases in the middle east would be required for re-fueling", "Because their deployment would serious preparation for any such operations", "Zinni opposed their use but he doesn't remember it" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations didn't support the option", "Because Schoomaker opposed it" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "Why were AC-130s never deployed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He overcome the potential disunity among his diverse army by being personally involved in battle", "By being personally involved in battle like a Macedonian king" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rigorous training", "Bold strategy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander earned the epithet \"The Great\" due to his unparalleled success as a military commander.
Sent 2: He never lost a battle, despite typically being outnumbered.
Sent 3: This was due to use of terrain, phalanx and cavalry tactics, bold strategy, and the fierce loyalty of his troops.
Sent 4: The Macedonian phalanx, armed with the sarissa, a spear 6 metres (20 ft) long, had been developed and perfected by Philip II through rigorous training, and Alexander used its speed and maneuverability to great effect against larger but more disparate Persian forces.
Sent 5: Alexander also recognized the potential for disunity among his diverse army, which employed various languages and weapons.
Sent 6: He overcame this by being personally involved in battle, in the manner of a Macedonian king.
Sent 7: In his first battle in Asia, at Granicus, Alexander used only a small part of his forces, perhaps 13,000 infantry with 5,000 cavalry, against a much larger Persian force of 40,000.
Sent 8: Alexander placed the phalanx at the center and cavalry and archers on the wings, so that his line matched the length of the Persian cavalry line, about 3 km (1.86 mi).
Sent 9: By contrast, the Persian infantry was stationed behind its cavalry.
Sent 10: This ensured that Alexander would not be outflanked, while his phalanx, armed with long pikes, had a considerable advantage over the Persian's scimitars and javelins.
Sent 11: Macedonian losses were negligible compared to those of the Persians.
Sent 12: At Issus in 333 BC, his first confrontation with Darius, he used the same deployment, and again the central phalanx pushed through.
Sent 13: Alexander personally led the charge in the center, routing the opposing army.
Sent 14: At the decisive encounter with Darius at Gaugamela, Darius equipped his chariots with scythes on the wheels to break up the phalanx and equipped his cavalry with pikes.
Sent 15: Alexander arranged a double phalanx, with the center advancing at an angle, parting when the chariots bore down and then reforming.
Sent 16: The advance was successful and broke Darius' center, causing the latter to flee once again.
Sent 17: When faced with opponents who used unfamiliar fighting techniques, such as in Central Asia and India, Alexander adapted his forces to his opponents' style.
Sent 18: Thus, in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander successfully used his javelin throwers and archers to prevent outflanking movements, while massing his cavalry at the center.", "question": "How did Alexander overcome the potential disunity amon his diverse army?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The great admirer", "Caracalla" ], "distractor groups": [ "Emperor Septimius Severus closed off Alexander's tomb to the public", "Caligula", "Augustus" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.", "question": "Whose father closed off Alexander's tomb to the public?" }, { "answer groups": [ "You can find more details about financial transactions in chapter 7 al Queada meets the requirements after the Hamberg members joined the conspiracy", "Chapter 7", "Spring and summer, chapter 7", "By the spring and summer" ], "distractor groups": [ "They met the requirements in late May and you can find more details in chapter 7", "Before May", "Chapter 9" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "What time in 2000 does al Queada meet the requirements and what chapter can you find more details about financial transactions?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Terran Vegerables", "Sashimi", "The type of food she brought home", "Oysters", "Glistening boxes", "She came in with sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables", "Sushi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Emil Malaquez", "Dream's End", "She bought a lot of clothes", "Nights with Karl and Groucho" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The next evening, she arrived with a stack of glistening stopboxes containing sushi, sashimi, oysters in their shells, and Terran vegetables fresh plucked from their hydroponic beds.
Sent 2: Wondering about the reason for her extravagance, I asked how work had gone that day.
Sent 3: \"Emil came in.
Sent 4: He's taking Dream's End.\"
Sent 5: \"Emil?\"
Sent 6: \"You've no memory left, old one.
Sent 7: Emil Malaquez.\"
Sent 8: You did that to test my affections.\"
Sent 9: \"What?\"
Sent 10: \"Calling him by his first name.
Sent 11: I did that in a comedy once.'Nights with Karl and Groucho.'
Sent 12: It was before your time.\"
Sent 13: \"The critics liked it.\"
Sent 14: \"I'm glad.\"
Sent 15: A moment later: \"That's not why I called him 'Emil'.\"
Sent 16: \"No. We lunched together.
Sent 17: He's nice.\"", "question": "What makes the older speaker wonder about the female speaker's extravagance?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Salt March", "Salt March to the sea" ], "distractor groups": [ "Civil rights march", "Quit India", "May Day march" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus\u2002\u2014\u2002and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning \"pure\"), and adding \"stan,\" the Persian suffix for the word \"country.
Sent 9: \" The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a \"Quit India\" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was\u2002\u2014\u2002six months after his arrival\u2002\u2014\u2002but not smooth.", "question": "What march was held by Gandhi to refocus his country's citizens on the common adversary-the British?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Checked bags held off until confirmation of boarding", "Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS, meaning his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft. But it did not affect their plans" ], "distractor groups": [ "CAPPS", "Their bags were lost", "Being subjected to special security measures", "Their phones would not work" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.
Sent 2: Millions of men and women readied themselves for work.
Sent 3: Some made their way to the Twin Towers, the signature structures of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.
Sent 4: Others went to Arlington, Virginia, to the Pentagon.
Sent 5: Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session.
Sent 6: At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour.
Sent 7: In Sarasota, Florida, President George W. Bush went for an early morning run.
Sent 8: For those heading to an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey.
Sent 9: Among the travelers were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who arrived at the airport in Portland, Maine.
Sent 10: Boston: American 11 and United 175.
Sent 11: Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport.
Sent 12: When he checked in for his flight to Boston, Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures.
Sent 13: Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft.
Sent 14: This did not hinder Atta's plans.
Sent 15: Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45.
Sent 16: Seven minutes later, Atta apparently took a call from Marwan al Shehhi, a longtime colleague who was at another terminal at Logan Airport.
Sent 17: They spoke for three minutes.
Sent 18: It would be their final conversation.", "question": "What was a slight issue that affected the terrorists on the day?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Usama Bin Laden", "Usama Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger", "Government", "Khaladan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "Who was considered a threat to the U.S Government?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In Grady he has three friends, but in Washington, D.C. his co-workers wouldn't join him for a drink when he was leaving, implying that they did not like him", "In Grady,South Carolina", "In Grady SC", "Grady , South Carolina", "In Grady" ], "distractor groups": [ "In Washington DC", "Beverly Hills", "In Washington D.C" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "Where does Dr. Stone have more friends, in Washington, D.C. or in Grady, South Carolina?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gabriel Heinze", "Diego Maradona", "Lionel Messi", "Juan Sebastian Veron" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nigeria Enyeama", "Lee Jung-Soo, Park Ji-Sung" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Argentina's star-studded line-up began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their Group B opener in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Sent 2: A goal from defender Gabriel Heinze after six minutes was all that separated the two teams after an inspired display from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Sent 3: But South Korea ended the day on top of the group following a 2-0 victory over Greece in Port Elizabeth earlier on Saturday.
Sent 4: Goals from Lee Jung-Soo and Park Ji-Sung gave the 2002 semifinalists a comfortable win over the 2008 European cvhampions.
Sent 5: Argentina 1-0 Nigeria Enyeama could do little to stop Heinze's powerful early header from a Juan Sebastian Veron corner, but he kept his team alive with a string of acrobatic saves to deny World Player of the Year Lionel Messi.
Sent 6: Diego Maradona was delighted to secure his first victory as a World Cup coach, but critical of his strikers for failing to make the game safe.
Sent 7: \"When you don't kill things off in front of goal you can pay a heavy price.
Sent 8: They almost got a draw -- we missed loads of chances,\" Maradona told AFP.
Sent 9: \"Players such as Leo Messi and Higuain knocked in around 60 goals last season between them, yet today it was almost as if they couldn't set their sights on goal.
Sent 10: \"But the win means we can be calm -- we are in the right track.\"", "question": "Who are the players on the Argentina's soccer team?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas", "Yvonne Gutierrez" ], "distractor groups": [ "The president", "Lucy Nashed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "Name a critic of the new billA. The presidentB. Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South TexasC. Yvonne GutierrezD. Lucy NashedPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Richard", "Wentworth", "Richard Wentworth" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jackson", "Ram Singh", "Norvell Page", "Jenkins" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: `` The Octopus , '' a masked crime lord , is bent on crippling the nation with a wave of terror .
Sent 2: He starts with the transportation system and then moves onto industry .
Sent 3: He demands tribute from railroad magnates and other captains of industry .
Sent 4: Richard Wentworth , an amateur criminologist who is friendly with the police , is secretly `` The Spider , '' a masked vigilante equally determined to wipe the Octopus and his gang off the face of the earth .
Sent 5: Pleasant and smiling in civilian life , Wentworth is often ruthless as the Spider , slinging two guns against the public enemies who attack him .
Sent 6: Wentworth also masquerades as affable underworld lowlife Blinky McQuade .
Sent 7: Disguised as McQuade , Wentworth can infiltrate gangland at the hired-gun level and keep current on the gang's plans .
Sent 8: The only people who know Wentworth's other identities are his assistants Jackson and Ram Singh , his butler Jenkins , and his fianc e Nita .
Sent 9: The Octopus was a villain in a single issue pulp believed to have been written by Norvell Page who wrote most of The Spider pulp stories .
Sent 10: He is garbed completely in white and is only ever seen sitting in a chair .
Sent 11: Unlike the pulps , The Spider is garbed in a lightweight full length costume with web-like markings on it Which resemble Spiderman's costume .
Sent 12: The serial follows the standard formula of fights , shoot-outs , Wentworth's friends being kidnapped at various times and having to be rescued .
Sent 13: Each chapter ends with The Spider or his friends in deep trouble , often about to be killed , but the effect is spoiled by a trailer for the next episode Which shows them in full health and fighting the villains .", "question": "What is the name of the vigilante who goes by the name \"The Spider\" as well as \"Blinky McQuade\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy", "The Columbia Legal Services", "keeping his home", "The Northwest Justice Project", "The attorneys" ], "distractor groups": [ "Without the people of Wenatchee", "He was hired at another higher paying job", "The residents of the plaza", "Getting relocation assistance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: \"We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over,\" said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: \"We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy.\"
Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: \"There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles,\" said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: \"Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone.\"
Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.", "question": "Who is Manuel Luna grateful for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Skin dilate, or widen", "Dilating", "Widen", "Dilate", "\"Dilate\" or \"Widen\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Contracting", "Constrict", "Narrow", "Baricades" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You couldnt survive without your skin.
Sent 2: It has many important functions.
Sent 3: The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body.
Sent 4: It prevents the loss of too much water from the body.
Sent 5: It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body.
Sent 6: The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature.
Sent 7: It keeps the body cool in two ways.
Sent 8: Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body.
Sent 9: Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen.
Sent 10: This action increases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 11: This allows more heat to reach the surface.
Sent 12: The heat is then able to radiate off the body.
Sent 13: The opposite happens to retain body heat.
Sent 14: Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow.
Sent 15: This decreases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 16: This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface.
Sent 17: When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air.", "question": "What action do the blood vessels take to increase blood flow?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Archeological site", "Archaeological expedition", "Dig site" ], "distractor groups": [ "Camp", "Back yard" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .", "question": "At what type of site are people suddenly being killed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Vice President", "The President" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Secret Service", "Scooter Libby", "The FAA", "The CIA", "Rice" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP.
Sent 2: He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert.
Sent 3: He said the President signed off on that concept.
Sent 4: The President said he remembered such a conversation, and that it reminded him of when he had been an interceptor pilot.
Sent 5: The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 6: The Vice President's military aide told us he believed the Vice President spoke to the President just after entering the conference room, but he did not hear what they said.
Sent 7: Rice, who entered the room shortly after the Vice President and sat next to him, remembered hearing him inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up.
Sent 8: Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\"
Sent 9: Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"
Sent 10: She believed this conversation occurred a few minutes, perhaps five, after they entered the conference room.
Sent 11: We believe this call would have taken place sometime before 10:10 to 10:15.
Sent 12: Among the sources that reflect other important events of that morning, there is no documentary evidence for this call, but the relevant sources are incomplete.
Sent 13: Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did not note a call between the President and Vice President immediately after the Vice President entered the conference room.
Sent 14: At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington.
Sent 15: That aircraft was United 93.
Sent 16: The Secret Service was getting this information directly from the FAA.
Sent 17: The FAA may have been tracking the progress of United 93 on a display that showed its projected path to Washington, not its actual radar return.
Sent 18: Thus, the Secret Service was relying on projections and was not aware the plane was already down in Pennsylvania.", "question": "Who signed off after the Vice President suggested that establishing CAP was no good if the pilots didn't have clear instructions if the plane didn't divert?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Beginning of the eighth century", "Eighth century", "They arrived at the beginning of the eighth century" ], "distractor groups": [ "1534", "1517", "Government", "Support", "1505" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by \"slash-and-burn\" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica \"Xaymaca\" (\"land of wood and water\").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.", "question": "When did the Arawak people first arrive in Jamaica?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"What they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.\"", "Ability to move people", "Requirements to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation", "Sufficient communications", "Planning the operation" ], "distractor groups": [ "Secret hideout", "Guns", "Bombs, guns, personnel etc", "A plane" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "What requirements was Al Qaeda able to meet by spring and summer of 2000?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Chinese", "Emperor Chu Ti" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sumatran", "Indian", "Cheng Ho", "Bengali", "Tun Perak" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Who was the first emperor to notice the commercial potential to Melaka?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Al Qaeda", "19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country, no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance, no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding", "KSM", "From Al Queda. Not from any foreign government-or foreign government official" ], "distractor groups": [ "From KSM, Not from Al Queda", "U.S", "Foreign government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "Where did money to fund the 9/11 plotters come from and where didn't it come from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His fiancee", "Sudha" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maya", "His exgirlfriend" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India .
Sent 2: It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately .
Sent 3: The movie starts with Mahender getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily .
Sent 4: A woman , Sudha , is already sitting in the waiting room .
Sent 5: On seeing him , she tries to hide her face from him but later they confront each other .
Sent 6: Mahender has an accomplished business dealing with photography .
Sent 7: He respects his grandfather immensely .
Sent 8: Incidentally , he had been engaged to Sudha for 5 years but always made some excuse to delay their wedding .
Sent 9: However , this time his grandfather has fixed the wedding on the first week of the following month .
Sent 10: He reveals to Sudha that he is having an affair with one of the most radical representations of feminism in a girl called Maya .
Sent 11: He returns to tell Maya , but Maya has disappeared , leaving him some poetry .
Sent 12: Mahender then marries Sudha and is quite happy , but the sudden return of Maya causes tensions in their married life .
Sent 13: Mahender frequently tells Sudha about all the beautifully poignant , loving and authentic things Maya did over the years that they lived together .
Sent 14: Later , Maya tries to commit suicide , and this leads to Mahender spending time with her over a few weeks .
Sent 15: Sudha , not knowing about Maya 's suicide attempt and therefore believing that Mahender is being unfaithful to her , feels that her marriage was a mistake , and questions Mahender about his intentions .", "question": "Who does Mahender meet in the waiting room of a train station?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The culprit, the one whom he thinks he can make responsible", "Violet", "A man" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sometimes others, sometimes himself", "Himeself" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { lang } } centers on a man who roams the street night after night .
Sent 2: Hidden under his hat and rain jacket he strives for one goal : to find the culprit - the one whom he can make responsible for his suffering .
Sent 3: If he wanted to , he could confront him , but he lacks the audacity to do so .
Sent 4: He considers suicide , but his courage fails him once again .
Sent 5: The options do not appear to present him with a way out and would not personally satisfy him .
Sent 6: Finley blames not himself , but only others .
Sent 7: In this case he looks to his girlfriend , Violet .
Sent 8: He drowns Violet in the bath whilst giving her a massage , Which had become a common ritual for them .
Sent 9: On one hand he does this out of malice , on the other to be close to her just one more time .
Sent 10: Through this action he wishes to break the growing distance he has come to feel between them , though the actual outcome is the infliction of the greatest possible loneliness , as he turns into a monster .
Sent 11: Finley only realizes with hindsight that his misdeeds far surpass those of Violet .", "question": "Who does Finley think is the cause of his current suffering?" }, { "answer groups": [ "War in Africa", "The science of war" ], "distractor groups": [ "Colonization" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tocqueville thought the conquest of Algeria was important for two reasons: first, his understanding of the international situation and France's position in the world, and, second, changes in French society.
Sent 2: Tocqueville believed that war and colonization would \"restore national pride, threatened\", he believed, by \"The gradual softening of social mores\" in the middle classes.
Sent 3: Their taste for \"material pleasures\" was spreading to the whole of society, giving it \"an example of weakness and egotism\".
Sent 4: Applauding the methods of General Bugeaud, Tocqueville went so far to claim that \"war in Africa is a science.
Sent 5: Everyone is familiar with its rules and everyone can apply those rules with almost complete certainty of success.
Sent 6: One of the greatest services that Field Marshal Bugeaud has rendered his country is to have spread, perfected and made everyone aware of this new science.\"
Sent 7: Tocqueville advocated racial segregation in Algeria with two distinct legislations, one for European colonists and one for the Arab population.
Sent 8: Such a two-tier arrangement would be fully realised with the 1870 Cremieux decree and the Indigenousness Code, which extended French citizenship to European settlers and Algerian Jews, whereas Muslim Algerians would be governed by Muslim law and restricted to a second-class citizenship.", "question": "What science is Field Marshal Bugeaud accredited for spreading and perfecting?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1967", "The height of beatlemania and the year Magical Mystery Tour came out", "1964 and 1967" ], "distractor groups": [ "1969", "The year John Lennon was born and the year his father left him", "The year the Beatles started and the year Freddie died" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "Brian Epstein died between what two years mentioned in the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Von Braun", "Balboa" ], "distractor groups": [ "Horus", "Leonardo da Vinci", "Isaac Newton", "Arrowtongue" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .", "question": "Which interstellar spacecraft is used by Alien Planet to reach Darwin IV?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because of motion present in air molecules, water drops, and ice particles", "Because of movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles", "Through the movement of molecules, water drops, and ice particles" ], "distractor groups": [ "Due to dynamic discharge property of lightning", "Because positive charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "How do clouds develop different regions of charges?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The end of the battle of Alcacer-Quiber", "Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne at 14, and died as a result of the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco). It was rumored that he survived", "His reign ended at the Battle of Morocco" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nothing", "He died after two years", "They conquered a nation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "What happened during Sebasti\u00e3o's reign as king?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Egyptian writer", "Sayyid Qutb", "Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Qutb", "Jahiliyya", "Sayyid" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "What is the full name of the member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia", "Alexander ordered his Minister of the Interior to send a message to the governors of European Russia praising the Polish landed proprietors idea to emancipate the serfs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Plans were formed for building a great network of railways", "Secret service", "Alexander died" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Soon after the conclusion of peace, important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies.
Sent 2: Plans were formed for building a great network of railways, partly for the purpose of developing the natural resources of the country, and partly for the purpose of increasing its power for defense and attack.
Sent 3: The existence of serfdom was tackled boldly, taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces and, hoping that their relations with the serfs might be regulated in a more satisfactory way (meaning in a way more satisfactory for the proprietors), he authorized the formation of committees \"for ameliorating the condition of the peasants,\" and laid down the principles on which the amelioration was to be effected.
Sent 4: This step had been followed by one even more significant.
Sent 5: Without consulting his ordinary advisers, Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia (serfdom was rare in other parts), containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the Governor-General of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
Sent 6: The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
Sent 7: The emancipation was not merely a humanitarian question capable of being solved instantaneously by imperial ukase.
Sent 8: It contained very complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation.
Sent 9: Alexander had to choose between the different measures recommended to him and decide if the serfs would become agricultural laborers dependent economically and administratively on the landlords or if the serfs would be transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors.
Sent 10: The emperor gave his support to the latter project, and the Russian peasantry became one of the last groups of peasants in Europe to shake off serfdom.
Sent 11: The architects of the emancipation manifesto were Alexander's brother Konstantin, Yakov Rostovtsev, and Nikolay Milyutin.
Sent 12: On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published.", "question": "What significant event followed after a petition by Polish landed proprietors was presented to Tsar Alexander?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It helps people connect to the earth so they can move forward and grow", "\"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says", "Because it allows you to connect with the earth" ], "distractor groups": [ "It helps feed needy families", "Because it is all about healing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "How does a Ghanaian proverb relate to urban farming?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Lightning is a form of static discharge", "Lighting", "Door knocker" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sunlight", "Wind motion", "Rainstorm" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "Are there other examples of static discharge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ralph Smith", "A guard" ], "distractor groups": [ "A travelling salesman", "Carol Grayland", "Doctor Gene F. Clifford" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surviving being shot and stabbed at the end of the previous film , the stepfather has been institutionalized in Puget Sound , Washington since , spending his time building model houses in the workshop .
Sent 2: Assigned a new doctor named Joseph Danvers the stepfather begins confiding in him to gain his trust , ultimately murdering the doctor during a session by stabbing him in the neck with a blade smuggled out of the workshop .
Sent 3: After killing Danvers the stepfather beats a suspicious guard named Ralph Smith to death with his own nightstick with only two strikes and takes his uniform , successfully sneaking out of the sanitarium .
Sent 4: Checking into a hotel after robbing and murdering a traveling salesman the stepfather alters his appearance , takes the name Doctor Gene F. Clifford from the newspaper obituaries and travels to Palm Meadows , Los Angeles after seeing an ad for it on an episode of Dream House .
Sent 5: Gene arrives in Palm Meadows and meets real estate agent Carol Grayland and leases a house just across the street from her and her son Todd .
Sent 6: During a session with the wives of the neighborhood , Gene learns Carol 's dentist husband , Philip had absconded with his mistress the previous year .
Sent 7: Gene begins courting Carol , eventually winning over her and Todd .
Sent 8: Gene 's plan to marry Carol is soon complicated when Phil returns , wanting to reconcile with his wife .
Sent 9: Needing Phil out of the way , Gene persuades Carol to send Phil over for a meeting , during which Gene kills him with a broken bottle , covering up Phil 's disappearance afterward by arranging it so that it looks as though he simply ran off again .", "question": "Who did the stepfather murder after he killed the new doctor, Joseph Danvers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The White House", "Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to attack the World Trade Center and all 3 of the culprits wanted to attack the capitol", "White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center, Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nairobi", "Washington, California, White house, US capitol, Bin Laden", "Kandahar", "Bosnia", "Mecca", "Abu Bara al Yemeni", "Saudi", "The al Matar complex", "Khallad", "Nawaf al Hazmi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar.
Sent 2: KSM's original concept of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media statement was scrapped, but Bin Laden considered the basic idea feasible.
Sent 3: Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM developed an initial list of targets.
Sent 4: These included the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
Sent 5: According to KSM, Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to strike the World Trade Center, and all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.
Sent 6: No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.
Sent 7: Bin Laden also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives: Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazmi, Khallad, and Abu Bara al Yemeni.
Sent 8: During the al Matar meetings, Bin Laden told KSM that Mihdhar and Hazmi were so eager to participate in an operation against the United States that they had already obtained U.S. visas.
Sent 9: KSM states that they had done so on their own after the suicide of their friend Azzam (Nashiri's cousin) in carrying out the Nairobi bombing.
Sent 10: KSM had not met them.
Sent 11: His only guidance from Bin Laden was that the two should eventually go to the United States for pilot training.
Sent 12: Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi nationals, born in Mecca.
Sent 13: Like the others in this initial group of selectees, they were already experienced mujahideen.
Sent 14: They had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.
Sent 15: By the time Hazmi and Mihdhar were assigned to the planes operation in early 1999, they had visited Afghanistan on several occasions.
Sent 16: Khallad was another veteran mujahid, like much of his family.
Sent 17: His father had been expelled from Yemen because of his extremist views.
Sent 18: Khallad had grown up in Saudi Arabia, where his father knew Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Omar Abdel Rahman (the \"Blind Sheikh\").", "question": "What were the targets of 9/11, and who decided them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Imprint of an organism- walking through mud", "The footprint is made in a soft substance that is imprinted and preserved as a rock", "An animal or a plant organism breaks down completely and preserved in a rock" ], "distractor groups": [ "Through erosion", "By gravity", "It just sticks", "With plaster" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "How is a mold of an footprint made?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The home is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial", "Hamilton College" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hamilton", "It became Hamilton College" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "What finally became of the home that Hamilton owned?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Some organisms", "Living Creatures", "Organisms", "A creature" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rocks", "A plant", "Earths past" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earth processes have not changed over time.
Sent 2: The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past.
Sent 3: Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away.
Sent 4: The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago.
Sent 5: As the environment changes, living creatures adapt.
Sent 6: They change over time.
Sent 7: Some organisms may not be able to adapt.
Sent 8: They become extinct.
Sent 9: Becoming extinct means they die out completely.
Sent 10: Some geologists study the history of the Earth.
Sent 11: They want to learn about Earths past.
Sent 12: They use clues from rocks and fossils.
Sent 13: They use these clues to make sense of events.
Sent 14: The goal is to place things in the order they happened.
Sent 15: They also want to know how long it took for those events to happen.", "question": "What becomes extinct if it can not adapt?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Creates friction", "It has a rough surface" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tub", "Sticky" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rough surfaces create more friction than smooth surfaces.
Sent 2: Thats why cars have tires.
Sent 3: Its also why we use rubber mats in areas that might get wet.
Sent 4: In your bathtub, you may even use No-Slip tape.
Sent 5: No-slip is another way of saying the items has a lot of friction.
Sent 6: In Figure 1.9, the blades of the skates are very smooth.
Sent 7: Thats why you cant slide across ice with shoes.
Sent 8: The soles of your shoes are much rougher than skates.
Sent 9: The rougher surface of shoes causes more friction and slows you down.
Sent 10: Heavier objects also have more friction.
Sent 11: A heavy object presses down with more force.
Sent 12: The surfaces are held together more tightly.
Sent 13: This makes the surfaces harder to slide past each other.
Sent 14: Did you ever try to push something heavy across the floor?
Sent 15: Heavy objects are much harder to push than light objects.", "question": "What property does the surface of a rubber mat have that prevents us from slipping in wet areas?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Melanesians", "The Negritos" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mongolians", "Malaysians" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man\u2002\u2014\u2002in 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts\u2002\u2014\u2002sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)\u2002\u2014\u2002known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).", "question": "What is the name of the people who are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Benjamin Stone", "Ben", "Ben Stone", "Dr. Benjamin Stone", "Ben has a case" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mayor Nicholson", "Nick Nicholson", "Packer", "Ben's coworkers", "Nurse Packer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "Who has simple casesA. Benjamin StoneB. Mayor NicholsonC. Nick NicholsonD. PackerE. Ben's coworkersF. BenG. Ben StoneH. Nurse PackerI. Dr. Benjamin StoneJ. Ben has a casePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fishing", "Fisherman taking too many fish from one area", "Taking too many fish from one area" ], "distractor groups": [ "Scattering of fish", "Nature" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "What could place a species at risk for extinction?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Chemical energy", "Gasoline as a fuel" ], "distractor groups": [ "Heat energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "What type of energy do cars use to move?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Vice President Dick Cheney", "Dick Cheney" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Bush", "Andrew Card", "George Bush", "It stands for National Militia Craft Control and jets were not in range", "The faa", "The President", "The Secretary of State", "Condoleezza Rice", "It stands for National Militia Craft Control and jets were scrambled immediately" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "Who wondered \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sea Turtles, Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean. Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult", "Sea turtles" ], "distractor groups": [ "Birds" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever seen an egg?
Sent 2: Some animals do not have live births.
Sent 3: Instead, they lay eggs.
Sent 4: The eggs contain the embryo.
Sent 5: The embryo matures in the egg.
Sent 6: With time, it will hatch.
Sent 7: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents.
Sent 8: They are ready to live on their own.
Sent 9: Other animals will still need the care of their parents.
Sent 10: Sea turtles break out of their shells.
Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean.
Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult.
Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks.
Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents.
Sent 15: They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly.
Sent 16: Some animals give birth to live offspring.
Sent 17: Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth.
Sent 18: Their offspring are born looking like mini adults.", "question": "Give an example of an animal that does not need the care of its parents after birth.A. BirdsB. Sea Turtles, Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean. Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adultC. Sea turtlesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because she has taped up a clear plastic suit", "Because of mold", "Because that was part of their company law", "The ceiling is crumbling" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because such is life in limbo", "Because the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless", "Because the Twin Towers collapsed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "Why must employees wear protective gear before entering Jennifer Baum's office?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Algarve", "Almost the current Spain" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stone Age inhabitants of Europe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s southwestern extremity", "Lusitania", "Earliest Stone Age", "Visigoths", "Greeks", "Italy", "Rome", "Seville" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "Where did the Christian Romans place a bishop, based in Faro?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A \"nationwide ground stop.\"", "Grounding" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stand down", "Attack" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "What was ordered at the Command Center at 9:25?" }, { "answer groups": [ "168 years after sacking of Sagres", "168" ], "distractor groups": [ "200", "60 years later" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "The Great Disaster occurred how many years after the sacking of Sagres?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ocean basins", "Continents", "It has basins an dcontinents", "It is not flat, it has many continents that are much older than ocean basins. Some of these continents are billions of years old" ], "distractor groups": [ "Coral", "Sand", "It has features and forces" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans?
Sent 2: What would it look like?
Sent 3: You might be really surprised.
Sent 4: You see that the surface has two main features.
Sent 5: It has continents and ocean basins.
Sent 6: Continents are large land areas.
Sent 7: These are the areas that are mostly above sea level.
Sent 8: Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents.
Sent 9: They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches.
Sent 10: You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat.
Sent 11: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Sent 12: Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old.
Sent 13: Ocean basins may only be millions of years old.
Sent 14: Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them!
Sent 15: As we view the land around us, we see landforms.
Sent 16: Landforms are physical features on Earths surface.
Sent 17: These features change over time, but how?
Sent 18: There are actually two types of forces at work.", "question": "What are the characteristics of the ocean floor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "residents near the site", "survivors of the attacks", "volunteers", "First responders" ], "distractor groups": [ "New Jersey people", "Military", "Pompeo", "Fire fighters who have been diagnosed with cancer", "Trump", "Immigrants", "11 site" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Sent 2: The addition finalizes a recommendation from Dr. John Howard, administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 3: Howard proposed in June that the program accept the recommendations of its Science/Technical Advisory Committee and add some cancers to the coverage list -- 14 categories in all.
Sent 4: Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk The advisory committee review called for expanded \"coverage for certain types of cancer resulting from exposure to toxins released at Ground Zero.\"
Sent 5: \"The publication of this final rule marks an important step in the effort to provide needed treatment and care to 9/11 responders and survivors through the WTC Health Program,\" Howard said in a statement Monday.
Sent 6: The rule is expected to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register, and will take effect 30 days after its publication, Howard said.
Sent 7: 9/11 detective dies after battle with lung cancer First responders, volunteers, survivors of the attacks and residents near the site who meet specific qualifications will be eligible for coverage, according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 8: According to the proposed rule, an estimated 950 to 2,150 people would take advantage of the additional coverage.
Sent 9: The estimated cost for the total cancer treatment ranges between 14.5 million and 33 million, the proposal said.", "question": "According to the rule added to the Federal Register, which groups who met specific qualifications would be eligible for coverage?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Three stages: egg, nymph, and adult", "Slightly changes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Follows four stages of development", "Change only slightly", "Looks like a tiny version of the adult", "Looks very different from infant to adult", "They look exactly the same as an adult as when it was born", "Occurs in the most primitive insects" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An insect can have one of three types of change in its life.
Sent 2: A metamorphosis describes how insects change.
Sent 3: Some insects do not go through a change.
Sent 4: Instead, the young look like small versions of adults.
Sent 5: The only change between young and mature is size.
Sent 6: Other types of insects go through a change in physical appearance.
Sent 7: There are two types of this type of change.
Sent 8: Some insects change only slightly during their change.
Sent 9: This type is called incomplete metamorphosis.
Sent 10: Other types of insects go through a major change.
Sent 11: They don't look at all like the adult when they are born.
Sent 12: This type of change is called complete metamorphosis.
Sent 13: Occurs in the most primitive insects.
Sent 14: Newborn insect looks like a tiny version of the adult.
Sent 15: Incomplete Three stages: egg, nymph, and adult.
Sent 16: Young, called nymphs, usually similar to adult.
Sent 17: Growth occurs during the nymph stage.", "question": "What happens when an insect goes through incomplete metomorphosis?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Indian, and especially Buddhist culture", "Between Greek and Indian culture", "India" ], "distractor groups": [ "Aphganistan", "Indonesia", "Bangladesh" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 BC - 10 CE) in modern Afghanistan and India.
Sent 2: There on the newly formed Silk Road Greek culture apparently hybridized with Indian, and especially Buddhist culture.
Sent 3: The resulting syncretism known as Greco-Buddhism heavily influenced the development of Buddhism and created a culture of Greco-Buddhist art.
Sent 4: These Greco-Buddhist kingdoms sent some of the first Buddhist missionaries to China, Sri Lanka, and the Mediterranean (Greco-Buddhist monasticism).
Sent 5: The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo.
Sent 6: Several Buddhist traditions may have been influenced by the ancient Greek religion: the concept of Boddhisatvas is reminiscent of Greek divine heroes, and some Mahayana ceremonial practices (burning incense, gifts of flowers, and food placed on altars) are similar to those practiced by the ancient Greeks.
Sent 7: One Greek king, Menander I, probably became Buddhist, and was immortalized in Buddhist literature as 'Milinda'.
Sent 8: The process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD.
Sent 9: For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth.
Sent 10: The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts in particular show Greek influence.", "question": "Greco-Buddhism was the result of the meshing between Greek culture and culture of which country?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Casting", "Molds and Casts", "Mold" ], "distractor groups": [ "Amber", "Conduction", "Amber covering objects", "Erosion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "Leaving your footprint in mud, is similar to what process that creates fossils?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Social diversity", "western feel", "Ethnic diversity", "They do not focus on big people in the government, they focus on working class people, people of different races and its seedy underbelly", "Gritty" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ivy league", "Idyllic", "Politicians", "White", "Upper class" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "According to the article, what is specifically different about how Washington DC (and its people) is portrayed in Pelecanos's stories to the typical portrayal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Formal agricultural techniques like irrigation allowed them to live in permanent shelters year-round without the need to follow wildlife", "Permanent shelters", "Formal agricultural techniques" ], "distractor groups": [ "Following wildlife", "Bow and arrow", "The use of tipis year round", "Usage of saltpeter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "What permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Construction for the Hoover Dam", "Constructing the Hoover Dam", "The Hoover Dam construction" ], "distractor groups": [ "Building a water wall", "The redevelopment of the LV desert" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers.
Sent 2: The railroad needed a way station, and Las Vegas was the place.
Sent 3: Growth continued for ten years, and by 1915 the town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population\u2002\u2014\u2002many of whom worked in the railroad repair shop.
Sent 4: But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
Sent 5: The growing competition in rail transport resulted in Union Pacific buying the Los Angeles\u2013Salt Lake line.
Sent 6: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility.
Sent 7: Additionally, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling.
Sent 8: These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
Sent 9: But the southwest's growing need for water, combined with Las Vegas's fortuitous proximity to the Colorado River, would give Las Vegas a second chance to achieve prosperity.
Sent 10: Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Sent 11: Providing an influx of 165 million to the southwestern economy, Hoover Dam played a major role in preventing Las Vegas from drying up, both financially and literally.
Sent 12: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Sent 13: More Government Help: The construction of Hoover Dam did not single-handedly save Las Vegas, however.
Sent 14: The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
Sent 15: The hordes of people who attended Hoover Dam's 1935 dedication set the city's now-formidable public relations machine into action.
Sent 16: They went to work on what has become one of the lengthiest citywide tourism campaigns ever attempted.
Sent 17: It didn't take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an \"anything goes\" attitude.
Sent 18: Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day (or night).", "question": "What was the answer to the southwest's need for water?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That there is very few legal air lawyer per capita, in poor communities", "He understood in Georgia there was a shortage of legal aid lawyers for the poor" ], "distractor groups": [ "That more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance", "That there are more than enough laywers", "Legal Aid Society", "Congress" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "What problem did Barnes understand before becoming governor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They allege that the complex could have protected their belongings better", "They said that that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze", "They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze" ], "distractor groups": [ "The tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions", "Broken lease" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: \"They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 5: \"Alamo Hills just threw it out.\"
Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than 25,000.
Sent 10: \"We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- 3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 11: \"They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly.\"
Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: \"The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims,\" he said.", "question": "Why did nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments file lawsuits against the apartment complex?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His father", "Freddie Lennon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Uncle", "Brian Epstein", "The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "Who does John feel abandoned him?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Agriculture, developement", "It is cleared to meet agricultural needs or to build homes and businesses", "New homes", "New businesses", "Agriculture" ], "distractor groups": [ "Increase land for herds of bison", "Dogs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "What are the reasons land is cleared?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The liquid metal in the outer core moves as the Earth spins generating a magnetic field", "It moves", "It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal" ], "distractor groups": [ "By nuclear reacations", "They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "How does the liquid metal within the Earth's core generate a magnetic field?" }, { "answer groups": [ " Leonidas Vargas", "Leonidas Vargas", "Jose Abello Silva", "The fourth-ranking cartel leader" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Barco" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "Who was arrested?" }, { "answer groups": [ "DNA", "They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth" ], "distractor groups": [ "Everything", "The historical artifacts", "The atomic breakdown", "The nerve structure" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "What can scientists study about a fossil found in amber, that they normally cannot with most fossils?" }, { "answer groups": [ "After the phone stopped working", "8:44" ], "distractor groups": [ "8:41", "When the air craft began to descend", "When the hijackers gained entry to the cockpit", "After highjackers went in cockpit" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "When did Sweeney report to Woodward, \"Something is wrong\"A. 8:41B. When the air craft began to descendC. After the phone stopped workingD. When the hijackers gained entry to the cockpitE. 8:44F. After highjackers went in cockpitPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Guns", "Bombs", "The Selenites" ], "distractor groups": [ "Caves", "Bull" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We were cornered in a sort of way already.
Sent 2: But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs.
Sent 3: And that way lay escape.
Sent 4: Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision.
Sent 5: I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street.
Sent 6: But for all that, there seemed a tremendous crowd of them.
Sent 7: Very probably there was.
Sent 8: Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears.
Sent 9: It might be they had other surprises for us.... But, confound it!
Sent 10: if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us, and if we didn't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced.
Sent 11: Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare--guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes--this unknown world below our feet, this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle, might not presently send up to our destruction.
Sent 12: It became clear the only thing to do was to charge!
Sent 13: It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us.", "question": "What stood in the way of the speaker and their escape?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ben got more community service", "He's given more community service", "Judge increased the period community service every time he talked back", "Community service at a nearby hospital", "His community service is increased" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sentenced to jail", "He is sent back to Washington DC", "The judge scolded him", "His community service decreases", "Got his car impounded" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "What was the consequence of Ben talking back to the Judge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Law, biology and psychology", "She holds two bachelors degrees, one in psychology and one in biology, and a law degree", "Psychology", "Biology", "Law" ], "distractor groups": [ "Business", "Medical, law, and biology", "Medical, biology, and law", "Psychology, law, and medical", "Photography" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Cathy Wallace did not always know what she wanted to be when she grew up.
Sent 2: She wanted to help people, but did not know exactly how.
Sent 3: A suggestion from friends sparked her interest.
Sent 4: \"When I was in college, I thought I wanted to be a doctor,\" she said.
Sent 5: \"I found I didn't want to do that and realized an interest in psychology.
Sent 6: I didn't know what I wanted to do, but all my friends thought I should go into law because I was always on a soapbox.
Sent 7: I decided to try it.\"
Sent 8: Recently, Wallace received the Outstanding Woman Lawyer in Public Interest Law Award.
Sent 9: The award was voted on and presented by the women's caucus of West Virginia University College of Law.
Sent 10: Wallace, 38, called Gastonia home from the age of 8 until she graduated from Hunter Huss High School in 1983.
Sent 11: Her parents, Carter Bond, 66, and Carol Bond, 59, are still residents of Gastonia.
Sent 12: From Hunter Huss, she moved on to pursue a degree at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer.
Sent 13: After graduation from Pfeiffer in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in both biology and psychology, she worked as legal secretary for attorney Louis A. Bledsoe Jr. for a year and a half.
Sent 14: \"Working for Louis Bledsoe was a pivotal moment,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"That was when I decided to go into the practice of law.\"
Sent 16: She received her law degree at the University of Arkansas in 1992 and began her legal career in Public Defender Corp. in Princeton.
Sent 17: She also taught criminal justice classes at Bluefield College in West Virginia.
Sent 18: Wallace lives in Athens, W. Va., with her husband Rob, 37, and her daughters Rachel, 11, and Claire, 5.", "question": "What three degrees does Ms. Wallace hold?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity", "Rome", "Cynetes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Moors", "Tribes people" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "Who's culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He provides legal representation to those who cannot afford a lawyer", "Lawyer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lehigh Valley Legal Services", "Professor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy.
Sent 2: A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust.
Sent 3: In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel.
Sent 4: A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a 250-an-hour legal counselor.
Sent 5: Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network.
Sent 6: ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge.
Sent 7: ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.''
Sent 8: For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award.
Sent 9: The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus.
Sent 10: Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice.
Sent 11: The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.
Sent 12: The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem.
Sent 13: After all, politics run in the Rooney family.
Sent 14: His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party.
Sent 15: But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined.
Sent 16: ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled.
Sent 17: ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.''
Sent 18: After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services.", "question": "What is Fred Rooney's profession?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Idea of the absurd", "Translating plays" ], "distractor groups": [ "Idea of the clarity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Literary career During the war Camus joined the French Resistance cell Combat, which published an underground newspaper of the same name.
Sent 2: This group worked against the Nazis, and in it Camus assumed the nom de guerre Beauchard.
Sent 3: Camus became the paper's editor in 1943.
Sent 4: He first met Sartre at the dress rehearsal of Sartre's play, The Flies, in June 1943.
Sent 5: When the Ailies liberated Paris in August 1944, Camus witnessed and reported the last of the fighting.
Sent 6: Soon after the event on 6 August 1945, he was one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition and disgust to the United States' dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Sent 7: He resigned from Combat in 1947 when it became a commercial paper.
Sent 8: After the war, Camus began frequenting the Cafe de Flore on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris with Sartre and others.
Sent 9: He also toured the United States to lecture about French thought.
Sent 10: Although he leaned left, politically, his strong criticisms of Communist doctrine did not win him any friends in the Communist parties and eventually alienated Sartre.
Sent 11: In 1949, his tuberculosis returned, whereupon he lived in seclusion for two years.
Sent 12: In 1951, he published The Rebel, a philosophical analysis of rebellion and revolution which expressed his rejection of communism.
Sent 13: Upsetting many of his colleagues and contemporaries in France, the book brought about the final split with Sartre.
Sent 14: The dour reception depressed Camus; he began to translate plays.
Sent 15: Camus's first significant contribution to philosophy was his idea of the absurd.
Sent 16: He saw it as the result of our desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither, which he expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and incorporated into many of his other works, such as The Stranger and The Plague.
Sent 17: Despite his split from his \"study partner\", Sartre, Camus was still categorized as an Existentialist.
Sent 18: He specifically rejected that label in his essay \"Enigma\" and elsewhere.", "question": "What contribution did Camus make to philosophy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Trying to escape abusive marriage", "Need veteran's benefits", "Need medical care", "Living at or below poverty level", "Elderly", "Handicapped", "Trying to escape eviction", "Female" ], "distractor groups": [ "Young", "Male", "Lawyers", "Rich" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Thelma James was a prime candidate for a real estate ripoff: She is 68, has precious little money and can't read or write.
Sent 2: \"I won't lie to you.
Sent 3: I was so-o-o excited,\" the widow and former duplex dweller said of the purchase of her first home, a sagging frame structure on Snowden.
Sent 4: \"I was glad to get me a house.\"
Sent 5: When James realized she had been swindled she turned to Memphis Area Legal Services, which represented her in a lawsuit.
Sent 6: Now, James's monthly house notes have dropped from 796 - more than twice her monthly income - to an affordable 247.
Sent 7: Some of the people who took advantage of her through a questionable loan program were sent to jail.
Sent 8: \"I don't know what I would have done without Legal Services,\" said James.
Sent 9: \"They solved a lot of my problems.\"
Sent 10: James is one of more than 3,000 clients served last year by MALS, which provides assistance for civil matters, such as domestic abuse and family-related problems, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, veterans, housing and consumer fraud cases.
Sent 11: Like James, most clients are elderly or female.
Sent 12: Some are handicapped.
Sent 13: Some need medical care or veteran's benefits.
Sent 14: Some are trying to escape eviction or an abusive marriage.
Sent 15: And 87 percent live at or below poverty level.
Sent 16: Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton recently said Legal Services is important for those who, because of poverty or other struggles in life, think justice is an empty word.
Sent 17: \"They must be given reason to believe that the law is for them too,\" said Wharton, a former executive director of MALS.
Sent 18: But MALS faces a funding crunch next year, brought on by a 200,000 shortfall from three revenue sources.", "question": "Who are some of the clients that MALS serve?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Sogas", "The militarily strongest family" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fujiwara", "Fujiwara Clan", "The Sui Dynasty", "Sobas", "Sonas" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "Who was the economically strongest family in Japan's early history?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Haven House Family Shelter Inc", "Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp", "Crockett at Haven House Shelter Inc" ], "distractor groups": [ "Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities", "Julia Crockette" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "Who launched the pilot program at this location in Vicksburg?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Uphold, and continue" ], "distractor groups": [ "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Animated history of the US.
Sent 2: Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified, and most critics consider it one of the weakest parts of the film.
Sent 3: But it makes a valid claim which you ignore entirely: That the strategy to promote \"gun rights\" for white people and to outlaw gun possession by black people was a way to uphold racism without letting an openly terrorist organization like the KKK flourish.
Sent 4: Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
Sent 5: I highly doubt it.
Sent 6: But if they didn't, one of their functions was to continue the racism of the KKK.
Sent 7: This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics.
Sent 8: Buell shooting in Flint.
Sent 9: You write: \"Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before\".
Sent 10: This characterization of a six-year-old as a pencil-stabbing thug is exactly the kind of hysteria that Moore's film warns against.
Sent 11: It is the typical right-wing reaction which looks for simple answers that do not contradict the Republican mindset.
Sent 12: The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed.
Sent 13: But why do people deal with drugs?
Sent 14: Because it's so much fun to do so?
Sent 15: It is by now well documented that the CIA tolerated crack sales in US cities to fund the operation of South American \"contras\" It is equally well known that the so-called \"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administration is a failure which has cost hundreds of billions and made America the world leader in prison population (both in relative and absolute numbers).", "question": "Does the author claim the animated films message is that the NRA upholds racism?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Penny Sweat", "Kemp", "Sweat", "Lee Kemp" ], "distractor groups": [ "Marion Willey", "Blaustein", "Willey", "Marty Blaustein" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "Who were the two tenants that were being evicted?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington", "The hijacked aircraft's projected path", "That there was inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington" ], "distractor groups": [ "The location of the plane", "The authorization of a shootdown" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP.
Sent 2: He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert.
Sent 3: He said the President signed off on that concept.
Sent 4: The President said he remembered such a conversation, and that it reminded him of when he had been an interceptor pilot.
Sent 5: The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 6: The Vice President's military aide told us he believed the Vice President spoke to the President just after entering the conference room, but he did not hear what they said.
Sent 7: Rice, who entered the room shortly after the Vice President and sat next to him, remembered hearing him inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up.
Sent 8: Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\"
Sent 9: Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"
Sent 10: She believed this conversation occurred a few minutes, perhaps five, after they entered the conference room.
Sent 11: We believe this call would have taken place sometime before 10:10 to 10:15.
Sent 12: Among the sources that reflect other important events of that morning, there is no documentary evidence for this call, but the relevant sources are incomplete.
Sent 13: Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did not note a call between the President and Vice President immediately after the Vice President entered the conference room.
Sent 14: At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington.
Sent 15: That aircraft was United 93.
Sent 16: The Secret Service was getting this information directly from the FAA.
Sent 17: The FAA may have been tracking the progress of United 93 on a display that showed its projected path to Washington, not its actual radar return.
Sent 18: Thus, the Secret Service was relying on projections and was not aware the plane was already down in Pennsylvania.", "question": "What information did the secret service get directly from the FAA?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Exhaling", "By exhaling through the nose" ], "distractor groups": [ "By passing in urine", "Decreasing blood pressure", "By keeping the air pressure in a constant level" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "How does air leave our lungs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal", "Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School and Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal", "Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice", "Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are co owners of a law firm", "They are police officers", "They are partners in the private law firm : Lash and Johnson, LLC" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to \"The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California,\" prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise \"justice for all,\" but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.", "question": "What positions do the co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice hold?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Madame Entera", "The large woman was Madame Entera" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Herb Cart Vender is Madame Enrera", "Nypthys" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily.
Sent 2: I tried to keep myself calm.
Sent 3: Then, with a sigh, he said, \"I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed.
Sent 4: It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness.
Sent 5: My problem is that it was not made in this realm, but by a human, and only a human may handle it.
Sent 6: The herb vendor will tell you where you can find it.
Sent 7: If you would fetch me this stone, I would tell you what I can.\" \"Of course we will fetch you the stone,\" Nepthys assured him.
Sent 8: \"You have our thanks.\" Outside, the thing at the herb cart nodded when we mentioned the stone.
Sent 9: He told Nepthys the name of a woman who lived on a certain street, and we set off.
Sent 10: When we reached the street, I expected some sort of temple, or a row of antiquaries, or at least a sleazy, black-market relics merchant.
Sent 11: Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys.
Sent 12: Nepthys didn't need to warn me not to speak to them.
Sent 13: He took us to the door of a building like a short pagoda that had a sign hanging over it showing a face with hands uplifted, like a saint under G d's light, and handcuffed.
Sent 14: Inside, the entrance room was hung with bright silks and scattered with velvet cushions.
Sent 15: Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
Sent 16: A large woman, similarly decorated, quickly drifted up to us.
Sent 17: \"Good evening, gentlemen,\" she said.
Sent 18: \"May I invite you to have a cup of tea?\" \"No, thank you,\" said Nepthys, \"we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer.
Sent 19: Are you the proprietor of this shop?\" \"Yes,\" answered the woman.
Sent 20: \"I am Madame Entera, at your service.", "question": "What is the name of the large woman that drifted upon them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Number 13", "Number Thirteen" ], "distractor groups": [ "Juzo", "Number Three", "Seki" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Juzo Murasaki arrives at a work construction area to take on his new job as a construction worker .
Sent 2: To his quiet dismay , his supervising boss turns out to be Toru Akai , who with his gang had made Juzo's middle school life a living hell .
Sent 3: Akai , however , does n't recognize Juzo .
Sent 4: Juzo's more disconcerted when he discovers that Akai lives with his wife , Nozomi Akai and their toddler son above Juzo's new apartment .
Sent 5: As Juzo emotionally struggles to handle these unexpected developments , a mysterious and seemingly malicious hooded figure appears .
Sent 6: It calls itself Number 13 .
Sent 7: As Juzo attempts to control increasing number of flashbacks and a spiral fall into psychological darkness , Akai constantly picks on Juzo and other work colleagues including Seki Hajime , a former middle school student who becomes Juzo's casual friend in spite of Juzo's anti-social tendencies , at work .
Sent 8: Meanwhile Akai's wife , Nozomi , attempts to make friends with Juzo and entrusting the care of her toddler son to Juzo .
Sent 9: She proudly shows Juzo her husband's school photos .
Sent 10: In one class photo , Juzo's space is marked with an X to show he was absent .
Sent 11: Juzo suffers a severe flashback to explain his absence that day : in their school's science room , Akai and his friends have thrown acid at Juzo's face .
Sent 12: Seki becomes suspicious about Juzo's increasingly odd behavior and goes to inform Arai at the work site , but Arai dismisses him without giving him a chance to speak .
Sent 13: During this incident , Seki does n't realize he's being watched by Number 13 , but as soon as he does , Number 13 kills him .", "question": "What did a mysterious and seemingly malicious hooded figure call itself?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Garden Grove", "Orange county" ], "distractor groups": [ "Irvine City", "California", "Santa Ana" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday.
Sent 2: The Garden Grove woman answered a series of questions to create and print a form to file with the court.
Sent 3: \"It's easy,\" said Adams, 25.
Sent 4: \"I thought I'd have all kinds of questions and have to take the forms home.\"
Sent 5: A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers.
Sent 6: Not only does the system make life easier for people who can't afford a lawyer, but it also might improve efficiency in the courts because the forms, which are printed out when completed, are easy to read and are being filled out correctly, the study found.
Sent 7: Since the program started in 2000, more than 6,000 people have used the free system, located in public buildings throughout Orange County.
Sent 8: The system was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about 800,000 in grants.
Sent 9: The program avoids legal jargon, offers a courthouse video tour and sticks to a fifth-grade vocabulary.
Sent 10: Users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese.
Sent 11: Kiosks are in courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library.
Sent 12: The program is also available online.
Sent 13: Bob Cohen, executive director of Legal Aid, said the study should clear the way for expansion throughout California.
Sent 14: Locally, a program for divorce petitions will be added this summer.
Sent 15: Cohen said the system proves the benefit of technology tailored to those who aren't computer-savvy.
Sent 16: He said much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access.
Sent 17: Low-income people, however, have less access to computers and less experience using them.
Sent 18: \"Our clients have to catch up, and they have to become a part of the mainstream,\" Cohen said.", "question": "What city does Roberta Adams live in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Clues of major geological events and past climates", "They give clues about major geological events", "It can tell us about past geological events and past climates" ], "distractor groups": [ "When Earth was created", "Mass extinctions", "Antartica is cold", "Changes in population", "Continents collided", "Mt Everest is the highest mountain" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils give clues about major geological events.
Sent 2: Fossils can also give clues about past climates.
Sent 3: Fossils of ocean animals on the top of a mountain?
Sent 4: Ocean animals have been found on the Earths tallest mountain.
Sent 5: Its hard to believe, but it is true.
Sent 6: These fossils were found at the top of Mt. Everest.
Sent 7: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth.
Sent 8: These fossils showed that this entire area was once at the bottom of a sea.
Sent 9: It can only mean that Mt. Everest was uplifted.
Sent 10: In fact, the entire Himalaya mountain range was raised.
Sent 11: It was forced up from the collision of two continents.
Sent 12: Fossils of plants are found in Antarctica.
Sent 13: Now, Antarctica is almost completely covered with ice.
Sent 14: Plants do not grow in Antarctica.
Sent 15: According to fossils, they once did.
Sent 16: This means that Antarctica was once much warmer than it is now.
Sent 17: These fossils tell us about Antarcticas past climate.", "question": "What can fossils tell us about the past?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Beaches", "Impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mountains", "Quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "Aside from tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses, Algarve is known for what among tourists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The lack of gain or loss of value reflects his opinion that the departure should not affect the company greatly", "No. Reuters shares changed" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes. Shres for Reuters were unchanged" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager to pursue unspecified interests, a move the news organization termed an \"amicable separation.\"
Sent 2: Mr. Reupke, 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran, had been the information-services company's general manager for only six months.
Sent 3: His appointment to that post, which has senior administrative, staff and policy responsibilities, followed a several-year tenure as Reuters's editor in chief.
Sent 4: No successor was named, and Mr. Reupke's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives, the company said.
Sent 5: In a telephone interview, Mr. Reupke said his departure was for \"personal reasons,\" which he declined to specify.
Sent 6: \"There is no business reason for my departure,\" nor any disagreement over policy, he added.
Sent 7: He also rejected reports that his departure stemmed from disappointment the general manager's post hadn't also led to a board directorship at the London-based news organization.
Sent 8: Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters's eight-person executive committee who didn't also serve on the company's board of directors.
Sent 9: \"If I were choosing the people of tomorrow, I would have chosen the people who are now on the board,\" he said.
Sent 10: A Reuters spokesman said the departure reflects \"no change in strategy or profits.\"
Sent 11: Mark Shepperd, an analyst at UBS Philips & Drew in London, said, \"I suspect (the departure) will be fairly irrelevant for the company.
Sent 12: I would be very surprised if his departure signals any change in strategy or change in profit expectations.\"
Sent 13: On London's Stock Exchange, Reuters shares rose five pence to 913 pence (14.43).
Sent 14: In the U.S. over-the-counter market, American depositary shares for Reuters, each representing three shares in the London market, closed unchanged at 43.875.
Sent 15: The senior of the three executives who will assume Mr. Reupke's duties is Nigel Judah, 58, finance director and a Reuters board director.
Sent 16: Peter Holland, 45, deputy general manager, becomes director of corporate affairs.
Sent 17: And Patrick Mannix, 46, international technical manager, becomes director of group quality programs.", "question": "Does the activity in American depository Reuters shares reflect the opinion stated by Mark Shepperd?" }, { "answer groups": [ "500", "The 300-millimeter silicon wafers are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead track before being lowered down from wires automatically into machines. Finally, they are sheathed in stainless steel and glass", "Silicon wafers drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass" ], "distractor groups": [ "Measures taken of each component", "Less than 1000", "300", "Conveyor belt transport", "Automation", "20" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
Sent 2: \"The diversity is the big difference with this plant,\" said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, a research firm.
Sent 3: \"It gives IBM the capability to make so many different kinds of custom chips, and the world is going to custom chips.\"
Sent 4: The 140,000-square-foot plant is a testament to advanced manufacturing technology.
Sent 5: The 300-millimeter silicon wafers -- about the size of a standard pizza -- are shuttled around the facility in enclosed plastic pods, which ride on overhead tracks.
Sent 6: They drop down from wires automatically into machines, sheathed in stainless steel and glass, for each stage of processing and fabrication.
Sent 7: Throughout the 500 processing steps, which typically last 20 days, the wafers are not touched by human hands.
Sent 8: The circuits etched into the chips are less than one thousandth the width of a human hair.
Sent 9: Human operators are there to monitor the systems, catch errors and fine-tune the production process for maximum efficiency.
Sent 10: Because each of the hundreds of processing machines is self-enclosed, and essentially airtight, the uniforms operators wear are less constricting than in the previous generation of chip plants, which looked like space suits.
Sent 11: The operators at the East Fishkill factory wear light nylon uniforms, light blue shoe coverings and translucent hair nets made of paper.
Sent 12: They look more like workers in a bakery.
Sent 13: Yes, said Richard Brilla, director of the new facility, \"but the donuts are a lot more costly here.\"
Sent 14: Each wafer, holding hundreds of chips, is worth 6,000 to 10,000 apiece, depending on what insulation, circuitry and materials are used.", "question": "What are the steps that are required for every stage of fabrication?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The polar zone", "Polar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Temperate", "Freezing", "Temperature", "Tropical" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "Which of the 3 climate zones have long and cold wintersA. TemperateB. The polar zoneC. PolarD. FreezingE. TemperatureF. TropicalPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "boiling point", "state of matter, color and odor", "freezing", "solid, liquid or gas" ], "distractor groups": [ "chemical bonding" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Physical properties include the state of matter.
Sent 2: We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas.
Sent 3: Properties can also include color and odor.
Sent 4: For example, oxygen is a gas.
Sent 5: It is a major part of the air we breathe.
Sent 6: It is colorless and odorless.
Sent 7: Chlorine is also a gas.
Sent 8: In contrast to oxygen, chlorine is greenish in color.
Sent 9: It has a strong, sharp odor.
Sent 10: Have you ever smelled cleaning products used around your home?
Sent 11: If so, you have probably smelled chlorine.
Sent 12: Another place you might smell chlorine is at a public swimming pool.
Sent 13: The chlorine is used to kill bacteria that may grow in the water.
Sent 14: Other physical properties include hardness, freezing, and boiling points.
Sent 15: Some substances have the ability to dissolve in other substances.
Sent 16: Some substances cannot be dissolved.
Sent 17: For example, salt easily dissolves in water.
Sent 18: Oil does not dissolve in water.", "question": "What are the physical properties of matter?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was $3 million dollars", "They were concerned because a Predator cost about 3 million dollars and The Secretary of Defense believed that if a predator went down the CIA should have to pay for it" ], "distractor groups": [ "Management", "Concerned", "It was too expensive costing 4 billion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about 3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator.\"
Sent 7: This was new ground,\"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B.\" Buzzy\" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the \"man in white.\"
Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.", "question": "Why was senior management so concerned about the cost of The Predator?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Portugal", "The Portuguese" ], "distractor groups": [ "The British", "Asians", "South Africans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory.
Sent 2: However, it would be wrong to dismiss the long history of the region itself.
Sent 3: Archaeologists today are working to uncover Hong Kong's past, which stretches back thousands of years.
Sent 4: You can get a glimpse into that past at Lei Cheng Uk Museum's 1,600-year-old burial vault on the mainland just north of Kowloon.
Sent 5: In 1992, when construction of the airport on Chek Lap Kok was begun, a 2,000-year-old village, Pak Mong, was discovered, complete with artifacts that indicated a sophisticated rural society.
Sent 6: An even older Stone Age site was discovered on Lamma Island in 1996.
Sent 7: While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East.
Sent 8: By a.d.
Sent 9: 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century.
Sent 10: In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the \"Five Great Clans\": Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man.
Sent 11: First to arrive was the Tang clan, which established a number of walled villages in the New Territories that still exist today.
Sent 12: You can visit Kat Hing Wai and Lo Wai, villages with their walls still intact.
Sent 13: Adjacent to Lo Wai is the Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall, built in the 16th century, which is still the center of clan activities.
Sent 14: The first Europeans to arrive in the Pearl River Delta were the Portuguese, who settled in Macau in 1557 and for several centuries had a monopoly on trade between Asia, Europe, and South America.
Sent 15: As Macau developed into the greatest port in the East, it also became a base for Jesuit missionaries; it was later a haven for persecuted Japanese Christians.
Sent 16: While Christianity was not a great success in China, it made local headway, evidenced today by the numerous Catholic churches in Macau's historic center.
Sent 17: Intermarriage with the local Chinese created a community of Macanese, whose culture can still be seen in Macau's architecture and cuisine.", "question": "Which nation was responsible for Jesuit missionaries working in Macau?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because they agreed that raising the registration fees would be the best way to address declining revenues", "To shore up financing for pro-bono work", "Address the declining revenues interest generated on the Lawyers' Trust Fund" ], "distractor groups": [ "To fund retired lawyers", "To increase judge's salaries", "To fund raise for a new law scholarship", "To give themselves a better facility" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Registration fees for Illinois lawyers could jump as much as 49 a year if lawmakers adopt two separate measures to bolster pro-bono services and support for lawyers with drug and alcohol problems.
Sent 2: The Illinois Supreme Court is pushing for legislation that would allow it to dedicate money raised through the fee hikes to legal services to the poor.
Sent 3: The justices are floating a 42 increase to shore up financing for pro-bono work, as the normal funding mechanism for legal services has fallen short in recent years.
Sent 4: Currently, support for non-profit legal aid groups comes from interest generated on the Lawyers' Trust Fund, which pools clients' money that attorneys hold for such matters as escrow funds.
Sent 5: But low interest rates and a sagging economy mean there is less money being generated.
Sent 6: After hours of discussion, the high court agreed that raising the registration fees would be the best way to address the declining revenues, Chief Justice Moses W. Harrison II said.
Sent 7: The judges were reluctant to raise those fees but eventually decided that supporting probono services was important enough \"and lawyers had a responsibility to contribute\" to the cause, Harrison said.
Sent 8: Last year, the high court raised the base fee for active attorneys to 180 from 140.
Sent 9: Lawyers in their first three years of practice or who are inactive pay 90, and retired lawyers pay nothing.
Sent 10: Legislation circulated by the high court's lobbyist specifies that the hike would apply to attorneys \"paying full annual registration fees.\"
Sent 11: In 2001, there were 57,392 active attorneys in Illinois and 74,311 on the full roll, according to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
Sent 12: The hike would raise roughly 2.4 million.
Sent 13: Last year, interest on the trust fund totaled 4.5 million, but service and handling fees consumed 538,000 of that amount.
Sent 14: This year's returns are projected to be anywhere between 700,000 and 1 million short of that mark, said Ruth Ann Schmitt, the executive director of Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois.
Sent 15: Harrison said the fee hikes are designed only to counter the shortfall in interest income, not add to the total amount available.
Sent 16: \"Our legal services are already stretched to the breaking point,\" Schmitt said.
Sent 17: \"We have a tough time raising enough money to properly fund services that our clients need.\"
Sent 18: Neither the Illinois State Bar Association nor The Chicago Bar Association has taken a stance on the proposed hikes.", "question": "Why did the high court raise the base fee for active attorneys to $180 from $140?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Enyeama", "Vincent Enyeama" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gabriel Heinze", "Group B", "Juan Sebastian Veron", "Johannesburg" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Argentina's star-studded line-up began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their Group B opener in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Sent 2: A goal from defender Gabriel Heinze after six minutes was all that separated the two teams after an inspired display from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Sent 3: But South Korea ended the day on top of the group following a 2-0 victory over Greece in Port Elizabeth earlier on Saturday.
Sent 4: Goals from Lee Jung-Soo and Park Ji-Sung gave the 2002 semifinalists a comfortable win over the 2008 European cvhampions.
Sent 5: Argentina 1-0 Nigeria Enyeama could do little to stop Heinze's powerful early header from a Juan Sebastian Veron corner, but he kept his team alive with a string of acrobatic saves to deny World Player of the Year Lionel Messi.
Sent 6: Diego Maradona was delighted to secure his first victory as a World Cup coach, but critical of his strikers for failing to make the game safe.
Sent 7: \"When you don't kill things off in front of goal you can pay a heavy price.
Sent 8: They almost got a draw -- we missed loads of chances,\" Maradona told AFP.
Sent 9: \"Players such as Leo Messi and Higuain knocked in around 60 goals last season between them, yet today it was almost as if they couldn't set their sights on goal.
Sent 10: \"But the win means we can be calm -- we are in the right track.\"", "question": "What is the name of the Nigerian goalkeeper?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Greek astronomical instruments were found in Afghanistan", "Greek astronomical instruments found in Afghanistan and belief in a spherical Earth in India", "Greek culture influennced Indian Astronomy", "Ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD" ], "distractor groups": [ "Construction of the Silk Road", "The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo", "Greek artwork used in science" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 BC - 10 CE) in modern Afghanistan and India.
Sent 2: There on the newly formed Silk Road Greek culture apparently hybridized with Indian, and especially Buddhist culture.
Sent 3: The resulting syncretism known as Greco-Buddhism heavily influenced the development of Buddhism and created a culture of Greco-Buddhist art.
Sent 4: These Greco-Buddhist kingdoms sent some of the first Buddhist missionaries to China, Sri Lanka, and the Mediterranean (Greco-Buddhist monasticism).
Sent 5: The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo.
Sent 6: Several Buddhist traditions may have been influenced by the ancient Greek religion: the concept of Boddhisatvas is reminiscent of Greek divine heroes, and some Mahayana ceremonial practices (burning incense, gifts of flowers, and food placed on altars) are similar to those practiced by the ancient Greeks.
Sent 7: One Greek king, Menander I, probably became Buddhist, and was immortalized in Buddhist literature as 'Milinda'.
Sent 8: The process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD.
Sent 9: For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth.
Sent 10: The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts in particular show Greek influence.", "question": "What evidence exists that Greco-Bactrian influence extended to the sciences?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, as well as President Clinton", "Michael Sheehan", "Karl Inderfurth and Michael Sheenan", "Karl Inderfurth", "Assistant secretary of state and State department of counterterrorism coordinator" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Clinton", "CIA", "Secret service" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Who met with Musharraf to discuss the issues of Pakistan cooperation with the U.S.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Powell's North Korean counterpart, essentially Secretary of State", "Paek Nam Sun is North Korea's Secretary of State", "Powell's North Korean Counterpart" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Prime Minister of Singapore", "Prime Minister of Japan", "President of Malaysia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived here on Tuesday night for meetings with fellow foreign ministers aimed at solidifying a second front, in Southeast Asia, in the campaign against global terrorism.
Sent 2: But he has had to balance that goal with longstanding concerns about human rights abuses in the region.
Sent 3: In meetings on Tuesday in Malaysia and Singapore before touching down in this oil-producing sultanate for two days of talks with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, Powell said he repeatedly raised the issue.
Sent 4: \"We still believe strongly in human rights, and that everything we do has to be consistent with universal standards of human rights,\" he said.
Sent 5: But at a news conference in Singapore, Powell hinted that the Bush administration was ready to discuss resuming military cooperation with Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation and a sometimes reluctant partner in the efforts to crack down on militant Islamic groups.
Sent 6: The United States cut virtually all military links with Indonesia in 1999 after its forces were implicated in the violence that swept East Timor after that territory voted for independence.
Sent 7: On Thursday, Powell and representatives of the nations of the Asian group, including Indonesia, are expected to sign a declaration promising cooperation to prevent terrorism by sharing information, blocking funds, tightening borders and making it hard to use forged travel papers.
Sent 8: \"We recognized that terrorism is a global threat and that the disturbing acts of terrorism and transnational crimes, which continue to threaten world peace and stability, must be tackled by the international community,\" the ministers said in a communique on Tuesday.
Sent 9: Powell is among the representatives from 13 nations outside Southeast Asia, including China, Japan and Russia, that are taking part in the annual meeting of the group's regional forum.
Sent 10: Terrorism dominates the agenda, though the possibility of a meeting here between Powell and his North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun, has generated the most news.
Sent 11: It would be the highest-level contact between the United States and North Korea since President Bush took office.
Sent 12: Powell heads to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, late on Thursday before finishing a weeklong trip through the region in the Philippines on Saturday.
Sent 13: He said that when he arrives in Jakarta, he will have \"some ideas and some initiatives\" to present to President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Sent 14: Indonesia is already receiving 400,000 in the current fiscal year for civilian training programs and is to receive a like amount next year; and the United States expects to provide an additional 16 million this year to train police officers in counterterrorism.
Sent 15: At the same time, the Pentagon is reviewing how to allocate another 17 million in \"counterterrorism fellowships,\" some of which could go to Indonesia.
Sent 16: But a senior State Department official also acknowledged that some in the administration and Congress are pushing for more direct military cooperation, which would require congressional approval.
Sent 17: \"I think they recognize the danger that we all face and I think they have been cooperating more fully with us as time goes by, and I'm quite sure that Mrs. Megawati is committed to this cause,\" Powell said in Singapore.
Sent 18: He met there with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who endorsed the idea of renewed military ties between the United States and Indonesia as an important step in stabilizing that country.", "question": "Who is Paek Nam Sun?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New generation", "The offspring" ], "distractor groups": [ "To animals", "It's parents" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "Who are traits passed from parents to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rule of engagement", "Discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP. He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert. He said the President signed off on that concept", "CAP", "He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert", "Discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP", "He said the President signed off on that concept" ], "distractor groups": [ "Reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington", "Hijacked aircraft", "The President said had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft", "An inbound aircraft", "The Vice President saying, \"Sir, the CAPS are up.\"" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP.
Sent 2: He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert.
Sent 3: He said the President signed off on that concept.
Sent 4: The President said he remembered such a conversation, and that it reminded him of when he had been an interceptor pilot.
Sent 5: The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 6: The Vice President's military aide told us he believed the Vice President spoke to the President just after entering the conference room, but he did not hear what they said.
Sent 7: Rice, who entered the room shortly after the Vice President and sat next to him, remembered hearing him inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up.
Sent 8: Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\"
Sent 9: Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"
Sent 10: She believed this conversation occurred a few minutes, perhaps five, after they entered the conference room.
Sent 11: We believe this call would have taken place sometime before 10:10 to 10:15.
Sent 12: Among the sources that reflect other important events of that morning, there is no documentary evidence for this call, but the relevant sources are incomplete.
Sent 13: Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did not note a call between the President and Vice President immediately after the Vice President entered the conference room.
Sent 14: At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington.
Sent 15: That aircraft was United 93.
Sent 16: The Secret Service was getting this information directly from the FAA.
Sent 17: The FAA may have been tracking the progress of United 93 on a display that showed its projected path to Washington, not its actual radar return.
Sent 18: Thus, the Secret Service was relying on projections and was not aware the plane was already down in Pennsylvania.", "question": "To the Vice President's recollection, what did the President and Vice President's conversation entail?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Earthquakes", "Movement of earth's crust", "Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earths crust, showing them where the crust was moving" ], "distractor groups": [ "Regions", "Direction of plate movement" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust.
Sent 2: Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving.
Sent 3: This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates.
Sent 4: Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries.
Sent 5: This was evidence that continents can move.
Sent 6: The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics.
Sent 7: The Earths crust is divided into plates.
Sent 8: There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones.
Sent 9: Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains.
Sent 10: Scientists know he plates are in motion.
Sent 11: They now know the direction and speed of this motion .
Sent 12: Plates dont move very fast.
Sent 13: They move only a few centimeters a year.
Sent 14: This is about the same rate fingernails grow.
Sent 15: So you might wonder, what could cause this motion?
Sent 16: What supplies the energy to cause this change?", "question": "How did scientists learn about the Earth's plates?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Napolean", "Bonaparte", "Napoleon Bonaparte" ], "distractor groups": [ "Foreign power", "King of Holland" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "The \"Golden Age\" was considered dead after who took control of the Netherlands?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No one had the right officials on the calls before 10am", "They weren't the right officials" ], "distractor groups": [ "They felt the information was not important", "The didn't know that another plane was headed to DC" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "Why couldn't the FAA and the Defense Department officials coordinate a military response during the conference call set up at FAA headquarters at 9:20?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Focus groups were formed to address the issue of domestic violence", "The development of a focus group to study how police response to domestic abuse calls may affect the situations", "A focus group was formed to find out whether police officers should make changes in how they respond to domestic calls", "The Police Chief formed a focus group" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Police Chief hired additional officers", "More severe punishment for domestic violence", "Some calls could not be responded to", "Three strikes rule enforced for abusers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 2: \"It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,\" he said.
Sent 3: More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics.
Sent 4: In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records.
Sent 5: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that.
Sent 6: I see this as helping that,\" Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant.
Sent 7: Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said.
Sent 8: And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.", "question": "The increase in calls to Jackson police led to what action?" }, { "answer groups": [ "$92 million, or 21 cents for each dollar they are owed", "92 million", "$92 million", "$92 million and stock in the reorganized company (Ranger Industries Inc.)", "21 cents for every dollar" ], "distractor groups": [ "About $225,000 will be available", "$50 million", "92 billion", "$200 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Coleco Industries Inc., a once high-flying toy maker whose stock peaked at 65 a share in the early 1980s, filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that provides just 1.125 cents a share for common stockholders.
Sent 2: Under the plan, unsecured creditors, who are owed about 430 million, would receive about 92 million, or 21 cents for each dollar they are owed.
Sent 3: In addition, they will receive stock in the reorganized company, which will be named Ranger Industries Inc. After these payments, about 225,000 will be available for the 20 million common shares outstanding.
Sent 4: The Avon, Conn., company's stock hit a high in 1983 after it unveiled its Adam home computer, but the product was plagued with glitches and the company's fortunes plunged.
Sent 5: But Coleco bounced back with the introduction of the Cabbage Patch dolls, whose sales hit 600 million in 1985.
Sent 6: But as the craze died, Coleco failed to come up with another winner and filed for bankruptcy-law protection in July 1988.
Sent 7: The plan was filed jointly with unsecured creditors in federal bankruptcy court in New York and must be approved by the court.", "question": "What will unsecured creditors receive as a result of Coleco's Chapter 11 reorganization plan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Aliens, and they cleaned it up with intentions of selling", "Aliens", "The aliens killed Joe and his house was cleaned up to be sold" ], "distractor groups": [ "His girlfriend", "Iris, and the cleaned because Joe did not before he died" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "Who killed Joe and why do Layne Vassimer, Macy and their other friends clean up his house?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They cannot afford legal services", "There's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people" ], "distractor groups": [ "They aren't able to find information", "They don't have rent receipts", "It's difficult to understand", "It is confusing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to \"The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California,\" prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise \"justice for all,\" but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.", "question": "Why is the justice system difficult for poor people?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband. But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \u00e2\u0080\u009cPagoda\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, just villainous", "No", "No, just ideal wife", "Clearly one can be seen as a villainous demon or someone who exemplifies the virtues of a Confucian wife but not both" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "Has Madame White Snake been perceived as both a villainous demon and someone who exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Polar", "The Polar zone" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tropical", "Freezing", "Temperate", "Temperature" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "Which of the 3 climate zones is near the earths poles?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Government overseers", "Penny Sweat, Lee Kemp,managers of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers as well as Sweats Granddaughter", "Attorneys", "Penny Sweat", "Sweat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Kemp", "Lee Kemp", "Managers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "Who was unaware of the tenants rights?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Osama bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Television", "Military", "Nibras and Khamri", "Al-Jazeera" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "Who ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sound", "Motion to sound energy", "Sound energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Light energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "Drummers transform chemical energy into what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The were Green and Orange draped across Red", "Orange and green" ], "distractor groups": [ "The colors insulted Spring", "Here they were offensive colors" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily.
Sent 2: I tried to keep myself calm.
Sent 3: Then, with a sigh, he said, \"I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed.
Sent 4: It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness.
Sent 5: My problem is that it was not made in this realm, but by a human, and only a human may handle it.
Sent 6: The herb vendor will tell you where you can find it.
Sent 7: If you would fetch me this stone, I would tell you what I can.\" \"Of course we will fetch you the stone,\" Nepthys assured him.
Sent 8: \"You have our thanks.\" Outside, the thing at the herb cart nodded when we mentioned the stone.
Sent 9: He told Nepthys the name of a woman who lived on a certain street, and we set off.
Sent 10: When we reached the street, I expected some sort of temple, or a row of antiquaries, or at least a sleazy, black-market relics merchant.
Sent 11: Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys.
Sent 12: Nepthys didn't need to warn me not to speak to them.
Sent 13: He took us to the door of a building like a short pagoda that had a sign hanging over it showing a face with hands uplifted, like a saint under G d's light, and handcuffed.
Sent 14: Inside, the entrance room was hung with bright silks and scattered with velvet cushions.
Sent 15: Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
Sent 16: A large woman, similarly decorated, quickly drifted up to us.
Sent 17: \"Good evening, gentlemen,\" she said.
Sent 18: \"May I invite you to have a cup of tea?\" \"No, thank you,\" said Nepthys, \"we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer.
Sent 19: Are you the proprietor of this shop?\" \"Yes,\" answered the woman.
Sent 20: \"I am Madame Entera, at your service.", "question": "What color were the drapes at the short pagoda building?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sweeney did not know how they had gained entry to the cockpit", "There was a routine medical emergency in first class", "Sweeney did not know how" ], "distractor groups": [ "Walked in", "They gain entry through gun point", "He didnt't know" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "How, according to Sweeney, hijackers gained entry to the cockpit?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It has potential to move", "To move" ], "distractor groups": [ "It has potential to gain energy", "To explode", "Store energy", "Save energy", "To vanish" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position.
Sent 2: This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move.
Sent 3: A moving ball can have energy from motion.
Sent 4: An arrow can also have the energy of motion.
Sent 5: Both are types of mechanical energy.
Sent 6: Can you think of some other examples?
Sent 7: Where does the energy of motion come from?
Sent 8: It comes from the energy created by position.
Sent 9: This energy is stored energy.
Sent 10: This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move.
Sent 11: How can you store energy?
Sent 12: The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow.
Sent 13: As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion.
Sent 14: Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position?", "question": "What does stored energy have the potential to do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He came home unexpectedly and let himself into a private door without telling anyone", "He sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming" ], "distractor groups": [ "The entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The one person who, by his interference, could have settled all doubts was debarred by circumstances from interfering in the matter.
Sent 2: Wykham Delandre had quarrelled with his sister--or perhaps it was that she had quarrelled with him--and they were on terms not merely of armed neutrality but of bitter hatred.
Sent 3: The quarrel had been antecedent to Margaret going to Brent's Rock.
Sent 4: She and Wykham had almost come to blows.
Sent 5: There had certainly been threats on one side and on the other; and in the end Wykham, overcome with passion, had ordered his sister to leave his house.
Sent 6: She had risen straightway, and, without waiting to pack up even her own personal belongings, had walked out of the house.
Sent 7: On the threshold she had paused for a moment to hurl a bitter threat at Wykham that he would rue in shame and despair to the last hour of his life his act of that day.
Sent 8: Some weeks had since passed; and it was understood in the neighbourhood that Margaret had gone to London, when she suddenly appeared driving out with Geoffrey Brent, and the entire neighbourhood knew before nightfall that she had taken up her abode at the Rock.
Sent 9: It was no subject of surprise that Brent had come back unexpectedly, for such was his usual custom.
Sent 10: Even his own servants never knew when to expect him, for there was a private door, of which he alone had the key, by which he sometimes entered without anyone in the house being aware of his coming.
Sent 11: This was his usual method of appearing after a long absence.", "question": "What habits of Geoffrey Brent's make him unpredictable?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Prince Henry", "Henry the Navigator" ], "distractor groups": [ "Plato", "queen mary", "Trist\u00c3\u00a3o Vaz Teixeira", "Magellan", "Madiera" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira\u2019s origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend.
Sent 2: Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato\u2019s lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America.
Sent 3: The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting.
Sent 4: Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth.
Sent 5: Jo\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan\u2019s historic circumnavigation of the globe.
Sent 6: Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
Sent 7: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.
Sent 8: After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo.
Sent 9: More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo.
Sent 10: If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around.
Sent 11: Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port).
Sent 12: The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Trist\u00e3o Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
Sent 13: They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, \u201cIsland of Timber.
Sent 14: \u201d The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization.
Sent 15: Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-go\u00advern\u00adors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo.", "question": "Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago near Lisbon following the orders of which leader?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Her sexual attraction", "Sexual attractiveness and ethereal beauty", "Sexuality", "Her beauty" ], "distractor groups": [ "Her luts", "Eternal Prisoner slaves", "Beauty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "What does Madame White Snake use to distract and deceive?" }, { "answer groups": [ "After the second plane hit the world trade towers", "When it became apparent that it wasn't an accident", "After the second plane hit the World Trade Center" ], "distractor groups": [ "When the FAA told them to", "9:40am when the teleconference began" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "When did the Secret Service initiate security enhancements around the White House?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Essabar", "Mounir el Motassadeq and Abdelghani Mzoudi,", "Mzoudi", "Motassadeq", "Abdelghani Mzoudi, Zakariya Essabar", "Motassadeq, Binalshibh, Essabar, Mzoudi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Atta", "Shehhi", "Atef" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology.
Sent 2: Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque.
Sent 3: Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam.
Sent 4: Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle.
Sent 5: Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership.
Sent 6: Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University.
Sent 7: A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it.
Sent 8: One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a \"good man\" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999.
Sent 10: Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry.
Sent 11: Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995.
Sent 12: Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg.
Sent 13: In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will.
Sent 14: During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations.
Sent 15: 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time.
Sent 16: Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States.
Sent 17: In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM.
Sent 18: Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians.", "question": "Who were the members of the Hamburg cell?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rugs", "Emotions and spirits", "The wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits", "The old office has achieved mythical proportions" ], "distractor groups": [ "The faded and scratched walls", "65 displaced workers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "What are some memories Legal Aid's workers recall about the old office?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A pure substance, or a mixture of substances", "It can be a pure substance or It can also be a combination of different substances" ], "distractor groups": [ "Oxygen", "Atoms", "One protons and may protons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of.
Sent 2: Matter can exist in two forms.
Sent 3: It can be a pure substance.
Sent 4: This means it is not mixed with anything.
Sent 5: It can also be a combination of different substances.
Sent 6: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms.
Sent 7: You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain.
Sent 8: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen.
Sent 9: Other atoms contain many protons.
Sent 10: There are many types of atoms.
Sent 11: For example, Helium has two protons.
Sent 12: An Oxygen atom has eight.
Sent 13: Water is composed of a two types of atoms.
Sent 14: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms.
Sent 15: There are only so many types of atoms.
Sent 16: These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances.
Sent 17: So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?", "question": "What are the two forms of matter?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Science/Technical Advisory Committee", "The advisory committee review", "The Advisory committee" ], "distractor groups": [ "World Trade Center Health Program", "Federal health review", "some cancers", "Firefighter review" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Sent 2: The addition finalizes a recommendation from Dr. John Howard, administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 3: Howard proposed in June that the program accept the recommendations of its Science/Technical Advisory Committee and add some cancers to the coverage list -- 14 categories in all.
Sent 4: Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk The advisory committee review called for expanded \"coverage for certain types of cancer resulting from exposure to toxins released at Ground Zero.\"
Sent 5: \"The publication of this final rule marks an important step in the effort to provide needed treatment and care to 9/11 responders and survivors through the WTC Health Program,\" Howard said in a statement Monday.
Sent 6: The rule is expected to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register, and will take effect 30 days after its publication, Howard said.
Sent 7: 9/11 detective dies after battle with lung cancer First responders, volunteers, survivors of the attacks and residents near the site who meet specific qualifications will be eligible for coverage, according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 8: According to the proposed rule, an estimated 950 to 2,150 people would take advantage of the additional coverage.
Sent 9: The estimated cost for the total cancer treatment ranges between 14.5 million and 33 million, the proposal said.", "question": "What review called for expanded coverage of certain types of cancer after Howard made his proposal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Self-help center for litigants who chose self representation", "The presence of the self-help center", "A self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters", "Litigants use of the self-help center will be extremely helpful" ], "distractor groups": [ "Legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents", "Use of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation", "Use of Lake County circuit court officials will be extremely helpful" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "What does Court Administrator Bob Zastany think is going to be extremely helpful?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The State Department", "Assistant secretary of state and State department of counterterrorism coordinator", "The envoys were Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan", "Karl Inderfurth and Michael Sheenan", "Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Secret Service", "The envoys were Mullah Omar and Musharraf", "The secret service and the CIA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Who were the U. S. envoys General Musharraf told that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tarrant County", "Tarrant" ], "distractor groups": [ "Porter county", "Midland" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Legal assistance for battered women is hard to come by.
Sent 2: But it just got a little easier to find in Tarrant County.
Sent 3: This month, the federal Violence Against Women Office awarded a two-year, 350,000 grant to the Women's Haven of Tarrant County.
Sent 4: The money will allow the shelter to add a second full-time attorney to its staff and contract with the law school clinic at Texas Wesleyan University for pro bono and student services.
Sent 5: Most important, the funds will help fill a frustrating gap.
Sent 6: The Women's Haven, which provides shelter and outreach to domestic-violence victims, already has a full-time attorney.
Sent 7: But that person is prohibited (by funding parameters) from representing women in matters of divorce or child custody.
Sent 8: That's not a problem for most of the shelter's indigent residents, who can access free legal aid locally from West Texas Legal Services.
Sent 9: But many of the clients served by the Women's Haven outreach programs are the working poor, who don't qualify for free legal services.
Sent 10: Divorces and custody battles are simply out of their financial reach.
Sent 11: \"They can't begin to save up enough money for a divorce, so they're stuck,\" says Sonyia Hartwell, the Women's Haven's associate director.
Sent 12: \"They're completely shut out of the civil-law system.\"
Sent 13: In Texas, unlike in some other states, women who aren't divorced can't gain full control over their portion of assets.
Sent 14: And they can't obtain child support.
Sent 15: The grant will also provide law students with valuable experience working these types of cases.
Sent 16: \"They can't go to court, but they can interview clients and do all the initial intake work that needs to be done\" as well as investigative work, says Hartwell.
Sent 17: And there's no shortage of abuse victims who need this kind of help.
Sent 18: \"Within 60 days of hanging out her or his shingle,\" says Hartwell of the yet unhired new attorney, \"we'll have an active caseload of 20 or more.\"", "question": "Legal assistance is now a little easier for battered women to find in what county?" }, { "answer groups": [ "11 years", "11" ], "distractor groups": [ "10", "1791" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "How many years passed between when the British furiously went to war, destroying the Dutch navy, and when the VOC went into liquidation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To show his government's legitimacy", "Due to the possibility of getting a presidential visit in march", "He promised he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden", "For talks against nuclear proliferation", "He promised he would put pressure on the Taliban", "He wanted the U.S.President to visit Pakistan" ], "distractor groups": [ "To help the terrorists", "To help the taliban", "For talks about the situation about how to fix computers in Romania" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Why did General Musharraf promise Karl Inderfurth and Michael Sheehan that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Atta", "Essabar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mzoudi", "Motassadeq" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology.
Sent 2: Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque.
Sent 3: Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam.
Sent 4: Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle.
Sent 5: Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership.
Sent 6: Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University.
Sent 7: A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it.
Sent 8: One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a \"good man\" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999.
Sent 10: Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry.
Sent 11: Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995.
Sent 12: Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg.
Sent 13: In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will.
Sent 14: During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations.
Sent 15: 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time.
Sent 16: Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States.
Sent 17: In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM.
Sent 18: Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians.", "question": "Who would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership shortly before the 9/11 attacks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Stalks her", "Murder, impersonation, fraud" ], "distractor groups": [ "Murder" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "What crimes did Frank commit?" }, { "answer groups": [ "COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts", "The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts" ], "distractor groups": [ "International Association of Culinary Professionals", "The French Circle for Culinary Arts" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "Julia Child is an honorary board member of what organization?" }, { "answer groups": [ "fried egg back into a raw egg", "baking a cake", "rust" ], "distractor groups": [ "mixing water and oil" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chemical changes produce new substances.
Sent 2: For this reason, they often cannot be undone.
Sent 3: Some chemical changes can be reversed, sort of.
Sent 4: To do so requires another chemical change to take place.
Sent 5: For example, you can undo the tarnish on copper pennies by placing them in vinegar.
Sent 6: The acid in the vinegar reacts with the tarnish.
Sent 7: This is a chemical change that makes the pennies bright and shiny again.
Sent 8: You can try this yourself at home to see how well it works.
Sent 9: Other chemical changes cannot be reversed at all or may be difficult to do.
Sent 10: Rusting is a chemical change.
Sent 11: If metal rusts, the best you can do is to sand off the rust to get down to the shiny metal.
Sent 12: Although the metal may now be shiny, the rust was removed.
Sent 13: The rust was not changed back into the original metal.
Sent 14: Some chemical reactions occur in only one direction.
Sent 15: These reactions are called irreversible reactions.
Sent 16: For example, you cannot change a fried egg back into a raw egg.
Sent 17: Can you think of some other irreversible reactions related to cooking?
Sent 18: Would you like a piece of cake?", "question": "What are some examples of irreversible reactions?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Algarve coastline", "The Algarve" ], "distractor groups": [ "Northern Province", "North", "Lisbon", "Porto" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "Which province of Portugal contains no cosmopolitan cities?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dudovitz", "Neal Dudovitz", "Neal" ], "distractor groups": [ "Peck", "Scott Wheeler", "John Peck" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Still untaken are several steps that required goodwill from local bar associations and others who had opposed the combination.
Sent 2: \"[I am] not a fan of Neal's,\" admitted John Peck, a former board member of the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program and a Pasadena Bar Association board member.
Sent 3: Peck says bad feelings still linger among Ailies of the old program who feel left out.
Sent 4: \"They really screwed us.
Sent 5: We had a good program,\" Peck said.
Sent 6: An observer familiar with the reconfiguration debate who requested anonymity wondered why Dudovitz had not spent more time mending fences.
Sent 7: \"He ought to be bending over backwards for reconciliation, but if you want to do impact work and people in the San Gabriel Valley want direct services, you have to accommodate that or change your approach,\" the observer said.
Sent 8: \"Neal would never consider doing that.\"
Sent 9: More than a year after he officially incorporated the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, Dudovitz had not placed a local resident on the board of Neighborhood Legal Services or made the rounds of the private legal community to recruit the volunteer lawyers.
Sent 10: \"Our emphasis has been on having our potential clients know about us and deliver services to them,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 11: \"We have done that spectacularly.\"
Sent 12: He did not hire any of the old program's nine lawyers and has yet to permanently place any of his 18 new hires in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley.
Sent 13: The lack of a legal aid presence in Pomona prompted the bar association and court officials to start their own once-monthly family law clinic.
Sent 14: After learning of the effort, Dudovitz sent personnel to staff the clinic for three hours per week and is helping to write a grant application to fund a self-help kiosk for Pomona patterned on the center he pioneered in Van Nuys.
Sent 15: The help, although late, has earned Dudovitz some appreciation.
Sent 16: \"There has been a transition and [the clinic] has helped to fill some void,\" said Deni Butler, administrator for the Eastern District Superior Court.
Sent 17: \"But we are working together quite nicely contrary to what the other side issue is.\"
Sent 18: Scott Wheeler, president of the Eastern Bar Association of Los Angeles and an ally of the old program, said he mobilized his 200 members to staff the clinic after watching the ranks of unserved poor grow over the past year.", "question": "An observer stated: \"He ought to be bending over backwards for reconciliation.\" Who is the observer referring to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Daniel Lewin", "Daniel Lewin, a passenger", "Lewin" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nydia Gonzales", "Sky marshal", "Betty Ong", "Flight attendants", "Marquis", "Markuis" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "Who may have attempted to confront the highjackers and stop them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary, he had no valid evidence", "Ramakant and he will not take the law in his own hands", "A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary, he did not have vaild evidence" ], "distractor groups": [ "He believed they did not do it", "Manna Shetty and the ganglords are too powerful", "Devkinandan and the police are lazy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .", "question": "What was the name of the police officer whose son was murdered and why was he unable to arrest the culprits?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Attorneys", "Government overseers", "Managers of the senior complex", "Penny Sweat, the manager of the seniors complex, and its attorneys and government overseers", "Penny Sweat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Salt Lake City housing officials", "Penny's Granddaughter", "Lee Kemp", "Marty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "Who was unaware of Penny Sweat's rights?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ramzi Binalshibh", "Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah", "Ziad Jarrah", "Marwan al Shehhi", "Mohamed Atta" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Hamburg", "Al Qaeda", "Atef", "KSM", "Bin Laden, Atef, Ziad Jarrah and KSM", "USA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "Who were the four aspiring jihadists from Germany who arrived in Kandaharin late 1999?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His party", "His birthday party", "Birthday" ], "distractor groups": [ "A graduation", "Breakfast", "Christmas" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tim had always a red bike.
Sent 2: His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike.
Sent 3: When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike.
Sent 4: He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them.
Sent 5: Tim was sad.
Sent 6: When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time.
Sent 7: The first present was not a bike.
Sent 8: The second present was not a bike.
Sent 9: The third present was the biggest one.
Sent 10: Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box.
Sent 11: Tim opened it and there was no bike inside.
Sent 12: Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all.
Sent 13: His Dad had been hiding the present all along.
Sent 14: Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box.
Sent 15: Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help.", "question": "What event was Tim at when he finally got his bike?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ben", "Dr. Benjamin Stone", "Benjamin", "Ben Stone" ], "distractor groups": [ "Judge Evans", "Nurse Packer", "Bens colleagues", "Ben's 1956 Porsche", "Mayor Nick Nicholson" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "To whom was the phrase \"Good riddance , asshole '' on the cake?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Egyptian writer", "Qutb", "Sayyid Qutb" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sayed Qtbo", "Bin Laden", "Muslims", "Westerners", "Jahiliyya", "Quota" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Who said all Muslims must take up arms in this fightA. Sayed QtboB. The Egyptian writerC. Bin LadenD. MuslimsE. WesternersF. QutbG. Sayyid QutbH. JahiliyyaI. QuotaPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because even the best care is worthless if an older patient can't drive to the doctor for ongoing treatment because his or her car has been wrongfully seized in a debt dispute", "Lawyers can help patients avoid debt disputes and can make landlord heat the apartment if the patient need it for Medical purposes. They can also create rights transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders and monitor its use", "Because they start to be imobile" ], "distractor groups": [ "They don't know how to deal with medical care", "It is the Lawyers duty to help Older Oklahomans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: It's just this hard when I try to answer the question: Why do older Oklahomans need lawyers?
Sent 2: The answers are important enough that they will be a discussion topic of this year's Senior Day at 9 a.m.
Sent 3: March 25 in the House Chamber at the Capitol.
Sent 4: The following is a preview of some of the answers for review: We can all agree that older Oklahomans need medical care.
Sent 5: But even the best care is worthless if an older patient can't drive to the doctor for ongoing treatment because his or her car has been wrongfully seized in a debt dispute.
Sent 6: Therefore, lawyers are part of the prescription for regular medical care for many of the 600,000 Oklahomans age 60 and older.
Sent 7: Another example: if a doctor treats an elderly patient for a lung ailment, the doctor's treatment will be undone and he will see the patient again and again, if the patient is sent home to an unheated apartment.
Sent 8: Lawyers know how to make landlords heat apartments so the medical treatment can stick.
Sent 9: (By the way, a May 16, 2001, article in The New York Times reports on a program at Boston Medical Center providing a walk-in legal clinic in the hospital to help fight their patients' legal and administrative battles.) We also can agree that older Oklahomans - like all citizens - have rights to control their health care until they become incapacitated or these rights are transferred to another by legal document or process.
Sent 10: \"Old\" is not a legal classification that results in automatic loss of these rights.
Sent 11: Moreover, having an old parent does not automatically confer on children the right to make the parents' health care choices.
Sent 12: It follows that an important role lawyers provide for aging Oklahomans is not only to create rights - transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders, but also to monitor their use.
Sent 13: In family situations, for example, lawyers must ensure that powers of attorney and guardianships are used to serve only the person transferring or losing rights.
Sent 14: They are not to be used to help a family \"manage\" their mother or help a doctor or nursing home get permission for a pill or procedure they feel is in the best interest of a patient.
Sent 15: Good news: Oklahoma now has a Public Guardianship Program, albeit unfunded, that will supply lawyers to perform this rights-monitoring process Oklahoma grandparents should be able to enjoy their grandchildren, not raise them.
Sent 16: But owing to the social problems of divorce and drug use, grandparents are increasingly being called on to raise their grandchildren because of missing parents.
Sent 17: Adding to the physical, emotional and financial burden they take on, grandparents face legal problems.
Sent 18: All the decisions parents made without a second thought now require evidence of legal authority when made by grandparents.", "question": "Why are lawyers part of the prescription for regular medical care for many of the 600,000 Oklahomans age 60 and older?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It's headquarter is at Michigan", "Peoria, IL" ], "distractor groups": [ "Washington, D.C", "Peoria, Michigan", "Charlotte, NC", "The Midwest" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: First of America Bank Corp. said it completed its acquisition of Midwest Financial Group Inc. for about 250 million.
Sent 2: First of America, which now has 45 banks and 12.5 billion in assets, announced an agreement to acquire the Peoria, Ill., bank holding company in January.
Sent 3: Midwest Financial has 2.3 billion in assets and eight banks.
Sent 4: The Midwest Financial subsidiary banks will continue to operate under their current names until early 1990, when each will adopt the First of America name.
Sent 5: Kalamazoo, Mich.-based First of America said it will eliminate the 13 management positions of the former Midwest Financial parent company.
Sent 6: First of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America.
Sent 7: But it said that severance payments to those executives not staying with the company will reduce First of America's operating results for 1989 by 3 million to 4 million, or 15 cents to 20 cents a share.", "question": "Where is Midwest Financial Group Located?" }, { "answer groups": [ "San Francisco", "A Progressive retirement home", "She lives in a progressive four level retirement home" ], "distractor groups": [ "Assisted living complex", "Maine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "Julia Child, Grande dame of cooking and husband Paul spent most of their lives in Boston. Child a native of Pasadena moved back to California and is living where?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Goh Chok Tong", "Singapore's Prime Minister is Goh Chok Tong" ], "distractor groups": [ "Paek Nam Sun", "Sukarnoputri", "Megawati Sukarnoputri", "Mrs. Megawati" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived here on Tuesday night for meetings with fellow foreign ministers aimed at solidifying a second front, in Southeast Asia, in the campaign against global terrorism.
Sent 2: But he has had to balance that goal with longstanding concerns about human rights abuses in the region.
Sent 3: In meetings on Tuesday in Malaysia and Singapore before touching down in this oil-producing sultanate for two days of talks with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, Powell said he repeatedly raised the issue.
Sent 4: \"We still believe strongly in human rights, and that everything we do has to be consistent with universal standards of human rights,\" he said.
Sent 5: But at a news conference in Singapore, Powell hinted that the Bush administration was ready to discuss resuming military cooperation with Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation and a sometimes reluctant partner in the efforts to crack down on militant Islamic groups.
Sent 6: The United States cut virtually all military links with Indonesia in 1999 after its forces were implicated in the violence that swept East Timor after that territory voted for independence.
Sent 7: On Thursday, Powell and representatives of the nations of the Asian group, including Indonesia, are expected to sign a declaration promising cooperation to prevent terrorism by sharing information, blocking funds, tightening borders and making it hard to use forged travel papers.
Sent 8: \"We recognized that terrorism is a global threat and that the disturbing acts of terrorism and transnational crimes, which continue to threaten world peace and stability, must be tackled by the international community,\" the ministers said in a communique on Tuesday.
Sent 9: Powell is among the representatives from 13 nations outside Southeast Asia, including China, Japan and Russia, that are taking part in the annual meeting of the group's regional forum.
Sent 10: Terrorism dominates the agenda, though the possibility of a meeting here between Powell and his North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun, has generated the most news.
Sent 11: It would be the highest-level contact between the United States and North Korea since President Bush took office.
Sent 12: Powell heads to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, late on Thursday before finishing a weeklong trip through the region in the Philippines on Saturday.
Sent 13: He said that when he arrives in Jakarta, he will have \"some ideas and some initiatives\" to present to President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Sent 14: Indonesia is already receiving 400,000 in the current fiscal year for civilian training programs and is to receive a like amount next year; and the United States expects to provide an additional 16 million this year to train police officers in counterterrorism.
Sent 15: At the same time, the Pentagon is reviewing how to allocate another 17 million in \"counterterrorism fellowships,\" some of which could go to Indonesia.
Sent 16: But a senior State Department official also acknowledged that some in the administration and Congress are pushing for more direct military cooperation, which would require congressional approval.
Sent 17: \"I think they recognize the danger that we all face and I think they have been cooperating more fully with us as time goes by, and I'm quite sure that Mrs. Megawati is committed to this cause,\" Powell said in Singapore.
Sent 18: He met there with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who endorsed the idea of renewed military ties between the United States and Indonesia as an important step in stabilizing that country.", "question": "Who is the Prime Minister of Singapore?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fire, over fishing, mining, pollution", "Fishing too much from an area", "Fire management" ], "distractor groups": [ "Water management", "Fishes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "How can living organisms affect their ecosystems?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso", "5", "More than two" ], "distractor groups": [ "6", "Four" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri.
Sent 2: As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives.
Sent 3: They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.
Sent 4: In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.
Sent 5: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Sent 6: The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40.
Sent 7: The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden.
Sent 8: He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment.
Sent 9: Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen.
Sent 10: Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier.
Sent 11: Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
Sent 12: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Sent 13: Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras.
Sent 15: Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack.
Sent 16: Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden.", "question": "How may coordinators were involved, according to the above information?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Music", "Novels, films, plays, and works of music", "It led to the making of Time magazine's Frederic Golden writing that Einstein was \"a cartoonist's dream come true\"", "Novels", "Films" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cars", "Many popular cartoons in the newspaper", "Cartoons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the period before World War II, the New York Times published a vignette in their \"The Talk of the Town\" feature saying that Einstein was so well known in America that he would be stopped on the street by people wanting him to explain \"that theory\".
Sent 2: He finally figured out a way to handle the incessant inquiries.
Sent 3: He told his inquirers \"Pardon me, sorry!
Sent 4: Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.\"
Sent 5: Einstein has been the subject of or inspiration for many novels, films, plays, and works of music.
Sent 6: He is a favorite model for depictions of mad scientists and absent-minded professors; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyle have been widely copied and exaggerated.
Sent 7: Time magazine's Frederic Golden wrote that Einstein was \"a cartoonist's dream come true\".", "question": "Einstein's depiction of a mad scientist and an absent-minded professor has led to the making of what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wife must convert to islam", "He said that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it, he admired Hitler, and he organized screenings of Bin Laden's speeches?", "Grow a beard", "Pressured friend with physical force over religious beliefs", "Would kill family if religion demanded it", "Kill family for religious beliefs", "Convert to Islam" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fasting", "Prayer", "Want to live freely, expressions of lack of religion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology.
Sent 2: Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque.
Sent 3: Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam.
Sent 4: Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle.
Sent 5: Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership.
Sent 6: Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University.
Sent 7: A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it.
Sent 8: One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a \"good man\" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999.
Sent 10: Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry.
Sent 11: Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995.
Sent 12: Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg.
Sent 13: In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will.
Sent 14: During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations.
Sent 15: 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time.
Sent 16: Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States.
Sent 17: In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM.
Sent 18: Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians.", "question": "What are three examples of Mounir er Motassadeq's extremist opinions?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Making jewelry", "Rubber for tires from rubber trees and steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron", "Building materials", "Clothing", "Making rubber" ], "distractor groups": [ "Music", "Burning rubber", "Art" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.", "question": "What are other uses of natural resources?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Listening to children read in a classroom", "Remaining in the classroom", "Listening to Children read" ], "distractor groups": [ "Standing behind the children", "Press Conference", "Running out the door", "Eating Breakfast" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "What was The President doing when he noticed the press' phones and pagers start to ring?" }, { "answer groups": [ "If we level the land", "Clearing lands", "Land is cleared for agriculture, homes, cattle grazing", "They can be cleared" ], "distractor groups": [ "kill", "Pollution, humans", "killed by invasive tall grass" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "How can habitats be lost?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An outstanding figure of seventh and eighth centuries", "Prince Shotoku" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sui Fuijiwara", "The Sogas", "Artists", "Japanese monks", "Nakatomi Kamatari", "Scholars", "Fujiwara clan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "Who established relations with China's Sui Dynasty?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Suzy", "Tommy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jan", "Dean", "Ally", "Tony" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean.
Sent 2: They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing.
Sent 3: They liked to play tag instead of building sandcastles or swinging.
Sent 4: They liked tag because they liked to run.
Sent 5: They like to play hopscotch or jump rope but that day they wanted to play tag.
Sent 6: Other games aren't as fun.
Sent 7: They met Tony and Ally (who are best friends) and invited them to play tag too.
Sent 8: Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag.
Sent 9: Making new friends is important.
Sent 10: Tony and Ally would rather make friends than play their favorite games.", "question": "Who wanted to play tag instead of hopscotch or jump rope?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1", "1 year" ], "distractor groups": [ "7", "3", "Some time after 1495" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On his return to Nuremberg in 1495, Durer opened his own workshop (being married was a requirement for this).
Sent 2: Over the next five years his style increasingly integrated Italian influences into underlying Northern forms.
Sent 3: Durer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.
Sent 4: His best works in the first years of the workshop were his woodcut prints, mostly religious, but including secular scenes such as The Men's Bath House (ca.
Sent 5: 1496).
Sent 6: These were larger and more finely cut than the great majority of German woodcuts hitherto, and far more complex and balanced in composition.
Sent 7: It is now thought unlikely that Durer cut any of the woodblocks himself; this task would have been performed by a specialist craftsman.
Sent 8: However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.
Sent 9: Durer either drew his design directly onto the woodblock itself, or glued a paper drawing to the block.
Sent 10: Either way, his drawings were destroyed during the cutting of the block.", "question": "Durer's The Men's Bath House was created in 1496 which was how many years after his return to Nuremberg?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cartridges", "Small sample of cartridges" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mouth piece", "In the battery", "Shipment" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "Where did the FDA find the chemical diethylene glycol?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A dispute over the crown between Pedro IV and his brother Miguel", "The dispute between Miguel and Pedro" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brazil's declaration of independence", "Portugal's weaknesses" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Among the early blows struck for independence was a rebellion in the town of Olh\u00e3o.
Sent 2: On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones\u00a0\u2014\u00a0attacked and captured the local French garrison.
Sent 3: It's said that a party of local men then set sail from Olh\u00e3o all the way to Brazil, without maps or navigational aids, to tell the king of the insurrection.
Sent 4: The real battle, however, was waged under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, whose coalition forces expelled the French after two years of bitter fighting.
Sent 5: The war left Portugal further weakened, and in 1822 its major empire outpost, Brazil, declared independence.
Sent 6: At the same time, a dispute over the crown continually raged between Pedro IV, the absentee monarch who preferred to reign as Emperor of Brazil rather than return to Portugal, and his brother Miguel.
Sent 7: The power struggle, with strong overtones of absolutism versus liberalism, excited the interest and intervention of other powers.
Sent 8: With British help, Pedro defeated Miguel off Cape St. Vincent in 1833, and his expeditionary force marched to Lisbon.
Sent 9: Pedro took the throne, though armed struggle continued for months and the lingering bitterness long after that.
Sent 10: By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.
Sent 11: The seeds of discontent with absolutist rule were sown.
Sent 12: Kingdom's End Bloodshed would haunt the remaining years of the Portuguese monarchy.
Sent 13: On 1 February 1908, the royal family was riding in an open carriage along the Lisbon river front plaza, Terreiro do Pa\u00e7o, when an assassin opened fire and killed King Carlos and the heir to the throne, Prince Luis Filipe.
Sent 14: The prince's younger brother, Prince Manuel, was also hit, but he survived and was thus propelled to the throne at the tender age of 19.
Sent 15: Amid republican agitation, a surprise uprising led by elements within the armed forces deposed Manuel in 1910.
Sent 16: Having ruled for less than three years, Manuel died in exile in 1932 in England.
Sent 17: The sudden end of more than seven centuries of monarchy brought confusion and crisis to the country.
Sent 18: Presidents and prime ministers were ushered into and out of office an unbelievable 45 times between 1910 and 1926, until a military revolution suspended Portugal's problematic democracy.", "question": "What was the power struggle that had strong overtones of absolutism versus liberalism?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alexander II's death caused a suppression of civil liberties and police brutality in Russia, the suppression of personal freedom and antisemitic laws. His assassination also inspired anarchists to advocate \"'propaganda by deed'--the use of a spectacular act of violence to incite revolution.\"", "It triggered major suppression of civil liberties in Russia, and police brutality", "It triggered major suppression of civil liberties in Russia and police brutality burst back in full force" ], "distractor groups": [ "It prompted the end of the anarchist movement", "It speeded up the creation of a Duma", "Both his son and his grandson vowed not to have the same fate befall them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander II's death caused a great setback for the reform movement.
Sent 2: One of his last ideas was to draft plans for an elected parliament, or Duma, which were completed the day before he died but not yet released to the Russian people.
Sent 3: In a matter of 48 hours, Alexander II planned to release his plan for the duma to the Russian people.
Sent 4: Had he lived, Russia might have followed a path to constitutional monarchy instead of the long road of oppression that defined his successor's reign.
Sent 5: The first action Alexander III took after his father's death was to tear up those plans.
Sent 6: A Duma would not come into fruition until 1905, when Alexander II's grandson, Nicholas II, commissioned the Duma following extreme pressure on the monarchy as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Sent 7: The assassination triggered major suppression of civil liberties in Russia, and police brutality burst back in full force after experiencing some restraint under the reign of Alexander II, whose death was witnessed first-hand by his son, Alexander III, and his grandson, Nicholas II, both future emperors who vowed not to have the same fate befall them.
Sent 8: Both of them used the Okhrana to arrest protestors and uproot suspected rebel groups, creating further suppression of personal freedom for the Russian people.
Sent 9: A series of anti-Jewish pogroms and antisemitic legislation, the May Laws, were yet another result.
Sent 10: Finally, the tsar's assassination also inspired anarchists to advocate \"'propaganda by deed'--the use of a spectacular act of violence to incite revolution.\"
Sent 11: With construction starting in 1883, the Church of the Savior on Blood was built on the site of Alexander's assassination and dedicated in his memory.", "question": "What effect did Alexander II's death have on the Russian political climate?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1418", "just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting" ], "distractor groups": [ "1482", "2017", "the mid-14th century", "in the age of Plato" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira\u2019s origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend.
Sent 2: Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato\u2019s lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America.
Sent 3: The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting.
Sent 4: Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth.
Sent 5: Jo\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan\u2019s historic circumnavigation of the globe.
Sent 6: Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
Sent 7: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.
Sent 8: After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo.
Sent 9: More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo.
Sent 10: If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around.
Sent 11: Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port).
Sent 12: The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Trist\u00e3o Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
Sent 13: They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, \u201cIsland of Timber.
Sent 14: \u201d The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization.
Sent 15: Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-go\u00advern\u00adors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo.", "question": "In what year did the recorded history of Madeira begin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Woodcuts", "Woodcut prints" ], "distractor groups": [ "Theorist", "Paintings", "Portraits" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albrecht Durer (/'dU@r@r, 'djU@r@r/; German: ['albRect 'dy:Ra]; 21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Sent 2: Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
Sent 3: He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I. His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books.
Sent 4: The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
Sent 5: His well-known engravings include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.
Sent 6: His watercolours also mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.
Sent 7: Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
Sent 8: This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.", "question": "Which type of prints earned Durer a reputation across Europe while he was still in his twenties and revolutionized the potential of that medium?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Combination of different substances", "Mixture" ], "distractor groups": [ "Pure", "A pure substance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of.
Sent 2: Matter can exist in two forms.
Sent 3: It can be a pure substance.
Sent 4: This means it is not mixed with anything.
Sent 5: It can also be a combination of different substances.
Sent 6: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms.
Sent 7: You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain.
Sent 8: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen.
Sent 9: Other atoms contain many protons.
Sent 10: There are many types of atoms.
Sent 11: For example, Helium has two protons.
Sent 12: An Oxygen atom has eight.
Sent 13: Water is composed of a two types of atoms.
Sent 14: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms.
Sent 15: There are only so many types of atoms.
Sent 16: These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances.
Sent 17: So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?", "question": "What type of matter means it can be made up of a mix of different type of atoms?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There are no vacancies", "There is a convention in town and limited room availability, there is only one left which requires sharing", "There are no other rooms in the big city", "No room" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are handcuffed together", "Plenty of room", "He lost a bet with Bugs Bunny", "Vacancy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "Why does Porky have to share a room with Daffy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Established companies bought into the gaming business", "Corporations entered the market and corrupt criminal casinos could not compete", "The formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board", "Formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Hughes investments", "Legitimate investors and businesses entering the market" ], "distractor groups": [ "Howard Hughes' $300-million spending spree", "Steve Wynn", "Steve Winn buying the Silver Slipper", "Increased legalization across the US" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas\u2002\u2014\u2002corporate cash.
Sent 2: Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities.
Sent 3: That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
Sent 4: A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos.
Sent 5: True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse.
Sent 6: Several weeks later he was asked\u2002\u2014\u2002then ordered\u2002\u2014\u2002to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.
Sent 7: Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, 300-million Las Vegas buying spree.
Sent 8: When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains.
Sent 9: Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting.
Sent 10: Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant.
Sent 11: That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city.
Sent 12: Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
Sent 13: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Sent 14: What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
Sent 15: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Sent 16: The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget.
Sent 17: In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort.
Sent 18: He bought several Strip properties\u2002\u2014\u2002the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them\u2002\u2014\u2002and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort\u2002\u2014\u2002Mirage\u2002\u2014\u2002 which became an instant success.", "question": "What signified the ending of heavy mob influence in Las Vegas?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The accepted aim is the training of conduct and character versus the economic values to be gained", "The training of character and conduct versus the emphasis on economic values" ], "distractor groups": [ "The spiritual training versus the physical training", "The physical training versus the spiritual training" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In actual practice, however, we act too often as if we only cared for economic values.
Sent 2: If we are to live up to our educational profession, we must look our aim in the face and honestly practise what we believe.
Sent 3: While training of character and conduct is the accepted aim for education in general, to make this useful and practical each teacher must fix her attention on how this ultimate aim affects her own special part of the whole work.
Sent 4: By watching the free child she will discover how best she can help him: he knows his own business, and when unfettered by advice or command shows plainly that he is chiefly concerned with _gaining experience_.
Sent 5: He finds himself in what is to him a new and complex world of people and things; actual experience is the foundation for a complete living, and the stronger the foundation the better the result of later building.
Sent 6: _The first vital principle then is that the teacher of young children must provide life in miniature; that is, she must provide abundant raw material and opportunities for experience_.", "question": "Tell what is the accepted aim of education versus the actual practice of it.A. The spiritual training versus the physical trainingB. The accepted aim is the training of conduct and character versus the economic values to be gainedC. The physical training versus the spiritual trainingD. The training of character and conduct versus the emphasis on economic valuesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Burning wood produces light and heat whereas burning gasoline produces motion and heat", "The chemical energy in wood burned in a campfire is converted to light and heat whereas in a car, the chemical energy in gasoline is converted to motion and heat" ], "distractor groups": [ "The former produces chemical energy whereas the latter causes motion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "How is burning wood in a campfire different from burning gasoline in a car?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Chinese and Thai", "Admiral Cheng Ho" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sri Maharajah", "Emperor Chu Ti", "Tun Perak" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Who owned a fleet of ships in the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Warring States Period", "The Warring States" ], "distractor groups": [ "Daoism", "The Zhou Dynasty", "The Cultural Revolution" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "What was the period of strive that started after Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu) death known as?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To pay an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais", "To ask for protection against the Thais", "To become a vessel king" ], "distractor groups": [ "To seek trading license for Melaka's exports", "To give to his family", "To ask for the construction of a port in Melaka", "To help the people" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Why did Parameswara take money to Beijing in 1411?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A new pacifist sonstitution", "Document Article 9", "Article 9", "The 9th Article" ], "distractor groups": [ "50s", "Zaibastsu", "Article 1", "Zaibatsu", "Article 7", "40s", "1940s", "Constitution", "1950s" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Peace and Prosperity: After years of government propaganda predicting the worst atrocities, most Japanese civilians were surprised at the warmth and friendliness of the occupying forces.
Sent 2: The postwar period began, however, with millions of displaced people homeless and starving.
Sent 3: To counter a perceived communist threat from the Soviet Union, the US quickly set to work reconstructing the economy by transforming Japan's institutions and devising a new pacifist constitution.
Sent 4: Article 9 renounced Japan's right to maintain armed forces, although the ambiguous wording was later taken to permit the creati on of a \"self-defense\" force.
Sent 5: The zaibatsu conglomerates that had proved so instrumental in boosting Japan's militarism were disbanded, later to re-emerge as the keiretsu trading conglomerates that dominated the economy once again.
Sent 6: The entire economy received a massive jump-start with the outbreak of the Korean War, with Japan ironically becoming the chief local supplier for an army it had battled so furiously just a few years earlier.
Sent 7: The occupation lasted until 1952, having already planted the seeds for Japan's future stunning economic success.
Sent 8: Economic output was back to prewar levels, and British auto companies provided the support needed to get Japan's auto industry back on its feet.
Sent 9: Japanese companies then enthusiastically imported any Western technologies they could get their hands on.
Sent 10: This included transistor technology\u2002\u2014\u2002invented in the US but then considered to have only limited applications\u2002\u2014\u2002for the surreal sum of 25,000.
Sent 11: It was Japan that produced the world's first transistor radio.
Sent 12: The electronic technology spurt that followed is now legendary.
Sent 13: Parliamentary democracy finally came into its own, albeit with distinctly Japanese characteristics reflecting the dislike of debate and confrontation and the group-oriented preference for maintaining the appearance of harmony at all times.
Sent 14: The government, through the powerful Finance Ministry and Ministry of International Trade and Industry, generously supported favored private corporations: first shipping, then cars, then electronics firms basked in the warmth of the government's loving attentions.
Sent 15: Japan overtook Britain economically in 1964.
Sent 16: By the end of the decade, Japan's was the third largest economy in the world\u2002\u2014\u2002less then two decades after the war had left the country in ruins.
Sent 17: Prosperity was not without its own problems: pollution caused by \"dirty\" industries, a high incidence of stomach ulcers (even suicides) among schoolchildren pressured by over-ambitious parents, and the awkward questions of what to do about nuclear energy.
Sent 18: The famous coziness among politicians, bureaucrats, and private companies, together with the strong cultural emphasis on relationship-building and a lack of transparency and accountability, eventually led to corrupt practices of endemic proportions.", "question": "What is the name of the document the US devised while occupying Japan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Prince Shotoku", "Shotoku", "The Prince of Japan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sui", "Tao", "Nakatomi Kamatari", "Buddha" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "Which Japanese figure established relations with the Sui dynasty?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It gives them a way to rebuild their lives and offers legal help", "Representation, help getting protection order", "Issue a restraining order put against abuser" ], "distractor groups": [ "Help the victim to relocate", "Hide you" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "What are some ways the Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program can help a domestic violence survivor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Land", "A monster created from a mix of other animals" ], "distractor groups": [ "A basket", "Monsters", "A box" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals .
Sent 2: The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil .
Sent 3: A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman .
Sent 4: He starts to play with the spear .
Sent 5: A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot .
Sent 6: The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone .
Sent 7: After that , white men come and start drilling for oil .
Sent 8: Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting .
Sent 9: Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother .
Sent 10: They do not believe him .
Sent 11: Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole .
Sent 12: The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away .
Sent 13: He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten .
Sent 14: A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's .
Sent 15: In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained .
Sent 16: Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead .
Sent 17: Mance will have none of it .
Sent 18: Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on .", "question": "The Comanche Indians place a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil trapped in what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Graffiti artist Banksy", "Banksy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Max Foster", "Bristol Cane", "Claude Manet" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: LONDON, England -- Graffiti artist Banksy, famed for infiltrating museum collections without their knowledge and spray-painting public buildings around the world, is holding his first major exhibition in years.
Sent 2: A Banksy painting of the British House of Commons at England's Bristol museum.
Sent 3: This time, however, the anonymous artist worked in tandem with the director of Bristol museum in the UK.
Sent 4: CNN's Max Foster got a preview of his largest project to date.
Sent 5: The artist's anonymity gained him notoriety and he became one of the art world's biggest names with his works selling at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sent 6: The exhibition's range, while very varied, remained true to Banksy form with his usual unconventional take on art.
Sent 7: See pictures from Banksy's exhibition \u00bb \"I think we might have dragged them down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs\" Banksy, who is thought to be from Bristol, said about the museum.
Sent 8: He filled three stories of the building with his art in 36 hours under tight security, as only a few museum staff were aware of the shows' imminent arrival.
Sent 9: His work is hidden among the museum's usual exhibits and is split into different rooms, including installations, paintings and sculptures.
Sent 10: In one of the paintings, a character has been cut out and is instead sitting on the painting's frame, perhaps taking a break from posing?", "question": "What anonymous artist has worked in tandem with the director of Bristol museum in the UK to hold his first major exhibition in years?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The department of counterterrorism", "Mullah Omar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Romanian police or secret service", "Michael Sheehan", "President Cliton", "Karl Inderfurth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Following his meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State and US State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, who did Musharraf intend to meet to discuss Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rain", "Snow", "\"Weather data\"", "Humidity", "Wind Direction", "Wind speed", "Temperature", "Amount of snow", "Wind" ], "distractor groups": [ "Viscosity", "Loudness", "Fluidity", "Changeability", "Vibration", "Time", "Human data" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You might want to know how cold it is.
Sent 2: You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing.
Sent 3: Maybe it rained last night?
Sent 4: Do you know how much?
Sent 5: Does it feel humid to you?
Sent 6: You have heard all these questions before.
Sent 7: To answer these questions, we need data.
Sent 8: That data comes from special tools.
Sent 9: These tools collect data about the weather.
Sent 10: You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature.
Sent 11: An anemometer measures wind speed.
Sent 12: A rain gauge measures the amount of rain.
Sent 13: A hygrometer measures humidity.
Sent 14: A wind vane shows wind direction.
Sent 15: A snow gauge measures the amount of snow.", "question": "What data are collected by special tools?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Celtic tribes \u00e2\u0080\u0094 probably from eastern Europe \u00e2\u0080\u0094 came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00c3\u00a9, Alsace, and Bur\u00c2\u00adgundy", "Celtic tribes \u2014 probably from eastern Europe were coming to Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy. , and migrants from the Mediterranean countries were trickling into the south", "Celtic tribes came in" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Romans came in force, conquered the \u00e2\u0080\u009cGallic barbarians,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence)", "Poverty", "Marseilles was settled" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The French have always wanted to know what it means to be a\u2002French\u00adman.
Sent 2: Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority.
Sent 3: In about 2000\u2002b.c.
Sent 4: Celtic tribes \u2014 probably from eastern Europe \u2014 came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy.
Sent 5: At the same time, migrants from the Mediterranean countries were trickling into the south.
Sent 6: The first recorded settlement was the trading post set up by Phocaean Greeks from Asia Minor at Massalia (Mar\u00adseilles) around 600\u2002b.c.
Sent 7: , followed by other ports at Hy\u00e8res, Antibes, and Nice.
Sent 8: But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
Sent 9: When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.
Sent 10: From Gaul to France In 125\u2002b.c.
Sent 11: , the Romans came in force, conquered the \"Gallic barbarians,\" and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence).
Sent 12: They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
Sent 13: When this province was endangered by fresh attacks from the north, Julius Caesar himself took charge, conquering practically the whole of Gaul by 50\u2002b.c.
Sent 14: Caesar drew Gaul's northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger\u00adman\u00adic tribes across the river \u2014 the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons \u2014 would always threaten the security of the frontier.
Sent 15: The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and N\u00eemes, and the first great highways between them.
Sent 16: At the same time, merchants built up a thriving trade with the rest of the Roman Empire.
Sent 17: The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.
Sent 18: Christianity was introduced into Gaul in the first century a.d.", "question": "What was happening in France in about 2000 BC?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A former U.S. attorney", "Robert Merkel" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Bush", "Alan Garcia", "President" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "Who is quoted as saying \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because of friction", "The friction produced by rubbing them together causes molecules to move faster, and faster moving molecules have more heat energy", "Due to friction", "Because of friction making the molecules move faster" ], "distractor groups": [ "Moving hands", "From electric current", "Because of mass", "From chemical reaction", "From mechanical reaction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You know that friction also causes heat.
Sent 2: Think about when you rub your hands together.
Sent 3: It is friction that makes them warm.
Sent 4: But why does this happen?
Sent 5: Friction causes the molecules on rubbing surfaces to move faster.
Sent 6: Faster moving particles have more heat energy.
Sent 7: Heat from friction can be useful.
Sent 8: Can you think of other places where you might find friction?
Sent 9: Friction also lets you light a match.
Sent 10: Heat from friction can also cause problems.
Sent 11: It can cause a car to overheat.
Sent 12: To reduce friction, oil is added to the engine.
Sent 13: Oil coats the surfaces of moving parts.
Sent 14: This coating of oil makes them slippery.
Sent 15: When things are slippery there is less friction.
Sent 16: Have you ever seen a sign that says, slippery when wet?
Sent 17: This too has to do with friction.
Sent 18: Water, like oil, can reduce friction.
Sent 19: The wet surface may allow your shoes to slide more easily.", "question": "Why do your hands become warmer when you rub them together?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist", "Court costs, plus a $100 fine" ], "distractor groups": [ "More than a $250 fine", "A letter of invitation to court", "A thank you note." ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "What kind of message is being sent to those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Late May and the development of the planes operation", "May, development of planes operation" ], "distractor groups": [ "Late June and training", "Access to communication systems", "The spring and summer of 2000", "September" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "By what Month were the two operatives in the United States and what information did we provide to make al Queda so successful?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sustained air raids", "Air raids" ], "distractor groups": [ "Peace treaty", "Banned communication" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "What was the Sudanese government response to an armed rebellion that took place in August of last year?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nicia", "The rich and foolish lawyer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Shady fixer", "Ligurio", "Lucrezia's lover", "Callimaco" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Whose wife longs to have a child?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Domestic-violence clinics", "Multilingual phone advisers", "Government-funded legal services" ], "distractor groups": [ "Custody hearings", "Loans", "Bail money", "Renters disputes", "Divorce proceedings" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A government-sponsored coup last year made Bruce Iwasaki and Neal Dudovitz the kings of Los Angeles County's federally funded legal aid community.
Sent 2: The two men emerged atop a changed landscape that resulted from a decade of begging for a share of shrinking public dollars doled out by an unsympathetic GOP-controlled Congress.
Sent 3: That era was capped in 1998, when the Legal Services Corp. forced 275 legal aid providers nationwide to combine into 179.
Sent 4: To comply with the orders from their main funding source, a new species of poverty lawyer emerged - a tech-savvy and button-down breed who swapped neighborhood walkin offices for toll-free phone lines, self-help kiosks and Internet access to legal advice.
Sent 5: While some organizations made the dramatic change look effortless, for others, it did not come easy.
Sent 6: And few programs provide more dramatic illustrations of the promise and pitfalls of government-funded legal services than Los Angeles County's two largest providers of federally funded services - Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Pacoima-based Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County.
Sent 7: From his offices in Koreatown, Iwasaki, a soft-spoken former O'Melveny & Myers attorney, quietly engineered a merger between a much smaller Legal Aid Society of Long Beach and his program, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
Sent 8: The merger was completed peacefully within a year of the federal order.
Sent 9: Today, the programs operate seamlessly, offering new innovations - including toll-free multilingual phone advisers, expanded hours for domestic-violence clinics, and renewed immigration and consumer aid - built on the foundations of the old program.
Sent 10: The organization is Los Angeles' largest government-funded group, with a budget of 11 million leveraged into 40 million in legal services to the poor.", "question": "What kind of legal services did Legal Aid Society of Long Beach and Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles provide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them", "Diethylene glycol and carcinogen", "They found an ingredient in antifreeze known as diethylene glycol and other carcinogens and chemicals toxic to humans", "Diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze" ], "distractor groups": [ "Butter", "Cooking oil", "Cola,bubble gum" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "What did the FDA find in the e-cigarette samples that were tested?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The large woman", "The proprietor is Madame Entera", "Madame Entera" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Herb Cart Person", "The women from the Ailies" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily.
Sent 2: I tried to keep myself calm.
Sent 3: Then, with a sigh, he said, \"I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed.
Sent 4: It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness.
Sent 5: My problem is that it was not made in this realm, but by a human, and only a human may handle it.
Sent 6: The herb vendor will tell you where you can find it.
Sent 7: If you would fetch me this stone, I would tell you what I can.\" \"Of course we will fetch you the stone,\" Nepthys assured him.
Sent 8: \"You have our thanks.\" Outside, the thing at the herb cart nodded when we mentioned the stone.
Sent 9: He told Nepthys the name of a woman who lived on a certain street, and we set off.
Sent 10: When we reached the street, I expected some sort of temple, or a row of antiquaries, or at least a sleazy, black-market relics merchant.
Sent 11: Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys.
Sent 12: Nepthys didn't need to warn me not to speak to them.
Sent 13: He took us to the door of a building like a short pagoda that had a sign hanging over it showing a face with hands uplifted, like a saint under G d's light, and handcuffed.
Sent 14: Inside, the entrance room was hung with bright silks and scattered with velvet cushions.
Sent 15: Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
Sent 16: A large woman, similarly decorated, quickly drifted up to us.
Sent 17: \"Good evening, gentlemen,\" she said.
Sent 18: \"May I invite you to have a cup of tea?\" \"No, thank you,\" said Nepthys, \"we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer.
Sent 19: Are you the proprietor of this shop?\" \"Yes,\" answered the woman.
Sent 20: \"I am Madame Entera, at your service.", "question": "Who is the proprietor of the shop?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A struggling Economy", "A struggling economy, regional tensions and questions over Japan's role in Asia" ], "distractor groups": [ "A great depression", "A rebellious nation", "A military war zone", "An angry generation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Japan's prime minister conceded defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, signaling the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party and ending the brief rule of the disappointing upstart Democratic Party of Japan.
Sent 2: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to step down as party president after exit polls showed a smashing loss in lower house voting.
Sent 3: The party, once seen as a breath of fresh air in Japanese politics, came to be regarded as increasingly ineffective.
Sent 4: \"We got a regrettable result,\" Noda said.
Sent 5: \"The result is everything in the politics.
Sent 6: The biggest responsibility lies on me.
Sent 7: I will quit as the partly leader of DPJ.\"
Sent 8: The move clears the way for the return to power of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the current leader of the conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP.
Sent 9: \"The Japanese people will be keenly looking whether the LDP can meet with their expectations,\" Abe said in interviews after the polling.
Sent 10: The LDP ruled the country almost continuously since its establishment in 1955 until it was forced from power three years ago by the DPJ.
Sent 11: Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP and its coalition partner, the new Komei party, gained at least 302 seats in the 480-seat lower house.
Sent 12: CNN's main affiliate, TV Asahi, reports the LDP/Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats.
Sent 13: The official count is expected to be released Monday.
Sent 14: The LDP is inheriting a struggling economy, regional tensions and questions over Japan's role in Asia.
Sent 15: \"The economy is at the bottom.
Sent 16: It's our first mission to turn it around,\" Abe said.", "question": "What is the LDP inheriting according to Abe?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He mistreats a sick child", "When he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child", "He is made to clock in and out like a factory worker", "Mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation" ], "distractor groups": [ "The small amount of salary", "When he amputates a childs legs", "He is expected to make coffee for Nurse Packer", "He mistreats an elderly patient" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "What humbles Ben while working at the clinic?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alfred Wegener", "A Scientist" ], "distractor groups": [ "Europe", "North America", "Tom Smith", "Proposer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "Who noticed that rocks on both sides of the Atlantic ocean were the same type and age?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No", "Sometimes they have no effect" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "Do mutations always affect survival?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims" ], "distractor groups": [ "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: \"They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 5: \"Alamo Hills just threw it out.\"
Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than 25,000.
Sent 10: \"We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- 3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 11: \"They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly.\"
Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: \"The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims,\" he said.", "question": "The new apartments provided for the tenants turned out to not be in very good shape. Was this fact part of the legal claims of the tenants?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, no pollution by wind or animals" ], "distractor groups": [ "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Do all plants live on the land?
Sent 2: Some plants do live in the water.
Sent 3: To do this, they have evolved special traits.
Sent 4: Plants that live in water are called aquatic plants.
Sent 5: Living in water has certain benefits.
Sent 6: There is certainly plenty of water!
Sent 7: The plant does not need special traits to absorb, transport, or conserve water.
Sent 8: They do not need a large root system.
Sent 9: They do not need a strong stem to hold up the plant.
Sent 10: The plant uses the water for support.
Sent 11: Dont think water plants have it easy, though.
Sent 12: They also face challenges.
Sent 13: Living in water isnt that easy.
Sent 14: They do need some special traits to survive.
Sent 15: It is tough for the plant to reproduce.
Sent 16: Pollination by wind or animals cant happen under water.
Sent 17: Sunlight cannot reach very far beneath the waters surface.
Sent 18: Some aquatic plants have floating flowers and leaves.", "question": "Are there benefits to living in waterA. YesB. NoC. Yes, no pollution by wind or animalsPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Frank", "Frank Sullivan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jack", "Jack Saunders" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "Which person is really the father of Mary: Jack Saunders or Frank Sullivan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Urban farming", "Sankofa" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stopping a reawakening", "Beyond a movement", "Urban produce" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "What term describes the community garden in Mechanicsville?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The purchase of a railroad, the Japanese loan, the new wing to his art gallery, an article in a newspaper he owned attacking his favorite trust, and that a young man named spear was going to be sentenced for theft", "His daily routine, before he started thinking of Spear" ], "distractor groups": [ "The salutes", "The daily news", "The policemen that cleared the way for him", "His mother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As his car slid downtown on Tuesday morning the mind of Arnold Thorndike was occupied with such details of daily routine as the purchase of a railroad, the Japanese loan, the new wing to his art gallery, and an attack that morning, in his own newspaper, upon his pet trust.
Sent 2: But his busy mind was not too occupied to return the salutes of the traffic policemen who cleared the way for him.
Sent 3: Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft.
Sent 4: It was a charming morning.
Sent 5: The spring was at full tide, and the air was sweet and clean.
Sent 6: Mr. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence.
Sent 7: He regretted he had not given the probation officer a stronger letter.
Sent 8: He remembered the young man now, and favorably.
Sent 9: A shy, silent youth, deft in work, and at other times conscious and embarrassed.
Sent 10: But that, on the part of a stenographer, in the presence of the Wisest Man in Wall Street, was not unnatural.
Sent 11: On occasions, Mr. Thorndike had put even royalty\u2014 frayed, impecunious royalty, on the lookout for a loan\u2014at its ease.
Sent 12: The hood of the car was down, and the taste of the air, warmed by the sun, was grateful.
Sent 13: It was at this time, a year before, that young Spear picked the spring flowers to take to his mother.
Sent 14: A year from now where would young Spear be?
Sent 15: It was characteristic of the great man to act quickly, so quickly that his friends declared he was a slave to impulse.
Sent 16: It was these same impulses, leading so invariably to success, that made his enemies call him the Wisest Man.
Sent 17: He leaned forward and touched the chauffeur's shoulder.
Sent 18: \"Stop at the Court of General Sessions,\" he commanded.
Sent 19: What he proposed to do would take but a few minutes.
Sent 20: A word, a personal word from him to the district attorney, or the judge, would be enough.", "question": "What was Arthur Thorndike thinking of on his morning drive?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Vibrating drum head", "Moving drumstick hits drum head causing vibration which is what is heard", "The drummer cause the drum to vibrate which causes the sound we hear" ], "distractor groups": [ "He changes the chemical energy to sound" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "How does a drummer transfer motion energy to sound energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sluggish", "The land was infertile", "Infertile land", "The river was small and sluggish", "The plain was just a swampy one", "Swampy plain", "The land was infertile, and the river was slow", "Small rivers" ], "distractor groups": [ "The place was a vassal of China", "It was full of pirates", "Barbarians", "Aggressive animals" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Why was Melaka not an ideal place for most people to live in its early days?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead", "The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras", "The team was convinced by Bin Laden to attack warship instead of an oil tanker" ], "distractor groups": [ "Killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40", "The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40", "They thought the warship would create a larger explosion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri.
Sent 2: As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives.
Sent 3: They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.
Sent 4: In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.
Sent 5: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Sent 6: The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40.
Sent 7: The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden.
Sent 8: He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment.
Sent 9: Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen.
Sent 10: Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier.
Sent 11: Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
Sent 12: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Sent 13: Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras.
Sent 15: Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack.
Sent 16: Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden.", "question": "Why did the team avert from attacking an oil tanker and attempt to attack a warship?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters", "A married couple, their three young adult children, and sometimes Christina" ], "distractor groups": [ "A cult", "Sister" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters , live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool .
Sent 2: A tall fence surrounds the property and the children have never been on the other side of it , for their parents have kept them unaware of the outside world , even of the existence of the telephone .
Sent 3: They are taught different meanings for everyday words .
Sent 4: For example , they are told that a `` zombie '' is `` a small yellow flower , '' and that `` sea '' is a chair .
Sent 5: The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth .
Sent 6: Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier , he never appears .
Sent 7: The only non-family member to come into the house is Christina , a young woman who works as a security guard at the father's factory .
Sent 8: She is driven by the father to the compound traveling both ways blindfolded where she performs sexual favors for the son .
Sent 9: Dissatisfied with his preference for intercourse , Christina seeks oral sex from the elder daughter in exchange for a headband.
Sent 10: The elder daughter obliges but does not recognize the significance of performing cunnilingus .
Sent 11: Later , she gives the headband to her younger sister , in exchange for being licked on the shoulder , Which is marked by an unexplained scar .
Sent 12: The parents have tricked the children into believing that overhead planes are merely toys .
Sent 13: They allow the children to search for toy planes that they have planted on the grounds , and the child that finds the toy owns it .", "question": "Who is behind the tall fence?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority", "The Columbia Legal Services", "Legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services", "The residents' attorneys", "The attorneys", "The Northwest Justice Project" ], "distractor groups": [ "The residents of the plaza", "Without the people of Wenatchee" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: \"We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over,\" said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: \"We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy.\"
Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: \"There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles,\" said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: \"Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone.\"
Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.", "question": "The Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park would have closed without the help of whom?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Democracy in America", "De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Old Regime and the Revolution", "Journeys to England and Ireland" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "What work of Tocqueville's was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and then again in 1840?" }, { "answer groups": [ "As it was acquired by First of America Bank Corp", "First of America Bank Corp acquired Midwest Financial Group", "They were purchased by First of America Bank Corp" ], "distractor groups": [ "They were eliminated", "As Midwest Financial would cease operations in early 1990", "Since it reduces operating results by $ 3 to 4 million", "Since the group was being dissolved" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: First of America Bank Corp. said it completed its acquisition of Midwest Financial Group Inc. for about 250 million.
Sent 2: First of America, which now has 45 banks and 12.5 billion in assets, announced an agreement to acquire the Peoria, Ill., bank holding company in January.
Sent 3: Midwest Financial has 2.3 billion in assets and eight banks.
Sent 4: The Midwest Financial subsidiary banks will continue to operate under their current names until early 1990, when each will adopt the First of America name.
Sent 5: Kalamazoo, Mich.-based First of America said it will eliminate the 13 management positions of the former Midwest Financial parent company.
Sent 6: First of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America.
Sent 7: But it said that severance payments to those executives not staying with the company will reduce First of America's operating results for 1989 by 3 million to 4 million, or 15 cents to 20 cents a share.", "question": "Why will The Midwest Financial Adopt a new nameA. They were eliminatedB. As it was acquired by First of America Bank CorpC. As Midwest Financial would cease operations in early 1990D. Since it reduces operating results by $ 3 to 4 millionE. First of America Bank Corp acquired Midwest Financial GroupF. They were purchased by First of America Bank CorpG. Since the group was being dissolvedPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The predator", "The cost of a Predator that went down/was destroyed" ], "distractor groups": [ "More tanks", "Pay for" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about 3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator.\"
Sent 7: This was new ground,\"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B.\" Buzzy\" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the \"man in white.\"
Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.", "question": "What did the CIA not want to pay for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Algarve", "Sotavento", "Algarve Province" ], "distractor groups": [ "Porto", "Lisbon", "Portuguese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "Which part of Portugal is not known for quaint cities?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The commander of NORAD", "NORAD commander" ], "distractor groups": [ "Deputy director", "Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley", "Stephen Hadley", "Commander in chief", "The president" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "What commander is able to direct all airs sovereignty aircraftsA. The commander of NORADB. Deputy directorC. Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen HadleyD. Stephen HadleyE. Commander in chiefF. NORAD commanderG. The presidentPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Community service at a nearby hospital", "Working in a hospital clinic", "Being asked to clock in and out at the hospital", "Mistreating a child with mitral valve regurgitation", "Reading mail for a young illiterate couple" ], "distractor groups": [ "Crashing his porsche", "Being given a cake when leaving his old job", "Fixing the fence", "Working in a emergency room", "Crash of car" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "What experience humbles Ben?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They inhabited the valley from the first millennium A.D. until around a.d", "4000 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "3000 years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "How long did the Anasazi inhabit the Las Vegas Valley?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Treme", "\"Treme,\" \"The Wire,\" and \"The Pacific.\"", "The Wire", "The Pacific" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bones", "Thin Blue Line", "The cut", "New Girl" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "Which television shows has George Pelecanos worked on?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A supercomputer", "A supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun", "A computer on the Von Braun" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sapiens", "Arrowtongues", "A supercomputer on Darwin IV", "Ike", "An ape" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .", "question": "Despite the probes' limited A.I., what handles the \"real thinking\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Adam and Eve, Betende Hande, Young Hare, Great Piece of Turf,De' Barbari", "Adam and Eve, Praying Hands, Young Hare, Great Piece of Turf" ], "distractor groups": [ "Paintings and engravings,Preparatory drawings,Young Hare", "Heller altarpiece", "Durer,anatomy, and proportion,Great Piece of Turf" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Durer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.
Sent 2: De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Durer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.
Sent 3: A series of extant drawings show Durer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.
Sent 4: This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Sent 5: Durer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hande (English: Praying Hands, c.
Sent 6: 1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.
Sent 7: He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare (1502) and the Great Piece of Turf (1503, both also Albertina).", "question": "What pieces created by Durer are named in the paragraph?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible", "Because he made all the possible and impossible happen" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because he brought the team to the fifth position on the table", "He hired strong players", "He accepted the coaching job", "He stepped down without complaint" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.
Sent 2: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week.
Sent 3: Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job.
Sent 4: The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had \"done what I had to.\"
Sent 5: He told the club's official Web site: \"It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings.
Sent 6: \"Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team.
Sent 7: Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo.
Sent 8: He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible.
Sent 9: However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team.
Sent 10: \"Fortunately we believe that there is time.
Sent 11: The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager.
Sent 12: We are fighting for important things.\"
Sent 13: Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February.
Sent 14: Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season.
Sent 15: Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham.", "question": "Why is Ramon Rodriguez grateful to Monolo Jimenez?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Trip to Colombia", "His triip to Colombia" ], "distractor groups": [ "College Graduation", "When he compared the suffering, malnutrition and poverty of the Colombians to his" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy.
Sent 2: A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust.
Sent 3: In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel.
Sent 4: A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a 250-an-hour legal counselor.
Sent 5: Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network.
Sent 6: ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge.
Sent 7: ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.''
Sent 8: For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award.
Sent 9: The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus.
Sent 10: Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice.
Sent 11: The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.
Sent 12: The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem.
Sent 13: After all, politics run in the Rooney family.
Sent 14: His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party.
Sent 15: But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined.
Sent 16: ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled.
Sent 17: ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.''
Sent 18: After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services.", "question": "What event was an experience that Rooney described as being his \"guiding light\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That they haven't ever heard of a previous governor doing this and that they will get some powerful legal muscle", "I don't think I've ever heard of anybody doing this before" ], "distractor groups": [ "I think I've heard many times doing such before" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Defeated last month for re-election, Gov. Roy Barnes announced Tuesday that he will spend his first six months out of office as an unpaid attorney for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, where he will represent poor people.
Sent 2: \"One day I'll probably do some legal work that I will charge a handsome fee for - at least I hope there are those that are still willing to pay,\" he told reporters.
Sent 3: \"But for now, I think it is important to fulfill my duty as a lawyer to help those who need it the most, to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves and to defend those whose life and livelihoods depend on it,\" he said.
Sent 4: Previous governors have gone to prestigious law firms, joined corporate boards or returned to thriving businesses.
Sent 5: \"I don't think I've ever heard of anybody doing this before,\" Emory University political science professor Merle Black said.
Sent 6: \"If he's actually going to represent individuals for that organization, they're going to get great representation.
Sent 7: You're going to get some powerful legal muscle there,\" Mr. Black said.
Sent 8: Mr. Barnes said he already has his first case, but he wouldn't say what it is.
Sent 9: Atlanta Legal Aid provides civil services to poor people in five metro Atlanta counties.
Sent 10: Mr. Barnes said he was hoping to send a message to other lawyers.
Sent 11: \"This privilege to practice law is just that - it's a privilege.
Sent 12: And it comes with a cost and it comes with a bill .
Sent 13: We as lawyers have a responsibility to make sure that everyone, regardless of whether they can afford it or not, has quality representation.
Sent 14: And if we don't do that, then we're not much of a profession,\" he said.
Sent 15: Steven Gottlieb, the society's executive director, said, \"I can't imagine anything that could be better than to have the governor of the state, in his first act as a private citizen, donate six months of his time to represent poor people .", "question": "What does Merle Black think of Mr. Barnes decision to work for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nozomi", "Nozomi Akai" ], "distractor groups": [ "Number 13", "Seki" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Juzo Murasaki arrives at a work construction area to take on his new job as a construction worker .
Sent 2: To his quiet dismay , his supervising boss turns out to be Toru Akai , who with his gang had made Juzo's middle school life a living hell .
Sent 3: Akai , however , does n't recognize Juzo .
Sent 4: Juzo's more disconcerted when he discovers that Akai lives with his wife , Nozomi Akai and their toddler son above Juzo's new apartment .
Sent 5: As Juzo emotionally struggles to handle these unexpected developments , a mysterious and seemingly malicious hooded figure appears .
Sent 6: It calls itself Number 13 .
Sent 7: As Juzo attempts to control increasing number of flashbacks and a spiral fall into psychological darkness , Akai constantly picks on Juzo and other work colleagues including Seki Hajime , a former middle school student who becomes Juzo's casual friend in spite of Juzo's anti-social tendencies , at work .
Sent 8: Meanwhile Akai's wife , Nozomi , attempts to make friends with Juzo and entrusting the care of her toddler son to Juzo .
Sent 9: She proudly shows Juzo her husband's school photos .
Sent 10: In one class photo , Juzo's space is marked with an X to show he was absent .
Sent 11: Juzo suffers a severe flashback to explain his absence that day : in their school's science room , Akai and his friends have thrown acid at Juzo's face .
Sent 12: Seki becomes suspicious about Juzo's increasingly odd behavior and goes to inform Arai at the work site , but Arai dismisses him without giving him a chance to speak .
Sent 13: During this incident , Seki does n't realize he's being watched by Number 13 , but as soon as he does , Number 13 kills him .", "question": "Who attempts to make friends with Juzo and entrusting the care of her toddler son to Juzo due to Juzo's health problems?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Robert Merkel", "Former US Attorney" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fidel Castro", "President Bush", "The Journal's David Asman" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "Who said the cartel must not succeed in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations?" }, { "answer groups": [ "August missile strikes", "Because the US said the Taliban would be responsible for any attacks on US citizens", "August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because the US was interrogating prisoners in Saudi custody", "The us would hold them responsible" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than military options.
Sent 2: The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the Bin Laden network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it.
Sent 3: For a brief moment, it had seemed as if the August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up Bin Laden.
Sent 4: On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan.
Sent 5: Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia.
Sent 6: Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no.
Sent 7: Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government.
Sent 8: Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime.
Sent 9: (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.) Crown Prince Abdullah told President Clinton and Vice President Gore about this when he visited Washington in late September.
Sent 10: His account confirmed reports that the U.S. government had received independently.
Sent 11: Other efforts with the Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.S. agents to interrogate prisoners in Saudi custody.
Sent 12: The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.
Sent 13: Several officials told us, in particular, that the United States could not get direct access to an important al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib, who had been detained by the Saudi government in 1997.67Though U.S. officials repeatedly raised the issue, the Saudis provided limited information.
Sent 14: In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.S. access to Tayyib.
Sent 15: The United States never obtained this access.
Sent 16: An NSC staff-led working group on terrorist finances asked the CIA in November 1998 to push again for access to Tayyib and to see \"if it is possible to elaborate further on the ties between Usama bin Ladin and prominent individuals in Saudi Arabia, including especially the Bin Laden family.\"
Sent 17: One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000.
Sent 18: During these trips the NSC, Treasury, and intelligence representatives spoke with Saudi officials, and later interviewed members of the Bin Laden family, about Usama's inheritance.", "question": "What action briefly seemed like it might convince the Taliban to give up Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts", "COPIA. The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, in Napa" ], "distractor groups": [ "International Association of Culinary Professionals", "International Association of Culinary Professionals in Pasadena" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "What is the name of the program that Julia Child is an honorary board member in and where is it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents. Also, clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased", "To put an end to drug menace" ], "distractor groups": [ "To coerce the public", "To help drug traffickers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: \"Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz,\" a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities,\" AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: \"The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people,\" Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: \"In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive,\" he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.", "question": "Why did the Guatemalan government call a 30 day emergency rule?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The sun and other stars", "Electromagnetic energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "The stereo", "Earth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Our sun and other stars release light energy.
Sent 2: At least this is what we see.
Sent 3: Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light.
Sent 4: Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy.
Sent 5: This form of energy travels through space.
Sent 6: Electromagnetic energy includes the light we see.
Sent 7: It also includes much more.
Sent 8: Many of these things we know about, but dont always think about.
Sent 9: Electromagnetic energy includes radio waves, microwaves, and X rays.
Sent 10: We now have devices in our homes and offices that release these same forms of energy.
Sent 11: We use electromagnetic energy to make our lives better.", "question": "Where do radiowaves, come from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They look like they could fit next to each other", "Edge of South America matches Africa", "He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side. He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart", "North America looks like it could fit next to Europe" ], "distractor groups": [ "Type and age", "Move continents", "They're colorful" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "Why does Wegener propose the continents look like a giant jigsaw puzzle?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, Paul did not speak until he was sure the watch was worthy to present to the woman he loves", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "Maybe" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam.
Sent 2: Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded.
Sent 3: The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts.
Sent 4: It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone.
Sent 5: Paul swore not to speak till his task was done.
Sent 6: The night that the jewel was worthy to give.
Sent 7: Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form.
Sent 8: His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech.
Sent 9: Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign.
Sent 10: The Shadow was dumb.", "question": "Did Paul follow through on his swear not to speak until he was done making his watch?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In 2000 computers were breaking down and government officials feared terrorist would use that as an advantage", "Computers because terrorists could take advatage of such breakdowns" ], "distractor groups": [ "Government", "Jordanian intelligence because of terrorist training camps" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "What was breaking down in 2000 and why was that a concern to government officials?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Whales", "Horses", "Horse, Cows, or Whales" ], "distractor groups": [ "Birds" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever seen an egg?
Sent 2: Some animals do not have live births.
Sent 3: Instead, they lay eggs.
Sent 4: The eggs contain the embryo.
Sent 5: The embryo matures in the egg.
Sent 6: With time, it will hatch.
Sent 7: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents.
Sent 8: They are ready to live on their own.
Sent 9: Other animals will still need the care of their parents.
Sent 10: Sea turtles break out of their shells.
Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean.
Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult.
Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks.
Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents.
Sent 15: They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly.
Sent 16: Some animals give birth to live offspring.
Sent 17: Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth.
Sent 18: Their offspring are born looking like mini adults.", "question": "What is an example of an animal that gives live birth?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Church publications", "Church text", "Catholic liturgy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Catholic", "Isoglosses", "Old relative jos", "Orthodox", "Protestant", "Vowel shifts" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albanian was proved to be an Indo-European language in 1854 by the German philologist Franz Bopp.
Sent 2: The Albanian language comprises its own branch of the Indo-European language family.
Sent 3: Some scholars believe that Albanian derives from Illyrian while others claim that it derives from Daco-Thracian.
Sent 4: (Illyrian and Daco-Thracian, however, might have been closely related languages; see Thraco-Illyrian.) Establishing longer relations, Albanian is often compared to Balto-Slavic on the one hand and Germanic on the other, both of which share a number of isoglosses with Albanian.
Sent 5: Moreover, Albanian has undergone a vowel shift in which stressed, long o has fallen to a, much like in the former and opposite the latter.
Sent 6: Likewise, Albanian has taken the old relative jos and innovatively used it exclusively to qualify adjectives, much in the way Balto-Slavic has used this word to provide the definite ending of adjectives.
Sent 7: The cultural renaissance was first of all expressed through the development of the Albanian language in the area of church texts and publications, mainly of the Catholic region in the North, but also of the Orthodox in the South.
Sent 8: The Protestant reforms invigorated hopes for the development of the local language and literary tradition when cleric Gjon Buzuku brought into the Albanian language the Catholic liturgy, trying to do for the Albanian language what Luther did for German.", "question": "What are some reasons for uses of the Albanian language?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Woman victims and their children", "Women fleeing a domestic violence situation" ], "distractor groups": [ "Migrant workers", "Children" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "The director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc. said legal assistance is a major issue for whom?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No they werent the only people, and no not the first", "No,people everywhere are being attacked by strange creatures for example in five western states and parts of Canada also experience the blackout" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes they were the only people, and first to encounter the aliens" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .
Sent 2: When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .
Sent 3: The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .
Sent 4: When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .
Sent 5: During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .
Sent 6: The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .
Sent 7: They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .
Sent 8: In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .
Sent 9: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .
Sent 10: They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''", "question": "Where they the only or the first people to experience such a problem?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She wrapped them in a neat package and planned to carry them to the Mill and place them on Stoddard's desk", "Made them into a neat package" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dressed in her nicest clothes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.
Sent 2: She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.
Sent 3: She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.
Sent 4: It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.
Sent 5: She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.
Sent 6: She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.
Sent 7: Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.
Sent 8: Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.
Sent 9: Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.", "question": "What preparations did Johnnie take to return the books to Stoddard?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The stranger", "Callimaco", "Callimaco disguised" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lucrezia", "Her confessor", "Brother Timoteo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Who did the foolish lawyer arrange to kidnap?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In orange, green draped across reds", "Similarly to the obscene orange and green sails in the entrance room", "In the colors that would have insulted spring" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sensual", "In colors that could look sensual", "Believed", "Like a ship on full sales" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily.
Sent 2: I tried to keep myself calm.
Sent 3: Then, with a sigh, he said, \"I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed.
Sent 4: It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness.
Sent 5: My problem is that it was not made in this realm, but by a human, and only a human may handle it.
Sent 6: The herb vendor will tell you where you can find it.
Sent 7: If you would fetch me this stone, I would tell you what I can.\" \"Of course we will fetch you the stone,\" Nepthys assured him.
Sent 8: \"You have our thanks.\" Outside, the thing at the herb cart nodded when we mentioned the stone.
Sent 9: He told Nepthys the name of a woman who lived on a certain street, and we set off.
Sent 10: When we reached the street, I expected some sort of temple, or a row of antiquaries, or at least a sleazy, black-market relics merchant.
Sent 11: Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys.
Sent 12: Nepthys didn't need to warn me not to speak to them.
Sent 13: He took us to the door of a building like a short pagoda that had a sign hanging over it showing a face with hands uplifted, like a saint under G d's light, and handcuffed.
Sent 14: Inside, the entrance room was hung with bright silks and scattered with velvet cushions.
Sent 15: Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
Sent 16: A large woman, similarly decorated, quickly drifted up to us.
Sent 17: \"Good evening, gentlemen,\" she said.
Sent 18: \"May I invite you to have a cup of tea?\" \"No, thank you,\" said Nepthys, \"we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer.
Sent 19: Are you the proprietor of this shop?\" \"Yes,\" answered the woman.
Sent 20: \"I am Madame Entera, at your service.", "question": "How was Madame Entera dressed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Evil", "Talisman" ], "distractor groups": [ "Animals", "Monster", "Goodness" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals .
Sent 2: The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil .
Sent 3: A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman .
Sent 4: He starts to play with the spear .
Sent 5: A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot .
Sent 6: The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone .
Sent 7: After that , white men come and start drilling for oil .
Sent 8: Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting .
Sent 9: Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother .
Sent 10: They do not believe him .
Sent 11: Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole .
Sent 12: The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away .
Sent 13: He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten .
Sent 14: A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's .
Sent 15: In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained .
Sent 16: Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead .
Sent 17: Mance will have none of it .
Sent 18: Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on .", "question": "What does the rabbit's foot contain?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ramakant Chaudhary", "A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary" ], "distractor groups": [ "Vishal", "Vikas" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .", "question": "Who plays the main role as an upright and principled Police Officer in this story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11", "They were necessary to create a response to the terriorism" ], "distractor groups": [ "They didn't know that another plane was headed to DC", "They felt the information was not important" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "Why had Belger been annoyed that the military was not in on the morning call?" }, { "answer groups": [ "War and Colonization", "The conquest and colonization of Algeria" ], "distractor groups": [ "Changes in French Society" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tocqueville thought the conquest of Algeria was important for two reasons: first, his understanding of the international situation and France's position in the world, and, second, changes in French society.
Sent 2: Tocqueville believed that war and colonization would \"restore national pride, threatened\", he believed, by \"The gradual softening of social mores\" in the middle classes.
Sent 3: Their taste for \"material pleasures\" was spreading to the whole of society, giving it \"an example of weakness and egotism\".
Sent 4: Applauding the methods of General Bugeaud, Tocqueville went so far to claim that \"war in Africa is a science.
Sent 5: Everyone is familiar with its rules and everyone can apply those rules with almost complete certainty of success.
Sent 6: One of the greatest services that Field Marshal Bugeaud has rendered his country is to have spread, perfected and made everyone aware of this new science.\"
Sent 7: Tocqueville advocated racial segregation in Algeria with two distinct legislations, one for European colonists and one for the Arab population.
Sent 8: Such a two-tier arrangement would be fully realised with the 1870 Cremieux decree and the Indigenousness Code, which extended French citizenship to European settlers and Algerian Jews, whereas Muslim Algerians would be governed by Muslim law and restricted to a second-class citizenship.", "question": "What did Tocqueville believe would restore national pride in France?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Menorca", "the harbor of Mah\u00c3\u00b3n (Ma\u00c3\u00b3)" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gibraltar", "Amiens", "Mallorca" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: French and British Ties and Occupation: The daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella married the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian of Hapsburg.
Sent 2: The Spanish crown duly passed to the Hapsburgs, and Spain remained in their hands until the feeble-minded Carlos II died in 1700, leaving no heir.
Sent 3: France seized the chance to install the young grandson of Louis XIV on the Spanish throne.
Sent 4: A rival Hapsburg claimant was supported by Austria and Britain, who saw a powerful Spanish-French alliance as a major threat.
Sent 5: In the subsequent War of the Spanish Succession (1702\u2002\u20131713) most of the old kingdom of Arag\u00f3n, including the Balearics, backed the Hapsburgs.
Sent 6: Britain seized Gibraltar\u2002\u2014\u2002in the name of the Hapsburg claimant\u2002\u2014\u2002and retained it when the war was over.
Sent 7: In 1708 Britain captured Menorca, and the magnificent harbor of Mah\u00f3n (Ma\u00f3), for the Royal Navy.
Sent 8: England clung to it even when Bourbon forces captured Mallorca at the end of the war.
Sent 9: Menorca changed hands between Britain, France, and Spain five more times in less than a century.
Sent 10: Britain finally ceded the island to Spain in the year 1802, under the terms of the Treaty of Amiens.
Sent 11: By 1805, Spain was once more aligned with France, and Spanish ships fought alongside the French against Nelson at Trafalgar.
Sent 12: Napoleon came to distrust his Spanish ally and forcibly replaced the king of Spain with his own brother, Joseph Bonaparte.
Sent 13: A French army marched in to subdue the country.
Sent 14: The Spanish resisted and, aided by British troops commanded by the Duke of Wellington, drove the French out.
Sent 15: What British historians call the Peninsular War (1808\u20131814) is known in Spain as the War of Independence.
Sent 16: In the 19th century, practically all of Spain\u2019s possessions in the Americas broke away in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, and the few that remained were lost at the end of the 19th century.
Sent 17: The Balearics, further neglected, were beset with poverty and outbreaks of disease.
Sent 18: However, toward the 20th century, things began to improve on the islands, with Mallorca reaping the rewards of successful agricultural crops and Menorca launching an export shoe industry.", "question": "What did England cling to, after Bourbon forces captured Mallorca at the end of the war?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pestering", "Annoying", "Daffy Duck was pestering him", "He was fed up with his antics", "Because he was loud and obnoxious" ], "distractor groups": [ "Friendy", "Quiet", "He wanted him to be comfortable", "He was trying to sneak him into the hotel" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "What caused Porky to put Daffy Duck inside a pillowcase?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He wanted to wait until the armed version was ready", "Black wanted to wait until the armed version was ready", "He recalled the Taliban had spotted a Predator in the fall of 2000 and scrambled their MiG fighters. Cofer Black believed that \" the recon value\" does not \"outweighs the risk of possible program termination when the stakes are raised by the Taliban parading a charred Predator in front of CNN\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "He thought that the Predator was not well made enough to handle recon missions", "He believed they would cause a war", "He believed they were too visible", "He believed they would crash", "He thought it would be too easy for the enemy to spot" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In March 2001, Rice asked the CIA to prepare a new series of authorities for covert action in Afghanistan.
Sent 2: Rice's recollection was that the idea had come from Clarke and the NSC senior director for intelligence, Mary McCarthy, and had been linked to the proposal for aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks.
Sent 3: Rice described the draft document as providing for \"consolidation plus,\" superseding the various Clinton administration documents.
Sent 4: In fact, the CIA drafted two documents.
Sent 5: One was a finding that did concern aid to opponents of the Taliban regime; the other was a draft Memorandum of Notification, which included more open-ended language authorizing possible lethal action in a variety of situations.
Sent 6: Tenet delivered both to Hadley on March 28.
Sent 7: The CIA's notes for Tenet advised him that \"in response to the NSC request for drafts that will help the policymakers review their options, each of the documents has been crafted to provide the Agency with the broadest possible discretion permissible under the law.\"
Sent 8: At the meeting, Tenet argued for deciding on a policy before deciding on the legal authorities to implement it.
Sent 9: Hadley accepted this argument, and the draft MON was put on hold.
Sent 10: As the policy review moved forward, the planned covert action program for Afghanistan was included in the draft presidential directive, as part of an \"Annex A\" on intelligence activities to \"eliminate the al Qaeda threat.\"
Sent 11: The main debate during the summer of 2001 concentrated on the one new mechanism for a lethal attack on Bin Laden-an armed version of the Predator drone.
Sent 12: In the first months of the new administration, questions concerning the Predator became more and more a central focus of dispute.
Sent 13: Clarke favored resuming Predator flights over Afghanistan as soon as weather permitted, hoping that they still might provide the elusive \"actionable intelligence\" to target Bin Laden with cruise missiles.
Sent 14: Learning that the Air Force was thinking of equipping Predators with warheads, Clarke became even more enthusiastic about redeployment.
Sent 15: The CTC chief, Cofer Black, argued against deploying the Predator for reconnaissance purposes.
Sent 16: He recalled that theTaliban had spotted a Predator in the fall of 2000 and scrambled their MiG fighters.
Sent 17: Black wanted to wait until the armed version was ready.
Sent 18: \"I do not believe the possible recon value outweighs the risk of possible program termination when the stakes are raised by the Taliban parading a charred Predator in front of CNN,\" he wrote.", "question": "Why did Cofer Black, argue against deploying the Predator for reconnaissance purposes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Kilgore", "Catherine of Oxford", "Catherine Kilgore", "Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore" ], "distractor groups": [ "Donald Trump", "Cathy", "Barack Obama", "Cathy P. \"Mini\" Menon", "George Bush", "Michelle Obama", "Kellly" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: \"Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense,\" said Davis.
Sent 5: \"Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most.\"
Sent 6: \"This award means a great deal to me,\" Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: \"The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored.\"
Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: \"I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family.\"
Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.", "question": "Who entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He had published his first poem at the age of fifteen and graduated from the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo", "Pushkin's talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene. His first long poem became controversial because of its subject and style.He became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals", "He was famous from the time he was 14" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was discovered", "He published his first long poem Ruslan and Lyudmila" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen.
Sent 2: By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene.
Sent 3: After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg.
Sent 4: In 1820 he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila, amidst much controversy about its subject and style.
Sent 5: Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals.
Sent 6: This angered the government, and led to his transfer from the capital (1820).
Sent 7: He went to the Caucasus and to the Crimea, then to Kamenka and Chisinau, where he became a Freemason.", "question": "How did Pushkin become a famous Russian poet?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Raised up has the potential to fall", "Weight and height above ground", "Height and weight of object that is falling" ], "distractor groups": [ "Volume and material", "Kinetic Energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What are two things that effect the force of the fall?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Language is their biggest obstacle,", "Many residents don't speak English" ], "distractor groups": [ "Poverty", "Distrust of the agency", "Lack of interest", "Crime", "Cultural misunderstandings" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What is the biggest obstacle for neighborhood legal services and why?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Coal", "Coal, oil, and petroleum", "Oil" ], "distractor groups": [ "Water", "Wind" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine a glass of your favorite drink that never became empty.
Sent 2: Now think about what really happens.
Sent 3: You take a drink and there is less in the glass.
Sent 4: You keep drinking and soon it is all gone.
Sent 5: Good thing you have more to refill your glass.
Sent 6: What if there would never be any more of your favorite drink.
Sent 7: What would you do?
Sent 8: Now you know the difference between renewable and non-renewable.
Sent 9: Its too bad that many things here on Earth will run out.
Sent 10: This includes some of our natural resources we depend on.
Sent 11: Things like oil will not last forever.
Sent 12: There is a limited supply.
Sent 13: Someday, we will run out, so then what?
Sent 14: At current rates of use, coal will last about 300 years.
Sent 15: Petroleum will be used up in just a few decades.", "question": "What are some non renewable resources that will run out eventually?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Guilty", "Distressed, penitent and disgraced" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bad", "Happy", "Good" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: These incoherent words threw the first glimpse of light on the meaning of her distress and penitence.
Sent 2: I doubt if the best woman in Christendom would so reproach and abase herself, if convicted of even a worse sin than the secret use of those stimulants for which the \"charny\" is a Martial equivalent.
Sent 3: No Martialist would dream of poisoning his blood and besotting his brain with alcohol in any form.
Sent 4: But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.
Sent 5: But as with the luxury of intoxication in Europe, so in Mars indulgence in these drugs, freely permitted to the one sex, is strictly forbidden by opinion and domestic rule to the other.
Sent 6: A lady discovered in the use of \"charny\" is as deeply disgraced as an European matron detected in the secret enjoyment of spirits and cigars; and her lord and master takes care to render her sufficiently conscious of her fault.", "question": "How does she feel about taking the drug?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He had angered the government with his poem Ruslan and Lyudmila and it led to his transfer from the capital", "He was being transferred from the capital", "He published his first long poem and was transferred from the capital after angering the government" ], "distractor groups": [ "He became a freemason", "He was moving to the united states" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen.
Sent 2: By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene.
Sent 3: After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg.
Sent 4: In 1820 he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila, amidst much controversy about its subject and style.
Sent 5: Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals.
Sent 6: This angered the government, and led to his transfer from the capital (1820).
Sent 7: He went to the Caucasus and to the Crimea, then to Kamenka and Chisinau, where he became a Freemason.", "question": "What was going on with Pushkin in 1820?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A president, king and secret service sting operation", "Mysterious", "Minted in 1933" ], "distractor groups": [ "Minted in 1804", "Court battle", "Storied", "Short", "Interesting" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "What is the history of the double eagle?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A story he had constructed long ago", "An outline he'd written previously", "An old story of his" ], "distractor groups": [ "What to write about", "Arthur", "Grimm" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank.
Sent 2: He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago.
Sent 3: He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers.
Sent 4: His eyes awoke with a passionate, determined flame, though the only light came from the glutted moon.
Sent 5: Allan filled page after page, the words escaping from his mind onto the paper.
Sent 6: Where before they had marched in regiments, practiced in ranks and followed their leaders' commands, the words now escaped in their true forms, unhindered by any stricture.
Sent 7: He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward.
Sent 8: Arthur looked up from the results of a night's frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye.
Sent 9: \"What is this?\"
Sent 10: he queried, indicating the pages he held in his left hand.
Sent 11: \"I decided that\u2026 since I wasn't having much success with more \u2013 traditional \u2013 stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely,\" Allan replied, somewhat less self-assured than he had been the previous night.
Sent 12: \"What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing,\" cried Arthur, nearly raising his voice.
Sent 13: \"After all I said the day before, why have you abandoned centuries of literary progress for some self-indulgent fantasy?\"
Sent 14: He shook the papers at Allan, raising them like a belt above the head of a disobedient son.
Sent 15: \"This is nothing but a glorified Grimm's tale, a miscarried child of Stoker, a creation less fit to be published than to be told around an open fire at the hovel of some peasant!\"
Sent 16: He spoke the last word with such heavy intonation that Allan shrank back before the physical wave of sound emanating from Arthur's throat.
Sent 17: \"Do you hate the modern system of literature?
Sent 18: Do you personally despise the works the Enlightenment or the progress made since Shakespeare?\"
Sent 19: For a moment, Allan could hardly do more than shake his head.
Sent 20: \"No, of course not\u2026 I\u2013 \" \"Then why,\" Arthur barreled on, \"do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel?", "question": "What did Allan contemplate over his desk?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Many factors can influence the climate including mountains and oceans", "Mountains", "Oceans", "Different factors like oceans and mountain ranges" ], "distractor groups": [ "Region", "Country", "Zone", "Only equator proximity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "What can influence the climate of the area?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Both sides shouted at each other when Prince Turki met with Omar", "A September 1998 meeting with Prince Turki", "September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no. Sent 7: Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government" ], "distractor groups": [ "When Taliban delegates met with William Milan", "He went back on his promise and sent missles to the taliban" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than military options.
Sent 2: The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the Bin Laden network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it.
Sent 3: For a brief moment, it had seemed as if the August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up Bin Laden.
Sent 4: On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan.
Sent 5: Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia.
Sent 6: Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no.
Sent 7: Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government.
Sent 8: Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime.
Sent 9: (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.) Crown Prince Abdullah told President Clinton and Vice President Gore about this when he visited Washington in late September.
Sent 10: His account confirmed reports that the U.S. government had received independently.
Sent 11: Other efforts with the Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.S. agents to interrogate prisoners in Saudi custody.
Sent 12: The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.
Sent 13: Several officials told us, in particular, that the United States could not get direct access to an important al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib, who had been detained by the Saudi government in 1997.67Though U.S. officials repeatedly raised the issue, the Saudis provided limited information.
Sent 14: In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.S. access to Tayyib.
Sent 15: The United States never obtained this access.
Sent 16: An NSC staff-led working group on terrorist finances asked the CIA in November 1998 to push again for access to Tayyib and to see \"if it is possible to elaborate further on the ties between Usama bin Ladin and prominent individuals in Saudi Arabia, including especially the Bin Laden family.\"
Sent 17: One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000.
Sent 18: During these trips the NSC, Treasury, and intelligence representatives spoke with Saudi officials, and later interviewed members of the Bin Laden family, about Usama's inheritance.", "question": "What event with Mullah Omar caused diplomatic relations with the Taliban to be suspended after he denounced the Saudi government?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The ability to cause motion", "Motion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Friction", "Deliver make skateboarders move" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What is the most important change gravitational potential energy can have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Clarke", "Clarke and the NSC senior director for intelligence, Mary McCarthy,", "Clarke and Mary McCarthy" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was his own idea", "Clinton administration", "Tenet and Hadley", "Cofer Black", "CTC chief, Cofer Black" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In March 2001, Rice asked the CIA to prepare a new series of authorities for covert action in Afghanistan.
Sent 2: Rice's recollection was that the idea had come from Clarke and the NSC senior director for intelligence, Mary McCarthy, and had been linked to the proposal for aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks.
Sent 3: Rice described the draft document as providing for \"consolidation plus,\" superseding the various Clinton administration documents.
Sent 4: In fact, the CIA drafted two documents.
Sent 5: One was a finding that did concern aid to opponents of the Taliban regime; the other was a draft Memorandum of Notification, which included more open-ended language authorizing possible lethal action in a variety of situations.
Sent 6: Tenet delivered both to Hadley on March 28.
Sent 7: The CIA's notes for Tenet advised him that \"in response to the NSC request for drafts that will help the policymakers review their options, each of the documents has been crafted to provide the Agency with the broadest possible discretion permissible under the law.\"
Sent 8: At the meeting, Tenet argued for deciding on a policy before deciding on the legal authorities to implement it.
Sent 9: Hadley accepted this argument, and the draft MON was put on hold.
Sent 10: As the policy review moved forward, the planned covert action program for Afghanistan was included in the draft presidential directive, as part of an \"Annex A\" on intelligence activities to \"eliminate the al Qaeda threat.\"
Sent 11: The main debate during the summer of 2001 concentrated on the one new mechanism for a lethal attack on Bin Laden-an armed version of the Predator drone.
Sent 12: In the first months of the new administration, questions concerning the Predator became more and more a central focus of dispute.
Sent 13: Clarke favored resuming Predator flights over Afghanistan as soon as weather permitted, hoping that they still might provide the elusive \"actionable intelligence\" to target Bin Laden with cruise missiles.
Sent 14: Learning that the Air Force was thinking of equipping Predators with warheads, Clarke became even more enthusiastic about redeployment.
Sent 15: The CTC chief, Cofer Black, argued against deploying the Predator for reconnaissance purposes.
Sent 16: He recalled that theTaliban had spotted a Predator in the fall of 2000 and scrambled their MiG fighters.
Sent 17: Black wanted to wait until the armed version was ready.
Sent 18: \"I do not believe the possible recon value outweighs the risk of possible program termination when the stakes are raised by the Taliban parading a charred Predator in front of CNN,\" he wrote.", "question": "Who did Rice recall had the idea of asking the CIA to prepare a new series of authorities for covert action in Afghanistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Choppers", "Jets", "Choppers, Jets, and Rocket Pack Soldiers", "Rocket pack soliders" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rocks", "Officials", "T- REX", "Aliens" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .", "question": "What are the three things that attack Yonggary?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Legal Aid Society and Utah Legal Services", "The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and the Utah Legal Services" ], "distractor groups": [ "Legal Aid", "CVR Board" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Low-income domestic violence victims may find long-term legal help -- representation in divorces or child-custody disputes -- hard to come by, if two organizations now providing such help can't replace their lost funding.
Sent 2: The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and Utah Legal Services are already facing cutbacks after they were refused a federal grant of more than 450,000 in September.
Sent 3: The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations [CVR] has voted to deny a stopgap funding request from the two organizations.
Sent 4: While describing the request as a worthy cause, board members agreed Tuesday that funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus -- providing direct services for crime victims.
Sent 5: The 175,000 requested would have allowed the legal aid groups to maintain a skeleton staff to continue providing help beyond emergency protective orders for victims, completing existing cases and offering services in limited cases.
Sent 6: The groups also plan to enlist more pro bono attorneys through coordination with the Utah State Bar. \"We don't have a lot more options,\" said Anne Milne, executive director of Utah Legal Services, after learning of the CVR refusal Wednesday.
Sent 7: The organization has already lost some staff through attrition and has turned away some cases, she said.
Sent 8: Milne said she may ask the board overseeing her organization to give her until November to seek funding from additional sources.
Sent 9: Without additional funding, the outlook for longer-term legal help is unclear.
Sent 10: For two years, the groups had received 18-month civil legal assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and had used them to provide such assistance.
Sent 11: But last month, a third request was denied.
Sent 12: Funding used to help victims obtain emergency protective orders remains in place, said Milne and Stewart Ralphs, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.
Sent 13: Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days.
Sent 14: Many judges are reluctant to address those issues in emergency protective orders, since the decrees stay in effect for such a short time, Milne and Ralphs said.
Sent 15: \"The likelihood a victim will return to her abuser increases if she cannot permanently sever the relationship and establish workable support, custody and property arrangements,\" the funding request to CVR said.
Sent 16: The Department of Justice said it denied the grant application, in part, because evaluators did not see enough collaboration between the organizations and victims' advocates, Ralphs and Milne told CVR board members.
Sent 17: While the two said they believe their organizations coordinate well, the organizations cannot appeal the grant denial.
Sent 18: Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.", "question": "The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations voted to deny a stopgap funding request for which two organizations?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She planted the seeds indoors and she added a special growing mix", "Growing mix", "Special growing mix" ], "distractor groups": [ "Planted seeds", "Pesticides", "Fertilizers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Josie started planning her new garden in the winter.
Sent 2: She chose flowers and vegetables that could grow in her area.
Sent 3: She looked through the seed magazines.
Sent 4: She ordered the tastiest kind of each vegetable and the prettiest kind of each flower.
Sent 5: She talked to a friend about her plans.
Sent 6: It seemed like the snow would never melt.
Sent 7: But Josie didn't have to wait for spring to get started.
Sent 8: Six weeks before the last frost, Josie planted seeds indoors.
Sent 9: The tiny seedlings pushed up through the soil and began to grow.
Sent 10: Finally spring arrived.
Sent 11: Each day, Josie moved the seedlings outside for a few hours so they could get used to the cooler temperatures.
Sent 12: Josie worked in her garden, digging the soil.
Sent 13: She added a special growing mix from the garden store to make the soil better.
Sent 14: When everything was ready, she removed the seedlings from their trays and planted them in her garden.
Sent 15: The warm sun and rich soil helped her vegetables and flowers grow.", "question": "How did Josie get her vegetables to grow so quickly?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The provision of greater civil, political, and administrative privilleges for Cuban remained unaddressed", "Island gained little by the new conditions", "Delay in carrying the provisions" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not having the peace pact properly", "They were dissatisfied and had much famine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In 1878, Martinez Campos was Governor-General of Cuba, and Maximo Gomez was Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban forces.
Sent 2: Both parties were weary of the prolonged hostilities, and neither was able to compel the other to surrender.
Sent 3: Spain, however, professed a willingness to yield an important part of the demands of her rebellious subjects.
Sent 4: Martinez Campos and Gomez met at Zanjon and, on February 10, 1878, mutually agreed to what has been variously called a peace pact, a treaty, and a capitulation.
Sent 5: The agreement was based on provisions for a redress of Cuban grievances through greater civil, political, and administrative privileges for the Cubans, with forgetfulness of the past and amnesty for all then under sentence for political offences.
Sent 6: Delay in carrying these provisions into effect gave rise to an attempt to renew the struggle two years later, but the effort was a failure.
Sent 7: Matters then quieted down for a number of years.
Sent 8: The Cubans waited to see what would be done.
Sent 9: The Spanish Governor-General still remained the supreme power and, aside from the abolition of slavery, the application of the Spanish Constitution and Spanish laws to Cuba, and Cuban representation in the Cortes, much of which was rather form than fact, the island gained little by the new conditions.
Sent 10: Discontent and protest continued and, at last, broke again into open rebellion in 1895.", "question": "What was the reason for rebellion after the peace pact?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu", "Laozi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chairman Mao", "Han Fei", "Kongfuzi", "K\u00e2\u0080\u0099ung Fu-tzu" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "Who is thought to have possibly taught Confucius?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family. Sent 2: It was indeed\u00e2\u0080\u0082\u00e2\u0080\u0094\u00e2\u0080\u0082until 1869", "Powerful families claimed whole regions", "The most powerful families claimed whole regions to serve as their families fiefdoms while establishing a hierarchy within the society" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was abolished", "The Japanese feuded with the Chinese", "The king claimed many lands" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "How did Japanese feudalism impact Kyoto?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it", "The board and Drake University stopped their funding of the program" ], "distractor groups": [ "If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go", "The increase in Federal Taxes", "All governments are having problems with finances," ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Boone, Ia.
Sent 2: -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County.
Sent 3: Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a 10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded.
Sent 4: The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services.
Sent 5: \"It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact,\" said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid.
Sent 6: For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy.
Sent 7: He also has a private practice.
Sent 8: If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go.
Sent 9: The city of Boone gave Schroeder 6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer.
Sent 10: Without that, the program might already be closed.
Sent 11: \"All governments are having problems with finances,\" Boone Mayor George Maybee said.
Sent 12: \"No one else stepped in.
Sent 13: The county didn't.
Sent 14: The state didn't.\"
Sent 15: Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it.
Sent 16: Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester \"for a variety of reasons,\" Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail.
Sent 17: Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money.
Sent 18: Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years.", "question": "Why does the government have problems with finances?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances. Products bought at farmers markets use less packaging, too! About a third of what we throw out is packaging", "A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances", "Less packaging is used" ], "distractor groups": [ "keeps from utilizing factories", "Uses less nuclear energy", "The food is fresher", "You don't have to travel as far", "Cuts back on energy use", "The prices are lower" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Reducing resource use means just what it says using fewer resources.
Sent 2: There are lots of ways to reduce our use of resources.
Sent 3: Buy durable goods.
Sent 4: Choose items that are well made so they will last longer.
Sent 5: Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources.
Sent 6: Thats a win-win!
Sent 7: Repair rather than replace.
Sent 8: Fix your bike rather than buying a new one.
Sent 9: Sew on a button instead of buying a new shirt.
Sent 10: Youll use fewer resources and save money.
Sent 11: Buy only what you need.
Sent 12: Dont buy a gallon of milk if you can only drink half of it before it spoils.
Sent 13: Instead, buy a half gallon and drink all of it.
Sent 14: You wont be wasting resources (or money!) Buy local.
Sent 15: For example, buy local produce at a farmers market, like the one in Figure 2.20.
Sent 16: A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances.
Sent 17: Products bought at farmers markets use less packaging, too!
Sent 18: About a third of what we throw out is packaging.", "question": "How does buying local reduce resource use?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A minor planet 2208 Pushkin", "A minor planet and a crater on Mercury", "A crater on Mercury" ], "distractor groups": [ "Star", "Meteor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as \"poet\" or \"writer\" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.", "question": "What two astronomical features have been named after Pushkin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "18th century", "The eighth century into the 20th century" ], "distractor groups": [ "666", "21st Century" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "What is the time period for the use of the hierarchy of Shiki used?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Christina", "The security guard" ], "distractor groups": [ "The mother", "Elder daughter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters , live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool .
Sent 2: A tall fence surrounds the property and the children have never been on the other side of it , for their parents have kept them unaware of the outside world , even of the existence of the telephone .
Sent 3: They are taught different meanings for everyday words .
Sent 4: For example , they are told that a `` zombie '' is `` a small yellow flower , '' and that `` sea '' is a chair .
Sent 5: The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth .
Sent 6: Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier , he never appears .
Sent 7: The only non-family member to come into the house is Christina , a young woman who works as a security guard at the father's factory .
Sent 8: She is driven by the father to the compound traveling both ways blindfolded where she performs sexual favors for the son .
Sent 9: Dissatisfied with his preference for intercourse , Christina seeks oral sex from the elder daughter in exchange for a headband.
Sent 10: The elder daughter obliges but does not recognize the significance of performing cunnilingus .
Sent 11: Later , she gives the headband to her younger sister , in exchange for being licked on the shoulder , Which is marked by an unexplained scar .
Sent 12: The parents have tricked the children into believing that overhead planes are merely toys .
Sent 13: They allow the children to search for toy planes that they have planted on the grounds , and the child that finds the toy owns it .", "question": "Who is driven to the compound blindfolded by the father?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Egyptian writer", "Qutb", "Sayyid Qutb" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Jahiliyya", "Quota", "Sayed Qtbo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Who claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbeliefA. The Egyptian writerB. QutbC. Bin LadenD. Sayyid QutbE. JahiliyyaF. QuotaG. Sayed QtboPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Protective Spear", "A spear and rabbit foot", "The Spear" ], "distractor groups": [ "A rock", "Monster", "Rabbit" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals .
Sent 2: The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil .
Sent 3: A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman .
Sent 4: He starts to play with the spear .
Sent 5: A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot .
Sent 6: The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone .
Sent 7: After that , white men come and start drilling for oil .
Sent 8: Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting .
Sent 9: Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother .
Sent 10: They do not believe him .
Sent 11: Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole .
Sent 12: The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away .
Sent 13: He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten .
Sent 14: A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's .
Sent 15: In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained .
Sent 16: Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead .
Sent 17: Mance will have none of it .
Sent 18: Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on .", "question": "What does the little boy pull from the ground?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ginny was a teacher before becoming a lawyer", "Legal services to the disabled and elderly", "College professor and Lawyer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Doctor and Lawyer", "Teacher and Doctor", "Legal challenges to the convicts and absconders", "Immigration services to the disabled and elderly", "Real Estate and Lawyer", "Legal services to the young and healthy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: \"Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense,\" said Davis.
Sent 5: \"Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most.\"
Sent 6: \"This award means a great deal to me,\" Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: \"The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored.\"
Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: \"I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family.\"
Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.", "question": "What 2 distinct occupations did Ginny have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "France", "The United States" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Revolution", "Democracy", "The Second Republic", "The Old Regime" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Sent 2: In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
Sent 3: Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Sent 4: Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.
Sent 5: He retired from political life after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 6: He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.
Sent 7: The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals.
Sent 8: Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy.", "question": "Tocqueville's two best known works examine political life in what two countries?" }, { "answer groups": [ "South Korofan", "Nuba Mountains" ], "distractor groups": [ "North sudan", "South sudan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "Where was the location of the bombing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They are asking for reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount of the stress they underwent", "Reimbursement of the value of their property and $3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses", "The tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than $25,000", "25000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: \"They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 5: \"Alamo Hills just threw it out.\"
Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than 25,000.
Sent 10: \"We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- 3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 11: \"They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly.\"
Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: \"The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims,\" he said.", "question": "What are the nine families asking for in their lawsuits?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public. His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign", "Recently it is said that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is the tomb of Abdalonymus, the king of Sidon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.", "question": "What were the last known details of Alexander's sarcophagus?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hoover Dam", "Boulder Dam" ], "distractor groups": [ "Construction of Los Angeles - Salt Lake line", "Union Pacific", "The Los Angeles-Salt Lake Line", "The diversion of Colorado river", "Union Pacific railroad", "The way station for the railroad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dam Good Luck: From the beginning, Las Vegas was built to serve travelers.
Sent 2: The railroad needed a way station, and Las Vegas was the place.
Sent 3: Growth continued for ten years, and by 1915 the town had telephones, round-the-clock electricity, and a growing population\u2002\u2014\u2002many of whom worked in the railroad repair shop.
Sent 4: But such heady progress would soon come to a halt.
Sent 5: The growing competition in rail transport resulted in Union Pacific buying the Los Angeles\u2013Salt Lake line.
Sent 6: Union Pacific then consolidated its operations, eliminating the Las Vegas repair facility.
Sent 7: Additionally, Las Vegas had been made a part of Nevada's new Clark County in 1909, a year when the legislature also outlawed gambling.
Sent 8: These unfortunate circumstances threatened to relegate Las Vegas to the status of a small desert community that could no longer support its 3000 residents.
Sent 9: But the southwest's growing need for water, combined with Las Vegas's fortuitous proximity to the Colorado River, would give Las Vegas a second chance to achieve prosperity.
Sent 10: Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Sent 11: Providing an influx of 165 million to the southwestern economy, Hoover Dam played a major role in preventing Las Vegas from drying up, both financially and literally.
Sent 12: Not only did it create jobs, but it also created Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that today provides water to all of southern Nevada.
Sent 13: More Government Help: The construction of Hoover Dam did not single-handedly save Las Vegas, however.
Sent 14: The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
Sent 15: The hordes of people who attended Hoover Dam's 1935 dedication set the city's now-formidable public relations machine into action.
Sent 16: They went to work on what has become one of the lengthiest citywide tourism campaigns ever attempted.
Sent 17: It didn't take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an \"anything goes\" attitude.
Sent 18: Vices outlawed or heavily controlled elsewhere were legal here, available any hour of any day (or night).", "question": "What man-made construction ended up creating jobs and also creating Lake Mead?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The number of providers shrank and a new species of poverty lawyers emerged", "A new species of poverty lawyer emerged - a tech-savvy and button-down breed who swapped neighborhood walkin offices for toll-free phone lines, self-help kiosks and Internet access to legal advice" ], "distractor groups": [ "Overspending", "Less Legal Aid Was available to the poor", "Bankruptcy", "Legal Warfare" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A government-sponsored coup last year made Bruce Iwasaki and Neal Dudovitz the kings of Los Angeles County's federally funded legal aid community.
Sent 2: The two men emerged atop a changed landscape that resulted from a decade of begging for a share of shrinking public dollars doled out by an unsympathetic GOP-controlled Congress.
Sent 3: That era was capped in 1998, when the Legal Services Corp. forced 275 legal aid providers nationwide to combine into 179.
Sent 4: To comply with the orders from their main funding source, a new species of poverty lawyer emerged - a tech-savvy and button-down breed who swapped neighborhood walkin offices for toll-free phone lines, self-help kiosks and Internet access to legal advice.
Sent 5: While some organizations made the dramatic change look effortless, for others, it did not come easy.
Sent 6: And few programs provide more dramatic illustrations of the promise and pitfalls of government-funded legal services than Los Angeles County's two largest providers of federally funded services - Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and Pacoima-based Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County.
Sent 7: From his offices in Koreatown, Iwasaki, a soft-spoken former O'Melveny & Myers attorney, quietly engineered a merger between a much smaller Legal Aid Society of Long Beach and his program, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
Sent 8: The merger was completed peacefully within a year of the federal order.
Sent 9: Today, the programs operate seamlessly, offering new innovations - including toll-free multilingual phone advisers, expanded hours for domestic-violence clinics, and renewed immigration and consumer aid - built on the foundations of the old program.
Sent 10: The organization is Los Angeles' largest government-funded group, with a budget of 11 million leveraged into 40 million in legal services to the poor.", "question": "What was the result of the change in funding?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The detainees are ethnic Uighurs", "Uighur" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hawaiian", "Afghani", "American", "Philippino", "Chinese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday.
Sent 2: The map shows the Pacific island nation of Palau in relation to China.
Sent 3: Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador Hersey Kyota told CNN.
Sent 4: But Kyota said his country, a former U.S. Pacific trust territory, has agreed to take in the ethnic Uighur detainees \"for humanitarian reasons\" and because of the \"special relationship\" between Palau and the United States.
Sent 5: U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly would not comment on the announcement, telling reporters, \"We're still involved in ongoing discussions.\"
Sent 6: The agreement includes some U.S. aid for Palau, Kyota said, but he said those details remained to be worked out as well.
Sent 7: The country, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles west of Hawaii.
Sent 8: Palau has received nearly 900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for defense.
Sent 9: The \"Compact of Free Association\" between Palau and the United States is up for review, but Kelly said any additional aid offer \"is not linked to any other discussions we may be having with the government of Palau.\"
Sent 10: The Uighurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan.", "question": "What is the ethnicity of the 17 Chinese Muslims held in Guantanamo Bay?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Door knocker", "Lightning, and what happens between you and a door knocker", "Lighting" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wind motion", "Sunlight" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "What are two examples of static discharge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Femme refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness", "Woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness", "A sexually seductive woman", "A bewitchingly beautiful woman" ], "distractor groups": [ "All women", "Feminism", "A true lover" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "What does femme refer to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia", "The AC-130's limited range would require building bases in the Middle East or South Asia", "Both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia. The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles" ], "distractor groups": [ "Zinni lied", "The AC-130 might cause more collateral damage than the cruise missiles", "The generals changed their minds" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "What is the most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections about the AC-130 Option?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The wild surroundings", "Because the rocks were surrounding him and scary creatures were moving towards him like bears" ], "distractor groups": [ "Animals", "Ghost" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears.
Sent 2: I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company.
Sent 3: Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.
Sent 4: They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits.
Sent 5: Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give.
Sent 6: Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake.", "question": "Why did everything seem grim?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She is first married of to a goat and then married to his father", "His mother, Gandhari had an astrological defect", "His mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , this mean she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father", "Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father" ], "distractor groups": [ "He is 'dependent'", "His mother is a goat", "kill every one in his path" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas .
Sent 2: Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occur in life .
Sent 3: The sons of Pandu and Dhritarashtra progeny break into an argument .
Sent 4: When Duryodhana insults the Pandavas as `` dependents '' , Bheema counters by saying that , the Kauravas are the progeny of a widow .
Sent 5: Duryodhana asks Veda Vyasa for an explanation .
Sent 6: He is then told that , since his mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father .
Sent 7: Duryodhana gains animosity towards the kingdom of Gandhara where the king , the father of his mother Gandhari , rules .
Sent 8: He attacks Gandhara and lays waste of the whole kingdom .
Sent 9: He them imprisons the royal family in his prison .
Sent 10: He gives them only one rice grain per prisoner .
Sent 11: The king of Gandhara then stops everyone from grabbing the little food that is provided .
Sent 12: He says that instead of everyone dying , they could keep at least one of their princes alive .
Sent 13: He chooses Sakuni to be alive .
Sent 14: Sakuni takes an oath that he will do everything he can to destroy the entire Kaurava clan .
Sent 15: He makes magic dice from his father's spinal cord .
Sent 16: The magic dice show exactly the number that he would want .
Sent 17: Duryodhana takes pity on the lone prisoner , Sakuni after the rest of the Gandhara royal family dies in prison out of starvation .
Sent 18: Sakuni joins the evil of coterie of Duryodhana , Karna and Dushyasana .", "question": "What explanation does Veda Vyasa gives to Duryodhana?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Daniel Lewis", "Lewin" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atta", "Gonzalez", "Omari" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "What was the name of the person who Betty Ong reported as having been stabbed at 8:19?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lewin", "Daniel Lewin" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ong", "Gonzalez", "Omari" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "Who was seated in the row behind two of the terrorists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Kentucky Bar Association", "KBA", "Kentucy Bar Association" ], "distractor groups": [ "Appalachian Regional Defense Fund", "Legal aid backers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Backers of Legal Aid services for the poor are pushing a measure that would increase court filing fees in Kentucky to raise money for the program, which faces steep funding cuts.
Sent 2: The proposed bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles Geveden, D-Wickliffe, would double the portion of the fee that goes to Legal Aid -- in district court to 10 from 5 and in circuit court to 20 from 10.
Sent 3: Kentucky's current fee for filing a case in district court is 50.50, and in circuit court 108.
Sent 4: The increase still would leave Kentucky's filing fee costs below those of surrounding states and would raise about 1.3 million a year -- almost enough to replace what Legal Aid is losing from federal and other sources, said Jamie Hamon, executive director of the Access to Justice Foundation, a state poverty law resource center in Lexington.
Sent 5: Geveden said his measure appears to be the only potential source of money for the program, which is being forced to lay off workers and close offices around the state.
Sent 6: Geveden said he's concerned because federal funding hasn't increased in recent years, and states with increased poverty are taking a greater share of the money.
Sent 7: ''If you don't come up with the money somewhere, legal services to people in need will diminish or go away,'' he said.
Sent 8: Hamon said the proposed bill has attracted a number of co-sponsors, and Legal Aid backers are hoping to get it passed in the upcoming legislative session.
Sent 9: Hamon said she knows fee increases aren't popular with lawmakers but hopes they realize the crisis Legal Aid is facing.
Sent 10: ''A lot of poor people are not going to get served,'' she said.
Sent 11: The measure has the endorsement of the Kentucky Bar Association.
Sent 12: The association's board of governors voted unanimously last month to back the bill, said KBA President Stephen Catron, a Bowling Green lawyer.
Sent 13: Legal Aid ''has been a godsend to a great number of people in this state,'' Catron said.
Sent 14: ''We simply must find a way to provide those services to the public.''
Sent 15: Larry York, executive director of Appalachian Regional Defense Fund, which provides Legal Aid services in 37 Eastern Kentucky counties and is a KBA board member, said he hopes the measure is approved.
Sent 16: ''It would really offset the current cuts,'' he said.", "question": "What organization has endorses the measure to increase legal aid fees?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Florida", "Andrew card" ], "distractor groups": [ "Virginia", "California", "White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney", "White House Chief of Staff Carl Rove", "Dick channey", "New York", "The Golden State" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "In which US State was White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card when he was first informed that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The emancipation of the serfs", "The emancipation" ], "distractor groups": [ "The railway plans", "A peace treaty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Soon after the conclusion of peace, important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies.
Sent 2: Plans were formed for building a great network of railways, partly for the purpose of developing the natural resources of the country, and partly for the purpose of increasing its power for defense and attack.
Sent 3: The existence of serfdom was tackled boldly, taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces and, hoping that their relations with the serfs might be regulated in a more satisfactory way (meaning in a way more satisfactory for the proprietors), he authorized the formation of committees \"for ameliorating the condition of the peasants,\" and laid down the principles on which the amelioration was to be effected.
Sent 4: This step had been followed by one even more significant.
Sent 5: Without consulting his ordinary advisers, Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia (serfdom was rare in other parts), containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the Governor-General of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
Sent 6: The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
Sent 7: The emancipation was not merely a humanitarian question capable of being solved instantaneously by imperial ukase.
Sent 8: It contained very complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation.
Sent 9: Alexander had to choose between the different measures recommended to him and decide if the serfs would become agricultural laborers dependent economically and administratively on the landlords or if the serfs would be transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors.
Sent 10: The emperor gave his support to the latter project, and the Russian peasantry became one of the last groups of peasants in Europe to shake off serfdom.
Sent 11: The architects of the emancipation manifesto were Alexander's brother Konstantin, Yakov Rostovtsev, and Nikolay Milyutin.
Sent 12: On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published.", "question": "What contained a very complicated problems that affected the economic, social, and political future of Russia?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and N\u00eemes, and the first great highways between them. At the same time, merchants built up a thriving trade with the rest of the Roman Empire", "Merchants built up thriving trade with the Roman empire" ], "distractor groups": [ "English", "Christianity was introduced", "When the romans invaded" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The French have always wanted to know what it means to be a\u2002French\u00adman.
Sent 2: Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority.
Sent 3: In about 2000\u2002b.c.
Sent 4: Celtic tribes \u2014 probably from eastern Europe \u2014 came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy.
Sent 5: At the same time, migrants from the Mediterranean countries were trickling into the south.
Sent 6: The first recorded settlement was the trading post set up by Phocaean Greeks from Asia Minor at Massalia (Mar\u00adseilles) around 600\u2002b.c.
Sent 7: , followed by other ports at Hy\u00e8res, Antibes, and Nice.
Sent 8: But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
Sent 9: When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.
Sent 10: From Gaul to France In 125\u2002b.c.
Sent 11: , the Romans came in force, conquered the \"Gallic barbarians,\" and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence).
Sent 12: They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
Sent 13: When this province was endangered by fresh attacks from the north, Julius Caesar himself took charge, conquering practically the whole of Gaul by 50\u2002b.c.
Sent 14: Caesar drew Gaul's northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger\u00adman\u00adic tribes across the river \u2014 the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons \u2014 would always threaten the security of the frontier.
Sent 15: The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and N\u00eemes, and the first great highways between them.
Sent 16: At the same time, merchants built up a thriving trade with the rest of the Roman Empire.
Sent 17: The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.
Sent 18: Christianity was introduced into Gaul in the first century a.d.", "question": "How was the pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France established?" }, { "answer groups": [ "David Redden", "Auctioneer", "David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's", "A vice chairman at Sotheby's" ], "distractor groups": [ "Collector's Web", "Fenton", "Lawrence R. Stack", "Stephen Fenton", "An anonymous buyer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "Who stated, \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Abba Eban", "Israel's ambassador in Washington" ], "distractor groups": [ "Prime Minister", "David Ben-Gurion", "Carlebach", "The Jewish people", "Its sons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Assisting Zionist causes Einstein was a figurehead leader in helping establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which opened in 1925, and was among its first Board of Governors.
Sent 2: Earlier, in 1921, he was asked by the biochemist and president of the World Zionist Organization, Chaim Weizmann, to help raise funds for the planned university.
Sent 3: He also submitted various suggestions as to its initial programs.
Sent 4: Among those, he advised first creating an Institute of Agriculture in order to settle the undeveloped land.
Sent 5: That should be followed, he suggested, by a Chemical Institute and an Institute of Microbiology, to fight the various ongoing epidemics such as malaria, which he called an \"evil\" that was undermining a third of the country's development.
Sent 6: Establishing an Oriental Studies Institute, to include language courses given in both Hebrew and Arabic, for scientific exploration of the country and its historical monuments, was also important.
Sent 7: Chaim Weizmann later became Israel's first president.
Sent 8: Upon his death while in office in November 1952 and at the urging of Ezriel Carlebach, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post.
Sent 9: The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer \"embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons\".
Sent 10: Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was \"deeply moved\", and \"at once saddened and ashamed\" that he could not accept it.", "question": "Who presented the offer of the ceremonial position of president to Einstein?" }, { "answer groups": [ "FAA", "Command Center managers", "Both military and civilian authorities", "FAA controllers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Pilots", "NEADS", "Defenders", "The military" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Clarifying the Record The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and protocols.
Sent 2: It was improvised by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction.
Sent 3: As it turned out, the NEADS air defenders had nine minutes' notice on the first hijacked plane, no advance notice on the second, no advance notice on the third, and no advance notice on the fourth.
Sent 4: We do not believe that the true picture of that morning reflects discredit on the operational personnel at NEADS or FAA facilities.
Sent 5: NEADS commanders and officers actively sought out information, and made the best judgments they could on the basis of what they knew.
Sent 6: Individual FAA controllers, facility managers, and Command Center managers thought outside the box in recommending a nationwide alert, in ground-stopping local traffic, and, ultimately, in deciding to land all aircraft and executing that unprecedented order flawlessly.
Sent 7: More than the actual events, inaccurate government accounts of those events made it appear that the military was notified in time to respond to two of the hijackings, raising questions about the adequacy of the response.
Sent 8: Those accounts had the effect of deflecting questions about the military's capacity to obtain timely and accurate information from its own sources.
Sent 9: In addition, they overstated the FAA's ability to provide the military with timely and useful information that morning.
Sent 10: In public testimony before this Commission in May 2003, NORAD officials stated that at 9:16, NEADS received hijack notification of United 93 from the FAA.
Sent 11: This statement was incorrect.
Sent 12: There was no hijack to report at 9:16.
Sent 13: United 93 was proceeding normally at that time.
Sent 14: In this same public testimony, NORAD officials stated that at 9:24, NEADS received notification of the hijacking of American 77.
Sent 15: This statement was also incorrect.
Sent 16: The notice NEADS received at 9:24 was that American 11 had not hit the World Trade Center and was heading for Washington, D.C. In their testimony and in other public accounts, NORAD officials also stated that the Langley fighters were scrambled to respond to the notifications about American 77,178 United 93, or both.
Sent 17: These statements were incorrect as well.
Sent 18: The fighters were scrambled because of the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA centers; contemporaneous logs compiled at NEADS, Continental Region headquarters, and NORAD; and other records.", "question": "Who coordinated the defense of US airspace on September 11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At the top of the ship, there will be a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction", "Downward-facing thristers", "Abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction", "Thrusters" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cushioning for the crew", "Will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage", "Cargo storage" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit.
Sent 2: But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance.
Sent 3: Orion, the agency's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December.
Sent 4: In future missions, it will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond -- farther than humans have ever gone before.
Sent 5: Orion comes loaded with superlatives.
Sent 6: It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles.
Sent 7: It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made.
Sent 8: No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions.
Sent 9: Final work on the spacecraft is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Sent 10: Orion came one step closer to completion this month with the stacking of the crew module atop the service module.
Sent 11: \"Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day,\" Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer said in a statement.
Sent 12: A 3,600-mile journey When complete, the Orion capsule will resemble a fencing foil, with a tall spire shooting up from a rounded base.
Sent 13: At the top will sit a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction.
Sent 14: The bottom portion, the service module, will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage.
Sent 15: Nestled between the two will be the crew module, capable of supporting human life from launch until recovery.
Sent 16: Attached to the service module will be a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.
Sent 17: For the first time since the space shuttle's debut launch in 1981, the crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions.", "question": "What does the abort system include?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Petroleum and coal", "Petroleum", "Oil", "Coal" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wind", "Air", "Solar", "Water" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine a glass of your favorite drink that never became empty.
Sent 2: Now think about what really happens.
Sent 3: You take a drink and there is less in the glass.
Sent 4: You keep drinking and soon it is all gone.
Sent 5: Good thing you have more to refill your glass.
Sent 6: What if there would never be any more of your favorite drink.
Sent 7: What would you do?
Sent 8: Now you know the difference between renewable and non-renewable.
Sent 9: Its too bad that many things here on Earth will run out.
Sent 10: This includes some of our natural resources we depend on.
Sent 11: Things like oil will not last forever.
Sent 12: There is a limited supply.
Sent 13: Someday, we will run out, so then what?
Sent 14: At current rates of use, coal will last about 300 years.
Sent 15: Petroleum will be used up in just a few decades.", "question": "What are some non-renewable resources?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Laozi", "Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu" ], "distractor groups": [ "Han Fei", "Mao", "Zhu xi", "Zhou" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "Which philosopher is described as being an enigma and credited with teaching Confucius?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Erasmus", "Willibald Pirckheimer", "Willibald Pirckheimer and Erasmus" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Cardinal and Frederick", "Galileo and Kepler", "Melanchthon and Starck", "Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As for engravings, Durer's work was restricted to portraits and illustrations for his treatise.
Sent 2: The portraits include Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz; Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony; the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer; Philipp Melanchthon, and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Sent 3: For those of the Cardinal, Melanchthon, and Durer's final major work, a drawn portrait of the Nuremberg patrician Ulrich Starck, Durer depicted the sitters in profile, perhaps reflecting a more mathematical approach.
Sent 4: Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Durer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.
Sent 5: He also derived great satisfaction from his friendships and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars.
Sent 6: Durer succeeded in producing two books during his lifetime.
Sent 7: \"The Four Books on Measurement\" were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.
Sent 8: The other, a work on city fortifications, was published in 1527.
Sent 9: \"The Four Books on Human Proportion\" were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528.", "question": "What two scholars did Durer correspond frequently with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lucrezia is married to Nicia, and she is a loyal wife", "Because she is an honorable woman" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because she is conceiving a child", "Because she is taking a potion made from the Mandrake root", "She hates new people" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Why is Lucrezia hesitant to meet with the stranger?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The faster particles move", "You are able to do a lot of things. When you don't have a lot of energy, you may sit around and do very little", "You move around a lot as opposed to a little" ], "distractor groups": [ "Change", "You are talkative as opposed to not talkative", "Electrical energy", "kinetic energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Simply put, energy is the ability to a cause change.
Sent 2: Energy can cause many types of change.
Sent 3: Think about when you have a lot of energy.
Sent 4: You are able to do a lot of things.
Sent 5: When you dont have a lot of energy, you may sit around and do very little.
Sent 6: A similar thing happens to particles of matter as energy is added.
Sent 7: The more energy there is, the faster the particles of matter move.
Sent 8: Energy is also the reason you are able to move around.
Sent 9: In fact, matter is always in motion.
Sent 10: It can even change from one form to another.
Sent 11: For example, electrical energy can be converted into heat energy.
Sent 12: You see this every time you use the toaster.
Sent 13: Energy causes a change in matter when you lift your arm.
Sent 14: Energy can be used to move matter.
Sent 15: You use energy to take a step to move forward.
Sent 16: Thanks to energy, your body moves.
Sent 17: The energy of moving matter is called kinetic energy.", "question": "What happens when someone has a lot of energy as compared to little energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "England", "They were at Erin's house in England" ], "distractor groups": [ "The United States", "They were at Kevin's house in China" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: There once was a guy named Kevin and girl named Erin.
Sent 2: They really liked spending time together.
Sent 3: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Sent 4: They then thought to take a sudden trip around the world.
Sent 5: They first traveled by plane around Europe, where they saw many different people and sights.
Sent 6: They then took a boat to Africa and Asia, where they went on a trip through the mountains.
Sent 7: Later in the month, they traveled to China by train and were allowed to see how different life was over there.
Sent 8: Next they took another plane to Australia, where they had a lot of fun seeing kangaroos and a different type of English speaking people.
Sent 9: After spending a week in Australia, Kevin and Erin took a really long plane ride to North America, where they drove across the land.
Sent 10: They saw everything from the mountains to forests.
Sent 11: They even got to visit the beach!
Sent 12: Because they had so much fun, Kevin returned home with Erin to England where they hung out and spent the next few days and months talking about all of the neat things they saw and did on their trip.", "question": "In what country were Erin and Kevin located when they decided to take a trip around the world?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Assist with low interest loans, legal rep. for poor and operate as a legal arm for Texas and Kentucky migrant workers", "Assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation, assist migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky", "Assisting small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation" ], "distractor groups": [ "Addressing the serious problems of poverty", "Provide legal services for corporate clients" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: \"I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close,\" said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more \"high impact\" cases to court.
Sent 9: \"What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time,\" Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: \"I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points,\" Gill said.", "question": "What are the functions of Hall's firms in the Rio Grand Valley?" }, { "answer groups": [ "K\u00e2\u0080\u0099ung Fu-tzu", "Kongfuzi", "Confucius" ], "distractor groups": [ "Laozi", "Zhou", "Chairman Mao" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "Who was, at points, both considered semi-divine but also a counter-revolutionary force?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sort of", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not at all" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Pester came running into the room.
Sent 2: He came to a fast stop when he saw the dog.
Sent 3: He'd seen a dog before, every cat has, and he used to live with a black dog named Henry, but he'd never seen a brown one before.
Sent 4: It seemed strange to him, but not as strange as it was to see Linda the brown chicken in the living room last spring.
Sent 5: That still confused him.
Sent 6: He thought he liked this dog, not because of the color, but because it was small.
Sent 7: And it was so hairy.
Sent 8: It was a like a mop that could run around.
Sent 9: He jumped on his favorite chair and looked down as Maggie ran under it.
Sent 10: She was kind of cute for a dog, Pester thought to himself.
Sent 11: He layed down on the chair and pawed at her as she ran in a circle under it.
Sent 12: He tapped her ears as she went by, and waved his tail like a flag trying to get her attention.
Sent 13: After a little more of this, Pester curled up in a ball on the chair and took a nap.", "question": "Was Pester already familiar with dogs when he came running into the room?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval", "The FDA was concerned about the safety of e-cigarettes and how they were marketed to the public. E-cigarettes were never submitted for testing and the FDA needed to know the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user" ], "distractor groups": [ "They want to keep the money in the cigarette companies", "Healthy way to smoke" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "Why did the FDA begin testing e-cigarettes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes, naked women are in the shower", "Laser guitar picks are involved" ], "distractor groups": [ "Transexuals are", "No", "No, this is about a spanish punk group" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Ace , a wannabe rock star , is on his way to a concert of the band Guitar Wolf when space aliens invade the Earth .
Sent 2: As a result the dead rise to their feet in the countryside setting of Asahi , Japan , with an appetite for flesh .
Sent 3: Enlisting the help of his rock 'n roll blood brother Guitar Wolf , Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight shorts , transsexuals , naked women shooting guns in the shower , and bloodthirsty zombies ready to tear them apart .
Sent 4: Leather jackets , loud over-modulated music , laser guitar picks , motorcycles , guns , muscle cars , and fire abound .
Sent 5: Guitar Wolf , a Japanese trio signed to Matador Records in the US and self-proclaimed coolest rock band in the world star as the well-coiffed heroes .
Sent 6: It is also a love story , between Ace and Tobio , a trans woman .
Sent 7: The music , in a garage punk vein , plays an important role in the film .
Sent 8: It features music from Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound and The Oblivians .
Sent 9: His 1997 song `` Twice as Deep '' by Greg Oblivian & the Tip Tops is featured .
Sent 10: This film is similar to another movie by a Spanish punk group , La matanza can bal de los garrulos lis rgicos produced by Siniestro Total", "question": "Are naked women and laser guitar picks part of Ace's adventures?" }, { "answer groups": [ "During takeoff, the planes tail section hit the runway before skidding and exploding on the ground", "The aircraft, bound for Spain's Canary Islands, managed to rise only slightly before coming down quickly to the right of the runway, its tail section hitting the ground first, just off the asphalt" ], "distractor groups": [ "While landing the aircraft", "Celebrates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Relatives of a woman killed in a Spanish airline crash were erroneously given the remains of another victim, and then were asked by authorities to return them, CNN partner network CNN+ reported Thursday.
Sent 2: The victims of the crash were first laid out at a Madria convention center.
Sent 3: A Madrid judge has opened an investigation into the error, and judicial sources say the initial indication is that the mixup occurred not in the proper identification of the victim, but in delivering the wrong remains to the family in question, CNN+ reported.
Sent 4: The family Wednesday received an urn numbered 104, and were told it contained the ashes of their loved one, Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira, who died in the crash.
Sent 5: But as the family was preparing to leave Madrid, officials called to tell them about the error and asked for the return of urn 104, CNN+ reported.
Sent 6: Instead of urn 104, the family was supposed to have received urn 134, which actually contains the remains of Pilar Gonzalez, CNN+ reported, citing judicial sources and another family which also lost a relative in the crash.
Sent 7: The Spanair MD82 jet crashed last week at Madrid's airport as the plane was trying to take off, killing 154 people.
Sent 8: The aircraft, bound for Spain's Canary Islands, managed to rise only slightly before coming down quickly to the right of the runway, its tail section hitting the ground first, just off the asphalt.
Sent 9: Then the out-of-control plane skidded and bounced at least three times as it careered 1,200 meters (3,840 feet) across uneven terrain and exploded, coming to rest in a gully, a top official of the investigative commission told a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday.
Sent 10: Many of the bodies were badly charred from the fire, and authorities have used DNA samples to carry out numerous identifications.", "question": "How did the crash happen?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nandini", "The pretty girl" ], "distractor groups": [ "Col. Subbayya", "Devadas", "Jaanu", "The rabbit", "Jannu", "Preetam's mother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini .
Sent 2: While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole .
Sent 3: Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought .
Sent 4: While accompanying his mother to Madikeri , Preetam confronts a man named Jaanu .
Sent 5: Jaanu , who has been following Nandini , beats up Preetam thinking that he is in love with Nandini .
Sent 6: Preetam , unaware that Jaanu has vowed not to allow any one near Nandini , trashes Jaanu and his gang in return .
Sent 7: In Madikeri , Preetam meets Nandini unexpectedly .
Sent 8: He identifies himself and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage .
Sent 9: Nandini , who is already engaged rejects his request .
Sent 10: Still , Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again .
Sent 11: In the meantime , Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri , Col. Subbayya is Nandini's father , who is pretty much deaf , and Nandini's marriage is a just a week away .
Sent 12: Dejected , Preetam throws Nandini's heart-shaped watch away .
Sent 13: But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return .
Sent 14: Delighted , Preetam goes in search of her watch and brings it back .
Sent 15: While searching it , he spots a rabbit , Which he calls Devadas , and brings it along with him .
Sent 16: Since Nandini's friends are due to arrive from Mumbai for the marriage , Preetam takes Nandini to the railway station .
Sent 17: The train from Mumbai is delayed by five hours , so Nandini and Preetam decide to visit a nearby hill-temple .", "question": "While in Madikeri, he meets someone unexpectedly; to whom does he make a grand gesture and profess his love?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Qutb", "Sayyid Qutb", "The Egyptian writer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Muslims", "Sayed Qtbo", "Bin Laden", "Jahiliyya", "Quota", "Westerners" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Whose scholarship dismisses Western achievements as entirely material?" }, { "answer groups": [ "You defy gravity", "You are overcoming gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "You get tired", "You are jumping on a trampoline", "You go up", "You go from downstairs, to upstairs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "What happens when you climb a set of stairs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Prince Shotoku", "An outstanding figure of seventh and eighth centuries" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Sogas", "Sui Fuijiwara", "Nakatomi Kamatari", "Artists", "Scholars", "Fujiwara clan", "Japanese monks" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "Who established relations with the Sui dynasty in China?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wood", "Wood and glass", "Glass" ], "distractor groups": [ "Metal refrigerator", "Magnetic materials", "Metals", "Magnets" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnetism is the ability of a material to be attracted by a magnet.
Sent 2: It also include the ability for some material to act like a magnet.
Sent 3: No doubt youve handled refrigerator magnets.
Sent 4: You can see some in Figure 1.28.
Sent 5: You probably know they stick to a metal refrigerator.
Sent 6: This is what holds your homework up.
Sent 7: Maybe your little sisters drawings are hung on the fridge in this manner.
Sent 8: Do magnets stick to all materials?
Sent 9: Of course not.
Sent 10: You have probably checked and they do not stick to other surfaces.
Sent 11: They do not stick to wooden doors or glass windows.
Sent 12: Wood and glass are not attracted to a magnet.
Sent 13: Obviously, only certain materials are attracted to magnets.", "question": "What do magnets not stick to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Little mannerisms", "It is little mannerisms--unstudied habits that identify" ], "distractor groups": [ "Clothing", "Voice and accent are bigger disguises" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grim disappeared upstairs himself, and returned about ten minutes later in the uniform of a Shereefian officer--that is to say, of Emir Feisul's Syrian army.
Sent 2: Nothing could be smarter, not anything better calculated to disguise a man.
Sent 3: Disguise, as any actor or detective can tell you, is not so much a matter of make- up as suggestion.
Sent 4: It is little mannerisms--unstudied habits that identify.
Sent 5: The suggestion that you are some one else is the thing to strive for, not the concealment of who you really are.
Sent 6: Grim's skin had been sun-tanned in the Arab campaign under Lawrence against the Turks.
Sent 7: The Shereefian helmet is a compromise between the East and West, having a strip of cloth hanging down behind it as far as the shoulders and covering the ears on either side, to take the place of the Arab head-dress.
Sent 8: The khaki uniform had just enough of Oriental touch about it to distinguish it from that of a British officer.
Sent 9: No man inexperienced in disguise would dream of choosing it; for the simple reason that it would not seem to him disguise enough.
Sent 10: Yet Grim now looked so exactly like somebody else that it was hard to believe he was the same man who had been in the room ten minutes before.
Sent 11: His mimicry of the Syrian military walk--blended of pride and desire not to seem proud--was perfect.", "question": "What else, besides make-up, makes a good disguise?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Admiral Cheng", "Emperor Chu Ti", "The Chinese" ], "distractor groups": [ "Paramsekwana did", "Muzaffar Shah", "Thai peng", "The Muslims", "Bengali paddlers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Who was the leader who realized the commercial value of the portA. Paramsekwana didB. Muzaffar ShahC. Admiral ChengD. Emperor Chu TiE. Thai pengF. The MuslimsG. The ChineseH. Bengali paddlersPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles", "After Central Station was built over the old harbor", "Canals in the city center were filled in" ], "distractor groups": [ "Due to Amsterdam's economic decline", "The government", "When Louis was installed as King and took the Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "What caused Dam Square to become landlocked for the first time in its history?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ibiza", "Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, Formentera" ], "distractor groups": [ "Naples", "Sicily" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago.
Sent 2: Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c.
Sent 3: Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim.
Sent 4: The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah.
Sent 5: The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c.
Sent 6: .
Sent 7: The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region.
Sent 8: Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry.
Sent 9: They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country.
Sent 10: The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century.
Sent 11: It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza.
Sent 12: The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza.
Sent 13: Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums.
Sent 14: The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c.
Sent 15: during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained.
Sent 16: Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c.
Sent 17: did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
Sent 18: For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life.", "question": "On which Mediterranean islands the relicts of prehistoric settlements were found?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Made and disseminated a video following the bombing of the USS Cole- Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya", "Distributed a propaganda video" ], "distractor groups": [ "Attacked America", "Saudi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "What did Bin Laden do because al Qaeda's image was important to him?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Brian Epstein", "Brian" ], "distractor groups": [ "Freddie Lennon", "Andrew Scott" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "Name the manager of John Lennon's who died around 1967.A. Freddie LennonB. Andrew ScottC. Brian EpsteinD. BrianPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was said that where Alexander would be laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\"", "The land was said to be happy forever and his gold sarcophagus was filled with honey" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was never closed to the public", "It is recently discovered", "He was one of the greatest leaders of all time", "It is in the northern Greece" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.", "question": "What was special about Alexander's burial?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Levees", "Natural levee" ], "distractor groups": [ "River valley", "Flat plain", "Heavy rains", "Sandy desert", "Floodwater", "Floodplain" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "What forms the raised strip near the edge of a flooding river?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cleveland", "Cleveland Center controller", "Cleveland Center" ], "distractor groups": [ "Logan Airport", "Delta", "Boston Center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all.
Sent 3: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Sent 4: Remembering the \"we have some planes\" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked.
Sent 5: Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack.
Sent 6: NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.
Sent 7: The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too.
Sent 8: During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 9: The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second.
Sent 10: NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it.
Sent 11: The flight never turned off its transponder.
Sent 12: NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland.
Sent 13: But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93.
Sent 14: United Airlines Flight 93 FAA Awareness.
Sent 15: At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller.
Sent 16: This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.
Sent 17: Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard \"a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin.\"
Sent 18: The controller responded, seconds later: \"Somebody call Cleveland?\"This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming.", "question": "Which air traffic center communicated with United 93?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Treme", "The Pacific", "The Wire", "Treme, The Wire, and The Pacific" ], "distractor groups": [ "Girls", "The cut", "True Blood", "Band of Brothers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "In addition to writing novels, George Pelecanos has written for what TV shows?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He has more of a Jimmy Stewart like countenance", "He was low keyed and captivated people", "Quiet trust" ], "distractor groups": [ "Suspicious", "He has more of a trace of childish innocence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy.
Sent 2: A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust.
Sent 3: In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel.
Sent 4: A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a 250-an-hour legal counselor.
Sent 5: Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network.
Sent 6: ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge.
Sent 7: ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.''
Sent 8: For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award.
Sent 9: The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus.
Sent 10: Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice.
Sent 11: The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.
Sent 12: The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem.
Sent 13: After all, politics run in the Rooney family.
Sent 14: His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party.
Sent 15: But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined.
Sent 16: ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled.
Sent 17: ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.''
Sent 18: After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services.", "question": "How would one describe Fred's demeanor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Summerfield's wife", "Summerfield's" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maxon's", "McIIvan's", "Farraguts wife", "Maxons wife" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "Whose wife knows about the affair between Summerfield and Paul McIlvain's wife?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Victor", "Braganza" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mascarenhas", "Ronnie", "Bashir" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mastermind Charlie Mascarenhas and his accomplice Riya are one of the greatest pair of thieves in India .
Sent 2: A friend of Charlie , Raj is killed by the Russian mafia .
Sent 3: At Raj's funeral , his wife hands Charlie a CD containing information about the transfer of gold by train from Russia to Romania .
Sent 4: Charlie decides to rob the train with the help of imprisoned Don and con-artist Victor Braganza .
Sent 5: They hire a team of criminals to join them in the robbery .
Sent 6: The group includes Spider , who is a world-class hacker , an explosives expert Bilal Bashir , a prosthetic makeup artist Sunny , and an illusionist Ronnie .
Sent 7: Charlie is also having an affair with Victor's daughter , Naina , who knows nothing about her father and Charlie's criminal activities .
Sent 8: The group devise a plan to rob the Russian train in the sliest way possible .
Sent 9: Spider hacks into a Russian satellite system and Ronnie uses his illusion to trick the soldiers guarding the gold while the rest of the team transfer the gold from the train .
Sent 10: The robbery is executed successfully , however while celebrating Spider double crosses the gang and tries to flee with all of the gold .
Sent 11: Spider is stopped by Ronnie , who is then shot multiple times by Spider's assassins .
Sent 12: The group are chased by the assassins and Ronnie and Riya are killed .
Sent 13: Charlie , Bilal and Sunny manage to escape after Spider blows up the location and flees with the gold .
Sent 14: Charlie calls Victor to tell him about the betrayal , but Naina overhears the conversation .
Sent 15: At the same time Spider's assassins breaks into the house and murder Victor .", "question": "What is the last name of the person Charlie calls to tell about the betrayal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Several casinos, an airport, an airline, and land located between the mountains and the Las Vegas Strip", "Six casinos, an airport, an airline, and numerous plots of land", "Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains", "The Desert Inn", "Six casinos, an airport, an airline, and a large tract of land", "$300 million in properties" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Strip", "Several Hilton properties in need of renovation", "The Golden Nugget", "Hilton Hotels", "The Silver Slipper and The Castaways" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas\u2002\u2014\u2002corporate cash.
Sent 2: Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities.
Sent 3: That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
Sent 4: A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos.
Sent 5: True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse.
Sent 6: Several weeks later he was asked\u2002\u2014\u2002then ordered\u2002\u2014\u2002to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.
Sent 7: Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, 300-million Las Vegas buying spree.
Sent 8: When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains.
Sent 9: Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting.
Sent 10: Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant.
Sent 11: That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city.
Sent 12: Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
Sent 13: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Sent 14: What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
Sent 15: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Sent 16: The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget.
Sent 17: In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort.
Sent 18: He bought several Strip properties\u2002\u2014\u2002the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them\u2002\u2014\u2002and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort\u2002\u2014\u2002Mirage\u2002\u2014\u2002 which became an instant success.", "question": "What did Howard Hughes purchase during his Vegas buying spree?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tial energy has the ability to do work", "Motion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Friction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What sort of change can gravitational potential energy cause?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pure", "A pure substance" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mixture", "Combination of different substances" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of.
Sent 2: Matter can exist in two forms.
Sent 3: It can be a pure substance.
Sent 4: This means it is not mixed with anything.
Sent 5: It can also be a combination of different substances.
Sent 6: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms.
Sent 7: You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain.
Sent 8: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen.
Sent 9: Other atoms contain many protons.
Sent 10: There are many types of atoms.
Sent 11: For example, Helium has two protons.
Sent 12: An Oxygen atom has eight.
Sent 13: Water is composed of a two types of atoms.
Sent 14: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms.
Sent 15: There are only so many types of atoms.
Sent 16: These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances.
Sent 17: So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?", "question": "What form of matter is not mixed with anything?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Like she was giving up part of herself", "Miserable", "She felt as if she would be giving up a part of herself" ], "distractor groups": [ "Elated", "Relieved" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Johnnie had a set of small volumes of English verse, extensively annotated by his own hand, which Stoddard had brought to her early in their acquaintance, leaving it with her more as a gift than as a loan.
Sent 2: She kept these little books after all the others had gone back.
Sent 3: She had read and reread them--cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human--till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.
Sent 4: It seemed to her, whenever she debated returning them, that she could not bear it.
Sent 5: She would get them out and sit with one of them open in her hands, not reading, but staring at the pages with unseeing eyes, passing her fingers over it, as one strokes a beloved hand, or turning through each book only to find the pencilled words in the margins.
Sent 6: She would be giving up part of herself when she took these back.
Sent 7: Yet it had to be done, and one miserable morning she made them all into a neat package, intending to carry them to the mill and place them on Stoddard's desk thus early, when nobody would be in the office.
Sent 8: Then the children came in; Deanie was half sick; and in the distress of getting the ailing child comfortably into her own bed, Johnnie forgot the books.
Sent 9: Taking them in at noon, she met Stoddard himself.", "question": "How did Johnnie feel when she finally decides to return the books to the office?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No injuries", "No one was injured" ], "distractor groups": [ "Realize", "2 milion dead", "Entire city destroyed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "What miracle occurred when two Heiban Bible College buildings were destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes he had published his first poem at the age of fifteen and graduated from the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maybe", "No he was transfered from the capital in 1820" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Born in Moscow, Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen.
Sent 2: By the time he finished school as part of the first graduating class of the prestigious Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo near Saint Petersburg, his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene.
Sent 3: After school, Pushkin plunged into the vibrant and raucous intellectual youth culture of the capital, Saint Petersburg.
Sent 4: In 1820 he published his first long poem, Ruslan and Lyudmila, amidst much controversy about its subject and style.
Sent 5: Pushkin gradually became committed to social reform and emerged as a spokesman for literary radicals.
Sent 6: This angered the government, and led to his transfer from the capital (1820).
Sent 7: He went to the Caucasus and to the Crimea, then to Kamenka and Chisinau, where he became a Freemason.", "question": "Was Pushkin a published author and recognized by the Russian literary scene?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Legal Aid Society", "The Legal Aid Society", "Crain's New York Business" ], "distractor groups": [ "Band Aid Society", "Manhattan-based real estate brokerage", "Johnson and Johnson" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "It could be another year and a half before the workers of which organization return to their old desks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To describe locations", "Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid", "To pinpoint a feature they are studying" ], "distractor groups": [ "To find locations faster", "To make a cross point easy to find", "For lack of a better system", "To prove their point" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "Why do scientists use latitude and longitude as a reference?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden", "Khallad and Nashri became operational coordinators for al Qaeda", "Operational coordinators for al Qaeda, both were involved during 1998 and 1999", "Khallad and Nashri became operational coordinators for Al Qaeda in 1998 and 1999" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack", "They were deputies to Sheikh Mohammed", "Preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives. In January 2000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri.
Sent 2: As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives.
Sent 3: They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.
Sent 4: In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.
Sent 5: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Sent 6: The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40.
Sent 7: The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden.
Sent 8: He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment.
Sent 9: Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen.
Sent 10: Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier.
Sent 11: Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
Sent 12: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Sent 13: Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras.
Sent 15: Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack.
Sent 16: Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden.", "question": "Khallad and Nashri became what position for what group in what years?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Einstein and his wife were invited to Charlie Chaplin's home for dinner where he disclosed his theory of relativity", "Ignored his food", "Played the piano", "He was having breakfast" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was talking to chaplain", "He got in a fight with Chaplin" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After arriving in New York City, Einstein was taken to various places and events, including Chinatown, a lunch with the editors of the New York Times, and a performance of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, where he was cheered by the audience on his arrival.
Sent 2: During the days following, he was given the keys to the city by Mayor Jimmy Walker and met the president of Columbia University, who described Einstein as \"The ruling monarch of the mind.\"
Sent 3: Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor at New York's Riverside Church, gave Einstein a tour of the church and showed him a full-size statue that the church made of Einstein, standing at the entrance.
Sent 4: Also during his stay in New York, he joined a crowd of 15,000 people at Madison Square Garden during a Hanukkah celebration.
Sent 5: Einstein next traveled to California where he met Caltech president and Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan.
Sent 6: His friendship with Millikan was \"awkward\", as Millikan \"had a penchant for patriotic militarism,\" where Einstein was a pronounced pacifist.
Sent 7: During an address to Caltech's students, Einstein noted that science was often inclined to do more harm than good.
Sent 8: This aversion to war also led Einstein to befriend author Upton Sinclair and film star Charlie Chaplin, both noted for their pacifism.
Sent 9: Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Studios, gave Einstein a tour of his studio and introduced him to Chaplin.
Sent 10: They had an instant rapport, with Chaplin inviting Einstein and his wife, Elsa, to his home for dinner.
Sent 11: Chaplin said Einstein's outward persona, calm and gentle, seemed to conceal a \"highly emotional temperament,\" from which came his \"extraordinary intellectual energy.\"
Sent 12: Chaplin also remembers Elsa telling him about the time Einstein conceived his theory of relativity.
Sent 13: During breakfast one morning, he seemed lost in thought and ignored his food.
Sent 14: She asked him if something was bothering him.
Sent 15: He sat down at his piano and started playing.
Sent 16: He continued playing and writing notes for half an hour, then went upstairs to his study, where he remained for two weeks, with Elsa bringing up his food.
Sent 17: At the end of the two weeks he came downstairs with two sheets of paper bearing his theory.
Sent 18: Chaplin's film, City Lights, was to premier a few days later in Hollywood, and Chaplin invited Einstein and Elsa to join him as his special guests.", "question": "What were the events preceding Einstein's seclusion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Portugal", "Westernmost Point of the Algarve", "Southern Portugual" ], "distractor groups": [ "Genovese", "Lisbon", "Madeira" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira's origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend.
Sent 2: Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato's lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America.
Sent 3: The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting.
Sent 4: Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth.
Sent 5: Jo\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe.
Sent 6: Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
Sent 7: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.
Sent 8: After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo.
Sent 9: More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo.
Sent 10: If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around.
Sent 11: Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port).
Sent 12: The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Trist\u00e3o Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
Sent 13: They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, \"Island of Timber.
Sent 14: \" The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization.
Sent 15: Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-go\u00advern\u00adors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo.", "question": "What country was the man associated with who landed on a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By using a snow gauge", "You can gather data from a snow gauge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wind vane", "By using an anemometer", "Hygrometer", "Rain gauge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You might want to know how cold it is.
Sent 2: You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing.
Sent 3: Maybe it rained last night?
Sent 4: Do you know how much?
Sent 5: Does it feel humid to you?
Sent 6: You have heard all these questions before.
Sent 7: To answer these questions, we need data.
Sent 8: That data comes from special tools.
Sent 9: These tools collect data about the weather.
Sent 10: You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature.
Sent 11: An anemometer measures wind speed.
Sent 12: A rain gauge measures the amount of rain.
Sent 13: A hygrometer measures humidity.
Sent 14: A wind vane shows wind direction.
Sent 15: A snow gauge measures the amount of snow.", "question": "How can you find out how much snow fell in a particular time frame?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It can be a pure substance or It can also be a combination of different substances", "Pure Substance", "Mixture of substances" ], "distractor groups": [ "It can be a mix of different types of atoms", "Helium", "Hydrogen" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of.
Sent 2: Matter can exist in two forms.
Sent 3: It can be a pure substance.
Sent 4: This means it is not mixed with anything.
Sent 5: It can also be a combination of different substances.
Sent 6: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms.
Sent 7: You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain.
Sent 8: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen.
Sent 9: Other atoms contain many protons.
Sent 10: There are many types of atoms.
Sent 11: For example, Helium has two protons.
Sent 12: An Oxygen atom has eight.
Sent 13: Water is composed of a two types of atoms.
Sent 14: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms.
Sent 15: There are only so many types of atoms.
Sent 16: These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances.
Sent 17: So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?", "question": "What two forms of matter are there?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The glaciers melted", "Because glaciers feeding the lake melted away" ], "distractor groups": [ "Deforestation", "The region was over populated", "Because Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture", "The ice age started" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "Why did the prehistoric lake disappear from the Las Vegas Valley?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Greenwich Mean Time, Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England", "GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time and is determined by the location of Longitudinal lines", "Greenwich Mean Time and it is determined by Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England" ], "distractor groups": [ "Greenland Mean Team and it is determined by zero degrees latitude", "Greenwich Marine Time and it is determined by the sun", "Great Magazine of Timepieces, determined by user reviews", "Great Migrating Time and it is determined by season" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "What does GMT stand for and how it is determined?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His mother has an astrological defect", "He is the father of his mother", "Duryodhana is told that his mother Gandhari had an astrological defect, so she is first married to a goat before marrying his father. This builds Duryodhana's animosity toward Gandhara, Which is ruled by his mother's father", "Bheema says kauravas are the progeny of a widow" ], "distractor groups": [ "His wife is a goat", "He is insulted to be called a 'dependent'", "He doesnt like gandhara" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas .
Sent 2: Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occur in life .
Sent 3: The sons of Pandu and Dhritarashtra progeny break into an argument .
Sent 4: When Duryodhana insults the Pandavas as `` dependents '' , Bheema counters by saying that , the Kauravas are the progeny of a widow .
Sent 5: Duryodhana asks Veda Vyasa for an explanation .
Sent 6: He is then told that , since his mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father .
Sent 7: Duryodhana gains animosity towards the kingdom of Gandhara where the king , the father of his mother Gandhari , rules .
Sent 8: He attacks Gandhara and lays waste of the whole kingdom .
Sent 9: He them imprisons the royal family in his prison .
Sent 10: He gives them only one rice grain per prisoner .
Sent 11: The king of Gandhara then stops everyone from grabbing the little food that is provided .
Sent 12: He says that instead of everyone dying , they could keep at least one of their princes alive .
Sent 13: He chooses Sakuni to be alive .
Sent 14: Sakuni takes an oath that he will do everything he can to destroy the entire Kaurava clan .
Sent 15: He makes magic dice from his father's spinal cord .
Sent 16: The magic dice show exactly the number that he would want .
Sent 17: Duryodhana takes pity on the lone prisoner , Sakuni after the rest of the Gandhara royal family dies in prison out of starvation .
Sent 18: Sakuni joins the evil of coterie of Duryodhana , Karna and Dushyasana .", "question": "Why does Duryodhana attack Gandhara?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Larry Pivnick, law professor at the University of Memphis Law School and director of political programs at MALS, said Legal Services is a great learning laboratory for law students", "Law professor", "Director of political programs at MALS", "He is a law professor at the University of Memphis Law School", "Law proffessor at University of Memphis law", "They are part of MALS" ], "distractor groups": [ "A director of African studies", "A client", "They work for Legal Aid", "They are part of Legal Services", "MALS", "Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor", "Police", "They work for the ASPCA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago.
Sent 2: Today, 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third- year law students work out of rented offices in the old Claridge Hotel building at 109 N. Main.
Sent 3: Offices are spartan.
Sent 4: There are no lush rugs or stylish furniture.
Sent 5: The large table in the conference room is simple varnished wood.
Sent 6: Offices are small and mostly plain, except for the eclectic mix of pop art, African statuary and neon that adorns litigation director Webb Brewer's space.
Sent 7: Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor.
Sent 8: \"The private bar could meet more of the need through pro bono work, but there are still cases that involve the systemic problems for low-income people that we would need to do,\" said Brewer.
Sent 9: \"The legal system marketplace just doesn't serve low-income people too well, except in fee-generat-ing type cases,\" Brewer said.
Sent 10: \"If a poor person gets run over by a bus, an attorney might take that case because they might be able to recover part of the damage award as attorney fees.
Sent 11: But so many of the cases we handle have to do with basic rights and a decent life.
Sent 12: There is just no profit motive.\"
Sent 13: Larry Pivnick, law professor at the University of Memphis Law School and director of political programs at MALS, said Legal Services is a great learning laboratory for law students.
Sent 14: \"There are thousands and thousands of people who have problems that never get an opportunity to appear in court,\" Pivnick said.
Sent 15: \"Some people may not be particularly articulate.
Sent 16: Courts have rules that clients don't always understand.\"
Sent 17: Brewer said a major focus of the agency's work involves housing.
Sent 18: \"Although a lot of our work is grant-driven, we find that the lack of safe and decent affordable housing and the prevalence of predatory lending are the biggest problems in our client population,\" Brewer said, referring to clients such as James.", "question": "Who is Larry Pivnick?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Remained calm", "Stayed calm", "He remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jump up and leave", "Start screaming", "Stopped all the children from reading" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "What did the President do immediately after Andrew Card told him \"America is under attack.\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Uses the school as a point of reference.- a specific landmark", "Use a familiar system or define location in relation to other places", "To describe location one might give the cross streets for the current position or recite the entire street address" ], "distractor groups": [ "There is only one way of describing the same location", "Equator", "Latitude", "Remembering street names may be a good reference", "Longitude" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "What are two ways of describing the same location?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A drunken accident or deliberate revenge for the burning of the Acropolis", "A drunken accident or revenge", "A drunken accident, or deliberate revenge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Spontaneous combustion", "War" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its legendary treasury.
Sent 2: He sent the bulk of his army to the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis via the Royal Road.
Sent 3: Alexander himself took selected troops on the direct route to the city.
Sent 4: He had to storm the pass of the Persian Gates (in the modern Zagros Mountains) which had been blocked by a Persian army under Ariobarzanes and then hurried to Persepolis before its garrison could loot the treasury.
Sent 5: On entering Persepolis, Alexander allowed his troops to loot the city for several days.
Sent 6: Alexander stayed in Persepolis for five months.
Sent 7: During his stay a fire broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes and spread to the rest of the city.
Sent 8: Possible causes include a drunken accident or deliberate revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the Second Persian War.", "question": "What are the possible causes of the fire that broke out in the eastern palace of Xerxes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Kongfuzi", "Confucius" ], "distractor groups": [ "Qufu", "Laozi", "Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "Who was known as the Great Teacher?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His landscapes", "Willow Mill", "Pond in the Woods and Willow Mill", "Pond in the Woods", "Landscapes of period" ], "distractor groups": [ "Planting trees all around", "His sixteen designs for the Apocalypse", "The Seven Sorrows Polyptych", "His Madonnas and religious figures" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.
Sent 2: He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.
Sent 3: The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Durer and his assistants c.
Sent 4: Around 1503-1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.
Sent 5: Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.
Sent 6: During the same period Durer trained himself in the difficult art of using the burin to make engravings.
Sent 7: It is possible he had begun learning this skill during his early training with his father, as it was also an essential skill of the goldsmith.
Sent 8: In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.
Sent 9: He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis (1502), The Sea Monster (1498), and Saint Eustace (c.
Sent 10: 1501), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.
Sent 11: His landscapes of this period, such as Pond in the Woods and Willow Mill, are quite different from his earlier watercolours.
Sent 12: There is a much greater emphasis on capturing atmosphere, rather than depicting topography.
Sent 13: He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures.
Sent 14: Prints are highly portable and these works made Durer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.", "question": "Which of his works place greater emphasis on capturing atmosphere rather than depicting topography?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mahender and sudha", "Mahender's", "Sudha's" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mahender and Maya's", "Mahender and maya" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India .
Sent 2: It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately .
Sent 3: The movie starts with Mahender getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily .
Sent 4: A woman , Sudha , is already sitting in the waiting room .
Sent 5: On seeing him , she tries to hide her face from him but later they confront each other .
Sent 6: Mahender has an accomplished business dealing with photography .
Sent 7: He respects his grandfather immensely .
Sent 8: Incidentally , he had been engaged to Sudha for 5 years but always made some excuse to delay their wedding .
Sent 9: However , this time his grandfather has fixed the wedding on the first week of the following month .
Sent 10: He reveals to Sudha that he is having an affair with one of the most radical representations of feminism in a girl called Maya .
Sent 11: He returns to tell Maya , but Maya has disappeared , leaving him some poetry .
Sent 12: Mahender then marries Sudha and is quite happy , but the sudden return of Maya causes tensions in their married life .
Sent 13: Mahender frequently tells Sudha about all the beautifully poignant , loving and authentic things Maya did over the years that they lived together .
Sent 14: Later , Maya tries to commit suicide , and this leads to Mahender spending time with her over a few weeks .
Sent 15: Sudha , not knowing about Maya 's suicide attempt and therefore believing that Mahender is being unfaithful to her , feels that her marriage was a mistake , and questions Mahender about his intentions .", "question": "Whose wedding did grandfather fix?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Athenians and the Thebans", "Athenian hoplites, the thebans" ], "distractor groups": [ "Boeotians", "The Hellenic Alliance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As Philip marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia.
Sent 2: During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander the left, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals.
Sent 3: According to the ancient sources, the two sides fought bitterly for some time.
Sent 4: Philip deliberately commanded his troops to retreat, counting on the untested Athenian hoplites to follow, thus breaking their line.
Sent 5: Alexander was the first to break the Theban lines, followed by Philip's generals.
Sent 6: Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them.
Sent 7: With the Athenians lost, the Thebans were surrounded.
Sent 8: Left to fight alone, they were defeated.
Sent 9: After the victory at Chaeronea, Philip and Alexander marched unopposed into the Peloponnese, welcomed by all cities; however, when they reached Sparta, they were refused, but did not resort to war.
Sent 10: At Corinth, Philip established a \"Hellenic Alliance\" (modeled on the old anti-Persian alliance of the Greco-Persian Wars), which included most Greek city-states except Sparta.
Sent 11: Philip was then named Hegemon (often translated as \"Supreme Commander\") of this league (known by modern scholars as the League of Corinth), and announced his plans to attack the Persian Empire.", "question": "What were the two groups that Philip and Alexander fought against?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The US trade and fuel embargo on Japan", "The embargo by the US", "Fuel embargo", "The trade and fuel embargo" ], "distractor groups": [ "Trade embargo", "The takeover of parliament by the military", "Russian advances", "The Hiroshima bomb" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation.
Sent 2: By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity.
Sent 3: Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers.
Sent 4: Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.
Sent 5: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Sent 6: Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed.
Sent 7: Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates\u2002\u2014\u2002a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking.
Sent 8: These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures.
Sent 9: Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals.
Sent 10: They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.
Sent 11: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances.
Sent 12: In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Sent 13: And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists.
Sent 14: By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.
Sent 15: Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.
Sent 16: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France.
Sent 17: The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies.
Sent 18: The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war.", "question": "What act against Japan resulted in the attack on Pearl Harbor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hephaestion's death", "Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander" ], "distractor groups": [ "Detached mental state during his final months", "He apparently had two sons", "Alexander's failing health" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander married twice: Roxana, daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, out of love; and Stateira II, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia, for political reasons.
Sent 2: He apparently had two sons, Alexander IV of Macedon of Roxana and, possibly, Heracles of Macedon from his mistress Barsine.
Sent 3: He lost another child when Roxana miscarried at Babylon.
Sent 4: Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble.
Sent 5: Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander.
Sent 6: This event may have contributed to Alexander's failing health and detached mental state during his final months.
Sent 7: Alexander's sexuality has been the subject of speculation and controversy.
Sent 8: No ancient sources stated that Alexander had homosexual relationships, or that Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion was sexual.
Sent 9: Aelian, however, writes of Alexander's visit to Troy where \"Alexander garlanded the tomb of Achilles and Hephaestion that of Patroclus, the latter riddling that he was a beloved of Alexander, in just the same way as Patroclus was of Achilles\".
Sent 10: Noting that the word eromenos (ancient Greek for beloved) does not necessarily bear sexual meaning, Alexander may have been bisexual, which in his time was not controversial.
Sent 11: Green argues that there is little evidence in ancient sources that Alexander had much carnal interest in women; he did not produce an heir until the very end of his life.
Sent 12: However, he was relatively young when he died, and Ogden suggests that Alexander's matrimonial record is more impressive than his father's at the same age.
Sent 13: Apart from wives, Alexander had many more female companions.
Sent 14: Alexander accumulated a harem in the style of Persian kings, but he used it rather sparingly; showing great self-control in \"pleasures of the body\".
Sent 15: Nevertheless, Plutarch described how Alexander was infatuated by Roxana while complimenting him on not forcing himself on her.
Sent 16: Green suggested that, in the context of the period, Alexander formed quite strong friendships with women, including Ada of Caria, who adopted him, and even Darius's mother Sisygambis, who supposedly died from grief upon hearing of Alexander's death.", "question": "What was the event that precipitated Alexander's death?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Negative connotations with her beauty", "She is bewitchingly beautiful", "Her beauty stays in the mind over her lovers and agitates them" ], "distractor groups": [ "She likes snakes", "Femme is her pet name", "She's really a male" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "Why is Madam White Snake described as a \"femme\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport", "Delta 1989", "Delta Flight 1989", "Delta Airlines flight 1989" ], "distractor groups": [ "United Airlines Flight 93", "UA 93", "American 11", "United 93", "FAA 1989", "American 17", "Delta 93" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all.
Sent 3: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Sent 4: Remembering the \"we have some planes\" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked.
Sent 5: Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack.
Sent 6: NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.
Sent 7: The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too.
Sent 8: During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 9: The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second.
Sent 10: NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it.
Sent 11: The flight never turned off its transponder.
Sent 12: NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland.
Sent 13: But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93.
Sent 14: United Airlines Flight 93 FAA Awareness.
Sent 15: At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller.
Sent 16: This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.
Sent 17: Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard \"a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin.\"
Sent 18: The controller responded, seconds later: \"Somebody call Cleveland?\"This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming.", "question": "Which flight did both the command center and FAA headquarters watch, thanks to a call from Boston Center to NEADS?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The trade and fuel embargo", "The US trade and fuel embargo on Japan", "The United State's trade and fuel embargo made against Japan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Japan's alliance with Germany", "War with the Chinese nationalists", "The war in Europe", "The Japanese invasion of Britian" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation.
Sent 2: By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity.
Sent 3: Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers.
Sent 4: Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.
Sent 5: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Sent 6: Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed.
Sent 7: Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates\u2002\u2014\u2002a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking.
Sent 8: These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures.
Sent 9: Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals.
Sent 10: They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.
Sent 11: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances.
Sent 12: In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Sent 13: And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists.
Sent 14: By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.
Sent 15: Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.
Sent 16: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France.
Sent 17: The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies.
Sent 18: The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war.", "question": "What resulted in the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Women cant usually afford an attorney", "Women in violent situations face problems like lack of money and feeling forced to stay in their current situation", "Need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child" ], "distractor groups": [ "Seeking shelter", "No money to seek legal help" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "What are some of the biggest problems women in violent domestic situations face?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands", "Mongolians", "Malay peoples", "Malay peoples from the Philippines", "Polynesians" ], "distractor groups": [ "Malaysians", "Iban" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man\u2002\u2014\u2002in 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts\u2002\u2014\u2002sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)\u2002\u2014\u2002known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).", "question": "Who used to practice a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mid fielder", "Midfielder" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wing", "Goalie", "Forward", "Central defence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- English club Chelsea have completed the signing of Oriol Romeu from Spanish and European champions Barcelona.
Sent 2: The 19-year-old is currently playing for Spain at the World Under-20 Championships in Colombia and has signed a four-year deal with last season's Premier League runners-up.
Sent 3: The deal is worth 7 million and includes a buy back clause, set at 14 million after the first year and 21 million after the second.
Sent 4: Romeu started his career at Barcelona's city rivals Espanyol before joining the Camp Nou academy in 2004.
Sent 5: The midfielder, who can also play in central defence, made his debut for Barcelona in last season's Spanish Supercup match with Seville and got his first taste of league action against Deportivo in May 2010.
Sent 6: He has played 90 minutes in both of Spain's games at the World Under-20 Championships, when they beat Costa Rica and Ecuador.
Sent 7: Chelsea official web site confirmed the signing and said Romeu is \"renowned for his strength and his expansive passing ability.\"
Sent 8: Another player leaving Barcelona is Jeffren Suarez after he agreed to join Sporting Lisbon.
Sent 9: The Portuguese outfit have paid 5 million for the 23-year-old which, like the Romeu deal, includes a buy back option.
Sent 10: Jeffren joined Barca from Tenerife in 2004 and made his debut for the Catalan club in the 2006-07 season.", "question": "What position did Romeu play when he started his career at Barcelona's city rivals Espanyol?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Before 1945", "1940" ], "distractor groups": [ "1990", "1955" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the establishment of the People's Republic, Albania's illiteracy rate was as high as 85%.
Sent 2: Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.
Sent 3: When the People's Republic was established in 1945, the Party gave high priority to wiping out illiteracy.
Sent 4: As part of a vast social campaign, anyone between the ages of 12 and 40 who could not read or write was mandated to attend classes to learn.
Sent 5: By 1955, illiteracy was virtually eliminated among Albania's adult population.
Sent 6: Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7%; the male literacy rate is 99.2% and female literacy rate is 98.3%.
Sent 7: With large population movements in the 1990s to urban areas, the provision of education has undergone transformation as well.
Sent 8: The University of Tirana is the oldest university in Albania, having been founded in October 1957.", "question": "What year was Albania's illiteracy rate 85%?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Japanese government", "Japanese", "Japan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Russia", "The Soviet Union", "China" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation.
Sent 2: By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity.
Sent 3: Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers.
Sent 4: Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.
Sent 5: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Sent 6: Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed.
Sent 7: Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates\u2002\u2014\u2002a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking.
Sent 8: These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures.
Sent 9: Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals.
Sent 10: They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.
Sent 11: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances.
Sent 12: In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Sent 13: And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists.
Sent 14: By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.
Sent 15: Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.
Sent 16: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France.
Sent 17: The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies.
Sent 18: The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war.", "question": "What country held possession of Nanking, Hankow, and Canton by 1938?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is an important physical property of matter that combines what we know about an object's mass and volume. It is how closely packed the particles of matter are", "How closely packed the particles of matter are" ], "distractor groups": [ "The weight of an object", "Electricity", "The conductivity of an object", "The repelling of particles" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Density is also an important physical property of matter.
Sent 2: The concept of density combines what we know about an objects mass and volume.
Sent 3: Density reflects how closely packed the particles of matter are.
Sent 4: When particles are packed together more tightly, matter is more dense.
Sent 5: Differences in density of matter explain many phenomena.
Sent 6: It explains why helium balloons rise.
Sent 7: It explains why currents such as the Gulf Stream flow through the oceans.
Sent 8: It explains why some things float in or sink.
Sent 9: You can see this in action by pouring vegetable oil into water.
Sent 10: You can see a colorful demonstration in this video.", "question": "What is density?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ordinary expenditures that defeated detection", "They moved, stored, and spent their money in different ways", "Al Qaeda funded the plotters", "By not calling attention to themselves with large transfers of money", "They didn't provide any funds themselves personally. It was all provided by Al Qaeda and KSM" ], "distractor groups": [ "By making large donations of money", "A network of donations", "By funneling business fortunes into terrorist activity", "They got money by fund raising" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America.
Sent 2: The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 3: Consistent with the importance of the project, al Qaeda funded the plotters.
Sent 4: KSM provided his operatives with nearly all the money they needed to travel to the United States, train, and live.
Sent 5: The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough.
Sent 6: They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time.
Sent 7: The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11.
Sent 8: General Financing As we explained in chapter 2, Bin Laden did not fund al Qaeda through a personal fortune and a network of businesses in Sudan.
Sent 9: Instead, al Qaeda relied primarily on a fund-raising network developed over time.
Sent 10: The CIA now estimates that it cost al Qaeda about 30 million per year to sustain its activities before 9/11 and that this money was raised almost entirely through donations.
Sent 11: For many years, the United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance.
Sent 12: Bin Laden purportedly inherited approximately 300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda.
Sent 13: In early 2000, the U.S. government discovered a different reality: roughly from 1970 through 1994, Bin Laden received about 1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a 300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad.
Sent 14: Then, as part of a Saudi government crackdown early in the 1990s, the Bin Laden family was forced to find a buyer for Usama's share of the family company in 1994.
Sent 15: The Saudi government subsequently froze the proceeds of the sale.
Sent 16: This action had the effect of divesting Bin Laden of what otherwise might indeed have been a large fortune.
Sent 17: Nor were Bin Laden's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda.
Sent 18: When Bin Laden lived in Sudan from 1991 to 1996, he owned a number of businesses and other assets.", "question": "How did the tradecraft of each of the 9/11 plotters go to fund the terrorist activities of 9/11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Barlavento, West", "Barlavento", "West" ], "distractor groups": [ "East", "South", "North", "Solavento , East", "Rugged" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "Which division of the Algarve coast has the orange cliffs and rock stacks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The tropical zone", "Tropical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Temperature", "Polar", "Hot", "Temperate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "Which of the 3 zones is near the equator?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Chinese. Cheng Ho was the admiral who took charge", "The Chinese", "The Chinese; Chengo Ho", "Emperor Chu Ti, Admiral Cheng Ho", "Admiral Cheng", "The Chinese and Admiral Cheng" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tun Perak. , Admiral Cheng Ho", "The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah. He brought in Bengali peddlers", "Muzaffar Shah", "The Muslims", "Bengali paddlers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Who was the first to exploit the commercial potential of the region and who was the admiral who took charge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Death of part of the plant", "A part of the plant dies" ], "distractor groups": [ "Drops leaves", "Goes dormant", "Having some rest", "Hibernates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When you get sick, your body springs to action.
Sent 2: Your body starts to fight the illness.
Sent 3: Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep.
Sent 4: You need a strong immune system to fight off illness.
Sent 5: Plants dont have an immune system.
Sent 6: That does not mean they do not get sick.
Sent 7: Plants are affected by disease just like us.
Sent 8: Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant.
Sent 9: This prevents the infection from spreading.
Sent 10: Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease.
Sent 11: For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria.
Sent 12: The same compound is used in many acne products.
Sent 13: You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think.
Sent 14: No, they cannot talk to each other.
Sent 15: They may be able to send messages, though.", "question": "What typically happens in a plant first to prevent an infection from spreading?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Clarke and NSC staff were for it and Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources", "Treasury", "The NSC" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bank of New York", "FBI", "The CIA", "The President", "The Treasury", "Governement", "Congress" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "Who were on opposite sides of the idea to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center?" }, { "answer groups": [ "United states", "United States" ], "distractor groups": [ "Afghanistan", "Manilla", "China", "Cuba", "Palau" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday.
Sent 2: The map shows the Pacific island nation of Palau in relation to China.
Sent 3: Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador Hersey Kyota told CNN.
Sent 4: But Kyota said his country, a former U.S. Pacific trust territory, has agreed to take in the ethnic Uighur detainees \"for humanitarian reasons\" and because of the \"special relationship\" between Palau and the United States.
Sent 5: U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly would not comment on the announcement, telling reporters, \"We're still involved in ongoing discussions.\"
Sent 6: The agreement includes some U.S. aid for Palau, Kyota said, but he said those details remained to be worked out as well.
Sent 7: The country, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles west of Hawaii.
Sent 8: Palau has received nearly 900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for defense.
Sent 9: The \"Compact of Free Association\" between Palau and the United States is up for review, but Kelly said any additional aid offer \"is not linked to any other discussions we may be having with the government of Palau.\"
Sent 10: The Uighurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan.", "question": "What is the name of the nation holding the prisoners?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Feeding hungry families", "To feed the neediest residents" ], "distractor groups": [ "Making the gardeners look good in the eyes of the city", "Feeding wealthy families", "To be an educational tool" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "What is the greater purpose these gardens serve?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Maps depicted the existence of Madeira", "Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo", "The Canary Islands, which: were 445 km (275 miles) to the south of Madiera, had occupied busy shipping lanes for nearly a century", "Canary Island occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century", "Because shipping lanes in the waters of the nearby Canary Islands had been around for almost a century by the time Zarco landed on the archipelago. Also, Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depicted Madeira" ], "distractor groups": [ "Madeira is an alternate route for Castillians during rough storms", "They learned about Madiera from Magellan", "Castillians were the first to explore Maderia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira's origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend.
Sent 2: Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato's lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America.
Sent 3: The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting.
Sent 4: Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth.
Sent 5: Jo\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe.
Sent 6: Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
Sent 7: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.
Sent 8: After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo.
Sent 9: More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo.
Sent 10: If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around.
Sent 11: Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port).
Sent 12: The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Trist\u00e3o Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
Sent 13: They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, \"Island of Timber.
Sent 14: \" The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization.
Sent 15: Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-go\u00advern\u00adors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo.", "question": "Why might a Castillian source have known about the existence of Madeira around the time Zarco was exploring?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Failing grades", "Not very good", "It hasn't emerged with very good grades", "Failing" ], "distractor groups": [ "It has passed", "Excellent", "Passing grades", "Ok grades", "Satisfactory" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "What kind of grades has Malaysia received concerning its handling of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Big events and surprises happened one after another", "Real Nobility, grand reception, robber raid, kicking, duel", "The events ending with a magnificent duel" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because the duelists' subordinates ran around yelling to wake up everyone", "Cause lots of people moved back in the town", "A principal organized duels all over the town" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What a time of it Dawson's Landing was having!
Sent 2: All its life it had been asleep, but now it hardly got a chance for a nod, so swiftly did big events and crashing surprises come along in one another's wake: Friday morning, first glimpse of Real Nobility, also grand reception at Aunt Patsy Cooper's, also great robber raid; Friday evening, dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people; Saturday morning, emergence as practicing lawyer of the long-submerged Pudd'nhead Wilson; Saturday night, duel between chief citizen and titled stranger.
Sent 3: The people took more pride in the duel than in all the other events put together, perhaps.
Sent 4: It was a glory to their town to have such a thing happen there.
Sent 5: In their eyes the principals had reached the summit of human honor.
Sent 6: Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.
Sent 7: Even the duelists' subordinates came in for a handsome share of the public approbation: wherefore Pudd'nhead Wilson was suddenly become a man of consequence.
Sent 8: When asked to run for the mayoralty Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.", "question": "Why did Dawson's Landing wake up?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Doudenum, jejunum, and ileum", ": Duodenum, jejunum, and ileum" ], "distractor groups": [ "Colon, duodenum, esophagus", "Mouth, Esophagus, Stomach", "Stomach and kidney", "Ileum and dujenum", "Large Intestine, Esophagus, Bladder" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What are the parts of the small intestine?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deborah", "Bob" ], "distractor groups": [ "Joey", "Billy", "Sally" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Billy and Sally are brother and sister.
Sent 2: Billy is seven and Sally is eight.
Sent 3: Their mother, Deborah, likes to have Billy and Sally dress up in costumes and play a game where they are answering the telephone.
Sent 4: Usually when they play the game, Billy answers the telephone in a loud voice, and Sally answers the telephone in a quiet voice.
Sent 5: On Tuesdays, Billy answers in a quiet voice, and Sally answers in a loud voice.
Sent 6: On Fridays, Billy answers in a loud voice and Sally in a quiet voice.
Sent 7: Billy has blonde hair.
Sent 8: Sally has brown hair.
Sent 9: Deborah has blonde hair, and Billy and Sally's father, Bob, has brown hair.
Sent 10: He tells them to eat lettuce every time that he sees them, so that they grow big and strong like he is.
Sent 11: Deborah likes to add some sugar with the lettuce so that Billy and Sally know what it is like to have sweet tastes in their life.
Sent 12: One day, a Wednesday, Billy throws some lettuce into Sally's hair.
Sent 13: Deborah laughs an grabs some straw from their farm and puts it in Billy's hair.
Sent 14: Billy and Sally live on a farm.
Sent 15: They have a goat, named Joey, and a duck, named Quack.
Sent 16: They sometimes play a game with the goat where they chase him around the farm.
Sent 17: Other times, they play a game with Quack where they wave at Quack and laugh.
Sent 18: They have a fun life growing up on the farm.", "question": "Who are Billy and Sally's parents?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Construction; Yes a former school mate", "Juzo's new job is being a construction worker and Toru Akai his supervising boss made his middle school life a living hell", "Aconstruction worker and yes", "Construction worker; Yes a schoolmate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Doctor; no, not a school mate", "No, and he is a firefighter", "Painter; Not a school mate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Juzo Murasaki arrives at a work construction area to take on his new job as a construction worker .
Sent 2: To his quiet dismay , his supervising boss turns out to be Toru Akai , who with his gang had made Juzo's middle school life a living hell .
Sent 3: Akai , however , does n't recognize Juzo .
Sent 4: Juzo's more disconcerted when he discovers that Akai lives with his wife , Nozomi Akai and their toddler son above Juzo's new apartment .
Sent 5: As Juzo emotionally struggles to handle these unexpected developments , a mysterious and seemingly malicious hooded figure appears .
Sent 6: It calls itself Number 13 .
Sent 7: As Juzo attempts to control increasing number of flashbacks and a spiral fall into psychological darkness , Akai constantly picks on Juzo and other work colleagues including Seki Hajime , a former middle school student who becomes Juzo's casual friend in spite of Juzo's anti-social tendencies , at work .
Sent 8: Meanwhile Akai's wife , Nozomi , attempts to make friends with Juzo and entrusting the care of her toddler son to Juzo .
Sent 9: She proudly shows Juzo her husband's school photos .
Sent 10: In one class photo , Juzo's space is marked with an X to show he was absent .
Sent 11: Juzo suffers a severe flashback to explain his absence that day : in their school's science room , Akai and his friends have thrown acid at Juzo's face .
Sent 12: Seki becomes suspicious about Juzo's increasingly odd behavior and goes to inform Arai at the work site , but Arai dismisses him without giving him a chance to speak .
Sent 13: During this incident , Seki does n't realize he's being watched by Number 13 , but as soon as he does , Number 13 kills him .", "question": "What is Juzo's new job and will his supervisor be a school mate?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Northeaster University", "St. Mary's Law School", "Fred Rooney", "University of Maryland", "CUNY" ], "distractor groups": [ "Thomas Cooley", "Cates Katalnic & Lund", "Thomas M. Cooley Law School", "Katalinic" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "Who made this statement: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"A. Northeaster UniversityB. Thomas CooleyC. Cates Katalnic & LundD. Thomas M. Cooley Law SchoolE. St. Mary's Law SchoolF. KatalinicG. Fred RooneyH. University of MarylandI. CUNYPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The airplane was hijacked", "That it was a hijacking" ], "distractor groups": [ "A small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the Pentagon", "That a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center", "5 minutes", "46 miutes", "The crash was a pilot error", "41 minutes", "11 minutes", "Over an hour" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "What detail about the crash of American 11 did White House Senior Advisor Karl Rove not tell the president?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His inheritance from his father", "A number of businesses and other assets", "Businesses and other assets", "Business network", "Inheritance" ], "distractor groups": [ "Donations", "Money from al Qaeda", "Personal inheritance", "A family company" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America.
Sent 2: The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 3: Consistent with the importance of the project, al Qaeda funded the plotters.
Sent 4: KSM provided his operatives with nearly all the money they needed to travel to the United States, train, and live.
Sent 5: The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough.
Sent 6: They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time.
Sent 7: The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11.
Sent 8: General Financing As we explained in chapter 2, Bin Laden did not fund al Qaeda through a personal fortune and a network of businesses in Sudan.
Sent 9: Instead, al Qaeda relied primarily on a fund-raising network developed over time.
Sent 10: The CIA now estimates that it cost al Qaeda about 30 million per year to sustain its activities before 9/11 and that this money was raised almost entirely through donations.
Sent 11: For many years, the United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance.
Sent 12: Bin Laden purportedly inherited approximately 300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda.
Sent 13: In early 2000, the U.S. government discovered a different reality: roughly from 1970 through 1994, Bin Laden received about 1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a 300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad.
Sent 14: Then, as part of a Saudi government crackdown early in the 1990s, the Bin Laden family was forced to find a buyer for Usama's share of the family company in 1994.
Sent 15: The Saudi government subsequently froze the proceeds of the sale.
Sent 16: This action had the effect of divesting Bin Laden of what otherwise might indeed have been a large fortune.
Sent 17: Nor were Bin Laden's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda.
Sent 18: When Bin Laden lived in Sudan from 1991 to 1996, he owned a number of businesses and other assets.", "question": "What source of money did bin Laden hold in Sudan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "extinction in species", "Extinction" ], "distractor groups": [ "moving to new habitats", "reproduction in species" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From a human point of view, a habitat is where you live.
Sent 2: It might be your city, town, or neighborhood.
Sent 3: Your habitat can be altered.
Sent 4: Most people move a few times in their lives.
Sent 5: But a plant cannot move.
Sent 6: An animal may not be suited to live in another area.
Sent 7: A habitat is the natural home or environment of an organism.
Sent 8: Humans often destroy the habitats of other organisms.
Sent 9: The loss of habitat can cause the extinction of species.
Sent 10: Extinction is when a species disappears forever.
Sent 11: Once a species is extinct, it can never be brought back.
Sent 12: Humans cause habitat destruction in many ways.
Sent 13: There are two common ways this happens.
Sent 14: Land may be cleared.
Sent 15: Another way is when an animal or plant is brought to an area where it does not belong.", "question": "Destroying habits, can lead to what happening?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Carthaginians", "Phoenician traders, Greeks, Romans, Moors, and Carthaginians", "Phoenician traders" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chinese", "Between Africa and ancient Iberia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago.
Sent 2: Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c.
Sent 3: Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim.
Sent 4: The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah.
Sent 5: The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c.
Sent 6: .
Sent 7: The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region.
Sent 8: Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry.
Sent 9: They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country.
Sent 10: The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century.
Sent 11: It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza.
Sent 12: The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza.
Sent 13: Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums.
Sent 14: The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c.
Sent 15: during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained.
Sent 16: Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c.
Sent 17: did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
Sent 18: For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life.", "question": "What are some of the groups of people that went to island Ibosim?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was skeptical of the extremes of democracy", "He was skeptical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Came from the inexperience of the deputies", "Teaching", "He was excited by it" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Sent 2: In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
Sent 3: Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Sent 4: Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.
Sent 5: He retired from political life after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 6: He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.
Sent 7: The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals.
Sent 8: Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy.", "question": "How did the writer of Democracy in America feel about the extremes of democracy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deep water, sheltered harbor", "Sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra", "Deep-water channel close to the coast", "The strategic location" ], "distractor groups": [ "A swampy plain", "The Chinese", "The Muslims", "Well build ship channel", "The river small and sluggish" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "What attracted bigger vessels to the island?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She was afraid after being trapped in the museum", "She is dating Michael and she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarum 's familiar and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum" ], "distractor groups": [ "She liked Michael's son" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film begins with members of the Catholic Church digging up the body of a 19th century church official , whose casket has a box-shaped urn chained to it .
Sent 2: Inside the box they discover artifacts belonging to Mater Lachrymarum , the last surviving member of the Three Mothers ; an ancient trio of powerful black witches .
Sent 3: In particular , the box contains a magic cloak that , when worn by Mater Lachrymarum , increases her powers significantly .
Sent 4: The urn is shipped to the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome , where Sarah Mandy , an American studying art restorationworks .
Sent 5: Sarah is dating the curator Michael Pierce , a single father who is away from the museum that night .
Sent 6: With help from the assistant curator , Sarah opens the box and finds the cloak , a dagger , and three statues representing the three witches .
Sent 7: Sending Sarah to her office to retrieve tools to help her translate the text on the artifacts , the curator is promptly attacked by the demonic agents of Mater Lachrymarum .
Sent 8: Sarah arrives too late to save her boss and starts to flee the museum .
Sent 9: Unfortunately , she is pursued by Mater Lachrymarum 's familiar and is only able to escape when a disembodied voice magically throws open a series of locked doors keeping her trapped inside the museum .
Sent 10: Sarah tells the police what happened as she spends the night with Michael and his son .
Sent 11: Michael visits the Cardinal who sent him the urn only to find out that , shortly after mailing the urn to him , he had a severe stroke and is now in a coma .", "question": "Why does Sarah spend the night with Michael and his son?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Be rich", "Their dream was to live in a stately house. They pursued their dream by living in a disused gas holder , spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out of their riches" ], "distractor groups": [ "To keep the disused gas holder", "They wanted money and they robbed banks" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dylan and Jez are two orphans who meet in their twenties and vow to achieve their shared childhood dream of living in a stately home .
Sent 2: In pursuit of this dream they spend their days living in a disused gas holder , spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out of their riches .
Sent 3: During one of their biggest cons , their lives are touched by Georgie , who needs money to save the Down's syndrome foundation that her brother attends .
Sent 4: When a con goes wrong , the two find themselves in gaol to be released only after their entire fortune is rendered useless because of a recall of 50 notes .
Sent 5: It is down to an elaborate plan involving Dylan , Jez and Georgie , to break them out of gaol in order to save their dream .
Sent 6: The film , in essence , is part Ealing comedy , part underdog farce with a sequence of madcap adventures set against a striking soundtrack by contemporary Britpop artists .
Sent 7: Unlike straight rom-coms or mainstream comedies of the period Shooting Fish contained a generous blending of fact and fantasy .", "question": "What was Dyaln and Jez' dream and how did they work toward pursuing it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Traditional Chinese female", "Madame White Snake" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ueda Akinari", "Whalen Lai", "Modern Chinese female" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "Who took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female over time in Asia?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They worked with organizations providing legal assistance to low-income individuals and families", "We can infer that they needed help because they used volunteer attorneys; the paragraph mentions low income farm workers, and it states they were unable to afford the help", "Because they can't afford private legal counsel", "Mobile Park Plaza was the home to 45 low-income families" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because they couldn't afford Columbia Legal Services", "They lived in a designated poverty zone", "The residents faced legal problems" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: \"We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over,\" said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: \"We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy.\"
Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: \"There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles,\" said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: \"Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone.\"
Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.", "question": "In this paragraph what helps the reader to infer that the residents need help affording legal costs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tito Jackson", "Delores Marles Jackson" ], "distractor groups": [ "TT Jackson", "TJ", "Taryll", "Michael Jackson", "Katherine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Tito Joseph \"TJ\" Jackson, who on Wednesday was named temporary guardian of Michael Jackson's three children, was inspired by his famous uncle to form a singing group with his brothers.
Sent 2: TJ had been placed in charge of the children when the kids' grandmother, Katherine, left home on July 15 and will watch the children while the legal proceedings play out in a California court.
Sent 3: TJ Jackson, 34, is the son of Tito Jackson and the late Delores Martes Jackson.
Sent 4: TJ and his older brothers, Taj and Taryll, form the R&B group 3T.
Sent 5: Jackson is married with three children, a boy and two girls.
Sent 6: Judge suspends Katherine Jackson as guardian of Michael Jackson's children A 1995 article in People described the brothers' childhood as normal despite their famous father, uncle and aunts.
Sent 7: Taj Jackson told the magazine: \"My mom made sure that we had a real childhood, with birthday parties, baseball, family outings, all that stuff.\"
Sent 8: They were close to their Uncle Michael.
Sent 9: \"He's like a third parent to us,\" Taj told People in 1995.
Sent 10: Eventually the brothers went along on one of his tours and decided to form a singing group and were recording their first album in 1994 at the time of their mother's death.
Sent 11: Initially it was believed Delores Martes Jackson, who had divorced from Tito Jackson in 1993, drowned in a swimming pool, but the case was reopened, and her sons in 1995 filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against a man they accused of killing her.
Sent 12: Three years later, Donald Bohana was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, according to People magazine.", "question": "Who are the parents of Tito, Taj, and Taryll?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Shang Dynasty", "The Shang" ], "distractor groups": [ "Quasi-legendary dynasties", "Xia Dynasty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "Who were the second dynasty to create art?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Anasazi Indians", "The Anasazi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Archaic", "The various indigenous tribes", "The native Archaic Indians" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "Which group that inhabited the Valley were the most advanced?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nicia", "The stranger", "Callimaco" ], "distractor groups": [ "Timoteo", "Lucrezia's mother", "Brother Timoteo", "Lucrezia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Who had an honorable woman as a lover?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The French", "The British" ], "distractor groups": [ "French", "Koninklijk Palace", "The British Colonies" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "In the 17th and 18th century the English and the Dutch were main rivals on the high seas, who did they fight that made them become Ailies?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Very rich soil", "Sediment", "Thick layer of rich soil" ], "distractor groups": [ "Crops", "Treasure and beans are left after water recedes", "Flood water", "Natural levees", "Plants" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "What is left behind in a flood plain after the water recedes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Charges does not move when it is balanced", "An imbalance means something is going to move", "If they are balanced they do not move", "Charges move when they are not balanced, just like a teeter-totter moves when it is not balanced" ], "distractor groups": [ "The two items become unbalanced", "Teeter-totters cause large amounts of electrical charges", "They are outside", "You'll get shocked if you touch a teeter-totter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Static electricity is like a teeter-totter.
Sent 2: What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced?
Sent 3: Correct!
Sent 4: It does not move.
Sent 5: What about when its not balanced?
Sent 6: Yes, it will now begin to move.
Sent 7: Charges move when they are not balanced.
Sent 8: Charges can build up by friction.
Sent 9: Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet.
Sent 10: Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges.
Sent 11: The wool carpet easily gives up charges.
Sent 12: The two items become unbalanced.
Sent 13: One item has a positive charge.
Sent 14: The other has a negative charge.
Sent 15: The difference in charge is called static electricity.
Sent 16: Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move.
Sent 17: Positive charges build up on the mat.
Sent 18: Negative charges build up on you.", "question": "How are electrical charges similar to a teeter-totter?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mythical beasts", "Incredible Creatues", "Monsters" ], "distractor groups": [ "Donald Trump", "fairies", "Students", "Altered humans", "birds", "Statues", "stories", "Monuments" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For thousands of years, people have found fossils.
Sent 2: The fossils caused curiosity about Earths past.
Sent 3: How did these organisms live?
Sent 4: What type of world did they live in?
Sent 5: Fossils can tell us a lot about Earths history.
Sent 6: In ancient times, fossils inspired myths and stories.
Sent 7: These stories included tales of monsters and other incredible creatures.
Sent 8: What type of creature do you know that could inspire such stories?
Sent 9: Of course, dinosaur fossils were once mistaken for dragons bones.
Sent 10: Two thousand years ago, people discovered fossils in China.
Sent 11: At the time, they were thought to be dragon bones.
Sent 12: We know now that these were not bones, but fossils.
Sent 13: So what is the difference?", "question": "What were some fossils originally thought to be?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To explore cooperative anti-terrorism efforts between the US and Malaysia by meeting with the Prime Minister, including the idea of creating a regional training center in Malaysia", "Met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad", "To propose forming a regional training center to coordinate anti-terrorism activities", "Detention of Wan Azizah Wan Ismail husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism" ], "distractor groups": [ "To inform them of sanctions", "Arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants", "To meet Wan Azizah Wan Ismail,", "To begin peace talks", "To ask for the release of Mahathir to the U.S" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: \"If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them,\" he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir \"touched on the case\" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had \"always felt\" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.", "question": "What was the purpose of Powell's trip to Malaysia?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nutrients pass to primary consumers", "I can place plant food in the soil where my tomato plants grow. A rabbit comes along and eats the tomato. A hunter kills the rabbit for food and eats it" ], "distractor groups": [ "Living things die and go extinct as a result of interaction with other animals", "Nutrients pass through consumers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy.
Sent 2: What do you think matter is used for?
Sent 3: One thing is to build bodies.
Sent 4: They also need it to carry out the processes of life.
Sent 5: Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient.
Sent 6: Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients.
Sent 7: Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Sent 8: You can see how in Figure 3.11.
Sent 9: Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
Sent 10: The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
Sent 11: The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
Sent 12: The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
Sent 13: When living things die, the cycle repeats.", "question": "Describe this scenario of recycling nutrients in an example.A. Nutrients pass to primary consumersB. Living things die and go extinct as a result of interaction with other animalsC. Nutrients pass through consumersD. I can place plant food in the soil where my tomato plants grow. A rabbit comes along and eats the tomato. A hunter kills the rabbit for food and eats itPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It would create jobs immediately, and it would also make the economy run more smoothly over the long term", "More jobs, a better economy", "That it would \"create jobs immediately,\" and \"Make our economy hum over the long haul.\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "That it will boost the new spending on infrastructure and popularize those who favor it in Wisconsin for the upcoming gubernatorial races there", "That it will create the Infrastructure Bank and increase the chance of a Democratic majority in the House and Senate", "More jobs, better commute times" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "What did the president say would be two significant benefits of spending to rebuild many miles of roads, railways, and runways?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit", "Tenth international leading area in container transit", "the biggest Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex) in the Middle East", "Top regional container transit" ], "distractor groups": [ "World leader in container transit", "Internet and free trade", "Being a new trading center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City.
Sent 2: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at 200 million.
Sent 3: Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that \"we want to make Dubai a new trading center.\"
Sent 4: The minister, who has his own website, also said: \"I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies.\"
Sent 5: He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies.
Sent 6: The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit.
Sent 7: The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East.", "question": "Which two other things does Dubai already stand out for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "U.S. Government", "Us", "The U. S. Government", "American citizens" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Animals", "Living beings", "Terrorists" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In short, the United States has to help defeat an ideology, not just a group of people, and we must do so under difficult circumstances.
Sent 2: How can the United States and its friends help moderate Muslims combat the extremist ideas?
Sent 3: Recommendation: The U.S. government must define what the message is, what it stands for.
Sent 4: We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors.
Sent 5: America and Muslim friends can agree on respect for human dignity and opportunity.
Sent 6: To Muslim parents, terrorists like Bin Laden have nothing to offer their children but visions of violence and death.
Sent 7: America and its friends have a crucial advantage-we can offer these parents a vision that might give their children a better future.
Sent 8: If we heed the views of thoughtful leaders in the Arab and Muslim world, a moderate consensus can be found.
Sent 9: That vision of the future should stress life over death: individual educational and economic opportunity.
Sent 10: This vision includes widespread political participation and contempt for indiscriminate violence.
Sent 11: It includes respect for the rule of law, openness in discussing differences, and tolerance for opposing points of view.
Sent 12: Recommendation: Where Muslim governments, even those who are friends, do not respect these principles, the United States must stand for a better future.
Sent 13: One of the lessons of the long Cold War was that short-term gains in cooperating with the most repressive and brutal governments were too often outweighed by long-term setbacks for America's stature and interests.
Sent 14: American foreign policy is part of the message.
Sent 15: America's policy choices have consequences.
Sent 16: Right or wrong, it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world.
Sent 17: That does not mean U.S. choices have been wrong.
Sent 18: It means those choices must be integrated with America's message of opportunity to the Arab and Muslim world.", "question": "Who should be generous and caring to their neighboursA. Bin LadenB. U.S. GovernmentC. UsD. The U. S. GovernmentE. American citizensF. AnimalsG. Living beingsH. TerroristsPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Texas", "TX" ], "distractor groups": [ "California", "Tarrant County", "Oklahoma" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Legal assistance for battered women is hard to come by.
Sent 2: But it just got a little easier to find in Tarrant County.
Sent 3: This month, the federal Violence Against Women Office awarded a two-year, 350,000 grant to the Women's Haven of Tarrant County.
Sent 4: The money will allow the shelter to add a second full-time attorney to its staff and contract with the law school clinic at Texas Wesleyan University for pro bono and student services.
Sent 5: Most important, the funds will help fill a frustrating gap.
Sent 6: The Women's Haven, which provides shelter and outreach to domestic-violence victims, already has a full-time attorney.
Sent 7: But that person is prohibited (by funding parameters) from representing women in matters of divorce or child custody.
Sent 8: That's not a problem for most of the shelter's indigent residents, who can access free legal aid locally from West Texas Legal Services.
Sent 9: But many of the clients served by the Women's Haven outreach programs are the working poor, who don't qualify for free legal services.
Sent 10: Divorces and custody battles are simply out of their financial reach.
Sent 11: \"They can't begin to save up enough money for a divorce, so they're stuck,\" says Sonyia Hartwell, the Women's Haven's associate director.
Sent 12: \"They're completely shut out of the civil-law system.\"
Sent 13: In Texas, unlike in some other states, women who aren't divorced can't gain full control over their portion of assets.
Sent 14: And they can't obtain child support.
Sent 15: The grant will also provide law students with valuable experience working these types of cases.
Sent 16: \"They can't go to court, but they can interview clients and do all the initial intake work that needs to be done\" as well as investigative work, says Hartwell.
Sent 17: And there's no shortage of abuse victims who need this kind of help.
Sent 18: \"Within 60 days of hanging out her or his shingle,\" says Hartwell of the yet unhired new attorney, \"we'll have an active caseload of 20 or more.\"", "question": "Women who are not divorced can't obtain child support in which state?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport", "Delta Airlines flight 1989", "Delta 1989" ], "distractor groups": [ "American 17", "Delta 93", "United 93", "American 11", "FAA 1989", "UA 93", "United Airlines Flight 93" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all.
Sent 3: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Sent 4: Remembering the \"we have some planes\" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked.
Sent 5: Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack.
Sent 6: NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.
Sent 7: The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too.
Sent 8: During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 9: The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second.
Sent 10: NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it.
Sent 11: The flight never turned off its transponder.
Sent 12: NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland.
Sent 13: But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93.
Sent 14: United Airlines Flight 93 FAA Awareness.
Sent 15: At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller.
Sent 16: This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.
Sent 17: Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard \"a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin.\"
Sent 18: The controller responded, seconds later: \"Somebody call Cleveland?\"This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming.", "question": "Which flight did NEADS think was hijacked right after the Pentagon was hit?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America. Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighborhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point. It's more like a revolution,\" says Allen", "He says it's \"more like a revolution.\"", "He feels its \"beyond a movement at this point.\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "He thinks it is bogus", "He says there are only a few urban gardens in America" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "What is former pro basketball player Will Allen's position on urban farming?" }, { "answer groups": [ "False", "False. Matter is always in motion" ], "distractor groups": [ "True" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Simply put, energy is the ability to a cause change.
Sent 2: Energy can cause many types of change.
Sent 3: Think about when you have a lot of energy.
Sent 4: You are able to do a lot of things.
Sent 5: When you dont have a lot of energy, you may sit around and do very little.
Sent 6: A similar thing happens to particles of matter as energy is added.
Sent 7: The more energy there is, the faster the particles of matter move.
Sent 8: Energy is also the reason you are able to move around.
Sent 9: In fact, matter is always in motion.
Sent 10: It can even change from one form to another.
Sent 11: For example, electrical energy can be converted into heat energy.
Sent 12: You see this every time you use the toaster.
Sent 13: Energy causes a change in matter when you lift your arm.
Sent 14: Energy can be used to move matter.
Sent 15: You use energy to take a step to move forward.
Sent 16: Thanks to energy, your body moves.
Sent 17: The energy of moving matter is called kinetic energy.", "question": "True or false. Matter is able to change forms despite, usually, not being in motion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "North America, Europe, South America, Africa", "North America", "South America", "Europe", "Africa" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atlantic ocean", "Canada", "Puzzle", "Continents", "Australia", "Jig-saw" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "Which four continents from the paragraph look like they are connected like a jig saw puzzle?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Greenwich, England", "Equator and Greenwich, England", "Zero Longitude runs through Greenwich, England while zero latitude runs along the equator" ], "distractor groups": [ "Equator", "Greenland", "North Pole and Antarctica", "Brussels" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "Where are zero longitude and latitude located?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because she lost her health care insurance", "She wanted to restore Medi-Cal", "Apartment had broken infrastructure and to reinstate Medi-Cal benefits" ], "distractor groups": [ "She wanted to sue her landlord", "The landlord took her rent money", "She committed a crime", "She didn't have enough food" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to \"The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California,\" prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise \"justice for all,\" but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.", "question": "Why was Katherine seeking legal help?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By the spring and summer of 2000", "Summer of 2000" ], "distractor groups": [ "11", "9", "Before 1999", "Late 1999" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "By what period was al-Qaeda able to meet the requirements for a successful attack?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Crain's New York Business", "Legal Aid Society" ], "distractor groups": [ "Manhattan-based real estate brokerage", "Band Aid Society" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "Which nonprofit organization had headquarters at 90 Church St., across from the World Trade Center site?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Non-contact force", "Magnetic force" ], "distractor groups": [ "Physical force", "The maglev train can push or pull certain items without ever touching them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "What kind of force is used to move a maglev train?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Needed to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances, but were unable to determine where the source of the money was coming from. Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system", "They didn't focus on international problems", "Policy", "Strategy", "They did not find it important enough, instead focusing on money laundering for drug trafficking" ], "distractor groups": [ "Investigation", "Didn't have enough funding", "Saudi Arabia wouldn't let them", "Laundering", "They couldn't find any information" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "What kept the U.S. government from being able to stop Bin Laden's flow of money?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was a holy place, vast salt flats, lead mining, and other natural resources", "Salt" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gold", "Land", "Government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A handful of Bronze Age relics has fostered an assumption that prehistoric settlers inhabited Ibiza thousands of years ago.
Sent 2: Greater evidence of such a people is found on Mallorca and Menorca than on Ibiza, but one of the Balearics' most important sites is actually on the island of Formentera, where the megalithic monument/tomb of Ca Na Costa has been dated to 2000 b.c.
Sent 3: Ibiza's key location between Africa and ancient Iberia made it a convenient stopover for Mediterranean seafarers, such as the Phoenician traders, who called the island Ibosim.
Sent 4: The Greeks dubbed it Ebysos, the Romans called it Ebusus, and the Moors, Yebisah.
Sent 5: The Carthaginians: A detailed history of the island doesn't begin until it became a colony of Carthage in the 7th century b.c.
Sent 6: .
Sent 7: The Carthaginians originally came from the area comprising present-day Lebanon, and from their bases in North Africa and what's now Spain, they challenged the Roman Empire for domination of the Mediterranean region.
Sent 8: Their interest in Ibiza lay partly in its vast salt flats, which to this day remain the source of a profitable industry.
Sent 9: They capitalized on the natural resources by using the salt to cure fish, which they exported to their home country.
Sent 10: The Carthaginians also carried out lead mining and continued to be of significance up until this century.
Sent 11: It is believed that the lead pellets which were used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal were made on Ibiza.
Sent 12: The Carthaginians also considered the island a holy place, and here in great splendour they buried thousands of their citizens in a huge necropolis on the Puig des Molins (Hill of the Windmills) below the Dalt Vila (Old Town) of Ibiza.
Sent 13: Under the gnarled olive trees archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove of statues, jewellery, pitchers, tools, and coins, which are now displayed in the town's two archaeological museums.
Sent 14: The Romans never really infiltrated Ibiza, and even after the defeat of Hannibal in 202 b.c.
Sent 15: during the Second Punic War their influence was restrained.
Sent 16: Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c.
Sent 17: did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.
Sent 18: For centuries to come the old Carthaginian traditions were allowed to continue on Ibiza alongside the new Roman way of life.", "question": "Why did the Carthaginians want Ibiza?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Portugal", "Stone Age inhabitants of Europe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s southwestern extremity", "The Algarve", "Earliest Stone Age", "Spain" ], "distractor groups": [ "Greeks", "Lusitania", "Italy", "Seville", "Rome", "Visigoths" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "The Cynetes (or Cunetes) is the name the ancient Greeks gave to the original inhabitants of what which modern European country?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His work is hidden among the museums usual exhibits and is in different rooms in 3 stories", "He thinks they may have dragged the museum down to their level instead of being elevated to theirs" ], "distractor groups": [ "He wanted to support the museum", "He lived in Bristol and it was convenient", "He said I think we might have dragged them down to our level", "Because they needed to raise money for a good cause" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: LONDON, England -- Graffiti artist Banksy, famed for infiltrating museum collections without their knowledge and spray-painting public buildings around the world, is holding his first major exhibition in years.
Sent 2: A Banksy painting of the British House of Commons at England's Bristol museum.
Sent 3: This time, however, the anonymous artist worked in tandem with the director of Bristol museum in the UK.
Sent 4: CNN's Max Foster got a preview of his largest project to date.
Sent 5: The artist's anonymity gained him notoriety and he became one of the art world's biggest names with his works selling at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Sent 6: The exhibition's range, while very varied, remained true to Banksy form with his usual unconventional take on art.
Sent 7: See pictures from Banksy's exhibition \u00bb \"I think we might have dragged them down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs\" Banksy, who is thought to be from Bristol, said about the museum.
Sent 8: He filled three stories of the building with his art in 36 hours under tight security, as only a few museum staff were aware of the shows' imminent arrival.
Sent 9: His work is hidden among the museum's usual exhibits and is split into different rooms, including installations, paintings and sculptures.
Sent 10: In one of the paintings, a character has been cut out and is instead sitting on the painting's frame, perhaps taking a break from posing?", "question": "Why did Banksy say his usual unconventional take on art might be displayed in the museum?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Worked in private practice from 1982-90", "Several years of private practice from 1982-90,", "He became a judge of Decatur County for a year" ], "distractor groups": [ "Being appointed to the state Supreme court", "He worked as a clerk" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Growing up on a farm near St. Paul, L. Mark Bailey didn't dream of becoming a judge.
Sent 2: Even when he graduated from North Decatur High School in 1975, sitting on the bench someday seemed more like a leisurely activity than a career.
Sent 3: Somewhere along the line, all of that changed.
Sent 4: Bailey received his bachelor's degree from the University of Indianapolis in 1978 and a jurisprudence doctorate from Indiana University-Indianapolis in 1982.
Sent 5: After several years of private practice from 1982-90, he became the judge of Decatur County Court for a year.
Sent 6: The Indiana legislature renamed that judgeship and Bailey was tabbed Decatur Superior Court judge from 1992-98, winning reelection twice.
Sent 7: From there, his career continued on the fast track and Bailey was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to sit on the Indiana Court of Appeals First District, where he works today.
Sent 8: Despite his quick climb up the legal ladder, Bailey has always found time to help out in causes he feels strongly about.
Sent 9: It was for his dedication to the law and the people that are affected by it that he was recently recognized.
Sent 10: The Indiana Pro Bono Commission hosted its annual celebration event, the Randall T. Shepard Dinner, at French Lick Springs Spa in October.
Sent 11: More than 100 judges, lawyers and dignitaries were present for the gathering.
Sent 12: One of the highlights of the event was the presentation of the first-ever Randall T. Shepard award for excellence in pro bono work.
Sent 13: Bailey received the award for his three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission.
Sent 14: The award was named after the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court to honor his statewide vision on justice.
Sent 15: The qualifications for the award were based upon demonstrated dedication to the innovative development and delivery of legal services to the poor in one of the 14 pro bono districts of Indiana.
Sent 16: \"This award came as a real surprise to me.
Sent 17: It is truly an honor.
Sent 18: Just being the first chair of the commission which began the implementation of the pro bono process was somewhat humbling.", "question": "What did L. Mark Bailey do after he graduated from Indiana University-Indianapolis?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mechanical and chemical", "It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rational abd sensorial", "Personal and Chemical", "Physical and acidic", "Magically and mechanically", "Mechanical and Normal" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What two forms of digestion help to turn food into nutrients?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She could not afford an attorney and the legal system was too crowded to be a help to her", "The most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services", "She could not afford her own lawyer, and there are not enough legal aid lawyers to help everyone in need", "She could not afford it" ], "distractor groups": [ "She didn't want to pay it", "She felt she had experienced her promblems and was best able to bring them to the attention of the court", "She was very smart" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to \"The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California,\" prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise \"justice for all,\" but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.", "question": "Why did Katherine represent herself and not seek legal services?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Alvaro Colom's country", "Guatemala" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mexico", "Columbia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Guatemala's government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
Sent 2: President Alvaro Colom announced the 30-day emergency rule in Alta Verapaz on Sunday.
Sent 3: The rule allows the military to order anyone suspected of conspiring against the government to be arrested and imprisoned without a warrant, the state-run AGN news agency said.
Sent 4: \"Starting today, combined forces will retake the streets of Alta Verapaz,\" a government statement released Sunday morning said.
Sent 5: Government data shows cells of the drug gang known as Los Zetas are in the area to protect drug trafficking paths between Honduras and Mexico, \"intimidating the population with their heavy weapons and threatening farmers to give up their land for criminal activities,\" AGN reported.
Sent 6: The state of siege also allows the government to place greater restrictions on public gatherings, travel visas and gun licenses, among other things, according to AGN.
Sent 7: \"The population should be calm.
Sent 8: What we are doing is not intended to persecute honest, working people,\" Interior Minister Carlos Menocal told reporters.
Sent 9: Menocal said operations in the coming days would aim to boost regional security, regain control of territory, identify criminal gangs and capture their members.
Sent 10: In an interview with CNN en Espanol last month, Menocal said his country needed more help from the United States to combat cartels, which were increasingly carving out new drug transport paths.
Sent 11: \"In the end, the large majority of drugs travel through Central America, and the assignment of resources or the financial support of the United States government is not the same as Colombia and Mexico receive,\" he said.
Sent 12: Menocal said clashes between authorities and Los Zetas had notably increased.", "question": "Alta Verapaz is in which country?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Open own law office", "Small law firm", "Low bono" ], "distractor groups": [ "Government posts", "Independent", "Pro bono", "Large firm" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "What kind of legal work do recent graduates of City University of New York School of Law tend to find, which pays very little?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country", "California passed and tested initiatives in environment and public health that the rest of the country adopted", "Because they have pioneered major public health initiatives" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because other states pay them to try new initiatives first", "They have the largest population of any state", "They donate more money to charity", "They have more nannies" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "Why might someone say California is a lab for moving forward with new initiatives?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia", "President of Bolivia", "President of Colombia", "President Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Alan Zamora", "Fidel Castro", "The fourth ranking cartel", "To discuss the drug problem", "Jose Abello Silva" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "In the response to the Panama fiasco, who has President Bush agreed to meet with within 90 days to offer some reassurance?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nanny State", "The Golden State" ], "distractor groups": [ "Disneyland", "Silicon Valley", "Bridge State", "The Orange State", "Hollywood", "The Healthcare State", "Desert State" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What is California's state nickname?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They say he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health", "Didn't return update form", "He failed to return a form" ], "distractor groups": [ "He lost his hand", "Overweight", "He lied to the attorney", "He was ugly" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.
Sent 2: Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.
Sent 3: The story of Martha, a woman from Sierra Leone, was more compelling.
Sent 4: Beaten, raped and tortured in her politically repressive homeland, she knowingly used someone else's passport to escape to America, but was caught by immigration authorities upon her arrival.
Sent 5: She desperately sought political asylum.
Sent 6: Not the kind of cases that lead to ground-breaking upheavals in the law, but the kind of cases that are handled day in and day out by lawyers for the legally disenfranchised who have no where else to turn.
Sent 7: The work of attorneys from Legal Services of New Jersey will be highlighted in a onehour documentary, \"Quest for Justice,\" to be aired 9 p.m.
Sent 8: today on New Jersey Network.
Sent 9: Produced by NYD2, a communications firm based in Somerset, the documentary features case histories of clients whose needs ranged from housing to fighting off deportation.
Sent 10: Joseph, a 54-year-old naturalized citizen, turned to Legal Services when the landlord of his federally subsidized apartment complex in Elizabeth turned a deaf ear to his request for a ground-floor apartment.
Sent 11: Having lost the use of his left arm in warding off the machete attack during a robbery attempt, Joseph said he found it increasingly difficult to negotiate the five flights of stairs lugging groceries or laundry on the frequent occasions when the building's elevator was out of order.
Sent 12: \"With this, it became impossible for me to stay upstairs,\" he said, pointing to the scars on his forearm.
Sent 13: \"If I cannot carry my groceries or my laundry, how can I live?\"
Sent 14: \"It was a compelling case,\" said Legal Services attorney Stephen St. Hilaire.
Sent 15: \"The key for us -- and we have to make tough decisions all the time on whether to take a case -- was visualizing what he had to do to get to the fifth floor, struggling with a bag of groceries,\" he said.
Sent 16: Benjamin, 53, of Jersey City had been collecting Social Security disability after undergoing double bypass surgery when the checks stopped coming.
Sent 17: He said the agency claimed he had failed to return a form updating the condition of his health.
Sent 18: \"But what got me was they didn't let me know they didn't get it, they just cut me off,\" he said, adding he found it impossible to negotiate the Social Security bureaucracy himself.", "question": "Why did Social Security cut off Benjamin of Jersey City?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because he estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America", "Because there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens across the U.S" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because urban farming is not a tremendous good and is losing popularity", "Because urban farming just started", "Because the gardens inspire beauty in the cities" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "Why does former Professional Basketball player Will Allen describe Urban farming by saying \" It's beyond a movement at this point. It's a more of a revolution\"A. Because he estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across AmericaB. Because there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens across the U.SC. Because urban farming is not a tremendous good and is losing popularityD. Because urban farming just startedE. Because the gardens inspire beauty in the citiesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The president", "President Clinton" ], "distractor groups": [ "Secret service", "Bin Laden", "God and the president", "Karl Inderfurth", "Michael Sheehan", "CIA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Who did The State Department feel should visit both India and Pakistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force", "The difference lies in exertion. Unlike humans, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force", "Magnets do not have to touch something to exert force, it is extended over a distance" ], "distractor groups": [ "Magnets touch something", "The change magnet produce" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "What is the difference between magnetic force and the force a human uses to move things?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Against women activies", "Against" ], "distractor groups": [ "Love women activies" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, the spotlight was once again on Iran.
Sent 2: And true to form, the Iranian president made his fair share of provocative statements for the Western media.
Sent 3: But while Ahmadinejad's mercurial rants captured our media's attention, back in Iran a coordinated strategy against the women's movement continued.
Sent 4: On the eve of Ahmadinejad's arrival to New York, Shiva Nazar Ahari, a prominent young female defender of human rights, received a heavy sentence of six years in prison on charges including the vague crime of \"waging war against God\" -- a convenient catch-all offense for anyone who criticizes the regime and its human rights record.
Sent 5: There's no denying it -- Iran's women have had a bad year.
Sent 6: Nazar Ahari joins a steadily increasing number of other women's rights activists who are in prison for no greater crime than their attempt to fight for the rights of the women.
Sent 7: Hengameh Shahidi, Alieh Eghdam Doust, Bahareh Hedayat and Mahdiyeh Golrou have all been sent to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on trumped-up charges related to their activism.
Sent 8: And while Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, arguably the most internationally recognized Iranian women's rights activist, remains unable to safely return to her country, the government is targeting those affiliated with her for arrest and imprisonment, including her lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and her former aide Jinous Sobhani.
Sent 9: Since the 2009 disputed elections and associated government crackdown on the overall reform movement, the government has increasingly targeted women activists.
Sent 10: The reasons behind this go well beyond the misogynist nature of Iran's religious leadership.
Sent 11: Rather, it is more part of a deliberate and calculated strategy of the Iranian authorities to strike at the heart of the regime's greatest vulnerability -- internal legitimacy with its own people.
Sent 12: See more CNN.com opinion articles Iran's government recognizes and fears the broader power of the women activists who have been on the front line of reform in Iran for more than a decade.
Sent 13: One can roughly draw an analogy between the women's movement in Iran to movements of religious groups in Burma or Tibet, or the labor \"solidarity\" movements in the former Eastern bloc and associated labor-Roman Catholic solidarity in Poland -- all advocating initially for the freedoms of a specific group but which provoked government fears for their transformative power to promote broader human rights progress.
Sent 14: While the outside world occasionally reacts to the most egregious manifestations of Iran's repression of women -- such as the international condemnation associated with Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian widow sentenced to stoning on charges of alleged adultery -- these events are often portrayed simply as a consequence of the regime's archaic viewpoint about gender.", "question": "Is the Iranian government for or against women activists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rubber, timber, steel metal, copper, ore, silver", "Trees", "Lead ore", "Minerals" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sea shells", "Rubber", "Nails" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.", "question": "What are some natural resource sources we can use as building materials?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He favored resuming Predator flights over Afghanistan as soon as weather permitted", "Resuming Predator flights over Afghanistan as soon as weather permitted, hoping that they still might provide the elusive \"actionable intelligence\" to target Bin Laden with cruise missiles", "Clarke became even more enthusiastic about redeployment" ], "distractor groups": [ "He wanted time to assess the situation and make a decision later", "He wanted to end all use of Predator drones", "He favored saving predators for other purposes", "He favored aborting the program", "He believed the risk of possible program termination was too great" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In March 2001, Rice asked the CIA to prepare a new series of authorities for covert action in Afghanistan.
Sent 2: Rice's recollection was that the idea had come from Clarke and the NSC senior director for intelligence, Mary McCarthy, and had been linked to the proposal for aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks.
Sent 3: Rice described the draft document as providing for \"consolidation plus,\" superseding the various Clinton administration documents.
Sent 4: In fact, the CIA drafted two documents.
Sent 5: One was a finding that did concern aid to opponents of the Taliban regime; the other was a draft Memorandum of Notification, which included more open-ended language authorizing possible lethal action in a variety of situations.
Sent 6: Tenet delivered both to Hadley on March 28.
Sent 7: The CIA's notes for Tenet advised him that \"in response to the NSC request for drafts that will help the policymakers review their options, each of the documents has been crafted to provide the Agency with the broadest possible discretion permissible under the law.\"
Sent 8: At the meeting, Tenet argued for deciding on a policy before deciding on the legal authorities to implement it.
Sent 9: Hadley accepted this argument, and the draft MON was put on hold.
Sent 10: As the policy review moved forward, the planned covert action program for Afghanistan was included in the draft presidential directive, as part of an \"Annex A\" on intelligence activities to \"eliminate the al Qaeda threat.\"
Sent 11: The main debate during the summer of 2001 concentrated on the one new mechanism for a lethal attack on Bin Laden-an armed version of the Predator drone.
Sent 12: In the first months of the new administration, questions concerning the Predator became more and more a central focus of dispute.
Sent 13: Clarke favored resuming Predator flights over Afghanistan as soon as weather permitted, hoping that they still might provide the elusive \"actionable intelligence\" to target Bin Laden with cruise missiles.
Sent 14: Learning that the Air Force was thinking of equipping Predators with warheads, Clarke became even more enthusiastic about redeployment.
Sent 15: The CTC chief, Cofer Black, argued against deploying the Predator for reconnaissance purposes.
Sent 16: He recalled that theTaliban had spotted a Predator in the fall of 2000 and scrambled their MiG fighters.
Sent 17: Black wanted to wait until the armed version was ready.
Sent 18: \"I do not believe the possible recon value outweighs the risk of possible program termination when the stakes are raised by the Taliban parading a charred Predator in front of CNN,\" he wrote.", "question": "In the debate over the use of armed Predator drones what position did Clarke favor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Crain's New York Business", "Legal Aid Society", "The Legal Aid Society" ], "distractor groups": [ "Band Aid Society", "Deloittes", "Manhattan-based real estate brokerage", "Years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "Which organization has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is an animated history of the US and one of the key messages is to continue the racism of the KKK", "Animated, key message: how gun rights are promoted for whites, outlawed for blacks", "Animated history of the US and one of the key messages is continuing the racist goals of the KKK" ], "distractor groups": [ "LIve action, key message: NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people", "Documentary, key message: the CIA fought cocaine smuggling into the U.S. in the '80s", "This is cartoon film depicted violence in elementary schools among six-year olds." ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Animated history of the US.
Sent 2: Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified, and most critics consider it one of the weakest parts of the film.
Sent 3: But it makes a valid claim which you ignore entirely: That the strategy to promote \"gun rights\" for white people and to outlaw gun possession by black people was a way to uphold racism without letting an openly terrorist organization like the KKK flourish.
Sent 4: Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
Sent 5: I highly doubt it.
Sent 6: But if they didn't, one of their functions was to continue the racism of the KKK.
Sent 7: This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics.
Sent 8: Buell shooting in Flint.
Sent 9: You write: \"Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before\".
Sent 10: This characterization of a six-year-old as a pencil-stabbing thug is exactly the kind of hysteria that Moore's film warns against.
Sent 11: It is the typical right-wing reaction which looks for simple answers that do not contradict the Republican mindset.
Sent 12: The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed.
Sent 13: But why do people deal with drugs?
Sent 14: Because it's so much fun to do so?
Sent 15: It is by now well documented that the CIA tolerated crack sales in US cities to fund the operation of South American \"contras\" It is equally well known that the so-called \"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administration is a failure which has cost hundreds of billions and made America the world leader in prison population (both in relative and absolute numbers).", "question": "What type of the film is being discussed and what is on of the key messages?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At least 3", "Possibly 4", "Four", "4", "Four possible hijackings" ], "distractor groups": [ "5", "2", "More than 4", "1", "3" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "How many possible hijackings were there?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Attorneys", "Leon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wong", "Courts", "Patricia Philips", "Her co-workers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"The impact of her interest and work on the provision of legal services in the state of California is immeasurable,\" said Patricia Philips, senior of-counsel for Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster.
Sent 2: \"Its value is felt every day by someone who would otherwise be floundering around in the legal system yet dealing with very serious problems.\"
Sent 3: Zelon's public-interest work has not gone unnoticed.
Sent 4: Several organizations that share her commitment to public service - including the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the State Bar of California - have honored her.
Sent 5: Two years ago, Zelon received the Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award, which had been named for her one year earlier by the Law Firm Pro Bono Project, which she'd helped found.
Sent 6: \"I didn't find out until I was standing in the great hall of the Supreme Court, surrounded by 300 people who were there, that the award had been named for me and was thereafter going to be given in my name.
Sent 7: It's very hard to believe, for anyone who knows me well, but I was actually speechless for a period,\" Zelon said.
Sent 8: Zelon faced one of the greatest challenges of her legal career, she said, when her appointment to the bench forced her to switch gears from civil litigation to criminal law.
Sent 9: \"It was a steep learning curve for me,\" she said.
Sent 10: \"It's a whole different set of processes.
Sent 11: The rules are different.
Sent 12: The case law is a whole body unto itself.\"
Sent 13: Attorneys praise Zelon for her thorough understanding of the law.
Sent 14: \"She's extremely well-versed in the law,\" Leon said.
Sent 15: \"She's very thorough in her research,\" Wong said.
Sent 16: Of course, not all attorneys concur with every decision Zelon makes in court.
Sent 17: Some city attorneys disagree with her interpretation of evidentiary statutes when Zelon puts limits on their use of hearsay testimony.
Sent 18: But lawyers who have appeared before her say that they appreciate her intelligent interpretation of the law.", "question": "Who raised Zelon for her thorough understanding of the law?" }, { "answer groups": [ "City University of New York Law School in Queens", "City University of New York Law School" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cornell University", "Innovative Community Legal Resources Network" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy.
Sent 2: A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust.
Sent 3: In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel.
Sent 4: A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a 250-an-hour legal counselor.
Sent 5: Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network.
Sent 6: ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge.
Sent 7: ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.''
Sent 8: For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award.
Sent 9: The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus.
Sent 10: Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice.
Sent 11: The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.
Sent 12: The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem.
Sent 13: After all, politics run in the Rooney family.
Sent 14: His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party.
Sent 15: But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined.
Sent 16: ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled.
Sent 17: ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.''
Sent 18: After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services.", "question": "Kristin Booth Glen is the dean of which law school?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were hunter gatherers, who followed wildlife, lived in caves, and showed primitive signs of civilization", "They developed a lasting hunting and gathering culture" ], "distractor groups": [ "They had irrigation", "Advanced agricultural techniques", "By stealing from the Anasazi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "How did the Archaic Indians survive?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They avoided armed strife and developed a trade empire", "To avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations", "Portugal wanted to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations" ], "distractor groups": [ "Treaty of Windsor", "They conquered many nations" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "What policy played an important role in helping Portugal to have relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Young Hare", "Animals, still lifes, and people" ], "distractor groups": [ "Watercolour and bodycolour", "Lifes of meadow", "Internal organs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Durer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Durer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.
Sent 2: De' Barbari was unwilling to explain everything he knew, so Durer began his own studies, which would become a lifelong preoccupation.
Sent 3: A series of extant drawings show Durer's experiments in human proportion, leading to the famous engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), which shows his subtlety while using the burin in the texturing of flesh surfaces.
Sent 4: This is the only existing engraving signed with his full name.
Sent 5: Durer made large numbers of preparatory drawings, especially for his paintings and engravings, and many survive, most famously the Betende Hande (English: Praying Hands, c.
Sent 6: 1508 Albertina, Vienna), a study for an apostle in the Heller altarpiece.
Sent 7: He also continued to make images in watercolour and bodycolour (usually combined), including a number of still lifes of meadow sections or animals, including his Young Hare (1502) and the Great Piece of Turf (1503, both also Albertina).", "question": "What sort of subjects were in Durer's artworks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sad", "Anxious", "Worried" ], "distractor groups": [ "Excited", "Happy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tim had always a red bike.
Sent 2: His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike.
Sent 3: When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike.
Sent 4: He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them.
Sent 5: Tim was sad.
Sent 6: When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time.
Sent 7: The first present was not a bike.
Sent 8: The second present was not a bike.
Sent 9: The third present was the biggest one.
Sent 10: Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box.
Sent 11: Tim opened it and there was no bike inside.
Sent 12: Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all.
Sent 13: His Dad had been hiding the present all along.
Sent 14: Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box.
Sent 15: Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help.", "question": "How was Tim feeling right before he started opening presents?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Zakariya and Mounir", "Zakariya Essabar and Mounir el Motassadeq", "Motassadeq", "Binalshibh, Essabar, Mzoudi", "Essabar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Atef", "Binalshibh" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology.
Sent 2: Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque.
Sent 3: Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam.
Sent 4: Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle.
Sent 5: Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership.
Sent 6: Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University.
Sent 7: A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it.
Sent 8: One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a \"good man\" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999.
Sent 10: Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry.
Sent 11: Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995.
Sent 12: Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg.
Sent 13: In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will.
Sent 14: During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations.
Sent 15: 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time.
Sent 16: Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States.
Sent 17: In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM.
Sent 18: Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians.", "question": "Which Morrocans lived in Germany during the 1990s?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The serfs being transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors", "Transforming the serfs into a class of independent communal proprietors" ], "distractor groups": [ "The serfs leaving Russia forever", "Ther serfs becomin dependent laborers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Soon after the conclusion of peace, important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies.
Sent 2: Plans were formed for building a great network of railways, partly for the purpose of developing the natural resources of the country, and partly for the purpose of increasing its power for defense and attack.
Sent 3: The existence of serfdom was tackled boldly, taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces and, hoping that their relations with the serfs might be regulated in a more satisfactory way (meaning in a way more satisfactory for the proprietors), he authorized the formation of committees \"for ameliorating the condition of the peasants,\" and laid down the principles on which the amelioration was to be effected.
Sent 4: This step had been followed by one even more significant.
Sent 5: Without consulting his ordinary advisers, Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia (serfdom was rare in other parts), containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the Governor-General of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
Sent 6: The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
Sent 7: The emancipation was not merely a humanitarian question capable of being solved instantaneously by imperial ukase.
Sent 8: It contained very complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation.
Sent 9: Alexander had to choose between the different measures recommended to him and decide if the serfs would become agricultural laborers dependent economically and administratively on the landlords or if the serfs would be transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors.
Sent 10: The emperor gave his support to the latter project, and the Russian peasantry became one of the last groups of peasants in Europe to shake off serfdom.
Sent 11: The architects of the emancipation manifesto were Alexander's brother Konstantin, Yakov Rostovtsev, and Nikolay Milyutin.
Sent 12: On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published.", "question": "Which idea for the emancipation of the serfs did Alexander lend his support to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They believe that all muslims need to fight against the non believers", "There is only 2 religions to choose from, Islam and jahilliyya", "Those who don't share his ideas are worthy of destruction", "All Muslims must take up arms in a righteous defense of an embattled faith against nonbelievers worthy of destruction" ], "distractor groups": [ "The prophet Mohammed said so", "All Americans are dumb", "They didnt like Americans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "How do Bin Laden and Qutb rationalize the mass murder and hate of Americans and nonbelievers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New homes", "Land may be cleared for agriculture, or used for building new homes or businesses", "Agriculture, building", "New business", "Agriculture" ], "distractor groups": [ "Agriculture, computers", "To collect wood", "100 years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "Why may land be cleared?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Osama Bin Laden", "Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Egyptian writer", "Osama", "Jahiliyya", "Sayyid Qutb", "He" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Who calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "North African nomads", "Armies of African Nomads", "The North African nomads intent on spreading Islam" ], "distractor groups": [ "Indians", "Christian forces" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished.
Sent 2: Over a period of many centuries crucial in Spanish history, Madrid's significance was negligible.
Sent 3: The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid.
Sent 4: Armies of North African nomads, intent on disseminating Islam, invaded the peninsula in a.d.
Sent 5: Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain.
Sent 6: If Madrid played any role in these pivotal events, no record of it remains.
Sent 7: The first solid references to this obscure settlement on the Castilian plateau, guarded by the looming Guadarrama mountain range, appear in the 9th century.
Sent 8: The Arabic name for \"place of many springs,\" variously recorded as Magerit, Mayrit or Magrit, eventually evolved into Madrid.
Sent 9: The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.
Sent 10: Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alc\u00e1zar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.
Sent 11: After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
Sent 12: The Alc\u00e1zar became a fort of the crown of Castile.
Sent 13: During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Sent 14: The Moors were expelled from the town, but they remained in control of southern Spain for almost four centuries.
Sent 15: Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town.
Sent 16: From then on, the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid, where the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent.
Sent 17: Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs that united all the provinces of Spain, first visited Madrid in 1477.", "question": "Who overtook the Romans?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A vassal's wife and children were held hostage in Edo to force loyalty", "Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals\u00e2\u0080\u0099 wives and children hostage in Edo", "Holding the vassals\u00e2\u0080\u0099 wives and children hostage in Edo" ], "distractor groups": [ "Branding the vassals", "Killing the vassal's family hostage", "Promoting foreign trade", "Defending status and honor", "Traitors were murdered", "Fulfilling all obligations", "Beating the vassalls" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "What was one cruel way in which the Bushido Code was enforced?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Photosynthesis and to warm the planet", "Plant growth", "Photosynthesis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Heat energy", "Conversion energy", "Vitamin D", "kinetic energy", "Baking eggs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.", "question": "Some of the suns energy travels to earth, what is the energy used for on earth?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Buckingham Fountain familyKate Sturges Buckingham then dedicated a statue in his name", "Buckingham" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Angel family, his son dedicated a statue in his name", "The Fountain family" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In 1990, the U.S. Custom House in New York City was renamed after Hamilton.
Sent 2: In 1880, his son John Church Hamilton commissioned Carl Conrads to sculpt a granite statue, now located in Central Park, New York City.
Sent 3: One statue honoring Alexander Hamilton in Chicago was mired in controversy, at least concerning the surrounding architecture.
Sent 4: Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937), of the Buckingham Fountain family, commissioned the monument.
Sent 5: Its impetus was that Treasury Secretary Hamilton \"secured the nation's financial future and made it possible for her own family to make its fortune in grain elevators and banking.
Sent 6: Consequently, John Angel was hired to model a figurative sculpture and the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was to create a \"colossal architectural setting\" for it.
Sent 7: The proposed 80-foot tall columned shelter was poorly received.
Sent 8: By Ms. Buckingham's death in 1937, the sculpture's setting.
Sent 9: location and design were uncertain.
Sent 10: Conspiracy allegations surfaced, and the matter became mired in litigation.
Sent 11: After the courts ordered the construction to be completed by 1953, the trustees hired architect Samuel A. Marx.
Sent 12: The structure was completed, had structural problems, and was eventually demolished in 1993.
Sent 13: The statue was gilded, and is still on display.
Sent 14: A statue, by James Earle Fraser, was dedicated on May 17, 1923, on the south terrace of the Treasury Building, in Washington.", "question": "What is the name of the family that Hamilton had helped secure the fortune of who then dedicated a statue in his name?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hijazi", "Abu Zubaydah", "Raed Hijazi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Usama Bin Laden", "Bill Clinton", "Anything else", "Abu Hoshar", "Bin Laden" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "Who assisted Abu Hashner in recruiting in Turkey, Syria and Jordan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Biographical Film", "Biographical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Action film" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as \"poet\" or \"writer\" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.", "question": "What type of film did Natalya Bondarchuk direct?" }, { "answer groups": [ "What happened in the past", "Fossils", "They use these clues to make sense of events", "Rocks and fossils", "They use clues from rocks and fossils", "Rocks" ], "distractor groups": [ "Some organisms", "Plants", "Animals", "Whats happening in the future" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earth processes have not changed over time.
Sent 2: The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past.
Sent 3: Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away.
Sent 4: The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago.
Sent 5: As the environment changes, living creatures adapt.
Sent 6: They change over time.
Sent 7: Some organisms may not be able to adapt.
Sent 8: They become extinct.
Sent 9: Becoming extinct means they die out completely.
Sent 10: Some geologists study the history of the Earth.
Sent 11: They want to learn about Earths past.
Sent 12: They use clues from rocks and fossils.
Sent 13: They use these clues to make sense of events.
Sent 14: The goal is to place things in the order they happened.
Sent 15: They also want to know how long it took for those events to happen.", "question": "What do geologists study to give them clues about the Earth's past?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In the peak of Beatlemania in 1964", "1964" ], "distractor groups": [ "1947", "1967", "1970" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { plot } } In 1964 , in the peak of Beatlemania , a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie Lennon , the father who abandoned him seventeen years earlier , with the press in attendance .
Sent 2: When they meet , John accuses his father of abandoning him , but his father says that `` he left it up to John . ''
Sent 3: John and Brian quickly leave the meeting .
Sent 4: The movie then jumps to 1967 , after Brian Epstein has died .
Sent 5: The Beatles are giving a press conference about their new film, Magical Mystery Tour .
Sent 6: John is skeptical about the film , but Paul ( ( ( Andrew Scott convinces him to go through with the idea .
Sent 7: John then invites his father to his mansion to live with him .
Sent 8: Freddie Lennon arrives and meets his grandson , Julian .
Sent 9: Sitting with his wife , John reads the criticism of Magical Mystery Tour , while comparing his wife to Brigitte Bardot , whom he says he will meet after he returns from India .
Sent 10: John finds a letter addressed to him , with the word `` Breathe '' written on it .
Sent 11: Later , after finding his father in a neighbor's house , Freddie reveals that he has a 19 year old girlfriend named Pauline , with whom he wants to live .
Sent 12: Lennon accuses his father of leaving him again , and then leaves , after telling his father that he wo n't live with him anymore .
Sent 13: After meeting Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , the Beatles quickly return to London , and in a press conference they say they made a mistake when they trusted Maharishi .
Sent 14: The journalists are curious about the Beatles new business -- Apple Records .", "question": "In what year does John meet with his father and accuse him of abandonment seventeen years earlier?" }, { "answer groups": [ "3 minutes; They were getting information from the air plane", "Three minutes", "3 minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "5 minutes; becase the hijackers told them to", "Few minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "After receiving a report that they were flying erratically again, how long did it take for the ground control to declare flight 11 a hijacking and start clearing out the airport landing area and why did they do this.A. 5 minutes; becase the hijackers told them toB. 3 minutes; They were getting information from the air planeC. Three minutesD. 3 minutesE. Few minutesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Al Qaeda", "Al Queda" ], "distractor groups": [ "Al Jazeera", "The Uzbeks", "NSPD", "The Northern Alliance", "ISIS", "Taliban", "PLA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In early March, the administration postponed action on proposals for increasing aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks.
Sent 2: Rice noted at the time that a more wide-ranging examination of policy toward Afghanistan was needed first.
Sent 3: She wanted the review very soon.
Sent 4: Rice and others recalled the President saying, \"I'm tired of swatting at flies.\"
Sent 5: The President reportedly also said,\"I'm tired of playing defense.
Sent 6: I want to play offense.
Sent 7: I want to take the fight to the terrorists.\"
Sent 8: President Bush explained to us that he had become impatient.
Sent 9: He apparently had heard proposals for rolling back al Qaeda but felt that catching terrorists one by one or even cell by cell was not an approach likely to succeed in the long run.
Sent 10: At the same time, he said, he understood that policy had to be developed slowly so that diplomacy and financial and military measures could mesh with one another.
Sent 11: Hadley convened an informal Deputies Committee meeting on March 7, when some of the deputies had not yet been confirmed.
Sent 12: For the first time, Clarke's various proposals-for aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks and for Predator missions-went before the group that, in the Bush NSC, would do most of the policy work.
Sent 13: Though they made no decisions on these specific proposals, Hadley apparently concluded that there should be a presidential national security policy directive (NSPD) on terrorism.
Sent 14: Clarke would later express irritation about the deputies' insistence that a strategy for coping with al Qaeda be framed within the context of a regional policy.
Sent 15: He doubted that the benefits would compensate for the time lost.
Sent 16: The administration had in fact proceeded with Principals Committee meetings on topics including Iraq and Sudan without prior contextual review, and Clarke favored moving ahead similarly with a narrow counterterrorism agenda.
Sent 17: But the President's senior advisers saw the al Qaeda problem as part of a puzzle that could not be assembled without filling in the pieces for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Sent 18: Rice deferred a Principals Committee meeting on al Qaeda until the deputies had developed a new policy for their consideration.", "question": "What was the name of the terrorist group President Bush and his administration concentrated on developing a strategy to defeat?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because landed elites were less likely to pass on fortunes to a single child through primogeniture", "Because in America Legislatures abolished primogeniture and entails, resulting in more widely distributed land holdings", "American government abolished primogeniture which made it harder for elites to pass down land and wealth" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because affection and generosity were stronger in American children than in European children", "Because American children were overall poorer than European children", "Because they were all poor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tocqueville asserted that the values that had triumphed in the North and were present in the South had begun to suffocate old-world ethics and social arrangements.
Sent 2: Legislatures abolished primogeniture and entails, resulting in more widely distributed land holdings.
Sent 3: This was a contrast to the general aristocratic pattern in which only the eldest child, usually a man, inherited the estate, which had the effect of keeping large estates intact from generation to generation.
Sent 4: In America, in contrast, landed elites were less likely to pass on fortunes to a single child by the action of primogeniture, which meant that as time went by, large estates became broken up within a few generations which, in turn, made the children more equal overall.
Sent 5: It was not always a negative development, according to Joshua Kaplan's interpretation of Tocqueville, since bonds of affection and shared experience between children often replaced the more formal relation between the eldest child and the siblings, characteristic of the previous aristocratic pattern.
Sent 6: Overall, in the new democracies, hereditary fortunes became exceedingly difficult to secure and more people were forced to struggle for their own living.
Sent 7: This rapidly democratizing society, as Tocqueville understood it, had a population devoted to \"middling\" values which wanted to amass, through hard work, vast fortunes.
Sent 8: In Tocqueville's mind, this explained why America was so different from Europe.
Sent 9: In Europe, he claimed, nobody cared about making money.
Sent 10: The lower classes had no hope of gaining more than minimal wealth, while the upper classes found it crass, vulgar, and unbecoming of their sort to care about something as unseemly as money; many were virtually guaranteed wealth and took it for granted.
Sent 11: At the same time in America, workers would see people fashioned in exquisite attire and merely proclaim that through hard work they too would soon possess the fortune necessary to enjoy such luxuries.
Sent 12: Despite maintaining with Aristotle, Montesquieu, and others that the balance of property determined the balance of power, Tocqueville argued that, as America showed, equitable property holdings did not ensure the rule of the best men.
Sent 13: In fact, it did quite the opposite.
Sent 14: The widespread, relatively equitable property ownership which distinguished America and determined its mores and values also explained why the American masses held elites in such contempt.", "question": "Why were the children of American elites more equal to non-elite children than were the children of European elites?" }, { "answer groups": [ "As they waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He did not come", "After hundreds of years passed, Christ did not return" ], "distractor groups": [ "As they waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He come", "Settlers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: But I think it is certain that most of the early Christians understood these words of our Lord's ascension and coming again in glory.
Sent 2: They believed that He was coming again in a very little while during their own life-time, in a few months or years, to make an end of the world and to judge the quick and the dead.
Sent 3: And as they waited for His coming, one generation after another, and yet He did not come, a sadness fell upon them.
Sent 4: Christ seemed to have left the world.
Sent 5: The little while that He had promised to be away seemed to have become a very long while.
Sent 6: Hundreds of years passed, and yet Christ did not come in glory.
Sent 7: And, as I said, a sadness fell on all the Church.
Sent 8: Surely, they said, this is the time of which Christ said we were to weep and lament till we saw Him again--this is the time of which He said that the bridegroom should be taken from us, and we should fast in those days.
Sent 9: And they did fast, and weep, and lament; and their religion became a very sad and melancholy one--most sad in those who were most holy, and loved their Lord best, and longed most for His coming in glory.", "question": "Why did Christ seem to have left the world?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Martinez Campos", "Maximo Gomez", "Martinez Campus and Maximo Gomez" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gomez Zedra", "Matin Garim", "Zanjon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In 1878, Martinez Campos was Governor-General of Cuba, and Maximo Gomez was Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban forces.
Sent 2: Both parties were weary of the prolonged hostilities, and neither was able to compel the other to surrender.
Sent 3: Spain, however, professed a willingness to yield an important part of the demands of her rebellious subjects.
Sent 4: Martinez Campos and Gomez met at Zanjon and, on February 10, 1878, mutually agreed to what has been variously called a peace pact, a treaty, and a capitulation.
Sent 5: The agreement was based on provisions for a redress of Cuban grievances through greater civil, political, and administrative privileges for the Cubans, with forgetfulness of the past and amnesty for all then under sentence for political offences.
Sent 6: Delay in carrying these provisions into effect gave rise to an attempt to renew the struggle two years later, but the effort was a failure.
Sent 7: Matters then quieted down for a number of years.
Sent 8: The Cubans waited to see what would be done.
Sent 9: The Spanish Governor-General still remained the supreme power and, aside from the abolition of slavery, the application of the Spanish Constitution and Spanish laws to Cuba, and Cuban representation in the Cortes, much of which was rather form than fact, the island gained little by the new conditions.
Sent 10: Discontent and protest continued and, at last, broke again into open rebellion in 1895.", "question": "Which leaders in Cuba were weary of prolonged hostilities in 1878?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body", "Skin is very important. You could not survive without it and its main function is to control what enters and leaves the body", "Yes the skin is important, its main function is controlling what enters and leaves the body, maintaining the body's temperature, preventing the body from losing too much water and preventing bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body", "Yes, protect the body, prevent water loss, maintain temperature" ], "distractor groups": [ "No the skin is not important, the skin's main functions are being visually appealing and absorbing bacteria", "Yes, constrict, dilate, heat", "Bullet proof", "Just a dress", "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You couldnt survive without your skin.
Sent 2: It has many important functions.
Sent 3: The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body.
Sent 4: It prevents the loss of too much water from the body.
Sent 5: It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body.
Sent 6: The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature.
Sent 7: It keeps the body cool in two ways.
Sent 8: Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body.
Sent 9: Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen.
Sent 10: This action increases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 11: This allows more heat to reach the surface.
Sent 12: The heat is then able to radiate off the body.
Sent 13: The opposite happens to retain body heat.
Sent 14: Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow.
Sent 15: This decreases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 16: This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface.
Sent 17: When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air.", "question": "Is skin important and what are the main functions of the skin on your body?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Psycholgy field", "Psychology" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chiropractic", "Neuroscience" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Critics say that is not nearly enough compared with other prescribers, such as M.D. psychiatrists or nurse practitioners who have at least six years' medical education and clinical experience.
Sent 2: Neither Davison nor most other RxP opponents doubt the efficacy of medications.
Sent 3: Their greatest objection is to the notion of turning psychology into a prescribing profession.
Sent 4: In a field that has struggled long and hard to prove that mind, mood and behavior can be studied empirically, the past decade, Davison says, has seen \"exciting developments\" that demonstrate the validity of various psychotherapeutic interventions and the psychosocial-behavioral models on which they are based.
Sent 5: \"The timing is peculiar to abandon psychological science or to convert it to a medical science,\" explains Elaine M. Heiby of the University of Hawaii, who chairs a committee of the 1,000-member American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology that is concerned about the medicalization of psychology.
Sent 6: \"Making sure that practicing psychologists are giving patients interventions based on the best available psychological science should be the APA's priority,\" argues Emory University's Scott Lilienfeld, president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP).
Sent 7: More than any philosophical betrayal of psychology, RxP opponents fear that the movement will undermine the science they love.
Sent 8: They believe that if prescriptive authority becomes the norm, biomedical requirements will inevitably seep into the psychology curriculum, at the expense of traditional psychological science and methodology.
Sent 9: Lilienfeld feels that many clinical psychologists already receive inadequate training in fundamentals such as research design and evaluation.
Sent 10: RxP opponents charge the APA with pushing its prescription-privileges agenda without adequately assessing support for it in the field.
Sent 11: The 300-member SSCP is the only group within the APA to have taken a formal stance against prescription privileges.
Sent 12: The APA has scheduled 30 minutes at its meeting in August for an RxP debate, but its leadership believes it already has an accurate sense of support for its RxP policy.
Sent 13: \"Except for this small vocal minority, we have just not gotten a lot of groundswell against this from members,\" says APA president Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University.
Sent 14: With prescription privileges now a reality in one state, some RxP opponents concede that it may be too late.
Sent 15: This year four states besides New Mexico -- Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois and Tennessee -- have pending legislation for psychologist prescription privileges.
Sent 16: Over the past decade, 14 state legislatures have considered such laws.
Sent 17: Between 1991 and 1997, a U.S. Department of Defense psychopharmacology demonstration project involving two to four years' training produced 10 military psychologists who can write prescriptions.", "question": "What field has struggled long and hard to prove that mind, mood and behavior can be studied empirically?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Motion of liquid metals", "They think the magnetic field is generated by the motion of the liquid metal in the Earth's outer core" ], "distractor groups": [ "Studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior", "Gravitational waves", "They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "What do scientists think to be the immediate cause of how Earth's magnetic field is generated?" }, { "answer groups": [ "55", "55 years", "Fifty Five" ], "distractor groups": [ "62", "257", "57" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the public radio and TV broadcaster of Albania, founded by King Zog in 1938.
Sent 2: RTSH runs three analogue television stations as TVSH Televizioni Shqiptar, four digital thematic stations as RTSH, and three radio stations using the name Radio Tirana.
Sent 3: In addition, 4 regional radio stations serve in the four extremities of Albania.
Sent 4: The international service broadcasts radio programmes in Albanian and seven other languages via medium wave (AM) and short wave (SW).
Sent 5: The international service has used the theme from the song \"Keputa nje gjethe dafine\" as its signature tune.
Sent 6: The international television service via satellite was launched since 1993 and aims at Albanian communities in Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and northern Greece, plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe.
Sent 7: RTSH has a past of being heavily influenced by the ruling party in its reporting, whether that party be left or right wing.
Sent 8: According to the Albanian Media Authority, AMA, Albania has an estimated 257 media outlets, including 66 radio stations and 67 television stations, with three national, 62 local and more than 50 cable TV stations.
Sent 9: Last years Albania has organized several shows as a part of worldwide series like Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother Albania, Albanians Got Talent, The Voice of Albania, and X Factor Albania.", "question": "How long did RTSH exist when the international television service was launched?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The mummy", "The mummy of Kah-To-Bey" ], "distractor groups": [ "Friends", "Hasmid", "Sir Basil", "Kah-To-Bey's father" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey .
Sent 2: The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection .
Sent 3: Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried .
Sent 4: The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb .
Sent 5: They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud .
Sent 6: Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb .
Sent 7: He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo .
Sent 8: Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud .
Sent 10: The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum .
Sent 11: One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face .", "question": "Who murders the individuals who assisted with removing the contents of the tomb?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mrs. Megawati", "The United States", "President Megawati" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Bush", "Paek Nam Sun", "Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong", "The State Department" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived here on Tuesday night for meetings with fellow foreign ministers aimed at solidifying a second front, in Southeast Asia, in the campaign against global terrorism.
Sent 2: But he has had to balance that goal with longstanding concerns about human rights abuses in the region.
Sent 3: In meetings on Tuesday in Malaysia and Singapore before touching down in this oil-producing sultanate for two days of talks with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, Powell said he repeatedly raised the issue.
Sent 4: \"We still believe strongly in human rights, and that everything we do has to be consistent with universal standards of human rights,\" he said.
Sent 5: But at a news conference in Singapore, Powell hinted that the Bush administration was ready to discuss resuming military cooperation with Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation and a sometimes reluctant partner in the efforts to crack down on militant Islamic groups.
Sent 6: The United States cut virtually all military links with Indonesia in 1999 after its forces were implicated in the violence that swept East Timor after that territory voted for independence.
Sent 7: On Thursday, Powell and representatives of the nations of the Asian group, including Indonesia, are expected to sign a declaration promising cooperation to prevent terrorism by sharing information, blocking funds, tightening borders and making it hard to use forged travel papers.
Sent 8: \"We recognized that terrorism is a global threat and that the disturbing acts of terrorism and transnational crimes, which continue to threaten world peace and stability, must be tackled by the international community,\" the ministers said in a communique on Tuesday.
Sent 9: Powell is among the representatives from 13 nations outside Southeast Asia, including China, Japan and Russia, that are taking part in the annual meeting of the group's regional forum.
Sent 10: Terrorism dominates the agenda, though the possibility of a meeting here between Powell and his North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun, has generated the most news.
Sent 11: It would be the highest-level contact between the United States and North Korea since President Bush took office.
Sent 12: Powell heads to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, late on Thursday before finishing a weeklong trip through the region in the Philippines on Saturday.
Sent 13: He said that when he arrives in Jakarta, he will have \"some ideas and some initiatives\" to present to President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Sent 14: Indonesia is already receiving 400,000 in the current fiscal year for civilian training programs and is to receive a like amount next year; and the United States expects to provide an additional 16 million this year to train police officers in counterterrorism.
Sent 15: At the same time, the Pentagon is reviewing how to allocate another 17 million in \"counterterrorism fellowships,\" some of which could go to Indonesia.
Sent 16: But a senior State Department official also acknowledged that some in the administration and Congress are pushing for more direct military cooperation, which would require congressional approval.
Sent 17: \"I think they recognize the danger that we all face and I think they have been cooperating more fully with us as time goes by, and I'm quite sure that Mrs. Megawati is committed to this cause,\" Powell said in Singapore.
Sent 18: He met there with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who endorsed the idea of renewed military ties between the United States and Indonesia as an important step in stabilizing that country.", "question": "Who does Secretary Powel say is committed to counterterrorism cause?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tass", "Tass, the official Russian news agency" ], "distractor groups": [ "Russian Associated Press", "U.S. Figure Skating Association", "CNN World", "Russian Skating Federation", "Stalingrad News" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official \"had called me from America\" to assure that \"we are going to make\" Anissina \"an Olympic champion.\"
Sent 2: He told her that the Russian skating federation official \"will help -- he has two or three judges.\"
Sent 3: On or about March 7, in a conversation between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina, she said she would have won the event without his assistance because the Russian judge did not vote for her and her partner.
Sent 4: She also apologized for not calling to thank him earlier, but that Gailhaguet had forbidden her.
Sent 5: She told Tokhtakhounov that she knew the FBI had interviewed Gailhaguet because of information that Tokhtakhounov \"was involved with the results\" of the ice dancing.
Sent 6: He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet \"knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more.\"
Sent 7: The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
Sent 8: Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy.
Sent 9: That Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics stunned Phyllis Howard, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
Sent 10: \"This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league,\" Howard said.
Sent 11: Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, \"Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field.\"", "question": "Which news agency ran a story that implied Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deepwater Horizon", "Transocean Ltd" ], "distractor groups": [ "Transocean", "Transmission", "Transvision", "Halliburton" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"The best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sent 2: That includes a 200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from 900,000 to 1.1 million, according to the SEC report.
Sent 3: Newman's bonus was 374,062, the report states.
Sent 4: Newman also has a 5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 5: The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.
Sent 6: \"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.
Sent 7: \"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"
Sent 8: The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.
Sent 9: The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.
Sent 10: The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 11: It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.
Sent 12: The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Sent 13: In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.", "question": "What is the name of the oil rig in the Gulf of MexicoA. TransoceanB. Deepwater HorizonC. TransmissionD. TransvisionE. HalliburtonF. Transocean LtdPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Its geography protected the communities from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra", "It has a sheltered harbor", "It had a sheltered harbor, protected from monsoons by neighboring Sumatra", "Protects from monsoons" ], "distractor groups": [ "Its geography provided protection against pirates", "Its geography is a vital choke point of trade with the Japanese", "The swamps" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "What advantage did Melaka's geography provide it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Price of the sale", "Highest price for a coin", "$7.59 million" ], "distractor groups": [ "The splitting of the proceeds", "Forbidden fruit", "$4.14 million", "The length of the auction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "What was the astonishing record?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, No ancient sources stated that Alexander had homosexual relationships, or that Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion was sexual", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander married twice: Roxana, daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes, out of love; and Stateira II, a Persian princess and daughter of Darius III of Persia, for political reasons.
Sent 2: He apparently had two sons, Alexander IV of Macedon of Roxana and, possibly, Heracles of Macedon from his mistress Barsine.
Sent 3: He lost another child when Roxana miscarried at Babylon.
Sent 4: Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble.
Sent 5: Hephaestion's death devastated Alexander.
Sent 6: This event may have contributed to Alexander's failing health and detached mental state during his final months.
Sent 7: Alexander's sexuality has been the subject of speculation and controversy.
Sent 8: No ancient sources stated that Alexander had homosexual relationships, or that Alexander's relationship with Hephaestion was sexual.
Sent 9: Aelian, however, writes of Alexander's visit to Troy where \"Alexander garlanded the tomb of Achilles and Hephaestion that of Patroclus, the latter riddling that he was a beloved of Alexander, in just the same way as Patroclus was of Achilles\".
Sent 10: Noting that the word eromenos (ancient Greek for beloved) does not necessarily bear sexual meaning, Alexander may have been bisexual, which in his time was not controversial.
Sent 11: Green argues that there is little evidence in ancient sources that Alexander had much carnal interest in women; he did not produce an heir until the very end of his life.
Sent 12: However, he was relatively young when he died, and Ogden suggests that Alexander's matrimonial record is more impressive than his father's at the same age.
Sent 13: Apart from wives, Alexander had many more female companions.
Sent 14: Alexander accumulated a harem in the style of Persian kings, but he used it rather sparingly; showing great self-control in \"pleasures of the body\".
Sent 15: Nevertheless, Plutarch described how Alexander was infatuated by Roxana while complimenting him on not forcing himself on her.
Sent 16: Green suggested that, in the context of the period, Alexander formed quite strong friendships with women, including Ada of Caria, who adopted him, and even Darius's mother Sisygambis, who supposedly died from grief upon hearing of Alexander's death.", "question": "Did any ancient sources confirm that Alexander had a sexual relationship with his bodyguard?" }, { "answer groups": [ "through air in their spacesuits", "They hear through air molecules in their spaceships." ], "distractor groups": [ "via headphones", "Via electronics.", "through the atmosphere of space" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sound waves are mechanical waves.
Sent 2: They can travel only through matter.
Sent 3: They cannot travel through empty space.
Sent 4: This was demonstrated in the 1600s by a scientist named Robert Boyle.
Sent 5: Boyle placed a ticking clock in a sealed glass jar.
Sent 6: The clock could be heard ticking through the air and glass of the jar.
Sent 7: Then Boyle pumped the air out of the jar.
Sent 8: The clock was still running, but the ticking could not be heard.
Sent 9: Thats because the sound couldnt travel without air particles to transfer the sound energy.
Sent 10: Is there any other place where sound cannot be heard?
Sent 11: Here is a hint: is there any other place that does not have air molecules?
Sent 12: Thats right, in space sound cannot be transferred.
Sent 13: So can astronauts hear each other?
Sent 14: Yes, they can, because they are in enclosed space stations or pressurized suits.In both cases, they are surrounded by air molecules.
Sent 15: If they left their space ship and did not use their electronics, they would not be able to hear each other.
Sent 16: Next time you watch a science fiction movie, think about this factoid.
Sent 17: When spaceships are destroyed by hostile alien beings, there would be no sound heard.
Sent 18: Sound waves can travel through many kinds of matter.", "question": "How do astronauts hear?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was accused of committing crimes against the security of the state", "Castro accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was accused of drug trafficking" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed.
Sent 2: The decision to release the prisoners follows \"numerous requests\" from their family members and religious institutions, and is a humanitarian gesture, said Cuban President Raul Castro.
Sent 3: Among those who might be freed are prisoners over the age of 60, along with those who are sick, female or young with no previous criminal record.
Sent 4: With some exceptions, prisoners convicted of spying, terrorism, murder and drug trafficking will not be released.
Sent 5: Those who will be freed have already served a \"important\" part of their sentences and exhibited good behavior, according to an official statement published on the state-run website Cubadebate.
Sent 6: The jailed American, Gross, will not be among those pardoned, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington said.
Sent 7: Gross was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy.
Sent 8: Castro has accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet, and this year Cuba's highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on Gross for committing crimes against the security of the state.
Sent 9: He has maintained his innocence and said he was trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet.
Sent 10: Castro, speaking to the National Assembly, said that 86 prisoners from 25 countries would be among those released in coming days.
Sent 11: He cited the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI as one of the motivations behind the move, which he said showed the \"generosity and strength of the revolution.\"
Sent 12: The pope has said he plans to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter.", "question": "Why was Alan Gross sentence to jail?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because it allows African-Americans to work the land as they did when they first came to America", "Because African Americans were brought here to cultivate land and returning to the past is a way to move forward", "As blacks were slaves in previous generations, African Americans doing urban farming is a way to farm that is helpful" ], "distractor groups": [ "Urban farming is unique", "Because it has never been done before" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "Why does Cashawn Myers feel Urban Farming as \" its almost like a renaissance\" and a way to reconnect with the past and grow?" }, { "answer groups": [ "March 2001", "Before" ], "distractor groups": [ "After the saudi's help", "July 5 2001" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Bush administration did not develop new diplomatic initiatives on al Qaeda with the Saudi government before 9/11.
Sent 2: Vice President Cheney called Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5, 2001, to seek Saudi help in preventing threatened attacks on American facilities in the Kingdom.
Sent 3: Secretary of State Powell met with the crown prince twice before 9/11.
Sent 4: They discussed topics like Iraq, not al Qaeda.U.S.-Saudi relations in the summer of 2001 were marked by sometimes heated disagreements about ongoing Israeli- Palestinian violence, not about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: The confirmation of the Pentagon's new leadership was a lengthy process.
Sent 6: Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz was confirmed in March 2001 and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith in July.
Sent 7: Though the new officials were briefed about terrorism and some of the earlier planning, including that for Operation Infinite Resolve, they were focused, as Secretary Rumsfeld told us, on creating a twenty-first-century military.
Sent 8: At the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shelton did not recall much interest by the new administration in military options against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Sent 9: He could not recall any specific guidance on the topic from the secretary.
Sent 10: Brian Sheridan-the outgoing assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict (SOLIC), the key counterterrorism policy office in the Pentagon-never briefed Rumsfeld.
Sent 11: He departed on January 20; he had not been replaced by 9/11.
Sent 12: Rumsfeld noted to us his own interest in terrorism, which came up often in his regular meetings with Tenet.
Sent 13: He thought that the Defense Department, before 9/11, was not organized adequately or prepared to deal with new threats like terrorism.
Sent 14: But his time was consumed with getting new officials in place and working on the foundation documents of a new defense policy, the quadrennial defense review, the defense planning guidance, and the existing contingency plans.
Sent 15: He did not recall any particular counterterrorism issue that engaged his attention before 9/11, other than the development of the Predator unmanned aircraft system.
Sent 16: The commander of Central Command, General Franks, told us that he did not regard the existing plans as serious.
Sent 17: To him a real military plan to address al Qaeda would need to go all the way, following through the details of a full campaign (including the political-military issues of where operations would be based) and securing the rights to fly over neighboring countries.
Sent 18: The draft presidential directive circulated in June 2001 began its discussion of the military by reiterating the Defense Department's lead role in protecting its forces abroad.", "question": "Was the leadership of Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz confirmed before or after Vice President Cheney called Crown Prince Abdullah to seek Saudi help?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They developed ways to hide the nectar that only certain animals could get to", "They develop special traits", "Various ways, including hiding it", "They hide their nectar" ], "distractor groups": [ "With animals", "They make it poisonous", "By hiding it in other flowers", "They make it nauseating", "They make it bitter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Relying on an animal to come by is risky.
Sent 2: A flower may have to wait a long time for the right animals to come by.
Sent 3: What if one never passes close enough to the flower?
Sent 4: Hoping the wind will blow is also risky for a plant.
Sent 5: What if the wind does not blow?
Sent 6: What if the blowing pollen does not land on another flower?
Sent 7: The wind could even blow the pollen over the ocean where it is wasted.
Sent 8: Giving free nectar is costly.
Sent 9: It is not a good use of the plants energy.
Sent 10: A plant uses a lot of energy to produce nectar.
Sent 11: Some animals may just drink the nectar.
Sent 12: They may not carry off any pollen in return.
Sent 13: To improve their chances, plants evolved special traits.
Sent 14: For example, they developed ways to hide their nectar.
Sent 15: Only certain animals were able to get at the plants hidden nectar.
Sent 16: These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species.
Sent 17: This was also a benefit for some animals.
Sent 18: Animals also evolved special traits to get to the nectar.", "question": "How do plants protect nectar?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They have seized over 50 shipments and they started examining these shipments back in 2008", "Examining and seizing shipments", "Seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Made e-cigarettes illegal", "Products deliver to the user" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "How is it apparent that the FDA has taken a proactive role in dealing with this situation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By landing an aircraft carrier", "He was shown as a hero because of the mission accomplished speech", "Bush was protrayed as a war hero landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, however, he did not actually serve" ], "distractor groups": [ "By giving a speech", "To scare people", "To show people he is immortal", "By serving in the national guard", "By using his father's influence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film starts with a brief pre-title clip from presenter Greg Palast s aborted interview with Florida Director of Elections Clayton Roberts , who walks out .
Sent 2: Palast introduces George W. Bush with particular reference to his popular image as a war hero cemented in the public mind by his landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln for the 2003 Mission Accomplished Speech .
Sent 3: However Palast alleges that Bush used his father s influence to gain a draft-dodging placement with the Texas Air National Guard Which he subsequently failed to serve .
Sent 4: Palast picks up the story with Bush s 2000 US Presidential Election campaign where he claims Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris used their influence to purge and discount the ballots of predominantly Gore-supporting black voters through the fake felons list compiled by private company DBT/ChoicePoint for US 4 million .
Sent 5: Palast goes on to examine the corporate donors to Bush s election campaign , such as Enron CEO Ken Lay , who as members of Bush s pioneer network contributed huge sums through family and friends , and who he claims subsequently profited from the Bush presidency with senior government appointments , no-bid contracts , executive orders and deregulation .
Sent 6: Palast outlines what he refers to as the Bush-cycle , where Bush family members use money to gain political office and then use the office to gain even more money , dating back to Senator Prescott Bush who funded the family s entry into the oil business , citing the example of Bush s Harken Energy winning a contract to drill in the Persian Gulf thanks he alleges to Bush Snr s presidency .", "question": "How was George W. Bush's war hero image used in his campaign?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Companies such as Hilton Hotels getting into the gaming business in Las Vegas", "The 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes", "Hilton Hotels" ], "distractor groups": [ "Arrival of Steve Wynn", "When Trump Built a Casino", "Howard Hughes", "New laws and legislation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas\u2002\u2014\u2002corporate cash.
Sent 2: Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities.
Sent 3: That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
Sent 4: A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos.
Sent 5: True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse.
Sent 6: Several weeks later he was asked\u2002\u2014\u2002then ordered\u2002\u2014\u2002to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.
Sent 7: Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, 300-million Las Vegas buying spree.
Sent 8: When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains.
Sent 9: Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting.
Sent 10: Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant.
Sent 11: That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city.
Sent 12: Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
Sent 13: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Sent 14: What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
Sent 15: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Sent 16: The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget.
Sent 17: In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort.
Sent 18: He bought several Strip properties\u2002\u2014\u2002the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them\u2002\u2014\u2002and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort\u2002\u2014\u2002Mirage\u2002\u2014\u2002 which became an instant success.", "question": "What along with the Nevada Gaming Board signaled the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in Las Vegas?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The NMCC and the FAA Manager", "The NMCC officer and the FAA officer" ], "distractor groups": [ "The FAA and the secret service", "The FBI and the CIA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "What two people agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Requirement of judges", "No free Justice", "He requested money for five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeships, argued that the $90 fee should not happen, and staff should not be cut", "Joint session of the Legislature", "A $90 surcharge on a court filing fee to help the poor, five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeship" ], "distractor groups": [ "Surcharge 200$", "The fee should not be split 54%, staff should not be cut, and $90 fee should not happen", "Increase in filing cost fee" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Washington Supreme Court is asking the Legislature to approve a 90 surcharge on a court filing fee to help provide legal help for the poor in civil cases, Chief Justice Gerry Alexander said Wednesday.
Sent 2: \"Some might say, why should we support this when we face tough financial times?\"
Sent 3: Alexander asked in his State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature.
Sent 4: \"It seems to me in America, where we rejoice in the fact that we are a nation devoted to the rule of law, we should not ration access to justice.\"
Sent 5: The recommendation comes from the court's Task Force on Civil Equal Justice Funding, created in 2001 to look for ways to cope with the sparse amount of money available for such cases.
Sent 6: As the task force was studying the issue, 900,000 was cut from state support for civil equal justice services.
Sent 7: That prompted the state's two main legal services providers - Columbia Legal Services and Northwest Justice Project - to cut their staffs, Alexander said.
Sent 8: The change would increase the cost of filing a lawsuit in Superior Court to 200.
Sent 9: The total fee would be split, with 54 percent going to counties and 46 percent going to the state for a newly created equal justice account.
Sent 10: Alexander also requested money for five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeships, arguing that increased caseloads require more judges.
Sent 11: Two of the Superior Court judges and the District Court judge would be in Clark County, with one Superior Court judge added in the joint district that serves Benton and Franklin counties and one each in Kittitas and Kitsap counties.", "question": "List three requests Chief Justice Gerry Alexander propositioned?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It would help our economy", "The nation's air traffic control system would be modernized in an effort to reduce delays and travel time", "It would reduce delays", "It would reduce travel time", "Modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time" ], "distractor groups": [ "Or travel time", "Repainting lines", "The cost would cause increases in delays and" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "In addition to repairing 150 miles of airport runways, what other impact would this plan have on air traffic?" }, { "answer groups": [ "March 25, 2000", "March 25, 2000 and they discussed the tension between Pakistan and India, the dangers of nuclear proliferation and Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "January 2000", "March 15, 2000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "When did President Clinton visit Pakistan and what was discussed between Clinton and Musharraf?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Shelton in the Pentagon", "Officers in the Pentagon", "Shelton" ], "distractor groups": [ "Al Qaeda", "The Halloween monsters", "Berger and Clarke", "Schoomaker", "Zinni", "Bin Laden", "The president" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "Who with the help of officers decided to use a plane called \"spooky\" against Kandahar.A. Shelton in the PentagonB. Al QaedaC. The Halloween monstersD. Officers in the PentagonE. SheltonF. Berger and ClarkeG. SchoomakerH. ZinniI. Bin LadenJ. The presidentPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The first millennium a.d", "Around 1500 a.d", "Halfway through the first millennium a.d" ], "distractor groups": [ "1100 b.c", "1000 b.c", "150 b.c", "23,000 b.c" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "During what time period did the Anasazi Indians inhabit the Las Vegas valley?" }, { "answer groups": [ "If the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability", "Fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition", "Any other violations of law" ], "distractor groups": [ "Health", "Women who are determine to have abortion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "Along with sexual assault, incest or other violations of law, which other exception is made to this law?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight. He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency. Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft", "The controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight" ], "distractor groups": [ "He tried to talk to them", "He turned off its transponder", "He asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a \"no radio\" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.", "question": "What steps did the air traffic controller take before he notified his supervisor that he thought something was wrong with America 11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1968, Hamburg", "1992", "Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt. After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992" ], "distractor groups": [ "Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt", "1965, Kandahar", "1991", "Cairo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "When was Mohammad Atta born and when did he move to Germany?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Not Really", "Possibly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes", "Absolutely" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "Is the difficult lifestyle portrayed by partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund the result of a feeble economy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "E It had been picked up where it fell still hot by a grateful patient without a particle of rust upon it had been picked up where it fell still hot in the neighborhood of Fort Waelheim and it was by far the finest fragment of shell recovered", "Was found by garrison in Fort Waelhem thus it was hot", "It was found by a patient, possibly after the fall of Maubeuge, came from Fort Waelhem and was found still hot" ], "distractor groups": [ "Found by someone in Brussels thus it was cool", "It was found buried in a garden beside the hospital by a patient" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Thursday Fort Waelhem succumbed after a magnificent resistance.
Sent 2: The garrison held it until it was a mere heap of ruins, and, indeed, they had the greatest difficulty in making their way out.
Sent 3: I think that there is very little doubt that the Germans were using against these forts their largest guns, the great 42-centimetre howitzers.
Sent 4: It is known that two of these were brought northwards past Brussels after the fall of Maubeuge, and a fragment which was given to us was almost conclusive.
Sent 5: It was brought to us one morning as an offering by a grateful patient, and it came from the neighbourhood of Fort Waelhem.
Sent 6: It was a mass of polished steel two feet long, a foot wide, and three inches thick, and it weighed about fifty pounds.
Sent 7: It was very irregular in shape, with edges sharp as razors, without a particle of rust upon it.
Sent 8: It had been picked up where it fell still hot, and it was by far the finest fragment of shell I have ever seen.
Sent 9: Alas we had to leave it behind, and it lies buried in a back-garden beside our hospital.
Sent 10: Some day it will be dug up, and will be exhibited as conclusive evidence that the Germans did use their big guns in shelling the town.", "question": "How was the gun fragment found?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Poorest of the poor", "Migrant workers" ], "distractor groups": [ "High-skilled workers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: \"I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close,\" said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more \"high impact\" cases to court.
Sent 9: \"What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time,\" Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: \"I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points,\" Gill said.", "question": "What kind of workers does TRLA assist?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It will have no energy and it will no longer be able to move the rock and soil", "When water stops moving it will have no energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "It gain energy", "Water gains kinetic energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "What happens when water stops moving?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The absences of an indigenous alphabet", "In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Chinese", "The Buddhists", "The changing role of Chinese culture", "A need for language" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "What lead to the development of katakana system?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They were either expelled or tortured and executed", "He expelled them", "He tortured and executed them", "Banned their activities", "They were exiled from Japan, executed, tortured, and the converts forced to renounce their new religions", "Expelled all missionaries", "Forced converts to renounce their faith" ], "distractor groups": [ "Banned the dutch and the british", "He welcomed them", "Reported martyrs", "They were freely welcomed", "Allowed travel abroad", "He fought them in battle" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "What actions did the Tokugawa take towards missionaries and those who converted to Catholicism?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pursued trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean", "An Agreement was made that protected the Chinese from the Thai", "Expanded trade with the South and Indian sea communities" ], "distractor groups": [ "Declared war", "The Dutch colonized Melaka", "Imported Islam to Melaka and Sumatra" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "What happened under the rule of Emporer Chu Ti in 1409?" }, { "answer groups": [ "19th Century", "19th" ], "distractor groups": [ "Industrialization", "18th" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "The building of the Central Station occurred at the end of which century?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There are nerve endings just below the dermis", "Because The dermis has nerve endings" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because it is sensitive", "Because The cut really hurts" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The dermis is the inner layer of skin.
Sent 2: The dermis has blood vessels and nerve endings.
Sent 3: The nerve endings explain why your skin is sensitive.
Sent 4: You can sense pain, pressure, and temperature.
Sent 5: You cut your finger and it starts to bleed.
Sent 6: What has happened?
Sent 7: If your skin bleeds, it means you have cut the dermis layer and damaged blood vessels.
Sent 8: The cut really hurts.
Sent 9: It hurts because of the nerve endings in this skin layer.
Sent 10: The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands.
Sent 11: Hair follicles are structures where hairs originate.
Sent 12: Each hair grows out of a follicle.
Sent 13: Hair passes up through the epidermis.
Sent 14: It then extends above the skin surface.
Sent 15: Oil glands produce an oily substance.
Sent 16: The oil is secreted into hair follicles.", "question": "How is the dermis related to skin sensitivity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Careful geometric designs", "Geometric", "Dragon and bird motifs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fire", "Bowls", "Art" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese developed an interest in what type of designs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A swampy place", "In its earliest days, it was a terrible sight to see with its infertile, swampy plain, but Malaka experienced a huge transformation when the chinese settled there", "Swampy; sheltered harbor to protect from monsoons; but overall unpleasant", "In the early days, it was not much of a place to live", "It was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish" ], "distractor groups": [ "It has been a home for muslims throughout the history", "The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish", "It was a great continent with lot of resources" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Describe the land of MelakaA. It has been a home for muslims throughout the historyB. A swampy placeC. In its earliest days, it was a terrible sight to see with its infertile, swampy plain, but Malaka experienced a huge transformation when the chinese settled thereD. The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggishE. Swampy; sheltered harbor to protect from monsoons; but overall unpleasantF. In the early days, it was not much of a place to liveG. It was a great continent with lot of resourcesH. It was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggishPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By traveling via the esophagus", "Through the esophagus" ], "distractor groups": [ "Via arteries", "Large Intestine", "Small Intestine", "The colon", "Through ileum" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "How does food get from the mouth to the stomach?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wind erosion", "There are no big rivers that may have eroded and deposited this material", "Wind or water erosion", "River erosion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rain", "Glaciers are masses of flowing ice", "Tornadoes", "Glaciers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine you are standing in a farm field in central Illinois.
Sent 2: The land is so flat you can see for miles and miles.
Sent 3: On a clear day, you might see a grain silo 20 miles away.
Sent 4: You might think to yourself, it sure is flat around here.
Sent 5: If you drive one hundred miles to the south, the landscape changes.
Sent 6: In southern Illinois, there are rolling hills.
Sent 7: Why do you think this is?
Sent 8: What could have caused these features?
Sent 9: There are no big rivers that may have eroded and deposited this material.
Sent 10: The ground is capable of supporting grass and trees, so wind erosion would not explain it.
Sent 11: To answer the question, you need to go back 12,000 years.
Sent 12: Around 12,000 years ago, a giant ice sheet covered much of the Midwest United States.
Sent 13: Springfield, Illinois, was covered by over a mile of ice.
Sent 14: Its hard to imagine a mile thick sheet of ice.
Sent 15: The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land you see today.
Sent 16: Where did glaciers go?
Sent 17: Where can you see them today?
Sent 18: Glaciers are masses of flowing ice.", "question": "What likely did not cause the changes in landscape in central Illinois?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Community Service at the local hospital", "Community service at nearby hospital", "Community service" ], "distractor groups": [ "Community service in the local parks", "Jail", "Community service at the local cafe", "3 years of imprisonment", "Fixing his fence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Benjamin Stone is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington , D.C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills .
Sent 2: On his last day , Ben's relationship with his co-workers is presumed to be anything but a warm one .
Sent 3: None of his colleagues will join him for a drink and a cake in his honor has an iced portion of the phrase `` Good riddance , asshole '' sliced out .
Sent 4: Ben's cross-country drive in a 1956 Porsche 356 Speedster is interrupted when he crashes in the rural hamlet of Grady , South Carolina .
Sent 5: The crash damages the fence of local Judge Evans , who sentences him to community service at a nearby hospital .
Sent 6: Ben offers to pay for the fence , but the stern judge increases his community service each time he talks back .
Sent 7: Defeated , he reports to the hospital , where Nurse Packer humbles him by ordering him to clock in and out , as would a factory worker .
Sent 8: Though upset , Ben quickly makes friends with Mayor Nick Nicholson , the town cafe's proprietor/head waitress , and Melvin , the local mechanic tasked with repairing Ben's car .
Sent 9: Ben soon finds his clinic work to be much more laid-back than the emergency room .
Sent 10: He has simple cases such as spots before the eyes , fishing hook impalings , and even reading mail for a young illiterate couple , whose baby he later delivers .
Sent 11: The experience also humbles Ben when he mistreats a case of mitral valve regurgitation leading to late cyanosis in the child .", "question": "What did the judge sentence Ben to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Often women need immediate legal assistance to protect themselves, and they need an attorney to get a protective order", "They often have no money and have children", "To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney" ], "distractor groups": [ "They dont want to leave", "They need permission of their partner to seek legal assistance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "Why is legal assistance a major obstacle for women who need to get out of a violent relationship?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hair", "Fingernails" ], "distractor groups": [ "Feet", "Hand" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust.
Sent 2: Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving.
Sent 3: This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates.
Sent 4: Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries.
Sent 5: This was evidence that continents can move.
Sent 6: The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics.
Sent 7: The Earths crust is divided into plates.
Sent 8: There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones.
Sent 9: Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains.
Sent 10: Scientists know he plates are in motion.
Sent 11: They now know the direction and speed of this motion .
Sent 12: Plates dont move very fast.
Sent 13: They move only a few centimeters a year.
Sent 14: This is about the same rate fingernails grow.
Sent 15: So you might wonder, what could cause this motion?
Sent 16: What supplies the energy to cause this change?", "question": "To get a sense of how fast plates move, what can you look at on your body?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"French Chef\" television series", "French Chef" ], "distractor groups": [ "30 Minute Meal", "\"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\"" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "Which show revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.A. 30 Minute MealB. \"French Chef\" television seriesC. \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\"D. French ChefPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Baja California desert", "Dirt roads", "They go to the Baja California dessert and to isolated dirt roads in Mexico", "Mexico", "Baja bar", "Baja California desert, Mexico" ], "distractor groups": [ "A Southern California bar", "Swimming pool", "Hills", "Brazil, Cancun", "Mexico, Brazil", "A cliff in US" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "What places do they go to during this trip?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Diego Maradona", "Maradona" ], "distractor groups": [ "Heinze", "World Player of the Year", "Messi", "Port Elizabeth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Argentina's star-studded line-up began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their Group B opener in Johannesburg on Saturday.
Sent 2: A goal from defender Gabriel Heinze after six minutes was all that separated the two teams after an inspired display from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
Sent 3: But South Korea ended the day on top of the group following a 2-0 victory over Greece in Port Elizabeth earlier on Saturday.
Sent 4: Goals from Lee Jung-Soo and Park Ji-Sung gave the 2002 semifinalists a comfortable win over the 2008 European cvhampions.
Sent 5: Argentina 1-0 Nigeria Enyeama could do little to stop Heinze's powerful early header from a Juan Sebastian Veron corner, but he kept his team alive with a string of acrobatic saves to deny World Player of the Year Lionel Messi.
Sent 6: Diego Maradona was delighted to secure his first victory as a World Cup coach, but critical of his strikers for failing to make the game safe.
Sent 7: \"When you don't kill things off in front of goal you can pay a heavy price.
Sent 8: They almost got a draw -- we missed loads of chances,\" Maradona told AFP.
Sent 9: \"Players such as Leo Messi and Higuain knocked in around 60 goals last season between them, yet today it was almost as if they couldn't set their sights on goal.
Sent 10: \"But the win means we can be calm -- we are in the right track.\"", "question": "Who was the coach of Argentina?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jerusalem", "The Holy City" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rome", "Tel Aviv", "Constantinople", "Mongolia", "Turkey", "Egypt" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Crusaders, Mamelukes, and Turks: The Crusaders established a feudal Christian state with Godfrey at its head.
Sent 2: They built many impressive churches during the term of the first Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, but in 1187 they were driven out by Muslim forces under the great warrior Saladin.
Sent 3: During the Sixth Crusade (1228\u2013 1229), the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II managed to secure Jerusalem for the Christians by negotiation.
Sent 4: The Christians, however, could not hold the city.
Sent 5: After they lost Jerusalem, a Mongol invasion swept through, and in 1244 the Mameluke dynasty of Egypt took control, ruling Jerusalem for the next 250 years.
Sent 6: The city struggled to rebuild from Crusader wars and invasions.
Sent 7: Much of the best Islamic architecture in the city was constructed in the Mameluke era, but the past thousand years had taken their toll: Jerusalem was unable to regain the prosperity it had enjoyed in earlier times.
Sent 8: In the early 16th century, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was advancing through the Middle East.
Sent 9: Jerusalem fell to the Ottomans in 1517, remaining under their control for 400 years.
Sent 10: Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt the walls and gates in the form they retain to this day.
Sent 11: Fountains, inns, religious schools, and barracks were constructed.
Sent 12: But when Suleiman died, his empire, including Jerusalem, began a long period of decline.
Sent 13: The Holy City remained a backwater until the 19th century, when renewed interest among Christian pilgrims made it the destination of thousands of travelers each year.", "question": "What city struggled to rebuild from Crusader wars and invasions?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was the editor in chief", "Information-services company's general manager", "General Manager" ], "distractor groups": [ "Director", "Executive Manager" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager to pursue unspecified interests, a move the news organization termed an \"amicable separation.\"
Sent 2: Mr. Reupke, 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran, had been the information-services company's general manager for only six months.
Sent 3: His appointment to that post, which has senior administrative, staff and policy responsibilities, followed a several-year tenure as Reuters's editor in chief.
Sent 4: No successor was named, and Mr. Reupke's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives, the company said.
Sent 5: In a telephone interview, Mr. Reupke said his departure was for \"personal reasons,\" which he declined to specify.
Sent 6: \"There is no business reason for my departure,\" nor any disagreement over policy, he added.
Sent 7: He also rejected reports that his departure stemmed from disappointment the general manager's post hadn't also led to a board directorship at the London-based news organization.
Sent 8: Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters's eight-person executive committee who didn't also serve on the company's board of directors.
Sent 9: \"If I were choosing the people of tomorrow, I would have chosen the people who are now on the board,\" he said.
Sent 10: A Reuters spokesman said the departure reflects \"no change in strategy or profits.\"
Sent 11: Mark Shepperd, an analyst at UBS Philips & Drew in London, said, \"I suspect (the departure) will be fairly irrelevant for the company.
Sent 12: I would be very surprised if his departure signals any change in strategy or change in profit expectations.\"
Sent 13: On London's Stock Exchange, Reuters shares rose five pence to 913 pence (14.43).
Sent 14: In the U.S. over-the-counter market, American depositary shares for Reuters, each representing three shares in the London market, closed unchanged at 43.875.
Sent 15: The senior of the three executives who will assume Mr. Reupke's duties is Nigel Judah, 58, finance director and a Reuters board director.
Sent 16: Peter Holland, 45, deputy general manager, becomes director of corporate affairs.
Sent 17: And Patrick Mannix, 46, international technical manager, becomes director of group quality programs.", "question": "What position did Reupke hold one year ago?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Relying on an animal to come by", "It takes a lot of energy to make it", "Waiting for the wind to blow the right direction or waiting for the right animals to come by can be risky for the process of pollination" ], "distractor groups": [ "It may not spread", "It is expensive", "It might dry up", "Adapting new traits" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Relying on an animal to come by is risky.
Sent 2: A flower may have to wait a long time for the right animals to come by.
Sent 3: What if one never passes close enough to the flower?
Sent 4: Hoping the wind will blow is also risky for a plant.
Sent 5: What if the wind does not blow?
Sent 6: What if the blowing pollen does not land on another flower?
Sent 7: The wind could even blow the pollen over the ocean where it is wasted.
Sent 8: Giving free nectar is costly.
Sent 9: It is not a good use of the plants energy.
Sent 10: A plant uses a lot of energy to produce nectar.
Sent 11: Some animals may just drink the nectar.
Sent 12: They may not carry off any pollen in return.
Sent 13: To improve their chances, plants evolved special traits.
Sent 14: For example, they developed ways to hide their nectar.
Sent 15: Only certain animals were able to get at the plants hidden nectar.
Sent 16: These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species.
Sent 17: This was also a benefit for some animals.
Sent 18: Animals also evolved special traits to get to the nectar.", "question": "What is risky for a plant with its nectar?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sotheby's", "Manhattan", "New York" ], "distractor groups": [ "Berlin", "Waldorf-Astoria", "London", "Washington D.C" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "Where was the 1933 double eagle auctioned off?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Westerners", "American people", "Some Americans" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Egyptian writer", "American president", "Bin Laden", "Sayyid Qutb", "Congressmen", "Jahiliyya", "Muslims", "Armenians" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Who asks What can we do to stop these attacksA. The Egyptian writerB. American presidentC. Bin LadenD. Sayyid QutbE. WesternersF. CongressmenG. JahiliyyaH. American peopleI. Some AmericansJ. MuslimsK. ArmeniansPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Invading with his army", "By coup d' tat and by force", "Coup d' tat", "Overthrowing him", "Through a failed coup and a military invasion" ], "distractor groups": [ "By bribing Grand Vizier", "Execution", "killing him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time .
Sent 2: The Sultan Shahryar has gone mad after accidentally killing his wife during a failed coup d' tat , Which she had planned with Shahryar's brother Schahzenan .
Sent 3: In his madness , Shahryar believes that all women now want to kill him , but the law states that the Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother .
Sent 4: Shahryar therefore orders Grand Vizier Ja'Far ( ( ( Jim Carter to bring him a harem girl to marry and then have executed the next day .
Sent 5: In order to prevent this , the Grand Vizier's clever daughter , Scheherazade , decides to marry the Sultan herself .
Sent 6: Scheherazade has a plan to prevent her execution and at the same time cure the Sultan of his madness .
Sent 7: With the help of some tutoring from a bazaar storyteller , Scheherazade tells the Sultan a story every night , stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger and refusing to continue until dusk .
Sent 8: Shahryar must therefore let Scheherazade live for another day in order to hear the rest of the story .
Sent 9: Cunningly , Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story , to bring the Sultan out of his madness .
Sent 10: Meanwhile , Schahzenan hears about the Sultan's madness and that he is unable to execute Scheherazade .
Sent 11: Perceiving this as weakness , Schahzenan leads his army to Baghdad in an attempt to take the throne by force .
Sent 12: However , by the time Schahzenan's army reaches the city , Scheherazade's plan has worked .
Sent 13: As a result of her stories , Shahryar has overcome his madness and has fallen in love with Scheherazade .", "question": "In what ways did the sultan's brother try to oust him?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Humid subtropical climates", "Humid subtropical climates are found there. Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Marine West Coast Climate", "Temperate Climate", "Mediterranean Climate", "Mediterranean" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "What type of climate might you find in southeastern U.S.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "90 Church St, across from the World Trade Center site", "90 Church Street" ], "distractor groups": [ "New York", "123 World Trade Center Blvd", "Storage facility in Linden, N.J" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In her storage room-turned-office, Jennifer Baum works under an expanding leak that is causing the ceiling to turn brown and crumble.
Sent 2: Mold grows in the buckets positioned to catch the water.
Sent 3: She shrugs it off.
Sent 4: Outside her office she has taped up a clear plastic suit, and a sign that reads, \"All employees must don protective gear before coming in.\"
Sent 5: Such is life in limbo.
Sent 6: Nearly a year after Sept. 11, the Legal Aid Society-the lawyers for New York's poor and homeless-remains, well, homeless.
Sent 7: The nonprofit has been barred from returning to its 90 Church St. headquarters, across from the World Trade Center site, because of environmental concerns.
Sent 8: Legal Aid has uncomfortable company.
Sent 9: More than 11,500 New Yorkers continue to work out of temporary space, according to analysis by Manhattan-based real estate brokerage TenantWise.com Inc. and Crain's New York Business.
Sent 10: That's 8% of the 137,000 workers who lost their offices or access to them when the Twin Towers collapsed.
Sent 11: Legal Aid's 450 displaced attorneys and staffers have spent the past 12 months spread among previously unused spaces-some unused for good reason-in the nonprofit's other offices.
Sent 12: It could be another year and a half before they return to their old desks.
Sent 13: They have contended with difficult working conditions as demand for Legal Aid's services is on the rise because of Sept. 11 and the deteriorating economy.
Sent 14: The civil division is spread among a few boroughs.
Sent 15: Their papers and documents, some 20,000 boxes worth, are stuck in a storage facility in Linden, N.J. \"I am counting the days till we can have all the parts back in one place,\" says Steven Banks, Legal Aid's associate attorney in chief.
Sent 16: In the memories of the exiled workers, the old office has achieved mythical proportions.
Sent 17: They say the wood paneling and rugs had the ability to cool emotions and lift spirits.
Sent 18: The Legal Aid office on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where 65 displaced workers have cobbled together space amid the faded and scratched walls, looks more like a bargain basement.", "question": "Where was the original address of the Legal Aid Society headquartersA. 90 Church St, across from the World Trade Center siteB. New YorkC. 123 World Trade Center BlvdD. Storage facility in Linden, N.JE. 90 Church StreetPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit\" and \"visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.\"", "It would risk the president's life and they felt that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit", "It was dangerous", "It risked his life", "The envoys reported that Pakistan was unlikely to do anything" ], "distractor groups": [ "The tensions between India and Pakistan", "Direct pressure on Taliban had proved unsuccessful" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Why did the Secret Service and the CIA think it was a bad idea to visit Pakistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Natural resources", "Natural Resources" ], "distractor groups": [ "Minerals", "Coal", "OIL" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.", "question": "What do we need for building material and energyA. Natural resourcesB. Natural ResourcesC. MineralsD. CoalE. OILPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The ball may still have the potential to move", "Its energy is not released instantly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because it has mass", "All objects have energy of position", "Because it has weight", "Because it has to move potentially", "Because it can move" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position.
Sent 2: This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move.
Sent 3: A moving ball can have energy from motion.
Sent 4: An arrow can also have the energy of motion.
Sent 5: Both are types of mechanical energy.
Sent 6: Can you think of some other examples?
Sent 7: Where does the energy of motion come from?
Sent 8: It comes from the energy created by position.
Sent 9: This energy is stored energy.
Sent 10: This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move.
Sent 11: How can you store energy?
Sent 12: The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow.
Sent 13: As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion.
Sent 14: Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position?", "question": "Why is it possible for a moving ball to still have energy of position?" }, { "answer groups": [ "exert and attraction and pull on other objects", "an attraction", "have a push and pull" ], "distractor groups": [ "a friction", "nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: So what is gravity?
Sent 2: A typical definition of gravity is that it is a force.
Sent 3: It causes an attraction between two masses.
Sent 4: According to this definition, anything that has mass exerts a force.
Sent 5: Any object exerts gravity on other objects.
Sent 6: It does not matter how small it is, it has gravity.
Sent 7: The more matter an object has, the more gravity it has.
Sent 8: Your pencil has a tiny bit of gravity, but far too little to notice.
Sent 9: What about a planet?
Sent 10: It would have a lot of gravity.
Sent 11: An objects gravity exerts a pull on other objects.
Sent 12: Friction only occurs between objects that are touching.
Sent 13: Gravity can act between objects that are not touching.
Sent 14: In fact, gravity can act over very long distances.
Sent 15: Where else can you feel gravity?", "question": "What does an objects gravity cause it to do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "History of raids", "The romans left nothing of consequence in Madrid", "No record of it remains" ], "distractor groups": [ "Catholicism", "The kings did not visit" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Though prehistoric remains from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages have been unearthed in the Manzanares Valley, prior to Madrid's sudden elevation to capital city in 1561 its history was rather undistinguished.
Sent 2: Over a period of many centuries crucial in Spanish history, Madrid's significance was negligible.
Sent 3: The Romans built their most advanced outpost on the Iberian peninsula, but left nothing of consequence in Madrid.
Sent 4: Armies of North African nomads, intent on disseminating Islam, invaded the peninsula in a.d.
Sent 5: Within 10 years, they had overrun most of Spain.
Sent 6: If Madrid played any role in these pivotal events, no record of it remains.
Sent 7: The first solid references to this obscure settlement on the Castilian plateau, guarded by the looming Guadarrama mountain range, appear in the 9th century.
Sent 8: The Arabic name for \"place of many springs,\" variously recorded as Magerit, Mayrit or Magrit, eventually evolved into Madrid.
Sent 9: The hamlet entered historical chronicles for its military significance; it was located near the main line of resistance to the Christian reconquest.
Sent 10: Over centuries of struggle, the defending Moorish army built a full-scale fort, or Alc\u00e1zar, on the heights of Madrid commanding the Manzanares valley.
Sent 11: After several unsuccessful skirmishes, the Christian forces of Alfonso VI captured Madrid in 1083.
Sent 12: The Alc\u00e1zar became a fort of the crown of Castile.
Sent 13: During a counter-offensive in 1109, the town was overrun by the Moors, but the Christianized fortress held.
Sent 14: The Moors were expelled from the town, but they remained in control of southern Spain for almost four centuries.
Sent 15: Meanwhile, Madrid enjoyed brief prominence in 1308 when king Ferdinand IV and his Cortes, an early version of parliament, held a formal meeting in the fledgling town.
Sent 16: From then on, the kings of Spain began to visit Madrid, where the air was invigorating and the hunting excellent.
Sent 17: Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs that united all the provinces of Spain, first visited Madrid in 1477.", "question": "Why was Madrid's significance negligible in Spanish history?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hamilton-Jacobi equation", "Hamilton-Jacob equation of mechanics" ], "distractor groups": [ "Einstein equation", "De Broglie equation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God \"is not playing at dice.\"
Sent 2: Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in the theory, and attempted unsuccessfully to disprove it until he died at the age of 76.
Sent 3: In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser.
Sent 4: This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck's distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode.
Sent 5: This paper was enormously influential in the later development of quantum mechanics, because it was the first paper to show that the statistics of atomic transitions had simple laws.
Sent 6: Einstein discovered Louis de Broglie's work, and supported his ideas, which were received skeptically at first.
Sent 7: In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics.
Sent 8: This paper would inspire Schrodinger's work of 1926.", "question": "The inspiration for Schrodinger's work came from what equation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "7 years", "Continuing Education", "Completing course on Germannearly 7 years", "In 1992 we went to live with a host family and attend University of Hamburg until 1999, a total of 7 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "Money", "Sponsoring from German, 5 years", "5 Years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "What took Atta to Germany and how long was he there?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because they became Ailies to the English and sent weapons to the English", "Because they found out the Dutch were supplying the British colonies with ammunition", "Supplying ammunition to colonies" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dutch Rivals", "Because trade was suffering" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "Why did the British go to war with the Netherlands in 1780?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Index fossils", "Index Fossils" ], "distractor groups": [ "Old organisms", "Rocky fossils", "Cast fossils", "Mold fosdils", "Young organisms" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils can be used to match up rock layers.
Sent 2: As organisms change over time, they look different.
Sent 3: Older fossils will look different than younger fossils.
Sent 4: Some organisms only survived for a short time before going extinct.
Sent 5: Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers.
Sent 6: Some fossils are better than others for this use.
Sent 7: The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history are called index fossils.
Sent 8: Index fossils are commonly used to match rock layers.
Sent 9: You can see how this works in Figure 2.30.
Sent 10: If two rock layers have the same index fossils, then they're probably about the same age.", "question": "What kind of fossils are used to date rock layers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Unaware", "They were unfairly evicted from there homes", "They were evicted from the seniors complex", "A riff" ], "distractor groups": [ "AGE", "Neighbors", "She moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "What was the issue with Penny Sweat and Lee KempA. UnawareB. AGEC. NeighborsD. They were unfairly evicted from there homesE. She moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rentF. They were evicted from the seniors complexG. A riffPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ieyasu Tokugawa", "Tokugawa" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chinese", "The Emperor", "British", "The Vassals", "The Dutch and British traders", "Dutch", "Hideyoshi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "Who did not like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries?" }, { "answer groups": [ "X-rays", "Light, radio waves, microwaves, and X rays", "Light energy,radio waves, microwaves, and X rays", "Radio waves", "Microwaves" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fire", "High waves", "Wind", "Ocean waves", "Sound energy,", "Sound waves" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Our sun and other stars release light energy.
Sent 2: At least this is what we see.
Sent 3: Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light.
Sent 4: Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy.
Sent 5: This form of energy travels through space.
Sent 6: Electromagnetic energy includes the light we see.
Sent 7: It also includes much more.
Sent 8: Many of these things we know about, but dont always think about.
Sent 9: Electromagnetic energy includes radio waves, microwaves, and X rays.
Sent 10: We now have devices in our homes and offices that release these same forms of energy.
Sent 11: We use electromagnetic energy to make our lives better.", "question": "What are the four forms of energy that are electromagnetic?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Smog checks for clean air, anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws", "Smog checks, banning smoking in restaurants and bars, and bike helmet laws", "Require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws", "Bike helmets, antismog and antismoking" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ban of marijuana", "Jaywalking laws", "Forbidding sale of caffeinated beer", "Importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths", "Organic food", "Say NO to Drugs campaign" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What are some major public health initiatives that California pioneered?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Suppressed his fear", "He considered turning back because he was afraid" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ran away", "Tried to kill them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears.
Sent 2: I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company.
Sent 3: Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.
Sent 4: They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits.
Sent 5: Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give.
Sent 6: Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake.", "question": "What did the narrator consider doing when first approached by the Indians and how did he feel?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Four of the members appointed to this committee or committees should be a member who also serves on each of the following additional committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and the Defense Appropriations subcommittee", "The majority of the committee should never exceed the minority by more than one and four of the members on the committee should also serve in Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs and the Defense Appropriations subcommittee" ], "distractor groups": [ "They should have serviced in the Armed Forces Committee", "Have legal background and completed military training", "They should have served multiple years in different intelligence committees" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Recommendation: Congressional oversight for intelligence-and counterterrorism-is now dysfunctional.
Sent 2: Congress should address this problem.
Sent 3: We have considered various alternatives: A joint committee on the old model of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy is one.
Sent 4: A single committee in each house of Congress, combining authorizing and appropriating authorities, is another.
Sent 5: The new committee or committees should conduct continuing studies of the activities of the intelligence agencies and report problems relating to the development and use of intelligence to all members of the House and Senate.
Sent 6: We have already recommended that the total level of funding for intelligence be made public, and that the national intelligence program be appropriated to the National Intelligence Director, not to the secretary of defense.
Sent 7: We also recommend that the intelligence committee should have a subcommittee specifically dedicated to oversight, freed from the consuming responsibility of working on the budget.
Sent 8: The resolution creating the new intelligence committee structure should grant subpoena authority to the committee or committees.
Sent 9: The majority party's representation on this committee should never exceed the minority's representation by more than one.
Sent 10: Four of the members appointed to this committee or committees should be a member who also serves on each of the following additional committees: Armed Services, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and the Defense Appropriations subcommittee.
Sent 11: In this way the other major congressional interests can be brought together in the new committee's work.
Sent 12: Members should serve indefinitely on the intelligence committees, without set terms, thereby letting them accumulate expertise.
Sent 13: The committees should be smaller-perhaps seven or nine members in each house-so that each member feels a greater sense of responsibility, and accountability, for the quality of the committee's work.
Sent 14: The leaders of the Department of Homeland Security now appear before 88 committees and subcommittees of Congress.
Sent 15: One expert witness (not a member of the administration) told us that this is perhaps the single largest obstacle impeding the department's successful development.
Sent 16: The one attempt to consolidate such committee authority, the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, may be eliminated.
Sent 17: The Senate does not have even this.
Sent 18: Congress needs to establish for the Department of Homeland Security the kind of clear authority and responsibility that exist to enable the Justice Department to deal with crime and the Defense Department to deal with threats to national security.", "question": "What are some suggestions for requirements of the people in this new committee that is being proposed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The notion of turning psychology into a prescribing profession", "Their greatest objection is to the notion of turning psychology into a prescribing profession", "The notion of turning psychology into a prescription profession" ], "distractor groups": [ "It will cost too much money", "Their greatest objection is that psychologist will not allow to write prescription" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Critics say that is not nearly enough compared with other prescribers, such as M.D. psychiatrists or nurse practitioners who have at least six years' medical education and clinical experience.
Sent 2: Neither Davison nor most other RxP opponents doubt the efficacy of medications.
Sent 3: Their greatest objection is to the notion of turning psychology into a prescribing profession.
Sent 4: In a field that has struggled long and hard to prove that mind, mood and behavior can be studied empirically, the past decade, Davison says, has seen \"exciting developments\" that demonstrate the validity of various psychotherapeutic interventions and the psychosocial-behavioral models on which they are based.
Sent 5: \"The timing is peculiar to abandon psychological science or to convert it to a medical science,\" explains Elaine M. Heiby of the University of Hawaii, who chairs a committee of the 1,000-member American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology that is concerned about the medicalization of psychology.
Sent 6: \"Making sure that practicing psychologists are giving patients interventions based on the best available psychological science should be the APA's priority,\" argues Emory University's Scott Lilienfeld, president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP).
Sent 7: More than any philosophical betrayal of psychology, RxP opponents fear that the movement will undermine the science they love.
Sent 8: They believe that if prescriptive authority becomes the norm, biomedical requirements will inevitably seep into the psychology curriculum, at the expense of traditional psychological science and methodology.
Sent 9: Lilienfeld feels that many clinical psychologists already receive inadequate training in fundamentals such as research design and evaluation.
Sent 10: RxP opponents charge the APA with pushing its prescription-privileges agenda without adequately assessing support for it in the field.
Sent 11: The 300-member SSCP is the only group within the APA to have taken a formal stance against prescription privileges.
Sent 12: The APA has scheduled 30 minutes at its meeting in August for an RxP debate, but its leadership believes it already has an accurate sense of support for its RxP policy.
Sent 13: \"Except for this small vocal minority, we have just not gotten a lot of groundswell against this from members,\" says APA president Philip G. Zimbardo of Stanford University.
Sent 14: With prescription privileges now a reality in one state, some RxP opponents concede that it may be too late.
Sent 15: This year four states besides New Mexico -- Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois and Tennessee -- have pending legislation for psychologist prescription privileges.
Sent 16: Over the past decade, 14 state legislatures have considered such laws.
Sent 17: Between 1991 and 1997, a U.S. Department of Defense psychopharmacology demonstration project involving two to four years' training produced 10 military psychologists who can write prescriptions.", "question": "What is the greatest objection of RxP opponents?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The teams attack on a warship failed after the suicide boat sank causing them to regroup and attack the USS Cole nine months later", "They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead. Then in January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank ,more than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole", "In January 2000 operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank", "Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden sent out worf that US cargo ship was expected in Amen port and operatives were sent to destroy it but destroyed USS Cole instead", "Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras", "Al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri.
Sent 2: As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives.
Sent 3: They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.
Sent 4: In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.
Sent 5: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Sent 6: The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40.
Sent 7: The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden.
Sent 8: He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment.
Sent 9: Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen.
Sent 10: Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier.
Sent 11: Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
Sent 12: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Sent 13: Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras.
Sent 15: Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack.
Sent 16: Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden.", "question": "Describe the events that occurred before the attack on the USS Cole?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"Bin\" is more familiar to English speakers, so we make an exception and use it; whereas the article \"al\" in an Arabic name is less familiar", "They chose to refer individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known", "Because there is not universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English", "We chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi and We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hazmi isn't a scholar, but Bin Laden is", "Because 'al' is not a part of the name in their own societies", "It is their custom to call as it is mentioned in fatwa", "Bin Laden is a leader and Hasmi is lower in the organizations", "Hazmi is not wealthy, but Bin Laden is" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a \"World Islamic Front.\"
Sent 2: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law.
Sent 3: Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the \"individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.\"
Sent 4: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Laden enlarged on these themes.
Sent 5: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.\"
Sent 6: It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,\" he said.
Sent 7: Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:\"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
Sent 8: Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.
Sent 9: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
Sent 10: As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.\"
Sent 11: Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames.
Sent 12: Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article \"al\" that would be part of their name in their own societies.
Sent 13: We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden.
Sent 14: Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.
Sent 15: We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.
Sent 16: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda.
Sent 17: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Sent 18: In August 1996, Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.", "question": "Why do we use \" Bin Laden\" to refer to Usama Bin Laden and only \"Hazmi\" to refer to Nawaf al Hazmi?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Manolo Jimenez", "Coach Manolo Jimenez", "Manolo" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ramon Rodriguez", "Xerez", "Juande Ramos" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.
Sent 2: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week.
Sent 3: Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job.
Sent 4: The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had \"done what I had to.\"
Sent 5: He told the club's official Web site: \"It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings.
Sent 6: \"Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team.
Sent 7: Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo.
Sent 8: He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible.
Sent 9: However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team.
Sent 10: \"Fortunately we believe that there is time.
Sent 11: The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager.
Sent 12: We are fighting for important things.\"
Sent 13: Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February.
Sent 14: Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season.
Sent 15: Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham.", "question": "While being an excellent professional who could not get a response out of the team?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tenet wanted a boost in overall funds for the CIA and another supplemental appropriation specifically for counterterrorism. To Clarke, this seemed evidence that the CIA's leadership did not give sufficient priority to the battle against Bin Laden and al Qaeda", "Tenet wanted to boost funds, while Clarke argued that Al Qaeda and Bin Laden were not given enough consideration" ], "distractor groups": [ "Clarke", "Pavitt wanted to boost overall funds and Berger felt that felt the CIA had not given Al Qaeda enough priority" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The after-action review had treated the CIA as the lead agency for any offensive against al Qaeda, and the principals, at their March 10 meeting, had endorsed strengthening the CIA's capability for that role.
Sent 2: To the CTC, that meant proceeding with \"The Plan,\" which it had put forward half a year earlier-hiring and training more case officers and building up the capabilities of foreign security services that provided intelligence via liaison.
Sent 3: On occasion, as in Jordan in December 1999, these liaison services took direct action against al Qaeda cells.
Sent 4: In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Laden unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.
Sent 5: Tenet told us he met with Berger to discuss funding for counterterrorism just two days after the principals' meeting.
Sent 6: While Clarke strongly favored giving the CIA more money for counterterrorism, he differed sharply with the CIA's managers about where it should come from.
Sent 7: They insisted that the CIA had been shortchanged ever since the end of the Cold War.
Sent 8: Their ability to perform any mission, counterterrorism included, they argued, depended on preserving what they had, restoring what they had lost since the beginning of the 1990s, and building from there-with across-the-board recruitment and training of new case officers, and the reopening of closed stations.
Sent 9: To finance the counterterrorism effort, Tenet had gone to congressional leaders after the 1998 embassy bombings and persuaded them to give the CIA a special supplemental appropriation.
Sent 10: Now, in the aftermath of the millennium alert, Tenet wanted a boost in overall funds for the CIA and another supplemental appropriation specifically for counterterrorism.
Sent 11: To Clarke, this seemed evidence that the CIA's leadership did not give sufficient priority to the battle against Bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Sent 12: He told us that James Pavitt, the head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, \"said if there's going to be money spent on going after Bin Laden, it should be given to him.
Sent 13: My view was that he had had a lot of money to do it and a long time to do it, and I didn't want to put more good money after bad.\"
Sent 14: The CIA had a very different attitude: Pavitt told us that while the CIA's Bin Laden unit did\"extraordinary and commendable work,\" his chief of station in London \"was just as much part of the al Qaeda struggle as an officer sitting in [the Bin Laden unit].\"
Sent 15: The dispute had large managerial implications, for Clarke had found Ailies in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).", "question": "Who wants to boost overall funds to deal with terrorism and who felt the CIA had not given Al Qaeda enough priority?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Washington, D.C", "Washington, DC" ], "distractor groups": [ "Salt Lake City", "Philadelphia", "Boston", "NYC" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos \"perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.\"
Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the \"undisputed poet\" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, \"The Cut.\"
Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite \"Western\" feel to \"The Cut.\"
Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, \"Treme.\"
Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series \"The Wire\" and the miniseries \"The Pacific.\"
Sent 16: Read an excerpt from \"The Cut\" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.", "question": "Pelecanos writes about working families struggling to get by, racial tensions in ethnic neighborhoods, and the low-lifes on the edges of what U.S. city?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The force of gravity", "Gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Force", "Net force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if two children push a swing at the same time?
Sent 2: Would the swing go higher?
Sent 3: Yes, together their force would be more.
Sent 4: It is common for forces to be combined.
Sent 5: Most objects on Earth have at least two forces acting on them.
Sent 6: Do you know what one of them is?
Sent 7: Of course, that force is gravity.
Sent 8: How many forces do you have on you right now?
Sent 9: Gravity pulls you down toward the center of Earth.
Sent 10: Your legs exert a downward force.
Sent 11: They hold you up against the pull of gravity.
Sent 12: Consider the example in Figure 1.3.
Sent 13: A book is resting on a table.
Sent 14: Gravity pulls the book downward.
Sent 15: It has a force of 20 newtons.
Sent 16: At the same time, the table pushes the book upward.
Sent 17: Its force is also 20 newtons.
Sent 18: The table opposes the pull of gravity.", "question": "What pulls you down?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Osama bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed", "Remainder" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "Who kept rotating between five to six residences in Kandahar?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He appeared innocent,was lanky and wearing black bluejeans and a button down shirt", "Quiet trust" ], "distractor groups": [ "Suspicious", "He looks like a good guy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy.
Sent 2: A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust.
Sent 3: In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel.
Sent 4: A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a 250-an-hour legal counselor.
Sent 5: Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network.
Sent 6: ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge.
Sent 7: ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.''
Sent 8: For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award.
Sent 9: The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus.
Sent 10: Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice.
Sent 11: The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island.
Sent 12: The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem.
Sent 13: After all, politics run in the Rooney family.
Sent 14: His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party.
Sent 15: But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined.
Sent 16: ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled.
Sent 17: ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.''
Sent 18: After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services.", "question": "How did Fred Rooney physically look?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Army", "Rocket pack soliders" ], "distractor groups": [ "Guns", "Aliens", "Jets", "Marines", "Choppers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An archaeological party explore some caverns underground .
Sent 2: Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes are the two leaders of the archaeological expedition , and get separated .
Sent 3: While Dr. Hughes finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond , Dr. Campbell finds hieroglyphics at the cost of the party except for Hughes and himself .
Sent 4: Two years later , Campbell and his assistant Holly are digging up the bones of Yonggary , a gargantuan dinosaur 50 times the size of a tyrannosaurus rex .
Sent 5: Out of nowhere , people slowly are being killed around the site .
Sent 6: While Holly is working Dr. Hughes , who has been legally dead for 2 years , goes to Holly and tells her to stop the dig .
Sent 7: Dr. Campbell comes into the tent and sends Dr. Hughes off .
Sent 8: Holly quits the expedition when another `` Accident '' occurs .
Sent 9: In the town bar , Dr. Hughes finds Holly and takes her back to her Hotel room to tell her why he thinks the bones of the Dinosaur , Which he calls Yonggary , are going to bring the end of the world .
Sent 10: After explaining , Holly and Hughes go to the site to stop Campbell but it is too late and Aliens resurrect Yonggary .
Sent 11: After Yonggary's first appearance , the Army comes in and takes Holly and Campbell to an army base when Yonggary is dispatched by the aliens again .
Sent 12: The army sends choppers after Yonggary , but he destroys them .
Sent 13: Yonggary is then sent to the city and does some damage , where some jets attack him .
Sent 14: Then Yonggary is transported to a power plant where he is attacked by rocket pack soldiers .
Sent 15: During the fight , Hughes and Holly find out that the diamond on Yonggary's forehead is the device giving the aliens control of Yonggary .", "question": "What was Yonggary attacked by after the jets?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He claimed that American had declared war against God [Allah] and his messenger [Mohammed] and that Americans are the worst thieves and terrorists in the world", "He claimed that America had declared war against God and his messenger", "They believe that the worst thieves and terrorists in the world today are the Americans" ], "distractor groups": [ "They want to take revenge for not allowing them to migrate to America", "To avenge the deaths of innocents", "To call on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia", "To give them a reason to change their evil", "To convert them to Islam" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a \"World Islamic Front.\"
Sent 2: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law.
Sent 3: Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the \"individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.\"
Sent 4: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Laden enlarged on these themes.
Sent 5: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.\"
Sent 6: It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,\" he said.
Sent 7: Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:\"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
Sent 8: Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.
Sent 9: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
Sent 10: As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.\"
Sent 11: Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames.
Sent 12: Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article \"al\" that would be part of their name in their own societies.
Sent 13: We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden.
Sent 14: Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.
Sent 15: We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.
Sent 16: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda.
Sent 17: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Sent 18: In August 1996, Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.", "question": "What reasons does Bin Laden give for issuing a fatwa on all Americans?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Besides bringing 1,000 jobs to the area the new factory will be very close to IBM's research laboratories in Westchester County, NY to make sure the lab to fab time will be as close to zero as possible", "The lab to fab time is reduced", "So that better chips can be produced quicker" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is not in Asia", "There will be a reduced cost", "To increase the lab-to-fab time", "They want the best as soon as possible" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than 2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made.
Sent 2: The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM.
Sent 3: But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York.
Sent 4: IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips.
Sent 5: It is spending more than 500 million a year on semiconductor research and development.
Sent 6: The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles.
Sent 7: The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage.
Sent 8: \"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market,\" said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Sent 9: An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial.
Sent 10: \"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,\" Kelly said.
Sent 11: \"If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia.\"
Sent 12: The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people.", "question": "What does IBM's senior vice president in charge of their technology group, John Kelly, feel that the location of the new plant is so important?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There was International pressure on Sudan, Bin Laden's companies had run out of funds and the normal costs of business Increased due to Sudanese officials becoming less obliging", "Because US froze its capital and pressed middle easter governments to not protect him", "1. International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency. 2. Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds. 3. As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased", "International pressure on Sudan that affected its currency, less obliging authorities and Saudi pressure", "International pressure on Sudan, less obliging Sudanese authorities, Saudi oressure" ], "distractor groups": [ "The government advised him that they intended to yield to Libya's demand to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies", "Personal spendings, higher business operating costs and increased demands from Saudi government", "Because some of his companies didn't do well in the Libyan and Sudanese market" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.", "question": "What are three reasons for Bin Laden's money troubles when he was based in Sudan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Caligula took Alexander's breastplate for his own use and then the tomb was closed to the public in 200 AD", "Ptolemy IX replaced the original with a glass one so he could convert the old one to coinage. Augustus allegedly knocked the nose of the tomb and Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from his tomb" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was stolen on the way to Macedon", "Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb", "The details on the fate of the tomb are hazy", "Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander's body was laid in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus that was filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket.
Sent 2: According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest \"would be happy and unvanquishable forever\".
Sent 3: Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy, since burying the prior king was a royal prerogative.
Sent 4: While Alexander's funeral cortege was on its way to Macedon, Ptolemy seized it and took it temporarily to Memphis.
Sent 5: His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least late Antiquity.
Sent 6: Ptolemy IX Lathyros, one of Ptolemy's final successors, replaced Alexander's sarcophagus with a glass one so he could convert the original to coinage.
Sent 7: The recent discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, at Amphipolis, dating from the time of Alexander the Great has given rise to speculation that its original intent was to be the burial place of Alexander.
Sent 8: This would fit with the intended destination of Alexander's funeral cortege.
Sent 9: Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria, where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose off.
Sent 10: Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use.
Sent 11: Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to the public.
Sent 12: His son and successor, Caracalla, a great admirer, visited the tomb during his own reign.
Sent 13: After this, details on the fate of the tomb are hazy.
Sent 14: The so-called \"Alexander Sarcophagus\", discovered near Sidon and now in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, is so named not because it was thought to have contained Alexander's remains, but because its bas-reliefs depict Alexander and his companions fighting the Persians and hunting.
Sent 15: It was originally thought to have been the sarcophagus of Abdalonymus (died 311 BC), the king of Sidon appointed by Alexander immediately following the battle of Issus in 331.
Sent 16: However, more recently, it has been suggested that it may date from earlier than Abdalonymus' death.", "question": "What known alterations were made to Alexander's tomb?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He contemplates about jumping off a cliff", "Plunging off a cliff", "Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff" ], "distractor groups": [ "He contemplates about committing suicide with a gun", "He wants to die of hunger in the Baja desert", "He contemplates staying in the Baja desert for a longer time", "Affair with others wife", "Summerfield plans to tell his wife about the affair", "Nothing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "What extreme action does Summerfield contemplate after traveling further into Mexico on isolated dirt roads?" }, { "answer groups": [ "University of Michigan", "Ten schools currently teach this", "Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools", "New York Law School", "University of New Mexico School of Law", "Thomas M. Cooley Law School" ], "distractor groups": [ "Madison University", "Ohio State" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law.
Sent 2: Instead of lunches at Lut\ufffd\ufffdce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens.
Sent 3: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden.
Sent 4: To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse.
Sent 5: Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab.
Sent 6: A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps?
Sent 7: Hardly.
Sent 8: They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there.
Sent 9: Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post.
Sent 10: Here is how to grapple \"in the service of justice,\" as many of the schools put it, instead.
Sent 11: Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford.
Sent 12: This is not pro bono legal work; it is \"low bono,\" a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for.
Sent 13: While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible.
Sent 14: \"When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel,\" said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May.
Sent 15: \"But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar.\"
Sent 16: The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas.
Sent 17: (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School.
Sent 18: It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.", "question": "Consdider the original schools in the consortium and those that have joined to find out how many are currently teaching this type of law.A. University of MichiganB. Ten schools currently teach thisC. Madison UniversityD. Ohio StateE. Rutgers and Syracuse Law SchoolsF. New York Law SchoolG. University of New Mexico School of LawH. Thomas M. Cooley Law SchoolPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fight the war on terrorism", "Pay down the debt", "Helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism" ], "distractor groups": [ "Recycling programs and the space program", "Pay a lawsuit", "Military Spending", "Welfare" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "The half of the auction proceeds that were given to the U.S. Mint will go toward what causes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Environment", "The environment and living organisms", "Living creatures", "Creatures adapt" ], "distractor groups": [ "Creatures die out", "Geologists", "Process" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earth processes have not changed over time.
Sent 2: The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past.
Sent 3: Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away.
Sent 4: The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago.
Sent 5: As the environment changes, living creatures adapt.
Sent 6: They change over time.
Sent 7: Some organisms may not be able to adapt.
Sent 8: They become extinct.
Sent 9: Becoming extinct means they die out completely.
Sent 10: Some geologists study the history of the Earth.
Sent 11: They want to learn about Earths past.
Sent 12: They use clues from rocks and fossils.
Sent 13: They use these clues to make sense of events.
Sent 14: The goal is to place things in the order they happened.
Sent 15: They also want to know how long it took for those events to happen.", "question": "If Earths processes do not change, what does?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Crown Prince", "Abdullah", "Crown Prince Abdullah" ], "distractor groups": [ "Prince Turki", "Madani al Tayyib", "Mullah Omar", "Independent reports", "Vice President Gore", "Riyadh" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than military options.
Sent 2: The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the Bin Laden network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it.
Sent 3: For a brief moment, it had seemed as if the August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up Bin Laden.
Sent 4: On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on Bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan.
Sent 5: Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia.
Sent 6: Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no.
Sent 7: Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government.
Sent 8: Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime.
Sent 9: (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.) Crown Prince Abdullah told President Clinton and Vice President Gore about this when he visited Washington in late September.
Sent 10: His account confirmed reports that the U.S. government had received independently.
Sent 11: Other efforts with the Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.S. agents to interrogate prisoners in Saudi custody.
Sent 12: The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained.
Sent 13: Several officials told us, in particular, that the United States could not get direct access to an important al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib, who had been detained by the Saudi government in 1997.67Though U.S. officials repeatedly raised the issue, the Saudis provided limited information.
Sent 14: In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.S. access to Tayyib.
Sent 15: The United States never obtained this access.
Sent 16: An NSC staff-led working group on terrorist finances asked the CIA in November 1998 to push again for access to Tayyib and to see \"if it is possible to elaborate further on the ties between Usama bin Ladin and prominent individuals in Saudi Arabia, including especially the Bin Laden family.\"
Sent 17: One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000.
Sent 18: During these trips the NSC, Treasury, and intelligence representatives spoke with Saudi officials, and later interviewed members of the Bin Laden family, about Usama's inheritance.", "question": "Who told President Clinton that Riyadh had suspended relations with the Taliban regime?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Four", "4", "Four years" ], "distractor groups": [ "19", "18", "Five", "5" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: LONDON, England (CNN) -- The most eagerly anticipated animated film this year hits big screens this weekend, as \"The Simpsons Movie\" opens worldwide.
Sent 2: The Screening Room spoke to creator Matt Groening and writer Al Jean in London about everyone's favorite two-dimensional yellow family.
Sent 3: Simpsons supremo Matt Groening with his creations at the film's premiere in Springfield, Vermont Matt Groening told the Screening Room that fans had driven the demand for the movie.
Sent 4: \"We've had fans clamoring for a movie for the past 18 years,\" he said.
Sent 5: The film has taken four years to come to fruition, as writer Al Jean explained.
Sent 6: \"What really held us up for a long time was to have enough people to do the show and the movie,\" he said.
Sent 7: \"We talked for a while about doing the movie after the show is done, but the show is never done!
Sent 8: So it really started in earnest in 2003, when we started working on this story that became the movie.\"
Sent 9: Technology has also played its part.
Sent 10: Jean continued, \"The technology to do this film really wasn't even around five years ago.
Sent 11: For example, there was this joke I once pitched and David Silverman, the director, started drawing and as I was pitching it, it went into the film and it was cut a day later.
Sent 12: To go from pitch to cut in two days is pretty impressive.\"
Sent 13: Its creators hope that \"The Simpsons Movie\" will both satisfy long-term fans and bring Homer and Marge's family to a new audience.
Sent 14: Groening told the Screening Room, \"This movie is designed to both honor the people who have loved the show all this time, so there's lots of little details for them in the movie, little characters and stuff who they know and love, but we also want people who don't know the family to not be completely confused.
Sent 15: It is a complete movie experience, but again, we have a lot of little details that only the really, true die-hard fans are going to get.\"
Sent 16: And fans can expect to be entertained by plenty of cartoon mishaps.
Sent 17: Groening said, \"When you see somebody fall off the roof in a live-action film, it's funny -- we all love it.
Sent 18: But it's not as funny as when Homer falls off the roof.", "question": "How many years was the film held up from coming into fruition due to the need of having enough people for the film and show?" }, { "answer groups": [ "NLS won the competitive grant", "NLS winning the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program" ], "distractor groups": [ "NLS moved into a larger building", "NLS received funding from Hong Kong", "NLS hired 26 new attorneys", "NLS hired a bilingual lawyer to interpret", "NLS advertised more on radio" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What boosted the NLS client base to 25,000?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Baba Kahn and Manna Shetty", "Baba Khan and Manna Shetty" ], "distractor groups": [ "Revati and Mohini", "Devkinandan and Sharma", "A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary and Revati" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .", "question": "What are the names of 2 individuals who were unleashing a reign of terror?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A computer 400 x faster than the shuttle's", "Largest heat shield ever built", "Superlatives" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fencing foil", "Astronauts", "Smaller heat shield compared to the previous shuttle" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit.
Sent 2: But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance.
Sent 3: Orion, the agency's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December.
Sent 4: In future missions, it will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond -- farther than humans have ever gone before.
Sent 5: Orion comes loaded with superlatives.
Sent 6: It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles.
Sent 7: It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made.
Sent 8: No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions.
Sent 9: Final work on the spacecraft is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Sent 10: Orion came one step closer to completion this month with the stacking of the crew module atop the service module.
Sent 11: \"Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day,\" Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer said in a statement.
Sent 12: A 3,600-mile journey When complete, the Orion capsule will resemble a fencing foil, with a tall spire shooting up from a rounded base.
Sent 13: At the top will sit a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction.
Sent 14: The bottom portion, the service module, will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage.
Sent 15: Nestled between the two will be the crew module, capable of supporting human life from launch until recovery.
Sent 16: Attached to the service module will be a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.
Sent 17: For the first time since the space shuttle's debut launch in 1981, the crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions.", "question": "The agency's newest manned spaceship comes loaded with what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah", "Ramzi Binalshibh", "Ziad Jarrah", "Mohamed Atta", "Marwan al Shehhi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden, Mohamed Atta, and Ziad Jarrah", "Al Qaeda", "KSM", "USA", "Bin Laden", "Atef", "Hamburg" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "Who are the four jihadists that arrived in Kandahar in 1999A. Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad JarrahB. Bin Laden, Mohamed Atta, and Ziad JarrahC. Al QaedaD. Ramzi BinalshibhE. KSMF. Ziad JarrahG. USAH. Mohamed AttaI. Bin LadenJ. AtefK. HamburgL. Marwan al ShehhiPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm.", "This happens because the road surface is very warm", "Steam rising off a wet road", "Steam rising off of a wet road after a rainstorm.", "The warm road and the warm air causes the washer to evaporate quickly and turn into vapor", "This happens because the road surface is very warm", "After a summer rainstorm, road surface is very warm the warm air causes the water to evaporate so the" ], "distractor groups": [ "Road will erode due to rain water", "Evaporation", "Chemical change in road" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven?
Sent 2: Do you know why things burn?
Sent 3: It all has to do with temperature.
Sent 4: Changes in matter are affected by temperature.
Sent 5: For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long?
Sent 6: What do you think will happen?
Sent 7: Thats right, it will probably burn.
Sent 8: The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat.
Sent 9: In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter.
Sent 10: Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster.
Sent 11: What about a physical change?
Sent 12: Are physical changes affected by temperature?
Sent 13: Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm.
Sent 14: This happens because the road surface is very warm.
Sent 15: The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly.
Sent 16: The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water.
Sent 17: The evaporation of water is a physical change.
Sent 18: So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs.", "question": "What is the physical change in temperature we see during the summer and how does it occur?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Vegetables", "Flowers", "Josie was planting flowers and vegetables" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fruits", "Grass", "Dirt" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Josie started planning her new garden in the winter.
Sent 2: She chose flowers and vegetables that could grow in her area.
Sent 3: She looked through the seed magazines.
Sent 4: She ordered the tastiest kind of each vegetable and the prettiest kind of each flower.
Sent 5: She talked to a friend about her plans.
Sent 6: It seemed like the snow would never melt.
Sent 7: But Josie didn't have to wait for spring to get started.
Sent 8: Six weeks before the last frost, Josie planted seeds indoors.
Sent 9: The tiny seedlings pushed up through the soil and began to grow.
Sent 10: Finally spring arrived.
Sent 11: Each day, Josie moved the seedlings outside for a few hours so they could get used to the cooler temperatures.
Sent 12: Josie worked in her garden, digging the soil.
Sent 13: She added a special growing mix from the garden store to make the soil better.
Sent 14: When everything was ready, she removed the seedlings from their trays and planted them in her garden.
Sent 15: The warm sun and rich soil helped her vegetables and flowers grow.", "question": "What kinds of things did Josie want to plant?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler", "King Jaume 1 was an enlightened ruler", "Enlightened" ], "distractor groups": [ "Independent", "King Jaume 1 was a Moor", "Talented", "Incompetent" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Arag\u00f3n and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Pon\u00e7a.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors\u2002\u2014\u2002converted by force to Christianity\u2002\u2014\u2002as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Arag\u00f3n and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Arag\u00f3n, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Arag\u00f3n for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by San\u00e7 and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Arag\u00f3n.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.", "question": "What kind of ruler was King Jaume 1?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jose Abello Silva,", "The fourth-ranking cartel leader" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Jaime Paz Zamora", "The president", "President Barco" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "Who will probably be extradited to the United States?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mamie", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "No one" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity.
Sent 2: Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions.
Sent 3: The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil.
Sent 4: It was the last act of the evening.
Sent 5: Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness.
Sent 6: But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success.", "question": "Was the author usually an admirer of the women in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk.A. MamieB. NoC. No onePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet", "He imported satellite equipment" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because of his history of espionage" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed.
Sent 2: The decision to release the prisoners follows \"numerous requests\" from their family members and religious institutions, and is a humanitarian gesture, said Cuban President Raul Castro.
Sent 3: Among those who might be freed are prisoners over the age of 60, along with those who are sick, female or young with no previous criminal record.
Sent 4: With some exceptions, prisoners convicted of spying, terrorism, murder and drug trafficking will not be released.
Sent 5: Those who will be freed have already served a \"important\" part of their sentences and exhibited good behavior, according to an official statement published on the state-run website Cubadebate.
Sent 6: The jailed American, Gross, will not be among those pardoned, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington said.
Sent 7: Gross was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy.
Sent 8: Castro has accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet, and this year Cuba's highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on Gross for committing crimes against the security of the state.
Sent 9: He has maintained his innocence and said he was trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet.
Sent 10: Castro, speaking to the National Assembly, said that 86 prisoners from 25 countries would be among those released in coming days.
Sent 11: He cited the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI as one of the motivations behind the move, which he said showed the \"generosity and strength of the revolution.\"
Sent 12: The pope has said he plans to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter.", "question": "How was Gross able to connect the Jewish community to the internet?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The temperate zone", "Temperature", "Temperate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tropical", "Middle", "Central", "Polar" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "In which zone are temperatures neither too hot nor too cold?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was her lover", "They had an affair" ], "distractor groups": [ "He is her father", "Having a police duty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India .
Sent 2: It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately .
Sent 3: The movie starts with Mahender getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily .
Sent 4: A woman , Sudha , is already sitting in the waiting room .
Sent 5: On seeing him , she tries to hide her face from him but later they confront each other .
Sent 6: Mahender has an accomplished business dealing with photography .
Sent 7: He respects his grandfather immensely .
Sent 8: Incidentally , he had been engaged to Sudha for 5 years but always made some excuse to delay their wedding .
Sent 9: However , this time his grandfather has fixed the wedding on the first week of the following month .
Sent 10: He reveals to Sudha that he is having an affair with one of the most radical representations of feminism in a girl called Maya .
Sent 11: He returns to tell Maya , but Maya has disappeared , leaving him some poetry .
Sent 12: Mahender then marries Sudha and is quite happy , but the sudden return of Maya causes tensions in their married life .
Sent 13: Mahender frequently tells Sudha about all the beautifully poignant , loving and authentic things Maya did over the years that they lived together .
Sent 14: Later , Maya tries to commit suicide , and this leads to Mahender spending time with her over a few weeks .
Sent 15: Sudha , not knowing about Maya 's suicide attempt and therefore believing that Mahender is being unfaithful to her , feels that her marriage was a mistake , and questions Mahender about his intentions .", "question": "What is Mahender's connection to the lady who tries to commit suicide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Carry out process of life", "Build bodies", "They use it to build bodies and carry out the processes of life" ], "distractor groups": [ "Eating plants", "Decomposition" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy.
Sent 2: What do you think matter is used for?
Sent 3: One thing is to build bodies.
Sent 4: They also need it to carry out the processes of life.
Sent 5: Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient.
Sent 6: Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients.
Sent 7: Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Sent 8: You can see how in Figure 3.11.
Sent 9: Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
Sent 10: The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
Sent 11: The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
Sent 12: The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
Sent 13: When living things die, the cycle repeats.", "question": "What do living things use non living matter for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No", "Moving of the rock takes more energy", "The moving of a rock would take more energy than the deposition of that rock" ], "distractor groups": [ "Deposition of rock", "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "Would deposition of or the moving of a particular rock take more energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They tell scientist that the crust is moving and that the crust is broken up into plates where these earthquakes usually occur", "Movement of earth's crust", "Direction of crust movement" ], "distractor groups": [ "Composition of earth's crust", "Age of earth's crust" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust.
Sent 2: Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving.
Sent 3: This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates.
Sent 4: Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries.
Sent 5: This was evidence that continents can move.
Sent 6: The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics.
Sent 7: The Earths crust is divided into plates.
Sent 8: There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones.
Sent 9: Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains.
Sent 10: Scientists know he plates are in motion.
Sent 11: They now know the direction and speed of this motion .
Sent 12: Plates dont move very fast.
Sent 13: They move only a few centimeters a year.
Sent 14: This is about the same rate fingernails grow.
Sent 15: So you might wonder, what could cause this motion?
Sent 16: What supplies the energy to cause this change?", "question": "What do earthquakes tell scientists and what is special about them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Thebans (and/or the Athenians)", "The Athenians" ], "distractor groups": [ "Officials", "The Peloponnese", "The Spartans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As Philip marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia.
Sent 2: During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander the left, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals.
Sent 3: According to the ancient sources, the two sides fought bitterly for some time.
Sent 4: Philip deliberately commanded his troops to retreat, counting on the untested Athenian hoplites to follow, thus breaking their line.
Sent 5: Alexander was the first to break the Theban lines, followed by Philip's generals.
Sent 6: Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them.
Sent 7: With the Athenians lost, the Thebans were surrounded.
Sent 8: Left to fight alone, they were defeated.
Sent 9: After the victory at Chaeronea, Philip and Alexander marched unopposed into the Peloponnese, welcomed by all cities; however, when they reached Sparta, they were refused, but did not resort to war.
Sent 10: At Corinth, Philip established a \"Hellenic Alliance\" (modeled on the old anti-Persian alliance of the Greco-Persian Wars), which included most Greek city-states except Sparta.
Sent 11: Philip was then named Hegemon (often translated as \"Supreme Commander\") of this league (known by modern scholars as the League of Corinth), and announced his plans to attack the Persian Empire.", "question": "Who did Philip's troops quickly route?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He wanted the side effects of the potion to affect the stranger", "He thought whoever slept with his wife would die in eight days, and he did not know that the stranger was Callimaco", "He beleived he was a stranger", "He wanted to draw the poison out of her", "And that he would die since he was the first to sleep with her after taking a potion" ], "distractor groups": [ "He lost a bet", "He felt bad for Callimaco", "He new of Callimaco's love for Lucrezia", "Nicia was a kind and generous man" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Why did Nicia allow Callimaco to sleep with his wife?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The ocean floor, and deep ocean trenches", "The ocean floor and trenches", "Ocean floor", "Deep ocean trenches" ], "distractor groups": [ "Basins and continents", "Continent", "Sea level" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans?
Sent 2: What would it look like?
Sent 3: You might be really surprised.
Sent 4: You see that the surface has two main features.
Sent 5: It has continents and ocean basins.
Sent 6: Continents are large land areas.
Sent 7: These are the areas that are mostly above sea level.
Sent 8: Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents.
Sent 9: They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches.
Sent 10: You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat.
Sent 11: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Sent 12: Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old.
Sent 13: Ocean basins may only be millions of years old.
Sent 14: Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them!
Sent 15: As we view the land around us, we see landforms.
Sent 16: Landforms are physical features on Earths surface.
Sent 17: These features change over time, but how?
Sent 18: There are actually two types of forces at work.", "question": "What are two elements of ocean basins?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Leonidas Vargas", "Jose Abello Silva,Leonidas Vargas", "Jose Abello Silva", "Jose Abello Silva and Leonidas Vargas" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia", "Mr. Barco and President Bush" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "What are the names of the two people most recently arrested in the drug trade?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Seismograph, studied earthquake waves", "Seismograph, Seismograph are used to study earthquakes. Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior", "It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet. Seismograph are used to study earthquakes. By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior" ], "distractor groups": [ "Earth has an inner and outer core. The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel. Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here", "Tomograph, analized infrared images" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "What technology made it possible to test the Earth's magnetic properties?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mining, over-fishing, fire, pollution", "Fire, Fisherman, Mining and Pollution", "Fire management,Natural Events,Mining,Pollution" ], "distractor groups": [ "Habitation, over-breed, chemicals, over-feeding", "Fishes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "Name four things that can cause habitat loss or change.A. Mining, over-fishing, fire, pollutionB. Fire, Fisherman, Mining and PollutionC. Fire management,Natural Events,Mining,PollutionD. Habitation, over-breed, chemicals, over-feedingE. FishesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A Pacific Island Nation", "Palau" ], "distractor groups": [ "Washington", "Hawaii", "Phillipines" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to take in 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the country's ambassador to the United States said Wednesday.
Sent 2: The map shows the Pacific island nation of Palau in relation to China.
Sent 3: Details of the transfer are still being worked out, Ambassador Hersey Kyota told CNN.
Sent 4: But Kyota said his country, a former U.S. Pacific trust territory, has agreed to take in the ethnic Uighur detainees \"for humanitarian reasons\" and because of the \"special relationship\" between Palau and the United States.
Sent 5: U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly would not comment on the announcement, telling reporters, \"We're still involved in ongoing discussions.\"
Sent 6: The agreement includes some U.S. aid for Palau, Kyota said, but he said those details remained to be worked out as well.
Sent 7: The country, with a population of about 20,000, is about 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, Philippines, and about 4,600 miles west of Hawaii.
Sent 8: Palau has received nearly 900 million in U.S. aid since independence in 1994, according to congressional auditors, and depends on Washington for defense.
Sent 9: The \"Compact of Free Association\" between Palau and the United States is up for review, but Kelly said any additional aid offer \"is not linked to any other discussions we may be having with the government of Palau.\"
Sent 10: The Uighurs were accused of receiving weapons and military training in Afghanistan.", "question": "Where were the prisoners being transferred to?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She is in love with Mahender", "She is upset about Mahender's marriage", "knowing about mahender marriage" ], "distractor groups": [ "knowing about mahenders death", "She lost her ability to write poetry" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class of India .
Sent 2: It is shot in the present and past tense showing lives of the characters Mahender and Sudha as they lived together as well as separately .
Sent 3: The movie starts with Mahender getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily .
Sent 4: A woman , Sudha , is already sitting in the waiting room .
Sent 5: On seeing him , she tries to hide her face from him but later they confront each other .
Sent 6: Mahender has an accomplished business dealing with photography .
Sent 7: He respects his grandfather immensely .
Sent 8: Incidentally , he had been engaged to Sudha for 5 years but always made some excuse to delay their wedding .
Sent 9: However , this time his grandfather has fixed the wedding on the first week of the following month .
Sent 10: He reveals to Sudha that he is having an affair with one of the most radical representations of feminism in a girl called Maya .
Sent 11: He returns to tell Maya , but Maya has disappeared , leaving him some poetry .
Sent 12: Mahender then marries Sudha and is quite happy , but the sudden return of Maya causes tensions in their married life .
Sent 13: Mahender frequently tells Sudha about all the beautifully poignant , loving and authentic things Maya did over the years that they lived together .
Sent 14: Later , Maya tries to commit suicide , and this leads to Mahender spending time with her over a few weeks .
Sent 15: Sudha , not knowing about Maya 's suicide attempt and therefore believing that Mahender is being unfaithful to her , feels that her marriage was a mistake , and questions Mahender about his intentions .", "question": "Why does Maya attempt suicide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Provide equipment in the open zone", "Employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies", "Employ staff", "Engaged in e-commerce" ], "distractor groups": [ "Provide services with no charge to the fully-owned foreign companies until you lose all the money", "Engage in retail", "Trade" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City.
Sent 2: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at 200 million.
Sent 3: Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that \"we want to make Dubai a new trading center.\"
Sent 4: The minister, who has his own website, also said: \"I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies.\"
Sent 5: He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies.
Sent 6: The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit.
Sent 7: The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East.", "question": "What will companies involved in Dubai Internet City be able to do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He thinks of it as giving back to the community since he grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand", "The job is more satisfying than the money" ], "distractor groups": [ "Reduced the number of grantees", "It is too much work for too little money", "We need to expand cultural understanding", "Language emergence is important", "It needs to pay him twice as much" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What does Mak think of this job as more than for the money?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is because it has potential to move", "If the ball is in a position where it could move, it has the stored energy of position" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is mechanical", "It is because it has mechanical energy", "It gains it due to gravity ", "It gets it from thermal energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position.
Sent 2: This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move.
Sent 3: A moving ball can have energy from motion.
Sent 4: An arrow can also have the energy of motion.
Sent 5: Both are types of mechanical energy.
Sent 6: Can you think of some other examples?
Sent 7: Where does the energy of motion come from?
Sent 8: It comes from the energy created by position.
Sent 9: This energy is stored energy.
Sent 10: This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move.
Sent 11: How can you store energy?
Sent 12: The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow.
Sent 13: As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion.
Sent 14: Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position?", "question": "How can a ball that is not moving possess energy of position?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A table pushes up on a book on a table, and gravity pulls down", "Two children pushing a swing, book resting on a table", "A book on a table exerts force on the table, the table exerts force on the book" ], "distractor groups": [ "Forces cannot combine together to act on an object" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if two children push a swing at the same time?
Sent 2: Would the swing go higher?
Sent 3: Yes, together their force would be more.
Sent 4: It is common for forces to be combined.
Sent 5: Most objects on Earth have at least two forces acting on them.
Sent 6: Do you know what one of them is?
Sent 7: Of course, that force is gravity.
Sent 8: How many forces do you have on you right now?
Sent 9: Gravity pulls you down toward the center of Earth.
Sent 10: Your legs exert a downward force.
Sent 11: They hold you up against the pull of gravity.
Sent 12: Consider the example in Figure 1.3.
Sent 13: A book is resting on a table.
Sent 14: Gravity pulls the book downward.
Sent 15: It has a force of 20 newtons.
Sent 16: At the same time, the table pushes the book upward.
Sent 17: Its force is also 20 newtons.
Sent 18: The table opposes the pull of gravity.", "question": "Give two examples of combined forces action on an objectA. A table pushes up on a book on a table, and gravity pulls downB. Two children pushing a swing, book resting on a tableC. Forces cannot combine together to act on an objectD. A book on a table exerts force on the table, the table exerts force on the bookPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week", "A recent and disappointing match outcome; a record of losses; and an inability to inspire the team", "He could not get a response from his team, the growth and ambition of the club is shown when a manager is changes and due to the image and dynamics of the team" ], "distractor groups": [ "The team was fifth in the points table, they had a home-draw to the bottom club Xerez and they were fighting for important things", "Embarrassing press conferences, criminal activity, and poor leadership", "Fraud, poaching other players, and too many losses", "Criminal activity, loss record, poor leadership" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.
Sent 2: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week.
Sent 3: Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job.
Sent 4: The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had \"done what I had to.\"
Sent 5: He told the club's official Web site: \"It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings.
Sent 6: \"Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team.
Sent 7: Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo.
Sent 8: He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible.
Sent 9: However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team.
Sent 10: \"Fortunately we believe that there is time.
Sent 11: The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager.
Sent 12: We are fighting for important things.\"
Sent 13: Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February.
Sent 14: Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season.
Sent 15: Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham.", "question": "Name three factors that contributed to the removal of coach Manolo Jimenez:A. Their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last weekB. A recent and disappointing match outcome; a record of losses; and an inability to inspire the teamC. He could not get a response from his team, the growth and ambition of the club is shown when a manager is changes and due to the image and dynamics of the teamD. The team was fifth in the points table, they had a home-draw to the bottom club Xerez and they were fighting for important thingsE. Embarrassing press conferences, criminal activity, and poor leadershipF. Fraud, poaching other players, and too many lossesG. Criminal activity, loss record, poor leadershipPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation", "Presidential visit", "Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan met with General Musharraf", "Presidential" ], "distractor groups": [ "State department official visit", "Head of CIA visit", "Met with Michael Sheehan about Bill Clinto" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "What visit was coveted by Musharraf?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Paragraph did not specify", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes, they did" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Sent 2: In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
Sent 3: Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Sent 4: Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.
Sent 5: He retired from political life after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 6: He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.
Sent 7: The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals.
Sent 8: Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy.", "question": "Did the subjects of Tocqueville's best known works change as a result of his retirement from politics?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Many Arawak died while being oppressed by the Spanish and when their were not enough of them to be slaves, the Spaniards imported slaves from Africa", "Disease and suicide, brought slaves from Africa" ], "distractor groups": [ "Their extreme import by Spaniards from Africa causes it", "Pig breeding and sugarcane, waited in the harbor", "Farming and weaving, returned to Villa de la Vega" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by \"slash-and-burn\" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica \"Xaymaca\" (\"land of wood and water\").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.", "question": "Explain the decline in number of the Arawak and Spain's response to this decline.A. Many Arawak died while being oppressed by the Spanish and when their were not enough of them to be slaves, the Spaniards imported slaves from AfricaB. Their extreme import by Spaniards from Africa causes itC. Pig breeding and sugarcane, waited in the harborD. Disease and suicide, brought slaves from AfricaE. Farming and weaving, returned to Villa de la VegaPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg", "They are Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California and Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA", "Dr. Jonathan Samet" ], "distractor groups": [ "Charlie Sheen", "Spokeswoman , commissioner of the FDA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "Who are two people in the passage that question the safety of e-cigarettes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Low-income people", "Low income", "Lack a safe and decent affordable housing", "Clients who utilize the services of MALS are low income individuals", "It's a main focus for MALS" ], "distractor groups": [ "HUD", "MALS", "Well safe", "Rich people", "Wealthy", "There is just no profit motive.\"", "Political Programs", "It's a main focus for VA", "Legal Services" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: MALS was formed here more than 30 years ago.
Sent 2: Today, 14 staff attorneys, 26 office workers and 21 University of Memphis third- year law students work out of rented offices in the old Claridge Hotel building at 109 N. Main.
Sent 3: Offices are spartan.
Sent 4: There are no lush rugs or stylish furniture.
Sent 5: The large table in the conference room is simple varnished wood.
Sent 6: Offices are small and mostly plain, except for the eclectic mix of pop art, African statuary and neon that adorns litigation director Webb Brewer's space.
Sent 7: Brewer, who has been at the agency 20 years, said there is a need for lawyers of all stripes to help with the problems of the poor.
Sent 8: \"The private bar could meet more of the need through pro bono work, but there are still cases that involve the systemic problems for low-income people that we would need to do,\" said Brewer.
Sent 9: \"The legal system marketplace just doesn't serve low-income people too well, except in fee-generat-ing type cases,\" Brewer said.
Sent 10: \"If a poor person gets run over by a bus, an attorney might take that case because they might be able to recover part of the damage award as attorney fees.
Sent 11: But so many of the cases we handle have to do with basic rights and a decent life.
Sent 12: There is just no profit motive.\"
Sent 13: Larry Pivnick, law professor at the University of Memphis Law School and director of political programs at MALS, said Legal Services is a great learning laboratory for law students.
Sent 14: \"There are thousands and thousands of people who have problems that never get an opportunity to appear in court,\" Pivnick said.
Sent 15: \"Some people may not be particularly articulate.
Sent 16: Courts have rules that clients don't always understand.\"
Sent 17: Brewer said a major focus of the agency's work involves housing.
Sent 18: \"Although a lot of our work is grant-driven, we find that the lack of safe and decent affordable housing and the prevalence of predatory lending are the biggest problems in our client population,\" Brewer said, referring to clients such as James.", "question": "What is the economic demographic of MALS' clients?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wetlands", "Prairies", "Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture", "Wet lands, and prairies", "Grass lands" ], "distractor groups": [ "Flat lands", "Land intended for cities", "Home" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "What types of land have been lost to agriculture?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes", "At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.We are returning to the airport" ], "distractor groups": [ "At 8:24 pm, they said \"we have some planes\"", "Nobody move", "In the afternoon, they said the plane had been hijacked" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a \"no radio\" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.", "question": "At what point was there communication established with American 11 and was said?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Planets and stars", "All the galaxies of the universe" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nothing", "Asteroids", "Food and water" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How would the universe look without gravity?
Sent 2: It would have no planets and no stars.
Sent 3: Thats how it looked when it was young.
Sent 4: When the universe was young, there was only gas and dust.
Sent 5: From this gas and dust, everything we now see was made.
Sent 6: How were stars and planets created from just gas and dust?
Sent 7: The answer is gravity.
Sent 8: The same gravity that holds you down on Earth.
Sent 9: The same force that causes your pencil to roll off your desk.
Sent 10: The same force that causes it to fall to the floor.
Sent 11: The invisible force of gravity caused dust and gas particles to be pulled together.
Sent 12: This force is what formed all the objects in our solar system.
Sent 13: This force formed the smallest moons.
Sent 14: It also formed our Sun.
Sent 15: This force caused more than just our solar system to form.
Sent 16: It caused all the other solar systems to form.
Sent 17: It caused the formation of all the galaxies of the universe.", "question": "Gravity pulled dust and gas particles together to form?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Water loss", "Heat", "\"Water\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sweat", "Cold", "Bacteria loss", "Mother and fathers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You couldnt survive without your skin.
Sent 2: It has many important functions.
Sent 3: The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body.
Sent 4: It prevents the loss of too much water from the body.
Sent 5: It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body.
Sent 6: The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature.
Sent 7: It keeps the body cool in two ways.
Sent 8: Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body.
Sent 9: Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen.
Sent 10: This action increases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 11: This allows more heat to reach the surface.
Sent 12: The heat is then able to radiate off the body.
Sent 13: The opposite happens to retain body heat.
Sent 14: Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow.
Sent 15: This decreases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 16: This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface.
Sent 17: When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air.", "question": "Whose loss from the body is prevented by the skin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Y2K scare", "Computer breakdowns", "Computer", "Computer breakdowns/the Y2K scare", "Computer breakdowns related to Y2K" ], "distractor groups": [ "Airplane breakdowns", "The leaks in white house", "Terrorism", "Anything else", "Biological weapons", "Chemical and biological weapons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "What type of breakdowns were some officials concerned terrorist would take advantage of?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It stands for National Military Command Center and they never discussed scrambling jets", "The national military command center" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Bush", "It stands for National Militia Craft Control and jets were scrambled immediately", "George Bush", "It stands for National Militia Craft Control and jets were not in range", "The President", "Andrew Card", "Condoleezza Rice", "The Secretary of State", "The faa" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "What is the NMCC and when did their senior operations officer discuss scrambling jets?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They would argue that there is already a law in place for a 24 hour consent period", "They say Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period", "Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions" ], "distractor groups": [ "This is not separation of church and state", "Women who wane to get abortion will go to a different state" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "Why do critics feel the law is unnecessary?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Columbia University,Hamilton-Oneida Academy and Hamilton College", "Yes, Hamilton was named a trustee of Hamilton College and went to Colombia University" ], "distractor groups": [ "Columbia University only" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "Is Hamilton associated with more than one school?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A military command center name", "National Military Command Center" ], "distractor groups": [ "National Military Command and Control", "National Military Center of Command", "Northern Military Control Center", "The Vice President was ordering jets to be scrambled while the rest of the staff went to the attack bunkers", "Watching television", "The Vice President drove to the Pentagon while other staff members alerted the military", "National Military Communication Center", "National Military Coordination Center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "What does NMCC stand for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws", "Antiobesity initiatives, antismoking initiatives, smog checks, and bicycle helmets", "Require smog checks for clean air, pass anit-tobacco initiatives" ], "distractor groups": [ "Backseat seat belt law", "Anti-happy Meal law", "The amber alert law", "Anti tanning", "Organic food" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What are a few public health initiatives that California passed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Due to transliteration from a source document", "When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda", "According to the author, \"There is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.\" The author has attempted to rely on \"a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.\"", "When it is quoted from a source document they use its translation e.g ' al Qida' instead of al Qaeda" ], "distractor groups": [ "Depending on the length of the document", "It depends on the type of document", "Because Al Quida is a separate group from Al Qaeda", "They want to their names look like American to enter the counrty", "Depending on the audience we are writing for" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a \"World Islamic Front.\"
Sent 2: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law.
Sent 3: Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the \"individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.\"
Sent 4: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Laden enlarged on these themes.
Sent 5: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.\"
Sent 6: It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,\" he said.
Sent 7: Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:\"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
Sent 8: Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.
Sent 9: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
Sent 10: As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.\"
Sent 11: Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames.
Sent 12: Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article \"al\" that would be part of their name in their own societies.
Sent 13: We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden.
Sent 14: Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.
Sent 15: We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.
Sent 16: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda.
Sent 17: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Sent 18: In August 1996, Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.", "question": "Why does the author use the spelling \"Al Quida\" instead of \"Al Qaeda\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Chemical energy", "Chemical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Energy of fire" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "What type of energy does wood contain?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The \"soccer mom\" interview", "The moore interview" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Eminem interview", "The Trump interview", "There is no chance that an interview was faked", "An interview with the U.S. president" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Unfortunately, because the zooming is rather fast, it is easy to miss the rest of the sentence, so as you correctly note, some viewers got an incorrect impression.
Sent 2: It would have been fair for Moore to point out this possible misinterpretation on his website.
Sent 3: However, the claim of deliberate distortion is ludicrous for several reasons: a) Moore clearly states that \"before he came to Flint\", Heston gave an interview.
Sent 4: In the excerpt from said interview, we can see that it is from March.
Sent 5: If Moore wanted to deceive his viewers, why would he say this, and show the month the interview was published?
Sent 6: b) Why should Moore leave the words \"Clinton is on the Today Show\" visible in the text, which is necessary to correctly interpret the highlighted part?
Sent 7: I reviewed the sequence several times and it is perfectly possible to see this text without pausing.
Sent 8: c) Both the \"soccer mom\" interview and the sequences showing the NRA rally make no effort to distort the fact that this rally happened months after the fact.
Sent 9: The camera lingers on Bush/Cheney posters, and the protestor is quoted as saying that \"we wanted to let the NRA know that we haven't forgotten about Kayla Rolland\".
Sent 10: You make the hysterical claim that the interview \"may be faked\" (on the basis that no name is shown for the interviewee), but if Moore had faked it, why the hell should he put this sentence in the protestor's mouth, which directly contradicts the conclusion that the rally happened hours after Kayla's death?
Sent 11: Why did Moore, the masterful deveiver, not edit this sequence out?
Sent 12: This makes no sense.
Sent 13: Opinions may vary on how tasteless it was for Heston to hold a pro gun rally on the location of the nation's youngest school shooting months after the fact, but this sequence of \"Bowling\" is without doubt the most unfair to Heston.
Sent 14: The claims of deliberate distortion don't hold up when viewing the whole scene, though -- as \"Hanlon's Razor\" states, one should never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
Sent 15: The somewhat inept editing of the NRA press release has led some viewers to wrong conclusions, which is unfortunate, but Moore's critics have no interest in viewing the matter fairly.
Sent 16: Had they done so, Moore himself would probably have apologized for the gaffe.
Sent 17: In any case, at no point does Moore make a false statement, in contradiction to claims by critics that his documentary is \"full of lies\".", "question": "What interview may have been faked?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Poor performance as bridge between Muslims and Christians", "In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians. Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality", "1997, became decision maker", "1997" ], "distractor groups": [ "1996, became leader", "Excelled as bridge between Muslims and Christians", "1995" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "When did Atta join a working group?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence)", "Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence)", "When the Romans came in and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae" ], "distractor groups": [ "When the romans invaded", "Massalia (Mar\u00c2\u00adseilles)", "France" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The French have always wanted to know what it means to be a\u2002French\u00adman.
Sent 2: Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority.
Sent 3: In about 2000\u2002b.c.
Sent 4: Celtic tribes \u2014 probably from eastern Europe \u2014 came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy.
Sent 5: At the same time, migrants from the Mediterranean countries were trickling into the south.
Sent 6: The first recorded settlement was the trading post set up by Phocaean Greeks from Asia Minor at Massalia (Mar\u00adseilles) around 600\u2002b.c.
Sent 7: , followed by other ports at Hy\u00e8res, Antibes, and Nice.
Sent 8: But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
Sent 9: When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.
Sent 10: From Gaul to France In 125\u2002b.c.
Sent 11: , the Romans came in force, conquered the \"Gallic barbarians,\" and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence).
Sent 12: They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
Sent 13: When this province was endangered by fresh attacks from the north, Julius Caesar himself took charge, conquering practically the whole of Gaul by 50\u2002b.c.
Sent 14: Caesar drew Gaul's northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger\u00adman\u00adic tribes across the river \u2014 the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons \u2014 would always threaten the security of the frontier.
Sent 15: The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and N\u00eemes, and the first great highways between them.
Sent 16: At the same time, merchants built up a thriving trade with the rest of the Roman Empire.
Sent 17: The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.
Sent 18: Christianity was introduced into Gaul in the first century a.d.", "question": "What stronghold did the Greeks use to create Provincia (now Provence)?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sayyid Qutb was the writer Bin Laden relied on and he attained this view by studying in the United States", "Sayyid Qutb", "Sayyid Qutb, he was a Muslim Brotherhood member that visited with and loathed Western society after being sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United State in the late 1940's" ], "distractor groups": [ "Al Queda", "Prophet Muhammad", "Sayyid Qutb was the writer and he attained this view from the Qu'ran" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "What was the name and significance of the writer that Bin Laden relied heavily on and how did the writer attain this view?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cunnilingus is oral sex with a woman", "Oral sex" ], "distractor groups": [ "Headband", "Intercourse with brother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters , live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool .
Sent 2: A tall fence surrounds the property and the children have never been on the other side of it , for their parents have kept them unaware of the outside world , even of the existence of the telephone .
Sent 3: They are taught different meanings for everyday words .
Sent 4: For example , they are told that a `` zombie '' is `` a small yellow flower , '' and that `` sea '' is a chair .
Sent 5: The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth .
Sent 6: Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier , he never appears .
Sent 7: The only non-family member to come into the house is Christina , a young woman who works as a security guard at the father's factory .
Sent 8: She is driven by the father to the compound traveling both ways blindfolded where she performs sexual favors for the son .
Sent 9: Dissatisfied with his preference for intercourse , Christina seeks oral sex from the elder daughter in exchange for a headband.
Sent 10: The elder daughter obliges but does not recognize the significance of performing cunnilingus .
Sent 11: Later , she gives the headband to her younger sister , in exchange for being licked on the shoulder , Which is marked by an unexplained scar .
Sent 12: The parents have tricked the children into believing that overhead planes are merely toys .
Sent 13: They allow the children to search for toy planes that they have planted on the grounds , and the child that finds the toy owns it .", "question": "What is cunnilingus?" }, { "answer groups": [ "5", "Struggle", "No", "Not handled well" ], "distractor groups": [ "15", "Smooth", "Handled Well", "6.5", "Yes", "1 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Iwasaki's careful respect for the Long Beach program and its lawyers earned him the political capital he needed to complete his takeover in a matter of weeks.
Sent 2: \"The Long Beach program had strong support in the community so in a situation like that, one has to recognize that it's not like a takeover where I have all the answers and I know best,\" Iwasaki said.
Sent 3: \"The people in the community who are working there have the contacts and the knowledge that will allow service to continue.\"
Sent 4: Things have gone less smoothly across town.
Sent 5: There, Dudovitz, a longtime poverty lawyer and executive director of the San Fernando Valley's 36-year-old legal aid program, continues to struggle with his hostile takeover of the neighboring San Gabriel-Pomona Valleys service area one year after it was accomplished.
Sent 6: On the bright side, Dudovitz has extended his respected program to clients in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, and he now operates on a much larger budget, 6.5 million last year.
Sent 7: However, his clash with the old San Gabriel program resulted in litigation, bitter feelings and a mission that some say is not clearly focused on serving poor people.
Sent 8: \"It was a difficult situation that was probably mishandled by everyone,\" a longtime observer of the public interest community said of the San Fernando Valley-San Gabriel-Pomona Valley merger.
Sent 9: \"There are very few people who come out as the heroes.
Sent 10: Personalities got involved when they shouldn't have.
Sent 11: Things were said that caused bad feelings and couldn't be unsaid.\"
Sent 12: Iwasaki's merger with the smaller, 48-year-old Long Beach program was friendly and fast, and no one - not even Long Beach board members - lost a job.
Sent 13: When it was over, Iwasaki had 1 million more in federal dollars and two new offices.
Sent 14: Long Beach clients regained services they had lost years ago when federal budget cuts and dwindling grants reduced the staff of 15 lawyers to five and cut immigration and consumer law programs.
Sent 15: Iwasaki said, \"[I judged the transition] better than I could have hoped for.\"", "question": "In the eyes of the public interest community, was Dudovitz's hostile takeover well-handled?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They can give back to the community", "They feel happy to give back", "They feel that they can use their language skills to help others", "They feel satisfied", "The feel that the job is satisfying", "The feel that are able to give back, and reach more communities" ], "distractor groups": [ "They feel dissatisfied", "They are unhappy with the excessive work", "They have a high salary", "They feel over-worked" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "How do the attorneys working with the program feel about it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Runoff", "Heavy rain", "Water" ], "distractor groups": [ "Oil", "Beer", "Streams", "Gas", "Groundwater", "Nitrogen" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Water flowing over Earths surface or underground causes erosion and deposition.
Sent 2: Water flowing over a steeper slope moves faster and causes more erosion.
Sent 3: How water transports particles depends on their size.
Sent 4: When water slows down, it starts depositing sediment.
Sent 5: This process starts with the largest particles first.
Sent 6: Runoff erodes the land after a heavy rain.
Sent 7: It picks up sediment.
Sent 8: Runoff carries most of the sediment to bodies of water.
Sent 9: Mountain streams erode narrow, V-shaped valleys and waterfalls.
Sent 10: Erosion and deposition by slow-flowing rivers create broad floodplains and meanders.
Sent 11: Deposition by streams and rivers may form alluvial fans and deltas.
Sent 12: Floodwaters may deposit natural levees.
Sent 13: Erosion and deposition by groundwater can form caves and sinkholes.
Sent 14: Stalactites and stalagmites are mineral deposits.
Sent 15: They build up in caves as water continues to drip.", "question": "What liquid causes erosion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An amber fossil", "Amber", "It turns to into amber" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cast", "Fossil fuel", "Mold", "Gold" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "When tree sap covers an organism and hardens, what does it become?" }, { "answer groups": [ "More jobs", "It would create jobs immediately" ], "distractor groups": [ "It would give us the \"greatest infrastructure in the world\" again", "More money spent", "It would", "It would decrease jobs immediately" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "The plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term would have what immediate effect?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Malay peoples from the Philippines", "Malay peoples", "Mongolians", "Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples", "Polynesians" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sailors", "Traders", "Mongolians from South China", "Fishermen" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Man\u2002\u2014\u2002in 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coasts\u2002\u2014\u2002sailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)\u2002\u2014\u2002known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).", "question": "What peoples practiced slash and burn agriculture techniques?" }, { "answer groups": [ "0", "None", "5" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ten", "10" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died \"very peacefully\" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film \"No More Ladies.\"
Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, \"No Bed of Roses,\" that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's \"Suspicion,\" beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for \"Hold Back the Dawn.\"
Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for \"To Each His Own.\"
Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: \"I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received,\" a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.", "question": "How many years did it take for her to get the Oscar after she was nominated for the first time?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The creation of the Silk Road between the Hellenic area and Asia", "Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth", "The Silk Road", "The newly formed Silk Road" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts", "Process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD", "The spread of astronomy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Some of the most unusual effects of Hellenization can be seen in Afghanistan and India, in the region of the relatively late-arising Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (250 BC-125 BC) in modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan and the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 BC - 10 CE) in modern Afghanistan and India.
Sent 2: There on the newly formed Silk Road Greek culture apparently hybridized with Indian, and especially Buddhist culture.
Sent 3: The resulting syncretism known as Greco-Buddhism heavily influenced the development of Buddhism and created a culture of Greco-Buddhist art.
Sent 4: These Greco-Buddhist kingdoms sent some of the first Buddhist missionaries to China, Sri Lanka, and the Mediterranean (Greco-Buddhist monasticism).
Sent 5: The first figural portrayals of the Buddha, previously avoided by Buddhists, appeared at this time; they were modeled on Greek statues of Apollo.
Sent 6: Several Buddhist traditions may have been influenced by the ancient Greek religion: the concept of Boddhisatvas is reminiscent of Greek divine heroes, and some Mahayana ceremonial practices (burning incense, gifts of flowers, and food placed on altars) are similar to those practiced by the ancient Greeks.
Sent 7: One Greek king, Menander I, probably became Buddhist, and was immortalized in Buddhist literature as 'Milinda'.
Sent 8: The process of Hellenization extended to the sciences, where ideas from Greek astronomy filtered eastward and had profoundly influenced Indian astronomy by the early centuries AD.
Sent 9: For example, Greek astronomical instruments dating to the 3rd century BC were found in the Greco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum in modern-day Afghanistan while the Greek concept of a spherical earth surrounded by the spheres of planets was adopted in India and eventually supplanted the long-standing Indian cosmological belief of a flat and circular earth.
Sent 10: The Yavanajataka and Paulisa Siddhanta texts in particular show Greek influence.", "question": "What cultural phenomenon led to the existence of a Greco-Bactrian synthesis?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was born 1913 in Algeria", "November", "7 November 1913 - Algeria" ], "distractor groups": [ "4 July 1955 - Algeria", "4-Jan-1960" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albert Camus (French: [albeR kamy]; 7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher.
Sent 2: His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.
Sent 3: He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
Sent 4: Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as one, even in his lifetime.
Sent 5: In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: \"No, I am not an existentialist.
Sent 6: Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked...\".
Sent 7: Camus was born in Algeria to a Pied-Noir family, and studied at the University of Algiers.
Sent 8: In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to \"denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA\".", "question": "When and where was Albert Camus born?" }, { "answer groups": [ "$251 million", "It blocked $34 million of Taliban assets, $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits", "$34 million in Taliban assets in U.S. banks, another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits" ], "distractor groups": [ "$500 million", "$2 million", "Less than $34 million", "$215 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The second major point on which the principals had agreed on March 10 was the need to crack down on terrorist organizations and curtail their fund-raising.
Sent 2: The embassy bombings of 1998 had focused attention on al Qaeda's finances.
Sent 3: One result had been the creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing.
Sent 4: On its recommendation, the President had designated Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Sent 5: This gave theTreasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system.
Sent 6: But since OFAC had little information to go on, few funds were frozen.
Sent 7: In July 1999, the President applied the same designation to the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden.
Sent 8: Here, OFAC had more success.
Sent 9: It blocked more than 34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks.
Sent 10: Another 215 million in gold and 2 million in demand deposits, all belonging to the Afghan central bank and held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were also frozen.
Sent 11: After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a \"foreign terrorist organization,\" it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds.
Sent 12: Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding.
Sent 13: Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda.
Sent 14: Although the CIA's Bin Laden unit had originally been inspired by the idea of studying terrorist financial links, few personnel assigned to it had any experience in financial investigations.
Sent 15: Any terrorist-financing intelligence appeared to have been collected collaterally, as a consequence of gathering other intelligence.
Sent 16: This attitude may have stemmed in large part from the chief of this unit, who did not believe that simply following the money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions.
Sent 17: As a result, the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing.
Sent 18: Nevertheless, the CIA obtained a general understanding of how al Qaeda raised money.", "question": "How much money was frozen after the President applied the same designation to the Taliban?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No", "No, because of conservation of mass", "It just changes form" ], "distractor groups": [ "It evaporates into nothingness", "Maybe" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you build a campfire, you start with a large stack of sticks and logs.
Sent 2: As the fire burns, the stack slowly shrinks.
Sent 3: By the end of the evening, all that is left is a small pile of ashes.
Sent 4: What happened to the matter that you started with?
Sent 5: Was it destroyed by the flames?
Sent 6: It may seem that way.
Sent 7: What do you think happened?
Sent 8: The truth is that the same amount of matter still exists.
Sent 9: The wood changed not only to ashes, but also to carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases.
Sent 10: The gases floated off into the air, leaving behind just the ashes.
Sent 11: Although matter was changed, it was not created or destroyed.
Sent 12: Because the same amount of matter still exists, we can say that matter is conserved.
Sent 13: You may wonder how it can be conserved if something is now missing?
Sent 14: Assume you had measured the mass of the wood before you burned it.
Sent 15: Assume you had also trapped the gases released by the burning wood and measured their mass and the mass of the ashes.
Sent 16: What would you find?
Sent 17: The ashes and gases combined have the same mass as the wood you started with.
Sent 18: This example illustrates the law of conservation of mass.", "question": "Is any matter destroyed when you burn wood in a campfire?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The lack of cultural expertise is also an obstacle", "A lack of cultural expertise", "Cultural expertise and their lack of cultural expertise", "Cultural isolation and lack of cultural expertise" ], "distractor groups": [ "Unsure of the specifics of the the language barriers", "The population", "Not having done work with many Asian clients before", "Poverty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "In addition to language, what obstacle does the Neighborhood Legal Services face when providing legal services to Asians?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Independence of India", "Indian independence", "Winston Churchill did not want Indian independence and Gandhi did" ], "distractor groups": [ "World War II", "About the formation of Pakistan", "American independence" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus\u2002\u2014\u2002and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning \"pure\"), and adding \"stan,\" the Persian suffix for the word \"country.
Sent 9: \" The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a \"Quit India\" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was\u2002\u2014\u2002six months after his arrival\u2002\u2014\u2002but not smooth.", "question": "What did Gandhi disagree about with Winston Churchill?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature", "To avoid giving him unnecessary publicity", "To avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature with unnecessary puplicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Worry about computer breakdowns", "Bin Laden" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "Why did Clinton not mention Bin Laden and al Qaida when he voiced his concerns about terrorism?" }, { "answer groups": [ "M opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than $2.5 billion to build and equip,", "New York", "The factory will be located in upstate New York and will cost more than $2.5 billion dollars to build and equip", "$2.5 billion" ], "distractor groups": [ "A lot", "Westchester, NY", "In january and it will cost 30 billion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: IBM opened a sprawling and sophisticated semiconductor factory here on Wednesday that cost more than 2.5 billion to build and equip, the largest single capital investment the company has ever made.
Sent 2: The factory, which opens as the computer chip business is in a slump, is a costly and risky move for IBM.
Sent 3: But it is also an expression of confidence by the company that it can remain a technology leader in the highly competitive global semiconductor industry, and a commitment that the best place to execute that strategy is in upstate New York.
Sent 4: IBM is an exception among computer makers in that it still invests heavily in research to advance the design, manufacture and materials used in semiconductor chips.
Sent 5: It is spending more than 500 million a year on semiconductor research and development.
Sent 6: The factory will produce a wide range of specialized semiconductors used in everything from the largest mainframe computers to cell phones and video-game consoles.
Sent 7: The new plant is part of IBM's push to gain a strong lead in chip-making beyond the personal computer business, where Intel and East Asian chip producers hold the advantage.
Sent 8: \"The core of our strategy is to lead in technology and attack the high-performance segments of the market,\" said John Kelly, senior vice president in charge of IBM's technology group.
Sent 9: An advantage to having the semiconductor fabricating factory here, Kelly explained, was that it was very close to its research laboratories in nearby Westchester County, N.Y. To stay ahead in advanced chip technology, he said, moving innovations out of the labs and into the factory as fast as possible is crucial.
Sent 10: \"What we call the lab-to-fab time should be as close to zero as possible,\" Kelly said.
Sent 11: \"If our strategy were anything but to be on the leading edge, we'd have put the plant in Asia.\"
Sent 12: The new factory, which will begin normal production early next year, will employ about 1,000 people.", "question": "Where will IBM be opening a new semiconductor factory and how much will it cost?" }, { "answer groups": [ "White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten wanted to confirm the President", "White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten wanted the engage order confirmed", "Joshua Bolten - The engage order" ], "distractor groups": [ "Joshua Bolten - The take off time of Air Force One", "Joshua Bolten's secretary - The engage order" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "Who at the White House asked the Vice President to get in Touch with the President and what was top be confirmed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They are barbarians that have ruinous taste for luxury. With extravagant feasts, rich costumes, and opulent homes", "Kamakura warriors" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Taira", "Warriors from the east", "Buddhist Monasteries", "The Mongols" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Enter the Shoguns: Japan's austere, ruthless, but statesmanlike new ruler, Yoritomo Minamoto, set up his government in Kamakura (just south of modern Tokyo), well away from the \"softening\" influence of court life that had been the undoing of his predecessor, Kiyomori.
Sent 2: First of the national rulers to take the title of sei-i tai-shogun (\"barbarian-subduing great general\"), Minamoto expanded and consolidated his power by confiscating lands from some of the defeated Taira and redistributing them to his samurai vassals.
Sent 3: Minamoto died in 1199, and the feudal structure passed intact to the tutelage of his widow's family, the Hojo, who were content to play regent to a figurehead shogun, in much the same way as the Fujiwara had done with the emperor.
Sent 4: The fiction of Japanese imperial power had become infinitely extendable.
Sent 5: The emperor at Kyoto\u2002\u2014\u2002still seconded by a Fujiwara regent at court\u2002\u2014\u2002legitimized a Minamoto who was himself a military dictator controlled by a Hojo regent.
Sent 6: In a country where form and substance were inextricably interrelated, two things counted in politics: symbolic authority and real power.
Sent 7: Neither could exist without the other.
Sent 8: A thwarted Mongol invasion in 1274 weakened the Kamakura regime.
Sent 9: The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.
Sent 10: And the treasury was empty after earthquake, famine, and plague had crippled the economy.
Sent 11: Buddhist monasteries were using their private armies to support imperial ambitions to bring power back to Kyoto.
Sent 12: Worst of all, the Kamakura warriors, resenting the way the Kyoto court referred to them as \"Eastern barbarians,\" sought refinement in a ruinous taste for luxury: extravagant feasts, rich costumes, and opulent homes.
Sent 13: Kamakura was falling apart.", "question": "What are Eastern barbarians?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Flood plain", "Floodplain" ], "distractor groups": [ "Meander", "Stream", "Bank of a river" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rivers flowing over gentle slopes move more slowly.
Sent 2: They move much more slowly than a mountain stream.
Sent 3: These slow moving streams create different types of features than mountain streams.
Sent 4: Slow moving water erodes the sides of their channels more than the bottom.
Sent 5: Also, large curves in the stream form.
Sent 6: These curves are called meanders.
Sent 7: Meanders are caused by erosion and deposition.
Sent 8: Remember, faster moving water causes erosion more quickly.
Sent 9: Slower moving water erodes material more slowly.
Sent 10: If water is moving slowly enough, the sediment being carried may settle out.
Sent 11: This settling out, or dropping off, of sediment is deposition.
Sent 12: The curves are called meanders because they slowly wander over the land.
Sent 13: As meanders erode from side to side, they create a floodplain.
Sent 14: This is a broad, flat area on both sides of a river.
Sent 15: Eventually, a meander may become cut off from the rest of the river.
Sent 16: This forms an oxbow lake.", "question": "What is the flat area on both sides of a river?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Charlie, and Victor Braganza hire a team of criminals for the robbery", "Charlie" ], "distractor groups": [ "Raj", "Don", "Russian mafia", "Ronnie", "Victor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mastermind Charlie Mascarenhas and his accomplice Riya are one of the greatest pair of thieves in India .
Sent 2: A friend of Charlie , Raj is killed by the Russian mafia .
Sent 3: At Raj's funeral , his wife hands Charlie a CD containing information about the transfer of gold by train from Russia to Romania .
Sent 4: Charlie decides to rob the train with the help of imprisoned Don and con-artist Victor Braganza .
Sent 5: They hire a team of criminals to join them in the robbery .
Sent 6: The group includes Spider , who is a world-class hacker , an explosives expert Bilal Bashir , a prosthetic makeup artist Sunny , and an illusionist Ronnie .
Sent 7: Charlie is also having an affair with Victor's daughter , Naina , who knows nothing about her father and Charlie's criminal activities .
Sent 8: The group devise a plan to rob the Russian train in the sliest way possible .
Sent 9: Spider hacks into a Russian satellite system and Ronnie uses his illusion to trick the soldiers guarding the gold while the rest of the team transfer the gold from the train .
Sent 10: The robbery is executed successfully , however while celebrating Spider double crosses the gang and tries to flee with all of the gold .
Sent 11: Spider is stopped by Ronnie , who is then shot multiple times by Spider's assassins .
Sent 12: The group are chased by the assassins and Ronnie and Riya are killed .
Sent 13: Charlie , Bilal and Sunny manage to escape after Spider blows up the location and flees with the gold .
Sent 14: Charlie calls Victor to tell him about the betrayal , but Naina overhears the conversation .
Sent 15: At the same time Spider's assassins breaks into the house and murder Victor .", "question": "Who puts together the team that robs the train?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tsar Alexander", "Alexander" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Governor-General of Lithuania", "The Russian peasantry" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Soon after the conclusion of peace, important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies.
Sent 2: Plans were formed for building a great network of railways, partly for the purpose of developing the natural resources of the country, and partly for the purpose of increasing its power for defense and attack.
Sent 3: The existence of serfdom was tackled boldly, taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces and, hoping that their relations with the serfs might be regulated in a more satisfactory way (meaning in a way more satisfactory for the proprietors), he authorized the formation of committees \"for ameliorating the condition of the peasants,\" and laid down the principles on which the amelioration was to be effected.
Sent 4: This step had been followed by one even more significant.
Sent 5: Without consulting his ordinary advisers, Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia (serfdom was rare in other parts), containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the Governor-General of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
Sent 6: The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
Sent 7: The emancipation was not merely a humanitarian question capable of being solved instantaneously by imperial ukase.
Sent 8: It contained very complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation.
Sent 9: Alexander had to choose between the different measures recommended to him and decide if the serfs would become agricultural laborers dependent economically and administratively on the landlords or if the serfs would be transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors.
Sent 10: The emperor gave his support to the latter project, and the Russian peasantry became one of the last groups of peasants in Europe to shake off serfdom.
Sent 11: The architects of the emancipation manifesto were Alexander's brother Konstantin, Yakov Rostovtsev, and Nikolay Milyutin.
Sent 12: On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published.", "question": "Who authorized the formation of committees \"for ameliorating the condition of the peasants\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The program can be accessed from the courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library", "Online, Courthouse kiosks, legal aid, City Hall, the library", "Online using internet" ], "distractor groups": [ "It can be accessed from the offices of Legal aid", "The university kiosk" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday.
Sent 2: The Garden Grove woman answered a series of questions to create and print a form to file with the court.
Sent 3: \"It's easy,\" said Adams, 25.
Sent 4: \"I thought I'd have all kinds of questions and have to take the forms home.\"
Sent 5: A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers.
Sent 6: Not only does the system make life easier for people who can't afford a lawyer, but it also might improve efficiency in the courts because the forms, which are printed out when completed, are easy to read and are being filled out correctly, the study found.
Sent 7: Since the program started in 2000, more than 6,000 people have used the free system, located in public buildings throughout Orange County.
Sent 8: The system was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about 800,000 in grants.
Sent 9: The program avoids legal jargon, offers a courthouse video tour and sticks to a fifth-grade vocabulary.
Sent 10: Users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese.
Sent 11: Kiosks are in courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library.
Sent 12: The program is also available online.
Sent 13: Bob Cohen, executive director of Legal Aid, said the study should clear the way for expansion throughout California.
Sent 14: Locally, a program for divorce petitions will be added this summer.
Sent 15: Cohen said the system proves the benefit of technology tailored to those who aren't computer-savvy.
Sent 16: He said much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access.
Sent 17: Low-income people, however, have less access to computers and less experience using them.
Sent 18: \"Our clients have to catch up, and they have to become a part of the mainstream,\" Cohen said.", "question": "Where can the program be accessed from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jessica", "Helen", "Poppy, Helen, and Jessica", "Poppy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Joe", "Julie", "Sylvia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Charlie Y. Reader is a 35-year-old theatrical agent in New York , living a seemingly idyllic life as a bachelor .
Sent 2: Numerous women ( among them Poppy , Helen , and Jessica come and go , cleaning and cooking for him .
Sent 3: Charlie 's best friend since kindergarten , Joe McCall , who has a wife named Ethel and children in Indianapolis , comes to New York for a stay at Charlie 's apartment , claiming that the excitement is gone from his 11-year marriage and that he wants to leave his wife .
Sent 4: Joe envies and is amazed by Charlie 's parade of girlfriends , while Charlie professes admiration for Joe 's married life and family .
Sent 5: At an audition , Charlie meets singer-actress Julie Gillis .
Sent 6: She has her life planned to a tight schedule , determined to marry and retire from performing to a life of child-rearing by 22 .
Sent 7: Although at first she wards off Charlie 's advances , she comes to see him as the ideal man for her plans .
Sent 8: Julie demands that Charlie stop seeing other women .
Sent 9: Charlie balks , but he begins to fall in love with her .
Sent 10: Joe starts keeping company with Sylvia Crewes , a sophisticated classical musician and a typically neglected lover of Charlie 's .
Sent 11: Sylvia is approaching 33 and desires marriage as much as the younger Julie does .
Sent 12: One day , annoyed by Julie and possibly jealous of Joe 's attentions , Charlie blurts out a proposal of marriage to Sylvia .
Sent 13: She is thrilled , only to discover the morning after their engagement party that he has proposed to Julie as well .
Sent 14: Joe confesses his love to Sylvia and asks her to marry him .", "question": "Who cooks for Charlie?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Things burning have to do with temperature since changes in matter are affected by temperature", "Due to raise in temperature", "Overheat", "Because of rise in temperature" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cooking faster", "Due to fall in temperature", "Because they gain temperature" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven?
Sent 2: Do you know why things burn?
Sent 3: It all has to do with temperature.
Sent 4: Changes in matter are affected by temperature.
Sent 5: For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long?
Sent 6: What do you think will happen?
Sent 7: Thats right, it will probably burn.
Sent 8: The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat.
Sent 9: In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter.
Sent 10: Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster.
Sent 11: What about a physical change?
Sent 12: Are physical changes affected by temperature?
Sent 13: Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm.
Sent 14: This happens because the road surface is very warm.
Sent 15: The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly.
Sent 16: The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water.
Sent 17: The evaporation of water is a physical change.
Sent 18: So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs.", "question": "Why do things burn?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The bedroom", "The first room", "The bedroom that Inspector Chippenfield entered" ], "distractor groups": [ "The small bedroom", "The room opposite the bathroom" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rolfe put down the little dog he had been holding, and went out into the hall.
Sent 2: The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion.
Sent 3: Rolfe first examined the bedroom that he had seen Inspector Chippenfield enter.
Sent 4: It was a small room, containing a double bed.
Sent 5: It was prettily furnished in white, with white curtains, and toilet-table articles in ivory to match.
Sent 6: A glance round the room convinced Rolfe that it was impossible for a man to secrete himself in it.
Sent 7: The door of the wardrobe had been flung open by the inspector, and the dresses and other articles of feminine apparel it contained flung out on the floor.
Sent 8: There was no other hiding-place possible, except beneath the bed, and the ruthless hand of the inspector had torn off the white muslin bed hangings, revealing emptiness underneath.
Sent 9: Rolfe went out into the hall again, and entered the room next the bedroom.
Sent 10: This apartment was apparently used as a dining-room, for it contained a large table, a few chairs, a small sideboard, a spirit-stand, a case of books and ornaments, and two small oak presses.
Sent 11: Plainly, there was no place in it where a man could hide himself.
Sent 12: The next room was the bathroom, which was also empty.
Sent 13: Opposite the bathroom was a small bedroom, very barely furnished, offering no possibility of concealment.
Sent 14: Then the passage opened into a large roomy kitchen, the full width of the rooms on both sides of the hall, and the kitchen completed the flat.", "question": "In what room did Rolfe find a double bed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hygrometer", "Thermometer", "Using a thermometer and a hygrometer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Umbrella", "Snow gauge", "With an anemometer and rain gauge", "Anemometer", "Barometer", "Wind vane" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You might want to know how cold it is.
Sent 2: You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing.
Sent 3: Maybe it rained last night?
Sent 4: Do you know how much?
Sent 5: Does it feel humid to you?
Sent 6: You have heard all these questions before.
Sent 7: To answer these questions, we need data.
Sent 8: That data comes from special tools.
Sent 9: These tools collect data about the weather.
Sent 10: You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature.
Sent 11: An anemometer measures wind speed.
Sent 12: A rain gauge measures the amount of rain.
Sent 13: A hygrometer measures humidity.
Sent 14: A wind vane shows wind direction.
Sent 15: A snow gauge measures the amount of snow.", "question": "How could you measure temperature and humidity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, to not give him publicity", "To avoid giving him unnecessary publicity", "He chose not to mention names in order to not give Bin Laden publicity", "No, he said little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda. this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity", "No because he intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity", "He didn't refer specifically to Bin Laden as he wanted to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity", "To avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature", "No, to not give him legitimacy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because the details were top secret", "No, he didn't know who he was", "No because he hated the name Bin Laden", "To avoid confusions in the state department", "Yes, he wanted people to find him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "President Clinton often spoke of terrorist camps, but did he refer to Bin Laden by name and what was the reason for his choice?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, they will be major shareholders", "No, the Finnish government only owns a part of the company since there are other shareholders" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not clear", "No, they will not have any stake in the company", "Yes, it will" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Finnish government and major creditors of bankrupt shipyard Waertsilae Marine Industries Oy agreed in principle to form a new company to complete most of the troubled shipyard's backlog of 15 ships.
Sent 2: The new company will attempt to limit the shipyard's losses, participants said.
Sent 3: \"The situation is that the bankruptcy court will get out of the shipbuilding business.
Sent 4: Everything will be taken over by the new company,\" said Christian Andersson, executive vice president of Oy Waertsilae, former parent of Waertsilae Marine.
Sent 5: Once its ownership is finalized, the new company will open talks with state-appointed receivers to buy or lease Waertsilae Marine's shipyard facilities.
Sent 6: Subcontractors will be offered a settlement and a swift transition to new management is expected to avert an exodus of skilled workers from Waertsilae Marine's two big shipyards, government officials said.
Sent 7: Under an accord signed yesterday, the government and Union Bank of Finland would become major shareholders in the new company, each injecting 100 million Finnish markkaa (23.5 million).
Sent 8: Oy Waertsilae is to contribute 200 million markkaa, most of it as subordinated debt, and take a minority stake in the new company.
Sent 9: Customers holding contracts for Waertsilae Marine's undelivered ships are expected to subscribe most of the remaining 170 million markkaa in share capital, government officials said.
Sent 10: Waertsilae Marine's biggest creditor is Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. Carnival, which has three ships on order from Waertsilae Marine, presented claims for 1.5 billion damages in the bankruptcy court this week.
Sent 11: Waertsilae Marine's bankruptcy proceedings began Tuesday in a Helsinki court.", "question": "Will the Finnish government own the new company?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He attacked others for fighting for freedom of white people only and petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade", "Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves" ], "distractor groups": [ "He supported forced emigration" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "What did Hamilton do in support of black people?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sayyid Qutb", "The Egyptian writer", "Qutb" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sayed Qtbo", "Bin Laden", "Quota", "Jahiliyya" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Who warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of IslamA. Sayed QtboB. Sayyid QutbC. The Egyptian writerD. Bin LadenE. QutbF. QuotaG. JahiliyyaPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Parent and child", "Dire consequences", "Ruler/ subject and or parent child relations have to be harmonious or dire consequences will happen", "Ruler and subject", "Teacher and student", "Ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state relationships, or dire consequences would be paid", "The individual and the state" ], "distractor groups": [ "Spiritual and metaphysical relationships, or states would begin warring", "They would be ignored", "Siblings" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "What kind of relationships did Confucius say must be hierarchical and dictorial, and if they are not what would happen?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They drive around a good deal, are sometimes part of a larger group of similar travelers, and says he knows many people who own horses that never go into the country", "They are amused by boiling water in black pots", "They have friends who own horses" ], "distractor groups": [ "They have coins jingling in their pocket", "They have expensive clothes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We drove about a great deal--the country at the back of Deauville, going away from the sea, is lovely--very like England--charming narrow roads with high banks and hedges on each side--big trees with spreading branches meeting overhead--stretches of green fields with cows grazing placidly and horses and colts gambolling about.
Sent 2: It is a great grazing and breeding country.
Sent 3: There are many haras (breeding stables) in the neighbourhood, and the big Norman posters are much in demand.
Sent 4: I have friends who never take their horses to the country.
Sent 5: They hire for the season a pair of strong Norman horses that go all day up and down hill at the same regular pace and who get over a vast amount of country.
Sent 6: We stopped once or twice when we were a large party, two or three carriages, and had tea at one of the numerous farmhouses that were scattered about.
Sent 7: Boiling water was a difficulty--milk, cider, good bread and butter, cheese we could always find--sometimes a galette, but a kettle and boiling water were entirely out of their habits.
Sent 8: They used to boil the water in a large black pot, and take it out with a big spoon.
Sent 9: However, it amused us, and the water really did boil.", "question": "What makes us think the speaker is a person of the upper class?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Extinction", "The fish that were taken could become extinct and that would affect other living things that relied on these fish as food", "Species at risk for extinction", "Fish at risk for extinction" ], "distractor groups": [ "Habitation", "Fish increases" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "What can occur if fishermen over-fish an area?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The overt cause was to provide the administration's response to the recession. The implied cause concerned the midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate were in jeopardy", "Overt: To bid to create jobs and boost economic growth. Implied: Because midterm elections are coming up", "Overt: To push to create jobs and boost the economy. B Implied: Because the Democratic majority of the House and Senate are in jeopardy" ], "distractor groups": [ "He thinks the roads are bad", "Overt: Because midterm elections are coming up. Implied: To bid to create jobs and boost economic growth", "Overt: To modernize the roads and repair roads, rails, and runways. Implied: To ensure the Republican majority of the House and Senate before midterm elections" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "On behalf of his administration, what is the overt cause and what is the implied cause of why President Obama gave a speech about spending $50 billion on renewing the country's transportation infrastructure?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Anxious", "Josie was feeling impatient about the winter", "Eager" ], "distractor groups": [ "Was calm", "Hillarious", "Waited patiently" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Josie started planning her new garden in the winter.
Sent 2: She chose flowers and vegetables that could grow in her area.
Sent 3: She looked through the seed magazines.
Sent 4: She ordered the tastiest kind of each vegetable and the prettiest kind of each flower.
Sent 5: She talked to a friend about her plans.
Sent 6: It seemed like the snow would never melt.
Sent 7: But Josie didn't have to wait for spring to get started.
Sent 8: Six weeks before the last frost, Josie planted seeds indoors.
Sent 9: The tiny seedlings pushed up through the soil and began to grow.
Sent 10: Finally spring arrived.
Sent 11: Each day, Josie moved the seedlings outside for a few hours so they could get used to the cooler temperatures.
Sent 12: Josie worked in her garden, digging the soil.
Sent 13: She added a special growing mix from the garden store to make the soil better.
Sent 14: When everything was ready, she removed the seedlings from their trays and planted them in her garden.
Sent 15: The warm sun and rich soil helped her vegetables and flowers grow.", "question": "How did Josie feel about the winter wait?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Katakana system", "Japanese" ], "distractor groups": [ "English", "Heian-kyo", "Indigenous alphabet" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeed\u2002\u2014\u2002until 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.", "question": "The changing in Chinese culture in Japanese life eventually had what written language develop?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction", "Needs a direction" ], "distractor groups": [ "The person may be slower", "The person may defy gravity", "May we go wrong direction", "The person may weigh more" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Force is a vector.
Sent 2: What then is a vector?
Sent 3: Think about how you would give directions to a friend.
Sent 4: You would not say, just walk half a mile.
Sent 5: The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction!
Sent 6: More information is needed.
Sent 7: You may say, follow this particular road for a half mile.
Sent 8: You may say, look for the green house on Sumter St. In both examples, you provided a direction.
Sent 9: You also gave the distance.
Sent 10: In other words, you provided a vector.
Sent 11: You did not just give a distance.
Sent 12: Both pieces of information are needed to find a location.
Sent 13: This is just like describing forces.
Sent 14: To explain forces, both size and direction are needed.
Sent 15: Notice the girl in Figure 1.1.
Sent 16: She is pushing the swing away from herself.
Sent 17: Thats the direction of the force.
Sent 18: She can give the swing a strong push or a weak push.", "question": "Why is more info needed to describe a vector?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Counterterrorist Center,", "Reporting on terrorism surged and the CSG deemed some unreliable", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes", "CIA reports", "Al Qaeda reports" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Bush administration in its first months faced many problems other than terrorism.
Sent 2: They included the collapse of the Middle East peace process and, in April, a crisis over a U.S.\" spy plane\" brought down in Chinese territory.
Sent 3: The new administration also focused heavily on Russia, a new nuclear strategy that allowed missile defenses, Europe, Mexico, and the Persian Gulf.
Sent 4: In the spring, reporting on terrorism surged dramatically.
Sent 5: In chapter 8, we will explore this reporting and the ways agencies responded.
Sent 6: These increasingly alarming reports, briefed to the President and top officials, became part of the context in which the new administration weighed its options for policy on al Qaeda.
Sent 7: Except for a few reports that the CSG considered and apparently judged to be unreliable, none of these pointed specifically to possible al Qaeda action inside the United States-although the CSG continued to be concerned about the domestic threat.
Sent 8: The mosaic of threat intelligence came from the Counterterrorist Center, which collected only abroad.
Sent 9: Its reports were not supplemented by reports from the FBI.
Sent 10: Clarke had expressed concern about an al Qaeda presence in the United States, and he worried about an attack on the White House by \"Hizbollah, Hamas, al Qida and other terrorist organizations.\"
Sent 11: In May, President Bush announced that Vice President Cheney would himself lead an effort looking at preparations for managing a possible attack by weapons of mass destruction and at more general problems of national preparedness.
Sent 12: The next few months were mainly spent organizing the effort and bringing an admiral from the Sixth Fleet back to Washington to manage it.
Sent 13: The Vice President's task force was just getting under way when the 9/11 attack occurred.", "question": "What types of reporting surged, did the CSG deem all of the reports reliable?" }, { "answer groups": [ "43 million", "43 million Americans" ], "distractor groups": [ "40 thousand", "20 million workers", "43 thousand" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "The 2000 U.S. census reported how many Americans qualified for free federally funded legal assistance?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Injured 17 workers", "11 killed, millions of barrels oil spilled into the Gulf", "17 workers injured, 11 killed and the worst spill in U.S. history", "killed 11 workers", "17 workers injured and 11 killed" ], "distractor groups": [ "The death of 28 workers", "20 workers wounded", "President Obama's National Commission reporting the blame was solely on Transocean Ltd", "killed 20 workers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"The best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sent 2: That includes a 200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from 900,000 to 1.1 million, according to the SEC report.
Sent 3: Newman's bonus was 374,062, the report states.
Sent 4: Newman also has a 5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 5: The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.
Sent 6: \"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.
Sent 7: \"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"
Sent 8: The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.
Sent 9: The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.
Sent 10: The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 11: It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.
Sent 12: The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Sent 13: In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.", "question": "List some of the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosionA. The death of 28 workersB. Injured 17 workersC. 20 workers woundedD. 11 killed, millions of barrels oil spilled into the GulfE. 17 workers injured, 11 killed and the worst spill in U.S. historyF. President Obama's National Commission reporting the blame was solely on Transocean LtdG. killed 20 workersH. killed 11 workersI. 17 workers injured and 11 killedPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Theatrical agent", "Theater agent", "Agent" ], "distractor groups": [ "Actor", "Director", "Main character" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Charlie Y. Reader is a 35-year-old theatrical agent in New York , living a seemingly idyllic life as a bachelor .
Sent 2: Numerous women ( among them Poppy , Helen , and Jessica come and go , cleaning and cooking for him .
Sent 3: Charlie 's best friend since kindergarten , Joe McCall , who has a wife named Ethel and children in Indianapolis , comes to New York for a stay at Charlie 's apartment , claiming that the excitement is gone from his 11-year marriage and that he wants to leave his wife .
Sent 4: Joe envies and is amazed by Charlie 's parade of girlfriends , while Charlie professes admiration for Joe 's married life and family .
Sent 5: At an audition , Charlie meets singer-actress Julie Gillis .
Sent 6: She has her life planned to a tight schedule , determined to marry and retire from performing to a life of child-rearing by 22 .
Sent 7: Although at first she wards off Charlie 's advances , she comes to see him as the ideal man for her plans .
Sent 8: Julie demands that Charlie stop seeing other women .
Sent 9: Charlie balks , but he begins to fall in love with her .
Sent 10: Joe starts keeping company with Sylvia Crewes , a sophisticated classical musician and a typically neglected lover of Charlie 's .
Sent 11: Sylvia is approaching 33 and desires marriage as much as the younger Julie does .
Sent 12: One day , annoyed by Julie and possibly jealous of Joe 's attentions , Charlie blurts out a proposal of marriage to Sylvia .
Sent 13: She is thrilled , only to discover the morning after their engagement party that he has proposed to Julie as well .
Sent 14: Joe confesses his love to Sylvia and asks her to marry him .", "question": "What is Charlie's role at the audition where he meets Julie Gillis?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Religious", "Catholic" ], "distractor groups": [ "Protestant" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon.
Sent 2: Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood holding fast to the folds of her black habit, staring up at the strangers, while she explained the kind of instruction given, the system, and the order reigning in each department.
Sent 3: Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard.
Sent 4: Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling.
Sent 5: The children must have been very much bored with themselves that stormy Sunday, for they entered into the examination with a quite unnatural zest.
Sent 6: Two of the elder girls recited, and some specimens of penmanship and composition were shown.
Sent 7: The delicate complexion of the little nun flushed to a pretty wild-rose pink as these pupils of hers won the Colonel's old fashioned compliments.", "question": "Is this a public school or a religious school?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because the Moors were defeated by the invasion led by Alfonso III of Arag\u00c3\u00b3n", "Alfonso III of Arag\u00f3n found a pretext for invasion", "Alfonso III of Arag\u00c3\u00b3n invaded", "Contrast to Mallorca" ], "distractor groups": [ "Due to a series of humiliations at the hands of the nobles", "Annual tribute to Arag\u00c3\u00b3n", "The Moors had to pay tribute to Aragon", "They converted to Christianity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Arag\u00f3n and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Pon\u00e7a.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors\u2002\u2014\u2002converted by force to Christianity\u2002\u2014\u2002as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Arag\u00f3n and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Arag\u00f3n, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Arag\u00f3n for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by San\u00e7 and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Arag\u00f3n.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.", "question": "Why was Menorca's economy devastated for decades?" }, { "answer groups": [ "PM One", "Alamo Hills Apartments" ], "distractor groups": [ "Homeless", "Alamo Hills" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: \"They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 5: \"Alamo Hills just threw it out.\"
Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than 25,000.
Sent 10: \"We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- 3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 11: \"They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly.\"
Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: \"The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims,\" he said.", "question": "What is the name of the management company which manages the apartment complex where nine families were displaced in March?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The hijackers were Middle Eastern and there seat numbers", "That the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers & one spoke poor English and the other excellent english, no mention of 3rd", "Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English, the hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how" ], "distractor groups": [ "The hi jackers demanded money", "The hijackers were American", "They sat up front and possibly ISIS" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "Around 8:38 what information did Sweeney tell Woodward about the hijackers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The U.S. Capitol", "White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bosnia", "Mecca", "Kandahar", "The al Matar complex", "Nairobi", "White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and Washington DC", "Saudi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar.
Sent 2: KSM's original concept of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media statement was scrapped, but Bin Laden considered the basic idea feasible.
Sent 3: Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM developed an initial list of targets.
Sent 4: These included the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
Sent 5: According to KSM, Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to strike the World Trade Center, and all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.
Sent 6: No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.
Sent 7: Bin Laden also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives: Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazmi, Khallad, and Abu Bara al Yemeni.
Sent 8: During the al Matar meetings, Bin Laden told KSM that Mihdhar and Hazmi were so eager to participate in an operation against the United States that they had already obtained U.S. visas.
Sent 9: KSM states that they had done so on their own after the suicide of their friend Azzam (Nashiri's cousin) in carrying out the Nairobi bombing.
Sent 10: KSM had not met them.
Sent 11: His only guidance from Bin Laden was that the two should eventually go to the United States for pilot training.
Sent 12: Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi nationals, born in Mecca.
Sent 13: Like the others in this initial group of selectees, they were already experienced mujahideen.
Sent 14: They had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.
Sent 15: By the time Hazmi and Mihdhar were assigned to the planes operation in early 1999, they had visited Afghanistan on several occasions.
Sent 16: Khallad was another veteran mujahid, like much of his family.
Sent 17: His father had been expelled from Yemen because of his extremist views.
Sent 18: Khallad had grown up in Saudi Arabia, where his father knew Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Omar Abdel Rahman (the \"Blind Sheikh\").", "question": "What were four initial targets developed by Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It can heat homes and produce electricity", "Sunlight can provide heat", "Solar energy", "Sunlight can be used to produce electricity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sunlight can provide kinetic energy", "Sunlight can provide wind" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What can sunlight provide as a resource?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Simplistic conspiracies to explain their world", "For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty, and for others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world", "He uses conspiracy theories", "An imagined alternative to today's uncertainty", "He offers Caliphate as a solution to those yearning for a more tranquil world" ], "distractor groups": [ "Virtual reality", "Death to transgressors", "He promises the holy land of God", "He offers money for his followers", "He promises success and the rise of his Caliphate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "What two aspects of Bin Laden's message attract followers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary", "The A.C.P" ], "distractor groups": [ "Vishal", "Ramakant", "Revati" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Elaan is a declaration of war against the reign of terror unleashed by the ganglords .
Sent 2: The story revolves around an upright and principled Police Officer , A.C.P. Ramakant Chaudhary whose eldest son Vikas is killed in a pre-planned accident .
Sent 3: But the A.C.P. is unable to nab the culprits for want of valid evidence .
Sent 4: Consequently , the A.C.P. , his wife Revati and younger son Vishal are griefstricken over the loss of young Vikas .
Sent 5: While the atmosphere in the city is already vitiated by the atrocities of ganglords Baba Khan and Manna Shetty who enjoy the support of some unscrupulous police personnel , the A.C.P. vows to make the ruthless gangsters bite the dust , without taking the law in his own hands .
Sent 6: On the other hand , Vishal an angry young man , can not stand this injustice since the police had failed to arrest his brother's killers , and he silently resents his A.C.P father's inaction in dealing with the culprits .
Sent 7: The ideologies of the father and son clash - Which lead to a conflict between a dutiful father and a reckless son .
Sent 8: The only one who understands the agony of Vishal is Mohini , the daughter of head constable Devkinandan Sharma .
Sent 9: The day comes when Vishal confronts Baba Khan and Manna Shetty Which leads to tension and gory situation for the A.C.P. , as the ganglords threaten to eliminate the A.C.P. as well as his wife Revati and son Vishal .", "question": "Who is unable to nab the culprits in search of evidence?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They help to determineage of rock layers", "The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history and help date fossils", "Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers, and index fossils are the fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earth's history" ], "distractor groups": [ "For fuel", "As markers for glacier activity", "They show us flora of the past", "They are used to identify extinct animals", "They are used to mark water levels" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils can be used to match up rock layers.
Sent 2: As organisms change over time, they look different.
Sent 3: Older fossils will look different than younger fossils.
Sent 4: Some organisms only survived for a short time before going extinct.
Sent 5: Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers.
Sent 6: Some fossils are better than others for this use.
Sent 7: The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history are called index fossils.
Sent 8: Index fossils are commonly used to match rock layers.
Sent 9: You can see how this works in Figure 2.30.
Sent 10: If two rock layers have the same index fossils, then they're probably about the same age.", "question": "How are index fossils useful?" }, { "answer groups": [ "American Stock Exchange with net loss $2.3 million", "American Stock Exchange (AMEX) with a third quarter net loss of 2.3 Million" ], "distractor groups": [ "$5.3 million", "$4.9 million", "Citadel with $4.9 million", "Valley Federal Savings with $2.3 million", "European Stock Exchange with $5.3 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: William C. Walbrecher Jr., an executive at San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank, was named president and chief executive officer of Citadel Holding Corp. and its principal operating unit, Fidelity Federal Bank.
Sent 2: The appointment takes effect Nov. 13.
Sent 3: He succeeds James A. Taylor, who stepped down as chairman, president and chief executive in March for health reasons.
Sent 4: Edward L. Kane succeeded Mr. Taylor as chairman.
Sent 5: Separately, Citadel posted a third-quarter net loss of 2.3 million, or 68 cents a share, versus net income of 5.3 million, or 1.61 a share, a year earlier.
Sent 6: The latest results include some unusual write-downs, which had an after-tax impact of 4.9 million.
Sent 7: Those included costs associated with the potential Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association acquisition, which was terminated on Sept. 27, 1989.
Sent 8: In addition, operating results were hit by an increase in loan and real estate loss reserves.
Sent 9: In American Stock Exchange composite trading, Citadel shares closed yesterday at 45.75, down 25 cents.", "question": "What is stock exchange 1st National Bank on and what was the third quarter net loss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "state of matter", "melting temperature", "color and odor", "boiling point" ], "distractor groups": [ "chemical structure", "chemical bonding" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Physical properties include the state of matter.
Sent 2: We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas.
Sent 3: Properties can also include color and odor.
Sent 4: For example, oxygen is a gas.
Sent 5: It is a major part of the air we breathe.
Sent 6: It is colorless and odorless.
Sent 7: Chlorine is also a gas.
Sent 8: In contrast to oxygen, chlorine is greenish in color.
Sent 9: It has a strong, sharp odor.
Sent 10: Have you ever smelled cleaning products used around your home?
Sent 11: If so, you have probably smelled chlorine.
Sent 12: Another place you might smell chlorine is at a public swimming pool.
Sent 13: The chlorine is used to kill bacteria that may grow in the water.
Sent 14: Other physical properties include hardness, freezing, and boiling points.
Sent 15: Some substances have the ability to dissolve in other substances.
Sent 16: Some substances cannot be dissolved.
Sent 17: For example, salt easily dissolves in water.
Sent 18: Oil does not dissolve in water.", "question": "What do physical properties include?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law are exempt", "If the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability or resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law", "Pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law" ], "distractor groups": [ "If it would risk lives of both mother and baby", "Women that can not pay for the procedure will be exempt" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "What conditions allow women seeking abortions to not undergo this procedure?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Many phenomena", "An objects mass and volume", "Why Helium balloons rise and why materials sink or float" ], "distractor groups": [ "Condensation", "Gravity", "Conductivity", "Why things work" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Density is also an important physical property of matter.
Sent 2: The concept of density combines what we know about an objects mass and volume.
Sent 3: Density reflects how closely packed the particles of matter are.
Sent 4: When particles are packed together more tightly, matter is more dense.
Sent 5: Differences in density of matter explain many phenomena.
Sent 6: It explains why helium balloons rise.
Sent 7: It explains why currents such as the Gulf Stream flow through the oceans.
Sent 8: It explains why some things float in or sink.
Sent 9: You can see this in action by pouring vegetable oil into water.
Sent 10: You can see a colorful demonstration in this video.", "question": "What can density explain?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A triangle", "A delta is shaped like a triangle" ], "distractor groups": [ "An oval", "A diamond", "A circle", "Delta" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When a stream or river slows down, it starts dropping its sediments.
Sent 2: Larger sediments are dropped in steep areas.
Sent 3: Some smaller sediments can still be carried by a slow moving stream or river.
Sent 4: Smaller sediments are dropped as the slope becomes less steep.
Sent 5: Alluvial Fans In arid regions, a mountain stream may flow onto flatter land.
Sent 6: The stream comes to a stop rapidly.
Sent 7: The deposits form an alluvial fan.
Sent 8: Deposition also occurs when a stream or river empties into a large body of still water.
Sent 9: In this case, a delta forms.
Sent 10: A delta is shaped like a triangle.
Sent 11: It spreads out into the body of water.", "question": "What kind of shape does a river or stream emptying into the larger body of water sculpts the delta into?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Joan Fontaine", "Joan Burfield" ], "distractor groups": [ "Joanette", "Noel Beutel", "Noel Fontaine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine died Sunday, her longtime friend Noel Beutel said Monday.
Sent 2: She was 96.
Sent 3: Fontaine died \"very peacefully\" in her sleep of natural causes, Beutel said.
Sent 4: She was in her Carmel, California, home.
Sent 5: She is survived by her older sister, actress Olivia de Havilland -- with whom she had not spoken for decades.
Sent 6: Fontaine was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in 1916 in Tokyo, Japan, where her British father was a patent lawyer and teacher.
Sent 7: She and her sister moved to Saratoga, California, with their mother in 1919 when her parents separated.
Sent 8: Fontaine was a teenager when she began her acting career as Joan Burfield in the 1935 film \"No More Ladies.\"
Sent 9: She later adopted the stage name Fontaine -- the name of her mother's second husband.
Sent 10: She wrote in her 1978 autobiography, \"No Bed of Roses,\" that her mother, who was an actress, began encouraging the rivalry with her older sister at an early age.
Sent 11: The feud extended to their careers when both sisters were nominated for best actress Oscars in 1942.
Sent 12: Fontaine, who was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's \"Suspicion,\" beat her sister Olivia de Havilland, who was nominated for \"Hold Back the Dawn.\"
Sent 13: De Havilland won the first of her two Oscars in 1947 when she was given the best actress award for \"To Each His Own.\"
Sent 14: De Havilland and Fontaine remain the only sisters who have best-actress Academy Awards.
Sent 15: The long-standing feud with de Havilland was at such a peak during one Oscar winners' reunion in 1979 that they had to be seated on opposite ends of the stage.
Sent 16: \"I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received,\" a statement released by Olivia de Havilland to CNN said.", "question": "Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland went by which two stage names?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is helping feed the neediest members of the community", "By harvesting fruits and vegetable to feed the neediest members of the neighborhood", "The produce is being distributed to the neediest fammilies in the community" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is helping to educate", "It provides free labor for the community" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "How is the city of Mechanicsville helping serve a greater purpose in their community?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Moutains", "Distance from the equator", "Mountains, ocean, longitude, latitude", "Mountains", "Latitude", "Oceans" ], "distractor groups": [ "Same climate", "Longitude", "Figures", "Houses", "Cars", "Season", "Football stadiums", "Day length", "The stars" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Should places at the same distance from the equator have the same climate?
Sent 2: You might think they should.
Sent 3: Unfor- tunately, you would not be correct to think this.
Sent 4: Climate types vary due to other factors besides distance from the equator.
Sent 5: So what are these factors?
Sent 6: How can they have such a large impact on local climates?
Sent 7: For one thing, these factors are big.
Sent 8: You may wonder, are they as big as a car.
Sent 9: Think bigger.
Sent 10: Are they bigger than a house?
Sent 11: Think bigger.
Sent 12: Are they bigger than a football stadium?
Sent 13: You are still not close.
Sent 14: We are talking about mountains and oceans.
Sent 15: They are big features and big factors.
Sent 16: Oceans and mountains play a huge role in climates around the world.
Sent 17: You can see this in Figure above .
Sent 18: Only one of those factors is latitude, or distance from the equator.", "question": "Name at least one factor of climateA. Same climateB. LongitudeC. MoutainsD. FiguresE. HousesF. Distance from the equatorG. CarsH. Mountains, ocean, longitude, latitudeI. SeasonJ. MountainsK. Football stadiumsL. Day lengthM. The starsN. LatitudeO. OceansPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Close to 10 minutes", "Almost 10 minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "3 hours", "1 hour", "25 minutes", "An hour", "15 minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "How much time elapsed between when the President learned about the attack and when he returned to a holding room for a briefing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nationalists", "The generals and admirals", "Japan's generals and admirals" ], "distractor groups": [ "Soviet Union", "Tokugawa", "The Japanese government", "China" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation.
Sent 2: By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity.
Sent 3: Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers.
Sent 4: Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.
Sent 5: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Sent 6: Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed.
Sent 7: Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates\u2002\u2014\u2002a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking.
Sent 8: These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures.
Sent 9: Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals.
Sent 10: They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.
Sent 11: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances.
Sent 12: In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Sent 13: And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists.
Sent 14: By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.
Sent 15: Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.
Sent 16: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France.
Sent 17: The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies.
Sent 18: The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war.", "question": "Who proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Shang Dynasty", "The Shang dynasty brought about an interest in art and the concept of one Chinese nation under one government", "Shang" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chinese", "Xia Dynasty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "What dynasty brought about the interest in art and the concept of one Chinese nation under one government?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Discussion of a strategy to promote \"gun rights\" for white people was discussed by NRS and KKK", "Gun rights promoted by the NRA", "The discussion of gun rights being promoted by the NRA" ], "distractor groups": [ "Crackdown on crack dealing by the KKK", "Thr right to use drugs if one sees fit was discussed by the Legal Aid Society", "Undercover drug operations by the NRA" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Animated history of the US.
Sent 2: Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified, and most critics consider it one of the weakest parts of the film.
Sent 3: But it makes a valid claim which you ignore entirely: That the strategy to promote \"gun rights\" for white people and to outlaw gun possession by black people was a way to uphold racism without letting an openly terrorist organization like the KKK flourish.
Sent 4: Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
Sent 5: I highly doubt it.
Sent 6: But if they didn't, one of their functions was to continue the racism of the KKK.
Sent 7: This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics.
Sent 8: Buell shooting in Flint.
Sent 9: You write: \"Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before\".
Sent 10: This characterization of a six-year-old as a pencil-stabbing thug is exactly the kind of hysteria that Moore's film warns against.
Sent 11: It is the typical right-wing reaction which looks for simple answers that do not contradict the Republican mindset.
Sent 12: The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed.
Sent 13: But why do people deal with drugs?
Sent 14: Because it's so much fun to do so?
Sent 15: It is by now well documented that the CIA tolerated crack sales in US cities to fund the operation of South American \"contras\" It is equally well known that the so-called \"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administration is a failure which has cost hundreds of billions and made America the world leader in prison population (both in relative and absolute numbers).", "question": "Which type of rights are being discussed and promoted by which group?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because she gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor", "Because Callimaco was honest and he confessed the truth, where as all others lied to her", "To spite her family" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because she loved Lucrezia", "She fell in love", "Because she wanted a child", "Because she slept with Callimaco" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Why does Lucrezia want Callimaco to be her lover forever?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Healthy way to smoke", "Flavors", "They are flavored, have the nicotine but do not have the smoke" ], "distractor groups": [ "Food, chemicals", "One mod", "Tobacco", "Smoke", "One taste only" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "What might be two characteristics that would appeal to smokers who wish to quit?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tsar's", "Moscow", "Russia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Boris", "Officials", "St. Petersburg" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (/'pUSkIn/; Russian: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, tr.
Sent 2: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; IPA: [aljI'ksandr sjI'rgjejIvjItc 'puskjIn]; 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 - 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Sent 3: Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow.
Sent 4: His matrilineal great grandfather was Abram Gannibal, who was brought over as a slave from what is now Cameroon.
Sent 5: Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
Sent 6: While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov.
Sent 7: His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Sent 8: Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought as many as twenty-nine duels, and was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthes.
Sent 9: Pushkin had accused D'Anthes, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment of attempting to seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina.", "question": "Where did Pushkin live when he wrote his most famous play?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The temperate zone is between the polar and tropical zones", "Temperate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Central", "Polar", "Tropical", "Temperature", "Middle" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "Which climate zone is situated between the other two geographically?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She told a story every night until morning without finishing it", "Anecdotal morals", "Story telling", "She tells the sultan a clever story with a healing moral hidden within every night but refuses to give up the ending until the next day" ], "distractor groups": [ "Psychotherapy", "Lying", "She made sultan sleep until morining" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time .
Sent 2: The Sultan Shahryar has gone mad after accidentally killing his wife during a failed coup d' tat , Which she had planned with Shahryar's brother Schahzenan .
Sent 3: In his madness , Shahryar believes that all women now want to kill him , but the law states that the Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother .
Sent 4: Shahryar therefore orders Grand Vizier Ja'Far ( ( ( Jim Carter to bring him a harem girl to marry and then have executed the next day .
Sent 5: In order to prevent this , the Grand Vizier's clever daughter , Scheherazade , decides to marry the Sultan herself .
Sent 6: Scheherazade has a plan to prevent her execution and at the same time cure the Sultan of his madness .
Sent 7: With the help of some tutoring from a bazaar storyteller , Scheherazade tells the Sultan a story every night , stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger and refusing to continue until dusk .
Sent 8: Shahryar must therefore let Scheherazade live for another day in order to hear the rest of the story .
Sent 9: Cunningly , Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story , to bring the Sultan out of his madness .
Sent 10: Meanwhile , Schahzenan hears about the Sultan's madness and that he is unable to execute Scheherazade .
Sent 11: Perceiving this as weakness , Schahzenan leads his army to Baghdad in an attempt to take the throne by force .
Sent 12: However , by the time Schahzenan's army reaches the city , Scheherazade's plan has worked .
Sent 13: As a result of her stories , Shahryar has overcome his madness and has fallen in love with Scheherazade .", "question": "How does Scheherazade's plan work to keep her alive and cure the sultan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Notoriously touchy about his honour", "For to seduce his wife", "He killed him in a duel after being accused of seducing Pushkin's wife" ], "distractor groups": [ "Notoriously not touchy about his honour", "An encounter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (/'pUSkIn/; Russian: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, tr.
Sent 2: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; IPA: [aljI'ksandr sjI'rgjejIvjItc 'puskjIn]; 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 - 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Sent 3: Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow.
Sent 4: His matrilineal great grandfather was Abram Gannibal, who was brought over as a slave from what is now Cameroon.
Sent 5: Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
Sent 6: While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov.
Sent 7: His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Sent 8: Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought as many as twenty-nine duels, and was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthes.
Sent 9: Pushkin had accused D'Anthes, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment of attempting to seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina.", "question": "How and why did Georges-Charles de Heeckeren fatally wound Pushkin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Confusing legal terms, strict procedures and the need to understand case law", "Because of the legal terms and strict procedures involved as well as volumes of case law to understand", "Confusing legal terms", "Volumes of case law", "Because of the new terms to learn, procedures to follow, and case law to understand", "Strict procedures" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because there are procedures and case law to memorize, and strict legal requirements to understand", "Because County officials and private agencies want to make it \"a tricky endeavor\"", "Because of the secret procedures", "Because of the non-confusing legal language", "Because of non availability of law books" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "Why can representing yourself in court be \"a tricky endeavor\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New York", "Manhattan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brooklyn", "Mnhatarr" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker.
Sent 2: The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
Sent 3: Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Sent 4: All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday.
Sent 5: One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven.
Sent 6: Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year.
Sent 7: Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol.
Sent 8: It holds eight, Kelly said.
Sent 9: Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him.
Sent 10: Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added.
Sent 11: Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile.
Sent 12: \"It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that,\" said his brother, Paul.
Sent 13: \"He's going to be so missed by everybody.
Sent 14: He was a light of so many lives.\"", "question": "Where did the incident take place?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They are reconnecting to the earth and growing their own produce", "They are urban farming", "They are providing food for the neediest families in their neighborhood", "They are making their own produce" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are looking to the government to provide them with food", "They are trying to be healthy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh produce into a revival of old traditions and self-empowerment.
Sent 2: Urban farming is a way for African-Americans to connect with the earth, says Cashawn Myers of HABESHA.
Sent 3: HABESHA Gardens is one of many urban gardens sprouting up around the country.
Sent 4: Fruits and vegetables are thriving in this community garden located in an economically depressed area of the city known as Mechanicsville.
Sent 5: But the garden serves an even greater purpose.
Sent 6: The harvest helps feed some of the neediest members of the neighborhood.
Sent 7: \"It's a reawakening going on.
Sent 8: It's almost like it's a renaissance,\" says Cashawn Myers, director of HABESHA Inc. \"There's a Ghanaian proverb that says Sankofa.
Sent 9: Sankofa means return to your past so you can move forward.
Sent 10: Even if you look at coming over here during our enslavement, we were brought here to cultivate the land because that's something we did on the continent.
Sent 11: So really, that's what many of the people are doing now,\" he said.
Sent 12: Myers believes urban farming is a way for many African-Americans to reconnect with their past.
Sent 13: iReport.com: Show us your urban farm \"They are going through a process of Sankofa and going to what they traditionally did, which is connect to the Earth so they can move forward and grow,\" he says.
Sent 14: But HABESHA Gardens isn't unique.
Sent 15: Former pro basketball player Will Allen, who is considered to be one of the nation's leading urban farmers and founder of Growing Power Inc., estimates that there are hundreds of thousands of urban gardens in inner cities across America.
Sent 16: Urban farms help feed people, sustain neighorhoods \u00bb \"It's beyond a movement at this point.
Sent 17: Its more like a revolution,\" says Allen.", "question": "How are African Americans in Atlanta are empowering themselves in the wake of limited access to fresh produce?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Rejection of communism", "The final split with Sartre" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rejection of socialism", "Seclusion for two years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Literary career During the war Camus joined the French Resistance cell Combat, which published an underground newspaper of the same name.
Sent 2: This group worked against the Nazis, and in it Camus assumed the nom de guerre Beauchard.
Sent 3: Camus became the paper's editor in 1943.
Sent 4: He first met Sartre at the dress rehearsal of Sartre's play, The Flies, in June 1943.
Sent 5: When the Ailies liberated Paris in August 1944, Camus witnessed and reported the last of the fighting.
Sent 6: Soon after the event on 6 August 1945, he was one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition and disgust to the United States' dropping the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Sent 7: He resigned from Combat in 1947 when it became a commercial paper.
Sent 8: After the war, Camus began frequenting the Cafe de Flore on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris with Sartre and others.
Sent 9: He also toured the United States to lecture about French thought.
Sent 10: Although he leaned left, politically, his strong criticisms of Communist doctrine did not win him any friends in the Communist parties and eventually alienated Sartre.
Sent 11: In 1949, his tuberculosis returned, whereupon he lived in seclusion for two years.
Sent 12: In 1951, he published The Rebel, a philosophical analysis of rebellion and revolution which expressed his rejection of communism.
Sent 13: Upsetting many of his colleagues and contemporaries in France, the book brought about the final split with Sartre.
Sent 14: The dour reception depressed Camus; he began to translate plays.
Sent 15: Camus's first significant contribution to philosophy was his idea of the absurd.
Sent 16: He saw it as the result of our desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither, which he expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and incorporated into many of his other works, such as The Stranger and The Plague.
Sent 17: Despite his split from his \"study partner\", Sartre, Camus was still categorized as an Existentialist.
Sent 18: He specifically rejected that label in his essay \"Enigma\" and elsewhere.", "question": "What did the book The Rebel bring about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because the were starving themselves to the degree that they would not be of much more physical use in this world", "Because they starved but would not condescend to beg", "The people Lancashire were heading into the winter season with an insufficient amount of food and supplies" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because they did not have enough jobs", "England was having governmental issues", "Because of the high taxes they paid" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Here the omnibus came up, and I rode back to Manchester.
Sent 2: The whole conversation took up very little more time than it will take to read it; but I thought it worth recording, as characteristic of the people now suffering in Lancashire from no fault of their own.
Sent 3: I know the people well.
Sent 4: The greatest number of them would starve themselves to that degree that they would not be of much more physical use in this world, before they would condescend to beg.
Sent 5: But starving to death is hard work.
Sent 6: What will winter bring to them when severe weather begins to tell upon constitutions lowered in tone by a starvation diet--a diet so different to what they have been used to when in work?
Sent 7: What will the 1s.
Sent 8: 6d.
Sent 9: a-head weekly do for them in that hard time?
Sent 10: If something more than this is not done for them, when more food, clothing, and fire are necessary to everybody, calamities may arise which will cost England a hundred times more than a sufficient relief--a relief worthy of those who are suffering, and of the nation they belong to--would have cost.
Sent 11: In the meantime the cold wings of winter already begin to overshadow the land; and every day lost involves the lives, or the future usefulness, of thousands of our best population.", "question": "Why were the people of Lancashire suffering?" }, { "answer groups": [ "FAA", "FAA controllers, facility managers, and the Military", "Civilians" ], "distractor groups": [ "11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting", "Facility manager", "The army", "The coast guard", "9" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Clarifying the Record The defense of U.S. airspace on 9/11 was not conducted in accord with preexisting training and protocols.
Sent 2: It was improvised by civilians who had never handled a hijacked aircraft that attempted to disappear, and by a military unprepared for the transformation of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction.
Sent 3: As it turned out, the NEADS air defenders had nine minutes' notice on the first hijacked plane, no advance notice on the second, no advance notice on the third, and no advance notice on the fourth.
Sent 4: We do not believe that the true picture of that morning reflects discredit on the operational personnel at NEADS or FAA facilities.
Sent 5: NEADS commanders and officers actively sought out information, and made the best judgments they could on the basis of what they knew.
Sent 6: Individual FAA controllers, facility managers, and Command Center managers thought outside the box in recommending a nationwide alert, in ground-stopping local traffic, and, ultimately, in deciding to land all aircraft and executing that unprecedented order flawlessly.
Sent 7: More than the actual events, inaccurate government accounts of those events made it appear that the military was notified in time to respond to two of the hijackings, raising questions about the adequacy of the response.
Sent 8: Those accounts had the effect of deflecting questions about the military's capacity to obtain timely and accurate information from its own sources.
Sent 9: In addition, they overstated the FAA's ability to provide the military with timely and useful information that morning.
Sent 10: In public testimony before this Commission in May 2003, NORAD officials stated that at 9:16, NEADS received hijack notification of United 93 from the FAA.
Sent 11: This statement was incorrect.
Sent 12: There was no hijack to report at 9:16.
Sent 13: United 93 was proceeding normally at that time.
Sent 14: In this same public testimony, NORAD officials stated that at 9:24, NEADS received notification of the hijacking of American 77.
Sent 15: This statement was also incorrect.
Sent 16: The notice NEADS received at 9:24 was that American 11 had not hit the World Trade Center and was heading for Washington, D.C. In their testimony and in other public accounts, NORAD officials also stated that the Langley fighters were scrambled to respond to the notifications about American 77,178 United 93, or both.
Sent 17: These statements were incorrect as well.
Sent 18: The fighters were scrambled because of the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA centers; contemporaneous logs compiled at NEADS, Continental Region headquarters, and NORAD; and other records.", "question": "Who handled the U.S. air defense on 9/11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The U,S and Germany", "Germany", "United States", "The Third Reich and the US" ], "distractor groups": [ "China", "Switzerland", "The U.S and The Soviet Union" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To make certain the U.S. was aware of the danger, in July 1939, a few months before the beginning of World War II in Europe, Szilard and Wigner visited Einstein to explain the possibility of atomic bombs, which Einstein, a pacifist, said he had never considered.
Sent 2: He was asked to lend his support by writing a letter, with Szilard, to President Roosevelt, recommending the U.S. pay attention and engage in its own nuclear weapons research.
Sent 3: A secret German facility, apparently the largest of the Third Reich, covering 75 acres in an underground complex, was being re-excavated in Austria in December 2014 and may have been planned for use in nuclear research and development.
Sent 4: The letter is believed to be \"arguably the key stimulus for the U.S. adoption of serious investigations into nuclear weapons on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II\".
Sent 5: In addition to the letter, Einstein used his connections with the Belgian Royal Family and the Belgian queen mother to get access with a personal envoy to the White House's Oval Office.
Sent 6: President Roosevelt could not take the risk of allowing Hitler to possess atomic bombs first.
Sent 7: As a result of Einstein's letter and his meetings with Roosevelt, the U.S. entered the \"race\" to develop the bomb, drawing on its \"immense material, financial, and scientific resources\" to initiate the Manhattan Project.
Sent 8: It became the only country to successfully develop an atomic bomb during World War II.
Sent 9: For Einstein, \"war was a disease ... [and] he called for resistance to war.\"
Sent 10: By signing the letter to Roosevelt he went against his pacifist principles.
Sent 11: In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein said to his old friend, Linus Pauling, \"I made one great mistake in my life--when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification--the danger that the Germans would make them ...\"", "question": "Which two powers during World War Two were likely racing to develop the first nuclear weapons?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998", "Smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants", "Require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws" ], "distractor groups": [ "Legalization of Marijuana", "Anti tanning laws", "No smoking", "Marijuana use on College Campuses", "Obesity Practices Ban", "No tanning" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: \"There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention,\" said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: \"In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives.\"
Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: \"It never ends,\" said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: \"Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives.\"
Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has \"more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded,\" said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.", "question": "What rules exist throughout the country because of a California ban?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He wanted to break from tradition", "He let his imagination go freely", "He wanted to see what he would write if he allowed his mind to run freely", "He wanted to free his imagination" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was bored", "He wanted acclaim", "He wanted to imitate the greats" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Allan crouched over his desk once more, pen in hand and mind blank.
Sent 2: He contemplated a story, an outline he had laboriously constructed some time ago.
Sent 3: He had filled his pen and raised it, the nib descending towards the paper, before the sound came: the gentle, persistent tapping of the gnarled, primeval willow touching the window with long, insistent fingers.
Sent 4: His eyes awoke with a passionate, determined flame, though the only light came from the glutted moon.
Sent 5: Allan filled page after page, the words escaping from his mind onto the paper.
Sent 6: Where before they had marched in regiments, practiced in ranks and followed their leaders' commands, the words now escaped in their true forms, unhindered by any stricture.
Sent 7: He continued long into the night, until the eldritch orb had sunk into the waiting hands of the willow, raised perpetually skyward.
Sent 8: Arthur looked up from the results of a night's frenzied labors and looked Allan in the eye.
Sent 9: \"What is this?\"
Sent 10: he queried, indicating the pages he held in his left hand.
Sent 11: \"I decided that\u2026 since I wasn't having much success with more \u2013 traditional \u2013 stories, I might see what sort of work I produced if I let my imagination go freely,\" Allan replied, somewhat less self-assured than he had been the previous night.
Sent 12: \"What in G-d's name could have possessed you to do such a thing,\" cried Arthur, nearly raising his voice.
Sent 13: \"After all I said the day before, why have you abandoned centuries of literary progress for some self-indulgent fantasy?\"
Sent 14: He shook the papers at Allan, raising them like a belt above the head of a disobedient son.
Sent 15: \"This is nothing but a glorified Grimm's tale, a miscarried child of Stoker, a creation less fit to be published than to be told around an open fire at the hovel of some peasant!\"
Sent 16: He spoke the last word with such heavy intonation that Allan shrank back before the physical wave of sound emanating from Arthur's throat.
Sent 17: \"Do you hate the modern system of literature?
Sent 18: Do you personally despise the works the Enlightenment or the progress made since Shakespeare?\"
Sent 19: For a moment, Allan could hardly do more than shake his head.
Sent 20: \"No, of course not\u2026 I\u2013 \" \"Then why,\" Arthur barreled on, \"do you disregard them all and return to this superstitious babble, this morbid, paganistic drivel?", "question": "What was Allan's reasoning to Arthur for his paper?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ieyasu Tokugawa", "Tokugawa" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Emperor", "China", "British", "Dutch", "Edo", "The Vassals", "Hideyoshi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "Who crushed their rivals in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Horizontally", "It moves horizontally" ], "distractor groups": [ "Vertically", "It goes down" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Heat supplies the energy that causes motion.
Sent 2: The deeper you go into toward the Earths core, the hotter it gets.
Sent 3: At the core it is really hot.
Sent 4: All that heat tries to rise toward the surface.
Sent 5: In the Mantle, the rock is partially melted and is able to move.
Sent 6: As it is heated, the material in the mantle moves toward the surface.
Sent 7: As the mantle material rises, it cools.
Sent 8: When it reaches the Earths crust, it is mostly stopped.
Sent 9: A little of the material can break through the surface, but not all.
Sent 10: Instead, it begins to move horizontally.
Sent 11: The mantle material moves horizontally away from a mid-ocean ridge crest.
Sent 12: Toward the surface, the mantle material starts to cool.
Sent 13: As it cools it sinks back down into the mantle.
Sent 14: These areas are where deep sea trench occur.
Sent 15: The material sinks back down to the core.
Sent 16: The system operates like a giant conveyor belt.
Sent 17: The motion due to heating and cooling is called convection.", "question": "Which direction does the mantle move?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lucrezia's lover", "Disguises himself as a doctor and the stranger", "Callimaco" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brother Timoteo", "Disguises himself as Brother Timoteo and the doctor", "Lucrezia's mother", "Ligurio" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Who disguises themselves twice?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A primary radar target", "Found one", "A primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed" ], "distractor groups": [ "Found 2", "The cause of the radar malfunction", "A manager able to order a nationwide ground stop" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "At 9:32, what did they find?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Beauty", "The wife of Nicia", "Lucrezia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brother Timoteo", "Lucrezia's confessor", "A rich and foolish lawyer", "Nicia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Who does Liguro help Callimaco with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mutations are good for a better chance of survival, and a way for living things to adapt to new conditions", "Varied traits that may help for survival" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not good for anything", "Killing an organism before it can reproduce", "Nothing", "Picking up the worst traits" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "What are mutations good for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tommy Kane, Monica Ashe, Erich Nunemarcher, Leon Mercier", "Kane", "Tommy Kane", "Mercier", "Erich Nunemarcher" ], "distractor groups": [ "Leon", "Monica Ashe", "An FBI recruiter", "Erich", "Picasso" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Alex Cross is a psychiatrist and police lieutenant who lives in Detroit with his wife , Maria , their children , Damon and Janelle , and his grandmother , Nana Mama .
Sent 2: Upon learning that Maria is pregnant with their third child , Cross considers accepting a job as an FBI profiler , but fears Maria's reaction , as it 'd require them to relocate to Washington , D.C. Meanwhile , a man called Picasso attends to an illegal underground Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring , where he flirts with businesswoman Fan Yau .
Sent 3: After brutally beating his opponent , Picasso is invited to Fan Yau's house , where he sedates her while they 're having sex , tortures and kills her .
Sent 4: Police Captain Richard Brookwell calls Cross and his partner , Tommy Kane , to the crime scene .
Sent 5: On the way there , Cross tells Kane about Maria's pregnancy and the the FBI's offer , and Kane reveals that he is secretly dating their colleague , Monica Ashe .
Sent 6: Cross deduces that Picasso is a professional assassin , and finds a sketch made behind by Picasso , revealing that his next target is businessman Erich Nunemarcher .
Sent 7: Cross , Kane and Ashe go to Nunemarcher's office , but Nunemarcher ignores their claims .
Sent 8: Picasso manages to enter the building , but is prevented from killing Nunemarcher by Cross , and escapes after being shot by Kane .
Sent 9: Cross analyzes a drop of Picasso's blood and learns that he is a psychotic former member of the Special Forces and that his real target is billionaire CEO Leon Mercier .
Sent 10: Cross informs Mercier that Picasso might be trying to kill him .", "question": "Who does Cross talk with during this story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "December 22nd", "The same day the FBI director briefed officials of the other agencies", "December 22" ], "distractor groups": [ "Christmas day", "December 23rd", "January 1, 2000", "After FEMA surveillance intelligence was processed", "December 21st" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the disruption of the plot in Amman, it had not escaped notice in Washington that Hijazi had lived in California and driven a cab in Boston and that Deek was a naturalized U.S. citizen who, as Berger reminded President Clinton, had been in touch with extremists in the United States as well as abroad.
Sent 2: Before Ressam's arrest, Berger saw no need to raise a public alarm at home- although the FBI put all field offices on alert.
Sent 3: Now, following Ressam's arrest, the FBI asked for an unprecedented number of special wiretaps.
Sent 4: Both Berger andTenet told us that their impression was that more Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap requests were processed during the millennium alert than ever before.
Sent 5: The next day, writing about Ressam's arrest and links to a cell in Montreal, Berger informed the President that the FBI would advise police in the United States to step up activities but would still try to avoid undue public alarm by stressing that the government had no specific information about planned attacks.
Sent 6: At a December 22 meeting of the Small Group of principals, FBI Director Louis Freeh briefed officials from the NSC staff, CIA, and Justice on wiretaps and investigations inside the United States, including a Brooklyn entity tied to the Ressam arrest, a seemingly unreliable foreign report of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell.
Sent 7: The Justice Department released a statement on the alert the same day.
Sent 8: Clarke's staff warned, \"Foreign terrorist sleeper cells are present in the US and attacks in the US are likely.\"
Sent 9: Clarke asked Berger to try to make sure that the domestic agencies remained alert.\"
Sent 10: Is there a threat to civilian aircraft?\"he wrote.
Sent 11: Clarke also asked the principals in late December to discuss a foreign security service report about a Bin Laden plan to put bombs on transatlantic flights.
Sent 12: The CSG met daily.
Sent 13: Berger said that the principals met constantly.
Sent 14: Later, when asked what made her decide to ask Ressam to step out of his vehicle, Diana Dean, a Customs inspector who referred Ressam to secondary inspection, testified that it was her \"training and experience.\"
Sent 15: It appears that the heightened sense of alert at the national level played no role in Ressam's detention.
Sent 16: There was a mounting sense of public alarm.
Sent 17: The earlier Jordanian arrests had been covered in the press, and Ressam's arrest was featured on network evening news broadcasts throughout the Christmas season.
Sent 18: The FBI was more communicative during the millennium crisis than it had ever been.", "question": "On what date did the warning \"Foreign terrorist sleeper cells are present in the US and attacks in the US are likely.\" take place?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Going to the pool", "Swimming", "There was a swimming pool at the castle" ], "distractor groups": [ "A long car ride", "Going to the movie theater", "There were several mysterious places", "There was a swimming pool in past vacations as well as the this one", "Going to the big ride parks", "There was an elevator in the castle" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: My parents, Kelly and Kelley, said that it was that time of year to take a family vacation.
Sent 2: We've been to big ride parks that have hotels with large pools.
Sent 3: This year my parents wanted to do something different.
Sent 4: They wanted to take us all to Elk River Castle.
Sent 5: After lots of planning we hit the road for our trip.
Sent 6: My Brother Kelsey and I enjoyed the long car ride there.
Sent 7: Once we arrive, the castle looked much bigger than we had imagined.
Sent 8: There was so much to see and so much to do.
Sent 9: There was a swimming pool, movie theater and an elevator to take us from floor to floor.
Sent 10: What a magical place!
Sent 11: I was so excited because we had the whole place to our family!
Sent 12: We spent our vacation playing around the huge castle and finding small mysterious places.
Sent 13: There was even a tiny room in the back of one of the closets.
Sent 14: My brother, Kelsey, and I played hide and go seek for hours, watched movies and swam until the sun went down.
Sent 15: It was sad when our vacation finally came to an end but we made some amazing memories.
Sent 16: We'll never forget our trip to Elk River Castle!", "question": "Even though the narrator's parents wanted to plan a different-than-normal family vacation, name at least one thing that was the same as past vacations.A. A long car rideB. Going to the movie theaterC. Going to the poolD. There were several mysterious placesE. There was a swimming pool in past vacations as well as the this oneF. SwimmingG. Going to the big ride parksH. There was a swimming pool at the castleI. There was an elevator in the castlePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Chinese Buddhism", "Buddhism" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jainism", "Christianity", "Hinduism", "Taoism", "Shinto" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "The religion brought to Japan from ChinaA. JainismB. Chinese BuddhismC. ChristianityD. HinduismE. BuddhismF. TaoismG. ShintoPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Diggler and Horner broke up", "Addiction", "Drugs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Music career", "Ending his relationship with Horner" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dirk Diggler was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15 , 1961 outside of Saint Paul , Minnesota .
Sent 2: His parents were a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attended church every Sunday and believed in God .
Sent 3: Looking for a career as a male model , Diggler dropped out of school at age 16 and left home .
Sent 4: He was discovered at a falafel stand by Jack Horner .
Sent 5: Diggler met his friend , Reed Rothchild , through Horner in 1979 while working on a film .
Sent 6: Horner slowly introduced Diggler to the business until he became noticeable within the industry .
Sent 7: Diggler became a prominent model and began appearing in pornographic films , after Which his career took off .
Sent 8: He had critical and box office hits Which led him to stardom .
Sent 9: The hits and publicity led to fame and money Which led Diggler to the world of drugs .
Sent 10: With the amount of money Diggler was making he was able to support both his and Rothchild's addictions .
Sent 11: The drugs eventually caused a breakup between Diggler and Horner since Diggler was having issues with his performance on set .
Sent 12: After the breakup Diggler tried to make a film himself but the film was never completed .
Sent 13: He then attempted a music career Which was also successful but led him deeper into drugs because of the amount of money he was making .
Sent 14: He then starred in a TV show Which was a failure both critically and commercially .
Sent 15: Having failed and with no work , Diggler returned to the porn industry taking roles in low-budget homosexual films to help support his habit .", "question": "What caused Diggler to have less success?" }, { "answer groups": [ "This deal was of good benefit for Ratners", "Good" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was not a good deal as it ensured that the other concern's offer would not be accepted", "Bad", "No Ratners has to pay more money for the company" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Ratners Group PLC, a fast-growing, acquisition-minded London-based jeweler, raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield's Inc. to 57.50 a share, or 62.1 million, from 50 a share, or 55 million, after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners's initial offer.
Sent 2: The other concern wasn't identified.
Sent 3: Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of \"substantial benefit to Ratners.\"
Sent 4: In London at mid-afternoon yesterday, Ratners's shares were up 2 pence (1.26 cents), at 260 pence (1.64).
Sent 5: The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield's shareholders, and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10.
Sent 6: The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield's raises Ratners's U.S. presence to 450 stores.
Sent 7: About 30% of Ratners's profit already is derived from the U.S.", "question": "Was the increased share price a good or bad deal for Ratners Group PLC?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In the afternoon", "Sunday" ], "distractor groups": [ "After the storm", "Early in the morning" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: She led the way into the cheerful schoolroom, where big girls and little girls were sitting about, amusing themselves in the quiet of a long Sunday afternoon.
Sent 2: Several of the younger children ran to her as she came in, and stood holding fast to the folds of her black habit, staring up at the strangers, while she explained the kind of instruction given, the system, and the order reigning in each department.
Sent 3: Finally, she persuaded a little girl, only six years old, to take her dusky face out of the long flowing veil of the nun, and show how quickly she could read a sentence that Sister Winifred wrote on the blackboard.
Sent 4: Then others were called on, and gave examples of their accomplishments in easy arithmetic and spelling.
Sent 5: The children must have been very much bored with themselves that stormy Sunday, for they entered into the examination with a quite unnatural zest.
Sent 6: Two of the elder girls recited, and some specimens of penmanship and composition were shown.
Sent 7: The delicate complexion of the little nun flushed to a pretty wild-rose pink as these pupils of hers won the Colonel's old fashioned compliments.", "question": "When did Sister Winifred give her students an examination?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Earth's land masses", "Continents" ], "distractor groups": [ "Earth", "Oceans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earthquakes seemed to outline a special feature of earth's crust.
Sent 2: Earthquakes let scientists know where the crust was moving.
Sent 3: This led to the discovery that the Earths crust was broken up into regions, or plates.
Sent 4: Earthquakes happen most often along these plate boundaries.
Sent 5: This was evidence that continents can move.
Sent 6: The movements of the plates are called plate tectonics.
Sent 7: The Earths crust is divided into plates.
Sent 8: There are about a dozen large plates and several small ones.
Sent 9: Each plate is named for the continent or ocean basin it contains.
Sent 10: Scientists know he plates are in motion.
Sent 11: They now know the direction and speed of this motion .
Sent 12: Plates dont move very fast.
Sent 13: They move only a few centimeters a year.
Sent 14: This is about the same rate fingernails grow.
Sent 15: So you might wonder, what could cause this motion?
Sent 16: What supplies the energy to cause this change?", "question": "Earthquakes happen along plate boundaries, which scientists believe is evidence that what moves?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No. (It includes much more.)", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Our sun and other stars release light energy.
Sent 2: At least this is what we see.
Sent 3: Our Sun and stars also emit more than just light.
Sent 4: Scientists call the type of energy that our Sun and stars release electromagnetic energy.
Sent 5: This form of energy travels through space.
Sent 6: Electromagnetic energy includes the light we see.
Sent 7: It also includes much more.
Sent 8: Many of these things we know about, but dont always think about.
Sent 9: Electromagnetic energy includes radio waves, microwaves, and X rays.
Sent 10: We now have devices in our homes and offices that release these same forms of energy.
Sent 11: We use electromagnetic energy to make our lives better.", "question": "Does electromagnetic energy include only light?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No astronauts will be aboard", "No" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes", "American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit.
Sent 2: But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance.
Sent 3: Orion, the agency's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December.
Sent 4: In future missions, it will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond -- farther than humans have ever gone before.
Sent 5: Orion comes loaded with superlatives.
Sent 6: It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles.
Sent 7: It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made.
Sent 8: No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions.
Sent 9: Final work on the spacecraft is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Sent 10: Orion came one step closer to completion this month with the stacking of the crew module atop the service module.
Sent 11: \"Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day,\" Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer said in a statement.
Sent 12: A 3,600-mile journey When complete, the Orion capsule will resemble a fencing foil, with a tall spire shooting up from a rounded base.
Sent 13: At the top will sit a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction.
Sent 14: The bottom portion, the service module, will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage.
Sent 15: Nestled between the two will be the crew module, capable of supporting human life from launch until recovery.
Sent 16: Attached to the service module will be a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket.
Sent 17: For the first time since the space shuttle's debut launch in 1981, the crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions.", "question": "Will any astronauts be aboard NASA's newest manned spaceship for its December flight?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The visit would put the President's life at risk and Pakistan had not done enough to merit the visit?", "The president could die", "Risked his life", "The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life", "It would risk the president's life and they felt that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tensions between Pakistan and India", "The envoys reported that Pakistan was unlikely to do anything", "Due to the dangerous of nuclear activity", "Direct pressure on Taliban had proved unsuccessful", "They would risk American service in Romania" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "What were two reasons the Secret Service, the CIA and counterterrorism officials advised President Clinton not to visit Pakistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The king of Gandhara", "Gandhara", "The king" ], "distractor groups": [ "Duryodhana", "Sakuni", "karna", "Duryodhana's mother", "Gandhari" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas .
Sent 2: Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occur in life .
Sent 3: The sons of Pandu and Dhritarashtra progeny break into an argument .
Sent 4: When Duryodhana insults the Pandavas as `` dependents '' , Bheema counters by saying that , the Kauravas are the progeny of a widow .
Sent 5: Duryodhana asks Veda Vyasa for an explanation .
Sent 6: He is then told that , since his mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father .
Sent 7: Duryodhana gains animosity towards the kingdom of Gandhara where the king , the father of his mother Gandhari , rules .
Sent 8: He attacks Gandhara and lays waste of the whole kingdom .
Sent 9: He them imprisons the royal family in his prison .
Sent 10: He gives them only one rice grain per prisoner .
Sent 11: The king of Gandhara then stops everyone from grabbing the little food that is provided .
Sent 12: He says that instead of everyone dying , they could keep at least one of their princes alive .
Sent 13: He chooses Sakuni to be alive .
Sent 14: Sakuni takes an oath that he will do everything he can to destroy the entire Kaurava clan .
Sent 15: He makes magic dice from his father's spinal cord .
Sent 16: The magic dice show exactly the number that he would want .
Sent 17: Duryodhana takes pity on the lone prisoner , Sakuni after the rest of the Gandhara royal family dies in prison out of starvation .
Sent 18: Sakuni joins the evil of coterie of Duryodhana , Karna and Dushyasana .", "question": "Who chooses Sakuni to be alive?" }, { "answer groups": [ "green color", "sharp odor", "has an odor", "it is a gas, greenish in color, has a strong sharp odor", "colored" ], "distractor groups": [ "odorless", "colorless" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Physical properties include the state of matter.
Sent 2: We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas.
Sent 3: Properties can also include color and odor.
Sent 4: For example, oxygen is a gas.
Sent 5: It is a major part of the air we breathe.
Sent 6: It is colorless and odorless.
Sent 7: Chlorine is also a gas.
Sent 8: In contrast to oxygen, chlorine is greenish in color.
Sent 9: It has a strong, sharp odor.
Sent 10: Have you ever smelled cleaning products used around your home?
Sent 11: If so, you have probably smelled chlorine.
Sent 12: Another place you might smell chlorine is at a public swimming pool.
Sent 13: The chlorine is used to kill bacteria that may grow in the water.
Sent 14: Other physical properties include hardness, freezing, and boiling points.
Sent 15: Some substances have the ability to dissolve in other substances.
Sent 16: Some substances cannot be dissolved.
Sent 17: For example, salt easily dissolves in water.
Sent 18: Oil does not dissolve in water.", "question": "What are the properties of Chlorine?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Become extinct", "They can adapt or die out", "Living creatures adapt", "Extinction", "They adapt or they become extinct", "Adapt" ], "distractor groups": [ "They can progress or be taken captive", "Living", "They die", "Eating", "They change" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earth processes have not changed over time.
Sent 2: The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past.
Sent 3: Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away.
Sent 4: The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago.
Sent 5: As the environment changes, living creatures adapt.
Sent 6: They change over time.
Sent 7: Some organisms may not be able to adapt.
Sent 8: They become extinct.
Sent 9: Becoming extinct means they die out completely.
Sent 10: Some geologists study the history of the Earth.
Sent 11: They want to learn about Earths past.
Sent 12: They use clues from rocks and fossils.
Sent 13: They use these clues to make sense of events.
Sent 14: The goal is to place things in the order they happened.
Sent 15: They also want to know how long it took for those events to happen.", "question": "What two things can happen to living organisms when the environment changes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hot", "Wet", "Being hot and wet" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mild Temperatures", "Snow", "Being dry and hot" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "What is the tropical zone known for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Legal assistance", "Representation in protection order hearings to legal assistance in divorce, visitation and child support cases" ], "distractor groups": [ "Food stamps", "Rental assistance", "Representation to defend themselves against domestic violence charges", "A tax deduction", "Financial assistance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Victims of domestic violence will have access to quality legal representation through a campaign undertaken by Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout and corporate leaders.
Sent 2: \"Thousands of times a year, Idahoans are victims of domestic violence.
Sent 3: The victims are often women and their children and they frequently have few resources with which to pursue their legal rights,\" Trout said Tuesday.
Sent 4: \"This campaign helps fill that gap in legal services for women who need the help at a time when they are in crisis.\"
Sent 5: The Idaho Partners for Justice Project has already secured pledges of more than 35,000 from law firms, attorneys, corporations and individuals.
Sent 6: The goal is 100,000.
Sent 7: The drive to pay for free legal services will continue for the next two months.
Sent 8: The money goes to Idaho Legal Aid Services and the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program.
Sent 9: Last year, more than 5,000 petitions were filed in Idaho for protection orders in domestic violence cases.
Sent 10: More than 12,000 victims contacted shelters or crisis hotlines.
Sent 11: Joining Trout in the announcement was Idaho Bar Association President Fred Hoopes of Idaho Falls and Ida-West Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Randy Hill, members of the project's executive committee.
Sent 12: Also on hand were some women who were victims of such violence, but benefited from free legal services.
Sent 13: Last year's campaign generated enough money and resources to help more than 450 victims.
Sent 14: The help ranged from representation in protection order hearings to legal assistance in divorce, visitation and child support cases.
Sent 15: The donations are tax deductible.", "question": "What kind of help did 450 victims receive last year?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Make life easier for people ,improve efficiency in the courts", "Legal jargon is avoided, low income people have access to the free service, better court efficiency", "It avoids legal jargon and are in a variety of languages" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is supported by legal aid", "People can spend no money, no lawyer neede" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday.
Sent 2: The Garden Grove woman answered a series of questions to create and print a form to file with the court.
Sent 3: \"It's easy,\" said Adams, 25.
Sent 4: \"I thought I'd have all kinds of questions and have to take the forms home.\"
Sent 5: A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers.
Sent 6: Not only does the system make life easier for people who can't afford a lawyer, but it also might improve efficiency in the courts because the forms, which are printed out when completed, are easy to read and are being filled out correctly, the study found.
Sent 7: Since the program started in 2000, more than 6,000 people have used the free system, located in public buildings throughout Orange County.
Sent 8: The system was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about 800,000 in grants.
Sent 9: The program avoids legal jargon, offers a courthouse video tour and sticks to a fifth-grade vocabulary.
Sent 10: Users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese.
Sent 11: Kiosks are in courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library.
Sent 12: The program is also available online.
Sent 13: Bob Cohen, executive director of Legal Aid, said the study should clear the way for expansion throughout California.
Sent 14: Locally, a program for divorce petitions will be added this summer.
Sent 15: Cohen said the system proves the benefit of technology tailored to those who aren't computer-savvy.
Sent 16: He said much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access.
Sent 17: Low-income people, however, have less access to computers and less experience using them.
Sent 18: \"Our clients have to catch up, and they have to become a part of the mainstream,\" Cohen said.", "question": "What are two benefits of the system?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bin Laden", "Usama Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Al Qaeda", "Zawahiri", "Ayman al Zawahiri", "Saddam Hussein", "Hazmi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a \"World Islamic Front.\"
Sent 2: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law.
Sent 3: Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the \"individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.\"
Sent 4: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Laden enlarged on these themes.
Sent 5: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.\"
Sent 6: It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,\" he said.
Sent 7: Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:\"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
Sent 8: Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.
Sent 9: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
Sent 10: As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.\"
Sent 11: Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames.
Sent 12: Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article \"al\" that would be part of their name in their own societies.
Sent 13: We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden.
Sent 14: Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.
Sent 15: We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.
Sent 16: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda.
Sent 17: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Sent 18: In August 1996, Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.", "question": "Who said \"It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities.\"A. Al QaedaB. ZawahiriC. Bin LadenD. Ayman al ZawahiriE. Saddam HusseinF. HazmiG. Usama Bin LadenPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Deposition", "Stagnant water" ], "distractor groups": [ "Loss energy", "disposition", "Moving water" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "What is the process called when water is no longer able to move?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Parents", "The narrator's parents'", "Kelly and Kelley", "Kelly and Kelley's" ], "distractor groups": [ "The narrator's", "Narrator", "My parents, Kelly and Kelley", "The narrator and Kelsey's", "Kelsey's", "Kelsey" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: My parents, Kelly and Kelley, said that it was that time of year to take a family vacation.
Sent 2: We've been to big ride parks that have hotels with large pools.
Sent 3: This year my parents wanted to do something different.
Sent 4: They wanted to take us all to Elk River Castle.
Sent 5: After lots of planning we hit the road for our trip.
Sent 6: My Brother Kelsey and I enjoyed the long car ride there.
Sent 7: Once we arrive, the castle looked much bigger than we had imagined.
Sent 8: There was so much to see and so much to do.
Sent 9: There was a swimming pool, movie theater and an elevator to take us from floor to floor.
Sent 10: What a magical place!
Sent 11: I was so excited because we had the whole place to our family!
Sent 12: We spent our vacation playing around the huge castle and finding small mysterious places.
Sent 13: There was even a tiny room in the back of one of the closets.
Sent 14: My brother, Kelsey, and I played hide and go seek for hours, watched movies and swam until the sun went down.
Sent 15: It was sad when our vacation finally came to an end but we made some amazing memories.
Sent 16: We'll never forget our trip to Elk River Castle!", "question": "Whose idea was it to go to Elk River Castle?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Outer core. The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel. Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here", "In its outer core" ], "distractor groups": [ "Inner core", "The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "Where do scientists think the Earth's magnetic field is generated?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Peking Man", "Homo Sapiens" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chinese", "Homo sapien", "Marco Polo" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "Who was the mastery of fire?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program", "Haven House Family Shelter", "Yes, The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program helps survivors located in Vicksburg" ], "distractor groups": [ "Program of Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities", "McDonald House" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "Are there any programs that can help a domestic violence survivor in Vicksburg?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Universal Studios", "Both noted for pacifism", "Einstein was introduced to Chaplain at Universal Studios after finding out that he was a pacifist as well" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was introduced to charlie chaplain at universal studios because they were both inclined to do more harm than good", "He was introduced to fred astare", "Hollywood", "Both interested in science" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After arriving in New York City, Einstein was taken to various places and events, including Chinatown, a lunch with the editors of the New York Times, and a performance of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, where he was cheered by the audience on his arrival.
Sent 2: During the days following, he was given the keys to the city by Mayor Jimmy Walker and met the president of Columbia University, who described Einstein as \"The ruling monarch of the mind.\"
Sent 3: Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor at New York's Riverside Church, gave Einstein a tour of the church and showed him a full-size statue that the church made of Einstein, standing at the entrance.
Sent 4: Also during his stay in New York, he joined a crowd of 15,000 people at Madison Square Garden during a Hanukkah celebration.
Sent 5: Einstein next traveled to California where he met Caltech president and Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan.
Sent 6: His friendship with Millikan was \"awkward\", as Millikan \"had a penchant for patriotic militarism,\" where Einstein was a pronounced pacifist.
Sent 7: During an address to Caltech's students, Einstein noted that science was often inclined to do more harm than good.
Sent 8: This aversion to war also led Einstein to befriend author Upton Sinclair and film star Charlie Chaplin, both noted for their pacifism.
Sent 9: Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Studios, gave Einstein a tour of his studio and introduced him to Chaplin.
Sent 10: They had an instant rapport, with Chaplin inviting Einstein and his wife, Elsa, to his home for dinner.
Sent 11: Chaplin said Einstein's outward persona, calm and gentle, seemed to conceal a \"highly emotional temperament,\" from which came his \"extraordinary intellectual energy.\"
Sent 12: Chaplin also remembers Elsa telling him about the time Einstein conceived his theory of relativity.
Sent 13: During breakfast one morning, he seemed lost in thought and ignored his food.
Sent 14: She asked him if something was bothering him.
Sent 15: He sat down at his piano and started playing.
Sent 16: He continued playing and writing notes for half an hour, then went upstairs to his study, where he remained for two weeks, with Elsa bringing up his food.
Sent 17: At the end of the two weeks he came downstairs with two sheets of paper bearing his theory.
Sent 18: Chaplin's film, City Lights, was to premier a few days later in Hollywood, and Chaplin invited Einstein and Elsa to join him as his special guests.", "question": "Where and Why was Einstein introduced to the famous actor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"Saving possible survivors\"", "Time has been wasted for saving passengers", "Locating survivors", "Successful rescue of survivors" ], "distractor groups": [ "Time has been wasted for discovering who was responsible for the missing flight", "The new information may have meant that survivors were not found", "Locating the flight plan", "Evaluating evidence", "The time for finding the terrorists involved has been wasted" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "What has the new information from Malaysia potentially wasted time for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap requests", "FISA wiretaps", "FISA wiretap requests", "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests", "Special wiretaps" ], "distractor groups": [ "NSC wiretaps", "Canadian wiretaps", "CIA wiretaps", "National Security Agency wiretaps" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the disruption of the plot in Amman, it had not escaped notice in Washington that Hijazi had lived in California and driven a cab in Boston and that Deek was a naturalized U.S. citizen who, as Berger reminded President Clinton, had been in touch with extremists in the United States as well as abroad.
Sent 2: Before Ressam's arrest, Berger saw no need to raise a public alarm at home- although the FBI put all field offices on alert.
Sent 3: Now, following Ressam's arrest, the FBI asked for an unprecedented number of special wiretaps.
Sent 4: Both Berger andTenet told us that their impression was that more Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretap requests were processed during the millennium alert than ever before.
Sent 5: The next day, writing about Ressam's arrest and links to a cell in Montreal, Berger informed the President that the FBI would advise police in the United States to step up activities but would still try to avoid undue public alarm by stressing that the government had no specific information about planned attacks.
Sent 6: At a December 22 meeting of the Small Group of principals, FBI Director Louis Freeh briefed officials from the NSC staff, CIA, and Justice on wiretaps and investigations inside the United States, including a Brooklyn entity tied to the Ressam arrest, a seemingly unreliable foreign report of possible attacks on seven U.S. cities, two Algerians detained on the Canadian border, and searches in Montreal related to a jihadist cell.
Sent 7: The Justice Department released a statement on the alert the same day.
Sent 8: Clarke's staff warned, \"Foreign terrorist sleeper cells are present in the US and attacks in the US are likely.\"
Sent 9: Clarke asked Berger to try to make sure that the domestic agencies remained alert.\"
Sent 10: Is there a threat to civilian aircraft?\"he wrote.
Sent 11: Clarke also asked the principals in late December to discuss a foreign security service report about a Bin Laden plan to put bombs on transatlantic flights.
Sent 12: The CSG met daily.
Sent 13: Berger said that the principals met constantly.
Sent 14: Later, when asked what made her decide to ask Ressam to step out of his vehicle, Diana Dean, a Customs inspector who referred Ressam to secondary inspection, testified that it was her \"training and experience.\"
Sent 15: It appears that the heightened sense of alert at the national level played no role in Ressam's detention.
Sent 16: There was a mounting sense of public alarm.
Sent 17: The earlier Jordanian arrests had been covered in the press, and Ressam's arrest was featured on network evening news broadcasts throughout the Christmas season.
Sent 18: The FBI was more communicative during the millennium crisis than it had ever been.", "question": "Following Ressam's arrest, which type of wiretap requests were being requested?" }, { "answer groups": [ "knowledge of the funding", "Funding, $5,000", "$5000", "The knowledge of the funding before this period was murky and each Hamberg cell member received $5,000" ], "distractor groups": [ "$10,000", "The amount of money spent is murky and each Hamberg cell member got $10,000", "When the operatives entered the United States" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As noted above, the 9/11 plotters spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 2: The available evidence indicates that the 19 operatives were funded by al Qaeda, either through wire transfers or cash provided by KSM, which they carried into the United States or deposited in foreign accounts and accessed from this country.
Sent 3: Our investigation has uncovered no credible evidence that any person in the United States gave the hijackers substantial financial assistance.
Sent 4: Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government-or foreign government official-supplied any funding.
Sent 5: We have found no evidence that the Hamburg cell members (Atta, Shehhi, Jarrah, and Binalshibh) received funds from al Qaeda before late 1999.
Sent 6: It appears they supported themselves.
Sent 7: KSM, Binalshibh, and another plot facilitator, Mustafa al Hawsawi, each received money, in some cases perhaps as much as 10,000, to perform their roles in the plot.
Sent 8: After the Hamburg recruits joined the 9/11 conspiracy, al Qaeda began giving them money.
Sent 9: Our knowledge of the funding during this period, before the operatives entered the United States, remains murky.
Sent 10: According to KSM, the Hamburg cell members each received 5,000 to pay for their return to Germany from Afghanistan after they had been selected to join the plot, and they received additional funds for travel from Germany to the United States.
Sent 11: Financial transactions of the plotters are discussed in more detail in chapter 7.
Sent 12: Requirements for a Successful Attack As some of the core operatives prepared to leave for the United States, al Qaeda's leaders could have reflected on what they needed to be able to do in order to organize and conduct a complex international terrorist operation to inflict catastrophic harm.
Sent 13: We believe such a list of requirements would have included leaders able to evaluate, approve, and supervise the planning and direction of the operation; communications sufficient to enable planning and direction of the operatives and those who would be helping them; a personnel system that could recruit candidates, vet them, indoctrinate them, and give them necessary training; an intelligence effort to gather required information and form assessments of enemy strengths and weaknesses; the ability to move people; and the ability to raise and move the necessary money.
Sent 14: The information we have presented about the development of the planes operation shows how, by the spring and summer of 2000, al Qaeda was able to meet these requirements.
Sent 15: By late May 2000, two operatives assigned to the planes operation were already in the United States.
Sent 16: Three of the four Hamburg cell members would soon arrive.", "question": "What remains murky about the knowledge we knew during this period and how much money did each Hamberg cell member receive?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was attacked by a pig masked figure and awakens with his head sealed in a box slowly filling with water but he survives by performing a tracheotomy using a pen", "He is attacked by a pig-masked figure" ], "distractor groups": [ "He gets killed", "He wakes up" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Convicted murderer Seth Baxter awakens chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade .
Sent 2: A videotape informs him that crushing his hands between the presses will release him ; he does so , but the blade still swings down and violently cuts him in half , while someone watches through a hole in the wall .
Sent 3: The scene cuts to Agent Peter Strahm , who kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense and is sealed in the sickroom .
Sent 4: He finds a hidden passage with a tape recorder that warns him to stay in the sickroom , but ignores it .
Sent 5: He is attacked by a pig-masked figure in the passage and awakens with his head sealed in a box slowly filling with water , Which he survives by performing a tracheotomy using a pen .
Sent 6: Outside the plant , Detective Mark Hoffman delivers Corbett Denlon to the police and claims they are the only survivors , and is shocked when Strahm is brought out alive as well .
Sent 7: Jill Tuck is met by John Kramer's attorney , who is administering his will .
Sent 8: She is left a box and a videotape , in Which John stresses the importance of the box's contents .
Sent 9: She opens it with a key hung around her neck and then leaves without disclosing its contents .
Sent 10: In a memorial service held for David Tapp , Steven Sing , Allison Kerry , Eric Matthews , and Daniel Rigg , the five officers killed in action , Hoffman is promoted to detective lieutenant .
Sent 11: He is informed of the death of Agent Lindsey Perez while taking Strahm's phone and goes to the hospital to meet Strahm , who says that Hoffman's name was Perez's last words .", "question": "What happened to Peter Strahm who was confined in a sick room after he ignored the warning in the tape recorder?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pedro IV took advantage of a weakened Portugal to become Emperor of Brazil", "Portugal was weak", "Because the war left Portugal further weakened, 1822" ], "distractor groups": [ "Portugal was bankrupt", "The French helped them", "It won war, 1820" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Among the early blows struck for independence was a rebellion in the town of Olh\u00e3o.
Sent 2: On 16 June 1808, the townsfolk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0armed with little more than ancient swords, spears, and stones\u00a0\u2014\u00a0attacked and captured the local French garrison.
Sent 3: It's said that a party of local men then set sail from Olh\u00e3o all the way to Brazil, without maps or navigational aids, to tell the king of the insurrection.
Sent 4: The real battle, however, was waged under the leadership of the Duke of Wellington, whose coalition forces expelled the French after two years of bitter fighting.
Sent 5: The war left Portugal further weakened, and in 1822 its major empire outpost, Brazil, declared independence.
Sent 6: At the same time, a dispute over the crown continually raged between Pedro IV, the absentee monarch who preferred to reign as Emperor of Brazil rather than return to Portugal, and his brother Miguel.
Sent 7: The power struggle, with strong overtones of absolutism versus liberalism, excited the interest and intervention of other powers.
Sent 8: With British help, Pedro defeated Miguel off Cape St. Vincent in 1833, and his expeditionary force marched to Lisbon.
Sent 9: Pedro took the throne, though armed struggle continued for months and the lingering bitterness long after that.
Sent 10: By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.
Sent 11: The seeds of discontent with absolutist rule were sown.
Sent 12: Kingdom's End Bloodshed would haunt the remaining years of the Portuguese monarchy.
Sent 13: On 1 February 1908, the royal family was riding in an open carriage along the Lisbon river front plaza, Terreiro do Pa\u00e7o, when an assassin opened fire and killed King Carlos and the heir to the throne, Prince Luis Filipe.
Sent 14: The prince's younger brother, Prince Manuel, was also hit, but he survived and was thus propelled to the throne at the tender age of 19.
Sent 15: Amid republican agitation, a surprise uprising led by elements within the armed forces deposed Manuel in 1910.
Sent 16: Having ruled for less than three years, Manuel died in exile in 1932 in England.
Sent 17: The sudden end of more than seven centuries of monarchy brought confusion and crisis to the country.
Sent 18: Presidents and prime ministers were ushered into and out of office an unbelievable 45 times between 1910 and 1926, until a military revolution suspended Portugal's problematic democracy.", "question": "Why did Brazil declare independence when it did?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He felt they should not be slaves", "Hamilton believed black people had faculties equal to white people and saw the struggle of black people as inseparable from the Revolution" ], "distractor groups": [ "He felt they should continue to be slaves" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "How did Hamilton feel about black people?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1", "Only One", "One direction" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bi-Directional", "Two directions", "2", "Two" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside.
Sent 2: Do you know what is on top of those poles?
Sent 3: Thats right, wires that carry electric current.
Sent 4: These wires carry electric current to your home.
Sent 5: But what is electric current?
Sent 6: Electric current is actually the flow of electrons.
Sent 7: You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom.
Sent 8: They have a negative charge.
Sent 9: Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles.
Sent 10: Electrons are able to move through wires.
Sent 11: Their speed can even be measured.
Sent 12: The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A).
Sent 13: Ampere is often shortened to amp.
Sent 14: Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction.
Sent 15: Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction.
Sent 16: Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights.
Sent 17: Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions.
Sent 18: This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires.", "question": "How many directions does a current flow in a flashlight?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cartridge filled with nicotene", "Battery operated,flavoured spices", "50 illegal shipments have been stopped since 2008", "They are battery operated, have nicotine and are flavored", "The FDA has detected carcinogens in e-cigarettes", "Battery Operated" ], "distractor groups": [ "There has been an additional 50 cargo ships with illegal e-cigarettes arriving on our shores since 2008", "Cosmetic and food", "Electrical", "The FDA has cleared all e-cigaretted from containing any carcinogens in the vapor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that laboratory tests on popular smoking devices known as electronic cigarettes have found they contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.
Sent 2: E-cigarettes are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals.
Sent 3: Known as \"e-cigarettes,\" the devices are battery-operated and contain cartridges filled with nicotine and other chemicals, spiced with flavors such as chocolate, cola or bubble gum.
Sent 4: While manufacturers tout e-cigarettes as a \"healthy way\" to smoke, federal health officials say the devices turn nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user.
Sent 5: \"The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,\" said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.
Sent 6: CNN contacted Florida-based Smoking Everywhere, one of the largest manufacturers of e-cigarettes, after the FDA announcement, and a spokeswoman said the company had no comment.
Sent 7: Because e-cigarettes have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, the agency had no way of knowing the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user.
Sent 8: That is why the FDA began to test them.
Sent 9: The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of e-cigarettes.
Sent 10: In releasing its information, the FDA did not identify the two companies, but said in one sample, diethylene glycol -- a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans -- was detected.
Sent 11: Other samples detected carcinogens that are dangerous to those who smoke them, the FDA said.
Sent 12: The FDA has been examining and seizing shipments of non-U.S.-made e-cigarettes at the U.S. border since summer 2008.
Sent 13: To date, 50 shipments have been stopped.
Sent 14: The products examined thus far meet the definition of a combination drug-device product under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Sent 15: \"We know very little about these devices, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, director of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Southern California, \"but to say they are healthy -- that's highly doubtful.\"", "question": "Describe some characteristics of e-cigarettes.A. Cartridge filled with nicoteneB. Battery operated,flavoured spicesC. 50 illegal shipments have been stopped since 2008D. They are battery operated, have nicotine and are flavoredE. There has been an additional 50 cargo ships with illegal e-cigarettes arriving on our shores since 2008F. Cosmetic and foodG. ElectricalH. The FDA has cleared all e-cigaretted from containing any carcinogens in the vaporI. The FDA has detected carcinogens in e-cigarettesJ. Battery OperatedPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Typical right-wing reaction", "The right wing" ], "distractor groups": [ "The left wing", "NRA wing", "Conservative wing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Animated history of the US.
Sent 2: Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified, and most critics consider it one of the weakest parts of the film.
Sent 3: But it makes a valid claim which you ignore entirely: That the strategy to promote \"gun rights\" for white people and to outlaw gun possession by black people was a way to uphold racism without letting an openly terrorist organization like the KKK flourish.
Sent 4: Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
Sent 5: I highly doubt it.
Sent 6: But if they didn't, one of their functions was to continue the racism of the KKK.
Sent 7: This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics.
Sent 8: Buell shooting in Flint.
Sent 9: You write: \"Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before\".
Sent 10: This characterization of a six-year-old as a pencil-stabbing thug is exactly the kind of hysteria that Moore's film warns against.
Sent 11: It is the typical right-wing reaction which looks for simple answers that do not contradict the Republican mindset.
Sent 12: The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed.
Sent 13: But why do people deal with drugs?
Sent 14: Because it's so much fun to do so?
Sent 15: It is by now well documented that the CIA tolerated crack sales in US cities to fund the operation of South American \"contras\" It is equally well known that the so-called \"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administration is a failure which has cost hundreds of billions and made America the world leader in prison population (both in relative and absolute numbers).", "question": "The hysteria that Moore's film warns about is fueled by which wing's ignorance?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Meeting with senior advisors", "Arranging a return to Washington", "The staff was arranging a return to Washington while the president consulted with his senior advisors but were unaware at the time that two other aircraft were also missing or hijacked", "Another plane had been hijacked" ], "distractor groups": [ "Who was the hijackers", "That there were more plans hijacked", "Scheduling his next golf game", "The Pentagon had been hit" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "What was the president and his staff doing between 9:15 and 9:30 and what crucial piece of information were they unaware of at that time?" }, { "answer groups": [ "True", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "False" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "Are you overcoming gravity when you climb a set of stairs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There was no appropriate technology", "Gilbert could not prove his theory because seismograph technology required see the Earth's interior was not yet developed", "Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing. Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult. To find out why required new technology" ], "distractor groups": [ "Humanity was not ready to accept his explanation", "Seismograph are used to study earthquakes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "Why was William Gilbert unable to explain prove theory that the Earth acts like a magnet in 1600?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Between 1960-1970", "After the 50's", "America", "1960's", "United States of America", "Second decade for the country had was ruined", "1970", "US", "1960s" ], "distractor groups": [ "Britain", "More than two decades after the country was ruined", "1980", "After the 60's", "England", "British", "1970s", "Japan", "Finance Ministry", "2000", "Soviet Union", "Before the Korean war" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Peace and Prosperity: After years of government propaganda predicting the worst atrocities, most Japanese civilians were surprised at the warmth and friendliness of the occupying forces.
Sent 2: The postwar period began, however, with millions of displaced people homeless and starving.
Sent 3: To counter a perceived communist threat from the Soviet Union, the US quickly set to work reconstructing the economy by transforming Japan's institutions and devising a new pacifist constitution.
Sent 4: Article 9 renounced Japan's right to maintain armed forces, although the ambiguous wording was later taken to permit the creati on of a \"self-defense\" force.
Sent 5: The zaibatsu conglomerates that had proved so instrumental in boosting Japan's militarism were disbanded, later to re-emerge as the keiretsu trading conglomerates that dominated the economy once again.
Sent 6: The entire economy received a massive jump-start with the outbreak of the Korean War, with Japan ironically becoming the chief local supplier for an army it had battled so furiously just a few years earlier.
Sent 7: The occupation lasted until 1952, having already planted the seeds for Japan's future stunning economic success.
Sent 8: Economic output was back to prewar levels, and British auto companies provided the support needed to get Japan's auto industry back on its feet.
Sent 9: Japanese companies then enthusiastically imported any Western technologies they could get their hands on.
Sent 10: This included transistor technology\u2002\u2014\u2002invented in the US but then considered to have only limited applications\u2002\u2014\u2002for the surreal sum of 25,000.
Sent 11: It was Japan that produced the world's first transistor radio.
Sent 12: The electronic technology spurt that followed is now legendary.
Sent 13: Parliamentary democracy finally came into its own, albeit with distinctly Japanese characteristics reflecting the dislike of debate and confrontation and the group-oriented preference for maintaining the appearance of harmony at all times.
Sent 14: The government, through the powerful Finance Ministry and Ministry of International Trade and Industry, generously supported favored private corporations: first shipping, then cars, then electronics firms basked in the warmth of the government's loving attentions.
Sent 15: Japan overtook Britain economically in 1964.
Sent 16: By the end of the decade, Japan's was the third largest economy in the world\u2002\u2014\u2002less then two decades after the war had left the country in ruins.
Sent 17: Prosperity was not without its own problems: pollution caused by \"dirty\" industries, a high incidence of stomach ulcers (even suicides) among schoolchildren pressured by over-ambitious parents, and the awkward questions of what to do about nuclear energy.
Sent 18: The famous coziness among politicians, bureaucrats, and private companies, together with the strong cultural emphasis on relationship-building and a lack of transparency and accountability, eventually led to corrupt practices of endemic proportions.", "question": "Japan was the third largest economy by the end of which decade?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Visit to United States", "Traveling to England and Ireland" ], "distractor groups": [ "Visit to England" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels edited by Oliver Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (University of Virginia Press; 2011) 698 pages; Includes previously unpublished letters, essays, and other writings Du systeme penitentaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France (1833) - On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France, with Gustave de Beaumont.
Sent 2: De la democratie en Amerique (1835/1840) - Democracy in America.
Sent 3: It was published in two volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840.
Sent 4: English language versions: Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans.
Sent 5: and eds., Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, University of Chicago Press, 2000; Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Arthur Goldhammer, trans.; Olivier Zunz, ed.) (The Library of America, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9.
Sent 6: L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution (1856) - The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 7: It is Tocqueville's second most famous work.
Sent 8: Recollections (1893) - This work was a private journal of the Revolution of 1848.
Sent 9: He never intended to publish this during his lifetime; it was published by his wife and his friend Gustave de Beaumont after his death.
Sent 10: Journey to America (1831-1832) - Alexis de Tocqueville's travel diary of his visit to America; translated into English by George Lawrence, edited by J-P Mayer, Yale University Press, 1960; based on vol.
Sent 11: V, 1 of the OEuvres Completes of Tocqueville.
Sent 12: L'Etat social et politique de la France avant et depuis 1789 - Alexis de Tocqueville Memoir On Pauperism: Does public charity produce an idle and dependant class of society?
Sent 13: (1835) originally published by Ivan R. Dee.
Sent 14: Inspired by a trip to England.
Sent 15: One of Tocqueville's more obscure works.
Sent 16: Journeys to England and Ireland 1835", "question": "What expeditions inspired the creation of this novel?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He steals his identity", "Because it turns out that Frank and Jack had switched identities, so it was really Frank who had died" ], "distractor groups": [ "Frank dies" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "When Jack dies, why does Frank's relative never see Frank again?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Leon and Wong", "Phiilips & Wong" ], "distractor groups": [ "Morrison and Wong", "Wong and Zeller", "Leon and Morrison", "Morrison & Foerster" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"The impact of her interest and work on the provision of legal services in the state of California is immeasurable,\" said Patricia Philips, senior of-counsel for Los Angeles' Morrison & Foerster.
Sent 2: \"Its value is felt every day by someone who would otherwise be floundering around in the legal system yet dealing with very serious problems.\"
Sent 3: Zelon's public-interest work has not gone unnoticed.
Sent 4: Several organizations that share her commitment to public service - including the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the State Bar of California - have honored her.
Sent 5: Two years ago, Zelon received the Laurie D. Zelon Pro Bono Award, which had been named for her one year earlier by the Law Firm Pro Bono Project, which she'd helped found.
Sent 6: \"I didn't find out until I was standing in the great hall of the Supreme Court, surrounded by 300 people who were there, that the award had been named for me and was thereafter going to be given in my name.
Sent 7: It's very hard to believe, for anyone who knows me well, but I was actually speechless for a period,\" Zelon said.
Sent 8: Zelon faced one of the greatest challenges of her legal career, she said, when her appointment to the bench forced her to switch gears from civil litigation to criminal law.
Sent 9: \"It was a steep learning curve for me,\" she said.
Sent 10: \"It's a whole different set of processes.
Sent 11: The rules are different.
Sent 12: The case law is a whole body unto itself.\"
Sent 13: Attorneys praise Zelon for her thorough understanding of the law.
Sent 14: \"She's extremely well-versed in the law,\" Leon said.
Sent 15: \"She's very thorough in her research,\" Wong said.
Sent 16: Of course, not all attorneys concur with every decision Zelon makes in court.
Sent 17: Some city attorneys disagree with her interpretation of evidentiary statutes when Zelon puts limits on their use of hearsay testimony.
Sent 18: But lawyers who have appeared before her say that they appreciate her intelligent interpretation of the law.", "question": "Name two attorneys who praised Zelon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "North America", "One part in with North America, the other part stayed with Europe", "Apart", "North america and europe" ], "distractor groups": [ "Europe", "Together", "Atlantic ocean", "Africa" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you ever looked closely at a globe?
Sent 2: That continents look like a giant jig-saw puzzle.
Sent 3: North America looks like it could fit next to Europe.
Sent 4: The edge of South America matches Africa.
Sent 5: Scientists noticed these same features.
Sent 6: It caused them to start asking questions.
Sent 7: They wanted to know if these continents were was connected?
Sent 8: If so, how can something so large move so far?
Sent 9: What could possibly have enough force to move such a giant slab of rock?
Sent 10: Is there other evidence that can provide clues to the past positions of continents?
Sent 11: How can answering these questions help us?
Sent 12: A scientist named Alfred Wegener had these same questions.
Sent 13: Wegener look at rocks on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sent 14: He noticed they were the same type and age.
Sent 15: He thought that the rocks must have formed side by side.
Sent 16: He proposed that the rocks then drifted apart.
Sent 17: One part went with North America.
Sent 18: The other part stayed with Europe.", "question": "He proposed that the rocks formed side by side and then drifted where?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cows", "Ducks", "Chickens", "Horses" ], "distractor groups": [ "Farmers", "Donkeys", "Tractor", "Parents", "Bulls", "The father" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Joe's parents are farmers and they have a huge farm with cows, chickens, and ducks.
Sent 2: Joe loves the farm and all the things he gets to play around and play on.
Sent 3: One day, Joe's father told him not to get near a tractor that was sitting in the field.
Sent 4: His father was worried that Joe would climb on it and hurt himself.
Sent 5: Joe went out to the field and was feeding the horses and cows.
Sent 6: When he was done, he saw the tractor his father told him not to get near.
Sent 7: He knew that climbing on the tractor wouldn't hurt anything, so he did.
Sent 8: He climbed on to the seat and sat there.
Sent 9: Then, he pretended he was his father and pretended that he was driving the tractor.
Sent 10: Joe's father saw him playing on the tractor and called for him.
Sent 11: Joe heard his father calling for him and got off the tractor really fast.
Sent 12: When he did that, he fell off and hurt his arm.
Sent 13: Joe was in pain and his father came running to check on him and picked him up and sat him on a bench and asked him why he did that.
Sent 14: Joe looked at his father and said, \"I wanted to be like you.\"
Sent 15: Joe's father gave him a hug and asked him if he wanted to ride with him on the tractor.
Sent 16: Joe did and after he got a bandage on his arm, he and his father rode in the field on the tractor.", "question": "Which animals were present on the farm?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, because he ends up on a train", "No, Porky tricked him causing him to walk out of the window", "Restless", "No. Daffy has one last trick up his sleeve that actually sends Porky on a train ride", "No sleep" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, because Daffy was snoring too loud", "Blissfull sleep", "Rested", "Yes, he slept through the night after throwing Daffy out the window" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "After all the antics, does Porky finally get to sleep the night through?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Reluctance to impede internet businesses", "The move reflects governments' reluctance to impede internet businesses that might spur economic growth", "Reluctance to impede business and economic growth" ], "distractor groups": [ "Desire to reduce business growth", "They don't believe the situation posses a problem", "Lack of input from technology companies", "Power of lobbying from companies like Face Book and Google", "Radical overhaul", "They believe it involves too many countries", "Dayata privacy", "They are unsure how to enforce restrictions" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (Financial Times) -- The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study.
Sent 2: Such programmes can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users' sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by Cambridge university academics.
Sent 3: In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the university's psychometrics team and a Microsoft-funded research centre analysed data from 58,000 Facebook users to predict traits and other information that were not provided in their profiles.
Sent 4: The algorithms were 88 per cent accurate in predicting male sexual orientation, 95 per cent for race and 80 per cent for religion and political leanings.
Sent 5: Personality types and emotional stability were also predicted with accuracy ranging from 62-75 per cent.
Sent 6: Facebook declined to comment.
Sent 7: The study highlights growing concerns about social networks and how data trails can be mined for sensitive information, even when people attempt to keep information about themselves private.
Sent 8: Less than 5 per cent of users predicted to be gay, for example, were connected with explicitly gay groups.
Sent 9: Michal Kosinksi, one of the report's authors, told the Financial Times that the university's techniques could easily be replicated by companies to infer personal attributes a person did not wish to share, such as sexual orientation or political views: \"We used very simple and generic methods.
Sent 10: Marketing companies and internet companies could spend much more time and resources, and hence get much higher accuracy than we did.\"
Sent 11: Last week , the EU agreed to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation.
Sent 12: The move reflects governments' reluctance to impede internet businesses that might spur economic growth, and follows fierce lobbying from technology companies including Facebook and Google.
Sent 13: Personal data has become big business.
Sent 14: Wonga, the UK online lender, makes credit judgments within seconds based on thousands of pieces of information, including an applicant's Facebook profile.
Sent 15: Tesco, the supermarket chain, this month started to use its customers' shopping histories to sell targeted online advertising.
Sent 16: The report also revealed some unexpected correlations -- such as people who liked 'curly fries' having higher IQs, while those who like Facebook's \"Sliding on Floors With Your Socks On\" page were unlikely to use drugs.", "question": "What does the EU's agreement to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation signify?" }, { "answer groups": [ "President Clinton", "Bill Clinton" ], "distractor groups": [ "Barack Obama", "George Bush", "George W. Bush" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Who was the first president to visit Pakistan since 1969?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It will run out because its nonrenewable", "It will run out because there is a limited amount", "Oil will not last forever since there is a limited supply" ], "distractor groups": [ "It will run out because it is renewable", "It will last forever" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine a glass of your favorite drink that never became empty.
Sent 2: Now think about what really happens.
Sent 3: You take a drink and there is less in the glass.
Sent 4: You keep drinking and soon it is all gone.
Sent 5: Good thing you have more to refill your glass.
Sent 6: What if there would never be any more of your favorite drink.
Sent 7: What would you do?
Sent 8: Now you know the difference between renewable and non-renewable.
Sent 9: Its too bad that many things here on Earth will run out.
Sent 10: This includes some of our natural resources we depend on.
Sent 11: Things like oil will not last forever.
Sent 12: There is a limited supply.
Sent 13: Someday, we will run out, so then what?
Sent 14: At current rates of use, coal will last about 300 years.
Sent 15: Petroleum will be used up in just a few decades.", "question": "What will happen to oil and why?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Japanese and Chinese", "Quintessential novels" ], "distractor groups": [ "Folk tales", "Chinese Stories", "Stories about the persona of Madame White Snake", "Poems", "Historical fiction", "Stories about Song Dynasty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "What type of stories are \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dermis", "The dermis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Epidermis" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The dermis is the inner layer of skin.
Sent 2: The dermis has blood vessels and nerve endings.
Sent 3: The nerve endings explain why your skin is sensitive.
Sent 4: You can sense pain, pressure, and temperature.
Sent 5: You cut your finger and it starts to bleed.
Sent 6: What has happened?
Sent 7: If your skin bleeds, it means you have cut the dermis layer and damaged blood vessels.
Sent 8: The cut really hurts.
Sent 9: It hurts because of the nerve endings in this skin layer.
Sent 10: The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands.
Sent 11: Hair follicles are structures where hairs originate.
Sent 12: Each hair grows out of a follicle.
Sent 13: Hair passes up through the epidermis.
Sent 14: It then extends above the skin surface.
Sent 15: Oil glands produce an oily substance.
Sent 16: The oil is secreted into hair follicles.", "question": "The inner layer of skin which has blood vessels and nerve endings is called?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Malays of Johor", "Modern Federal Malaysia", "The Minangkabau", "Malaysia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Johor", "The Dutch", "Portugal", "Dutch", "Chinese", "Portuguese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Dutch Take Over: Intent on capturing a piece of the Portuguese trade in pepper and other spices, the Java-based Dutch Ailied with the Malays in 1633 to blockade Melaka.
Sent 2: The trade blockade was to last eight years, and ended in a seven-month siege.
Sent 3: The Portuguese surrendered in 1641, wracked by malaria and dysentery and denied their usual reinforcements from Goa.
Sent 4: By then, the city had become a stagnant backwater.
Sent 5: Unlike the Portuguese, the Dutch decided to do business with the Malays of Johor, who controlled the southern half of the peninsula together with Singapore and the neighboring Riau islands.
Sent 6: A trade treaty gave the Dutch command of the spice trade but reserved Johor's rights in tin exports from Perak, Selangor, and Klang.
Sent 7: Without ever retrieving the supremacy of the old Melaka sultanate, Johor had become the strongest Asian power in the region.
Sent 8: For the Dutch, Johor provided a buffer against other Europeans.
Sent 9: Meanwhile, fresh blood came in with the migration into the southern interior of hardy Minangkabau farmers from Sumatra, while tough Bugis warriors from the east Indonesian Celebes (Sulawesi) roved the length and breadth of the peninsula.
Sent 10: The Minangkabau custom of freely electing their leaders provided the model for rulership elections in modern federal Malaysia.
Sent 11: Their confederation of States became today's Negeri Sembilan (\"Nine States\"), with Seremban as its capital.
Sent 12: The name Minangkabau itself means roughly \"buffalo horns\" and is reflected in the distinctive upward curving roof in museums and government offices built in the traditional Minangkabau style.
Sent 13: The Bugis were energetic merchants and great sailors.
Sent 14: With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.
Sent 15: The Bugis in Johor's administration provided much of the spirit in that State's independent stand in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sent 16: Throughout this period, the east coast states enjoyed a relatively tranquil prosperity, Terengganu notably thriving from its textile industry and trading in pepper and gold with the Thais, Cambodians, and Chinese.
Sent 17: The British, under the private auspices of the East India Company (EIC), were beginning to poke their noses into North Borneo.", "question": "Who's confederation of States became today's Negeri Sembilan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Marco Polo said the Chinese used coal to make fire", "Black", "Marco Polo was amazed they used black rocks for fuel" ], "distractor groups": [ "Peking man said the chinese used coal to make fire", "Cobalt blue rocks" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "This famous explorer , after reaching China's capital city reported that the Chinese used what color rocks to make fire?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Very rich soil", "Sediment deposits", "Because the the sediment rich in minerals" ], "distractor groups": [ "Raised strips", "Natural levees", "Sandy desert", "Because of the grassy areas left over", "Water in the soil" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "What makes the floodplains good for growing plants?" }, { "answer groups": [ "General Arnold", "Larry Arnold" ], "distractor groups": [ "General Marr", "Larry Marr", "Robert Mulligan", "Robert Marr", "Colonel Marr", "Larry Sanders" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Military Notification and Response.
Sent 2: Boston Center did not follow the protocol in seeking military assistance through the prescribed chain of command.
Sent 3: In addition to notifications within the FAA, Boston Center took the initiative, at 8:34, to contact the military through the FAA's Cape Cod facility.
Sent 4: The center also tried to contact a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out.
Sent 5: At 8:37:52, Boston Center reached NEADS.
Sent 6: This was the first notification received by the military-at any level-that American 11 had been hijacked: FAA: Hi.
Sent 7: Boston Center TMU [Traffic Management Unit], we have a problem here.
Sent 8: We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out.
Sent 9: NEADS: Is this real-world or exercise?
Sent 10: FAA: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.
Sent 11: NEADS ordered to battle stations the two F-15 alert aircraft at Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, 153 miles away from New York City.
Sent 12: The air defense of America began with this call.
Sent 13: At NEADS, the report of the hijacking was relayed immediately to Battle Commander Colonel Robert Marr.
Sent 14: After ordering the Otis fighters to battle stations, Colonel Marr phoned Major General Larry Arnold, commanding general of the First Air Force and NORAD's Continental Region.
Sent 15: Marr sought authorization to scramble the Otis fighters.
Sent 16: General Arnold later recalled instructing Marr to \"go ahead and scramble them, and we'll get authorities later.\"
Sent 17: General Arnold then called NORAD headquarters to report.
Sent 18: F-15 fighters were scrambled at 8:46 from Otis Air Force Base.", "question": "What is the name of the general involved in the report?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He may have learned about it from a Castilian source", "Genovese Map depictions", "He may have learned of its existence from a Castillian source", "Castilian Source" ], "distractor groups": [ "Henry The Navigator", "He may have learned about it from Plato", "Trist\u00c3\u00a3o Vaz Teixeira" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Befitting a lush, tropical island stranded in the middle of the ocean, Madeira's origins are shrouded in mystery and fanciful legend.
Sent 2: Some claim that the archipelago is what remains of Plato's lost Atlantis, or part of a landmass that once fused the continents of Europe and America.
Sent 3: The Portuguese Step Ashore: Recorded history of the volcanic archipelago begins in relatively recent times: 1418, just as the golden age of Portuguese discovery was erupting.
Sent 4: Under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, caravels set out from the westernmost point of the Algarve, in southern Portugal, in search of foreign lands, fame, and wealth.
Sent 5: Jo\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe.
Sent 6: Zarco happened upon a small volcanic archipelago 1,000 km from Lisbon.
Sent 7: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.
Sent 8: After all, the waters of the Canary Islands, only 445 km (275 miles) to the south, had occupied busy shipping lanes for very nearly a century, and Genovese maps from the mid-14th century depict both Madeira and Porto Santo.
Sent 9: More likely, Zarco was heading for Guinea and storms forced him onto the beach of Porto Santo.
Sent 10: If so, then he was extremely fortunate, for he managed to land on the only large, sandy beach for hundreds of miles around.
Sent 11: Little wonder he subsequently named it Porto Santo (Holy Port).
Sent 12: The following year Zarco returned to claim the larger island he had seen from Porto Santo, and with him went Trist\u00e3o Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo.
Sent 13: They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, \"Island of Timber.
Sent 14: \" The Portuguese Crown, delighted with its first important discovery, immediately embarked on a program of colonization.
Sent 15: Zarco and Teixeira were appointed co-go\u00advern\u00adors of Madeira, while Perestrelo was awarded Porto Santo.", "question": "How might Zarco have known of the location of the volcanic archipelago before he landed on it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The rabbitt", "Devadas", "A rabbit and he takes her to the train station because she is expecting friends for her upcoming wedding", "Devadas and train station" ], "distractor groups": [ "Trash", "The rabbit and Mumbai", "The watch and the train station", "Love letter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The protagonist Preetam ( ( ( Ganesh , on a visit to Eva Mall amidst a heavy wind , spots a pretty girl , Nandini .
Sent 2: While staring at her , he inadvertently falls into a manhole .
Sent 3: Nandini rescues him from the pit , but in the process loses her heart-shaped watch she had just bought .
Sent 4: While accompanying his mother to Madikeri , Preetam confronts a man named Jaanu .
Sent 5: Jaanu , who has been following Nandini , beats up Preetam thinking that he is in love with Nandini .
Sent 6: Preetam , unaware that Jaanu has vowed not to allow any one near Nandini , trashes Jaanu and his gang in return .
Sent 7: In Madikeri , Preetam meets Nandini unexpectedly .
Sent 8: He identifies himself and expresses his love towards her and offers to tie the watch as an indication for their marriage .
Sent 9: Nandini , who is already engaged rejects his request .
Sent 10: Still , Preetam vows to marry Nandini if she meets him again .
Sent 11: In the meantime , Preetam discovers that his host in Madikeri , Col. Subbayya is Nandini's father , who is pretty much deaf , and Nandini's marriage is a just a week away .
Sent 12: Dejected , Preetam throws Nandini's heart-shaped watch away .
Sent 13: But Nandini calls him over the phone and taunts him to return .
Sent 14: Delighted , Preetam goes in search of her watch and brings it back .
Sent 15: While searching it , he spots a rabbit , Which he calls Devadas , and brings it along with him .
Sent 16: Since Nandini's friends are due to arrive from Mumbai for the marriage , Preetam takes Nandini to the railway station .
Sent 17: The train from Mumbai is delayed by five hours , so Nandini and Preetam decide to visit a nearby hill-temple .", "question": "While he searches for her watch what does Preetam come across and where does he take Nandini afterward?" }, { "answer groups": [ "George Bush", "The President" ], "distractor groups": [ "Andrew Card", "Dick Cheney", "NORAD" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "Who made a brief statement before going to the airportA. Andrew CardB. George BushC. The PresidentD. Dick CheneyE. NORADPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Magnetic force", "The maglev train", "Gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Contact force", "Wind force", "Physical force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "What are a few examples of non-contact force?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Survival", "Reproduction", "By mating" ], "distractor groups": [ "Natural selection", "Mutations", "Night sex" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "What is necessary to create the chance to pass traits on to potential offspring?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They have irritated China", "China has been very irritated by contradictory statements", "\"China\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Vietnam has been very irritated", "Statements have irritated Indonesia", "Burma", "El Salvador" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "Contradictory statements by the government of Malaysia have irritated what country involved with the investigation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Partially", "A total eclipse is less common than partial so it is more common for the moon to travel partially in Earth's umbra" ], "distractor groups": [ "Completely", "Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes a full Moon moves through Earths shadow.
Sent 2: This is a lunar eclipse .
Sent 3: During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon travels completely in Earths umbra.
Sent 4: During a partial lunar eclipse, only a portion of the Moon enters Earths umbra.
Sent 5: When the Moon passes through Earths penumbra, it is a penumbral eclipse.
Sent 6: Since Earths shadow is large, a lunar eclipse lasts for hours.
Sent 7: Anyone with a view of the Moon can see a lunar eclipse.
Sent 8: So unlike a solar eclipse, it doesnt get dark on Earth.
Sent 9: Instead it gets dark on the Moon.
Sent 10: Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
Sent 11: The Moon glows with a dull red coloring during a total lunar eclipse.", "question": "Is it more common for the Moon to travel completely in the Earth's umbra or only partially?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That the crash must have been caused by a pilot error", "It must have been caused by pilot error", "Vice President Cheney and White House staffers went about business as usual, attending scheduled meetings. Because there was no news forthcoming from government agencies, the White House monitored news broadcasts for further reports" ], "distractor groups": [ "National Mobility Control Center", "Thinking it must have been pilot error", "\"it must have been a hijacking\"", "Scramble jets to patrol the airspace", "The world trade center", "Inform the FAA administrator Jane Garvey", "That the crash was terrorism", "National Militia Command Center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "What was the White House response to the initial reports of the crash?" }, { "answer groups": [ "More than 1000", "One Thousand" ], "distractor groups": [ "730", "Just under 2000", "500", "Just under 1000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 2: \"It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,\" he said.
Sent 3: More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics.
Sent 4: In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records.
Sent 5: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that.
Sent 6: I see this as helping that,\" Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant.
Sent 7: Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said.
Sent 8: And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.", "question": "What is the total number of domestic violence assaults reported in Madison County and in Jackson?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mother", "Daughter", "Wife", "Granddaughter", "His wife, daughter, and mother" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nephew", "Grandson" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Adrienne Saunders is happily married to her art dealer husband , Jack .
Sent 2: They have a daughter named Mary .
Sent 3: Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip .
Sent 4: Adrienne confronts him , but he denies being in town , and their lives continue .
Sent 5: Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered , and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake .
Sent 6: Jack is placed under suspicion , and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident .
Sent 7: In trying to wrap up Jack 's affairs , Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate , Frank Sullivan .
Sent 8: When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan , she is convinced .
Sent 9: She tracks down a relative of Saunders , who confirms that Frank and Jack were inseparable in high school .
Sent 10: After Jack died , the relative never saw Frank again .
Sent 11: She explained that Frank 's father was an alcoholic and that his mother worked as a toll booth operator .
Sent 12: She directs Adrienne to Frank 's mother , who lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn .
Sent 13: Frank 's mother bitterly receives the news that she has a granddaughter , telling Adrienne that Frank was always selfish and that he never looked in on her .
Sent 14: A stalker lurks at Adrienne 's loft .
Sent 15: He comes in to Adrienne 's bed while she is asleep and caresses her .
Sent 16: He watches Mary , who is spooked by the man in her room at night .", "question": "Which of Frank's family members is mentioned?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Romans", "Phoenicians", "Islam", "Al-Gharb" ], "distractor groups": [ "Carthaginians", "The Cunetes", "Hindi", "Moorish", "Greeks" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the region\u00a0\u2014\u00a0taken from Al-Gharb, which means \"country of the west\" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.", "question": "Under the Moors, Christianity was replaced by what religion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Water gets its energy because it is moving and moving water has kinetic energy", "Moving water has kinetic energy", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "Calm water have kinetic energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "Does water have kinetic energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sumatra", "Asia", "Melaka", "Europe", "North Africa" ], "distractor groups": [ "Antartica", "Las Islas Filipinas", "Nanjing", "Formosa" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "Name few regions from the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Marty deciding to become a preacher", "Marty's decision to offer himself for the ministry", "Marty's decision to enter the ministry" ], "distractor groups": [ "Marty's decision to become a lawyer", "Marty's decision to leave", "Going to college" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: So it was that J.W. and Marty had come into the inner places of each other's lives.
Sent 2: Of all the developments of Institute week, naturally the one which filled J.W.'s thoughts with a sort of awed gladness was Marty's decision to offer himself for the ministry.
Sent 3: Joe Carbrook's right-about-face was much more dramatic, for J.W. saw, when the decision was made, that Marty could not have been meant for anything but a preacher.
Sent 4: It was as fit as you please.
Sent 5: As to Joe, previous opinion had been pretty equally divided; one side leaning to the idea that he might make a lawyer, and the other predicting that he was more likely to be a perpetual and profitable client for some other lawyer.
Sent 6: In the light of the Institute happenings, it was to be expected that the question of college would promptly become a practical matter to four Delafield people.
Sent 7: Marty was greatly troubled, for he knew if he was to be a preacher, he must go to college, and he couldn't see how.
Sent 8: J.W. felt no great urge, though it had always been understood that he would go.
Sent 9: Marcia Dayne had one year of normal school to her credit, and would take another next year, perhaps; but this year she must teach.", "question": "What made J.W the happiest during Institute week?" }, { "answer groups": [ "UM", "University of Mississippi", "UM law school" ], "distractor groups": [ "MIT", "University of Oxford", "LSU", "TM Law School", "Oxford", "Harvard", "Yale" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: \"Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense,\" said Davis.
Sent 5: \"Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most.\"
Sent 6: \"This award means a great deal to me,\" Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: \"The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored.\"
Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: \"I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family.\"
Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.", "question": "Where did Kilgore graduate from in 1975?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The legal system was too confusing", "She found the process so confusing that she gave up", "She did not produce the proper documents" ], "distractor groups": [ "She didn't know the case", "She had no money", "She didn't have a car", "She couldn't read" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to \"The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California,\" prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise \"justice for all,\" but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.", "question": "Why was Katherine unsuccessful in representing herself?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because to be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty", "Because to be denied to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to oppose justice" ], "distractor groups": [ "Every state's ethical rules undermine language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "Why should Barnes' frequent volunteering with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society not be viewed as rare?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His brother", "Jimmy's brother" ], "distractor groups": [ "The piano", "His mom", "Brother", "Jimmy's mom", "Jimmy's dad" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Once upon a time Jimmy had a mother who told him that he was good at music.
Sent 2: Jimmy wanted to play music.
Sent 3: He did not know which instrument to play, so he tried a piano first.
Sent 4: The piano went like a sound.
Sent 5: Then he tried a guitar.
Sent 6: The guitar played.
Sent 7: His brother told him that the piano was better to start, so Jimmy played the piano.
Sent 8: He hammered on the keys.
Sent 9: Jimmy's brother liked this, but mom did not like this.
Sent 10: Jimmy tried playing very quiet.
Sent 11: Jimmy's mom liked this, but Jimmy's brother did not like this.
Sent 12: Jimmy tried playing in the middle.
Sent 13: Jimmy liked this, and Jimmy's mom liked this, and Jimmy's brother liked this.
Sent 14: It was great.", "question": "When Jimmy played quietly, who didn't like it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It does not matter how small it is, it has gravity.", "The greater mass of the body, the greater the force exerted" ], "distractor groups": [ "The more matter an object has, the less gravity it has" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: So what is gravity?
Sent 2: A typical definition of gravity is that it is a force.
Sent 3: It causes an attraction between two masses.
Sent 4: According to this definition, anything that has mass exerts a force.
Sent 5: Any object exerts gravity on other objects.
Sent 6: It does not matter how small it is, it has gravity.
Sent 7: The more matter an object has, the more gravity it has.
Sent 8: Your pencil has a tiny bit of gravity, but far too little to notice.
Sent 9: What about a planet?
Sent 10: It would have a lot of gravity.
Sent 11: An objects gravity exerts a pull on other objects.
Sent 12: Friction only occurs between objects that are touching.
Sent 13: Gravity can act between objects that are not touching.
Sent 14: In fact, gravity can act over very long distances.
Sent 15: Where else can you feel gravity?", "question": "How does mass affect the force exerted?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Universal Studios", "New York", "Madison Square Garden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Disney", "Central Park", "Caltech" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After arriving in New York City, Einstein was taken to various places and events, including Chinatown, a lunch with the editors of the New York Times, and a performance of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, where he was cheered by the audience on his arrival.
Sent 2: During the days following, he was given the keys to the city by Mayor Jimmy Walker and met the president of Columbia University, who described Einstein as \"The ruling monarch of the mind.\"
Sent 3: Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor at New York's Riverside Church, gave Einstein a tour of the church and showed him a full-size statue that the church made of Einstein, standing at the entrance.
Sent 4: Also during his stay in New York, he joined a crowd of 15,000 people at Madison Square Garden during a Hanukkah celebration.
Sent 5: Einstein next traveled to California where he met Caltech president and Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan.
Sent 6: His friendship with Millikan was \"awkward\", as Millikan \"had a penchant for patriotic militarism,\" where Einstein was a pronounced pacifist.
Sent 7: During an address to Caltech's students, Einstein noted that science was often inclined to do more harm than good.
Sent 8: This aversion to war also led Einstein to befriend author Upton Sinclair and film star Charlie Chaplin, both noted for their pacifism.
Sent 9: Carl Laemmle, head of Universal Studios, gave Einstein a tour of his studio and introduced him to Chaplin.
Sent 10: They had an instant rapport, with Chaplin inviting Einstein and his wife, Elsa, to his home for dinner.
Sent 11: Chaplin said Einstein's outward persona, calm and gentle, seemed to conceal a \"highly emotional temperament,\" from which came his \"extraordinary intellectual energy.\"
Sent 12: Chaplin also remembers Elsa telling him about the time Einstein conceived his theory of relativity.
Sent 13: During breakfast one morning, he seemed lost in thought and ignored his food.
Sent 14: She asked him if something was bothering him.
Sent 15: He sat down at his piano and started playing.
Sent 16: He continued playing and writing notes for half an hour, then went upstairs to his study, where he remained for two weeks, with Elsa bringing up his food.
Sent 17: At the end of the two weeks he came downstairs with two sheets of paper bearing his theory.
Sent 18: Chaplin's film, City Lights, was to premier a few days later in Hollywood, and Chaplin invited Einstein and Elsa to join him as his special guests.", "question": "Before leaving for California, Einstein was at what popular place?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lake County officials and a private agency", "An independent agency that helps the indigent as well as the officials of Lake County", "Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois called Prairie Legal Services" ], "distractor groups": [ "Illinois Equal Justice Foundation", "Law library", "A private agency that helps wealthy litigants and Lake Community College officials", "U.S. Supreme Court", "Lake County officials" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "Who is creating the self-help center which will be housed in the law library at 18 N. County Street?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Japanese monks, scholars, and artists brought it back to Japan for further development", "Chinese patterns of centralized government", "Chinese Calendars", "Japanese monks, scholars and artists went west to study in China and then returned to Japan with what they had learned" ], "distractor groups": [ "Northern Europe Christians brought Buddhism to Japan", "Chinese laws" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "How did Buddhism bring Chinese culture to Japanese society?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The President", "George Bush" ], "distractor groups": [ "Andrew Card", "Bill Clinton", "NORAD", "Rick Perry" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "Who went to a holding room shortly before 9:15A. Andrew CardB. The PresidentC. Bill ClintonD. NORADE. George BushF. Rick PerryPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "a force", "The force of attraction between two masses" ], "distractor groups": [ "a troll", "The force of repultion between two masses", "distance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: So what is gravity?
Sent 2: A typical definition of gravity is that it is a force.
Sent 3: It causes an attraction between two masses.
Sent 4: According to this definition, anything that has mass exerts a force.
Sent 5: Any object exerts gravity on other objects.
Sent 6: It does not matter how small it is, it has gravity.
Sent 7: The more matter an object has, the more gravity it has.
Sent 8: Your pencil has a tiny bit of gravity, but far too little to notice.
Sent 9: What about a planet?
Sent 10: It would have a lot of gravity.
Sent 11: An objects gravity exerts a pull on other objects.
Sent 12: Friction only occurs between objects that are touching.
Sent 13: Gravity can act between objects that are not touching.
Sent 14: In fact, gravity can act over very long distances.
Sent 15: Where else can you feel gravity?", "question": "What is gravity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Patience, prudence, and treachery", "The most patient, the most prudent, the most treacherous" ], "distractor groups": [ "The bravest, the kindest, and the the smartest", "Patience, cleverness, and loyalty", "Cunning, ruthless, controlling", "The most patient, the bravest and the most prudent" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "What three traits are credited with Tokugawa's victory at the Battle of Sekigahara?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They both have stored chemical energy", "They both contain chemical energy", "They contain chemical energy", "They contain chemical energy and they both burn" ], "distractor groups": [ "They both give out different forms of energies", "They are made of the same matter", "They both cause motion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Energy often changes from one form to another.
Sent 2: For example, the drummer transfers motion to sound energy.
Sent 3: When the moving drumstick strikes the drum head, the drum starts to vibrate.
Sent 4: The motion of the vibrating drum head creates the sound you hear.
Sent 5: Any form of energy can change into any other form.
Sent 6: Frequently, one form of energy changes into two or more different forms.
Sent 7: Have you ever sat in front of a campfire?
Sent 8: What are two things you notice?
Sent 9: The fire creates light.
Sent 10: It is also warm by the fire, meaning it creates heat.
Sent 11: The energy of the fire comes from the stored energy in the wood.
Sent 12: The wood contains chemical energy.
Sent 13: As it burns, the chemical energy is changed into light and heat.
Sent 14: Not all chemical energy changes produce light and heat.
Sent 15: Our cars use gasoline as a fuel.
Sent 16: Gasoline contains chemical energy.
Sent 17: When our cars burn gasoline in their engines, it is converted into motion and heat.
Sent 18: When energy changes forms, energy is conserved.", "question": "What do wood and gasoline have in common?" }, { "answer groups": [ "66", "7", "Sixty Six" ], "distractor groups": [ "50", "67" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the public radio and TV broadcaster of Albania, founded by King Zog in 1938.
Sent 2: RTSH runs three analogue television stations as TVSH Televizioni Shqiptar, four digital thematic stations as RTSH, and three radio stations using the name Radio Tirana.
Sent 3: In addition, 4 regional radio stations serve in the four extremities of Albania.
Sent 4: The international service broadcasts radio programmes in Albanian and seven other languages via medium wave (AM) and short wave (SW).
Sent 5: The international service has used the theme from the song \"Keputa nje gjethe dafine\" as its signature tune.
Sent 6: The international television service via satellite was launched since 1993 and aims at Albanian communities in Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and northern Greece, plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe.
Sent 7: RTSH has a past of being heavily influenced by the ruling party in its reporting, whether that party be left or right wing.
Sent 8: According to the Albanian Media Authority, AMA, Albania has an estimated 257 media outlets, including 66 radio stations and 67 television stations, with three national, 62 local and more than 50 cable TV stations.
Sent 9: Last years Albania has organized several shows as a part of worldwide series like Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother Albania, Albanians Got Talent, The Voice of Albania, and X Factor Albania.", "question": "How many radio stations does RSTH host in total (local and regional)?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nitrogen", "Nitrogen-taken up by plants via the roots" ], "distractor groups": [ "Decomposers", "Roots", "Carbon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Living things need non-living matter as well as energy.
Sent 2: What do you think matter is used for?
Sent 3: One thing is to build bodies.
Sent 4: They also need it to carry out the processes of life.
Sent 5: Any non-living matter that living things need is called a nutrient.
Sent 6: Carbon and nitrogen are examples of nutrients.
Sent 7: Unlike energy, matter is recycled in ecosystems.
Sent 8: You can see how in Figure 3.11.
Sent 9: Decomposers release nutrients when they break down dead organisms.
Sent 10: The nutrients are taken up by plants through their roots.
Sent 11: The nutrients pass to primary consumers when they eat the plants.
Sent 12: The nutrients pass to higher level consumers when they eat lower level consumers.
Sent 13: When living things die, the cycle repeats.", "question": "Name an example of a nutrient and what it can do.A. DecomposersB. NitrogenC. RootsD. CarbonE. Nitrogen-taken up by plants via the rootsPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No: The Port of Algiers, and the Strait of Gibraltar", "No. The Strait of Gibraltar and the Port of Algiers" ], "distractor groups": [ "No, he wanted control over the Port of Algiers", "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In his 1847 Report on Algeria, Tocqueville declared that Europe should avoid making the same mistake they made with the European colonization of the Americas in order to avoid the bloody consequences.
Sent 2: More particularly he reminds his countrymen of a solemn caution whereby he warns them that if the methods used towards the Algerian people remain unchanged, colonization will end in a blood bath.
Sent 3: Tocqueville includes in his report on Algeria that the fate of their soldiers and finances depended on how the French government treats the various native populations of Algeria, including the various Arab tribes, independent Kabyles living in the Atlas Mountains, and the powerful political leader Abd-el-Kader.
Sent 4: In his various letters and essays on Algeria, Tocqueville discusses contrasting strategies by which a European country can approach imperialism.
Sent 5: In particular, the author differentiates between what he terms 'dominance' and a particular version of 'colonization'.
Sent 6: The latter stresses the obtainment and protection of land and passageways that promise commercial wealth.
Sent 7: In the case of Algeria, the Port of Algiers, and the control over the Strait of Gibraltar, were considered by Tocqueville to be particular valuable.
Sent 8: Direct control of the political operations of the entirety of Algeria, however, was not.
Sent 9: Thus the author stresses domination over only certain points of political influence as a means to colonization of commercially valuable areas.
Sent 10: Tocqueville argued that domination via violent means, though unpleasant, is necessary for colonization and justified by the laws of war.
Sent 11: Such laws are not discussed in detail; however, given that the goal of the French mission in Algeria was to obtain commercial and military interest as opposed to self-defense, it can be deduced that Tocqueville would not concur with Just war theory's jus ad bellum criteria of just cause.
Sent 12: Further, given that Tocqueville approved of the use of force to eliminate civilian housing in enemy territory, his approach does not accord with Just War Theory's jus in bellow criteria of proportionality and discrimination.", "question": "Was Tocqueville interested in control over all of Algeria?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sir Basil Walden and Stanley Preston ignored warnings about the consequences of violating tombs from Ancient Egypt", "Scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston and they ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sir Basil Walden and Stanley Preston ignore Hasmid's warning about consequences of traveling through Egypt alone", "Stanley Preston ignores Sir Basil Walden", "Sir Basil Walden ignores the snake bite" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey .
Sent 2: The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection .
Sent 3: Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried .
Sent 4: The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb .
Sent 5: They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud .
Sent 6: Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb .
Sent 7: He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo .
Sent 8: Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud .
Sent 10: The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum .
Sent 11: One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face .", "question": "By whom was the expedition led and what did they ignore?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Epidermis and Dermis", "Epidermis, dermis,", "It has an inner layer called the dermis, this layer contains blood vessels and nerve endings, hair follicles and two types of glands" ], "distractor groups": [ "Oil glandes and hair follicles", "Hair follicles, oil glands" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The dermis is the inner layer of skin.
Sent 2: The dermis has blood vessels and nerve endings.
Sent 3: The nerve endings explain why your skin is sensitive.
Sent 4: You can sense pain, pressure, and temperature.
Sent 5: You cut your finger and it starts to bleed.
Sent 6: What has happened?
Sent 7: If your skin bleeds, it means you have cut the dermis layer and damaged blood vessels.
Sent 8: The cut really hurts.
Sent 9: It hurts because of the nerve endings in this skin layer.
Sent 10: The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands.
Sent 11: Hair follicles are structures where hairs originate.
Sent 12: Each hair grows out of a follicle.
Sent 13: Hair passes up through the epidermis.
Sent 14: It then extends above the skin surface.
Sent 15: Oil glands produce an oily substance.
Sent 16: The oil is secreted into hair follicles.", "question": "What is the composition of the skin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Self-representation", "It is much more common to find self-represented litigants in civil cases than in criminal", "Self-representation of litigants" ], "distractor groups": [ "Use of a lawyer", "It is far more common to find \"pro nunca\" litigants in civil matters", "Representation of litigants by legal assistance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "What practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The elder law clinic and the civic law clinic", "Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, Civic Law Clinic, and Elder Law clinic", "Civil Law Clinic" ], "distractor groups": [ "Arbitration Law Clinic", "Business Law", "Criminal Law Clinic", "Bankruptcy Law", "Criminal Law", "Human Rights Law Clinic" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: \"Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense,\" said Davis.
Sent 5: \"Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most.\"
Sent 6: \"This award means a great deal to me,\" Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: \"The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored.\"
Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: \"I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family.\"
Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.", "question": "In what parts of UM law school has she worked?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In the last 100 years, the agricultural clearing has doubled and is used for cattle grazing", "Grazing cattle", "Doubled" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tripled", "Selling land", "It has tripled, and used for cattle", "Feeding humans has almost doubled; it is used for agricultural purposes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "In the last 100 years, how much has the agricultural clearing grown and how is it used?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Energy", "Moving water has kinetic energy.so,it moves the rock with the energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "By its potential energy", "By using surface tension", "Water splash against rock" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "How can water move a rock?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Knowledge of reflection enables the pool player to hit the ball at a certain angle in order to go to a certain place.", "They need to know about reflection" ], "distractor groups": [ "They need to know about swimming.", "The knowlege and patience to strike the pool ball at certain spot.", "they need to know how to strike a ball in soccer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Light rays strike a reflecting surface.
Sent 2: They are then reflected back.
Sent 3: You can predict the angle of the reflected light.
Sent 4: Imagine a ball bouncing off a surface.
Sent 5: Light can do the same thing.
Sent 6: That is, assuming the surface is shiny.
Sent 7: So how do you know where light will go after it strikes a shiny surface?
Sent 8: It depends on how the light initially strikes the shiny object.
Sent 9: Light does not always go straight toward a surface.
Sent 10: Therefore, not all light bounces straight back.
Sent 11: Sometimes, light can hit a surface at an angle.
Sent 12: The angle at which it strikes the surface tells us how it will bounce off.
Sent 13: While light is different to a ball, they react in a similar manner.
Sent 14: Many sports rely on knowledge of reflection.
Sent 15: Pool players know a lot about reflection.
Sent 16: They take great care when they strike the pool ball.
Sent 17: They need it to go to a certain place.
Sent 18: They know the angle it will hit the side of the pool table.", "question": "What information is useful to pool players when they strike a ball?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A bill requiring women seeking an abortion to view a picture of the embryo and hear a description of its development", "Abortion law" ], "distractor groups": [ "A bill of rights", "Emergency room law" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "What was signed into law on Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In a humid subtropical climate", "Humid subtropical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Marine West Coast Climates", "Temperate", "Mediterranean Climate", "Temperate Climates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "What type of climate do pine and oak forests grow in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ambhi complied and offered Alexander expensive gifts and offered himself and all of his forces to Alexander", "Omphis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Alexander was emboldened to divide his forces", "Alexander" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the death of Spitamenes and his marriage to Roxana (Roshanak in Bactrian) to cement relations with his new satrapies, Alexander turned to the Indian subcontinent.
Sent 2: He invited the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara, in the north of what is now Pakistan, to come to him and submit to his authority.
Sent 3: Omphis(Indian name Ambhi Kumar), the ruler of Taxila, whose kingdom extended from the Indus to the Hydaspes (Jhelum), complied, but the chieftains of some hill clans, including the Aspasioi and Assakenoi sections of the Kambojas (known in Indian texts also as Ashvayanas and Ashvakayanas), refused to submit.
Sent 4: Ambhi hastened to relieve Alexander of his apprehension and met him with valuable presents, placing himself and all his forces at his disposal.
Sent 5: Alexander not only returned Ambhi his title and the gifts but he also presented him with a wardrobe of \"Persian robes, gold and silver ornaments, 30 horses and 1000 talents in gold\".
Sent 6: Alexander was emboldened to divide his forces, and Ambhi assisted Hephaestion and Perdiccas in constructing a bridge over the Indus where it bends at Hund (Fox 1973), supplied their troops with provisions, and received Alexander himself, and his whole army, in his capital city of Taxila, with every demonstration of friendship and the most liberal hospitality.
Sent 7: On the subsequent advance of the Macedonian king, Taxiles accompanied him with a force of 5000 men and took part in the battle of the Hydaspes River.
Sent 8: After that victory he was sent by Alexander in pursuit of Porus, to whom he was charged to offer favourable terms, but narrowly escaped losing his life at the hands of his old enemy.
Sent 9: Subsequently, however, the two rivals were reconciled by the personal mediation of Alexander; and Taxiles, after having contributed zealously to the equipment of the fleet on the Hydaspes, was entrusted by the king with the government of the whole territory between that river and the Indus.
Sent 10: A considerable accession of power was granted him after the death of Philip, son of Machatas; and he was allowed to retain his authority at the death of Alexander himself (323 BC), as well as in the subsequent partition of the provinces at Triparadisus, 321 BC.
Sent 11: In the winter of 327/326 BC, Alexander personally led a campaign against these clans; the Aspasioi of Kunar valleys, the Guraeans of the Guraeus valley, and the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys.
Sent 12: A fierce contest ensued with the Aspasioi in which Alexander was wounded in the shoulder by a dart, but eventually the Aspasioi lost.
Sent 13: Alexander then faced the Assakenoi, who fought in the strongholds of Massaga, Ora and Aornos.
Sent 14: The fort of Massaga was reduced only after days of bloody fighting, in which Alexander was wounded seriously in the ankle.
Sent 15: According to Curtius, \"Not only did Alexander slaughter the entire population of Massaga, but also did he reduce its buildings to rubble\".
Sent 16: A similar slaughter followed at Ora.
Sent 17: In the aftermath of Massaga and Ora, numerous Assakenians fled to the fortress of Aornos.
Sent 18: Alexander followed close behind and captured the strategic hill-fort after four bloody days.", "question": "What ruler of Taxila complied and offered him what as a sign of his loyalty?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"10 years\"", "Almost 11 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "5 years", "1955" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the establishment of the People's Republic, Albania's illiteracy rate was as high as 85%.
Sent 2: Schools were scarce between World War I and World War II.
Sent 3: When the People's Republic was established in 1945, the Party gave high priority to wiping out illiteracy.
Sent 4: As part of a vast social campaign, anyone between the ages of 12 and 40 who could not read or write was mandated to attend classes to learn.
Sent 5: By 1955, illiteracy was virtually eliminated among Albania's adult population.
Sent 6: Today the overall literacy rate in Albania is 98.7%; the male literacy rate is 99.2% and female literacy rate is 98.3%.
Sent 7: With large population movements in the 1990s to urban areas, the provision of education has undergone transformation as well.
Sent 8: The University of Tirana is the oldest university in Albania, having been founded in October 1957.", "question": "How long did it take the People's Republic to virtually eliminate adult illiteracy in Albania?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Andrew card", "White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card", "The Sunshine State" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dick channey", "The Golden State", "White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney", "California", "New York", "Virginia", "White House Chief of Staff Carl Rove" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "Who was standing next to the president when his reaction was that the crash of American 11 must be pilot error?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave", "The vertical distance between the highest point and the lowest point of the wave", "Vertical distance between a crest and a trough" ], "distractor groups": [ "Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size", "The horizontal distance between two crests", "While swimming", "The horizontal distance between two troughs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The highest point of a wave is the crest.
Sent 2: The lowest point is the trough.
Sent 3: The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave.
Sent 4: Wave height is also called amplitude.
Sent 5: The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength.
Sent 6: Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size.
Sent 7: The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows.
Sent 8: The greater each of these factors is, the bigger a wave will be.
Sent 9: Some of the biggest waves occur with hurricanes.
Sent 10: A hurricane is a storm that forms over the ocean.
Sent 11: Its winds may blow more than 150 miles per hour!
Sent 12: The winds also travel over long distances and may last for many days.", "question": "How do you calculate the height of a wave?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Indian Ocean", "South Seas" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atlantic ocean", "Pacific ocean", "Sumatra", "Thailand", "China" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquest\u2002\u2014\u2002as had been the case in North Africa and Europe\u2002\u2014\u2002but by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-reliance\u2002\u2014\u2002all qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (1446\u20131459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.", "question": "What bodies of water were named in the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, because nearly half of them gave up and moved", "Probably not", "No, they requested help from legal services attorneys", "They state they were grateful and felt they could not have saved their homes without law help and the Mayor's help" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes, because several of the residents were attorneys", "Yes, as they found the help they needed on the internet", "Not specified in the text", "Yes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction.
Sent 2: The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park.
Sent 3: Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year.
Sent 4: \"We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over,\" said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza.
Sent 5: \"We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go.
Sent 6: We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys.
Sent 7: Without them, we would not have saved our homes.
Sent 8: We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy.\"
Sent 9: Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers.
Sent 10: In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001.
Sent 11: While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes.
Sent 12: Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services.
Sent 13: In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution.
Sent 14: \"There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles,\" said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project.
Sent 15: \"Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns.
Sent 16: Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone.\"
Sent 17: Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state.
Sent 18: Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel.", "question": "Were the residents confident they could take on this fight on their own without legal and Political help?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The force of gravity and the pull of the table", "Gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Heat force", "Gravity and newtons", "Upward force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if two children push a swing at the same time?
Sent 2: Would the swing go higher?
Sent 3: Yes, together their force would be more.
Sent 4: It is common for forces to be combined.
Sent 5: Most objects on Earth have at least two forces acting on them.
Sent 6: Do you know what one of them is?
Sent 7: Of course, that force is gravity.
Sent 8: How many forces do you have on you right now?
Sent 9: Gravity pulls you down toward the center of Earth.
Sent 10: Your legs exert a downward force.
Sent 11: They hold you up against the pull of gravity.
Sent 12: Consider the example in Figure 1.3.
Sent 13: A book is resting on a table.
Sent 14: Gravity pulls the book downward.
Sent 15: It has a force of 20 newtons.
Sent 16: At the same time, the table pushes the book upward.
Sent 17: Its force is also 20 newtons.
Sent 18: The table opposes the pull of gravity.", "question": "Which forces affect a book resting on a table?" }, { "answer groups": [ "based on where north is, which is what the magnet points to", "Once the magnet points north we then can read the face of the compass where east, west and south are marked.", "are relative to the position of north" ], "distractor groups": [ "compass always points to east and we can point to other directions.", "the rod shows each direction", "west is left", "east is left" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: It is not enough to describe some objects by their location.
Sent 2: We may also need to know its direction.
Sent 3: For example, a wind blows a storm over your school.
Sent 4: Where is that storm coming from?
Sent 5: Where is it going?
Sent 6: How can we describe a direction?
Sent 7: The most common way is by using a compass.
Sent 8: A compass is a device with a floating needle (Figure 2.1).
Sent 9: The needle is a small magnet.
Sent 10: The needle aligns itself with the Earth's magnetic field.
Sent 11: The compass needle always points to magnetic north.
Sent 12: If you have a compass and you find north.
Sent 13: You can then know any other direction.
Sent 14: See the directions, such as east, south, west, etc., on a compass rose.
Sent 15: The Earth has two poles.
Sent 16: It has a magnetic north pole.
Sent 17: It also has a geographic north pole.
Sent 18: These two poles are close to each other but not the exact same place.", "question": "How can we tell where east, west, and south are with a compass?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Federer", "Roger Federer" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bernard Tomic", "Djokovic" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga ended Roger Federer's hopes of winning a record-equaling seventh Wimbledon title on Wednesday as the French 12th seed staged a stunning fightback to reach the semifinals.
Sent 2: Federer appeared to be cruising into the last four after winning the first two sets, but Tsonga inflicted the Swiss world No. 3's first defeat from that vantage point in 179 grand slam matches.
Sent 3: It was only the third time in the 29-year-old's glittering career that the 16-time grand slam champion had surrendered a two-set lead.
Sent 4: Tsonga, ranked 19th in the world, triumphed 3-6 6-7 (3-7) 6-4 6-4 6-4 on Centre Court, serving out to love as he earned a clash with second seed Novak Djokovic.
Sent 5: The Serbian, who beat Tsonga in the 2008 Australian Open final, ended the dream run of Australian 18-year-old Bernard Tomic.
Sent 6: Tsonga defeated Federer for just the second time in six meetings, their first on grass.
Sent 7: \"It was amazing.
Sent 8: I played unbelievable.
Sent 9: It's never easy to come back against Roger.
Sent 10: I'm so happy, it's crazy,\" the 26-year-old told reporters after reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon for the first time.
Sent 11: \"He's the biggest champion in the sport.
Sent 12: He has achieved so much and is the best player in the world.
Sent 13: To be two sets down and come back was unbelievable.
Sent 14: I served really well.
Sent 15: Against Djokovic I will have to come out and do the same again.\"
Sent 16: Federer has now lost in the quarterfinals two years in a row, being beaten by eventual runner-up Tomas Berdych in 2010.
Sent 17: \"Jo played great.
Sent 18: Really from start to finish I don't remember seeing a break point after I broke him in the first game,\" Federer said.", "question": "Who was the tennis player that lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Upper Manhattan", "Manhattan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Greenwich Village", "New York City" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The only home Hamilton ever owned was a Federal style mansion designed by John McComb Jr., which he built on his 32-acre country estate in Hamilton Heights in upper Manhattan.
Sent 2: He named the house, which was completed in 1802, the \"Grange\" after his grandfather Alexander's estate in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sent 3: The house remained in the family until 1833 when his widow sold it to Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer, for 25,000.
Sent 4: Part of the proceeds were used by Eliza to purchase a new townhouse from Davis (Hamilton-Holly House) in Greenwich Village with her son Alexander.
Sent 5: The Grange, first moved from its original location in 1889, was moved again in 2008 to a spot in St. Nicholas Park on land that was once part of the Hamilton estate, in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
Sent 6: The historic structure was restored to its original 1802 appearance in 2011, and is maintained by the National Park service as Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sent 7: Alexander Hamilton served as one of the first trustees of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in New York state.
Sent 8: Later the Academy received a college charter in 1812, and the school was formally renamed Hamilton College.Columbia University, Hamilton's alma mater, has official memorials to Hamilton on its campus in New York City.
Sent 9: The college's main classroom building for the humanities is Hamilton Hall, and a large statue of Hamilton stands in front of it.
Sent 10: The university press has published his complete works in a multivolume letterpress edition.
Sent 11: Columbia University's student group for ROTC cadets and Marine officer candidates is named the Alexander Hamilton Society.", "question": "What city was the Grange's original location and final location?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly", "Ray Kelly", "New York Police Commissioner", "Kelly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Melly", "Police chief", "Paul", "Jeffery Johnson" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker.
Sent 2: The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
Sent 3: Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Sent 4: All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday.
Sent 5: One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven.
Sent 6: Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year.
Sent 7: Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol.
Sent 8: It holds eight, Kelly said.
Sent 9: Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him.
Sent 10: Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added.
Sent 11: Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile.
Sent 12: \"It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that,\" said his brother, Paul.
Sent 13: \"He's going to be so missed by everybody.
Sent 14: He was a light of so many lives.\"", "question": "Who confirmed that all bystander's injuries were caused by the police?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Only certain animals were able to get at the plant's hidden nectar because these specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species", "Allow only animals likely to pollinate another plant to get to the nectar", "To keep it from being picked up by animals that won't spread the pollen correctly" ], "distractor groups": [ "To get animals to steal the whole plant", "To spread pollen", "To annoy animals", "To keep the plant moist" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Relying on an animal to come by is risky.
Sent 2: A flower may have to wait a long time for the right animals to come by.
Sent 3: What if one never passes close enough to the flower?
Sent 4: Hoping the wind will blow is also risky for a plant.
Sent 5: What if the wind does not blow?
Sent 6: What if the blowing pollen does not land on another flower?
Sent 7: The wind could even blow the pollen over the ocean where it is wasted.
Sent 8: Giving free nectar is costly.
Sent 9: It is not a good use of the plants energy.
Sent 10: A plant uses a lot of energy to produce nectar.
Sent 11: Some animals may just drink the nectar.
Sent 12: They may not carry off any pollen in return.
Sent 13: To improve their chances, plants evolved special traits.
Sent 14: For example, they developed ways to hide their nectar.
Sent 15: Only certain animals were able to get at the plants hidden nectar.
Sent 16: These specific animals might be more likely to visit only flowers of the same species.
Sent 17: This was also a benefit for some animals.
Sent 18: Animals also evolved special traits to get to the nectar.", "question": "What is the purpose of hidden nectar?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Both the Philippines and Indonesia", "\"Indonesia and the Philippines\"" ], "distractor groups": [ "Australia", "Indonesia and Thailand", "China and Vietnam", "The Philippines and Vietnam" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "What neighboring countries of Malaysia have recently suffered natural disasters?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Exhaling", "Exhaling, or breathing out" ], "distractor groups": [ "Inhaling", "Sweating" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "What is happening when your chest decreases in size while breathing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Atta", "Mohamed Atta" ], "distractor groups": [ "Ramzi Binalshibh", "Ziad Jarrah", "Bin Laden", "Marwan al Shehhi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "Who moved to Hamburg in 1992?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The attempted assassination in Ethiopia was of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995", "Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak" ], "distractor groups": [ "Obama", "They attempted to assassinate General Omar al Bashir,", "Egypt, Syria, Jordan,", "UN Security Council" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.", "question": "Sudan refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot of who?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze", "Their belongings" ], "distractor groups": [ "Their apartments", "Lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: \"They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 5: \"Alamo Hills just threw it out.\"
Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than 25,000.
Sent 10: \"We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- 3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff,\" Dempsey said.
Sent 11: \"They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly.\"
Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: \"The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims,\" he said.", "question": "What did nine families claim Alamo Hills Apartments failed to protect?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The nurse and grandmother", "The nurse", "Trained nurse and grandmother", "The grandmother" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mother and maternal aunt", "The mother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The first rule is parental.
Sent 2: The primitive monarchy is in the home.
Sent 3: A young baby cries.
Sent 4: The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song.
Sent 5: When next the baby is put down to sleep, more cries, more soothing and disturbance, and the setting of a tiny instinct which shall some day be will--the power of control.
Sent 6: The grandmother arrives on the scene.
Sent 7: When baby cries, she plants the little one firmly in its crib, turns down the light, pats and soothes the tiny restless hands that fight the air, watches, waits.
Sent 8: From the crib come whimpers, angry cries, yells, sobs, baby snarls and sniffles that die away in a sleepy infant growl.
Sent 9: Silence, sleep, repose, and the building of life and nerve and muscle in the quiet and the darkness.
Sent 10: The baby has been put in harmony with the laws of nature--the invigoration of fresh air, sleep, stillness--and the little one wakens and grows like a fresh, sweet rose.
Sent 11: The mother, looking on, learns of the ways of God with men.", "question": "What characters soothe the baby's weeping?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Two", "2", "Two directions" ], "distractor groups": [ "One", "1", "Just one direction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside.
Sent 2: Do you know what is on top of those poles?
Sent 3: Thats right, wires that carry electric current.
Sent 4: These wires carry electric current to your home.
Sent 5: But what is electric current?
Sent 6: Electric current is actually the flow of electrons.
Sent 7: You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom.
Sent 8: They have a negative charge.
Sent 9: Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles.
Sent 10: Electrons are able to move through wires.
Sent 11: Their speed can even be measured.
Sent 12: The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A).
Sent 13: Ampere is often shortened to amp.
Sent 14: Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction.
Sent 15: Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction.
Sent 16: Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights.
Sent 17: Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions.
Sent 18: This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires.", "question": "How many directions is the current flowing in that arrives through wires into our homes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Temperate Climates", "Mediterranean", "Temperate", "Humid Subtropical Climates", "Marine West Coast", "Mediterranean Climate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Saharan Climate", "Winter spring summer fall", "Subarctic Climate", "Polar Climate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "What are the four types of climates discussed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaf al Hazmi", "Mihdhar and Hazmi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Khallad and Mihdhar", "Khallad", "Abu Bara al Yemeni", "Nashiri's cousin", "Azzam", "Omar Abdel Rahman" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden reportedly discussed the planes operation with KSM and Atef in a series of meetings in the spring of 1999 at the al Matar complex near Kandahar.
Sent 2: KSM's original concept of using one of the hijacked planes to make a media statement was scrapped, but Bin Laden considered the basic idea feasible.
Sent 3: Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM developed an initial list of targets.
Sent 4: These included the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center.
Sent 5: According to KSM, Bin Laden wanted to destroy the White House and the Pentagon, KSM wanted to strike the World Trade Center, and all of them wanted to hit the Capitol.
Sent 6: No one else was involved in the initial selection of targets.
Sent 7: Bin Laden also soon selected four individuals to serve as suicide operatives: Khalid al Mihdhar, Nawaf al Hazmi, Khallad, and Abu Bara al Yemeni.
Sent 8: During the al Matar meetings, Bin Laden told KSM that Mihdhar and Hazmi were so eager to participate in an operation against the United States that they had already obtained U.S. visas.
Sent 9: KSM states that they had done so on their own after the suicide of their friend Azzam (Nashiri's cousin) in carrying out the Nairobi bombing.
Sent 10: KSM had not met them.
Sent 11: His only guidance from Bin Laden was that the two should eventually go to the United States for pilot training.
Sent 12: Hazmi and Mihdhar were Saudi nationals, born in Mecca.
Sent 13: Like the others in this initial group of selectees, they were already experienced mujahideen.
Sent 14: They had traveled together to fight in Bosnia in a group that journeyed to the Balkans in 1995.
Sent 15: By the time Hazmi and Mihdhar were assigned to the planes operation in early 1999, they had visited Afghanistan on several occasions.
Sent 16: Khallad was another veteran mujahid, like much of his family.
Sent 17: His father had been expelled from Yemen because of his extremist views.
Sent 18: Khallad had grown up in Saudi Arabia, where his father knew Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Omar Abdel Rahman (the \"Blind Sheikh\").", "question": "Who decided to obtain U.S. visas after their friend committed suicide carrying out the Nairobi bombing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Multiply the dimensions of the box by the dimensions of the gumball", "Multiply the number of gumballs by the area, and subtract the missing ones" ], "distractor groups": [ "Two friends", "Dump the box out and count each one", "Multiplying the dimensions of the box and dividing by the size of a gumball", "Add 10 gumballs for every one a person took" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mike and Jeff are close friends.
Sent 2: Their school is having a guessing game to guess how many gumballs are in a box.
Sent 3: If they get the right amount they win 100.
Sent 4: If they get close they get a 20 gift card.
Sent 5: The box looks like it is missing some gumballs.
Sent 6: It turns out some people are eating them when they place their guess.
Sent 7: 100 people guessed and took a piece of candy.
Sent 8: The box is 10\" by 10\" by 10\".
Sent 9: Each gumball is 1\" each.
Sent 10: Mike guessed 500.
Sent 11: Jeff guessed 800.
Sent 12: They both said they would split their money they win, if they win.", "question": "How might someone make an educated guess as to how many gumballs are in the box?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Floodplains and natural levees", "Floodplains", "Flood plain" ], "distractor groups": [ "Crops", "Rich soil and flat surface", "Strong land for foundations", "Sandy desert", "Waters edge", "Banks", "Floodwater", "Civilization" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "What two geographic formation can be created from flooding rivers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She was given an engraved plaque", "University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yorke Prize", "University of Mississippi School of Law's 2005 Public Service Award", "Nobel Peace Prize", "University of Mississippi School of Law's 2012 Public Service Award", "Helmuth-James-von-Moltke-Preis", "University of North Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award", "Brandeis Medal" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: \"Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense,\" said Davis.
Sent 5: \"Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most.\"
Sent 6: \"This award means a great deal to me,\" Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: \"The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored.\"
Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: \"I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family.\"
Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.", "question": "What did Ginny Kilgore receive at a dinner as recognition for laboring with little or no compensation to residents in the 39 north Mississippi counties?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Spanish airline crash", "In a plane crash during takeoff at Madrid Airport. The plane exploded after skidding for 1,200m over uneven terrain", "Plane crash" ], "distractor groups": [ "Helicopter crash", "Road crash", "Officials" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Relatives of a woman killed in a Spanish airline crash were erroneously given the remains of another victim, and then were asked by authorities to return them, CNN partner network CNN+ reported Thursday.
Sent 2: The victims of the crash were first laid out at a Madria convention center.
Sent 3: A Madrid judge has opened an investigation into the error, and judicial sources say the initial indication is that the mixup occurred not in the proper identification of the victim, but in delivering the wrong remains to the family in question, CNN+ reported.
Sent 4: The family Wednesday received an urn numbered 104, and were told it contained the ashes of their loved one, Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira, who died in the crash.
Sent 5: But as the family was preparing to leave Madrid, officials called to tell them about the error and asked for the return of urn 104, CNN+ reported.
Sent 6: Instead of urn 104, the family was supposed to have received urn 134, which actually contains the remains of Pilar Gonzalez, CNN+ reported, citing judicial sources and another family which also lost a relative in the crash.
Sent 7: The Spanair MD82 jet crashed last week at Madrid's airport as the plane was trying to take off, killing 154 people.
Sent 8: The aircraft, bound for Spain's Canary Islands, managed to rise only slightly before coming down quickly to the right of the runway, its tail section hitting the ground first, just off the asphalt.
Sent 9: Then the out-of-control plane skidded and bounced at least three times as it careered 1,200 meters (3,840 feet) across uneven terrain and exploded, coming to rest in a gully, a top official of the investigative commission told a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday.
Sent 10: Many of the bodies were badly charred from the fire, and authorities have used DNA samples to carry out numerous identifications.", "question": "How was Pilar Gonzalez Ferreira killed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Spain's new involvement with Portugal caused Portugal to become enmeshed in Spain's war with Britain and the British attached Portugal", "Treaty of Windsor" ], "distractor groups": [ "Prince Henry", "Treaty of Portugal", "The Great Disaster" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "What ended the pledge of eternal peace with England?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nuclei are fused together", "They are fused or joined together.", "The nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together" ], "distractor groups": [ "Electric energy", "Neutrons break apart", "The atoms nuclei are split apart", "Photosynthesis", "Electrons are spit out" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.", "question": "What happens to atoms during nuclear fusion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Two", "2" ], "distractor groups": [ "3", "Three", "1" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surviving being shot and stabbed at the end of the previous film , the stepfather has been institutionalized in Puget Sound , Washington since , spending his time building model houses in the workshop .
Sent 2: Assigned a new doctor named Joseph Danvers the stepfather begins confiding in him to gain his trust , ultimately murdering the doctor during a session by stabbing him in the neck with a blade smuggled out of the workshop .
Sent 3: After killing Danvers the stepfather beats a suspicious guard named Ralph Smith to death with his own nightstick with only two strikes and takes his uniform , successfully sneaking out of the sanitarium .
Sent 4: Checking into a hotel after robbing and murdering a traveling salesman the stepfather alters his appearance , takes the name Doctor Gene F. Clifford from the newspaper obituaries and travels to Palm Meadows , Los Angeles after seeing an ad for it on an episode of Dream House .
Sent 5: Gene arrives in Palm Meadows and meets real estate agent Carol Grayland and leases a house just across the street from her and her son Todd .
Sent 6: During a session with the wives of the neighborhood , Gene learns Carol 's dentist husband , Philip had absconded with his mistress the previous year .
Sent 7: Gene begins courting Carol , eventually winning over her and Todd .
Sent 8: Gene 's plan to marry Carol is soon complicated when Phil returns , wanting to reconcile with his wife .
Sent 9: Needing Phil out of the way , Gene persuades Carol to send Phil over for a meeting , during which Gene kills him with a broken bottle , covering up Phil 's disappearance afterward by arranging it so that it looks as though he simply ran off again .", "question": "How many people does the stepfather kill in the Puget Sound institution?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cue Tip", "The cue stick tip" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cue Ball" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { Plot } } Tom plays pool in a deserted pool hall , pocketing two balls by lowdown means and then wakes Jerry up by shooting the 10-ball into the pocket where he is sleeping .
Sent 2: Jerry awakes just in time to avoid the 10-ball and is carried out to the ball return , where the 10 and the 13 smash the mouse between each other .
Sent 3: Jerry is mad and walks up through the pocket , first sees nothing , but after a few steps back to the pocket , he spots Tom perched behind it .
Sent 4: Jerry tries to jump into another corner pocket , but Tom aims a cue ball with so much force that it roll's into the pocket , and spins back out of it and it rolls Jerry backwards to Tom , who has made a ramp with his cue stick for the mouse to slide up .
Sent 5: Jerry stops at the top of the stick and is then blown down by Tom , who then shoots a stream of balls to make the mouse flat .
Sent 6: The whole train rebounds back towards the cat and the balls stack up at Tom's end of the table .
Sent 7: Tom shoots all the balls in succession with his cue , and then tries to shoot Jerry , but the mouse hangs onto the cue tip .
Sent 8: The cat , as if he were saying `` Have it your way '' , chalks up and shoots the 8-ball using Jerry .
Sent 9: The mouse drops off the cue tip and then is upended by the 8-ball rolling in circles , and Tom forces Jerry to jump through the ball rack as if he were a circus performer .
Sent 10: Tom then sets it on fire to add an additional level of torment , and when Jerry accomplishes this with poise , Tom discards the flaming rack and shoots the 8-ball across the table and back .", "question": "After stacking up on his side of the table, Tom shoots the balls, but Jerry hangs onto what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "2", "3", "3 couples: Alex & Maria, Fan Yue & Picasso, Tommy Kane & Monica Ashe" ], "distractor groups": [ "Three", "2 couples: Alex & Maria, Damon & Janelle" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dr. Alex Cross is a psychiatrist and police lieutenant who lives in Detroit with his wife , Maria , their children , Damon and Janelle , and his grandmother , Nana Mama .
Sent 2: Upon learning that Maria is pregnant with their third child , Cross considers accepting a job as an FBI profiler , but fears Maria's reaction , as it 'd require them to relocate to Washington , D.C. Meanwhile , a man called Picasso attends to an illegal underground Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring , where he flirts with businesswoman Fan Yau .
Sent 3: After brutally beating his opponent , Picasso is invited to Fan Yau's house , where he sedates her while they 're having sex , tortures and kills her .
Sent 4: Police Captain Richard Brookwell calls Cross and his partner , Tommy Kane , to the crime scene .
Sent 5: On the way there , Cross tells Kane about Maria's pregnancy and the the FBI's offer , and Kane reveals that he is secretly dating their colleague , Monica Ashe .
Sent 6: Cross deduces that Picasso is a professional assassin , and finds a sketch made behind by Picasso , revealing that his next target is businessman Erich Nunemarcher .
Sent 7: Cross , Kane and Ashe go to Nunemarcher's office , but Nunemarcher ignores their claims .
Sent 8: Picasso manages to enter the building , but is prevented from killing Nunemarcher by Cross , and escapes after being shot by Kane .
Sent 9: Cross analyzes a drop of Picasso's blood and learns that he is a psychotic former member of the Special Forces and that his real target is billionaire CEO Leon Mercier .
Sent 10: Cross informs Mercier that Picasso might be trying to kill him .", "question": "How many couples are linked romantically in the story?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Birthday", "Dad", "It is Tims birthday and his dad had the biggest present", "His party was for his birthday his dad gave him the biggest present" ], "distractor groups": [ "Santa", "Christmas", "His party was for graduation his grandma gave him biggest present" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tim had always a red bike.
Sent 2: His birthday party was coming up and he hoped that his parents would finally get him the bike.
Sent 3: When his friends came over for the party, Tim was very worried that he wouldn't get the bike.
Sent 4: He looked at all the presents and none of them seemed big enough to have a bike in them.
Sent 5: Tim was sad.
Sent 6: When it was time to open the presents he opened them one at a time.
Sent 7: The first present was not a bike.
Sent 8: The second present was not a bike.
Sent 9: The third present was the biggest one.
Sent 10: Tim knew if the bike was going to be in any of the presents it was going to be in this box.
Sent 11: Tim opened it and there was no bike inside.
Sent 12: Just as Tim tried not to look too upset, his Dad brought in the biggest present of them all.
Sent 13: His Dad had been hiding the present all along.
Sent 14: Tim opened it and his new bike was inside the box.
Sent 15: Tim put the bike together with his Dad's help.", "question": "What was Tims party for and who gave him the biggest present?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Two women had returned to men who had been ordered to stay away from them", "Obtaining protective orders forbidding their partners from contacting them, then relenting and contacting the men", "For returning to men who had been ordered to stay away from them", "The women requested a restraint, and then contacted the men after ignoring the order" ], "distractor groups": [ "Two women both got fined", "The men contacting them", "Two women fighting in court" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The violent arena of domestic abuse litigation has grown a bit more volatile here, now that a judge has decided to hold two women in contempt of court for returning to men who had been ordered to stay away from them.
Sent 2: \"You can't have it both ways,\" said Judge Megan Lake Thornton of Fayette County District Court in recently fining two women 100 and 200 respectively for obtaining protective orders forbidding their partners from contacting them, then relenting and contacting the men.
Sent 3: Ruling that the order was mutually binding, Judge Thornton also cited the men for contempt.
Sent 4: \"It drives me nuts when people just decide to do whatever they want,\" said Judge Thornton, who is experienced in the state's thick domestic abuse docket, which produces close to 30,000 emergency protective orders a year.
Sent 5: Kentucky officials say there is a virtual epidemic of abusive relationships in the state.
Sent 6: Judge Thornton's ruling has alarmed advocates for battered women, who plan to appeal it.
Sent 7: The advocates say the finding goes beyond existing law and is unrealistic because some renewed contacts often prove unavoidable in domestic abuse cases, which involve economic and family dependency and other complications of daily living.
Sent 8: The state office on domestic violence has pointedly agreed, warning that the ruling could cause abused women to hesitate in bringing their plight before the courts for fear of being chastised for their trouble.
Sent 9: \"The reality is it's easy to say they should never have contact,\" said Sherry Currens, executive director of the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association, an advocacy and legal protection group.
Sent 10: \"But we're talking about people in long-term relationships.
Sent 11: They may have children in common.
Sent 12: It's pretty hard to say, `Never speak again.'
Sent 13: People have financial difficulties.
Sent 14: They may love the partner.
Sent 15: It's not an easy thing.\"
Sent 16: But Judge Thornton declared in court, \"When these orders are entered, you don't just do whatever you damn well please and ignore them.\"
Sent 17: The ruling stunned Cindra Walker, the lawyer for the two women, who is with Central Kentucky Legal Services, which represents many of the thousands of indigent women caught in abusive relationships.
Sent 18: \"For over five years, I've been in court practically every day on these abuse cases,\" Ms. Walker said, \"and I've never before had a victim threatened with contempt.\"", "question": "What prompted Judge Megan Lake Thornton to make the statement: \"You can't have it both ways.\"A. Two women had returned to men who had been ordered to stay away from themB. Two women both got finedC. Obtaining protective orders forbidding their partners from contacting them, then relenting and contacting the menD. The men contacting themE. For returning to men who had been ordered to stay away from themF. The women requested a restraint, and then contacted the men after ignoring the orderG. Two women fighting in courtPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They all contain 79 protons", "All gold atoms have the same structure and properties", "All atoms within gold have the same structure and properties regardless of their physical shape" ], "distractor groups": [ "They all make up gold", "They all contain 80 protons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "How are all the atoms of gold alike?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The protagonist", "Ligurio's employer", "Hero", "Doctor", "Lucrezia's lover" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lucrezia's confessor", "Lucrezia's mother", "Villan", "The antagonist" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "What is the role of Callimaco in this play?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Hitherward", "Sinners came from hitherward", "From below" ], "distractor groups": [ "From above", "Sinners came from above" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As where to guard the walls, full many a foss Begirds some stately castle, sure defence Affording to the space within, so here Were model'd these; and as like fortresses E'en from their threshold to the brink without, Are flank'd with bridges; from the rock's low base Thus flinty paths advanc'd, that 'cross the moles And dikes, struck onward far as to the gulf, That in one bound collected cuts them off.
Sent 2: Such was the place, wherein we found ourselves From Geryon's back dislodg'd.
Sent 3: The bard to left Held on his way, and I behind him mov'd.
Sent 4: On our right hand new misery I saw, New pains, new executioners of wrath, That swarming peopled the first chasm.
Sent 5: Below Were naked sinners.
Sent 6: Hitherward they came, Meeting our faces from the middle point, With us beyond but with a larger stride.
Sent 7: E'en thus the Romans, when the year returns Of Jubilee, with better speed to rid The thronging multitudes, their means devise For such as pass the bridge; that on one side All front toward the castle, and approach Saint Peter's fane, on th' other towards the mount.", "question": "Which way did the naked sinners come?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Atoms are the smallest units that contain elemental properties therefore, all atoms within one element are expressly alike to each other but different from those of another element", "This question is not answered in the text", "Atoms are what create different properties in an element" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atoms are all the same" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "Why are atoms in one element different from those in another element?" }, { "answer groups": [ "During winter, precipitation falls as snow, and then this solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatures stay cold enough", "Layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice", "By accumulation of snow" ], "distractor groups": [ "As the temperature rises, the snow starts to melt", "By melting of ice" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may be wondering, how can a glacier get so big?
Sent 2: Why does it move?
Sent 3: These are both good questions.
Sent 4: In the winter months, precipitation falls as snow.
Sent 5: This solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatures stay cold enough.
Sent 6: As the temperature rises, the snow starts to melt.
Sent 7: The frozen water changes state back into a liquid state.
Sent 8: Nearer the poles, summer does not last very long.
Sent 9: If the summer is long enough and warm enough, all the snow may melt.
Sent 10: This is what typically happens now.
Sent 11: The earth was a little cooler 12,000 years ago.
Sent 12: As a result, during the summer months, that amount of snow did not melt.
Sent 13: It may have only been an inch or so of snow that melted.
Sent 14: The following winter, snow fell on top of this left-over snow.
Sent 15: This next winters snowfall had a head start.
Sent 16: Year after year, the snow that did not melt became thicker and thicker.
Sent 17: Inch by inch the snow started to build up.
Sent 18: Over many years, layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice.", "question": "How do glaciers form?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gravity", "Magnetic force" ], "distractor groups": [ "Maglev train", "Wind force", "Bicycle force", "Dragging force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "Name a few types of non contact forceA. Maglev trainB. Wind forceC. Bicycle forceD. Dragging forceE. GravityF. Magnetic forcePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They become extinct", "They become extinct and die out", "Extinction", "They die out completely" ], "distractor groups": [ "They become rocks and fossils", "Reproduction", "They thrive and flourish" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earth processes have not changed over time.
Sent 2: The way things happen now is the same way things happened in the past.
Sent 3: Mountains grow and mountains slowly wear away.
Sent 4: The same process is at work the same as it was billions of years ago.
Sent 5: As the environment changes, living creatures adapt.
Sent 6: They change over time.
Sent 7: Some organisms may not be able to adapt.
Sent 8: They become extinct.
Sent 9: Becoming extinct means they die out completely.
Sent 10: Some geologists study the history of the Earth.
Sent 11: They want to learn about Earths past.
Sent 12: They use clues from rocks and fossils.
Sent 13: They use these clues to make sense of events.
Sent 14: The goal is to place things in the order they happened.
Sent 15: They also want to know how long it took for those events to happen.", "question": "What happens when some organisms are not able to adapt and what does it mean for them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Max was playing with the poodle", "Joey met the poodle when he found Max playing with it. Joey was happy Max had found a new friend for them and they went and played together" ], "distractor groups": [ "Max was eating the poodle" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Joey got a German Shepherd for his birthday present.
Sent 2: He had never had any pets before, but was always excited to see the other dogs and cats in his neighborhood.
Sent 3: Since his birthday was in June, he spent a lot of time playing outside with his new puppy, which he named Max.
Sent 4: Max and Joey would often run through fields in a game of chase.
Sent 5: They also liked to go through the small forest behind the house, making a game of hide and seek.
Sent 6: They never went near the lake because Joey was afraid of water.
Sent 7: One day, Max hid a little too well and Joey couldn't find him.
Sent 8: Joey spent the afternoon looking for his German Shepherd where they often played, like the field and forest.
Sent 9: Joey was a shy boy who often read by himself, and Max was his best friend.
Sent 10: After dinner, he went to look for Max one last time before he had to take a bath and go to bed.
Sent 11: He heard some barking on the next street, so he ran to see if it was his puppy.
Sent 12: Sure enough, he saw Max playing with a poodle.
Sent 13: The dogs were having so much fun.
Sent 14: Joey brought Max home, happy that he had his puppy back.
Sent 15: Max seemed to be happy to have his human by his side as well as a new doggy friend.
Sent 16: All summer long, Joey took Max to the poodle's house so they could play without having to worry about losing his present.", "question": "How did Joey meet the poodle and what kind of relationship did he have with it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To be able to sleep with Lucrezia", "Ultimately to sleep with Lucrezia", "To win Lucrezia", "To disguise himself to Nicia" ], "distractor groups": [ "So that he could confess to Brother Timoteo", "To scare Brother Timoteo", "To win a card game", "So he could woo Lucrezia's mother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Why did Callimaco dress up as a stranger?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He used a uniform of a Shereefian Officer of Emir Feisul's Syrian army", "The uniform of a Shereefian officer" ], "distractor groups": [ "He used a military uniform" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grim disappeared upstairs himself, and returned about ten minutes later in the uniform of a Shereefian officer--that is to say, of Emir Feisul's Syrian army.
Sent 2: Nothing could be smarter, not anything better calculated to disguise a man.
Sent 3: Disguise, as any actor or detective can tell you, is not so much a matter of make- up as suggestion.
Sent 4: It is little mannerisms--unstudied habits that identify.
Sent 5: The suggestion that you are some one else is the thing to strive for, not the concealment of who you really are.
Sent 6: Grim's skin had been sun-tanned in the Arab campaign under Lawrence against the Turks.
Sent 7: The Shereefian helmet is a compromise between the East and West, having a strip of cloth hanging down behind it as far as the shoulders and covering the ears on either side, to take the place of the Arab head-dress.
Sent 8: The khaki uniform had just enough of Oriental touch about it to distinguish it from that of a British officer.
Sent 9: No man inexperienced in disguise would dream of choosing it; for the simple reason that it would not seem to him disguise enough.
Sent 10: Yet Grim now looked so exactly like somebody else that it was hard to believe he was the same man who had been in the room ten minutes before.
Sent 11: His mimicry of the Syrian military walk--blended of pride and desire not to seem proud--was perfect.", "question": "What uniform did Grim use to disguise himself?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Motion", "Contact force" ], "distractor groups": [ "Magnetic force", "Human energy", "Non contact force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "The force you exert on your bike pedals that causes change is called what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness, bewitchingly beautiful, ethereal beauty, possibly deceptive", "As \"Femme\"", "As bewitchingly beautiful", "As bewitching beauty" ], "distractor groups": [ "A sexually attractive prisoner", "Deceitful like a snake", "As true lover" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "How is Madame White Snack characterized?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Daffy is obnoxious, makes messes, and sees things", "Daffy is loud and obnoxious", "Daffy is pestering him", "Daffy pesters him with questions", "Daffy is annoying" ], "distractor groups": [ "Daffy is pleasant", "Room service is late", "Daffy is quiet", "There is no hot water" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "What problems does Porky experience sharing a room with Daffy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Carbon dioxide", "CO2" ], "distractor groups": [ "Oxygen", "Air", "O2" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You just got done with a long run.
Sent 2: You are gasping for air.
Sent 3: Why does your body react this way?
Sent 4: What is the purpose of breathing?
Sent 5: All the cells of your body need oxygen to work properly.
Sent 6: Your bodys circulatory system works with the respiratory system to deliver the oxygen.
Sent 7: Your blood carries red blood cells.
Sent 8: The main job of red blood cells is to carry oxygen throughout your body.
Sent 9: The red blood cells get oxygen in the lungs.
Sent 10: The lungs are the main organs of the respiratory system.
Sent 11: The respiratory system is the body system that takes in oxygen.
Sent 12: It then releases carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere.
Sent 13: The carbon dioxide is the waste material from the cells.", "question": "What waste material do our cells release into the atmosphere?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was being too annoying", "He is pestering", "Because Daffy spent the night annoying Porky", "He was fed up with his antics" ], "distractor groups": [ "He used all the towels in the room", "He ate all his food", "Daffy is friendly", "Daffy is trusting" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room , but due to a convention there are no vacancies .
Sent 2: Porky takes the only available vacancy at one hotel , but will have to share with Daffy Duck , who is a very loud , obnoxious and annoying sort .
Sent 3: Daffy introduces his invisible kangaroo friend `` Hymie '' , but Porky wo n't believe that .
Sent 4: Daffy spends the rest of the night annoying Porky : pestering him with questions , shaking the bed , spilling water from a glass , hogging the blanket and finally literally sending the both of them flying off the bed when Daffy kicks , and startles , Porky with his literally frozen feet .
Sent 5: Fed up with his antics , Porky stuffs Daffy in a pillow case and drops him out of the window .
Sent 6: As Porky goes back to bed , Daffy returns bandaged , but shakes them off and prepares to get revenge .
Sent 7: Daffy tricks the half-asleep pig into stepping out of a window thinking he 's boarding a train .
Sent 8: Daffy hides the window saying it 's `` too gruesome '' to watch .
Sent 9: Suddenly he hears train noises , and behind the shade , sees the still-drowsy Porky pulling away on an actual train and waving at Daffy .
Sent 10: Daffy finds this silly .
Sent 11: Then he bounces all around the room , `` Hoo-Hoo ! ''
Sent 12: - ing wildly .", "question": "Why was Porky fed up with Daffy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Moors were finally subdued but at one time paid annual tribute to be left in peace", "Pay an annual tribute", "Agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragon", "The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Arag\u00c3\u00b3n and were left in peace" ], "distractor groups": [ "Allowed Aragon access to trading communities", "The moors agreed to be slaves", "Sign a peace treaty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Arag\u00f3n and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Pon\u00e7a.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors\u2002\u2014\u2002converted by force to Christianity\u2002\u2014\u2002as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Arag\u00f3n and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Arag\u00f3n, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Arag\u00f3n for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by San\u00e7 and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Arag\u00f3n.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.", "question": "What did the moors try to do to keep the peace and this this keep them from being subdued?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Particles do not move as much", "The more energy the faster the particles move", "Particles with little energy move slow, while particles with a lot of energy move fast. The more energy there is, the faster the particles of matter move" ], "distractor groups": [ "They become electrical energy", "They are converted", "Change", "Particles move faster" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Simply put, energy is the ability to a cause change.
Sent 2: Energy can cause many types of change.
Sent 3: Think about when you have a lot of energy.
Sent 4: You are able to do a lot of things.
Sent 5: When you dont have a lot of energy, you may sit around and do very little.
Sent 6: A similar thing happens to particles of matter as energy is added.
Sent 7: The more energy there is, the faster the particles of matter move.
Sent 8: Energy is also the reason you are able to move around.
Sent 9: In fact, matter is always in motion.
Sent 10: It can even change from one form to another.
Sent 11: For example, electrical energy can be converted into heat energy.
Sent 12: You see this every time you use the toaster.
Sent 13: Energy causes a change in matter when you lift your arm.
Sent 14: Energy can be used to move matter.
Sent 15: You use energy to take a step to move forward.
Sent 16: Thanks to energy, your body moves.
Sent 17: The energy of moving matter is called kinetic energy.", "question": "What happens to particles with little energy as opposed to particles with a lot of energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bought the Desert Inn's and fired management", "He purchased the Desert Inn and fired the management staff after they asked him to vacate his room", "Bought the Desert Inn and fired the management", "He took up residence in the Desert Inn, then purchased the hotel when asked to leave", "Cloistered himself in the Desert Inn penthouse", "Went on a 3-year buying spree in Las Vegas" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bought 5 casinos", "He built the Mirage, a new kind of resort", "He purchased all of his properties with cash", "Joined the mob", "Established the Hilton Hotel" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas\u2002\u2014\u2002corporate cash.
Sent 2: Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities.
Sent 3: That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes.
Sent 4: A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos.
Sent 5: True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse.
Sent 6: Several weeks later he was asked\u2002\u2014\u2002then ordered\u2002\u2014\u2002to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management.
Sent 7: Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, 300-million Las Vegas buying spree.
Sent 8: When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains.
Sent 9: Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting.
Sent 10: Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant.
Sent 11: That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city.
Sent 12: Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged.
Sent 13: The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US.
Sent 14: What was once a sure thing became much more competitive.
Sent 15: Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business.
Sent 16: The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget.
Sent 17: In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort.
Sent 18: He bought several Strip properties\u2002\u2014\u2002the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them\u2002\u2014\u2002and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort\u2002\u2014\u2002Mirage\u2002\u2014\u2002 which became an instant success.", "question": "What did Hughes do to show his style and his dramatic side?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet", "Committing crimes against the security of the state", "Crimes against the security of State" ], "distractor groups": [ "Terrorism", "Espionage", "Murder" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed.
Sent 2: The decision to release the prisoners follows \"numerous requests\" from their family members and religious institutions, and is a humanitarian gesture, said Cuban President Raul Castro.
Sent 3: Among those who might be freed are prisoners over the age of 60, along with those who are sick, female or young with no previous criminal record.
Sent 4: With some exceptions, prisoners convicted of spying, terrorism, murder and drug trafficking will not be released.
Sent 5: Those who will be freed have already served a \"important\" part of their sentences and exhibited good behavior, according to an official statement published on the state-run website Cubadebate.
Sent 6: The jailed American, Gross, will not be among those pardoned, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington said.
Sent 7: Gross was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy.
Sent 8: Castro has accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet, and this year Cuba's highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on Gross for committing crimes against the security of the state.
Sent 9: He has maintained his innocence and said he was trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet.
Sent 10: Castro, speaking to the National Assembly, said that 86 prisoners from 25 countries would be among those released in coming days.
Sent 11: He cited the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI as one of the motivations behind the move, which he said showed the \"generosity and strength of the revolution.\"
Sent 12: The pope has said he plans to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter.", "question": "What was Gross accused of that ultimately led to his arrest in December 2009?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because Portuguese chose to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade instead", "They sought to develop trade routes, not conquer nations", "The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations. To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history" ], "distractor groups": [ "They made the survivors slaves", "Because Portuguese noblemen organized a palace coup", "Because the 1386 Treaty of Windsor forbade it", "They made the survivors leave the area", "They didn't kill the survivors" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebasti\u00e3o ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebasti\u00e3o's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a \"legitimate target\" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.", "question": "Why was Portugal's conquest of many ports said to not be \"blood-soaked\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No", "You are only temporarily overcoming gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "If you reach space, yes", "Yes", "If you jump really high" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "Are you overcoming gravity for an hour when you jump on a trampoline?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Approximately 20", "20", "Twenty" ], "distractor groups": [ "34", "18", "28", "22", "Thirty" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: And William Martinez, 28, who cut his medical school studies short because he couldn't afford the 39,000 in loans after two years of graduate school and four years of college.
Sent 2: Martinez works two jobs as a physician's assistant and supports his elderly parents and 8-year-old son.
Sent 3: Uncommon Good has a 22-member board of doctors, lawyers and representatives of Christian groups and is recruiting mentors.
Sent 4: One goal is to get the state Legislature to pass a law to provide loan forgiveness to medical professionals and lawyers who work with the poor.
Sent 5: Mintie said she hopes her organization can be a national model for other professions.
Sent 6: She is trying to bring legal aid services to the Inland Valley -- the closest legal aid office is in El Monte and represents 700,000 poor people throughout the San Fernando, San Gabriel and Inland valleys.
Sent 7: \"Unless the legal aid is in the community, you can't say you are serving the poor,\" Mintie said.
Sent 8: Neal Dudovitz is the executive director of Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, the legal aid office in El Monte.
Sent 9: He sees attorneys new to poverty law leave all the time because they can't afford the salary with their law school debt.
Sent 10: \"She's really opened a lot of eyes in terms of having people understand how the educational debt is limiting and reducing the services that are available to low-income communities,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 11: \"Nancy is light years ahead of the curve on this stuff.
Sent 12: Very little is being done practically to solve it.\"
Sent 13: Mintie, her colleagues say, could have made a lot of money in private practice.
Sent 14: \"She's very kind and pleasant,\" said Julius Thompson, 45, an attorney at Inner City Law Center and an Uncommon Good recipient.
Sent 15: \"But she's also a woman on a mission.
Sent 16: When she sets her sights on something, she's a formidable force.\"", "question": "How old was William Martinez when he had his son?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He wants to feel his suffering", "It would not personally satisy him", "Because his courage fails him to do so", "Because his courage fails him the way it does to confront the culprit" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because he lacks the stregth to phisically commit suicide", "Because he loves his life", "Because his girlfriend dissuades him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { lang } } centers on a man who roams the street night after night .
Sent 2: Hidden under his hat and rain jacket he strives for one goal : to find the culprit - the one whom he can make responsible for his suffering .
Sent 3: If he wanted to , he could confront him , but he lacks the audacity to do so .
Sent 4: He considers suicide , but his courage fails him once again .
Sent 5: The options do not appear to present him with a way out and would not personally satisfy him .
Sent 6: Finley blames not himself , but only others .
Sent 7: In this case he looks to his girlfriend , Violet .
Sent 8: He drowns Violet in the bath whilst giving her a massage , Which had become a common ritual for them .
Sent 9: On one hand he does this out of malice , on the other to be close to her just one more time .
Sent 10: Through this action he wishes to break the growing distance he has come to feel between them , though the actual outcome is the infliction of the greatest possible loneliness , as he turns into a monster .
Sent 11: Finley only realizes with hindsight that his misdeeds far surpass those of Violet .", "question": "Why doesn't Finley end his suffering by committing suicide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because he has a relapse from the snake bite", "Because Sir Basil was bitten by a snake and has a relapse" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because the mummy kills him", "Because he dies from the snake bite", "Because he's actually insane" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey .
Sent 2: The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection .
Sent 3: Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried .
Sent 4: The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb .
Sent 5: They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud .
Sent 6: Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb .
Sent 7: He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo .
Sent 8: Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud .
Sent 10: The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum .
Sent 11: One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face .", "question": "Why is it possible for Preston to take advantage of Sir Basil?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Osama Bin Laden", "Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "US president", "Many afghans", "Zinni", "People of Afghanistan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "Funding to kill who was denied due to fear of dictators misusing a military?" }, { "answer groups": [ "UM Law School", "UM", "University of Mississippi" ], "distractor groups": [ "MM Law School", "Yale", "VM Law School", "Oxford Law School", "MIT", "LSU", "Harvard" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Catherine V. \"Ginny\" Kilgore of Oxford, an attorney with North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, has been recognized for her dedication to serving the indigent.
Sent 2: Kilgore - who oversees delivering legal services to the disabled and elderly in 39 north Mississippi counties - is recipient of the University of Mississippi School of Law's 2002 Public Service Award.
Sent 3: The award was announced recently at a dinne r, held in Kilgore's honor and hosted by law school Dean Samuel M. Davis, who presented her with an engraved plaque.
Sent 4: \"Ginny Kilgore is a public servant in the truest sense,\" said Davis.
Sent 5: \"Her selection continues the tradition of this award in recognizing those who have labored in the trenches, with little or no compensation but with great professional and personal satisfaction in helping to bring justice and equality to those who need it most.\"
Sent 6: \"This award means a great deal to me,\" Kilgore said, pointing to others so honored.
Sent 7: \"The work of those who received the award before me has been so important; I feel very honored.\"
Sent 8: After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in education and a few years teaching, Kilgore enrolled at the UM law school.
Sent 9: Upon graduation in 1975, she entered private law practice in Oxford, joining NMRLS in 1978.
Sent 10: Since then, she has earned promotions from managing attorney, senior attorney, then director of the Council on Aging project.
Sent 11: Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
Sent 12: She also is an adjunct professor in the UM law school's Civil Law Clinic.
Sent 13: She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
Sent 14: Kilgore says she's found her niche.
Sent 15: \"I've always thought it was important to do work to help people.
Sent 16: I really enjoy it.
Sent 17: The issues I've dealt with through the years have been on the side of helping people maintain the basics of life - home, healt h care, jobs and family.\"
Sent 18: She says her desire to serve others was sparked early, growing up in a single-parent home, aware that her widowed mother faced certain challenges as she supported her four children through public school and college.", "question": "After her undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, where did Kilgore attend law school?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The outer core that consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel", "The outer core" ], "distractor groups": [ "Inner core", "Earths interior" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "Where do scientists think the earth's magnetic field is generated?" }, { "answer groups": [ "TV Acting", "Musician", "Male Model", "Pornography" ], "distractor groups": [ "Music", "Male model", "Construction worker" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dirk Diggler was born as Steven Samuel Adams on April 15 , 1961 outside of Saint Paul , Minnesota .
Sent 2: His parents were a construction worker and a boutique shop owner who attended church every Sunday and believed in God .
Sent 3: Looking for a career as a male model , Diggler dropped out of school at age 16 and left home .
Sent 4: He was discovered at a falafel stand by Jack Horner .
Sent 5: Diggler met his friend , Reed Rothchild , through Horner in 1979 while working on a film .
Sent 6: Horner slowly introduced Diggler to the business until he became noticeable within the industry .
Sent 7: Diggler became a prominent model and began appearing in pornographic films , after Which his career took off .
Sent 8: He had critical and box office hits Which led him to stardom .
Sent 9: The hits and publicity led to fame and money Which led Diggler to the world of drugs .
Sent 10: With the amount of money Diggler was making he was able to support both his and Rothchild's addictions .
Sent 11: The drugs eventually caused a breakup between Diggler and Horner since Diggler was having issues with his performance on set .
Sent 12: After the breakup Diggler tried to make a film himself but the film was never completed .
Sent 13: He then attempted a music career Which was also successful but led him deeper into drugs because of the amount of money he was making .
Sent 14: He then starred in a TV show Which was a failure both critically and commercially .
Sent 15: Having failed and with no work , Diggler returned to the porn industry taking roles in low-budget homosexual films to help support his habit .", "question": "Which career did Diggler go after and became famous in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes, the vehicle was partially submerged in mud", "It was partially submerged in the mud", "Yes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes, its driver's side was below the mud surface", "Predator", "No, it was completely free of the mud" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Shain Gandee, one of the stars of the MTV reality show \"Buckwild,\" has been found dead along with two other people in Kanawha County, West Virginia, authorities said Monday.
Sent 2: \"This is a very sad and tragic event,\" Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said.
Sent 3: \"We live in a very small community.
Sent 4: Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family.\"
Sent 5: Gandee, 21, was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle, David Dwight Gandee, 48, and Donald Robert Myers, 27, authorities said.
Sent 6: 'Buckwild' producer talks about the show \"Earlier this day after releasing information Shain Gandee was missing, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area near Thaxton Hollow, Sissonville, Kanawha County WV,\" said a statement from the Sheriff's Office.
Sent 7: \"Deputies and members of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department used all terrain vehicles to access that vehicle, a 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family.
Sent 8: The vehicle was in a muddy area along a worn path.
Sent 9: Inside were the bodies of three people.\"
Sent 10: In a subsequent release, the Sheriff's Office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud.
Sent 11: It was uneven but upright; its muffler was below the surface.
Sent 12: Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco's passenger side door, but the driver's side, where the younger Gandee sat, was free, the Sheriff's Office said.
Sent 13: Gandee was happy with life before death He was one of the nine cast members of \"Buckwild.\"
Sent 14: The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville, West Virginia, pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their all-terrain vehicles.
Sent 15: Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done \"every job from coal mining to being a garbage man.\"", "question": "Was the vehicle fund in the mud?" }, { "answer groups": [ "President Clinton", "President Clinton and National security advisor Samuel Berger insured they had daily reports on Bin Laden's reported location", "Bill Clinton" ], "distractor groups": [ "Abu Zubaydah and Samuel Berger insured they had daily reports on Bin Laden's reported location", "Abu Zubaydah", "Raed Hijazi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "National security advisor Samuel Berger and who insured they had daily reports on Bin Laden's reported locationA. President ClintonB. President Clinton and National security advisor Samuel Berger insured they had daily reports on Bin Laden's reported locationC. Abu Zubaydah and Samuel Berger insured they had daily reports on Bin Laden's reported locationD. Abu ZubaydahE. Bill ClintonF. Raed HijaziPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.Over the years the glaciers melted and the lake evaporated", "Caves", "In caves, changed dramatically" ], "distractor groups": [ "Desert regions", "In permanent shelters, utilized for formal agriculture", "New lakes discovered" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "Where did the people live and what happened to the landscape over the years?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Giuliani", "Mayor Giuliani" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mayor Blasio", "Lawyers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One of the most dramatic changes in priorities proposed by the City Council would shift 25.6 million from funding for court-appointed lawyers to the Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: In a document released yesterday to justify its reordered priorities, the Council contended that Legal Aid can achieve greater economies of scale than lawyers appointed pursuant to Article 18-B of the County Law.
Sent 3: The Council document also noted that \"inexplicably\" 18-B lawyers are handling 50 percent of the indigent criminal cases in New York City, even though their mandate is to handle only multi-defendant cases where the Legal Aid Society had a conflict.
Sent 4: In past years, the City Council had consistently added 5.6 million to the 54.7 million proposed for the Legal Aid Society by former Mayor Giuliani, bringing the total to just a shade over 60 million.
Sent 5: But this year for the first time, the Council is proposing shifting more than 20 million in funds earmarked by the Mayor for 18-B lawyers to the Legal Aid Society, which would increase its total funding to 80.4 million.
Sent 6: That would reflect a jump in its current finding of about one-third.
Sent 7: Meantime, the City Council proposed slashing the Mayor's allocation of 62.8 million for 18-B lawyers by 66 percent, to 21.4 million.", "question": "Which former mayor had an allocation of $62.8 million for lawyers appointed pursuant to Article 18-B?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It causes a giant hole to be present in that area which changes the structure of the surface there", "It leaves a giant hole in the ground where there may once have been a forest or a prairie where many plants and animals may once have lived" ], "distractor groups": [ "Forest get crowded with plants and animals", "Lose of Water", "It changes the chemical composition of the surface", "Plants and animals are turned into giant holes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "How does mining change the earth's surface?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because bin ladin had told that he could no longer protect them and they had to leave the country", "Bin Laden told the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave Sudan", "Because he couldn't protect them anymore", "Because he told them he could not protect them" ], "distractor groups": [ "He organised a terroristic attach in Libyia", "Because bin ladin had begun to have money problems", "Because they members couldn't protect him anymore" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.", "question": "Why did several Libyan members of al Qaeda renounce all connections with Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wind vane", "Anemometer", "Rain gauge", "Thermometer", "Snow gauge", "Hygrometer", "Some tools are a thermometer and wind vane" ], "distractor groups": [ "Clock", "Oscilloscope", "Ratchet", "Bike pump", "Micrometer", "Screwdriver", "Force gauge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You might want to know how cold it is.
Sent 2: You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing.
Sent 3: Maybe it rained last night?
Sent 4: Do you know how much?
Sent 5: Does it feel humid to you?
Sent 6: You have heard all these questions before.
Sent 7: To answer these questions, we need data.
Sent 8: That data comes from special tools.
Sent 9: These tools collect data about the weather.
Sent 10: You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature.
Sent 11: An anemometer measures wind speed.
Sent 12: A rain gauge measures the amount of rain.
Sent 13: A hygrometer measures humidity.
Sent 14: A wind vane shows wind direction.
Sent 15: A snow gauge measures the amount of snow.", "question": "What are some common tools?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The advent of the Bronze Age about 3200 b.c. and the spread of city-states ruled by kings,", "The Bronze Age", "A period of time known as the Bronze Age, dating from 3200 b.c" ], "distractor groups": [ "The latter part of the Stone Age", "The Neolithic Period", "The Golden Crescent", "Steel Age", "5500 b.c", "The Pelolithic Eraa" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity.
Sent 2: Widespread finds of Stone Age implements in cave excavations show that Anatolia was already inhabited during the Middle of the Palaeolithic period (about 200,000 to 40,000 years ago).
Sent 3: By Neolithic times, organized communities had arisen, such as the one at \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, near Konya, Turkey's most important prehistoric site.
Sent 4: This town, which flourished between 6500 and 5500 b.c.
Sent 5: , had flat-roofed houses of mud and timber decorated with wall-paintings, some of which show patterns that still appear on Anatolian kilims.
Sent 6: The advent of the Bronze Age (about 3200 b.c.
Sent 7: ), and the spread of city-states ruled by kings, is marked by the appearance of royal tombs containing bronze objects in such places as Troy in the west, and Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck near Ankara.
Sent 8: Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world's oldest form of writing on record.
Sent 9: The technique was introduced by Assyrian traders 1,000 years later in\u00adto Anatolia, where it was qui\u00adck\u00adly adopted by the indigenous Hatti people, who, at this point, had already reached an ad\u00ad\u00advanced state of civilization.
Sent 10: The Hittites: The capital of the Hatti was Kanesh (modern K\u00fcltepe, near Kayseri).
Sent 11: Cuneiform tablets found here record the arrival in Anatolia of warlike invaders around the second mill\u00adennium b.c.
Sent 12: Their origins remain a my\u00ads\u00adtery (their written language was finally deciphered in 1915), but they came from the direction of the Caucasus moun\u00adtains, spreading destruction and disorder throughout Anatolia.
Sent 13: It was two hundred years before they were firmly entrenched in their newly conquered empire.
Sent 14: The newcomers were the Hittites, and their domination of Anatolia can be divided into three distinct periods: the Old Kingdom (c.
Sent 15: 1600\u20131450 b.c.
Sent 16: ), then the New or Empire Period (c.
Sent 17: 1450\u20131200 b.c.
Sent 18: ), and the Late Hittite Period (c.", "question": "What time in history was marked by the appearance of royal tombs containing bronze objects in such places as Troy in the west?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Increases in size", "It increases" ], "distractor groups": [ "Decreased", "Decreases in size" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "When you breathe in, what happens to the size of your chest?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An opulent moon was visible", "There was an opulent moon" ], "distractor groups": [ "The moonlight was visible", "A cresten moon" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Miss Anderson dined out, and preferred to suppose that she had no time to think until she was on her way home along the empty road round Jakko at eleven o'clock that night.
Sent 2: Then it pleased her to get out of her rickshaw and walk.
Sent 3: There was an opulent moon, the vast hills curving down to the plains were all grey and silvery, and the deodars overhead fretted the road with dramatic shadows.
Sent 4: About her hung the great stillness in a mighty loneliness in which little Simla is set, and it freed her from what had happened, so that she could look at it and cry out.
Sent 5: She actually did speak, pausing in the little pavilion on the road where the nursemaids gather in the daytime, but very low, so that her words fell round her even in that silence, and hardly a deodar was aware.
Sent 6: 'I will not go now,' she said.
Sent 7: 'I will stay and realize that he is another woman's husband.
Sent 8: That should cure me if anything will--to see him surrounded by the commonplaces of married life, that kind of married life.
Sent 9: I will stay till she comes and a fortnight after.
Sent 10: Besides, I want to see her--I want to see how far she comes short.'
Sent 11: She was silent for a moment, and the moonlight played upon her smile of quiet triumph.
Sent 12: 'He cares too,' she said; 'he cares too, but he doesn't know it, and I promise you one thing, Madeline Anderson, you won't help him to find out.
Sent 13: And in five weeks I will go away and leave my love where I found it--on a mountaintop in the middle of Asia!'", "question": "What type of moon was visible at eleven o'clock?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Moving water has kinetic energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "No it does not have kinetic energy", "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "Does moving water have kinetic energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Turn around a struggling economy, address regional tensions", "To turn around Japan's struggling economy", "To turn around the economy" ], "distractor groups": [ "To put an end to human trafficking", "To stop drug smuggling", "To cede Japan's independence to other Asian countries", "To combat crime" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Japan's prime minister conceded defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, signaling the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party and ending the brief rule of the disappointing upstart Democratic Party of Japan.
Sent 2: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to step down as party president after exit polls showed a smashing loss in lower house voting.
Sent 3: The party, once seen as a breath of fresh air in Japanese politics, came to be regarded as increasingly ineffective.
Sent 4: \"We got a regrettable result,\" Noda said.
Sent 5: \"The result is everything in the politics.
Sent 6: The biggest responsibility lies on me.
Sent 7: I will quit as the partly leader of DPJ.\"
Sent 8: The move clears the way for the return to power of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the current leader of the conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP.
Sent 9: \"The Japanese people will be keenly looking whether the LDP can meet with their expectations,\" Abe said in interviews after the polling.
Sent 10: The LDP ruled the country almost continuously since its establishment in 1955 until it was forced from power three years ago by the DPJ.
Sent 11: Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP and its coalition partner, the new Komei party, gained at least 302 seats in the 480-seat lower house.
Sent 12: CNN's main affiliate, TV Asahi, reports the LDP/Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats.
Sent 13: The official count is expected to be released Monday.
Sent 14: The LDP is inheriting a struggling economy, regional tensions and questions over Japan's role in Asia.
Sent 15: \"The economy is at the bottom.
Sent 16: It's our first mission to turn it around,\" Abe said.", "question": "What is the first mission of the LDP?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret", "Bin Laden locating himself in US cities in the future", "Bin Laden would locate himself in cities and that Pakastani authories would not get proper warning", "That Bin Laden would locate himself in cities in the future and that Pakistani authorities would not get proper warning" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Laden would attack too early and the military would not act", "Pakistani authorities would respond to Al Qaeda assaults", "Bin Laden would stay where he is", "Pakistani authorities would get plenty of warning before attacks", "That Pakistani authorities wouldn't get proper warning and that the AC-130 option was not feasible" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "What were the two things that Zinni worried about?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Martyrdom, his \"Caliphate,\" and simplistic conspiracies to explain their world", "\"All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.\"", "They rationalize mass murder with their faith" ], "distractor groups": [ "Barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief", "Offers them a kind and peaceful interpretation of Islam" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "What does Sayyid Qutb offer to those who espouse his writings?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Around 1785", "1780s" ], "distractor groups": [ "Before", "1983", "1787" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not.
Sent 2: In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable.
Sent 3: Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks.
Sent 4: In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS).
Sent 5: John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president.
Sent 6: Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates.
Sent 7: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York.
Sent 8: In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina.
Sent 9: He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument.
Sent 10: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves.
Sent 11: Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries.
Sent 12: In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France.
Sent 13: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).", "question": "When did Hamilton attend the second meeting of the NYMS where he later became president of?" }, { "answer groups": [ "People who are union workers", "Union workers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Democrats", "Congress", "Republicans", "\"White-Collar\" workers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "Who were many of the people happy about what the president was saying in his speech about renewing the country's transportation infrastructure?" }, { "answer groups": [ "17 members", "At 17 members were killed and at least 40 members wounded in the attack", "The attack killed 17 members of the ship's crew and wounded at least 40" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wounding at least 40", "The entire crew of 68 were killed in the massive explosion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri.
Sent 2: As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives.
Sent 3: They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.
Sent 4: In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.
Sent 5: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Sent 6: The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40.
Sent 7: The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden.
Sent 8: He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment.
Sent 9: Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen.
Sent 10: Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier.
Sent 11: Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
Sent 12: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Sent 13: Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras.
Sent 15: Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack.
Sent 16: Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden.", "question": "How many casualties resulted in the attack on the U.S Navy Destroyer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Petroleum", "Natural gas", "Oil, coal and petroleum", "Coal" ], "distractor groups": [ "Water", "Solar", "Electricity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Imagine a glass of your favorite drink that never became empty.
Sent 2: Now think about what really happens.
Sent 3: You take a drink and there is less in the glass.
Sent 4: You keep drinking and soon it is all gone.
Sent 5: Good thing you have more to refill your glass.
Sent 6: What if there would never be any more of your favorite drink.
Sent 7: What would you do?
Sent 8: Now you know the difference between renewable and non-renewable.
Sent 9: Its too bad that many things here on Earth will run out.
Sent 10: This includes some of our natural resources we depend on.
Sent 11: Things like oil will not last forever.
Sent 12: There is a limited supply.
Sent 13: Someday, we will run out, so then what?
Sent 14: At current rates of use, coal will last about 300 years.
Sent 15: Petroleum will be used up in just a few decades.", "question": "What are some examples of resources that will run out?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"The Lust of the White Snake\" and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\"", "\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Lust of the White Serpant\u00e2\u0080\u009d & \u00e2\u0080\u009cEternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\u00e2\u0080\u009d" ], "distractor groups": [ "Madam White Snake", "\"Love\", \"Hate\"", "Pagoda" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "What novellas are morality tales about Asia's Femme Fatale White Snake?" }, { "answer groups": [ "oxygen", "liquid", "gas", "solid" ], "distractor groups": [ "nitrogen", "matter", "Chlorine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Physical properties include the state of matter.
Sent 2: We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas.
Sent 3: Properties can also include color and odor.
Sent 4: For example, oxygen is a gas.
Sent 5: It is a major part of the air we breathe.
Sent 6: It is colorless and odorless.
Sent 7: Chlorine is also a gas.
Sent 8: In contrast to oxygen, chlorine is greenish in color.
Sent 9: It has a strong, sharp odor.
Sent 10: Have you ever smelled cleaning products used around your home?
Sent 11: If so, you have probably smelled chlorine.
Sent 12: Another place you might smell chlorine is at a public swimming pool.
Sent 13: The chlorine is used to kill bacteria that may grow in the water.
Sent 14: Other physical properties include hardness, freezing, and boiling points.
Sent 15: Some substances have the ability to dissolve in other substances.
Sent 16: Some substances cannot be dissolved.
Sent 17: For example, salt easily dissolves in water.
Sent 18: Oil does not dissolve in water.", "question": "Name the three states of matter and give and name a gas that is in the air we breath to stay alive.A. nitrogenB. oxygenC. matterD. liquidE. gasF. ChlorineG. solidPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In a process called nuclear fission", "\"It's released.\"", "The energy is released", "This energy can be released and used to do work" ], "distractor groups": [ "The energy converts", "Causes photosynthesis", "The atoms fuse back together", "Becomes kinetic energy", "In a process called rebound fusion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.", "question": "What happens to the energy of an atom if the nucleus is split apart?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Roosevelt", "President Roosevelt" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hitler", "Kennedy", "President Eisenhower", "White House's Oval Office", "The Belgian Royal Family" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To make certain the U.S. was aware of the danger, in July 1939, a few months before the beginning of World War II in Europe, Szilard and Wigner visited Einstein to explain the possibility of atomic bombs, which Einstein, a pacifist, said he had never considered.
Sent 2: He was asked to lend his support by writing a letter, with Szilard, to President Roosevelt, recommending the U.S. pay attention and engage in its own nuclear weapons research.
Sent 3: A secret German facility, apparently the largest of the Third Reich, covering 75 acres in an underground complex, was being re-excavated in Austria in December 2014 and may have been planned for use in nuclear research and development.
Sent 4: The letter is believed to be \"arguably the key stimulus for the U.S. adoption of serious investigations into nuclear weapons on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II\".
Sent 5: In addition to the letter, Einstein used his connections with the Belgian Royal Family and the Belgian queen mother to get access with a personal envoy to the White House's Oval Office.
Sent 6: President Roosevelt could not take the risk of allowing Hitler to possess atomic bombs first.
Sent 7: As a result of Einstein's letter and his meetings with Roosevelt, the U.S. entered the \"race\" to develop the bomb, drawing on its \"immense material, financial, and scientific resources\" to initiate the Manhattan Project.
Sent 8: It became the only country to successfully develop an atomic bomb during World War II.
Sent 9: For Einstein, \"war was a disease ... [and] he called for resistance to war.\"
Sent 10: By signing the letter to Roosevelt he went against his pacifist principles.
Sent 11: In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein said to his old friend, Linus Pauling, \"I made one great mistake in my life--when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification--the danger that the Germans would make them ...\"", "question": "Which US president did the Belgian Royal Family help Einstein contact?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Formally called \"pro se\" in latin", "Common in civil cases", "Right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court", "It is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court, it is most common in civil cases, and it was formally called \"pro se\"", "Self-representation can be difficult due to the legal terminology, the volumes of case law to understand and the strict procedures to follow" ], "distractor groups": [ "Commonly used in U.S. Supreme Court", "Commonly used in lake county", "There are volumes of legal terms to learn, it is more common in criminal than in civil cases, and it used to be called \"pro bono\" representation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "What are some facts about self-representation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The crash of flight 2553", "Several planes lost due to negligence and the Flight 2553 plane crash", "The number of planes lost", "Planes lost to negligence" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lack or regulation", "The Air Force controls the airlines", "The bag of plastic planes", "The camera in the control room", "Lack of profit" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The documentary portrays a behind-the-scenes look at the poor state of Argentina's civil aviation , and puts the blame on the Argentine Air Force .
Sent 2: The Air Force has been in control of air traffic operations since the military takeover of General Juan Carlos Ongan a in 1966 .
Sent 3: The producer/director , Enrique Pi eyro , claims Argentina and Nigeria are the only countries whose air force controls and regulates the airline industry .
Sent 4: Pi eyro , a former Argentine airline pilot , makes his case in the documentary using diagrams , 3D animations , interviews , hidden cameras in the control tower , and a few props .
Sent 5: For example , at one point he spills out a bag of plastic airplanes and equates it to the number of planes the air force has lost due to negligence .
Sent 6: The film is heavily based on the Austral L neas A reas Flight 2553 plane crash .
Sent 7: Enrique Pi eyro takes his camera , secretly , into the control tower of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport also-known-as Ezeiza , the international airport at Buenos Aires .", "question": "What are two main issues that indicate the \"poor state\" of Argentina's civil aviation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In South Kordofan, Sudanese province", "South Kordofan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Usa", "South sudan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan.
Sent 2: At least eight bombs were dropped in the area Wednesday during the school's first day of classes, according to a statement by Samaritan's Purse, Graham's Christian humanitarian group, which supports the school.
Sent 3: Two bombs landed inside the compound -- located in the region's Nuba Mountains -- destroying two Heiban Bible College buildings and igniting grass fires across the area, the group said in a statement No injuries were reported.
Sent 4: \"It was a miracle that no one was injured,\" the statement added.
Sent 5: Graham, who has called on the international community to take out Sudan's air assets and establish a no-fly zone in the region, said in a statement Thursday that he blamed Sudan's air force for the strike.
Sent 6: At least four churches have been destroyed since August, the group said.
Sent 7: \"We are deeply concerned for the welfare and lives of the people of South Kordofan and we condemn the bombing of churches and Christian facilities,\" added Graham, son of the famed Rev. Billy Graham.
Sent 8: More than 78,000 people have fled South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since August of last year after an armed rebellion took root, the United Nations reported.
Sent 9: The Sudanese government is thought to have responded to the rebellion by conducting sustained air raids with the use of Russian-made Antonov bombers, which have raised concerns over civilian casualties.
Sent 10: Decades of civil war between the north and south, costing as many as 2 million lives, formally ended with a U.S.-brokered peace treaty in 2005.", "question": "Where did the bombs drop?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Warm and moist conditions", "There needs to be sunlight and water", "Long days, enough moisture and warmer temperature" ], "distractor groups": [ "Very dry and hot conditions", "Somewhat cold and dry" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right.", "question": "What are the right conditions for plants to grow in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administration", "The war on drugs began with the Nixon administration and it was an animated story of the US that covered gun rights and other matters", "Nixon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Johnson", "The film focused on JFK and his declaration of a \"War on Drugs\" during his administration", "Carter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Animated history of the US.
Sent 2: Of course the cartoon is highly oversimplified, and most critics consider it one of the weakest parts of the film.
Sent 3: But it makes a valid claim which you ignore entirely: That the strategy to promote \"gun rights\" for white people and to outlaw gun possession by black people was a way to uphold racism without letting an openly terrorist organization like the KKK flourish.
Sent 4: Did the 19th century NRA in the southern states promote gun rights for black people?
Sent 5: I highly doubt it.
Sent 6: But if they didn't, one of their functions was to continue the racism of the KKK.
Sent 7: This is the key message of this part of the animation, which is again being ignored by its critics.
Sent 8: Buell shooting in Flint.
Sent 9: You write: \"Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before\".
Sent 10: This characterization of a six-year-old as a pencil-stabbing thug is exactly the kind of hysteria that Moore's film warns against.
Sent 11: It is the typical right-wing reaction which looks for simple answers that do not contradict the Republican mindset.
Sent 12: The kid was a little bastard, and the parents were involved in drugs -- case closed.
Sent 13: But why do people deal with drugs?
Sent 14: Because it's so much fun to do so?
Sent 15: It is by now well documented that the CIA tolerated crack sales in US cities to fund the operation of South American \"contras\" It is equally well known that the so-called \"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administration is a failure which has cost hundreds of billions and made America the world leader in prison population (both in relative and absolute numbers).", "question": "Under whose administration did the war on drugs begin and was the focus of the film.A. \"war on drugs\" begun under the Nixon administrationB. JohnsonC. The film focused on JFK and his declaration of a \"War on Drugs\" during his administrationD. CarterE. The war on drugs began with the Nixon administration and it was an animated story of the US that covered gun rights and other mattersF. NixonPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Polished steel two feet long, a foot wide, and three inches thick, and it weighed about fifty pounds", "It was large, made of steel, long and irregular in shape with sharp edges", "It was a mass of polished steel two feet long, a foot wide, and three inches thick, and it weighed about fifty pounds. It was very irregular in shape, with edges sharp as razors, without a particle of rust upon it", "Very irregular in shape, with edges sharp as razors, without a particle of rust upon it" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was a rust covered piece of metal, picked up as it fell", "Was small and well shaped" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Thursday Fort Waelhem succumbed after a magnificent resistance.
Sent 2: The garrison held it until it was a mere heap of ruins, and, indeed, they had the greatest difficulty in making their way out.
Sent 3: I think that there is very little doubt that the Germans were using against these forts their largest guns, the great 42-centimetre howitzers.
Sent 4: It is known that two of these were brought northwards past Brussels after the fall of Maubeuge, and a fragment which was given to us was almost conclusive.
Sent 5: It was brought to us one morning as an offering by a grateful patient, and it came from the neighbourhood of Fort Waelhem.
Sent 6: It was a mass of polished steel two feet long, a foot wide, and three inches thick, and it weighed about fifty pounds.
Sent 7: It was very irregular in shape, with edges sharp as razors, without a particle of rust upon it.
Sent 8: It had been picked up where it fell still hot, and it was by far the finest fragment of shell I have ever seen.
Sent 9: Alas we had to leave it behind, and it lies buried in a back-garden beside our hospital.
Sent 10: Some day it will be dug up, and will be exhibited as conclusive evidence that the Germans did use their big guns in shelling the town.", "question": "What did the gun fragment look like?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The direction of the force is independent of the amount of force", "They both have the same direction", "It explains the size of the force" ], "distractor groups": [ "Distance of force", "Change it's velocity", "Connection of the force", "Motion of the force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Force is a vector.
Sent 2: What then is a vector?
Sent 3: Think about how you would give directions to a friend.
Sent 4: You would not say, just walk half a mile.
Sent 5: The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction!
Sent 6: More information is needed.
Sent 7: You may say, follow this particular road for a half mile.
Sent 8: You may say, look for the green house on Sumter St. In both examples, you provided a direction.
Sent 9: You also gave the distance.
Sent 10: In other words, you provided a vector.
Sent 11: You did not just give a distance.
Sent 12: Both pieces of information are needed to find a location.
Sent 13: This is just like describing forces.
Sent 14: To explain forces, both size and direction are needed.
Sent 15: Notice the girl in Figure 1.1.
Sent 16: She is pushing the swing away from herself.
Sent 17: Thats the direction of the force.
Sent 18: She can give the swing a strong push or a weak push.", "question": "What does a strong push or a weak push have to do with force?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They inspired lots of stories", "They were mistaken for bones", "Fossils inspired myths and stories. These stories included tales of monsters and other incredible creatures.", "They inspired lots of myths" ], "distractor groups": [ "They were used as weapons", "They could kill a human upon a light touch", "They could come back to life if connected to a computer", "They inspired lots of research on dragons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For thousands of years, people have found fossils.
Sent 2: The fossils caused curiosity about Earths past.
Sent 3: How did these organisms live?
Sent 4: What type of world did they live in?
Sent 5: Fossils can tell us a lot about Earths history.
Sent 6: In ancient times, fossils inspired myths and stories.
Sent 7: These stories included tales of monsters and other incredible creatures.
Sent 8: What type of creature do you know that could inspire such stories?
Sent 9: Of course, dinosaur fossils were once mistaken for dragons bones.
Sent 10: Two thousand years ago, people discovered fossils in China.
Sent 11: At the time, they were thought to be dragon bones.
Sent 12: We know now that these were not bones, but fossils.
Sent 13: So what is the difference?", "question": "In ancient times what impact did fossils have on humans?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He had his fur dyed black and his eyes had been treated", "His silken fur, which would be tawny golden and striped with jet black bands, was dyed perfectly to a pure black, and his mane trimmed and thinned as to be indistinguishable from the rest of his coat. His eyes had been treated and darkened to a rich purple to disguise the brilliant golden yellow color that would mark him as an Alpha Arrallin, and leader of his hive", "His eyes have been treated and darkened" ], "distractor groups": [ "He wore a holographic mirage", "His claws were trimmed and he wore fake lenses to cover his eyes", "He shaved his hair and grew a bird to cover his markings", "His fur was cut" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rakal, her first officer, was staring pensively at his panel.
Sent 2: He was what this was all about.
Sent 3: She watched his graceful fingers ending in thick black claws tap out calculations on the panel.
Sent 4: His pointed ears swiveled back and forth, catching every sound from the bridge, while his long tail swished to the rhythm of his thoughts.
Sent 5: Only those of the Arrallin Insurrection inner team knew he was no common 'beta furry'.
Sent 6: His silken fur, which would be tawny golden and striped with jet black bands, was dyed perfectly to a pure black, and his mane trimmed and thinned as to be indistinguishable from the rest of his coat.
Sent 7: His eyes had been treated and darkened to a rich purple to disguise the brilliant golden yellow color that would mark him as an Alpha Arrallin, and leader of his hive.
Sent 8: Right now, he looked like an overgrown wolf who'd learned touch-typing.
Sent 9: The scout ship re-emerged from the hole - a brilliant speck emerging from a sphere of velvety blackness.
Sent 10: It's hail crackled across the comm, and Tara spun to retake her seat at the helm.
Sent 11: \"Launch the second probe.
Sent 12: Won't Central be crushed to learn that another gateway has yielded little more than a class F planet and a white dwarf system.
Sent 13: Level 1 and 2 staffers should prepare to be briefed and move out.
Sent 14: This sounds like it's the one.\"
Sent 15: The distinctive whuffle of pleasure rippled through the betas on the bridge, and Rakal let loose a small growl, as if to caution his charges against false hope.
Sent 16: They'd scouted twenty-seven gates so far, and none had turned up anything worth the Insurrection's time.
Sent 17: Tara would not let giddy hopes drag them onto a rock that would spell the end for the project, and the Arrallin species.", "question": "How had Rakal been disguised to prevent him from being recognized as a hive leader?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fulfill all obligations, be loyal to ones master, defend status and honor, and vassel wives/kids held hostage", "By taking their wives and families hostage", "By holding the vassal's family hostage", "Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals\u00e2\u0080\u0099 wives and children hostage in Edo" ], "distractor groups": [ "Defending one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s status and honor", "Fulfilling all obligations", "By taking the vassal's money", "By the threat of eternal damnation", "Loyalists were rewarded lavishly", "By the threat of death" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "How was loyalty enforced in the bushido?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Enron CEO", "Ken Lay", "Ken Lay and Prescott Bush", "Bush Family" ], "distractor groups": [ "Greg Palast", "The Trumps", "DBTVChoicePoint", "The Clintons", "Texas Air National Guard", "The Obamas" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The film starts with a brief pre-title clip from presenter Greg Palast s aborted interview with Florida Director of Elections Clayton Roberts , who walks out .
Sent 2: Palast introduces George W. Bush with particular reference to his popular image as a war hero cemented in the public mind by his landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln for the 2003 Mission Accomplished Speech .
Sent 3: However Palast alleges that Bush used his father s influence to gain a draft-dodging placement with the Texas Air National Guard Which he subsequently failed to serve .
Sent 4: Palast picks up the story with Bush s 2000 US Presidential Election campaign where he claims Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris used their influence to purge and discount the ballots of predominantly Gore-supporting black voters through the fake felons list compiled by private company DBT/ChoicePoint for US 4 million .
Sent 5: Palast goes on to examine the corporate donors to Bush s election campaign , such as Enron CEO Ken Lay , who as members of Bush s pioneer network contributed huge sums through family and friends , and who he claims subsequently profited from the Bush presidency with senior government appointments , no-bid contracts , executive orders and deregulation .
Sent 6: Palast outlines what he refers to as the Bush-cycle , where Bush family members use money to gain political office and then use the office to gain even more money , dating back to Senator Prescott Bush who funded the family s entry into the oil business , citing the example of Bush s Harken Energy winning a contract to drill in the Persian Gulf thanks he alleges to Bush Snr s presidency .", "question": "Who are the financial providers contributing to Bush's campaign, claimed by Palast?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Negative Charge and Positive Charge", "Positive and negative" ], "distractor groups": [ "Good charges", "Positive", "Outside charges", "Negative charges", "Neutral", "Negative", "Static Charge", "Bad Charges" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Static electricity is like a teeter-totter.
Sent 2: What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced?
Sent 3: Correct!
Sent 4: It does not move.
Sent 5: What about when its not balanced?
Sent 6: Yes, it will now begin to move.
Sent 7: Charges move when they are not balanced.
Sent 8: Charges can build up by friction.
Sent 9: Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet.
Sent 10: Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges.
Sent 11: The wool carpet easily gives up charges.
Sent 12: The two items become unbalanced.
Sent 13: One item has a positive charge.
Sent 14: The other has a negative charge.
Sent 15: The difference in charge is called static electricity.
Sent 16: Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move.
Sent 17: Positive charges build up on the mat.
Sent 18: Negative charges build up on you.", "question": "What two types of charges build up in unbalanced items?" }, { "answer groups": [ "By get accumulated and compacted", "Year after year, the snow that did not melt became thicker and thicker, building up, compacting, and turning into ice", "Layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice" ], "distractor groups": [ "As the temperature rose, the snow started to melt", "By freezing during summer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may be wondering, how can a glacier get so big?
Sent 2: Why does it move?
Sent 3: These are both good questions.
Sent 4: In the winter months, precipitation falls as snow.
Sent 5: This solid form of water builds up on the ground as long as the temperatures stay cold enough.
Sent 6: As the temperature rises, the snow starts to melt.
Sent 7: The frozen water changes state back into a liquid state.
Sent 8: Nearer the poles, summer does not last very long.
Sent 9: If the summer is long enough and warm enough, all the snow may melt.
Sent 10: This is what typically happens now.
Sent 11: The earth was a little cooler 12,000 years ago.
Sent 12: As a result, during the summer months, that amount of snow did not melt.
Sent 13: It may have only been an inch or so of snow that melted.
Sent 14: The following winter, snow fell on top of this left-over snow.
Sent 15: This next winters snowfall had a head start.
Sent 16: Year after year, the snow that did not melt became thicker and thicker.
Sent 17: Inch by inch the snow started to build up.
Sent 18: Over many years, layer upon layer of snow compacted and turned to ice.", "question": "How does the snow turn into ice?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The ashes and gases combined have the same original mass", "Assume you had also trapped the gases released by the burning wood and measured their mass and the mass of the ashes; the ashes and gases combined have the same mass as the wood you started with", "The matter takes on different forms" ], "distractor groups": [ "New matter is created to replace the destroyed matter", "The ashes and gases have the same composition" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you build a campfire, you start with a large stack of sticks and logs.
Sent 2: As the fire burns, the stack slowly shrinks.
Sent 3: By the end of the evening, all that is left is a small pile of ashes.
Sent 4: What happened to the matter that you started with?
Sent 5: Was it destroyed by the flames?
Sent 6: It may seem that way.
Sent 7: What do you think happened?
Sent 8: The truth is that the same amount of matter still exists.
Sent 9: The wood changed not only to ashes, but also to carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases.
Sent 10: The gases floated off into the air, leaving behind just the ashes.
Sent 11: Although matter was changed, it was not created or destroyed.
Sent 12: Because the same amount of matter still exists, we can say that matter is conserved.
Sent 13: You may wonder how it can be conserved if something is now missing?
Sent 14: Assume you had measured the mass of the wood before you burned it.
Sent 15: Assume you had also trapped the gases released by the burning wood and measured their mass and the mass of the ashes.
Sent 16: What would you find?
Sent 17: The ashes and gases combined have the same mass as the wood you started with.
Sent 18: This example illustrates the law of conservation of mass.", "question": "How is matter conserved after wood burns?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They change into pile of ashes", "As the fire burns, the stack slowly shrinks and a while later, all that is left is a small pile of ashes", "They are converted to ashes and gases" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are permanently eliminated from the earth", "They get converted to fire and heat" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you build a campfire, you start with a large stack of sticks and logs.
Sent 2: As the fire burns, the stack slowly shrinks.
Sent 3: By the end of the evening, all that is left is a small pile of ashes.
Sent 4: What happened to the matter that you started with?
Sent 5: Was it destroyed by the flames?
Sent 6: It may seem that way.
Sent 7: What do you think happened?
Sent 8: The truth is that the same amount of matter still exists.
Sent 9: The wood changed not only to ashes, but also to carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases.
Sent 10: The gases floated off into the air, leaving behind just the ashes.
Sent 11: Although matter was changed, it was not created or destroyed.
Sent 12: Because the same amount of matter still exists, we can say that matter is conserved.
Sent 13: You may wonder how it can be conserved if something is now missing?
Sent 14: Assume you had measured the mass of the wood before you burned it.
Sent 15: Assume you had also trapped the gases released by the burning wood and measured their mass and the mass of the ashes.
Sent 16: What would you find?
Sent 17: The ashes and gases combined have the same mass as the wood you started with.
Sent 18: This example illustrates the law of conservation of mass.", "question": "What happens to sticks and logs in a campfire?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Principals Committee", "U.S. counterterrorism", "U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Taliban", "Counterterrorism", "Past U.S counterterrorism efforts", "The USS Cole", "Al Qaeda", "Rice" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4.
Sent 2: On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note.
Sent 3: He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present.
Sent 4: The \"real question\" before the principals, he wrote, was \"are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat?
Sent 5: Is al Qida a big deal?
Sent 6: Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US,\" Clarke wrote.
Sent 7: \"What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier?
Sent 8: That future day could happen at any time.\"
Sent 9: Clarke then turned to the Cole.\"
Sent 10: The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack,\" he wrote.
Sent 11: \"Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price.\"", "question": "Who did Clarke criticized when he sent Rice an impassioned personal note?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Transportation system", "Transportation" ], "distractor groups": [ "Police", "Industry", "Service system", "Agriculture system" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: `` The Octopus , '' a masked crime lord , is bent on crippling the nation with a wave of terror .
Sent 2: He starts with the transportation system and then moves onto industry .
Sent 3: He demands tribute from railroad magnates and other captains of industry .
Sent 4: Richard Wentworth , an amateur criminologist who is friendly with the police , is secretly `` The Spider , '' a masked vigilante equally determined to wipe the Octopus and his gang off the face of the earth .
Sent 5: Pleasant and smiling in civilian life , Wentworth is often ruthless as the Spider , slinging two guns against the public enemies who attack him .
Sent 6: Wentworth also masquerades as affable underworld lowlife Blinky McQuade .
Sent 7: Disguised as McQuade , Wentworth can infiltrate gangland at the hired-gun level and keep current on the gang's plans .
Sent 8: The only people who know Wentworth's other identities are his assistants Jackson and Ram Singh , his butler Jenkins , and his fianc e Nita .
Sent 9: The Octopus was a villain in a single issue pulp believed to have been written by Norvell Page who wrote most of The Spider pulp stories .
Sent 10: He is garbed completely in white and is only ever seen sitting in a chair .
Sent 11: Unlike the pulps , The Spider is garbed in a lightweight full length costume with web-like markings on it Which resemble Spiderman's costume .
Sent 12: The serial follows the standard formula of fights , shoot-outs , Wentworth's friends being kidnapped at various times and having to be rescued .
Sent 13: Each chapter ends with The Spider or his friends in deep trouble , often about to be killed , but the effect is spoiled by a trailer for the next episode Which shows them in full health and fighting the villains .", "question": "With what national system did the villain \"The Octopus\" start his reign of terror?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weight and height above ground", "Height and weight" ], "distractor groups": [ "Height and volume of the object", "Volume and material" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What does gravitational potential energy depend on?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Boston Center to NEADS to First Air Force and NORAD", "Boston Center to NEADS, NEADS to Battle Commander Colonel Robert Marr, Colonel Marr to Major General Larry Arnold" ], "distractor groups": [ "Boston Center to First Air Force", "FAA called Fairfield Air Force Base", "Boston Center directly called NORAD", "FAA called Otis Air Force Base", "FAA initiated a call to the Boston Center TMU" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Military Notification and Response.
Sent 2: Boston Center did not follow the protocol in seeking military assistance through the prescribed chain of command.
Sent 3: In addition to notifications within the FAA, Boston Center took the initiative, at 8:34, to contact the military through the FAA's Cape Cod facility.
Sent 4: The center also tried to contact a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out.
Sent 5: At 8:37:52, Boston Center reached NEADS.
Sent 6: This was the first notification received by the military-at any level-that American 11 had been hijacked: FAA: Hi.
Sent 7: Boston Center TMU [Traffic Management Unit], we have a problem here.
Sent 8: We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York, and we need you guys to, we need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there, help us out.
Sent 9: NEADS: Is this real-world or exercise?
Sent 10: FAA: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.
Sent 11: NEADS ordered to battle stations the two F-15 alert aircraft at Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, 153 miles away from New York City.
Sent 12: The air defense of America began with this call.
Sent 13: At NEADS, the report of the hijacking was relayed immediately to Battle Commander Colonel Robert Marr.
Sent 14: After ordering the Otis fighters to battle stations, Colonel Marr phoned Major General Larry Arnold, commanding general of the First Air Force and NORAD's Continental Region.
Sent 15: Marr sought authorization to scramble the Otis fighters.
Sent 16: General Arnold later recalled instructing Marr to \"go ahead and scramble them, and we'll get authorities later.\"
Sent 17: General Arnold then called NORAD headquarters to report.
Sent 18: F-15 fighters were scrambled at 8:46 from Otis Air Force Base.", "question": "What was the successful sequence of communication?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Engineering and Planning", "City engineering and Planning" ], "distractor groups": [ "Architectural Engineering", "German" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "What course did Atta transfer to, where he received a degree, while living with host family in Hamburg?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nobody", "Marty Blaustein", "Penny's Granddaughter" ], "distractor groups": [ "Willey", "Penny", "Kemp", "Her granddaughter", "Marion Willey" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When 74-year-old Penny Sweat was evicted from the HUD-subsidized Glendale Senior Housing in Salt Lake City last month, she moved to a nonsubsidized apartment at five times her previous rent because she was unaware of her rights.
Sent 2: It turns out the manager of the seniors complex, its attorneys and government overseers were unaware, too.
Sent 3: Lee Kemp, a hearing-impaired World War II disabled vet, also was evicted, but he contacted Utah Legal Services and was told to stay put.
Sent 4: Attorney Marty Blaustein then notified Utah Nonprofit Housing Corp., the building's owner, that Kemp's eviction was not legal and that he had a right to a hearing.
Sent 5: That didn't stop Utah Nonprofit Housing's attorneys from then sending Kemp a summons to show cause why he had not moved out.
Sent 6: Meanwhile, Sweat's granddaughter called Salt Lake City housing officials, federal housing officials, state officials and several agents of Utah Nonprofit Housing to find out about her grandmother's rights.
Sent 7: Nobody knew.
Sent 8: Blaustein then took Sweat's case along with Kemp's and demanded her ousting be rectified.
Sent 9: Utah Nonprofit Housing President Marion Willey returned from an out-of-town trip and learned HUD procedures were not followed.
Sent 10: The eviction was activated because of ongoing personality conflicts among seniors in the complex, he said, and the new building manager decided the problems were with Sweat and Kemp.
Sent 11: Several tenants blame other neighbors as perpetrators of the rift, however.
Sent 12: Willey said when his building manager called attorneys retained by the company, they erroneously told her she could go ahead and kick out the tenants.
Sent 13: When she called HUD to make sure, the inquiry got bogged down in bureaucracy and nobody called her back.
Sent 14: Willey says he has offered Sweat and Kemp apartments in another complex operated by his company at their old rates.
Sent 15: He also is retaining new attorneys.", "question": "Who knew what Penny's rights were?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Electric Current", "Electrons", "Electrical particles" ], "distractor groups": [ "Signal", "Magical particles", "Ampere" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside.
Sent 2: Do you know what is on top of those poles?
Sent 3: Thats right, wires that carry electric current.
Sent 4: These wires carry electric current to your home.
Sent 5: But what is electric current?
Sent 6: Electric current is actually the flow of electrons.
Sent 7: You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom.
Sent 8: They have a negative charge.
Sent 9: Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles.
Sent 10: Electrons are able to move through wires.
Sent 11: Their speed can even be measured.
Sent 12: The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A).
Sent 13: Ampere is often shortened to amp.
Sent 14: Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction.
Sent 15: Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction.
Sent 16: Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights.
Sent 17: Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions.
Sent 18: This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires.", "question": "What kind of particles are carried in the wires at the top of the tall poles along the roadside?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The effects of earthquake, famine, and plague", "Earthquake", "Famine", "Earthquake, famine, and plague", "Plague", "The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment. The treasury was empty after the earthquake, famine, and plague had caused the economy to be crippled" ], "distractor groups": [ "A depression", "War", "Mongol invasion in 1274", "Revolt of the Samurai vassals" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Enter the Shoguns: Japan's austere, ruthless, but statesmanlike new ruler, Yoritomo Minamoto, set up his government in Kamakura (just south of modern Tokyo), well away from the \"softening\" influence of court life that had been the undoing of his predecessor, Kiyomori.
Sent 2: First of the national rulers to take the title of sei-i tai-shogun (\"barbarian-subduing great general\"), Minamoto expanded and consolidated his power by confiscating lands from some of the defeated Taira and redistributing them to his samurai vassals.
Sent 3: Minamoto died in 1199, and the feudal structure passed intact to the tutelage of his widow's family, the Hojo, who were content to play regent to a figurehead shogun, in much the same way as the Fujiwara had done with the emperor.
Sent 4: The fiction of Japanese imperial power had become infinitely extendable.
Sent 5: The emperor at Kyoto\u2002\u2014\u2002still seconded by a Fujiwara regent at court\u2002\u2014\u2002legitimized a Minamoto who was himself a military dictator controlled by a Hojo regent.
Sent 6: In a country where form and substance were inextricably interrelated, two things counted in politics: symbolic authority and real power.
Sent 7: Neither could exist without the other.
Sent 8: A thwarted Mongol invasion in 1274 weakened the Kamakura regime.
Sent 9: The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.
Sent 10: And the treasury was empty after earthquake, famine, and plague had crippled the economy.
Sent 11: Buddhist monasteries were using their private armies to support imperial ambitions to bring power back to Kyoto.
Sent 12: Worst of all, the Kamakura warriors, resenting the way the Kyoto court referred to them as \"Eastern barbarians,\" sought refinement in a ruinous taste for luxury: extravagant feasts, rich costumes, and opulent homes.
Sent 13: Kamakura was falling apart.", "question": "How did the economy collapse?" }, { "answer groups": [ "660 b.c", "660 BC" ], "distractor groups": [ "645 AD", "645 a.d", "19th century", "604 AD", "1260", "1,260 b.c" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Chinese Influences: The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.
Sent 2: Just as Christianity introduced Mediterranean culture into northern Europe, so Buddhism brought Chinese culture into Japanese society.
Sent 3: Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries numerous Japanese monks, scholars, and artists made the perilous trip west across the Sea of Japan to study Chinese religion, history, music, literature, and painting\u2002\u2014\u2002later to be brought back for further development in Japan.
Sent 4: An outstanding figure of this time was Prince Shotoku, who in 604 developed the \"Seventeen-Article Constitution,\" outlining a code of human conduct and the ideals of state as a basic law for the nation.
Sent 5: He also established relations with the Sui dynasty in China.
Sent 6: Through him, the Japanese imperial court developed Chinese patterns of centralized government, with its formal bureaucracy of eight court ranks.
Sent 7: The Chinese calendar was used to calculate the year of Japan's foundation by counting back the 1,260 years of the Chinese cosmological cycle.
Sent 8: Thus, 660 b.c.
Sent 9: is still the official date celebrated nationwide.
Sent 10: At this early stage in its history Japan was already (for the most part) only nominally ruled by the emperor.
Sent 11: De facto power was exercised by the militarily and economically strongest family.
Sent 12: The Sogas had promoted Buddhism as an imperially sanctioned counterweight to the native Shinto religion, along with the new Chinese customs, to weaken the influence of their more conservative rivals.
Sent 13: But they in turn were ousted in a.d.
Sent 14: 645 by Nakatomi Kamatari, founder of the great Fujiwara clan, which was to rule Japanese affairs for hundreds of years and provide prominent advisers to the emperor even up to the 19th century.", "question": "What year is known as the year of Japan's foundation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Land for agriculture", "We have more room for cattle to graze", "It may then be used for agriculture, homes or businesses" ], "distractor groups": [ "More humans can prance around", "Land for prairie dogs" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When land is cleared, habitats are lost.
Sent 2: It may be cleared for agriculture.
Sent 3: It may also be used for building new homes or businesses.
Sent 4: Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled.
Sent 5: Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled.
Sent 6: Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture.
Sent 7: The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies.
Sent 8: Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared.
Sent 9: These areas of land had thick fertile soil.
Sent 10: Their grasses had very deep root systems.
Sent 11: These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion.
Sent 12: They also were home to many plants and animals.
Sent 13: Prairies were wonderful places.
Sent 14: They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison.", "question": "What opportunities come from the loss of habitat due to clearing land?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pollination by wind or animals cant happen under water", "Pollination by wind or animals cannot happen under water, and sunlight cannot reach very far beneath the water's surface", "Pollination by wind or animals cant happen under water.Sunlight cannot reach very far beneath the waters surface" ], "distractor groups": [ "They have fruits and flowers inside water,", "Pollination is difficult to happen underwater, water doesn't have room to grow plants" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Do all plants live on the land?
Sent 2: Some plants do live in the water.
Sent 3: To do this, they have evolved special traits.
Sent 4: Plants that live in water are called aquatic plants.
Sent 5: Living in water has certain benefits.
Sent 6: There is certainly plenty of water!
Sent 7: The plant does not need special traits to absorb, transport, or conserve water.
Sent 8: They do not need a large root system.
Sent 9: They do not need a strong stem to hold up the plant.
Sent 10: The plant uses the water for support.
Sent 11: Dont think water plants have it easy, though.
Sent 12: They also face challenges.
Sent 13: Living in water isnt that easy.
Sent 14: They do need some special traits to survive.
Sent 15: It is tough for the plant to reproduce.
Sent 16: Pollination by wind or animals cant happen under water.
Sent 17: Sunlight cannot reach very far beneath the waters surface.
Sent 18: Some aquatic plants have floating flowers and leaves.", "question": "What are two things that make it tough for an aquatic plant to reproduce?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Moon", "Better relations with the United States" ], "distractor groups": [ "Better relations with South Asia", "The sun", "$100 million in aid", "A trade deal" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "What did President Clinton offer Musharraf when he pulled him aside?" }, { "answer groups": [ "This process is called nuclear fusion", "Fusion", "Nuclei undergo go fusion when joining", "Nuclear fusion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Photosynthesis", "Nuclear fission", "kinetic energy", "Electron Sharing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.", "question": "What is the process called when the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.A. PhotosynthesisB. This process is called nuclear fusionC. FusionD. Nuclear fissionE. Nuclei undergo go fusion when joiningF. kinetic energyG. Electron SharingH. Nuclear fusionPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The home of the Hittite people", "The capital of the Hatti", "Kanesh", "Anatolia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hitti", "Assyria", "Knossus", "Etruscans", "The capital of the Minoans", "Mesopotamia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity.
Sent 2: Widespread finds of Stone Age implements in cave excavations show that Anatolia was already inhabited during the Middle of the Palaeolithic period (about 200,000 to 40,000 years ago).
Sent 3: By Neolithic times, organized communities had arisen, such as the one at \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, near Konya, Turkey's most important prehistoric site.
Sent 4: This town, which flourished between 6500 and 5500 b.c.
Sent 5: , had flat-roofed houses of mud and timber decorated with wall-paintings, some of which show patterns that still appear on Anatolian kilims.
Sent 6: The advent of the Bronze Age (about 3200 b.c.
Sent 7: ), and the spread of city-states ruled by kings, is marked by the appearance of royal tombs containing bronze objects in such places as Troy in the west, and Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck near Ankara.
Sent 8: Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world's oldest form of writing on record.
Sent 9: The technique was introduced by Assyrian traders 1,000 years later in\u00adto Anatolia, where it was qui\u00adck\u00adly adopted by the indigenous Hatti people, who, at this point, had already reached an ad\u00ad\u00advanced state of civilization.
Sent 10: The Hittites: The capital of the Hatti was Kanesh (modern K\u00fcltepe, near Kayseri).
Sent 11: Cuneiform tablets found here record the arrival in Anatolia of warlike invaders around the second mill\u00adennium b.c.
Sent 12: Their origins remain a my\u00ads\u00adtery (their written language was finally deciphered in 1915), but they came from the direction of the Caucasus moun\u00adtains, spreading destruction and disorder throughout Anatolia.
Sent 13: It was two hundred years before they were firmly entrenched in their newly conquered empire.
Sent 14: The newcomers were the Hittites, and their domination of Anatolia can be divided into three distinct periods: the Old Kingdom (c.
Sent 15: 1600\u20131450 b.c.
Sent 16: ), then the New or Empire Period (c.
Sent 17: 1450\u20131200 b.c.
Sent 18: ), and the Late Hittite Period (c.", "question": "Where were cuneiform tablets found that recorded the arrival in Anatolia of violent invaders?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Due to increase in air pressure", "Exhaling decreases the size of your chest, which increases the air pressure inside your lungs, allowing for air to leave the lungs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Due to decrease in air pressure", "To enter respiratory system", "To enter urinatory system" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "When you exhale, why does air leave your lungs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mr strong", "Jarvis had ignored her, but didn't like another man being attracted to her", "Distressed", "Mr. Strong ,attraction" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bambi", "Jarvis Jocelyn and he felt distressed that another man would be attracted to her", "Excited", "Another man, dislike" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Thursday, and Mr. Strong arrived with the inevitableness of dreaded events.
Sent 2: Bambi felt convinced that his coming meant the premature death of her new-born career, so, naturally, she was prepared for grief.
Sent 3: An element of amusement was added, however, by Jarvis's astonishing behaviour.
Sent 4: Ever since the first mention of Mr. Strong's name he had shown unmistakable signs of dislike for that gentleman.
Sent 5: 'It was the most remarkable revelation of his strange character.
Sent 6: Having totally ignored Bambi himself, it distressed him to think of any other man being attracted by her.
Sent 7: His references to Mr. Strong's coming were many and satirical.
Sent 8: This display of manly inconsistency was nuts and ale to Bambi.
Sent 9: She wondered how much Mr. Strong would play up, and she decided to give Jarvis Jocelyn an uncomfortable hour.
Sent 10: She herself was an adept in amatory science, but she was a trifle unsure of Mr. Strong.
Sent 11: However, she remembered a certain twinkle in his eye that augured well.
Sent 12: Because it was necessary to enlighten him as to the situation in advance, she arrayed herself most carefully to go and meet him.
Sent 13: She encountered Jarvis on the stairs.
Sent 14: He inspected her charming self, in a frock the colour of spring green leaves, topped by a crocus-coloured hat, like a flower.
Sent 15: She deliberately pranced before him.", "question": "Who ignored Bambi and how did they feel about another man noticing her?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The accepted aim of the educational profession is the training of character and conduct but we often act as if we care only for economic values", "The training of character and conduct" ], "distractor groups": [ "Teaching economic values", "The aim is to discover a new and complex world of people and things", "Teaching complex aspects of people and things" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In actual practice, however, we act too often as if we only cared for economic values.
Sent 2: If we are to live up to our educational profession, we must look our aim in the face and honestly practise what we believe.
Sent 3: While training of character and conduct is the accepted aim for education in general, to make this useful and practical each teacher must fix her attention on how this ultimate aim affects her own special part of the whole work.
Sent 4: By watching the free child she will discover how best she can help him: he knows his own business, and when unfettered by advice or command shows plainly that he is chiefly concerned with _gaining experience_.
Sent 5: He finds himself in what is to him a new and complex world of people and things; actual experience is the foundation for a complete living, and the stronger the foundation the better the result of later building.
Sent 6: _The first vital principle then is that the teacher of young children must provide life in miniature; that is, she must provide abundant raw material and opportunities for experience_.", "question": "What is the accepted aim of the educational profession versus what we too often act as if we care for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "contact force", "Magnetic Force" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wind force", "Magnets do not put force on certain materials" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "The force magnets put on certain materials is called what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Supreme Court asking Legislature to approve a surcharge that would benefit the poor during civil cases", "Court Filing Fee Issue", "Washington and they were studying ways to cope with the sparse amount of money available for cases for the poor", "Civil Equal Justice Funding" ], "distractor groups": [ "Washington, and they were looking at ways to cut their staff", "District Court Issue", "Justice Service Issue" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Washington Supreme Court is asking the Legislature to approve a 90 surcharge on a court filing fee to help provide legal help for the poor in civil cases, Chief Justice Gerry Alexander said Wednesday.
Sent 2: \"Some might say, why should we support this when we face tough financial times?\"
Sent 3: Alexander asked in his State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature.
Sent 4: \"It seems to me in America, where we rejoice in the fact that we are a nation devoted to the rule of law, we should not ration access to justice.\"
Sent 5: The recommendation comes from the court's Task Force on Civil Equal Justice Funding, created in 2001 to look for ways to cope with the sparse amount of money available for such cases.
Sent 6: As the task force was studying the issue, 900,000 was cut from state support for civil equal justice services.
Sent 7: That prompted the state's two main legal services providers - Columbia Legal Services and Northwest Justice Project - to cut their staffs, Alexander said.
Sent 8: The change would increase the cost of filing a lawsuit in Superior Court to 200.
Sent 9: The total fee would be split, with 54 percent going to counties and 46 percent going to the state for a newly created equal justice account.
Sent 10: Alexander also requested money for five additional Superior Court judgeships and one additional District Court judgeships, arguing that increased caseloads require more judges.
Sent 11: Two of the Superior Court judges and the District Court judge would be in Clark County, with one Superior Court judge added in the joint district that serves Benton and Franklin counties and one each in Kittitas and Kitsap counties.", "question": "When $900,000 was cut from state support for civil equal justice services, the task force was studying what issue?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Frozen ice fossils", "Casts", "Tar pit fossils", "Ice", "Some animals fall in tar pits and others are frozen in ice" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stone", "Plaster fossils", "Fossil fuels", "Oil fossils" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils may form in other ways.
Sent 2: Fossils can be preserved almost completely.
Sent 3: In this process, the organism doesnt change much.
Sent 4: As seen below, tree sap may cover an organism.
Sent 5: With time, the sap hardens.
Sent 6: It turns to into amber.
Sent 7: The original organism is preserved.
Sent 8: This is very exciting for scientists.
Sent 9: They are able to study the DNA of the organism that no longer lives on Earth.
Sent 10: Some animals have been found frozen in ice.
Sent 11: Others have been found in tar pits after falling in.
Sent 12: Molds and casts are another way organisms can be fossilized.
Sent 13: Have you ever walked in soft mud and left footprints?
Sent 14: Once in a while, these traces of organisms can be preserved.
Sent 15: In this case, nothing is left of the organism.
Sent 16: A mold is an imprint of an organism that is preserved in rock.
Sent 17: The organisms remains break down completely.
Sent 18: There is nothing left of the original plant and animal.", "question": "What are other fossils besides amber and molds?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Terrorism", "Human Rights" ], "distractor groups": [ "Poverty", "Weapons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: \"If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them,\" he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir \"touched on the case\" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had \"always felt\" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.", "question": "What issue does Malaysia seem to continue to have trouble with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No they are losing staff due to cutbacks", "No they have a shortage", "No. They run on a skeleton crew of attrition and face cutbacks" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are well staffed but face lack of funding" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Low-income domestic violence victims may find long-term legal help -- representation in divorces or child-custody disputes -- hard to come by, if two organizations now providing such help can't replace their lost funding.
Sent 2: The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and Utah Legal Services are already facing cutbacks after they were refused a federal grant of more than 450,000 in September.
Sent 3: The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations [CVR] has voted to deny a stopgap funding request from the two organizations.
Sent 4: While describing the request as a worthy cause, board members agreed Tuesday that funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus -- providing direct services for crime victims.
Sent 5: The 175,000 requested would have allowed the legal aid groups to maintain a skeleton staff to continue providing help beyond emergency protective orders for victims, completing existing cases and offering services in limited cases.
Sent 6: The groups also plan to enlist more pro bono attorneys through coordination with the Utah State Bar. \"We don't have a lot more options,\" said Anne Milne, executive director of Utah Legal Services, after learning of the CVR refusal Wednesday.
Sent 7: The organization has already lost some staff through attrition and has turned away some cases, she said.
Sent 8: Milne said she may ask the board overseeing her organization to give her until November to seek funding from additional sources.
Sent 9: Without additional funding, the outlook for longer-term legal help is unclear.
Sent 10: For two years, the groups had received 18-month civil legal assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and had used them to provide such assistance.
Sent 11: But last month, a third request was denied.
Sent 12: Funding used to help victims obtain emergency protective orders remains in place, said Milne and Stewart Ralphs, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.
Sent 13: Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days.
Sent 14: Many judges are reluctant to address those issues in emergency protective orders, since the decrees stay in effect for such a short time, Milne and Ralphs said.
Sent 15: \"The likelihood a victim will return to her abuser increases if she cannot permanently sever the relationship and establish workable support, custody and property arrangements,\" the funding request to CVR said.
Sent 16: The Department of Justice said it denied the grant application, in part, because evaluators did not see enough collaboration between the organizations and victims' advocates, Ralphs and Milne told CVR board members.
Sent 17: While the two said they believe their organizations coordinate well, the organizations cannot appeal the grant denial.
Sent 18: Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.", "question": "Are Utah Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake well staffed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "North Decatur High School", "Decatur high school and University of Indianapolis", "Indiana University-Indianapolis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Indiana", "University of Illinois" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Growing up on a farm near St. Paul, L. Mark Bailey didn't dream of becoming a judge.
Sent 2: Even when he graduated from North Decatur High School in 1975, sitting on the bench someday seemed more like a leisurely activity than a career.
Sent 3: Somewhere along the line, all of that changed.
Sent 4: Bailey received his bachelor's degree from the University of Indianapolis in 1978 and a jurisprudence doctorate from Indiana University-Indianapolis in 1982.
Sent 5: After several years of private practice from 1982-90, he became the judge of Decatur County Court for a year.
Sent 6: The Indiana legislature renamed that judgeship and Bailey was tabbed Decatur Superior Court judge from 1992-98, winning reelection twice.
Sent 7: From there, his career continued on the fast track and Bailey was appointed by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to sit on the Indiana Court of Appeals First District, where he works today.
Sent 8: Despite his quick climb up the legal ladder, Bailey has always found time to help out in causes he feels strongly about.
Sent 9: It was for his dedication to the law and the people that are affected by it that he was recently recognized.
Sent 10: The Indiana Pro Bono Commission hosted its annual celebration event, the Randall T. Shepard Dinner, at French Lick Springs Spa in October.
Sent 11: More than 100 judges, lawyers and dignitaries were present for the gathering.
Sent 12: One of the highlights of the event was the presentation of the first-ever Randall T. Shepard award for excellence in pro bono work.
Sent 13: Bailey received the award for his three years of volunteer work at Indiana Pro Bono Commission.
Sent 14: The award was named after the chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court to honor his statewide vision on justice.
Sent 15: The qualifications for the award were based upon demonstrated dedication to the innovative development and delivery of legal services to the poor in one of the 14 pro bono districts of Indiana.
Sent 16: \"This award came as a real surprise to me.
Sent 17: It is truly an honor.
Sent 18: Just being the first chair of the commission which began the implementation of the pro bono process was somewhat humbling.", "question": "Where did Bailey go to school?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Parent unable to reproduce", "The organism with the harmful mutation may not live to reproduce, and thus the mutation will not be passed on to offspring", "Strong traits that help surviving", "Parent dying before reproduction" ], "distractor groups": [ "Nothing can prevent it", "Allowing the parent to live long enough to reproduce" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "What might prevent a harmful mutation from being carried on into another generation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The government of Sudan advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies", "Because the Libyan government was not sheltering them anymore", "The government advised him that they intended to yield to Libya's demand to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies", "Because Sudan agreed to demands of Libyan to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because the Libyan government didn't get affected by UN Security Council resolution", "He run short of money", "Because bin ladin had begun to have money problems", "Because they had no reasons to break the relationship", "It was a demand from Egypt" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.", "question": "Why did Bin Laden tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave Sudan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Natural Resources", "Natural resources" ], "distractor groups": [ "Plants", "Hunters", "Energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We need natural resources for just about everything we do.
Sent 2: We need them for food and clothing, for building materials and energy.
Sent 3: We even need them to have fun.
Sent 4: Table 2.1 gives examples of how we use natural resources.
Sent 5: Can you think of other ways we use natural resources?
Sent 6: Use Vehicles Resources Rubber for tires from rubber trees Steel frames and other metal parts from minerals such as iron Example iron ore Electronics Plastic cases from petroleum prod- ucts Glass screens from minerals such as lead lead ore Use Homes Resources Nails from minerals such as iron Timber from trees Example spruce timber Jewelry Gemstones such as diamonds Minerals such as silver silver ore Food Sunlight, water, and soil Minerals such as phosphorus corn seeds in soil Clothing Wool from sheep Cotton from cotton plants cotton plants Recreation Water for boating and swimming Forests for hiking and camping pine forest Some natural resources are renewable.
Sent 7: Others are not.
Sent 8: It depends, in part, on how we use them.", "question": "What do we need for food and clothingA. PlantsB. HuntersC. EnergyD. Natural ResourcesE. Natural resourcesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She's illiterate", "She is poor", "She is elderly and female", "Female", "Elderly" ], "distractor groups": [ "She's happy", "She is a veteran", "Rich", "She is handicapped" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Thelma James was a prime candidate for a real estate ripoff: She is 68, has precious little money and can't read or write.
Sent 2: \"I won't lie to you.
Sent 3: I was so-o-o excited,\" the widow and former duplex dweller said of the purchase of her first home, a sagging frame structure on Snowden.
Sent 4: \"I was glad to get me a house.\"
Sent 5: When James realized she had been swindled she turned to Memphis Area Legal Services, which represented her in a lawsuit.
Sent 6: Now, James's monthly house notes have dropped from 796 - more than twice her monthly income - to an affordable 247.
Sent 7: Some of the people who took advantage of her through a questionable loan program were sent to jail.
Sent 8: \"I don't know what I would have done without Legal Services,\" said James.
Sent 9: \"They solved a lot of my problems.\"
Sent 10: James is one of more than 3,000 clients served last year by MALS, which provides assistance for civil matters, such as domestic abuse and family-related problems, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, veterans, housing and consumer fraud cases.
Sent 11: Like James, most clients are elderly or female.
Sent 12: Some are handicapped.
Sent 13: Some need medical care or veteran's benefits.
Sent 14: Some are trying to escape eviction or an abusive marriage.
Sent 15: And 87 percent live at or below poverty level.
Sent 16: Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton recently said Legal Services is important for those who, because of poverty or other struggles in life, think justice is an empty word.
Sent 17: \"They must be given reason to believe that the law is for them too,\" said Wharton, a former executive director of MALS.
Sent 18: But MALS faces a funding crunch next year, brought on by a 200,000 shortfall from three revenue sources.", "question": "How does James fit into the usual clientele of MALS?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Occurs when food is broken down into useful nutrients, it occurs in the stomach and mouth", "Food is broken down into useful nutrients", "Occurs when food is broken down into useful nutrients in the mouth, stomach, and small intestines", "It occurs in the stomach" ], "distractor groups": [ "When food debris is passed out of the body, digestive track", "Large chunks are turned into smaller chucks", "Occurs in the mouth", "When oxygen is separated from the air we breathe, in the lungs", "When large chunks of food are reduced to small chunks in the mouth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As food is pushed along, it undergoes digestion.
Sent 2: Digestion is the process of breaking down food into nutrients.
Sent 3: There are two types of digestion: mechanical digestion and chemical digestion.
Sent 4: Mechanical digestion occurs when large chunks are turned into smaller chucks.
Sent 5: Perhaps not surprisingly, this happens when you chew your food.
Sent 6: Once you swallow the food, your stomach also does some of this work.
Sent 7: Chemical digestion occurs when food is broken down into useful nutrients.
Sent 8: This is a chemical process that begins as you start to chew your food.
Sent 9: The saliva in your mouth starts this process.
Sent 10: Once you swallow, the acid in your stomach further breaks down food.
Sent 11: From the stomach, the foods moves into the small intestine.
Sent 12: In the small intestines, another set of chemicals goes to work.
Sent 13: Are you surprised?
Sent 14: Your small intestine, and not your stomach, does most of the work!", "question": "What is chemical digestion, and where does it occur?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ligurio aided directly", "Nicia aided indirectly", "Nicia, Lgurio, Lucrezia's mother and her Brother Timoteo", "Ligurio", "Nicia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Giotto", "Ligurio aided indirectly", "The maid", "Nicia aided directly" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Who aided directly and indirectly in Callimaco quest to sleep with LucreziaA. Ligurio aided directlyB. GiottoC. Nicia aided indirectlyD. Ligurio aided indirectlyE. The maidF. Nicia aided directlyG. Nicia, Lgurio, Lucrezia's mother and her Brother TimoteoH. LigurioI. NiciaPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Eight years", "8 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "Seven months", "7 months", "Over 8 years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Dutch Take Over: Intent on capturing a piece of the Portuguese trade in pepper and other spices, the Java-based Dutch Ailied with the Malays in 1633 to blockade Melaka.
Sent 2: The trade blockade was to last eight years, and ended in a seven-month siege.
Sent 3: The Portuguese surrendered in 1641, wracked by malaria and dysentery and denied their usual reinforcements from Goa.
Sent 4: By then, the city had become a stagnant backwater.
Sent 5: Unlike the Portuguese, the Dutch decided to do business with the Malays of Johor, who controlled the southern half of the peninsula together with Singapore and the neighboring Riau islands.
Sent 6: A trade treaty gave the Dutch command of the spice trade but reserved Johor's rights in tin exports from Perak, Selangor, and Klang.
Sent 7: Without ever retrieving the supremacy of the old Melaka sultanate, Johor had become the strongest Asian power in the region.
Sent 8: For the Dutch, Johor provided a buffer against other Europeans.
Sent 9: Meanwhile, fresh blood came in with the migration into the southern interior of hardy Minangkabau farmers from Sumatra, while tough Bugis warriors from the east Indonesian Celebes (Sulawesi) roved the length and breadth of the peninsula.
Sent 10: The Minangkabau custom of freely electing their leaders provided the model for rulership elections in modern federal Malaysia.
Sent 11: Their confederation of States became today's Negeri Sembilan (\"Nine States\"), with Seremban as its capital.
Sent 12: The name Minangkabau itself means roughly \"buffalo horns\" and is reflected in the distinctive upward curving roof in museums and government offices built in the traditional Minangkabau style.
Sent 13: The Bugis were energetic merchants and great sailors.
Sent 14: With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.
Sent 15: The Bugis in Johor's administration provided much of the spirit in that State's independent stand in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sent 16: Throughout this period, the east coast states enjoyed a relatively tranquil prosperity, Terengganu notably thriving from its textile industry and trading in pepper and gold with the Thais, Cambodians, and Chinese.
Sent 17: The British, under the private auspices of the East India Company (EIC), were beginning to poke their noses into North Borneo.", "question": "The Java-based Dutch and the Malays expected their blockade against Melaka to last how long?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pure", "Pure Substance & A Combination of Different Substances", "Mixture", "It can be a pure substance or It can also be a combination of different substances" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chemicals", "Atoms", "Combination of different substances" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of.
Sent 2: Matter can exist in two forms.
Sent 3: It can be a pure substance.
Sent 4: This means it is not mixed with anything.
Sent 5: It can also be a combination of different substances.
Sent 6: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms.
Sent 7: You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain.
Sent 8: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen.
Sent 9: Other atoms contain many protons.
Sent 10: There are many types of atoms.
Sent 11: For example, Helium has two protons.
Sent 12: An Oxygen atom has eight.
Sent 13: Water is composed of a two types of atoms.
Sent 14: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms.
Sent 15: There are only so many types of atoms.
Sent 16: These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances.
Sent 17: So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?", "question": "What are the two forms matter can exist in?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weight depends on mass", "They are closely related", "More mass is pulled by gravity with greater force; mass and weight are closely related but the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mass is needed for the pull of gravity", "There are no similarities between mass and weight" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "How does mass relate to weight?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To make Dubai a new trading center and the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies", "To be an international leading area in container transit" ], "distractor groups": [ "To be part of Gitex", "To be the worst place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies", "To make Qatar, next to UAE a new trading center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City.
Sent 2: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at 200 million.
Sent 3: Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that \"we want to make Dubai a new trading center.\"
Sent 4: The minister, who has his own website, also said: \"I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies.\"
Sent 5: He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies.
Sent 6: The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit.
Sent 7: The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East.", "question": "Why was an e-commerce free zone inaugurated in Dubai?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Heat", "Raise in temperature" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rise in temperature", "Fall in temperature", "Wet", "Under heat" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven?
Sent 2: Do you know why things burn?
Sent 3: It all has to do with temperature.
Sent 4: Changes in matter are affected by temperature.
Sent 5: For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long?
Sent 6: What do you think will happen?
Sent 7: Thats right, it will probably burn.
Sent 8: The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat.
Sent 9: In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter.
Sent 10: Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster.
Sent 11: What about a physical change?
Sent 12: Are physical changes affected by temperature?
Sent 13: Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm.
Sent 14: This happens because the road surface is very warm.
Sent 15: The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly.
Sent 16: The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water.
Sent 17: The evaporation of water is a physical change.
Sent 18: So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs.", "question": "What is causing cakes in the oven to burn and water from the road to evaporate on the hot day?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Erosion and deposition", "Slow moving streams create different types of features than mountain streams, Slow moving water erodes the sides of their channels more than the bottom" ], "distractor groups": [ "Meanders and floodplains", "River water flowing over gentle slopes, forming of meanders" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rivers flowing over gentle slopes move more slowly.
Sent 2: They move much more slowly than a mountain stream.
Sent 3: These slow moving streams create different types of features than mountain streams.
Sent 4: Slow moving water erodes the sides of their channels more than the bottom.
Sent 5: Also, large curves in the stream form.
Sent 6: These curves are called meanders.
Sent 7: Meanders are caused by erosion and deposition.
Sent 8: Remember, faster moving water causes erosion more quickly.
Sent 9: Slower moving water erodes material more slowly.
Sent 10: If water is moving slowly enough, the sediment being carried may settle out.
Sent 11: This settling out, or dropping off, of sediment is deposition.
Sent 12: The curves are called meanders because they slowly wander over the land.
Sent 13: As meanders erode from side to side, they create a floodplain.
Sent 14: This is a broad, flat area on both sides of a river.
Sent 15: Eventually, a meander may become cut off from the rest of the river.
Sent 16: This forms an oxbow lake.", "question": "What are the two processes that form large curves in streams?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Airplane", "American Flight 77" ], "distractor groups": [ "Helicopter", "United 88" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "What target crossed into Washington Center's airspace at 9:10?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"Static electricity\"", "Positive charge", "Negative or positive charge", "The difference in charge is called static electricity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Good charge", "Bad charge", "A teeter totter", "Zero Charges", "Neutral charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Static electricity is like a teeter-totter.
Sent 2: What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced?
Sent 3: Correct!
Sent 4: It does not move.
Sent 5: What about when its not balanced?
Sent 6: Yes, it will now begin to move.
Sent 7: Charges move when they are not balanced.
Sent 8: Charges can build up by friction.
Sent 9: Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet.
Sent 10: Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges.
Sent 11: The wool carpet easily gives up charges.
Sent 12: The two items become unbalanced.
Sent 13: One item has a positive charge.
Sent 14: The other has a negative charge.
Sent 15: The difference in charge is called static electricity.
Sent 16: Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move.
Sent 17: Positive charges build up on the mat.
Sent 18: Negative charges build up on you.", "question": "If two items build unbalanced charges, the difference is called what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Yes water has kinetic energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "No water has no energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "Is energy required for water to move a rock?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1", "One" ], "distractor groups": [ "Both", "2" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "How many of the hijackers spoke excellent English?" }, { "answer groups": [ "American 11", "The President was in Sarasota Florida and the Vice President was the White House", "The President was about to enter a Florida school and the Vice President was in his office", "American 11 was the airplane crash" ], "distractor groups": [ "George W Bush and Condoleeza Rice", "At the FAA operations center", "The second plane", "A small twin-engine plane", "A school in California", "The President was in the White House and the Vice President was in Florida", "They were told it was a helicopter", "The President was in Florida and the Vice President was in New York", "The world trade center" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When American 11 struck the World Trade Center at 8:46, no one in the White House or traveling with the President knew that it had been hijacked.
Sent 2: While that information circulated within the FAA, we found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46.
Sent 3: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.
Sent 4: Within the FAA, the administrator, Jane Garvey, and her acting deputy, Monte Belger, had not been told of a confirmed hijacking before they learned from television that a plane had crashed.
Sent 5: Others in the agency were aware of it, as we explained earlier in this chapter.
Sent 6: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.
Sent 7: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.
Sent 8: Although the NMCC was advised of the hijacking of American 11, the scrambling of jets was not discussed.
Sent 9: In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, where President Bush was to read to a class and talk about education.
Sent 10: White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told us he was standing with the President outside the classroom when Senior Advisor to the President Karl Rove first informed them that a small, twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 11: The President's reaction was that the incident must have been caused by pilot error.
Sent 12: At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House.
Sent 13: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding \"that's all we know right now, Mr. President.\"
Sent 14: At the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney had just sat down for a meeting when his assistant told him to turn on his television because a plane had struck the NorthTower of the World Trade Center.
Sent 15: The Vice President was wondering \"How the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center\" when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.
Sent 16: Elsewhere in the White House, a series of 9:00 meetings was about to begin.
Sent 17: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.", "question": "What airplane crash did most federal agencies learn about through CNN, rather than their own internal reporting channels?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fossils and knowing what organisms looked like at certain times", "Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers", "Index fossils" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stalagmites in caves", "Color", "Rock sediment", "Marker fossils", "Chemical abalysis of rock substances", "Artifacts in the rock" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils can be used to match up rock layers.
Sent 2: As organisms change over time, they look different.
Sent 3: Older fossils will look different than younger fossils.
Sent 4: Some organisms only survived for a short time before going extinct.
Sent 5: Knowing what organisms looked like at certain times also helps date rock layers.
Sent 6: Some fossils are better than others for this use.
Sent 7: The fossils that are very distinct at certain times of Earths history are called index fossils.
Sent 8: Index fossils are commonly used to match rock layers.
Sent 9: You can see how this works in Figure 2.30.
Sent 10: If two rock layers have the same index fossils, then they're probably about the same age.", "question": "What helps to date rock layers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Uzbekistan", "Neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan", "A neighbor like Uzbekistan", "Afghanistan's neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Neighboring countries like Washington", "Israel", "Afghanistan", "USA", "Neighboring countries to Pakistan", "India", "Pakistan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "Which countries were thought to have dictatorial governmentsA. Neighboring countries like WashingtonB. IsraelC. AfghanistanD. UzbekistanE. USAF. Neighboring countries to PakistanG. IndiaH. Neighboring countries such as UzbekistanI. PakistanJ. A neighbor like UzbekistanK. Afghanistan's neighboring countries such as UzbekistanPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "loss of habitat", "Extinction" ], "distractor groups": [ "habitat growth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: From a human point of view, a habitat is where you live.
Sent 2: It might be your city, town, or neighborhood.
Sent 3: Your habitat can be altered.
Sent 4: Most people move a few times in their lives.
Sent 5: But a plant cannot move.
Sent 6: An animal may not be suited to live in another area.
Sent 7: A habitat is the natural home or environment of an organism.
Sent 8: Humans often destroy the habitats of other organisms.
Sent 9: The loss of habitat can cause the extinction of species.
Sent 10: Extinction is when a species disappears forever.
Sent 11: Once a species is extinct, it can never be brought back.
Sent 12: Humans cause habitat destruction in many ways.
Sent 13: There are two common ways this happens.
Sent 14: Land may be cleared.
Sent 15: Another way is when an animal or plant is brought to an area where it does not belong.", "question": "What causes a species to disappear forever and could never be brought back?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Earthquakes", "Earthquakes and tsunamis", "Tsunamis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tornadoes", "Ice storms and flooding", "Avalanches" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "What are two example of natural disasters that Malaysia does not experience?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes - a medevac helicopter", "With no intel about the aircraft, the take out order was issued, but it turned out to be a medivac chopper" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes - A commercial flight airplane", "No - a medevac helicopter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "Had there been previous intel regarding the low flying aircraft and what did it turn out to be?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tropical wet climates", "Tropical rainforests" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dessert", "Deserts", "Tropical wet and dry climates" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tropical climates are found around the equator.
Sent 2: These climates have warm temperatures year round.
Sent 3: Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry.
Sent 4: Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator.
Sent 5: They have high rainfall year round.
Sent 6: Tropical rainforests grow in this type of climate.
Sent 7: Tropical wet and dry climates also occur near the equator.
Sent 8: They receive less rainfall.
Sent 9: Most of the rain falls in a single season.
Sent 10: The rest of the year is dry.
Sent 11: Few trees can withstand the long dry season.
Sent 12: The main plants are grasses.
Sent 13: Dry climates receive very little rainfall.
Sent 14: They also have high rates of evaporation.
Sent 15: This makes them even drier.
Sent 16: Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
Sent 17: Thats less than 10 inches per year.
Sent 18: How much rain do you get at your house?", "question": "Which type of climate has high rainfall year round?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They did not know an additional plane was headed to Washington", "That another plane was on its way to Washington" ], "distractor groups": [ "That this wasn't an accident", "That the planes were hijacked" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "What did the Secret Service not realize when it first set up precautions around the White House complex?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Domestic abuse", "Offers legal counsel to low income residents that qualify", "Domestic abuse and bankruptcy", "Bankruptcy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Land dispute", "Offers assistance with divorce cases", "Give grants to low income people", "Child abuse" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Boone, Ia.
Sent 2: -Poor and elderly people may soon go without legal representation in Boone County.
Sent 3: Boone County Legal Aid, which for 31 years has provided legal services to those who couldn't afford them, will close in February if a 10,000 grant from Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino is not awarded.
Sent 4: The legal service is one of the few programs in Iowa that offers legal representation to those who qualify without turning to the state for its services.
Sent 5: \"It is a very sad situation, but that's the fact,\" said Alan Schroeder, city attorney and supervisor of Boone County Legal Aid.
Sent 6: For the past two years using money mostly from the city and county, Schroeder has upheld the outfit alone, taking on about 60 clients a year, and settling cases that range from domestic abuse to bankruptcy.
Sent 7: He also has a private practice.
Sent 8: If the legal service closes, he's unsure where his clients will go.
Sent 9: The city of Boone gave Schroeder 6,300 in July to resolve pending cases, said Kathy Berg, Boone's finance officer.
Sent 10: Without that, the program might already be closed.
Sent 11: \"All governments are having problems with finances,\" Boone Mayor George Maybee said.
Sent 12: \"No one else stepped in.
Sent 13: The county didn't.
Sent 14: The state didn't.\"
Sent 15: Donovan Olson, chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said the board quit funding the legal service in July because it felt the county didn't need it.
Sent 16: Drake University ended its funding after the 2000 spring semester \"for a variety of reasons,\" Suzanne Levitt, the law professor who oversaw the program, said via e-mail.
Sent 17: Olson said Schroeder must prove Prairie Meadows is the primary money source for the board to grant the program any more money.
Sent 18: Schroeder ran the program without the help of law students or Drake, which had provided as much as two-thirds of the money in some years.", "question": "What types of legal services does Boone County Legal Aid provide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gandhi", "Mahatma Gandhi", "Ghandi" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jawaharlal Nehru", "Winston Churchill", "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "Nehru" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus\u2002\u2014\u2002and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning \"pure\"), and adding \"stan,\" the Persian suffix for the word \"country.
Sent 9: \" The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a \"Quit India\" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was\u2002\u2014\u2002six months after his arrival\u2002\u2014\u2002but not smooth.", "question": "Who led the famous Salt March to the sea?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Curtis, debbie, steven", "Curtis , Debbie and Steven" ], "distractor groups": [ "Joyce, beverly,, steven" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 , three babies are born at the height of a total eclipse .
Sent 2: Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn , which controls emotions , the babies develop into children who are heartless and uncaring , with no feelings of remorse for their awful offences .
Sent 3: Ten years later , in 1980 , Curtis , Debbie and Steven begin to kill the adults around them and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent fa ades .
Sent 4: However , when Timmy and Joyce discover their crimes , they find themselves as the targets of the evil children .
Sent 5: Their attempt to warn their neighbors about them are ignored .
Sent 6: Soon enough , Beverly discovers Debbie 's horrible secret with the newspaper clippings as evidence as proof and learns that she , Curtis and Steven were responsible for the murders .
Sent 7: She realizes that Joyce and Timmy were telling the truth all along and confronts her sister for it .
Sent 8: Beverly and Mrs. Brody forbids Debbie from hanging out with Curtis and Steven .
Sent 9: Debbie responds by killing her older sister in retaliation with a bow and arrow .
Sent 10: They soon attempt to murder Joyce and Timmy .
Sent 11: However , they fight back and manages to capture Steven and Curtis .
Sent 12: While Timmy calls the police from a neighbor 's house , Debbie manages to escape from the backyard and gets inside her mother 's car .
Sent 13: She manages to lie about Curits and Steven trying to set her up to take the fall for the attacks .
Sent 14: At the end , Curtis and Steven are arrested by the police much to the shock and anger of the town .", "question": "What babies are born In Meadowvale , California , on June 9 , 1970 during the height of the total eclipse?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A stranger", "Reb Randall", "Reb" ], "distractor groups": [ "Robin Randall", "Jason Carberry", "Stranger" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A stranger in town meets pretty young Susan Martinez De La Cruz and accompanies her to a barbecue , where wealthy Jason Carberry is saying a few words for the recently departed Robin Randall , a citizen who got shot .
Sent 2: Jason objects to the stranger's presence , being Susan's guardian and protective of her .
Sent 3: He challenges him to a shootout , but the stranger pulls his pistol before Jason's can even clear the holster .
Sent 4: Calaveras Kate , a saloon singer who's in love with Jason , is relieved when the stranger declines to pull the trigger .
Sent 5: Rafael Moreno suddenly rides into town and picks a fight with the stranger .
Sent 6: Their brawl continues until the arrival of Judge Wallace Wintrop and his niece , Sheila , who have come to town from back East and deplore all this random violence out West .
Sent 7: The stranger is recognized as Reb Randall , the dead man's brother .
Sent 8: He is looking for the killer , who could be Rafael , or could be Jason , or could even be Billy Buckett , the coward of the county .
Sent 9: The women hold their breath to see if the men they love will survive .", "question": "What was the name of the person who meets Susan and accompanies her to barbecue?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Copper", "Copper is used in house wiring because gold is far too expensive", "Copper, because it's a good conductor" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gold because it's a good conductor", "Gold" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "What is used in house wiring and why?" }, { "answer groups": [ "David Hall", "Hall, executive director of Texas Rural Legal Aid", "Hall's plan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Texas Rural Legal Aid", "Brendan Gill, executive director of Bexar Group" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: \"I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close,\" said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more \"high impact\" cases to court.
Sent 9: \"What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time,\" Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: \"I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points,\" Gill said.", "question": "Who's plan is it to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Where al quaeda was funding its operations", "Different organizations raising funds for Al Qaeda", "Clark was looking for terrorist financing sources", "To distinguish Al Qaeda's transactions" ], "distractor groups": [ "Evidence of drug trafficking", "How bin laden was moving his money", "To find people moving funds for Al Qaeda", "To disrupt Al Qaeda's money flows" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "What did Clarke try to find through creating an intelligence analysis center?" }, { "answer groups": [ "I'm tired of playing defense. I want to play offense. I want to take the fight to the terrorists", "He wanted to go on offense", "President Bush had become impatient while understanding the need to develop policy slowly", "He was tired of playing defense", "He wanted to attack the terrorists directly" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bush wanted to catch terrorists one by one or even cell by cell", "Bush wanted a presidential national security policy directive", "President Bush saw Al Qaeda as part of a puzzle", "He thought we should back out of the fight", "He wanted to try diplomacy first", "He wanted a comprehensive review" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In early March, the administration postponed action on proposals for increasing aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks.
Sent 2: Rice noted at the time that a more wide-ranging examination of policy toward Afghanistan was needed first.
Sent 3: She wanted the review very soon.
Sent 4: Rice and others recalled the President saying, \"I'm tired of swatting at flies.\"
Sent 5: The President reportedly also said,\"I'm tired of playing defense.
Sent 6: I want to play offense.
Sent 7: I want to take the fight to the terrorists.\"
Sent 8: President Bush explained to us that he had become impatient.
Sent 9: He apparently had heard proposals for rolling back al Qaeda but felt that catching terrorists one by one or even cell by cell was not an approach likely to succeed in the long run.
Sent 10: At the same time, he said, he understood that policy had to be developed slowly so that diplomacy and financial and military measures could mesh with one another.
Sent 11: Hadley convened an informal Deputies Committee meeting on March 7, when some of the deputies had not yet been confirmed.
Sent 12: For the first time, Clarke's various proposals-for aid to the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks and for Predator missions-went before the group that, in the Bush NSC, would do most of the policy work.
Sent 13: Though they made no decisions on these specific proposals, Hadley apparently concluded that there should be a presidential national security policy directive (NSPD) on terrorism.
Sent 14: Clarke would later express irritation about the deputies' insistence that a strategy for coping with al Qaeda be framed within the context of a regional policy.
Sent 15: He doubted that the benefits would compensate for the time lost.
Sent 16: The administration had in fact proceeded with Principals Committee meetings on topics including Iraq and Sudan without prior contextual review, and Clarke favored moving ahead similarly with a narrow counterterrorism agenda.
Sent 17: But the President's senior advisers saw the al Qaeda problem as part of a puzzle that could not be assembled without filling in the pieces for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Sent 18: Rice deferred a Principals Committee meeting on al Qaeda until the deputies had developed a new policy for their consideration.", "question": "What was the presidents initial response to the efforts to perform a more wide-ranging examination of policy toward Afghanistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tropical", "Polar", "Polar, temperate, tropical", "Polar, tropical, temperate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Equator, north, south", "Middle", "Outer", "Center", "Temperature" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "What three climate zones can the earth be divided into?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, Quater Three", "Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association acquisition, 3rd quarter" ], "distractor groups": [ "San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank, 1st quarter", "Nationwide Bank", "San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank, 2nd quarter", "Citadel Holding Corp., 3rd quarter", "Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1st Quarter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: William C. Walbrecher Jr., an executive at San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank, was named president and chief executive officer of Citadel Holding Corp. and its principal operating unit, Fidelity Federal Bank.
Sent 2: The appointment takes effect Nov. 13.
Sent 3: He succeeds James A. Taylor, who stepped down as chairman, president and chief executive in March for health reasons.
Sent 4: Edward L. Kane succeeded Mr. Taylor as chairman.
Sent 5: Separately, Citadel posted a third-quarter net loss of 2.3 million, or 68 cents a share, versus net income of 5.3 million, or 1.61 a share, a year earlier.
Sent 6: The latest results include some unusual write-downs, which had an after-tax impact of 4.9 million.
Sent 7: Those included costs associated with the potential Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association acquisition, which was terminated on Sept. 27, 1989.
Sent 8: In addition, operating results were hit by an increase in loan and real estate loss reserves.
Sent 9: In American Stock Exchange composite trading, Citadel shares closed yesterday at 45.75, down 25 cents.", "question": "What bank was the potential acquisition and what quater was the loss associated with this reported?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Suzy", "Tommy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dean", "Jean", "Jan", "Suzy's parents" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean.
Sent 2: They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing.
Sent 3: They liked to play tag instead of building sandcastles or swinging.
Sent 4: They liked tag because they liked to run.
Sent 5: They like to play hopscotch or jump rope but that day they wanted to play tag.
Sent 6: Other games aren't as fun.
Sent 7: They met Tony and Ally (who are best friends) and invited them to play tag too.
Sent 8: Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag.
Sent 9: Making new friends is important.
Sent 10: Tony and Ally would rather make friends than play their favorite games.", "question": "Who invited Tony and Ally to play tag?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It is better to kill a single American soldier than to waste time on other activities", "He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels", "It is more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels" ], "distractor groups": [ "He said it was more important to kill other infidels than Americans", "Women and children should be spared", "Islamic teachings should be followed to the letter of the law" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a \"World Islamic Front.\"
Sent 2: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law.
Sent 3: Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the \"individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it.\"
Sent 4: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Laden enlarged on these themes.
Sent 5: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.\"
Sent 6: It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities,\" he said.
Sent 7: Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:\"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans.
Sent 8: Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.
Sent 9: We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.
Sent 10: As far as we are concerned, they are all targets.\"
Sent 11: Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames.
Sent 12: Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article \"al\" that would be part of their name in their own societies.
Sent 13: We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of \"Bin\" as part of a last name, as in Bin Laden.
Sent 14: Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English.
Sent 15: We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents.
Sent 16: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,\"al Qida\" instead of al Qaeda.
Sent 17: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.
Sent 18: In August 1996, Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.", "question": "What did Bin Laden claim in an interview with ABC-TV?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Gulf War destroyed much of the medical infrastructure", "Iraq has been under economic sanctions since the gulf war, and there is a humanitarian crisis because of the Gulf war", "Because Iraq has been under economic sanctions since the war ended", "Because of economic sanctions" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because flights are not permitted into Iraq", "Because the Persian Gulf War destroyed much of the country's medical infrastructure" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Washington The Iraqi government has agreed to let U.S. Rep. Tony Hall visit the country next week to assess a humanitarian crisis that has festered since the Gulf War of 1990, Hall's office said Monday.
Sent 2: The Dayton Democrat, who has traveled to other crisis points including Sierra Leone and North Korea, will spend three days visiting hospitals and other facilities to seek understanding why aid has been ineffective in stemming malnourishment and other medical problems.
Sent 3: Iraq has been under economic sanctions since the war ended, which some say have thwarted the country's ability to recover from the devastation of the bombing campaign.
Sent 4: The Persian Gulf War destroyed much of the country's medical infrastructure, according to a report by the World Health Organization.
Sent 5: In 1996 the WHO found that much of the population existed in a state of ``semi-starvation.''
Sent 6: Hall will be only the second member of Congress to travel in Iraq since the war, according to Hall's office.
Sent 7: The last visitor was then-U.S. Rep. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who went to help a pair of U.S. oilmen in diplomatic trouble.
Sent 8: Hall flies to Amman, Jordan, on Friday, where he'll spend the night before driving to Iraq.
Sent 9: Flights are not permitted into Iraq.
Sent 10: Hall is to return to Washington on April 22.
Sent 11: Story Filed By Cox Newspapers", "question": "Why is the population in a state of semi-starvation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "4 years", "Four years" ], "distractor groups": [ "5 years", "Two years", "Five years", "Two days" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: LONDON, England (CNN) -- The most eagerly anticipated animated film this year hits big screens this weekend, as \"The Simpsons Movie\" opens worldwide.
Sent 2: The Screening Room spoke to creator Matt Groening and writer Al Jean in London about everyone's favorite two-dimensional yellow family.
Sent 3: Simpsons supremo Matt Groening with his creations at the film's premiere in Springfield, Vermont Matt Groening told the Screening Room that fans had driven the demand for the movie.
Sent 4: \"We've had fans clamoring for a movie for the past 18 years,\" he said.
Sent 5: The film has taken four years to come to fruition, as writer Al Jean explained.
Sent 6: \"What really held us up for a long time was to have enough people to do the show and the movie,\" he said.
Sent 7: \"We talked for a while about doing the movie after the show is done, but the show is never done!
Sent 8: So it really started in earnest in 2003, when we started working on this story that became the movie.\"
Sent 9: Technology has also played its part.
Sent 10: Jean continued, \"The technology to do this film really wasn't even around five years ago.
Sent 11: For example, there was this joke I once pitched and David Silverman, the director, started drawing and as I was pitching it, it went into the film and it was cut a day later.
Sent 12: To go from pitch to cut in two days is pretty impressive.\"
Sent 13: Its creators hope that \"The Simpsons Movie\" will both satisfy long-term fans and bring Homer and Marge's family to a new audience.
Sent 14: Groening told the Screening Room, \"This movie is designed to both honor the people who have loved the show all this time, so there's lots of little details for them in the movie, little characters and stuff who they know and love, but we also want people who don't know the family to not be completely confused.
Sent 15: It is a complete movie experience, but again, we have a lot of little details that only the really, true die-hard fans are going to get.\"
Sent 16: And fans can expect to be entertained by plenty of cartoon mishaps.
Sent 17: Groening said, \"When you see somebody fall off the roof in a live-action film, it's funny -- we all love it.
Sent 18: But it's not as funny as when Homer falls off the roof.", "question": "How long did it take for \"The Simpson's Movie\" to come to fruition?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution", "Democracy in America" ], "distractor groups": [ "Democracy in the World", "Drug" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Sent 2: In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
Sent 3: Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Sent 4: Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.
Sent 5: He retired from political life after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 6: He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.
Sent 7: The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals.
Sent 8: Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy.", "question": "In which books did Tocqueville analyze living conditions?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes but they need to spend few thousand dollars on that", "Any secret can be pirated if it is transmitted over the air", "Yes they can", "Yes amateurs can pirate if they spend a few thousand dollars for a commercially available microwave receiver with amplifier and a VCR recorder", "Yes if they buy a commercially available microwave receiver with amplifier and a VCR recorder" ], "distractor groups": [ "No they can't", "Amateurs not allowed to do so", "No only some secrets can be pirated", "No amateurs know how to pirate any secret transmitted over the air" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electronic theft by foreign and industrial spies and disgruntled employees is costing U.S. companies billions and eroding their international competitive advantage.
Sent 2: That was the message delivered by government and private security experts at an all-day conference on corporate electronic espionage.
Sent 3: \"Hostile and even friendly nations routinely steal information from U.S. companies and share it with their own companies,\" said Noel D. Matchett, a former staffer at the federal National Security Agency and now president of Information Security Inc., Silver Spring, Md. It \"may well be\" that theft of business data is \"as serious a strategic threat to national security\" as it is a threat to the survival of victimized U.S. firms, said Michelle Van Cleave, the White House's assistant director for National Security Affairs.
Sent 4: The conference was jointly sponsored by the New York Institute of Technology School of Management and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, a joint industry-government trade group.
Sent 5: Any secret can be pirated, the experts said, if it is transmitted over the air.
Sent 6: Even rank amateurs can do it if they spend a few thousand dollars for a commercially available microwave receiver with amplifier and a VCR recorder.
Sent 7: They need only position themselves near a company's satellite dish and wait.
Sent 8: \"You can have a dozen competitors stealing your secrets at the same time,\" Mr. Matchett said, adding : \"It's a pretty good bet they won't get caught.\"
Sent 9: The only way to catch an electronic thief, he said, is to set him up with erroneous information.", "question": "Can amateurs pirate any secret transmitted over the air?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To kill the bacteria", "Compound in acne products", "To kill bacteria and as acne product" ], "distractor groups": [ "To growth of bacteria", "Anti-inflammatory medication", "Antidepressant", "Bacterial agent" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When you get sick, your body springs to action.
Sent 2: Your body starts to fight the illness.
Sent 3: Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep.
Sent 4: You need a strong immune system to fight off illness.
Sent 5: Plants dont have an immune system.
Sent 6: That does not mean they do not get sick.
Sent 7: Plants are affected by disease just like us.
Sent 8: Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant.
Sent 9: This prevents the infection from spreading.
Sent 10: Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease.
Sent 11: For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria.
Sent 12: The same compound is used in many acne products.
Sent 13: You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think.
Sent 14: No, they cannot talk to each other.
Sent 15: They may be able to send messages, though.", "question": "Willow trees create a special chemical that serves as what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Astrological", "An astrological defect", "Married to a goat" ], "distractor groups": [ "An astronomical defect", "Handicapped", "Blind", "She is a goat" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The opening shot of the movie shows Kunti praying for Lord Krishna's protection for the Pandavas .
Sent 2: Lord Krishna consoles Kunti and promises to ever protect the Pandavas and guide them through troubles and problems that may occur in life .
Sent 3: The sons of Pandu and Dhritarashtra progeny break into an argument .
Sent 4: When Duryodhana insults the Pandavas as `` dependents '' , Bheema counters by saying that , the Kauravas are the progeny of a widow .
Sent 5: Duryodhana asks Veda Vyasa for an explanation .
Sent 6: He is then told that , since his mother , Gandhari had an astrological defect , she is first married of to a goat and then married to his father .
Sent 7: Duryodhana gains animosity towards the kingdom of Gandhara where the king , the father of his mother Gandhari , rules .
Sent 8: He attacks Gandhara and lays waste of the whole kingdom .
Sent 9: He them imprisons the royal family in his prison .
Sent 10: He gives them only one rice grain per prisoner .
Sent 11: The king of Gandhara then stops everyone from grabbing the little food that is provided .
Sent 12: He says that instead of everyone dying , they could keep at least one of their princes alive .
Sent 13: He chooses Sakuni to be alive .
Sent 14: Sakuni takes an oath that he will do everything he can to destroy the entire Kaurava clan .
Sent 15: He makes magic dice from his father's spinal cord .
Sent 16: The magic dice show exactly the number that he would want .
Sent 17: Duryodhana takes pity on the lone prisoner , Sakuni after the rest of the Gandhara royal family dies in prison out of starvation .
Sent 18: Sakuni joins the evil of coterie of Duryodhana , Karna and Dushyasana .", "question": "What kind of defect does Duryodhana's mother have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A woman in, \"Eternal Prisoner\", and, \"Lust of the White Serpent\"", "Lover of Toyoo and Lover of Hsu", "A beautiful and seductive women in two different stores", "Lust of the White Serpant and Eternal Prisoner" ], "distractor groups": [ "A dragon and a snake", "Lover of Hsu and motherof Toyoo", "An eternal prison and Toyoo's mother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "What are the two incarnations of Madame White Snake?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Szilard and Wigner", "Einstein" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wigner", "Szilard", "Roosevelt" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To make certain the U.S. was aware of the danger, in July 1939, a few months before the beginning of World War II in Europe, Szilard and Wigner visited Einstein to explain the possibility of atomic bombs, which Einstein, a pacifist, said he had never considered.
Sent 2: He was asked to lend his support by writing a letter, with Szilard, to President Roosevelt, recommending the U.S. pay attention and engage in its own nuclear weapons research.
Sent 3: A secret German facility, apparently the largest of the Third Reich, covering 75 acres in an underground complex, was being re-excavated in Austria in December 2014 and may have been planned for use in nuclear research and development.
Sent 4: The letter is believed to be \"arguably the key stimulus for the U.S. adoption of serious investigations into nuclear weapons on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II\".
Sent 5: In addition to the letter, Einstein used his connections with the Belgian Royal Family and the Belgian queen mother to get access with a personal envoy to the White House's Oval Office.
Sent 6: President Roosevelt could not take the risk of allowing Hitler to possess atomic bombs first.
Sent 7: As a result of Einstein's letter and his meetings with Roosevelt, the U.S. entered the \"race\" to develop the bomb, drawing on its \"immense material, financial, and scientific resources\" to initiate the Manhattan Project.
Sent 8: It became the only country to successfully develop an atomic bomb during World War II.
Sent 9: For Einstein, \"war was a disease ... [and] he called for resistance to war.\"
Sent 10: By signing the letter to Roosevelt he went against his pacifist principles.
Sent 11: In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein said to his old friend, Linus Pauling, \"I made one great mistake in my life--when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification--the danger that the Germans would make them ...\"", "question": "Who was asked to send a letter to President Roosevelt, recommending the U.S. pay attention and engage in its own nuclear weapons research?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Minneapoilis", "New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis", "Minneapolis", "San Diego", "New York", "Detroit", "San Deigo", "Chicago" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cincinnati", "Saudia Arabia", "United States", "America", "Los Angeles", "Washington D.C", "Boston" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "Where were field offices opened to investigate al Qaeda funding?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No, it has failed", "\"No\"", "The Malaysian government has not done well" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Malaysian government has done adequately", "Yes", "They have done so-so in their response" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "According to the media, has the Malaysian government done well in responding to the disappearance of Flight 370?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Earthquakes and tsunamis", "It does not have earthquakes", "It does not have tsunamis" ], "distractor groups": [ "It does not have hurricanes", "It does not have tornadoes", "Severe storms and earthquakes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "What natural disasters does Malaysia not have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The majority of passengers were from China", "Chinese", "The majority of people were Chinese" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chinese and Vietnamese", "United States", "Malaysian", "The majority of people aboard were Indonesian", "The majority of passengers were Thai" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "Of what nationality were the majority of people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because Malaysia said the plane had been flown west, not east", "Because Malaysia said that it was flown into the Indian Ocean", "There was evidence the search was taking place in the wrong location", "Because Malaysia announced evidence that the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean and therefore was not in the South China Sea" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because Malaysia said the plane was destroyed by terrorists", "Because there were no survivors", "There was new evidence that the plane was flown into the South China Sea" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "Why is it thought that the intensive search in the South China Sea was worthless?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was a tipping point for sanctions being imposed on Sudan", "A change in Sudanese regime and less support for Bin Laden", "For Bin Laden's strategy", "Change of Sudanese regime" ], "distractor groups": [ "Revolution in Egypt", "For US strategy with respect to Sudan", "It began a change in the Sudanese government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.", "question": "What was the assassination of President Hosni Mubarak a tipping point for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Bin Laden had outrage the Libyans of al Qaeda", "Sudanese government", "Bin Laden cutting his support", "Bin Laden" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bin Landen", "General Omar al Bashir had outrage the Libyans of al Qaeda", "The UN Security Council passing a resolution and criticizing their inaction", "Libyans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Laden lost his base in Sudan.
Sent 2: Ever since the Islamist regime came to power in Khartoum, the United States and other Western governments had pressed it to stop providing a haven for terrorist organizations.
Sent 3: Other governments in the region, such as those of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and even Libya, which were targets of some of these groups, added their own pressure.
Sent 4: At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.
Sent 5: Though Turabi had been its inspirational leader, General Omar al Bashir, president since 1989, had never been entirely under his thumb.
Sent 6: Thus as outside pressures mounted, Bashir's supporters began to displace those of Turabi.
Sent 7: The attempted assassination in Ethiopia of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in June 1995 appears to have been a tipping point.
Sent 8: The would-be killers, who came from the Egyptian Islamic Group, had been sheltered in Sudan and helped by Bin Laden.
Sent 9: When the Sudanese refused to hand over three individuals identified as involved in the assassination plot, the UN Security Council passed a resolution criticizing their inaction and eventually sanctioned Khartoum in April 1996.
Sent 10: A clear signal to Bin Laden that his days in Sudan were numbered came when the government advised him that it intended to yield to Libya's demands to stop giving sanctuary to its enemies.
Sent 11: Bin Laden had to tell the Libyans who had been part of his Islamic army that he could no longer protect them and that they had to leave the country.
Sent 12: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.
Sent 13: Bin Laden also began to have serious money problems.
Sent 14: International pressure on Sudan, together with strains in the world economy, hurt Sudan's currency.
Sent 15: Some of Bin Laden's companies ran short of funds.
Sent 16: As Sudanese authorities became less obliging, normal costs of doing business increased.
Sent 17: Saudi pressures on the Bin Laden family also probably took some toll.
Sent 18: In any case, Bin Laden found it necessary both to cut back his spending and to control his outlays more closely.", "question": "Who outraged Libyans of al Qaeda?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Free legal services", "Legal assistance for battered women" ], "distractor groups": [ "Welfare assistance", "Finding shelters for battered women" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Legal assistance for battered women is hard to come by.
Sent 2: But it just got a little easier to find in Tarrant County.
Sent 3: This month, the federal Violence Against Women Office awarded a two-year, 350,000 grant to the Women's Haven of Tarrant County.
Sent 4: The money will allow the shelter to add a second full-time attorney to its staff and contract with the law school clinic at Texas Wesleyan University for pro bono and student services.
Sent 5: Most important, the funds will help fill a frustrating gap.
Sent 6: The Women's Haven, which provides shelter and outreach to domestic-violence victims, already has a full-time attorney.
Sent 7: But that person is prohibited (by funding parameters) from representing women in matters of divorce or child custody.
Sent 8: That's not a problem for most of the shelter's indigent residents, who can access free legal aid locally from West Texas Legal Services.
Sent 9: But many of the clients served by the Women's Haven outreach programs are the working poor, who don't qualify for free legal services.
Sent 10: Divorces and custody battles are simply out of their financial reach.
Sent 11: \"They can't begin to save up enough money for a divorce, so they're stuck,\" says Sonyia Hartwell, the Women's Haven's associate director.
Sent 12: \"They're completely shut out of the civil-law system.\"
Sent 13: In Texas, unlike in some other states, women who aren't divorced can't gain full control over their portion of assets.
Sent 14: And they can't obtain child support.
Sent 15: The grant will also provide law students with valuable experience working these types of cases.
Sent 16: \"They can't go to court, but they can interview clients and do all the initial intake work that needs to be done\" as well as investigative work, says Hartwell.
Sent 17: And there's no shortage of abuse victims who need this kind of help.
Sent 18: \"Within 60 days of hanging out her or his shingle,\" says Hartwell of the yet unhired new attorney, \"we'll have an active caseload of 20 or more.\"", "question": "Wha got a little easier to find in Tarrant County?" }, { "answer groups": [ "14 minutes", "14 Minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "An hour", "24 minutes", "62 minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "How long after the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations did United 93 crash in Pennsylvania?" }, { "answer groups": [ "58 minutes", "Almost an hour" ], "distractor groups": [ "A day later", "22 minutes", "5 minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 9:48, a representative from the White House shelter asked if there were any indications of another hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: The deputy director for operations mentioned the Delta flight and concluded that \"that would be the fourth possible hijack.\"
Sent 3: At 9:49, the commander of NORAD directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.
Sent 4: At 9:59, an Air Force lieutenant colonel working in the White House Military Office joined the conference and stated he had just talked to Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.
Sent 5: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.
Sent 6: By 10:03, when United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the teleconference.
Sent 7: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to him: \"A second plane hit the second tower.
Sent 8: America is under attack.\"
Sent 9: The President told us his instinct was to project calm, not to have the country see an excited reaction at a moment of crisis.
Sent 10: The press was standing behind the children; he saw their phones and pagers start to ring.
Sent 11: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.
Sent 12: The President remained in the classroom for another five to seven minutes, while the children continued reading.
Sent 13: He then returned to a holding room shortly before 9:15, where he was briefed by staff and saw television coverage.
Sent 14: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Sent 15: He decided to make a brief statement from the school before leaving for the airport.
Sent 16: The Secret Service told us they were anxious to move the President to a safer location, but did not think it imperative for him to run out the door.
Sent 17: Between 9:15 and 9:30, the staff was busy arranging a return to Washington, while the President consulted his senior advisers about his remarks.
Sent 18: No one in the traveling party had any information during this time that other aircraft were hijacked or missing.
Sent 19: Staff was in contact with the White House Situation Room, but as far as we could determine, no one with the President was in contact with the Pentagon.", "question": "How long after the President learned of the attack did United 93 crash in Pennsylvania?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gaining or losing neutrons don't change a particle's charge", "Not at all", "No change", "Increasing neutrons do not affect a particle's charge", "Neutrons don't matter because they have no charge", "Neutrons do not affect the particle's charge?" ], "distractor groups": [ "Increasing neutrons will create a negative charge", "Increasing neutrons makes a charge more positive", "Positive", "Increasing neutrons in a particle will make it's charge even more neutral" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "How will increasing neutrons affect the particle's charge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Positive", "An atom with more protons than electrons has a positive charge", "Protons have a positive charge", "A particle with more protons than electrons will have a positive charge", "Positive charge", "It is positively charged" ], "distractor groups": [ "A particle will have an equal number of protons and electrons", "A particle with more protons than electrons has a negative charge", "Negative charge", "Negative", "Lost protons may remain free" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "What kind of charge does a particle with more protons than electrons have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Electrical charge", "Protons and electrons", "Electric charge", "Objects attract or repel each other because of a physical charge between them", "A physical charge between them" ], "distractor groups": [ "Objects are attracted or repelled because of the number of neutrons in them", "Protons", "An electron charge causes objects to attract or repel each other", "Particles", "Objects" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "What causes objects to attract or repel each other?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Electrical charge", "A physical property between particles and objects is an electrical charge", "Electrical charge is a physical property that occurs between particles and objects", "Electric charge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Protons and electrons", "A nuclear charge between two objects is a physical property that occurs", "Attraction and repulsion", "Neutrons", "Proton charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "What physical property occurs between particles and objects?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An electrical charge", "Electric charge is the physical property that causes particles to attract or repel each other", "Electrical charge causes particles to attract or repel each other", "Electric charge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Positive charge", "Atoms cause particles to attract or repel each other", "A neutron charge causes particles to attract or repel each other", "A physical property occurs between particles or objects", "A proton charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "What is the physical property that causes particles to attract or repel each other?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Negative", "Negatively charged", "When a particle loses protons, it becomes negatively charged", "It is negativity charged", "When a particle loses some protons, it has a negative charge", "If a particle has more electrons than protons, it has a negative charge" ], "distractor groups": [ "An object can lose protons and still be electrically balanced", "Positively charged", "When a particle loses some of its protons, it becomes positive", "Lost protons will attach to another particle", "Neutral" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "If a particle loses some of its protons, what is the particle's charge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The partial one occurs when only a portion of the moon passes over the earth's umbra", "Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common", "One happens when the moon completely passes over the earth's umbra", "During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon travels completely in Earths umbra, and only a portion does during the partial lunar eclipse" ], "distractor groups": [ "Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common", "Total lunar eclipses occur more often" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes a full Moon moves through Earths shadow.
Sent 2: This is a lunar eclipse .
Sent 3: During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon travels completely in Earths umbra.
Sent 4: During a partial lunar eclipse, only a portion of the Moon enters Earths umbra.
Sent 5: When the Moon passes through Earths penumbra, it is a penumbral eclipse.
Sent 6: Since Earths shadow is large, a lunar eclipse lasts for hours.
Sent 7: Anyone with a view of the Moon can see a lunar eclipse.
Sent 8: So unlike a solar eclipse, it doesnt get dark on Earth.
Sent 9: Instead it gets dark on the Moon.
Sent 10: Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
Sent 11: The Moon glows with a dull red coloring during a total lunar eclipse.", "question": "How do partial and total lunar eclipses differ?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He encouraged the Dutch and British, but didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries", "He encouraged the traders but kicked out the missionaries", "He wanted to encourage non religious traders to promote foreign trade, but religious missionaries he believed were undermining Japanese values", "British and dutch traders were allowed, Portugese & Spanish missionaries were banned", "He was accepting of the British and Dutch, but not of the Portugese & Spanish" ], "distractor groups": [ "He liked the the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries, but didn't welcome the British and Dutch", "He banned the British and the Dutch first, then the Portugese and Spanish", "He attacked the traders and welcomes the missionaries to preach their religion", "He welcomes both groups into Japan", "He banned all of them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "Contrast Tokugawa's attitude toward the British and Dutch traders and the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries.A. He liked the the Portuguese and Spanish missionaries, but didn't welcome the British and DutchB. He banned the British and the Dutch first, then the Portugese and SpanishC. He encouraged the Dutch and British, but didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish missionariesD. He encouraged the traders but kicked out the missionariesE. He attacked the traders and welcomes the missionaries to preach their religionF. He welcomes both groups into JapanG. He banned all of themH. He wanted to encourage non religious traders to promote foreign trade, but religious missionaries he believed were undermining Japanese valuesI. British and dutch traders were allowed, Portugese & Spanish missionaries were bannedJ. He was accepting of the British and Dutch, but not of the Portugese & SpanishPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Japanese citizens were prevented from leaving the country", "In 1635, Japanese citizens were forbidden to travel abroad and couldn't come back if they were outside Japan, and Western books were banned", "1635", "Japanese that were already overseas were prevented from coming home" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Japanese declared war on the west", "1610; ravelers abroad were banned from returning, citizens were banned from going abroad, other nations could not visit", "Encouraged Dutch and British Trade", "Japanese citizens were executed for trying to leave", "They banned any western goods", "1612", "Trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tokugawa Takes All: When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his \"dynasty,\" initially under the tutelage of five regents.
Sent 2: But one of the regents was Ieyasu Tokugawa, who had been biding his time at Edo for 12 years, nurturing dynastic ambitions of his own.
Sent 3: Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country's century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent\u2002\u2014\u2002and most treacherous.
Sent 4: He moved quickly to eliminate his strongest rivals, crushing them in 1600 at the great Battle of Sekigahara (near modern Nagoya).
Sent 5: During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.
Sent 6: The allegiance of this highly privileged and prestigious group was ensured by cementing their ethical principles in the code of bushido, \"The way of the warrior\": loyalty to one's master, defense of one's status and honor, and fulfillment of all obligations.
Sent 7: Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals' wives and children hostage in Edo.
Sent 8: All roads into Edo, the most famous being the Tokaido Highway, had checkpoints for guns coming in and for wives going out.
Sent 9: One of the most effective ways of keeping a tight rein on the country was to cut it off from the outside world, to keep Japan Japanese.
Sent 10: At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.
Sent 11: He wanted silk and encouraged the Dutch and British as good, nonproselytizing Protestants just interested in trade.
Sent 12: But he didn't like the Portuguese and Spanish Catholic missionaries, who he felt were undermining traditional Japanese values.
Sent 13: He banned their activities in 1612 and two years later ordered the expulsion of all missionaries and unrepentant Japanese converts.
Sent 14: Executions and torture followed.
Sent 15: Converts were forced to renounce their faith by trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and Mary.
Sent 16: The Catholic Church has counted 3,125 martyrs in Japan from 1597 (beginning under Hideyoshi) to 1660.
Sent 17: In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Sent 18: Western books were banned, as were Chinese books that mentioned Christianity.", "question": "Give an important date in Japanese history that marks the \"closing of Japan\" to the outside world and give three examples of this isolation policy.A. The Japanese declared war on the westB. Japanese citizens were prevented from leaving the countryC. In 1635, Japanese citizens were forbidden to travel abroad and couldn't come back if they were outside Japan, and Western books were bannedD. 1635E. 1610; ravelers abroad were banned from returning, citizens were banned from going abroad, other nations could not visitF. Encouraged Dutch and British TradeG. Japanese citizens were executed for trying to leaveH. Japanese that were already overseas were prevented from coming homeI. They banned any western goodsJ. 1612K. Trampling crucifixes and effigies of Jesus and MaryPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "During the second radio transmission", "During the second radio transmission", "35 seconds after the first transmission", "46 seconds after the plane started to descend." ], "distractor groups": [ "5 minutes after the flight took off", "after the second transmission", "51 minutes into the flight" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The hijackers attacked at 9:28.
Sent 2: While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet.
Sent 3: Eleven seconds into the descent, the FAA's air traffic control center in Cleveland received the first of two radio transmissions from the aircraft.
Sent 4: During the first broadcast, the captain or first officer could be heard declaring \"Mayday\" amid the sounds of a physical struggle in the cockpit.
Sent 5: The second radio transmission, 35 seconds later, indicated that the fight was continuing.
Sent 6: The captain or first officer could be heard shouting:\" Hey get out of here-get out of here-get out of here.\"
Sent 7: On the morning of 9/11, there were only 37 passengers on United 93-33 in addition to the 4 hijackers.
Sent 8: This was below the norm for Tuesday mornings during the summer of 2001.
Sent 9: But there is no evidence that the hijackers manipulated passenger levels or purchased additional seats to facilitate their operation.
Sent 10: The terrorists who hijacked three other commercial flights on 9/11 operated in five-man teams.
Sent 11: They initiated their cockpit takeover within 30 minutes of takeoff.
Sent 12: On Flight 93, however, the takeover took place 46 minutes after takeoff and there were only four hijackers.
Sent 13: The operative likely intended to round out the team for this flight, Mohamed al Kahtani, had been refused entry by a suspicious immigration inspector at Florida's Orlando International Airport in August.
Sent 14: Because several passengers on United 93 described three hijackers on the plane, not four, some have wondered whether one of the hijackers had been able to use the cockpit jump seat from the outset of the flight.
Sent 15: FAA rules allow use of this seat by documented and approved individuals, usually air carrier or FAA personnel.
Sent 16: We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijackers, or anyone else, sat there on this flight.
Sent 17: All the hijackers had assigned seats in first class, and they seem to have used them.
Sent 18: We believe it is more likely that Jarrah, the crucial pilot-trained member of their team, remained seated and inconspicuous until after the cockpit was seized; and once inside, he would not have been visible to the passengers.", "question": "When did the captain (or first officer) demand that the attacker \"get out of here!\"?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mild weather between tropical and polar", "The area between the tropical and polar zones where the temperatures are mild", "Area between Polar and Tropical zones" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hot similar to tropical", "Area closest to the poles", "Area near the equator", "The whole world" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "What is the temperate zone?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mild temperatures", "Being mild" ], "distractor groups": [ "Being hot", "Cold", "Freezing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The world can be divided into three climate zones.
Sent 2: The first climate zone is the polar zone.
Sent 3: As it sounds, the polar zone is near earths poles.
Sent 4: The polar zone has very long and cold winters.
Sent 5: Brrr!!!!
Sent 6: Near the equator is the tropical zone.
Sent 7: The tropical zone is known for being hot and wet.
Sent 8: Between these two zones is the temperate zone.
Sent 9: Temperatures there tend to be mild.
Sent 10: Its not too hot and not too cold.
Sent 11: You might expect places near the equator to be hot and wet.
Sent 12: Thats not always the case.
Sent 13: Sometimes there are other factors at work.
Sent 14: These factors can affect the local climate type or a region.
Sent 15: Oceans and mountain ranges can have a major impact.
Sent 16: They can greatly influence the climate of an area.
Sent 17: Many factors influence an areas climate.", "question": "What is the temperature zone known for?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Terrorist attack", "Ground zero from 9/11", "World trade centers falling" ], "distractor groups": [ "The bombing", "A gap in financial aid", "A meteor hit", "The disappointing work of contractors", "Crash site" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Responding to a wave of public dismay over the first designs for rebuilding Lower Manhattan, Gov. George Pataki has sent word that it's time to go back to the drawing board.
Sent 2: It is the right message, sent while it is still early enough to do something constructive about the disappointing quality of the work so far.
Sent 3: The governor, like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, now seems committed to creating a better mix of uses for ground zero, and a 24-hour community in Manhattan's downtown.
Sent 4: While rethinking the plans will delay the original rebuilding schedule slightly, it does not need to stall progress if the governor keeps the pressure on the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Sent 5: New York cannot afford to have a gaping hole that mocks the city and its process for rebuilding what was destroyed.
Sent 6: Pataki openly questioned the Port Authority's requirement that any plan for the site replace all the office, hotel and retail square footage lost in the attack on Sept. 11.
Sent 7: More than anything else, that specification limited the designs to the undistinguished options presented two weeks ago.
Sent 8: Renegotiating that issue with the World Trade Center leaseholders should begin immediately.
Sent 9: Opening the process to other designers, both here and internationally, will help separate this urban plan from the ordinary.
Sent 10: The city also needs to begin openly discussing what happens underground, in particular with the transportation network.
Sent 11: At this point, planners have focused on short-term repair of PATH and subway lines, with medium-range proposals being shopped in Washington that could untangle the disorganized web of subway lines downtown.
Sent 12: Within the next few weeks the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. and the Port Authority should offer some bigger ideas about how to connect the downtown area better to the rest of the region.
Sent 13: Lowering West Street alongside the World Trade Center site and building a park or esplanade on top is another option that has been popular with those reviewing the first six public proposals.
Sent 14: But it would be expensive, and the governor, the mayor and their friends in Washington will have to look at long-range ways to pay the bill.
Sent 15: Pataki's recent remarks are a sign that he understands how central the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan will be to his own political legacy.
Sent 16: Now he needs to follow through with action, to keep demonstrating that his core concern is coming up with the best possible plan, not simply keeping the issue on hold until after this fall's election.", "question": "What was the gaping hole that mocked the city from?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave. Sent 4: Wave height is also called amplitude", "The vertical distance between the highest point of the wave and the lowest point of the wave is the height of the wave, which is also called its amplitude", "Trough and Crest" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wavelength", "The highest point of a wave is the crest", "Lowest is Crest and Highest is Trough" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The highest point of a wave is the crest.
Sent 2: The lowest point is the trough.
Sent 3: The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave.
Sent 4: Wave height is also called amplitude.
Sent 5: The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength.
Sent 6: Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size.
Sent 7: The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows.
Sent 8: The greater each of these factors is, the bigger a wave will be.
Sent 9: Some of the biggest waves occur with hurricanes.
Sent 10: A hurricane is a storm that forms over the ocean.
Sent 11: Its winds may blow more than 150 miles per hour!
Sent 12: The winds also travel over long distances and may last for many days.", "question": "How are the lowest and highest points of a wave related to its amplitude?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The greater the wind, the bigger will be the wave", "It increases the amplitude of the wave", "The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows", "Because the faster wind speed will cause the wave to be larger than a slower wind speed" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wave height is also called amplitude", "Because a faster wind lasts longer", "Because a faster wind hits ocean directly" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The highest point of a wave is the crest.
Sent 2: The lowest point is the trough.
Sent 3: The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave.
Sent 4: Wave height is also called amplitude.
Sent 5: The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength.
Sent 6: Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size.
Sent 7: The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows.
Sent 8: The greater each of these factors is, the bigger a wave will be.
Sent 9: Some of the biggest waves occur with hurricanes.
Sent 10: A hurricane is a storm that forms over the ocean.
Sent 11: Its winds may blow more than 150 miles per hour!
Sent 12: The winds also travel over long distances and may last for many days.", "question": "Other factors being equal, why would an ocean wave be larger if the wind were blowing 150 miles per hour than if it the wind were blowing 100 miles per hour?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It takes away too many fished causing extinction", "Some species may face extinction, and affects other living things that rely on fish for food" ], "distractor groups": [ "It causes over-breeding of fishes in that area", "Fishing too much from an area could result in increasing the number of fishes in that area", "Fishes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Above were just a few things that caused habitat loss or change.
Sent 2: There are many ways in which living organisms can affect their ecosystem.
Sent 3: In some areas, it is because of fire management.
Sent 4: Fire is a natural event, so managing fire correctly is very important.
Sent 5: In other areas, fisherman have taken too many fish from one area.
Sent 6: This places the species at risk of extinction.
Sent 7: It also affects other living things that may rely on these fish for food.
Sent 8: The image below shows a picture of a mine.
Sent 9: Mining changes the Earths surface.
Sent 10: This area may once have been a forest or a prairie.
Sent 11: Think about how many plants and animals may once have lived here.
Sent 12: Now it is a giant hole in the ground.
Sent 13: Pollution is also a major factor in habitat loss and change.", "question": "How does over fishing effect an ecosystem?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They would have 450 stores", "450" ], "distractor groups": [ "550", "They would have 87 stores" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Ratners Group PLC, a fast-growing, acquisition-minded London-based jeweler, raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield's Inc. to 57.50 a share, or 62.1 million, from 50 a share, or 55 million, after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners's initial offer.
Sent 2: The other concern wasn't identified.
Sent 3: Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of \"substantial benefit to Ratners.\"
Sent 4: In London at mid-afternoon yesterday, Ratners's shares were up 2 pence (1.26 cents), at 260 pence (1.64).
Sent 5: The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield's shareholders, and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10.
Sent 6: The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield's raises Ratners's U.S. presence to 450 stores.
Sent 7: About 30% of Ratners's profit already is derived from the U.S.", "question": "How large would the London-based jeweler's presence be after the acquisition?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tuesday night", "Tuesday" ], "distractor groups": [ "Thursday", "Monday" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Marsha loves playing with her noodle friend.
Sent 2: She had it for a long time so it is now a dark brown color.
Sent 3: When her mom first made it, it was white.
Sent 4: The night she met her noodle friend was spaghetti night.
Sent 5: Marsha's favorite dinner was spaghetti, which happened to be every Tuesday night.
Sent 6: On one Tuesday, a piece of spaghetti fell on the kitchen floor.
Sent 7: To Marsha, it looked like a stick man so she kept him.
Sent 8: She named her new noodle friend Joey and took him everywhere she went.
Sent 9: Sometimes Joey gets a little dried out so Marsha's mom told her to soak him in water every few days.
Sent 10: There were a couple times that the family dog, Mika, has tried to take Joey from Marsha and eat him!
Sent 11: So from now on, Marsha takes extra special care to make sure Joey is safe and sound at all times.
Sent 12: During the day she keeps him in a plastic bag in her pocket.
Sent 13: At night, she puts him under her pillow.
Sent 14: She loves Joey and wants to always be friends with him.", "question": "Which day of the week did Marsha meet her noodle friend?" }, { "answer groups": [ "3", "Four" ], "distractor groups": [ "2", "4", "5", "Not specified", "1" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business .
Sent 2: The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant .
Sent 3: There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads .
Sent 4: Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife .
Sent 5: He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position .
Sent 6: His wife is actually aware of the affair .
Sent 7: Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial .
Sent 8: In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation .
Sent 9: After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search .
Sent 10: The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads .
Sent 11: At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff .
Sent 12: After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon .", "question": "How many men does Sam Farrugut travel to Mexico with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He's a slave to impulses", "That his friends say he is a slave to impulses because he tends to act quickly, but those impulses have led to his success" ], "distractor groups": [ "He hates impulses", "He likes acting upon his impulses rarely, from time to time", "He's glad he never listen to his impulses" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As his car slid downtown on Tuesday morning the mind of Arnold Thorndike was occupied with such details of daily routine as the purchase of a railroad, the Japanese loan, the new wing to his art gallery, and an attack that morning, in his own newspaper, upon his pet trust.
Sent 2: But his busy mind was not too occupied to return the salutes of the traffic policemen who cleared the way for him.
Sent 3: Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft.
Sent 4: It was a charming morning.
Sent 5: The spring was at full tide, and the air was sweet and clean.
Sent 6: Mr. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence.
Sent 7: He regretted he had not given the probation officer a stronger letter.
Sent 8: He remembered the young man now, and favorably.
Sent 9: A shy, silent youth, deft in work, and at other times conscious and embarrassed.
Sent 10: But that, on the part of a stenographer, in the presence of the Wisest Man in Wall Street, was not unnatural.
Sent 11: On occasions, Mr. Thorndike had put even royalty\u2014 frayed, impecunious royalty, on the lookout for a loan\u2014at its ease.
Sent 12: The hood of the car was down, and the taste of the air, warmed by the sun, was grateful.
Sent 13: It was at this time, a year before, that young Spear picked the spring flowers to take to his mother.
Sent 14: A year from now where would young Spear be?
Sent 15: It was characteristic of the great man to act quickly, so quickly that his friends declared he was a slave to impulse.
Sent 16: It was these same impulses, leading so invariably to success, that made his enemies call him the Wisest Man.
Sent 17: He leaned forward and touched the chauffeur's shoulder.
Sent 18: \"Stop at the Court of General Sessions,\" he commanded.
Sent 19: What he proposed to do would take but a few minutes.
Sent 20: A word, a personal word from him to the district attorney, or the judge, would be enough.", "question": "Mr. Thorndike mentions impulses--what does he say?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents", "Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents, include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches", "They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches" ], "distractor groups": [ "They extend from the ocean floor to the surface", "Landmass", "They extend from the ocean basins", "Earths surface" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans?
Sent 2: What would it look like?
Sent 3: You might be really surprised.
Sent 4: You see that the surface has two main features.
Sent 5: It has continents and ocean basins.
Sent 6: Continents are large land areas.
Sent 7: These are the areas that are mostly above sea level.
Sent 8: Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents.
Sent 9: They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches.
Sent 10: You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat.
Sent 11: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Sent 12: Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old.
Sent 13: Ocean basins may only be millions of years old.
Sent 14: Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them!
Sent 15: As we view the land around us, we see landforms.
Sent 16: Landforms are physical features on Earths surface.
Sent 17: These features change over time, but how?
Sent 18: There are actually two types of forces at work.", "question": "What are ocean basins?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It has continents and ocean bases", "Two main features - Continents and Ocean Basins", "Landforms" ], "distractor groups": [ "There are basins and continents", "Ocean", "Continent", "Surface" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans?
Sent 2: What would it look like?
Sent 3: You might be really surprised.
Sent 4: You see that the surface has two main features.
Sent 5: It has continents and ocean basins.
Sent 6: Continents are large land areas.
Sent 7: These are the areas that are mostly above sea level.
Sent 8: Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents.
Sent 9: They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches.
Sent 10: You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat.
Sent 11: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Sent 12: Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old.
Sent 13: Ocean basins may only be millions of years old.
Sent 14: Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them!
Sent 15: As we view the land around us, we see landforms.
Sent 16: Landforms are physical features on Earths surface.
Sent 17: These features change over time, but how?
Sent 18: There are actually two types of forces at work.", "question": "What does the Earth's surface consist of?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Dutch sank the British fleet in 17th century and the British sank Dutch navy in 18th century", "2", "Two times between 17th and 18th centuries" ], "distractor groups": [ "Three times in the 19th century", "6", "4", "8", "There were no ships sank in the British-Dutch wars" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Expansion quickly peaked however, and the European powers who had carved up the New World set about testing each other in dynastic conflicts and colonial rivalry.
Sent 2: The English were the main rivals of the Dutch on the high seas, and there were several wars between the two in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sent 3: In 1665\u20131667 the Dutch sailed up the River Medway and sank the British fleet moored there.
Sent 4: The 18th century saw Amsterdam grow into the foremost financial center in the world, but the seeds of decline had already been planted.
Sent 5: When the English colonies in New England rose up in revolt against the British, they found ready Ailies in the Dutch.
Sent 6: From their colonies in the Caribbean they sent caches of arms and ammunition.
Sent 7: The British were furious and went to war in 1780, destroying the Dutch navy and signaling a sudden decline in power and influence from which the Netherlands never recovered.
Sent 8: Trade suffered to such an extent that in 1791 the VOC went into liquidation.
Sent 9: In the latter part of the century there were anti-Orange demonstrations by pro-French factions in the country, and in 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte took the Netherlands in his epic march across Europe.
Sent 10: Under the yoke of another foreign power, and with trade at an all time low, the Golden Age was truly dead.
Sent 11: The Return of the House of Orange Napoleon installed his brother Louis as King of Holland and he chose to take the fine Town Hall on Dam Square as his palace\u00a0\u2014\u00a0now the Koninklijk Palace.
Sent 12: But only four years later he fled the city after civil disturbances broke out when he raised taxes.
Sent 13: When Napoleon's bubble burst and French power began to wane, William of Orange emerged from exile and was proclaimed king in 1813.
Sent 14: Amsterdam had to work its way out of economic decline, but throughout the 19th century the city grew steadily.
Sent 15: Industrialization changed the city.
Sent 16: With the building of the Central Station at the end of the century, Amsterdam turned its back on its seafaring past and looked towards the mechanical age for its future.
Sent 17: The station was built over the old harbor wall and some of the oldest canals in the city center were filled in to allow better access to motorized vehicles.
Sent 18: Dam Square was landlocked for the first time in its history.", "question": "How many times were ships destroyed during the multiple conflicts between England and the Dutch?" }, { "answer groups": [ "When he is relaxing", "On the sea bed", "The sea bed where he woke up after almost drowning", "He started imitating majestic sea creatures then spots Jerry" ], "distractor groups": [ "When hes sleeping", "When Jerry disguises himself as a seahorse", "When Jerry joined the father seahorses" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tom's relaxation at the beach is interrupted by Jerry who inadvertently walks all over a sunbathing Tom going fishing .
Sent 2: Jerry falls into Tom's mouth and while escaping , nearly causes Tom to swallow his beach towel .
Sent 3: Jerry goes out to the pier and casts his favorite bait : cheese .
Sent 4: Tom pulls on the line and makes Jerry reel him in .
Sent 5: Jerry lets go of the line and Tom struggles to stay afloat , losing the string .
Sent 6: Tom barely catches the pier , but Jerry swings the pole at him .
Sent 7: After a few misses , Jerry whistles and then lands a direct hit .
Sent 8: He runs to the end of the pier and pulls off the end board .
Sent 9: Tom ca n't brake , and walks the plank until Jerry pulls it out , causing Tom to fall into the water and without emerging .
Sent 10: A drowning Tom wakes up on the sea bed , where he finds himself still alive .
Sent 11: He starts imitating the majestic sea creatures until he spots Jerry .
Sent 12: The cat grabs him , but Jerry pulls away revealing that he has become a mer-mouse .
Sent 13: Jerry swims in circles until Tom's head has done a 360 , and is then grabbed again .
Sent 14: Jerry slaps Tom face with his tail , then spins his ears in to the shape of a wrench .
Sent 15: The cat gives chase through shipwreck windows until Tom hangs back to swallow the mouse .
Sent 16: Jerry breaks out through Tom's left eardrum .
Sent 17: Jerry hides and disguises himself as a seahorse to join a father seahorse leading his babies , fooling the cat for only a while .
Sent 18: Jerry then gets lassoed and captured , but Tom gets tricked into holding a fishing line and is caught .", "question": "Where does Tom briefly forget about his chase with Jerry?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm", "Water turning into vapor, cake burning", "Liquid turning into vapor, evaporation, road becoming warm", "Evaporation of water" ], "distractor groups": [ "Water becoming in to cool ice", "Chemical change", "Rise in temperature, condensation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Have you are burned something on the stove or in the oven?
Sent 2: Do you know why things burn?
Sent 3: It all has to do with temperature.
Sent 4: Changes in matter are affected by temperature.
Sent 5: For example, what if you place a cake in the oven and you leave it in too long?
Sent 6: What do you think will happen?
Sent 7: Thats right, it will probably burn.
Sent 8: The same thing will happen if the oven setting is too high and you apply too much heat.
Sent 9: In either case, heat has affected the rate of change in matter.
Sent 10: Its probably obvious that when the temperature is increased a chemical change, like cooking, will occur faster.
Sent 11: What about a physical change?
Sent 12: Are physical changes affected by temperature?
Sent 13: Most of us have seen steam rising off a wet road after a summer rainstorm.
Sent 14: This happens because the road surface is very warm.
Sent 15: The warm road and warm air temperature causes the water to evaporate quickly.
Sent 16: The liquid water is turning into water vapor, but it is still water.
Sent 17: The evaporation of water is a physical change.
Sent 18: So yes, temperature affects the rate that physical change occurs.", "question": "What is are some physical changes caused by temperature?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Repairs that her landlord refuses to fix", "A broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing", "Katherine withheld rent because of a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourth floor landing with no railing", "Broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing" ], "distractor groups": [ "Katherine withheld rent because she felt she deserved new carpeting and a garbage disposal in her apartment", "Rat bites", "Issues withthe heat in the apartment" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Lash is associate dean at the University of Southern California Law School.
Sent 2: Johnson is a justice on California's Second District Court of Appeal.
Sent 3: Lash and Johnson are co-chairs of the California Commission on Access to Justice.
Sent 4: The full report can be viewed at (www.calbar.org).
Sent 5: In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.
Sent 6: Leaving her abusive husband, she moved into the only apartment she could afford, and soon discovered a broken toilet and non- working oven, rats and roaches, and a fourthfloor landing with no railing.
Sent 7: She began withholding rent pending repairs her landlord refused to make, but then her Medi-Cal benefits were cut off when she could not provide rent receipts.
Sent 8: She lost health care for her children and herself, although she is a borderline diabetic in need of medication and her children were suffering from rat bites.
Sent 9: Katherine tried to seek help through the courts.
Sent 10: Representing herself at an administrative hearing, she lost her appeal to restore Medi-Cal benefits because she did not have proper documentation of the rent account.
Sent 11: When she went to a courthouse to file a complaint against her landlord, she found the process so confusing that she gave up and went home.
Sent 12: According to \"The Path to Justice: A Five-Year Status Report on Access to Justice in California,\" prepared by the California Commission on Access to Justice, Katherine is just one of 4.6 million poor Californians whose basic civil legal needs -- often involving such critical needs as housing, health care, education, employment, safety and transportation -- are not being addressed.
Sent 13: California has a critical dearth of legal services for the poor, and, as this report makes clear, it is imperative that the state join with the federal government and private funders to increase resources so that all Californians, regardless of income, have equal access to our justice system.
Sent 14: Our justice system is predicated on the assumption that both parties will be represented by lawyers who act as gatekeepers and guides through a complex legal system that would otherwise be inaccessible to many of us.
Sent 15: Unfortunately, the most vulnerable members of our society are the least able to afford legal services.
Sent 16: California does have a strong network of legal aid organizations that try to help meet the needs of the poor, but there's just one legal aid lawyer available per 10,000 poor people.
Sent 17: We may promise \"justice for all,\" but for those who can't afford a lawyer, that promise is often a lie.
Sent 18: In its new report, the Commission on Access to Justice notes some significant steps toward providing equal access to justice for all Californians.", "question": "What repairs or issues caused Katherine to withhold rent?" }, { "answer groups": [ "US government agencies were trying to find financial funding for terrorism", "Get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances", "Bin Laden's finances", "Information regarding Bin Laden's finances" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Saudi's understanding of finances", "To find bin laden", "Drug trafficking", "Where the money was coming from for Al Qaeda" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "What was the US government trying to find during 1999 and 2000?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Middle East", "Saudi Arabia" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sudan", "Iraq", "Russia", "Afghanistan", "Eastern Europe" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "Where did an interagency group travel to in 1999 and 2000 to find out about Bin Laden's finances?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To gather information about Al Qaeda's fundraising", "FBI was looking for financial funding of al Qaeda", "FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States", "To find organizations with Al Qaeda connections" ], "distractor groups": [ "To find wealthy donors", "FBI thought bin laden was in the USA", "To gather information regarding money laundering in Russia", "To gather information regarding Al Qaeda's cash flows" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: After the 1998 embassy bombings, the U.S. government tried to develop a clearer picture of Bin Laden's finances.
Sent 2: A U.S. interagency group traveled to Saudi Arabia twice, in 1999 and 2000, to get information from the Saudis about their understanding of those finances.
Sent 3: The group eventually concluded that the oft-repeated assertion that Bin Laden was funding al Qaeda from his personal fortune was in fact not true.
Sent 4: The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money elsewhere, and the United States needed to focus on other sources of funding, such as charities, wealthy donors, and financial facilitators.
Sent 5: Ultimately, although the intelligence community devoted more resources to the issue and produced somewhat more intelligence, it remained difficult to distinguish al Qaeda's financial transactions among the vast sums moving in the international financial system.
Sent 6: The CIA was not able to find or disrupt al Qaeda's money flows.
Sent 7: The NSC staff thought that one possible solution to these weaknesses in the intelligence community was to create an all-source terrorist-financing intelligence analysis center.
Sent 8: Clarke pushed for the funding of such a center at Treasury, but neither Treasury nor the CIA was willing to commit the resources.
Sent 9: Within the United States, various FBI field offices gathered intelligence on organizations suspected of raising funds for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
Sent 10: By 9/11, FBI agents understood that there were extremist organizations operating within the United States supporting a global jihadist movement and with substantial connections to al Qaeda.
Sent 11: The FBI operated a web of informants, conducted electronic surveillance, and had opened significant investigations in a number of field offices, including New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, and Minneapolis.
Sent 12: On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.
Sent 13: Treasury regulators, as well as U.S. financial institutions, were generally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud.
Sent 14: Large-scale scandals, such as the use of the Bank of New York by Russian money launderers to move millions of dollars out of Russia, captured the attention of the Department of the Treasury and of Congress.
Sent 15: Before 9/11, Treasury did not consider terrorist financing important enough to mention in its national strategy for money laundering.", "question": "Why was FBI conducting electronic surveillance and used informants in major US cities?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The nave had to be rebuilt after 1239 and the west front is too wide for the nave's height", "The axis of the west front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too wide for its height" ], "distractor groups": [ "The axis of the east front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too narrow for its height" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The mighty fane, with its three massive towers, rises majestically over the red roofs of the town.
Sent 2: Its most striking feature is the great Norman screen, running up without buttresses or projections to the parapet and hiding the bases of the square, richly decorated towers of the west front.
Sent 3: The plain centre of the screen is the work of Remigius, the first bishop.
Sent 4: The rest of it is relieved with rich arcading of Late Norman and Early English periods.
Sent 5: The wooden spires which crowned the towers were removed in 1807.
Sent 6: In 1192 Hugh of Avalon determined to rebuild the Norman building of Remigius, which an earthquake had shaken.
Sent 7: To him we owe the choir and eastern transept.
Sent 8: His successors completed the western transept and began the west end of the nave.
Sent 9: So much money had to be spent in rebuilding the central tower, which fell in 1239, that the canons could not rebuild the nave entirely, but had to incorporate the Norman end by Remigius.
Sent 10: Unfortunately the axis of the west front does not correspond to that of the nave, which is too wide for its height.
Sent 11: The low vaulting is a serious defect in the choir built by St. Hugh, but of the superb beauty of the Angel Choir, which encloses his shrine, there can be no doubt.
Sent 12: In its richness of sculpture it is one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture in England.
Sent 13: The interior of the cathedral is remarkable for the harmony of its style, which is Lancet-Gothic, and the dim lighting of the nave only adds to its impressiveness.", "question": "What is the issue with the nave and why is the axis of the west front conflicting with it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Longitudinal lines run North to South while latitudinal lines run East to West", "Lines of latitude run east to west and longitude is north to south" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lines of latitude run north to south, lines of longitude run from east to west", "Longitude is longer than latitude", "Latitude is two dimensional and longitude is three dimensional", "Lines of latitude run north to south and longitude runs east to west", "Latitude runs the length and longitude runs the width" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "How do lines of longitude and latitude differ from one and another?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lines of latitude run east to west, lines of longitude run from north to south. They divide the Earth", "Run vertical and divide east and west" ], "distractor groups": [ "North, south, east, west", "Run horizontal and divide east and west", "They run horizontal and divide north and south", "Run vertical and divide north and south", "They are parallel and perpendicular to equator, divide Earth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: How can you describe your location?
Sent 2: You might use a familiar system.
Sent 3: You might say, 'I live at 1234 Main Street, Springfield, Ohio.' You could also say, 'I live right behind the Elementary School.' This method uses the school as a point of reference.
Sent 4: Another example is, I am at the corner of Maple Street and Main Street. Both streets may be a good reference for anyone living in your town.
Sent 5: Scientists must be able to pinpoint a feature they are studying.
Sent 6: Scientists use a special system to describe locations.
Sent 7: They use latitude and longitude as a reference.
Sent 8: Lines of latitude and longitude form a grid.
Sent 9: You may have used a grid system while doing graphing.
Sent 10: This grid is centered on a reference point.
Sent 11: Zero latitude is the equator.
Sent 12: Lines of latitude run east to west.
Sent 13: They divide the Earth from North to South.
Sent 14: Lines of longitude run from north to south.
Sent 15: They divide the Earth from East to West.
Sent 16: Zero longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
Sent 17: You may have heard the term, Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT.
Sent 18: The system of latitude and longitude works well for objects that do not move.", "question": "Which way do lines of longitude run and what do they divide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Non-Contact Force", "A type of non-contact force, not example", "Gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "kinetic force", "A touching force" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "The force that holds our moon in place, is an example of what type of force?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They produce force without touching", "Magnetic force can produce motion without actual contact with certain materials" ], "distractor groups": [ "Pretty much the same; the all use touching", "Other forces cause a change called motion", "Magnets produce force by touching" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "How are magnetic forces different from other forces?" }, { "answer groups": [ "March 25 at 9am", "March 25", "To discuss why Older Oklahomans need Lawyers" ], "distractor groups": [ "May 16", "Older Oklahomans need medical care" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: It's just this hard when I try to answer the question: Why do older Oklahomans need lawyers?
Sent 2: The answers are important enough that they will be a discussion topic of this year's Senior Day at 9 a.m.
Sent 3: March 25 in the House Chamber at the Capitol.
Sent 4: The following is a preview of some of the answers for review: We can all agree that older Oklahomans need medical care.
Sent 5: But even the best care is worthless if an older patient can't drive to the doctor for ongoing treatment because his or her car has been wrongfully seized in a debt dispute.
Sent 6: Therefore, lawyers are part of the prescription for regular medical care for many of the 600,000 Oklahomans age 60 and older.
Sent 7: Another example: if a doctor treats an elderly patient for a lung ailment, the doctor's treatment will be undone and he will see the patient again and again, if the patient is sent home to an unheated apartment.
Sent 8: Lawyers know how to make landlords heat apartments so the medical treatment can stick.
Sent 9: (By the way, a May 16, 2001, article in The New York Times reports on a program at Boston Medical Center providing a walk-in legal clinic in the hospital to help fight their patients' legal and administrative battles.) We also can agree that older Oklahomans - like all citizens - have rights to control their health care until they become incapacitated or these rights are transferred to another by legal document or process.
Sent 10: \"Old\" is not a legal classification that results in automatic loss of these rights.
Sent 11: Moreover, having an old parent does not automatically confer on children the right to make the parents' health care choices.
Sent 12: It follows that an important role lawyers provide for aging Oklahomans is not only to create rights - transferring documents such as durable powers of attorney and guardianship orders, but also to monitor their use.
Sent 13: In family situations, for example, lawyers must ensure that powers of attorney and guardianships are used to serve only the person transferring or losing rights.
Sent 14: They are not to be used to help a family \"manage\" their mother or help a doctor or nursing home get permission for a pill or procedure they feel is in the best interest of a patient.
Sent 15: Good news: Oklahoma now has a Public Guardianship Program, albeit unfunded, that will supply lawyers to perform this rights-monitoring process Oklahoma grandparents should be able to enjoy their grandchildren, not raise them.
Sent 16: But owing to the social problems of divorce and drug use, grandparents are increasingly being called on to raise their grandchildren because of missing parents.
Sent 17: Adding to the physical, emotional and financial burden they take on, grandparents face legal problems.
Sent 18: All the decisions parents made without a second thought now require evidence of legal authority when made by grandparents.", "question": "When are they having Senior day In Oklahoma?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Khamri", "Nibras", "Nibras and Khamri" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not Nibras", "Nashiri", "Not Khamri", "Quso" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "Who were the people who drove the boat up to the USS Cole and detonated a Bomb?" }, { "answer groups": [ "U.S. military retaliation", "Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation" ], "distractor groups": [ "The USS Cole", "Bin Laden anticipated nothing", "There is no U.S. military retaliation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.", "question": "What did Bin Laden fear causing him to evacuate al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Women", "He wants to help women escape domestic violence" ], "distractor groups": [ "Barnes want to help men escape domestic violence", "He wants to help immigrants", "Small business" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "Who does Barnes want to help while working as a legal aid lawyer?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Electrons", "Of an atom" ], "distractor groups": [ "Of a proton", "Neutrons", "Electron" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside.
Sent 2: Do you know what is on top of those poles?
Sent 3: Thats right, wires that carry electric current.
Sent 4: These wires carry electric current to your home.
Sent 5: But what is electric current?
Sent 6: Electric current is actually the flow of electrons.
Sent 7: You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom.
Sent 8: They have a negative charge.
Sent 9: Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles.
Sent 10: Electrons are able to move through wires.
Sent 11: Their speed can even be measured.
Sent 12: The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A).
Sent 13: Ampere is often shortened to amp.
Sent 14: Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction.
Sent 15: Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction.
Sent 16: Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights.
Sent 17: Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions.
Sent 18: This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires.", "question": "Electricity is the continuous flow of the particles found in the outer most particle of what?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The fourth-ranking cartel leader", "Jose Abello Silva" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fifth-ranking cartel leader", "Mr. Barco", "Refused U.S. troops", "Second-ranking cartel leader" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "Who is probably going to be extradited to the U.S. for trial under President Barco's revised extradition treaty?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dining room", "Bedroom", "Bathroom", "Kitchen", "It was a small room, containing a double bed" ], "distractor groups": [ "Foyer", "Basement", "Nursery", "Guest room" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rolfe put down the little dog he had been holding, and went out into the hall.
Sent 2: The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion.
Sent 3: Rolfe first examined the bedroom that he had seen Inspector Chippenfield enter.
Sent 4: It was a small room, containing a double bed.
Sent 5: It was prettily furnished in white, with white curtains, and toilet-table articles in ivory to match.
Sent 6: A glance round the room convinced Rolfe that it was impossible for a man to secrete himself in it.
Sent 7: The door of the wardrobe had been flung open by the inspector, and the dresses and other articles of feminine apparel it contained flung out on the floor.
Sent 8: There was no other hiding-place possible, except beneath the bed, and the ruthless hand of the inspector had torn off the white muslin bed hangings, revealing emptiness underneath.
Sent 9: Rolfe went out into the hall again, and entered the room next the bedroom.
Sent 10: This apartment was apparently used as a dining-room, for it contained a large table, a few chairs, a small sideboard, a spirit-stand, a case of books and ornaments, and two small oak presses.
Sent 11: Plainly, there was no place in it where a man could hide himself.
Sent 12: The next room was the bathroom, which was also empty.
Sent 13: Opposite the bathroom was a small bedroom, very barely furnished, offering no possibility of concealment.
Sent 14: Then the passage opened into a large roomy kitchen, the full width of the rooms on both sides of the hall, and the kitchen completed the flat.", "question": "What type of room did Rolfe examine?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It was prettily furnished in white, with white curtains, and toilet-table articles in ivory to match", "It was barely furnished" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was heavily furnished" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rolfe put down the little dog he had been holding, and went out into the hall.
Sent 2: The dog accompanied him, frisking about him in friendly fashion.
Sent 3: Rolfe first examined the bedroom that he had seen Inspector Chippenfield enter.
Sent 4: It was a small room, containing a double bed.
Sent 5: It was prettily furnished in white, with white curtains, and toilet-table articles in ivory to match.
Sent 6: A glance round the room convinced Rolfe that it was impossible for a man to secrete himself in it.
Sent 7: The door of the wardrobe had been flung open by the inspector, and the dresses and other articles of feminine apparel it contained flung out on the floor.
Sent 8: There was no other hiding-place possible, except beneath the bed, and the ruthless hand of the inspector had torn off the white muslin bed hangings, revealing emptiness underneath.
Sent 9: Rolfe went out into the hall again, and entered the room next the bedroom.
Sent 10: This apartment was apparently used as a dining-room, for it contained a large table, a few chairs, a small sideboard, a spirit-stand, a case of books and ornaments, and two small oak presses.
Sent 11: Plainly, there was no place in it where a man could hide himself.
Sent 12: The next room was the bathroom, which was also empty.
Sent 13: Opposite the bathroom was a small bedroom, very barely furnished, offering no possibility of concealment.
Sent 14: Then the passage opened into a large roomy kitchen, the full width of the rooms on both sides of the hall, and the kitchen completed the flat.", "question": "What did the small room look like?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Energy of motion", "Mechanical energy", "Mechanical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Potential energy", "Stored energy", "Energy of position" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position.
Sent 2: This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move.
Sent 3: A moving ball can have energy from motion.
Sent 4: An arrow can also have the energy of motion.
Sent 5: Both are types of mechanical energy.
Sent 6: Can you think of some other examples?
Sent 7: Where does the energy of motion come from?
Sent 8: It comes from the energy created by position.
Sent 9: This energy is stored energy.
Sent 10: This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move.
Sent 11: How can you store energy?
Sent 12: The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow.
Sent 13: As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion.
Sent 14: Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position?", "question": "What kind of energy does a moving ball have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It has the potential to move", "That object could move", "It is not released yet", "Energy created by position", "Energy that is created by position and has potential" ], "distractor groups": [ "That this energy is excessive", "It is mechanical", "Energy created by motion", "It is waiting" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mechanical energy is a combination of the energy of motion or position.
Sent 2: This type of energy describes objects that are moving or could move.
Sent 3: A moving ball can have energy from motion.
Sent 4: An arrow can also have the energy of motion.
Sent 5: Both are types of mechanical energy.
Sent 6: Can you think of some other examples?
Sent 7: Where does the energy of motion come from?
Sent 8: It comes from the energy created by position.
Sent 9: This energy is stored energy.
Sent 10: This means it is not moving yet, but it has the potential to move.
Sent 11: How can you store energy?
Sent 12: The arrow gains energy from the drawn bow.
Sent 13: As the arrow is released, the bow releases its stored energy and puts the arrow into motion.
Sent 14: Can you think of some other ways to store energy using position?", "question": "What does stored energy mean?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Idaho Bar Association President Fred Hoopes of Idaho Falls and Ida-West Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Randy Hill", "Fred Hoopes and Randy Hill" ], "distractor groups": [ "President Obama", "Police Chief Bob Ackerman and Victim's Advocate Katherine Gonzalez", "Illinois Bar Association", "Idaho Bar Association President Ted Hopper of Idaho Falls and Ida-West Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Brandy Smith", "Corporate leaders", "Supreme Court Justice Roberts" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Victims of domestic violence will have access to quality legal representation through a campaign undertaken by Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout and corporate leaders.
Sent 2: \"Thousands of times a year, Idahoans are victims of domestic violence.
Sent 3: The victims are often women and their children and they frequently have few resources with which to pursue their legal rights,\" Trout said Tuesday.
Sent 4: \"This campaign helps fill that gap in legal services for women who need the help at a time when they are in crisis.\"
Sent 5: The Idaho Partners for Justice Project has already secured pledges of more than 35,000 from law firms, attorneys, corporations and individuals.
Sent 6: The goal is 100,000.
Sent 7: The drive to pay for free legal services will continue for the next two months.
Sent 8: The money goes to Idaho Legal Aid Services and the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program.
Sent 9: Last year, more than 5,000 petitions were filed in Idaho for protection orders in domestic violence cases.
Sent 10: More than 12,000 victims contacted shelters or crisis hotlines.
Sent 11: Joining Trout in the announcement was Idaho Bar Association President Fred Hoopes of Idaho Falls and Ida-West Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Randy Hill, members of the project's executive committee.
Sent 12: Also on hand were some women who were victims of such violence, but benefited from free legal services.
Sent 13: Last year's campaign generated enough money and resources to help more than 450 victims.
Sent 14: The help ranged from representation in protection order hearings to legal assistance in divorce, visitation and child support cases.
Sent 15: The donations are tax deductible.", "question": "Who joined the Idaho Supreme Court Justice in making the announcement?" }, { "answer groups": [ "All gold atoms have the same structure and properties", "Gold atoms are always the same. It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring. All gold atoms have the same structure and properties. For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons", "Gold atoms are always the same" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gold atoms are always different", "Gold atoms are the fanciest atoms" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "How could we describe gold atoms?" }, { "answer groups": [ "All atoms of an element are alike", "The very smallest particle that still the elements properties", "They are the smallest particles of an element. All the atoms of an element are alike and are also different from the atoms of all other elements" ], "distractor groups": [ "What makes up an element", "All atoms of an element are different" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "How could we describe the atoms of an element?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gold no matter what form is composed of atoms that contain the same elemental properties including the same structure, same properties and the same number of protons", "All gold atoms have the same structure and properties", "Atoms of gold are all the same" ], "distractor groups": [ "Atoms of gold are all different" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "Why would a gold ring and a gold nugget have the same properties?" }, { "answer groups": [ "CIA, FAA, FBI", "CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter, and the CIA" ], "distractor groups": [ "The FAA and The CIA", "The Departments of State, Justice and Defense" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "What agencies were involved with the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Afghanistan", "Bagdad", "The middle east", "Baghdad" ], "distractor groups": [ "Africa", "Syria", "Canada" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The series starts in Baghdad at an undetermined time .
Sent 2: The Sultan Shahryar has gone mad after accidentally killing his wife during a failed coup d' tat , Which she had planned with Shahryar's brother Schahzenan .
Sent 3: In his madness , Shahryar believes that all women now want to kill him , but the law states that the Sultan must be married again or the throne will be passed to his brother .
Sent 4: Shahryar therefore orders Grand Vizier Ja'Far ( ( ( Jim Carter to bring him a harem girl to marry and then have executed the next day .
Sent 5: In order to prevent this , the Grand Vizier's clever daughter , Scheherazade , decides to marry the Sultan herself .
Sent 6: Scheherazade has a plan to prevent her execution and at the same time cure the Sultan of his madness .
Sent 7: With the help of some tutoring from a bazaar storyteller , Scheherazade tells the Sultan a story every night , stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger and refusing to continue until dusk .
Sent 8: Shahryar must therefore let Scheherazade live for another day in order to hear the rest of the story .
Sent 9: Cunningly , Scheherazade has hidden a moral within every story , to bring the Sultan out of his madness .
Sent 10: Meanwhile , Schahzenan hears about the Sultan's madness and that he is unable to execute Scheherazade .
Sent 11: Perceiving this as weakness , Schahzenan leads his army to Baghdad in an attempt to take the throne by force .
Sent 12: However , by the time Schahzenan's army reaches the city , Scheherazade's plan has worked .
Sent 13: As a result of her stories , Shahryar has overcome his madness and has fallen in love with Scheherazade .", "question": "Where does the Sultan Shahryr go mad?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Direction", "Distance", "Direction and distance" ], "distractor groups": [ "Direction and force", "Size", "Motion and distance", "Force and distance" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Force is a vector.
Sent 2: What then is a vector?
Sent 3: Think about how you would give directions to a friend.
Sent 4: You would not say, just walk half a mile.
Sent 5: The person may walk a half mile in the wrong direction!
Sent 6: More information is needed.
Sent 7: You may say, follow this particular road for a half mile.
Sent 8: You may say, look for the green house on Sumter St. In both examples, you provided a direction.
Sent 9: You also gave the distance.
Sent 10: In other words, you provided a vector.
Sent 11: You did not just give a distance.
Sent 12: Both pieces of information are needed to find a location.
Sent 13: This is just like describing forces.
Sent 14: To explain forces, both size and direction are needed.
Sent 15: Notice the girl in Figure 1.1.
Sent 16: She is pushing the swing away from herself.
Sent 17: Thats the direction of the force.
Sent 18: She can give the swing a strong push or a weak push.", "question": "What two pieces of information does a vector provide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Islamic", "Islam", "Islamic teachings" ], "distractor groups": [ "Buddhism", "Egyptian", "Western ideology", "Muslim" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Which religious faith did Sayyid Qutb follow?" }, { "answer groups": [ "26 years", "20 years", "15 - 20 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "30years", "16 years", "The next day" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: He repeatedly calls on his followers to embrace martyrdom since \"The walls of oppression and humiliation cannot be demolished except in a rain of bullets.\"
Sent 2: For those yearning for a lost sense of order in an older, more tranquil world, he offers his \"Caliphate\" as an imagined alternative to today's uncertainty.
Sent 3: For others, he offers simplistic conspiracies to explain their world.
Sent 4: Bin Laden also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.
Sent 5: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.
Sent 6: Sent by the Egyptian government to study in the United States in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of Western society and history.
Sent 7: He dismissed Western achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses \"nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence.\"
Sent 8: Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings.
Sent 9: First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed).
Sent 10: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.
Sent 11: Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam.
Sent 12: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.
Sent 13: All Muslims-as he defined them-therefore must take up arms in this fight.
Sent 14: Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.
Sent 15: Bin Laden shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.
Sent 16: Many Americans have wondered, \"Why do 'they' hate us?\"
Sent 17: Some also ask, \"What can we do to stop these attacks?\"
Sent 18: Bin Laden and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions.", "question": "Approximately how long after studying in the United States was Sayyid Qutb executed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "pool players", "People who engage in many sports." ], "distractor groups": [ "basketball players", "Swimming players", "All the people in sports." ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Light rays strike a reflecting surface.
Sent 2: They are then reflected back.
Sent 3: You can predict the angle of the reflected light.
Sent 4: Imagine a ball bouncing off a surface.
Sent 5: Light can do the same thing.
Sent 6: That is, assuming the surface is shiny.
Sent 7: So how do you know where light will go after it strikes a shiny surface?
Sent 8: It depends on how the light initially strikes the shiny object.
Sent 9: Light does not always go straight toward a surface.
Sent 10: Therefore, not all light bounces straight back.
Sent 11: Sometimes, light can hit a surface at an angle.
Sent 12: The angle at which it strikes the surface tells us how it will bounce off.
Sent 13: While light is different to a ball, they react in a similar manner.
Sent 14: Many sports rely on knowledge of reflection.
Sent 15: Pool players know a lot about reflection.
Sent 16: They take great care when they strike the pool ball.
Sent 17: They need it to go to a certain place.
Sent 18: They know the angle it will hit the side of the pool table.", "question": "What type of people know alot about reflection?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The ruling to hold two women in contempt of court for returning to men who had been ordered to stay away from them", "That these orders are mutually binding", "To hold two women in contempt of court for returning to men who had been ordered to stay away from them", "Cindra Walke" ], "distractor groups": [ "To hold two men in contempt of court for returning to women who had been ordered to stay away from them", "To never speak again", "Judge thorton" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The violent arena of domestic abuse litigation has grown a bit more volatile here, now that a judge has decided to hold two women in contempt of court for returning to men who had been ordered to stay away from them.
Sent 2: \"You can't have it both ways,\" said Judge Megan Lake Thornton of Fayette County District Court in recently fining two women 100 and 200 respectively for obtaining protective orders forbidding their partners from contacting them, then relenting and contacting the men.
Sent 3: Ruling that the order was mutually binding, Judge Thornton also cited the men for contempt.
Sent 4: \"It drives me nuts when people just decide to do whatever they want,\" said Judge Thornton, who is experienced in the state's thick domestic abuse docket, which produces close to 30,000 emergency protective orders a year.
Sent 5: Kentucky officials say there is a virtual epidemic of abusive relationships in the state.
Sent 6: Judge Thornton's ruling has alarmed advocates for battered women, who plan to appeal it.
Sent 7: The advocates say the finding goes beyond existing law and is unrealistic because some renewed contacts often prove unavoidable in domestic abuse cases, which involve economic and family dependency and other complications of daily living.
Sent 8: The state office on domestic violence has pointedly agreed, warning that the ruling could cause abused women to hesitate in bringing their plight before the courts for fear of being chastised for their trouble.
Sent 9: \"The reality is it's easy to say they should never have contact,\" said Sherry Currens, executive director of the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association, an advocacy and legal protection group.
Sent 10: \"But we're talking about people in long-term relationships.
Sent 11: They may have children in common.
Sent 12: It's pretty hard to say, `Never speak again.'
Sent 13: People have financial difficulties.
Sent 14: They may love the partner.
Sent 15: It's not an easy thing.\"
Sent 16: But Judge Thornton declared in court, \"When these orders are entered, you don't just do whatever you damn well please and ignore them.\"
Sent 17: The ruling stunned Cindra Walker, the lawyer for the two women, who is with Central Kentucky Legal Services, which represents many of the thousands of indigent women caught in abusive relationships.
Sent 18: \"For over five years, I've been in court practically every day on these abuse cases,\" Ms. Walker said, \"and I've never before had a victim threatened with contempt.\"", "question": "What ruling made by Judge Thornton are advocates for battered women planning to appeal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Higher", "Above ground", "The object would need to be in a raised up position; wherever an object has the potential to fall" ], "distractor groups": [ "The object would need to be right on the ground", "On the ground" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Gravitational Potential Energy is affected by position.
Sent 2: Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up has the potential to fall.
Sent 3: It has potential energy.
Sent 4: You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in 1.5 Figure below.
Sent 5: Gravitational potential energy depends on two things.
Sent 6: It depends on its weight, because a large falling rock can do more damage than a leaf falling from a tree.
Sent 7: It also depends on its height above the ground.
Sent 8: Like the skateboarder, the higher the ramp, the faster he will be going when he reaches the bottom.
Sent 9: Like all energy, gravitational potential energy has the ability to do work.
Sent 10: In this case, weight has the potential to deliver a force.
Sent 11: More important for us is that it has the ability to cause change.
Sent 12: What kind of change you may ask?
Sent 13: Gravitational potential energy has the ability to cause motion.", "question": "What kind of position would an object need to possess gravitational potential energy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The probes have some AI but the Van Braun has controlls them with a supercomputer", "The probes have limited artificial intelligence, while the Van Braun spacecraft has a supercomputer to do the real thinking", "Supercomputer vs. a 4 year old" ], "distractor groups": [ "The probes have the processing power of a 4-year-old, but the Van Braun has the processing power of an adult human", "A supercomputer vs. a 2 year old", "A supercomputer vs. a 30 year old", "The probes have a more advanced processor than the Van Braun spacecraft", "A 4 year old vs. an 8 year old" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alien Planet starts out with an interstellar spacecraft named Von Braun , leaving Earth's orbit .
Sent 2: Traveling at 20 % the speed of light , it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years .
Sent 3: Upon reaching orbit , it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter , Which looks for potential landing sites for the probes .
Sent 4: The first probe , Balboa , explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry , because one of its wings failed to unfold .
Sent 5: Two backup probes , Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton , successfully land on the planet , and learn much about its bizarre indigenous lifeforms , including an apparently sapient species .
Sent 6: The robotic probes sent out to research on Darwin IV are called Horus Probes .
Sent 7: Each Horus probe consists of an { { convert } } long inflatable , hydrogen-filled balloon , Which is covered with solar receptors , a computer ` brain ' , a ` head ' covered with sensors , and several smaller robots that can be sent to places too dangerous for the probes themselves .
Sent 8: The probes have a limited degree of artificial intelligence , very similar to the ` processing power ' of a 4-year-old .
Sent 9: All the real thinking is done by a supercomputer in the orbiting Von Braun .
Sent 10: The probes are programmed with different personalities ; Ike is more cautious , while Leo is the risk-taker .
Sent 11: The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin .
Sent 12: After the two probes inflate their gas-bags , they encounter a voracious Arrowtongue and watch it pursue a Gyrosprinter .", "question": "Compare the computing power of the probes with the computing power of the Van Braun spacecraft.A. The probes have the processing power of a 4-year-old, but the Van Braun has the processing power of an adult humanB. A supercomputer vs. a 2 year oldC. The probes have some AI but the Van Braun has controlls them with a supercomputerD. The probes have limited artificial intelligence, while the Van Braun spacecraft has a supercomputer to do the real thinkingE. A supercomputer vs. a 30 year oldF. Supercomputer vs. a 4 year oldG. The probes have a more advanced processor than the Van Braun spacecraftH. A 4 year old vs. an 8 year oldPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "$80.4 million", "One third" ], "distractor groups": [ "$54.7 million", "$60 million", "$62.8 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One of the most dramatic changes in priorities proposed by the City Council would shift 25.6 million from funding for court-appointed lawyers to the Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: In a document released yesterday to justify its reordered priorities, the Council contended that Legal Aid can achieve greater economies of scale than lawyers appointed pursuant to Article 18-B of the County Law.
Sent 3: The Council document also noted that \"inexplicably\" 18-B lawyers are handling 50 percent of the indigent criminal cases in New York City, even though their mandate is to handle only multi-defendant cases where the Legal Aid Society had a conflict.
Sent 4: In past years, the City Council had consistently added 5.6 million to the 54.7 million proposed for the Legal Aid Society by former Mayor Giuliani, bringing the total to just a shade over 60 million.
Sent 5: But this year for the first time, the Council is proposing shifting more than 20 million in funds earmarked by the Mayor for 18-B lawyers to the Legal Aid Society, which would increase its total funding to 80.4 million.
Sent 6: That would reflect a jump in its current finding of about one-third.
Sent 7: Meantime, the City Council proposed slashing the Mayor's allocation of 62.8 million for 18-B lawyers by 66 percent, to 21.4 million.", "question": "By increasing current funding to the Legal Aid society by $25.6 million, how much is the Council increasing their funding?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Diverting or adding more funds to Legal Aid", "To handle only multi-defendant cases where the Legal Aid Society had a conflict", "Proposed slashing the Mayor's allocation of $62.8 million down to $21.4 million" ], "distractor groups": [ "Shifting funds", "Legal Aid can achieve greater economies of scale than lawyers appointed pursuant to Article 18-B of the County Law", "Slashing mayor's allocation" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: One of the most dramatic changes in priorities proposed by the City Council would shift 25.6 million from funding for court-appointed lawyers to the Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: In a document released yesterday to justify its reordered priorities, the Council contended that Legal Aid can achieve greater economies of scale than lawyers appointed pursuant to Article 18-B of the County Law.
Sent 3: The Council document also noted that \"inexplicably\" 18-B lawyers are handling 50 percent of the indigent criminal cases in New York City, even though their mandate is to handle only multi-defendant cases where the Legal Aid Society had a conflict.
Sent 4: In past years, the City Council had consistently added 5.6 million to the 54.7 million proposed for the Legal Aid Society by former Mayor Giuliani, bringing the total to just a shade over 60 million.
Sent 5: But this year for the first time, the Council is proposing shifting more than 20 million in funds earmarked by the Mayor for 18-B lawyers to the Legal Aid Society, which would increase its total funding to 80.4 million.
Sent 6: That would reflect a jump in its current finding of about one-third.
Sent 7: Meantime, the City Council proposed slashing the Mayor's allocation of 62.8 million for 18-B lawyers by 66 percent, to 21.4 million.", "question": "What did the Council do about 18-B lawyers handling 50 percent of the indigent criminal cases in New York City?" }, { "answer groups": [ "South Asia", "Pakistan" ], "distractor groups": [ "South Africa", "India", "China" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Where was President Clinton's one day stop-over on March 25, 2000?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It would risk the president's life and they felt that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit", "Pakistan did not earn merit of the presidential visit", "It was risky", "They believed it would risk the President's life and also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit" ], "distractor groups": [ "The envoys reported that Pakistan was unlikely to do anything", "There is no Bin Laden", "Direct pressure on Taliban had proved unsuccessful", "Musharraf was unwilling to cooperate", "Because it is a beautiful country" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Why was the CIA, counter terrorism officials, and secret service against the President visiting Pakistan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "January 2000", "\"In early 2000\" specifically \"January 2000\"", "Early in 2000. in : In January 2000," ], "distractor groups": [ "March 2000", "March 25, 2000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "What day and time of year did the United States try to convince Pakistan to cooperate with them to influence the Taliban?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mr. Talmann", "Mrs. Herbert's daughter" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mrs. herbert's sister" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Mr. Neville ( ( ( Anthony Higgins , a young and arrogant artist and something of a Byronic hero , is contracted to produce a series of 12 landscape drawings of an estate by Mrs. Virginia Herbert for her absent and estranged husband .
Sent 2: Part of the contract is that Mrs. Herbert agrees `` to meet Mr. Neville in private and to comply with his requests concerning his pleasure with me . ''
Sent 3: Several sexual encounters between them follow , each of them acted in such a way as to emphasise reluctance or distress on the part of Mrs Herbert and sexual aggression or insensitivity on the part of Mr Neville .
Sent 4: Meanwhile , whilst living on the estate , Mr. Neville gains quite a reputation with its dwellers , especially with Mrs. Herbert's son-in-law , Mr. Talmann .
Sent 5: Mrs. Herbert , wearied of meeting Mr. Neville for his pleasure , tries to terminate the contract before all of the drawings are completed and orders Mr. Neville to stop .
Sent 6: But he refuses to void the contract and continues as before .
Sent 7: Then Mrs. Herbert's married , but as yet childless , daughter , Mrs. Talmann , who has apparently become attracted to Mr. Neville , seems to blackmail him into making a second contract in Which he agrees to comply with what is described as her pleasure , rather than his a reversal of the position in regard to her mother .
Sent 8: A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings , Which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert , whose body is discovered in the moat of the house .
Sent 9: Mr. Neville completes his twelve drawings and leaves the house .", "question": "Who is the husband of Mrs. Talmann?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He began the quest around 25 and a half years before his death", "17 years", "2014" ], "distractor groups": [ "1954", "He began his quest 26 years before his death" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: To make certain the U.S. was aware of the danger, in July 1939, a few months before the beginning of World War II in Europe, Szilard and Wigner visited Einstein to explain the possibility of atomic bombs, which Einstein, a pacifist, said he had never considered.
Sent 2: He was asked to lend his support by writing a letter, with Szilard, to President Roosevelt, recommending the U.S. pay attention and engage in its own nuclear weapons research.
Sent 3: A secret German facility, apparently the largest of the Third Reich, covering 75 acres in an underground complex, was being re-excavated in Austria in December 2014 and may have been planned for use in nuclear research and development.
Sent 4: The letter is believed to be \"arguably the key stimulus for the U.S. adoption of serious investigations into nuclear weapons on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II\".
Sent 5: In addition to the letter, Einstein used his connections with the Belgian Royal Family and the Belgian queen mother to get access with a personal envoy to the White House's Oval Office.
Sent 6: President Roosevelt could not take the risk of allowing Hitler to possess atomic bombs first.
Sent 7: As a result of Einstein's letter and his meetings with Roosevelt, the U.S. entered the \"race\" to develop the bomb, drawing on its \"immense material, financial, and scientific resources\" to initiate the Manhattan Project.
Sent 8: It became the only country to successfully develop an atomic bomb during World War II.
Sent 9: For Einstein, \"war was a disease ... [and] he called for resistance to war.\"
Sent 10: By signing the letter to Roosevelt he went against his pacifist principles.
Sent 11: In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein said to his old friend, Linus Pauling, \"I made one great mistake in my life--when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification--the danger that the Germans would make them ...\"", "question": "How many years before Einstein's death did he begin the quest toward creating a nuclear weapon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because he wanted to sleep with Lucrezia", "Callimaco pretends to be kidnapped so that he can sleep with Lucrezia, whose husband believes it is necessary to cleanse the poison from her systems" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because he wanted to sleep with Nicia", "He wants to save Lucrezia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "Why does Callimaco pretend to be the one being kidnapped?" }, { "answer groups": [ "She was lied to by those closest to her", "Callimaco", "Callimaco made Nicia believe that Lucrezia needed to drink The Mandrake potion and it would kill him if he slept with her first", "Her husband, mother and confessor", "The potion" ], "distractor groups": [ "Brother Timoteo", "Lucrezia's mother", "He seduced her", "She beleived Callimaco disguised as the doctor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "How did Nicia get fooled?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nicia wants Brother Timoteo to convince Lucrezia to sleep with her kidnapper, Callimaco", "To convince Lucrezia to sleep with a stranger", "Help with convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan" ], "distractor groups": [ "To kidnap Lucrezia", "Help with kidnapping", "Help with sleeping with Lucrezia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Callimaco is taken by the beauty of Lucrezia , but she is the loyal wife of Nicia , a rich and foolish lawyer .
Sent 2: Callimaco hires the service of a shady ` fixer ' named Ligurio to aid in his quest to sleep with her .
Sent 3: Lgurio informs Callimaco that Nicia and Lucrezia are anxious to have a child .
Sent 4: With the fixer's help , .
Sent 5: Callimaco masquerades as a doctor and convinces Nicia that the best way for Lucrezia to conceive a child is by her taking a potion made from the Mandrake Root .
Sent 6: He lies and warns Nicia that the first man to sleep with Lucrezia after she has taken the potion will die within eight days .
Sent 7: Together they devise a plan to kidnap a stranger to sleep with Lucrezia and draw out the poison .
Sent 8: Callimaco then disguises himself and arranges to be the one who is kidnapped .
Sent 9: Lucrezia is an honorable woman and does not at first agree to meet with the stranger .
Sent 10: Nicia gets both Lucrezia's mother , a woman of ill repute , and her confessor Brother Timoteo , a priest of low morals , to aid in convincing Lucrezia of the necessity of the plan .
Sent 11: After finally sleeping with Lucrezia , Callimaco confesses everything .
Sent 12: Lucrezia gives thought to the duplicity of her husband , her mother , and her confessor , and decides that she now wants Callimaco as a lover forever .
Sent 13: Callimaco gets what he had desired and everyone else continues to believe that each had outwitted the others .", "question": "What plan does Nicia want confessor Brother Timoteo's help with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wind , water", "Both wind and moving water create kinetic energy", "Moving water and wind", "Kinetic energy comes from either moving water or from wind" ], "distractor groups": [ "Kinetic energy comes from either solar or wind power", "The sources of kinetic energy are wind, moving water, and geothermal power" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What are the sources of kinetic energyA. Wind , waterB. Kinetic energy comes from either solar or wind powerC. The sources of kinetic energy are wind, moving water, and geothermal powerD. Both wind and moving water create kinetic energyE. Moving water and windF. Kinetic energy comes from either moving water or from windPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Falling water can have a lot of energy which can be converted into kinetic energy that turns a turbine and generates electricity", "Water can generate electricity by turning a turbine", "Water can move a turbine that generates power" ], "distractor groups": [ "Electricity can be made by taking the hydrogen out of moving water", "Electricity can be made by storing the water in batteries", "Water's energy can turn a turbine and magically result in electricity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "How does moving water make electricity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sunlight can be used to heat homes and to produce electricity", "Produce electricity", "It can be used for heat and for electricity", "Solar cells", "Heat homes and produce electricity", "Solar energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "It can be used for heat and to make wind", "Sunlight can be used to produce radio waves and to produce electricity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What are some ways sunlight can be used?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Moving water, wind and the sun are sources of renewable energy", "Wind , water and sunlight", "Sunlight, moving water, and wind", "The sun, wind and water" ], "distractor groups": [ "Renewable energy comes from moving water, the sun and petroleum", "Wind, water and coal are 3 sources of renewable energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What are 3 sources of renewable energyA. Moving water, wind and the sun are sources of renewable energyB. Wind , water and sunlightC. Renewable energy comes from moving water, the sun and petroleumD. Sunlight, moving water, and windE. Wind, water and coal are 3 sources of renewable energyF. The sun, wind and waterPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Or electricity", "Both electricity and heat can be produced", "Renewable Energy", "These forms of energy can produce heat and" ], "distractor groups": [ "These forms of energy can make electricity and water", "Electricity and nuclear energy can be made" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What can these forms of energy be used to produce?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Solar cells", "Solar cells are used to produce electricity from sunlight", "Sunlight creates energy through solar cells" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sunlight creates electricity through storing kinetic energy", "Sunlight makes turbines turn which makes electricity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "How does sunlight create electricityA. Solar cellsB. Sunlight creates electricity through storing kinetic energyC. Solar cells are used to produce electricity from sunlightD. Sunlight makes turbines turn which makes electricityE. Sunlight creates energy through solar cellsPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The center will be a self-help center for people who are representing themselves", "The purpose will be to help people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters", "Help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court", "The center will help litigants access legal information as well as assistance" ], "distractor groups": [ "The center will allow defendants to represent themselves with the help of the Supreme Court", "The center will help indigent litigants to select lawyers from the State Board", "Provide legal assistance to represent in court" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "What will be the purpose of the center that will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Through $25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation", "In a joint effort between Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services [9] with a $25,000 grant from Equal Justice Foundation [10]", "With a grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation" ], "distractor groups": [ "With a $30,000 grant from Lake County", "Law library", "Prairie State Legal Services", "With a grant from Prairie State Legal Services" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Representing yourself in court can be a tricky endeavor.
Sent 2: There are confusing legal terms to learn, strict procedures to follow and volumes of case law that often need to be understood to prepare a case.
Sent 3: Lake County officials and a private agency that assists indigent litigants in Illinois want to make the practice easier by creating a self-help center for people who choose to represent themselves in legal matters.
Sent 4: The center, which will be housed in the law library at the main courthouse in Waukegan, could open later this summer.
Sent 5: \"I think it's going to be extremely helpful,\" Court Administrator Bob Zastany said.
Sent 6: \"There is a population out there that will take advantage of this resource.\"
Sent 7: The self-help center will be the only one of its kind in the county.
Sent 8: Only a few operate nationwide, officials said.
Sent 9: The project is the work of Lake County circuit court officials and Prairie State Legal Services, a statewide agency with an office in Waukegan that provides information and legal assistance to poor and elderly Illinois residents.
Sent 10: The organization has received a 25,000 grant from the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, a nonprofit group that funds programs designed to increase access to legal information and assistance, to help pay for the effort.
Sent 11: Prairie State will share the money with the county.
Sent 12: The county's law library is on the first floor of the governmental center at 18 N. County St. The new self-help center will be designed to help litigants find the information they need to properly represent themselves in court, an undertaking that can be complicated and confusing.
Sent 13: \"Some people can do OK on their own, and some people can do OK with some help,\" said Linda Rothnagel, the managing attorney for Prairie State Legal Services.
Sent 14: \"But other people can't do it.
Sent 15: It's not always easy.\"
Sent 16: Self-representation is a right affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sent 17: The practice is far more common in civil matters than in criminal cases.
Sent 18: In fact, self-represented litigants - formally called \"pro se\" in Latin, or \"for oneself\" - in criminal defenses are so rare that statistics about the practice generally are not kept, legal experts say.", "question": "How is the center being created?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sometimes", "Sometimes the parent does not live long enough to reproduce" ], "distractor groups": [ "The parent with harmful mutation always dies before it can reproduce", "Never" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "Do harmful mutations pass onto offspring?" }, { "answer groups": [ "125\u00e2\u0080\u0082b.c", "125 B.C" ], "distractor groups": [ "50\u00e2\u0080\u0082b.c", "50 B.C", "1999" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The French have always wanted to know what it means to be a\u2002French\u00adman.
Sent 2: Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority.
Sent 3: In about 2000\u2002b.c.
Sent 4: Celtic tribes \u2014 probably from eastern Europe \u2014 came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy.
Sent 5: At the same time, migrants from the Mediterranean countries were trickling into the south.
Sent 6: The first recorded settlement was the trading post set up by Phocaean Greeks from Asia Minor at Massalia (Mar\u00adseilles) around 600\u2002b.c.
Sent 7: , followed by other ports at Hy\u00e8res, Antibes, and Nice.
Sent 8: But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
Sent 9: When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.
Sent 10: From Gaul to France In 125\u2002b.c.
Sent 11: , the Romans came in force, conquered the \"Gallic barbarians,\" and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence).
Sent 12: They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
Sent 13: When this province was endangered by fresh attacks from the north, Julius Caesar himself took charge, conquering practically the whole of Gaul by 50\u2002b.c.
Sent 14: Caesar drew Gaul's northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger\u00adman\u00adic tribes across the river \u2014 the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons \u2014 would always threaten the security of the frontier.
Sent 15: The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and N\u00eemes, and the first great highways between them.
Sent 16: At the same time, merchants built up a thriving trade with the rest of the Roman Empire.
Sent 17: The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.
Sent 18: Christianity was introduced into Gaul in the first century a.d.", "question": "When did the Romans set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence)?" }, { "answer groups": [ "2000 BC", "2000\u00e2\u0080\u0082b.c", "2000 B.C" ], "distractor groups": [ "200ad", "50 B.C", "125\u00e2\u0080\u0082b.c" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The French have always wanted to know what it means to be a\u2002French\u00adman.
Sent 2: Their history has been a constant quest for national identity: a conflict between strong regional loyalties and central authority.
Sent 3: In about 2000\u2002b.c.
Sent 4: Celtic tribes \u2014 probably from eastern Europe \u2014 came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy.
Sent 5: At the same time, migrants from the Mediterranean countries were trickling into the south.
Sent 6: The first recorded settlement was the trading post set up by Phocaean Greeks from Asia Minor at Massalia (Mar\u00adseilles) around 600\u2002b.c.
Sent 7: , followed by other ports at Hy\u00e8res, Antibes, and Nice.
Sent 8: But the Greeks developed few contacts with the interior beyond a little commerce in olives and wine with the Celts of Burgundy.
Sent 9: When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.
Sent 10: From Gaul to France In 125\u2002b.c.
Sent 11: , the Romans came in force, conquered the \"Gallic barbarians,\" and set up a fortress at Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence).
Sent 12: They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
Sent 13: When this province was endangered by fresh attacks from the north, Julius Caesar himself took charge, conquering practically the whole of Gaul by 50\u2002b.c.
Sent 14: Caesar drew Gaul's northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger\u00adman\u00adic tribes across the river \u2014 the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons \u2014 would always threaten the security of the frontier.
Sent 15: The Romanization of Gaul sent the most energetic warriors to defend the outposts of the empire while their families settled down to work the land or build towns such as Lyon, Orange, Arles, and N\u00eemes, and the first great highways between them.
Sent 16: At the same time, merchants built up a thriving trade with the rest of the Roman Empire.
Sent 17: The pattern for the peasantry and bourgeoisie of France was thus established.
Sent 18: Christianity was introduced into Gaul in the first century a.d.", "question": "About what year, did Celtic tribes came looking for greener pastures in the areas that are now Franche-Comt\u00e9, Alsace, and Bur\u00adgundy?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Harder" ], "distractor groups": [ "Easier" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Rough surfaces create more friction than smooth surfaces.
Sent 2: Thats why cars have tires.
Sent 3: Its also why we use rubber mats in areas that might get wet.
Sent 4: In your bathtub, you may even use No-Slip tape.
Sent 5: No-slip is another way of saying the items has a lot of friction.
Sent 6: In Figure 1.9, the blades of the skates are very smooth.
Sent 7: Thats why you cant slide across ice with shoes.
Sent 8: The soles of your shoes are much rougher than skates.
Sent 9: The rougher surface of shoes causes more friction and slows you down.
Sent 10: Heavier objects also have more friction.
Sent 11: A heavy object presses down with more force.
Sent 12: The surfaces are held together more tightly.
Sent 13: This makes the surfaces harder to slide past each other.
Sent 14: Did you ever try to push something heavy across the floor?
Sent 15: Heavy objects are much harder to push than light objects.", "question": "When there is more friction, is it harder or easier to push an object across the floor?" }, { "answer groups": [ "liquid and gas", "Gas and Liquid" ], "distractor groups": [ "solid and gas" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Physical properties include the state of matter.
Sent 2: We know these states as solid, liquid, or gas.
Sent 3: Properties can also include color and odor.
Sent 4: For example, oxygen is a gas.
Sent 5: It is a major part of the air we breathe.
Sent 6: It is colorless and odorless.
Sent 7: Chlorine is also a gas.
Sent 8: In contrast to oxygen, chlorine is greenish in color.
Sent 9: It has a strong, sharp odor.
Sent 10: Have you ever smelled cleaning products used around your home?
Sent 11: If so, you have probably smelled chlorine.
Sent 12: Another place you might smell chlorine is at a public swimming pool.
Sent 13: The chlorine is used to kill bacteria that may grow in the water.
Sent 14: Other physical properties include hardness, freezing, and boiling points.
Sent 15: Some substances have the ability to dissolve in other substances.
Sent 16: Some substances cannot be dissolved.
Sent 17: For example, salt easily dissolves in water.
Sent 18: Oil does not dissolve in water.", "question": "Which of the mentioned physical states most likely lack the property of hardness?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The small intestines", "Small intestines" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rectum", "Liver", "Gut", "Large intestines" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As food is pushed along, it undergoes digestion.
Sent 2: Digestion is the process of breaking down food into nutrients.
Sent 3: There are two types of digestion: mechanical digestion and chemical digestion.
Sent 4: Mechanical digestion occurs when large chunks are turned into smaller chucks.
Sent 5: Perhaps not surprisingly, this happens when you chew your food.
Sent 6: Once you swallow the food, your stomach also does some of this work.
Sent 7: Chemical digestion occurs when food is broken down into useful nutrients.
Sent 8: This is a chemical process that begins as you start to chew your food.
Sent 9: The saliva in your mouth starts this process.
Sent 10: Once you swallow, the acid in your stomach further breaks down food.
Sent 11: From the stomach, the foods moves into the small intestine.
Sent 12: In the small intestines, another set of chemicals goes to work.
Sent 13: Are you surprised?
Sent 14: Your small intestine, and not your stomach, does most of the work!", "question": "Where do foods move into from stomach?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The domestic violence legal assistance program", "Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp" ], "distractor groups": [ "Haven House Family Shelter", "South west mississippi legal services corp" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program fills the gap of legal resources for domestic violence survivors who can't afford an attorney.
Sent 2: Domestic violence survivors in Jackson, Vicksburg, Hattiesburg, Oxford and Pascagoula can all get help.
Sent 3: Julia Crockett, deputy director of Central Southwest Mississippi Legal Services Corp., said the program expects to help nearly 1,000 domestic violence victims.
Sent 4: Crockett said legal help gives domestic abuse survivors a way to rebuild their lives.
Sent 5: \"They have been made to feel by the abuser that no one is going to help them do anything, so when they come to us they are desperate,\" she said.
Sent 6: \"Those who need legal help and don't get it feel totally lost.
Sent 7: Because then they feel like they are forced to stay in that situation.\"
Sent 8: Crockett said the program, funded by a 300,000 grant from the U.S. Justice Department, has no economic restrictions on who can get help.
Sent 9: Legal services typically helps the poor.
Sent 10: Gladys Bunzy, who said she was in an abusive relationship with a boyfriend for eight years, said such a program is long overdue and could be a lifeline for those escaping violent relationships.
Sent 11: \"When I finally made up my mind to leave, I had a restraining order put against him and that was 50 but that was 50 well spent to me,\" said Bunzy, 40.
Sent 12: \"For people who can't afford it, this will be a godsend ... If a woman knows she is going to get some help that will be a burden off her mind, if the law will help her keep that person away from her.\"
Sent 13: Gwen Bouie-Haynes, project director of the Domestic Violence Services Center for Catholic Charities Inc., said often domestic violence survivors do not have the money to seek legal representation.
Sent 14: \"Legal assistance is a major issue for women fleeing a domestic violence situation,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"Often times women are in need of immediate legal assistance services for the protection of the mother and the child.
Sent 16: To get a protective order you need to be represented by an attorney.\"
Sent 17: Crockett said the pilot program was launched in 1998 at the Haven House Family Shelter Inc., a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Vicksburg.
Sent 18: The program has helped victims in 90 court cases, and 150 legal counseling sessions have been held there.", "question": "What group hopes to help 1,000 victims of domestic violence?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A seismograph made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet because by studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earth's interior", "By analyzing earthquake waves", "By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior" ], "distractor groups": [ "By analyzing Earth core images", "The idea that Earth is a magnet" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The idea that Earth is a magnet is far from new.
Sent 2: It was first proposed in 1600 by a British physician named William Gilbert.
Sent 3: Knowing it acts like a magnet is one thing.
Sent 4: Knowing why it acts like a magnet is more difficult.
Sent 5: In fact, finding out why is a fairly recent discovery.
Sent 6: To find out why required new technology.
Sent 7: It was the seismograph that made it possible to learn why the Earth acted like a magnet.
Sent 8: Seismograph are used to study earthquakes.
Sent 9: By studying earthquake waves they were able to learn about Earths interior.
Sent 10: They discovered that Earth has an inner and outer core.
Sent 11: The outer core consists of liquid metals, mainly iron and nickel.
Sent 12: Scientists think that Earths magnetic field is generated here.
Sent 13: It is caused by the motion of this liquid metal.
Sent 14: The liquid metal moves as Earth spins on its axis.", "question": "How did they learn why the Earth acts like a magnet?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Turkey's most important prehistoric site, a town that flourished between 6500 and 5500 b.c., had flat-roofed houses of mud and timber decorated with wall-paintings, some of which show patterns that still appear on Anatolian kilims", "It flourished between 6500 and 5500 b.c", "Turkey\u00e2\u0080\u0099s most important prehistoric site", "The houses were flat-roofed and made of timber decorated with wall patterns" ], "distractor groups": [ "It was inhabited by the Hittites between 6500 and 5500 b.c", "Turkey's least known site", "Turkey\u00e2\u0080\u0099s least important prehistoric site", "The birthplace of the Myceneans", "Turkey's most recent anthropological site", "It was the home of the Assyrian traders who developed cuneiform" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity.
Sent 2: Widespread finds of Stone Age implements in cave excavations show that Anatolia was already inhabited during the Middle of the Palaeolithic period (about 200,000 to 40,000 years ago).
Sent 3: By Neolithic times, organized communities had arisen, such as the one at \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, near Konya, Turkey's most important prehistoric site.
Sent 4: This town, which flourished between 6500 and 5500 b.c.
Sent 5: , had flat-roofed houses of mud and timber decorated with wall-paintings, some of which show patterns that still appear on Anatolian kilims.
Sent 6: The advent of the Bronze Age (about 3200 b.c.
Sent 7: ), and the spread of city-states ruled by kings, is marked by the appearance of royal tombs containing bronze objects in such places as Troy in the west, and Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck near Ankara.
Sent 8: Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world's oldest form of writing on record.
Sent 9: The technique was introduced by Assyrian traders 1,000 years later in\u00adto Anatolia, where it was qui\u00adck\u00adly adopted by the indigenous Hatti people, who, at this point, had already reached an ad\u00ad\u00advanced state of civilization.
Sent 10: The Hittites: The capital of the Hatti was Kanesh (modern K\u00fcltepe, near Kayseri).
Sent 11: Cuneiform tablets found here record the arrival in Anatolia of warlike invaders around the second mill\u00adennium b.c.
Sent 12: Their origins remain a my\u00ads\u00adtery (their written language was finally deciphered in 1915), but they came from the direction of the Caucasus moun\u00adtains, spreading destruction and disorder throughout Anatolia.
Sent 13: It was two hundred years before they were firmly entrenched in their newly conquered empire.
Sent 14: The newcomers were the Hittites, and their domination of Anatolia can be divided into three distinct periods: the Old Kingdom (c.
Sent 15: 1600\u20131450 b.c.
Sent 16: ), then the New or Empire Period (c.
Sent 17: 1450\u20131200 b.c.
Sent 18: ), and the Late Hittite Period (c.", "question": "How could one describe \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, near Konya?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There were warlike invaders in the second milennium BC", "Cuneiform was introduced around 2200 b.c", "The tablets record warlike invaders whose identity remains a mystery", "Record the arrival in Anatolia of warlike invaders around the second mill\u00adennium b.c. Their origins remain a my\u00ads\u00adtery (their written language was finally deciphered in 1915), but they came from the direction of the Caucasus moun\u00adtains, spreading destruction and disorder throughout Anatolia", "They recorded the arrival in Anatolia of violent invaders" ], "distractor groups": [ "There were warlike invaders in the second Iron Age", "They record Assyrian invaders", "They recorded a time of peace", "There were warlike invaders in the second century BC", "The cuneiform script was introduced around 3500 b.c" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity.
Sent 2: Widespread finds of Stone Age implements in cave excavations show that Anatolia was already inhabited during the Middle of the Palaeolithic period (about 200,000 to 40,000 years ago).
Sent 3: By Neolithic times, organized communities had arisen, such as the one at \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, near Konya, Turkey's most important prehistoric site.
Sent 4: This town, which flourished between 6500 and 5500 b.c.
Sent 5: , had flat-roofed houses of mud and timber decorated with wall-paintings, some of which show patterns that still appear on Anatolian kilims.
Sent 6: The advent of the Bronze Age (about 3200 b.c.
Sent 7: ), and the spread of city-states ruled by kings, is marked by the appearance of royal tombs containing bronze objects in such places as Troy in the west, and Alacah\u00f6y\u00fck near Ankara.
Sent 8: Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world's oldest form of writing on record.
Sent 9: The technique was introduced by Assyrian traders 1,000 years later in\u00adto Anatolia, where it was qui\u00adck\u00adly adopted by the indigenous Hatti people, who, at this point, had already reached an ad\u00ad\u00advanced state of civilization.
Sent 10: The Hittites: The capital of the Hatti was Kanesh (modern K\u00fcltepe, near Kayseri).
Sent 11: Cuneiform tablets found here record the arrival in Anatolia of warlike invaders around the second mill\u00adennium b.c.
Sent 12: Their origins remain a my\u00ads\u00adtery (their written language was finally deciphered in 1915), but they came from the direction of the Caucasus moun\u00adtains, spreading destruction and disorder throughout Anatolia.
Sent 13: It was two hundred years before they were firmly entrenched in their newly conquered empire.
Sent 14: The newcomers were the Hittites, and their domination of Anatolia can be divided into three distinct periods: the Old Kingdom (c.
Sent 15: 1600\u20131450 b.c.
Sent 16: ), then the New or Empire Period (c.
Sent 17: 1450\u20131200 b.c.
Sent 18: ), and the Late Hittite Period (c.", "question": "What do we know about the Cuneiform tablets found at the capital of the Hatti was Kanesh?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Short term", "These are shorter orders and stay for 150 days", "Emergency protective orders are short term and it lasts for a 150 days" ], "distractor groups": [ "Emergency protective orders are long term" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Low-income domestic violence victims may find long-term legal help -- representation in divorces or child-custody disputes -- hard to come by, if two organizations now providing such help can't replace their lost funding.
Sent 2: The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and Utah Legal Services are already facing cutbacks after they were refused a federal grant of more than 450,000 in September.
Sent 3: The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations [CVR] has voted to deny a stopgap funding request from the two organizations.
Sent 4: While describing the request as a worthy cause, board members agreed Tuesday that funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus -- providing direct services for crime victims.
Sent 5: The 175,000 requested would have allowed the legal aid groups to maintain a skeleton staff to continue providing help beyond emergency protective orders for victims, completing existing cases and offering services in limited cases.
Sent 6: The groups also plan to enlist more pro bono attorneys through coordination with the Utah State Bar. \"We don't have a lot more options,\" said Anne Milne, executive director of Utah Legal Services, after learning of the CVR refusal Wednesday.
Sent 7: The organization has already lost some staff through attrition and has turned away some cases, she said.
Sent 8: Milne said she may ask the board overseeing her organization to give her until November to seek funding from additional sources.
Sent 9: Without additional funding, the outlook for longer-term legal help is unclear.
Sent 10: For two years, the groups had received 18-month civil legal assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and had used them to provide such assistance.
Sent 11: But last month, a third request was denied.
Sent 12: Funding used to help victims obtain emergency protective orders remains in place, said Milne and Stewart Ralphs, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.
Sent 13: Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days.
Sent 14: Many judges are reluctant to address those issues in emergency protective orders, since the decrees stay in effect for such a short time, Milne and Ralphs said.
Sent 15: \"The likelihood a victim will return to her abuser increases if she cannot permanently sever the relationship and establish workable support, custody and property arrangements,\" the funding request to CVR said.
Sent 16: The Department of Justice said it denied the grant application, in part, because evaluators did not see enough collaboration between the organizations and victims' advocates, Ralphs and Milne told CVR board members.
Sent 17: While the two said they believe their organizations coordinate well, the organizations cannot appeal the grant denial.
Sent 18: Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.", "question": "When a judge issues an emergency protective order is it long or short term and how many days does it cover?" }, { "answer groups": [ "$175,000", "175,000" ], "distractor groups": [ "$450,000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Low-income domestic violence victims may find long-term legal help -- representation in divorces or child-custody disputes -- hard to come by, if two organizations now providing such help can't replace their lost funding.
Sent 2: The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and Utah Legal Services are already facing cutbacks after they were refused a federal grant of more than 450,000 in September.
Sent 3: The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations [CVR] has voted to deny a stopgap funding request from the two organizations.
Sent 4: While describing the request as a worthy cause, board members agreed Tuesday that funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus -- providing direct services for crime victims.
Sent 5: The 175,000 requested would have allowed the legal aid groups to maintain a skeleton staff to continue providing help beyond emergency protective orders for victims, completing existing cases and offering services in limited cases.
Sent 6: The groups also plan to enlist more pro bono attorneys through coordination with the Utah State Bar. \"We don't have a lot more options,\" said Anne Milne, executive director of Utah Legal Services, after learning of the CVR refusal Wednesday.
Sent 7: The organization has already lost some staff through attrition and has turned away some cases, she said.
Sent 8: Milne said she may ask the board overseeing her organization to give her until November to seek funding from additional sources.
Sent 9: Without additional funding, the outlook for longer-term legal help is unclear.
Sent 10: For two years, the groups had received 18-month civil legal assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and had used them to provide such assistance.
Sent 11: But last month, a third request was denied.
Sent 12: Funding used to help victims obtain emergency protective orders remains in place, said Milne and Stewart Ralphs, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake.
Sent 13: Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days.
Sent 14: Many judges are reluctant to address those issues in emergency protective orders, since the decrees stay in effect for such a short time, Milne and Ralphs said.
Sent 15: \"The likelihood a victim will return to her abuser increases if she cannot permanently sever the relationship and establish workable support, custody and property arrangements,\" the funding request to CVR said.
Sent 16: The Department of Justice said it denied the grant application, in part, because evaluators did not see enough collaboration between the organizations and victims' advocates, Ralphs and Milne told CVR board members.
Sent 17: While the two said they believe their organizations coordinate well, the organizations cannot appeal the grant denial.
Sent 18: Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.", "question": "The two organizations who made a stopgap funding request asked for how much money?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Width", "When something constricts, it becomes narrower. When it dilates, it widens", "Size", "Diameter", "When blood vessels dilates they allow the body to cool, by allowing more heat to reach the surface. When blood vessels constrict they warm the body by retaining body heat" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dilated Blood Vessels heat the body, and constricted blood vessels cool the body down", "Color", "Death", "Fever", "Ability", "When something widen, it becomes narrower. When it dilates, it constricts" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You couldnt survive without your skin.
Sent 2: It has many important functions.
Sent 3: The main function of the skin is controlling what enters and leaves the body.
Sent 4: It prevents the loss of too much water from the body.
Sent 5: It also prevents bacteria and other microorganisms from entering the body.
Sent 6: The skin helps maintain a constant body temperature.
Sent 7: It keeps the body cool in two ways.
Sent 8: Sweat from sweat glands in the skin evaporates to cool the body.
Sent 9: Blood vessels in the skin dilate, or widen.
Sent 10: This action increases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 11: This allows more heat to reach the surface.
Sent 12: The heat is then able to radiate off the body.
Sent 13: The opposite happens to retain body heat.
Sent 14: Blood vessels in the skin constrict, or narrow.
Sent 15: This decreases blood flow to the body surface.
Sent 16: This reduces the amount of heat that reaches the surface.
Sent 17: When this happens, less heat can be lost to the air.", "question": "What is different when something constricts as compared to when it dilates?" }, { "answer groups": [ "8 centuries", "About 800" ], "distractor groups": [ "About 6 centuries", "594", "917", "1501" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by \"slash-and-burn\" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica \"Xaymaca\" (\"land of wood and water\").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.", "question": "For approximately how many years were the Arawak on Jamaica before the arrival of the Europeans?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance, but discovered that roughly from 1970 through 1994, Bin Laden received about $1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a $300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad", "The United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance", "For many years, the United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance" ], "distractor groups": [ "That bin laden had al qaeda via donations", "Bin Laden received about $1 million per year-a significant sum" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America.
Sent 2: The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 3: Consistent with the importance of the project, al Qaeda funded the plotters.
Sent 4: KSM provided his operatives with nearly all the money they needed to travel to the United States, train, and live.
Sent 5: The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough.
Sent 6: They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time.
Sent 7: The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11.
Sent 8: General Financing As we explained in chapter 2, Bin Laden did not fund al Qaeda through a personal fortune and a network of businesses in Sudan.
Sent 9: Instead, al Qaeda relied primarily on a fund-raising network developed over time.
Sent 10: The CIA now estimates that it cost al Qaeda about 30 million per year to sustain its activities before 9/11 and that this money was raised almost entirely through donations.
Sent 11: For many years, the United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance.
Sent 12: Bin Laden purportedly inherited approximately 300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda.
Sent 13: In early 2000, the U.S. government discovered a different reality: roughly from 1970 through 1994, Bin Laden received about 1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a 300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad.
Sent 14: Then, as part of a Saudi government crackdown early in the 1990s, the Bin Laden family was forced to find a buyer for Usama's share of the family company in 1994.
Sent 15: The Saudi government subsequently froze the proceeds of the sale.
Sent 16: This action had the effect of divesting Bin Laden of what otherwise might indeed have been a large fortune.
Sent 17: Nor were Bin Laden's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda.
Sent 18: When Bin Laden lived in Sudan from 1991 to 1996, he owned a number of businesses and other assets.", "question": "What did U.S. government erroneously believe about Bin Laden's ji-had?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It starts in Ancient Egypt, only to continue in the same location in 1920, and move to Cairo", "The story was set back in the 1920's. The location was Ancient Egypt" ], "distractor groups": [ "It is set in Ancient Egypt", "It starts in Ancient Egypt, and continues at the same location but in present time", "Ordered", "It starts in 1920 Egypt, and then the characters go back in time to Ancient Egypt" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey .
Sent 2: The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection .
Sent 3: Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried .
Sent 4: The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb .
Sent 5: They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud .
Sent 6: Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb .
Sent 7: He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo .
Sent 8: Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud .
Sent 10: The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum .
Sent 11: One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face .", "question": "Explain the time and place of the story's setting.A. It starts in Ancient Egypt, only to continue in the same location in 1920, and move to CairoB. The story was set back in the 1920's. The location was Ancient EgyptC. It is set in Ancient EgyptD. It starts in Ancient Egypt, and continues at the same location but in present timeE. OrderedF. It starts in 1920 Egypt, and then the characters go back in time to Ancient EgyptPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A boy Pharaon who died in the desert after fleeing a coup in his father's palace", "The tomb was that of Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey. The Pharaoh was spirited away after his father died" ], "distractor groups": [ "President", "The boy Pharaon's father who died in the desert after fleeing a coup in his palace", "A manservant who died in the desert after fleeing a coup in the palace where he works", "A team of archaeologists", "A boy Pharaon who was killed during a palace coup and buried in the desert for people in the future to find him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey .
Sent 2: The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection .
Sent 3: Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried .
Sent 4: The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb .
Sent 5: They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud .
Sent 6: Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb .
Sent 7: He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo .
Sent 8: Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud .
Sent 10: The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum .
Sent 11: One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face .", "question": "Who did the tomb belong to and how did he die?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The mummy goes on a rampage to punish violators. The mummy uses strangulation, and other means of punishment", "The mummy kills them in grisly ways" ], "distractor groups": [ "They all end up in the asylum", "A few of them survive and kill the mummy", "They are tormented by the mummy, but not killed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Mummy 's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey .
Sent 2: The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem , a manservant of Kah-To-Bey , spirited away the boy when his father was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection .
Sent 3: Unfortunately , the boy dies and is buried .
Sent 4: The story then moves forward to 1920 and shows the expedition led by scientist Sir Basil Walden and business man Stanley Preston finding the tomb .
Sent 5: They ignore the dire warning issued to them by Hasmid , a local Bedouin about the consequences for those that violate the tombs of Ancient Egypt and remove the bodies and the sacred shroud .
Sent 6: Sir Basil is bitten by a snake just after finding the tomb .
Sent 7: He recovers , but has a relapse after arriving back in Cairo .
Sent 8: Preston takes advantage of this and commits him to an insane asylum , to take credit for finding the tomb and Prince 's mummy himself .
Sent 9: Meanwhile , after being placed in the Cairo Museum , the mummy of Prem is revived when Hasmid chants the sacred oath on the shroud .
Sent 10: The mummy then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage to kill off the members of the expedition , beginning with Sir Basil after he escapes from the asylum .
Sent 11: One by one , those who assisted in removing the contents of the tomb to Cairo are eliminated by such grisly means as strangulation , being thrown out of windows , and having photographic acid thrown in their face .", "question": "What happens to those who violated the tombs?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Use for navigation", "Helps protect Earth and its organisms. It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun", "Helps protect Earth and its organisms", "Navigation,direction" ], "distractor groups": [ "It helps with gravity and condensation", "Harmful particles detect, guiding", "Helps protect Earth from Moon", "It protects us from sun's radiation", "It helps with direction and creates solar flares", "Assists animals with travel and direction", "Use for Olympic Sports", "Use for bullet trains" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms.
Sent 2: It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun.
Sent 3: Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south magnetic poles.
Sent 4: This is where Earths magnetic field is strongest.
Sent 5: This is also where relatively few organisms live.
Sent 6: Another benefit of Earths magnetic field is its use for navigation.
Sent 7: People use compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole.
Sent 8: Knowing this helps them tell direction.
Sent 9: Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well.
Sent 10: Birds like the garden warbler in Figure 1.36 use Earths magnetic field.
Sent 11: They use it to guide their annual migrations.
Sent 12: Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes.
Sent 13: These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern.", "question": "Name two benefits of Earths magnetic field.A. It helps with gravity and condensationB. Use for navigationC. Harmful particles detect, guidingD. Helps protect Earth and its organisms. It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sunE. Helps protect Earth from MoonF. It protects us from sun's radiationG. Helps protect Earth and its organismsH. It helps with direction and creates solar flaresI. Assists animals with travel and directionJ. Navigation,directionK. Use for Olympic SportsL. Use for bullet trainsPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun", "Helps protect Earth and its organisms. It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun", "For navigation", "Help detect direction", "It protects them from harmful particles from the sun" ], "distractor groups": [ "It helps with gravity and condensation", "Protects from WMD by terrorists", "Rotects us from harmful particles given off by the moon", "Rotects us from harmful particles given off by the Jupiter", "It helps with direction and creates solar flares", "For visual pattern", "Assists animals with travel and direction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms.
Sent 2: It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun.
Sent 3: Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south magnetic poles.
Sent 4: This is where Earths magnetic field is strongest.
Sent 5: This is also where relatively few organisms live.
Sent 6: Another benefit of Earths magnetic field is its use for navigation.
Sent 7: People use compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole.
Sent 8: Knowing this helps them tell direction.
Sent 9: Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well.
Sent 10: Birds like the garden warbler in Figure 1.36 use Earths magnetic field.
Sent 11: They use it to guide their annual migrations.
Sent 12: Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes.
Sent 13: These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern.", "question": "How does Earth's magnetic field help humans?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Have structures in their eyes that let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern", "Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes. These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern" ], "distractor groups": [ "Using antenna", "Direction", "Have structures in their eyes that let them see Earths magnetic field as a flying pattern", "Visual pattern", "Telepathy", "Sound echos off of objects", "Have structures in their eyes that let them see Moon's magnetic field as a visual pattern", "Have structures in their tongues that let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms.
Sent 2: It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun.
Sent 3: Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south magnetic poles.
Sent 4: This is where Earths magnetic field is strongest.
Sent 5: This is also where relatively few organisms live.
Sent 6: Another benefit of Earths magnetic field is its use for navigation.
Sent 7: People use compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole.
Sent 8: Knowing this helps them tell direction.
Sent 9: Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well.
Sent 10: Birds like the garden warbler in Figure 1.36 use Earths magnetic field.
Sent 11: They use it to guide their annual migrations.
Sent 12: Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes.
Sent 13: These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern.", "question": "How do garden warblers use the earth's magnetic field to guide animal migration?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Helps protect Earth and its organisms", "Navigation", "Protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun", "Protects us from harmful particles from the sun and navigation" ], "distractor groups": [ "Helps protect Moon and its balance with Sun", "Absorbs antivirus codes from memory chips", "To cause gravity", "Visual pattern", "To allow for conduction", "Helps protect Sun and its interaction with Earth", "To give direction" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms.
Sent 2: It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun.
Sent 3: Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south magnetic poles.
Sent 4: This is where Earths magnetic field is strongest.
Sent 5: This is also where relatively few organisms live.
Sent 6: Another benefit of Earths magnetic field is its use for navigation.
Sent 7: People use compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole.
Sent 8: Knowing this helps them tell direction.
Sent 9: Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well.
Sent 10: Birds like the garden warbler in Figure 1.36 use Earths magnetic field.
Sent 11: They use it to guide their annual migrations.
Sent 12: Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes.
Sent 13: These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern.", "question": "What are the benefits of the earth's magnetic field?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To detect Earths magnetic north pole and detect direction", "Detect direction", "Navigation and it detects the earth's magnetic north pole", "Compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole. Knowing this helps them tell direction", "To detect Earths magnetic north pole" ], "distractor groups": [ "Purpose is to not get lost and it detects nearby landmarks", "To detect position of sun vis-a-vis earth", "To detect center of gravity", "Tell direction and detects weather", "To detect Earths magnetic west pole and detect structure", "To know true north and detects obstacles", "To detect distance between heavenly bodies" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Earths magnetic field helps protect Earth and its organisms.
Sent 2: It protects us from harmful particles given off by the sun.
Sent 3: Most of the particles are attracted to the north and south magnetic poles.
Sent 4: This is where Earths magnetic field is strongest.
Sent 5: This is also where relatively few organisms live.
Sent 6: Another benefit of Earths magnetic field is its use for navigation.
Sent 7: People use compasses to detect Earths magnetic north pole.
Sent 8: Knowing this helps them tell direction.
Sent 9: Many animals have natural 'compasses' that work just as well.
Sent 10: Birds like the garden warbler in Figure 1.36 use Earths magnetic field.
Sent 11: They use it to guide their annual migrations.
Sent 12: Recent research suggests that warblers and other migrating birds have structures in their eyes.
Sent 13: These structures let them see Earths magnetic field as a visual pattern.", "question": "What is the purpose of a compass and what does it detect?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Kongfuzi (K\u00e2\u0080\u0099ung Fu-tzu)", "Confucius", "So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher, Confucius" ], "distractor groups": [ "Twenty-six Chinese emperors have visited his birthplace", "The Great Teacher" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the rest of the world, China's supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K'ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name \"Confucius.\" He was born in 551 b.c.
Sent 2: in what is now Shandong Province in eastern China.
Sent 3: So profound was his influence that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to the birthplace of the Great Teacher.
Sent 4: You, too, can pay your respects at the vast temple raised on the site of his home in the small town of Qufu (Chufu), and at his tomb in the woods just to the north.
Sent 5: The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.
Sent 6: Confucius laid great stress on the proper and harmonious relationships between ruler and subject, parent and child, teacher and student, the individual and the state.
Sent 7: These relationships were deemed to be hierarchical and dictatorial.
Sent 8: If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
Sent 9: The son who disobeyed the father would bring disaster upon himself and his family, just as the emperor who defied the \"mandate of heaven\" or ignored the good of the empire brought ruin upon the nation.
Sent 10: Over the centuries Confucius has suffered more changes of fortune than probably any other philosopher.
Sent 11: Honored soon after his death as the greatest of scholars, he was later revered as semi-divine; you can still visit temples to Confucius in many Chinese cities.
Sent 12: During the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976), however, he was denounced as a counter-revolutionary force.
Sent 13: It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was \"rehabilitated.\" Unlike Confucius, about whose life many specific and even colorful details are known, the philosopher Laozi (Lao Tse or Lao-Tzu) is an enigma.
Sent 14: Estimates of his date of birth vary by well over a century.
Sent 15: One legend even says he taught the young Confucius.
Sent 16: Laozi is immortalized by his book of thoughts on man, nature, and the universe, Daodejing (\"The Way and Its Power\"), which became the major text of China's greatest indigenous religion, Daoism (Taoism).
Sent 17: With its emphasis on nature, intuition, the individual, paradox (\"The knowledge which is not knowledge\"), and the cosmic flow known as \"The Way,\" Daoism became the religion of artists and philosophers.
Sent 18: After the death of Confucius, the Zhou Dynasty entered a period of strife known as the \"Warring States\" period (475\u2013221 b.c.).", "question": "Who's influence was so profound that eleven Chinese emperors made pilgrimages to his birthplace?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Sediment comes from areas of land upstream, and comes to rest in the floodplain", "Eroded from land upstream", "From the upstream areas and rest across the flood plain", "It comes from eroded rock and land and rests when the water receeds", "Natural levees", "Eroded from riverbanks" ], "distractor groups": [ "Floodwater", "Heavy rains", "Sandy dessert", "Comes from levees ans settles on the river bed", "It comes from other lands and comes to rest in the middle of the river", "Crops" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "Where does the sediment in a flooding river come from, and where does it eventually come to rest?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Heavy rains", "Heavy Rains may cause a river to flood and overflow its banks" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lack of good containment will cause a river to flood", "Rich soil near rivers", "Natural levees", "Upstream erosion", "Sediment", "Overflowing it's banks" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "What may cause a river to flood and overflow its banks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Agricultural", "Very flat", "If a river floods often, a floodplain develops", "Natural levees" ], "distractor groups": [ "Floodwater", "Flat surface", "River", "Sandy dessert" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A flood occurs when a river overflows its banks.
Sent 2: This might happen because of heavy rains.
Sent 3: Floodplains In very flat regions, flood water may spread out on the surface of the land.
Sent 4: It then slows down and drops its sediment.
Sent 5: If a river floods often, a floodplain develops.
Sent 6: A floodplain is an area where a thick layer of rich soil is left behind as the floodwater recedes.
Sent 7: Thats why floodplains are usually good places for growing plants.
Sent 8: They are very flat areas and they have very rich soils.
Sent 9: The Nile River valley is a great example of a floodplain.
Sent 10: Each year, the Nile River rises over its banks.
Sent 11: This floodwater carries a lot of sediment.
Sent 12: This sediment has been eroded off areas of land from upstream.
Sent 13: This sediment is dropped as the water slows down after spreading across the land.
Sent 14: What is left behind is a very rich soil.
Sent 15: Thats why crops can be raised in the middle of a sandy desert.
Sent 16: Natural Levees A flooding river often forms natural levees along its banks.
Sent 17: A levee is a raised strip of sediments deposited close to the waters edge.", "question": "What type of region might a floodplain develop into if a river floods often?" }, { "answer groups": [ "To save Down Syndrome foundation", "Georgie wanted to save the down syndrome center for a relative", "He was trying to fund a Down Syndrome foundation" ], "distractor groups": [ "To save Down Syndrome brother", "Georgie wanted to be rich" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dylan and Jez are two orphans who meet in their twenties and vow to achieve their shared childhood dream of living in a stately home .
Sent 2: In pursuit of this dream they spend their days living in a disused gas holder , spending as little money as possible and conning the upper classes out of their riches .
Sent 3: During one of their biggest cons , their lives are touched by Georgie , who needs money to save the Down's syndrome foundation that her brother attends .
Sent 4: When a con goes wrong , the two find themselves in gaol to be released only after their entire fortune is rendered useless because of a recall of 50 notes .
Sent 5: It is down to an elaborate plan involving Dylan , Jez and Georgie , to break them out of gaol in order to save their dream .
Sent 6: The film , in essence , is part Ealing comedy , part underdog farce with a sequence of madcap adventures set against a striking soundtrack by contemporary Britpop artists .
Sent 7: Unlike straight rom-coms or mainstream comedies of the period Shooting Fish contained a generous blending of fact and fantasy .", "question": "Why did Georgie participate in the cons and end up getting caught?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Figure 1.11 is a futuristic looking train, with no wheels that leviates above a track", "The train uses magnets to move", "The train has no wheels" ], "distractor groups": [ "Magnets", "The train goes backwards", "The train is like a helicopter", "The train has no conductor" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Take a look at this train in Figure 1.11.
Sent 2: It looks very futuristic.
Sent 3: What do you notice about it?
Sent 4: Did you notice that the train has no wheels?
Sent 5: How can a train have no wheels?
Sent 6: It doesn't need wheels.
Sent 7: It actually floats, or levitates, just above the track.
Sent 8: Magnets enable the train to do this.
Sent 9: This is not a normal train.
Sent 10: This is a maglev train.
Sent 11: The word maglev stands for magnetic levitation.
Sent 12: Because it has no wheels, there is no friction.
Sent 13: Some magnets hold the train up.
Sent 14: Other magnets are used to move the train forward.
Sent 15: This train can go very fast.
Sent 16: It can reach speeds up to 480 kilometers (300 miles) per hour!
Sent 17: Magnets are pretty cool.
Sent 18: What exactly is a magnet?
Sent 19: How is it able to exert such force?", "question": "What do you notice about figure 1.11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "No one", "0", "$6.5 million", "10" ], "distractor groups": [ "1", "$7.5 million", "One", "15", "$1 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Iwasaki's careful respect for the Long Beach program and its lawyers earned him the political capital he needed to complete his takeover in a matter of weeks.
Sent 2: \"The Long Beach program had strong support in the community so in a situation like that, one has to recognize that it's not like a takeover where I have all the answers and I know best,\" Iwasaki said.
Sent 3: \"The people in the community who are working there have the contacts and the knowledge that will allow service to continue.\"
Sent 4: Things have gone less smoothly across town.
Sent 5: There, Dudovitz, a longtime poverty lawyer and executive director of the San Fernando Valley's 36-year-old legal aid program, continues to struggle with his hostile takeover of the neighboring San Gabriel-Pomona Valleys service area one year after it was accomplished.
Sent 6: On the bright side, Dudovitz has extended his respected program to clients in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, and he now operates on a much larger budget, 6.5 million last year.
Sent 7: However, his clash with the old San Gabriel program resulted in litigation, bitter feelings and a mission that some say is not clearly focused on serving poor people.
Sent 8: \"It was a difficult situation that was probably mishandled by everyone,\" a longtime observer of the public interest community said of the San Fernando Valley-San Gabriel-Pomona Valley merger.
Sent 9: \"There are very few people who come out as the heroes.
Sent 10: Personalities got involved when they shouldn't have.
Sent 11: Things were said that caused bad feelings and couldn't be unsaid.\"
Sent 12: Iwasaki's merger with the smaller, 48-year-old Long Beach program was friendly and fast, and no one - not even Long Beach board members - lost a job.
Sent 13: When it was over, Iwasaki had 1 million more in federal dollars and two new offices.
Sent 14: Long Beach clients regained services they had lost years ago when federal budget cuts and dwindling grants reduced the staff of 15 lawyers to five and cut immigration and consumer law programs.
Sent 15: Iwasaki said, \"[I judged the transition] better than I could have hoped for.\"", "question": "How many people were fired in order for Long Beach clients to regain services?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Short woody plants- mediteranean Pine and oak forests -subtropical", "A lot of short woody plants grow in a Mediterranian climate while pines and oaks prefer a Subtropical climate", "In Mediterranean Climates short woody plants are common and Subtropical Climates Pine and oak forests grow" ], "distractor groups": [ "Plants in Subtropical climates are made for frigid temperatures", "Mediterranean Climates have tall lean trees", "Plants in the Mediterranean can handle lots of dry weather", "All plants grow in both" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "How do the main plants differ between a Mediterranian climate and a Subtropical climate?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Emperate climates have moderate temperatures", "They have moderate temperatures", "Moderate temperatures. These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls", "Vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls" ], "distractor groups": [ "They have hot winters", "They have humid and hot summers", "Severe temperatures", "They have frigid winters" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "Where are the characteristics of temperate climates?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry", "Temperatures are mild, rainfalls are moderate, rain falls mostly in the winters and summers are dry", "Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Heavy rain and snow", "Winters are cold and summers are wet", "Temperatures are mild with lots of rainfall year round" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "What are characteristics of a Mediterranean Climate:?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There is moderate rainfall throughout the year", "Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly. There is moderate rainfall throughout the year. Pine and oak forests grow in this climate", "Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly" ], "distractor groups": [ "There is chilly Summers", "Hot and dry summers", "There are frigid winters", "There is heavy rainfall in winter" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "What are the characteristics of humid subtropical climates?" }, { "answer groups": [ "88 percent", "88% accurate" ], "distractor groups": [ "5% accurate", "50 percent", "80% accurate", "95% accurate", "Very inaccurate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (Financial Times) -- The increasing amount of personal information that can been gleaned by computer programs that track how people use Facebook has been revealed by an extensive academic study.
Sent 2: Such programmes can discern undisclosed private information such as Facebook users' sexuality, drug-use habits and even whether their parents separated when they were young, according to the study by Cambridge university academics.
Sent 3: In one of the biggest studies of its kind, scientists from the university's psychometrics team and a Microsoft-funded research centre analysed data from 58,000 Facebook users to predict traits and other information that were not provided in their profiles.
Sent 4: The algorithms were 88 per cent accurate in predicting male sexual orientation, 95 per cent for race and 80 per cent for religion and political leanings.
Sent 5: Personality types and emotional stability were also predicted with accuracy ranging from 62-75 per cent.
Sent 6: Facebook declined to comment.
Sent 7: The study highlights growing concerns about social networks and how data trails can be mined for sensitive information, even when people attempt to keep information about themselves private.
Sent 8: Less than 5 per cent of users predicted to be gay, for example, were connected with explicitly gay groups.
Sent 9: Michal Kosinksi, one of the report's authors, told the Financial Times that the university's techniques could easily be replicated by companies to infer personal attributes a person did not wish to share, such as sexual orientation or political views: \"We used very simple and generic methods.
Sent 10: Marketing companies and internet companies could spend much more time and resources, and hence get much higher accuracy than we did.\"
Sent 11: Last week , the EU agreed to water down proposals for a radical overhaul of data privacy regulation.
Sent 12: The move reflects governments' reluctance to impede internet businesses that might spur economic growth, and follows fierce lobbying from technology companies including Facebook and Google.
Sent 13: Personal data has become big business.
Sent 14: Wonga, the UK online lender, makes credit judgments within seconds based on thousands of pieces of information, including an applicant's Facebook profile.
Sent 15: Tesco, the supermarket chain, this month started to use its customers' shopping histories to sell targeted online advertising.
Sent 16: The report also revealed some unexpected correlations -- such as people who liked 'curly fries' having higher IQs, while those who like Facebook's \"Sliding on Floors With Your Socks On\" page were unlikely to use drugs.", "question": "According to the study by Cambridge Academics how accurately were they able to predict sexuality?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The force of gravity is different between the Earth and the moon", "Because the pull of gravity is same everywhere on Earth but changes when on the Moon", "The force of gravity is the same in all places of the Earth, however it is different from the gravitation force on the moon" ], "distractor groups": [ "The moon is smaller than Earth", "Because the mass changes on Moon but does not change on Earth" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "Why would a person's weight not change on Earth but it would on the moon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because the gravity on the moon is weaker", "The force of gravity is less", "Weight is affected by gravity therefore, weight is reduced on the moon because of the lesser gravity force" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because the mass changes when on the moon", "The force of gravity is more" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "Why is it that a man on the moon who weighs 175lbs would only weight 29 pounds on the moon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weight depends on mass", "Mass and weight are similarly related", "Mass and weight are closely related but weight can change based on gravitational force while mass does not" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are not related", "Mass has nothing to do with weight" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "How are mass and weight related?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Weight is dependent on the force of gravity", "Mass never changes", "Mass is constant but weight changes", "Mass is the amount of matter and weight is the force of gravity on the object" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mass is dependent on the force of gravity", "Weight never changes", "Weight are in newtons but mass is constant and doesn't get measured in Newtons" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "What's the difference between weight and mass?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Edwin E. Aldrin Jr", "Neil Armstrong" ], "distractor groups": [ "Edwin E. Armstrong", "Newtons", "Tom Hanks", "John Wayne", "Edwin Aldrin Sr" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "Who were the first humans to walk on the moon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "President Clinton was concerned and they wanted him to be captured, killed, or expelled from Afghanastan?", "Yes, and the government wanted to get him expelled from Afghanistan or possibly captured or even killed" ], "distractor groups": [ "Yes, and the government wanted him arrested", "President", "Bin Laden", "No, and the government wanted him sent to Afghanistan for training" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "Was President Clinton concerned and what did the U.S Government want to be done to Bin Laden?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy", "He wrote about the improved living conditions that came from revolution but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy" ], "distractor groups": [ "He advocated extremes of democracy and worried about parliamentary government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville (French: [aleksi SaRl aRi kleRel d@ tokvil]; 29 July 1805 - 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
Sent 2: In both of these, he analyzed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies.
Sent 3: Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States, and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science.
Sent 4: Tocqueville was active in French politics, first under the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and then during the Second Republic (1849-1851) which succeeded the February 1848 Revolution.
Sent 5: He retired from political life after Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup, and thereafter began work on The Old Regime and the Revolution.
Sent 6: He argued that the importance of the French Revolution was to continue the process of modernizing and centralizing the French state which had begun under King Louis XIV.
Sent 7: The failure of the Revolution came from the inexperience of the deputies who were too wedded to abstract Enlightenment ideals.
Sent 8: Tocqueville was a classical liberal who advocated parliamentary government, but was skeptical of the extremes of democracy.", "question": "How can we say that Tocqueville was an advocate for the individual but was also worried about the power of the individual?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The hair grows out of the dermis", "The dermis contains hair follicles", "The dermis contains hair follicles, which is where hairs originate" ], "distractor groups": [ "The hair follicles are on top of the dermis", "The dermis contains oil glandes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The dermis is the inner layer of skin.
Sent 2: The dermis has blood vessels and nerve endings.
Sent 3: The nerve endings explain why your skin is sensitive.
Sent 4: You can sense pain, pressure, and temperature.
Sent 5: You cut your finger and it starts to bleed.
Sent 6: What has happened?
Sent 7: If your skin bleeds, it means you have cut the dermis layer and damaged blood vessels.
Sent 8: The cut really hurts.
Sent 9: It hurts because of the nerve endings in this skin layer.
Sent 10: The dermis also contains hair follicles and two types of glands.
Sent 11: Hair follicles are structures where hairs originate.
Sent 12: Each hair grows out of a follicle.
Sent 13: Hair passes up through the epidermis.
Sent 14: It then extends above the skin surface.
Sent 15: Oil glands produce an oily substance.
Sent 16: The oil is secreted into hair follicles.", "question": "What is the relationship of hair to the dermis?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Stephen Fenton", "Southby's, Stack's Rare Coins, The US Mint and Stephen Fenton", "The US Government", "The U.S.Mint" ], "distractor groups": [ "Sotheby's", "The UK Government", "The Secret Service", "Henrietta Holsman Fore", "A anonymous collector", "Stack's Rare Coins" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "Who profited off of the 1933 double eagle sale?" }, { "answer groups": [ "James Kelly", "Colin Powell", "Syed Hamid Albar" ], "distractor groups": [ "Barack obama", "Colin powell, president Bush", "George W. Bush" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Powell contended that it was not inconsistent to want to foster cooperation even with an organization like the Indonesian military, which has a history of human rights abuses.
Sent 2: \"If you get young officers, expose them to a military organization that is within a democratic political institution, such as the United States, then that rubs off on them,\" he said.
Sent 3: In Malaysia, Powell met with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who has led the country since 1981.
Sent 4: The Malaysian foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, later told local reporters that Powell had proposed that American and Malaysian officials review the idea of forming a regional training center in Malaysia to coordinate antiterrorism activities.
Sent 5: His brief stop in Malaysia also highlighted the moral ambiguities of the effort to prevent terrorism and its emphasis on cooperation with governments that the United States has often criticized.
Sent 6: The United States once distanced itself from Mahathir for strong-arm tactics with political rivals, and human rights groups criticize him for arresting and jailing scores of suspected militants, including some who may be linked to al-Qaida, without trial.
Sent 7: Powell said his discussions with Mahathir \"touched on the case\" of his former deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of sodomy and abuse of power after trials that Powell said the United States had \"always felt\" were flawed.
Sent 8: The assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, James Kelly, met on Tuesday morning with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, for what she later told Malaysian reporters was a discussion about both the detention of her husband and six supporters, and the campaign against terrorism.", "question": "Name all of the American government officials mentioned in the article:A. Barack obamaB. James KellyC. Colin powell, president BushD. Colin PowellE. Syed Hamid AlbarF. George W. BushPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nuclear fusion", "The joining of atoms nuclei", "Fusion" ], "distractor groups": [ "The splitting of atoms", "Fission", "kinetic energy process", "Nuclear fission", "Heat conversion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.", "question": "What type of nuclear energy process occurs in the sun?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He had a mathematical approach", "The mathematical approach, due to his lack of formal education", "His lack of formal education" ], "distractor groups": [ "He used an intellectual approach", "He lacked formal education", "His lack of skill", "His choice of colors", "He restricted himself to portraits and illustrations" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As for engravings, Durer's work was restricted to portraits and illustrations for his treatise.
Sent 2: The portraits include Cardinal-Elector Albert of Mainz; Frederick the Wise, elector of Saxony; the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer; Philipp Melanchthon, and Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Sent 3: For those of the Cardinal, Melanchthon, and Durer's final major work, a drawn portrait of the Nuremberg patrician Ulrich Starck, Durer depicted the sitters in profile, perhaps reflecting a more mathematical approach.
Sent 4: Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Durer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.
Sent 5: He also derived great satisfaction from his friendships and correspondence with Erasmus and other scholars.
Sent 6: Durer succeeded in producing two books during his lifetime.
Sent 7: \"The Four Books on Measurement\" were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.
Sent 8: The other, a work on city fortifications, was published in 1527.
Sent 9: \"The Four Books on Human Proportion\" were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528.", "question": "What might one be surprised about Durer's approach to his drawings?" }, { "answer groups": [ "4", "4 days", "5" ], "distractor groups": [ "15", "3 days" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Grande dame of cooking still going strong at 90: Julia Child celebrates in San Francisco.
Sent 2: How does it feel to turn 90 and have attained the status of an icon, a living legend?
Sent 3: \"It feels just like it felt before,\" Julia Child says with the throaty laugh familiar to millions who cut their culinary teeth on her \"French Chef\" television series.
Sent 4: The show, along with her seminal book, \"Mastering the Art of French Cooking\" (1961), revolutionized the way America cooks and eats.
Sent 5: While making light of the difference a day -- or another decade -- makes, Child intends to enjoy her birthday thoroughly.
Sent 6: First, there will be all the public observances, including a sold-out dinner Thursday at San Francisco's tony Fifth Floor restaurant, which -- like dinners that night at 19 other venues across the country -- will benefit the scholarship fund of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (which Child co-founded).
Sent 7: Friday to Sunday, the action moves to Napa, with both members-only and public events at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, of which she is an honorary board member.
Sent 8: Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
Sent 9: The schedule Child and her assistant of 14 years, former pastry chef Stephanie Hersh, have laid out is not exactly a senior-citizen routine, even though Child has always been candid about her age and realistic in assessing her own capabilities.
Sent 10: When the Pasadena native moved back to California from her long-time home in the Boston area last year, she also made the move from a condominium she and her late husband, Paul, had purchased many years ago to a progressive retirement home.
Sent 11: She is in the most active of the four levels available, but should the need arise, she can move on to assisted living facilities within the same complex.", "question": "How many days of activities are planned for Julia Child's birthday?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked", "United 93" ], "distractor groups": [ "United 14", "United 211", "Aircraft", "United 111", "Presumably hijacked plane" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Vice President stated that he called the President to discuss the rules of engagement for the CAP.
Sent 2: He recalled feeling that it did no good to establish the CAP unless the pilots had instructions on whether they were authorized to shoot if the plane would not divert.
Sent 3: He said the President signed off on that concept.
Sent 4: The President said he remembered such a conversation, and that it reminded him of when he had been an interceptor pilot.
Sent 5: The President emphasized to us that he had authorized the shootdown of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 6: The Vice President's military aide told us he believed the Vice President spoke to the President just after entering the conference room, but he did not hear what they said.
Sent 7: Rice, who entered the room shortly after the Vice President and sat next to him, remembered hearing him inform the President, \"Sir, the CAPs are up.
Sent 8: Sir, they're going to want to know what to do.\"
Sent 9: Then she recalled hearing him say, \"Yes sir.\"
Sent 10: She believed this conversation occurred a few minutes, perhaps five, after they entered the conference room.
Sent 11: We believe this call would have taken place sometime before 10:10 to 10:15.
Sent 12: Among the sources that reflect other important events of that morning, there is no documentary evidence for this call, but the relevant sources are incomplete.
Sent 13: Others nearby who were taking notes, such as the Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who sat next to him, and Mrs. Cheney, did not note a call between the President and Vice President immediately after the Vice President entered the conference room.
Sent 14: At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington.
Sent 15: That aircraft was United 93.
Sent 16: The Secret Service was getting this information directly from the FAA.
Sent 17: The FAA may have been tracking the progress of United 93 on a display that showed its projected path to Washington, not its actual radar return.
Sent 18: Thus, the Secret Service was relying on projections and was not aware the plane was already down in Pennsylvania.", "question": "What hijacked aircraft were the pilots authorized to shoot down under CAP?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Not using cruise missiles", "Use AC-130 gunships", "Plans were developed to use AC-130s rather than cruise missle strikes", "Not using cruise missles" ], "distractor groups": [ "Use cruise missiles", "Not allowing Pakistan access to weaponry", "Not use AC-130 gunships", "Not deploying AC-130s" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "What was done in order to minimize collateral damage in Kandahar in December of 1998?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An attack on Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan", "An AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan" ], "distractor groups": [ "An attack on Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Pakistan", "An attack on Bin Lan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "What did the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship entail?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Using AC-130s to attack al Qaeda", "Deployment of the AC-gunships", "Using the AC-130 in an attack on Bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan" ], "distractor groups": [ "Using the AC-130 in Kandahar", "Attacking Afghan civilians", "Using cruise missiles in an attack on Pakistan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, \"It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there.\"
Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as \"Spooky\"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.", "question": "What option did Zinni deny blocking?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"three seconds\"", "12 minutes", "10 minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "15 minutes", "13 minutes", "1 hour", "\"at 10.33 hrs.\"" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "Approximately how much time passed between when The Vice President was logged calling the President, and when the shelter first received reports of another hijacked plane?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Antartica used to be warm", "Antarctica used to be a warmer climate", "Plants must have grown on Antarctica in the past, though they do not now" ], "distractor groups": [ "Antarctica used to be an ocean", "Antarctica has always been cold", "Antartica is cold", "Fossils were carried there by the ocean", "Things cant live in Antartica", "Animals live in Antartica" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils give clues about major geological events.
Sent 2: Fossils can also give clues about past climates.
Sent 3: Fossils of ocean animals on the top of a mountain?
Sent 4: Ocean animals have been found on the Earths tallest mountain.
Sent 5: Its hard to believe, but it is true.
Sent 6: These fossils were found at the top of Mt. Everest.
Sent 7: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth.
Sent 8: These fossils showed that this entire area was once at the bottom of a sea.
Sent 9: It can only mean that Mt. Everest was uplifted.
Sent 10: In fact, the entire Himalaya mountain range was raised.
Sent 11: It was forced up from the collision of two continents.
Sent 12: Fossils of plants are found in Antarctica.
Sent 13: Now, Antarctica is almost completely covered with ice.
Sent 14: Plants do not grow in Antarctica.
Sent 15: According to fossils, they once did.
Sent 16: This means that Antarctica was once much warmer than it is now.
Sent 17: These fossils tell us about Antarcticas past climate.", "question": "What does the fact that fossils have been found on the top of Antarctica?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There are fossils of plants in Antartica", "Plant fossils indicate that Antarctica once had a warmer climate", "Fossils of plants and animals have been found, when there are no plants now" ], "distractor groups": [ "There are plants underneath the permafrost of Antarctica", "People who lived there a long time ago left notes saying it was warm", "Fossils tell us about Antartica's past climate", "There was a collision of two continents", "Penguins live there", "Plants that have adapted to colder climate grow in Antarctica" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils give clues about major geological events.
Sent 2: Fossils can also give clues about past climates.
Sent 3: Fossils of ocean animals on the top of a mountain?
Sent 4: Ocean animals have been found on the Earths tallest mountain.
Sent 5: Its hard to believe, but it is true.
Sent 6: These fossils were found at the top of Mt. Everest.
Sent 7: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth.
Sent 8: These fossils showed that this entire area was once at the bottom of a sea.
Sent 9: It can only mean that Mt. Everest was uplifted.
Sent 10: In fact, the entire Himalaya mountain range was raised.
Sent 11: It was forced up from the collision of two continents.
Sent 12: Fossils of plants are found in Antarctica.
Sent 13: Now, Antarctica is almost completely covered with ice.
Sent 14: Plants do not grow in Antarctica.
Sent 15: According to fossils, they once did.
Sent 16: This means that Antarctica was once much warmer than it is now.
Sent 17: These fossils tell us about Antarcticas past climate.", "question": "What Is the evidence that temperature used to be warmer in Antarctica?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Antartica and Mount Everest", "At the top of the highest mountain on earth", "Antarctica", "On top of Mount Everest" ], "distractor groups": [ "Himalayas", "USA", "Hawaii", "England", "Asia", "Mount Everest", "Antartica", "America" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Fossils give clues about major geological events.
Sent 2: Fossils can also give clues about past climates.
Sent 3: Fossils of ocean animals on the top of a mountain?
Sent 4: Ocean animals have been found on the Earths tallest mountain.
Sent 5: Its hard to believe, but it is true.
Sent 6: These fossils were found at the top of Mt. Everest.
Sent 7: Mt. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth.
Sent 8: These fossils showed that this entire area was once at the bottom of a sea.
Sent 9: It can only mean that Mt. Everest was uplifted.
Sent 10: In fact, the entire Himalaya mountain range was raised.
Sent 11: It was forced up from the collision of two continents.
Sent 12: Fossils of plants are found in Antarctica.
Sent 13: Now, Antarctica is almost completely covered with ice.
Sent 14: Plants do not grow in Antarctica.
Sent 15: According to fossils, they once did.
Sent 16: This means that Antarctica was once much warmer than it is now.
Sent 17: These fossils tell us about Antarcticas past climate.", "question": "Where is an unexpected location fossils have been found?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Either a snow gauge or a rain gauge, depending on the type of precipitation", "A rain gauge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Hygrometer", "A snow gauge", "Anemometer" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You might want to know how cold it is.
Sent 2: You may need to know how fast the wind is blowing.
Sent 3: Maybe it rained last night?
Sent 4: Do you know how much?
Sent 5: Does it feel humid to you?
Sent 6: You have heard all these questions before.
Sent 7: To answer these questions, we need data.
Sent 8: That data comes from special tools.
Sent 9: These tools collect data about the weather.
Sent 10: You can see some of the common tools listed below: A thermometer measures temperature.
Sent 11: An anemometer measures wind speed.
Sent 12: A rain gauge measures the amount of rain.
Sent 13: A hygrometer measures humidity.
Sent 14: A wind vane shows wind direction.
Sent 15: A snow gauge measures the amount of snow.", "question": "What tools are used to measure the amount of precipitation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Six years to rebuild many roads, rails, and runways", "The creation of the \"Infrastructure Bank\" to help fund the renewal in the most efficient way", "A $50 billion investment", "To work together on his new plan and to support it" ], "distractor groups": [ "For them to create a six year plan to rebuild roads, rails, and runways", "To implement the \"National Bank", "To be proud of him" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "What as President Obama asking Congress for to implement his plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fifty Billion USD", "$50 billion" ], "distractor groups": [ "$50 Million", "$150,000", "$4 Billion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "The framework to improve transportation spending congress is being asked for would cost how much?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Dudovitz and the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program", "Dudovitz and the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program's", "The San Gabriel-Pomona Valley legal aid program and San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services" ], "distractor groups": [ "San Fernando", "San Gabriel", "The San Fernando program", "San Gabriel-Ponoma Valley program and Legal Aid Society of Orange County" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Former Long Beach Executive Director Toby Rothschild, now a policy wonk in Iwasaki's outfit, agreed.
Sent 2: \"To some extent, I did look at it and say, 'We are the littlest kid on the block, and we don't want to get beat up so we need a bigger protector,'\" Rothschild said.
Sent 3: \"Once we got past that, it became a real positive for the Long Beach program and Long Beach clients.\"
Sent 4: But to the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley legal aid program, the positives of merging with Dudovitz's program, San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services, were never obvious.
Sent 5: A meeting in late 1999 between Dudovitz and the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program's board showed how little the two programs had in common and how difficult bridging the gap between their ideologies would be, Dudovitz recalled.
Sent 6: Although no merger plans were discussed, board members at the smaller program knew of Dudovitz's preference for impact litigation over direct services.
Sent 7: \"We had a discussion about what our separate views were,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"The message we got was that they wanted their program to stay as it was.\"
Sent 9: Lauralea Saddick, former executive director of the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program, said her board simply did not share Dudovitz's desire to spend money influencing social policy and participating in high-profile litigation over poverty-related issues.
Sent 10: \"Our board's philosophy was that the money given by the federal government was to help people with basic everyday needs,\" Saddick said.
Sent 11: \"It might take a little bit of humility to take those kinds of cases.
Sent 12: Impact work is very important ... but what was the good of getting the law changed if no one is there to help the individual?\"
Sent 13: Before the San Gabriel program was subsumed by Dudovitz's group, it offered to merge with the Legal Aid Society of Orange County.
Sent 14: The boards of both organizations eschewed impact litigation in favor of the 1960s model of providing direct client services.
Sent 15: Supported by resolutions from the Pasadena, San Gabriel, Eastern and Foothill bar associations, the two programs drew up plans to merge and submitted them to the Legal Services Corp. Dudovitz won Iwasaki's backing to oppose the deal, and Legal Services Corp., the national funding source, overruled the proposed San Gabriel-Pomona Valley/Orange County merger.
Sent 16: On Jan. 27, 2001, the federal agency awarded the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley service area to Dudovitz under the umbrella of an expanded San Fernando program, citing the location of both programs in Los Angeles, which would allow \"better coordinated and more effective advocacy on county government policies.\"
Sent 17: The San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program sued Legal Services Corp. to stop the takeover, claiming the federal program based the decision on favoritism for the politically active Dudovitz and the politically powerful Iwasaki.
Sent 18: Though the federal suit accomplished little, it effectively suspended the end of the old program and the start of the new one for nearly a year.", "question": "A meeting in late 1999 showed that which two programs had very little in common?" }, { "answer groups": [ "20 kilometers", "51 minutes 33 seconds", "20km" ], "distractor groups": [ "60 kilometers", "Four minutes 34 seconds", "32 kilometers", "172.5 kilometers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Britain's Chris Froome won the 17th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday to strengthen his grip on the yellow jersey.
Sent 2: Froome completed Wednesday's 32-kilometer time trial in 51 minutes 33 seconds, nine seconds ahead of Spain's Alberto Contador with his compatriot Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver finishing a further second behind in third.
Sent 3: \"I couldn't believe it when I got over the line and saw I had the fastest time,\" Froome said after his third stage win of this year's tour.
Sent 4: \"I went into today thinking I was going to try and limit my losses, thinking about the days to come now.
Sent 5: So to go through the finish line with the fastest time, I really didn't see that coming.\"
Sent 6: On mountainous terrain along a frequently twisting route most of the riders opted for their traditional road bikes over the more aerodynamic machines used in time trials.
Sent 7: But Froome opted to use both on the stage, switching to a time trial model for the final 12-kilometer descent.
Sent 8: The swap proved decisive as the Briton clawed back a 20-second advantage Contador had built up earlier in the stage.
Sent 9: The Spaniard now moves up to second overall, four minutes 34 seconds behind Froome with just four stages remaining.
Sent 10: Contador's Saxo-Tinkoff teammate Roman Kreuziger is now third and trails Froome by four minutes and 51 seconds.
Sent 11: Thursday sees the riders tackle the gruelling 172.5-kilometer 18th stage which concludes with a double ascent of Alpe d'Huez over the last 60 kilometers.", "question": "How long did Fromme bike on the 17th stage before the final descent?" }, { "answer groups": [ "From July, 2010 to January, 2011", "Nearly 6 months" ], "distractor groups": [ "3 months", "3 years", "7 months", "Nearly 5 months" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"The best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sent 2: That includes a 200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from 900,000 to 1.1 million, according to the SEC report.
Sent 3: Newman's bonus was 374,062, the report states.
Sent 4: Newman also has a 5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 5: The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.
Sent 6: \"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.
Sent 7: \"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"
Sent 8: The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.
Sent 9: The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.
Sent 10: The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 11: It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.
Sent 12: The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Sent 13: In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.", "question": "How long after the well was capped did the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling apportion the blame for the oil spill between Transocean, BP, and Halliburton?" }, { "answer groups": [ "A month", "1 month", "A month, from March 2010 to April 2010" ], "distractor groups": [ "One year", "4 months", "1.5 months", "2 month", "Three months" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"The best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sent 2: That includes a 200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from 900,000 to 1.1 million, according to the SEC report.
Sent 3: Newman's bonus was 374,062, the report states.
Sent 4: Newman also has a 5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 5: The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.
Sent 6: \"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.
Sent 7: \"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"
Sent 8: The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.
Sent 9: The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.
Sent 10: The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 11: It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.
Sent 12: The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Sent 13: In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.", "question": "How long between Newman being appointed CEO and the Deepwater explosion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mexican Gulf", "At the Gulf of Mexico" ], "distractor groups": [ "Gulf of Mannar", "At the South Atlantic", "Mannar Gulf", "At the Gulf of Alaska" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"The best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sent 2: That includes a 200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from 900,000 to 1.1 million, according to the SEC report.
Sent 3: Newman's bonus was 374,062, the report states.
Sent 4: Newman also has a 5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 5: The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.
Sent 6: \"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.
Sent 7: \"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"
Sent 8: The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.
Sent 9: The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.
Sent 10: The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 11: It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.
Sent 12: The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Sent 13: In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.", "question": "Where was the Deepwater Horizon oil rig before the accident?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nearly $5.5 million", "$5.4 million" ], "distractor groups": [ "$5 million", "$900.000", "$1.1 million", "$6 million", "$1.500.000", "$1.5 million", "1.4 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Declaring 2010 \"The best year in safety performance in our company's history,\" Transocean Ltd., owner of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded, killing 11 workers, has awarded its top executives hefty bonuses and raises, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sent 2: That includes a 200,000 salary increase for Transocean president and chief executive officer Steven L. Newman, whose base salary will increase from 900,000 to 1.1 million, according to the SEC report.
Sent 3: Newman's bonus was 374,062, the report states.
Sent 4: Newman also has a 5.4 million long-term compensation package the company awarded him upon his appointment as CEO in March 2010, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 5: The latest cash awards are based in part on the company's \"performance under safety,\" the Transocean filing states.
Sent 6: \"Notwithstanding the tragic loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico, we achieved an exemplary statistical safety record as measured by our total recordable incident rate and total potential severity rate,\" the SEC statement reads.
Sent 7: \"As measured by these standards, we recorded the best year in safety performance in our Company's history.\"
Sent 8: The company called that record \"a reflection on our commitment to achieving an incident-free environment, all the time, everywhere,\" the SEC filing states.
Sent 9: The company did not respond to an e-mail from CNN seeking comment.
Sent 10: The April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig injured 17 workers and killed 11 others, including nine Transocean employees, according to the SEC filing.
Sent 11: It has been called the worst spill in U.S. history.
Sent 12: The well was capped three months later, but not before millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Sent 13: In January, President Barack Obama's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report that spread blame for the accident among Transocean, BP -- which leased the rig -- and Halliburton, which installed the rig's cement casing.", "question": "How much did Newman earn in 210 between his salary and bonus (rounded to nearest hundred thousand)?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Three hours", "3 hours" ], "distractor groups": [ "30 minutes", "Half hour" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity.
Sent 2: Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions.
Sent 3: The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil.
Sent 4: It was the last act of the evening.
Sent 5: Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness.
Sent 6: But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success.", "question": "How long did the last act of the evening take before it was completed?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mountain streams", "Rivers", "Runoff", "Slow moving rivers" ], "distractor groups": [ "Floodwaters", "Streams", "Oceans" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Water flowing over Earths surface or underground causes erosion and deposition.
Sent 2: Water flowing over a steeper slope moves faster and causes more erosion.
Sent 3: How water transports particles depends on their size.
Sent 4: When water slows down, it starts depositing sediment.
Sent 5: This process starts with the largest particles first.
Sent 6: Runoff erodes the land after a heavy rain.
Sent 7: It picks up sediment.
Sent 8: Runoff carries most of the sediment to bodies of water.
Sent 9: Mountain streams erode narrow, V-shaped valleys and waterfalls.
Sent 10: Erosion and deposition by slow-flowing rivers create broad floodplains and meanders.
Sent 11: Deposition by streams and rivers may form alluvial fans and deltas.
Sent 12: Floodwaters may deposit natural levees.
Sent 13: Erosion and deposition by groundwater can form caves and sinkholes.
Sent 14: Stalactites and stalagmites are mineral deposits.
Sent 15: They build up in caves as water continues to drip.", "question": "What body of water carries the particles?" }, { "answer groups": [ "$100 fine", "100 dollars" ], "distractor groups": [ "No fine", "$250 fine", "Minimum fine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you beat a dog in Schuylkill County, you'll probably get a 100 fine.
Sent 2: If you repeatedly beat a woman, you'll probably get the same fine.
Sent 3: In 2001, county judges heard 98 Protection From Abuse cases, finding the defendant guilty in 48 percent of those cases, either after a hearing or through a technical violation or plea.
Sent 4: Of those found guilty, the majority were ordered to pay court costs, plus a 100 fine.
Sent 5: No defendants were ordered to pay more than a 250 fine for violating the court order.
Sent 6: In 27 percent of the cases, the charges were dismissed or the defendant was found not guilty.
Sent 7: In the rest of the cases, charges were withdrawn or the matter is not yet resolved.
Sent 8: Sarah T. Casey, executive director of Schuylkill Women in Crisis, finds it disturbing that in most cases, the fine for violating a PFA is little more than the fine someone would get for cruelty and abuse toward an animal.
Sent 9: \"In most of the counties surrounding Schuylkill County, the penalties given for indirect criminal contempt are much stiffer than those in Schuylkill County,\" Casey said.
Sent 10: \"What kind of message are we sending those who repeatedly violate Protection From Abuse orders?
Sent 11: That it's OK to abuse women in Schuylkill County, because you'll only get a slap on the wrist?\"
Sent 12: Under state law, the minimum fine for contempt of a PFA is 100; the maximum fine is 1,000 and up to six months in jail.
Sent 13: Like others who are familiar with how the county's legal system does and doesn't work for victims of domestic violence, Casey believes some changes are in order.
Sent 14: Valerie West, a manager/attorney with Mid-Penn Legal Services, with offices in Pottsville and Reading, regularly handles domestic violence cases.
Sent 15: She finds fault with the local requirement that a custody order must be established within 30 days after a PFA is filed.
Sent 16: West said she feels a custody order should be allowed to stand for the full term of the PFA - up to 18 months - as it does in many other counties in the state.
Sent 17: \"It places an undue burden on the plaintiff, in terms of cost, finding legal representation and facing their abuser - not to mention a further burden on the system to provide those services,\" West said.
Sent 18: \"It may be difficult for the parties to reach an agreement so soon after violence has occurred.", "question": "What kind of fine do you get for repeatedly beating a woman?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Archaics mainly hunted, the Anasazi begin using more advanced agriculture techniques like irrigation", "Anasazi were far more progressive than the Archaics", "Because of irrigation techniques, the Anasazi didn't have to follow their animals" ], "distractor groups": [ "The Arachaics used irrigation to keep animals close by", "The Archaics dug out lakes to sustain wildlife", "Anasazi were not progressive as the Archaics", "The Archaics chased prey as far away as Washington State" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception\u2002\u2014\u2002the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced society\u2002\u2014\u2002the ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.", "question": "What was a difference between the hunting and gathering practices of the Archaics and the Anasazi?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Metamorphosis", "Incomplete metamorphosis" ], "distractor groups": [ "Life cycle", "Complete metamorphosis", "Molting" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An insect can have one of three types of change in its life.
Sent 2: A metamorphosis describes how insects change.
Sent 3: Some insects do not go through a change.
Sent 4: Instead, the young look like small versions of adults.
Sent 5: The only change between young and mature is size.
Sent 6: Other types of insects go through a change in physical appearance.
Sent 7: There are two types of this type of change.
Sent 8: Some insects change only slightly during their change.
Sent 9: This type is called incomplete metamorphosis.
Sent 10: Other types of insects go through a major change.
Sent 11: They don't look at all like the adult when they are born.
Sent 12: This type of change is called complete metamorphosis.
Sent 13: Occurs in the most primitive insects.
Sent 14: Newborn insect looks like a tiny version of the adult.
Sent 15: Incomplete Three stages: egg, nymph, and adult.
Sent 16: Young, called nymphs, usually similar to adult.
Sent 17: Growth occurs during the nymph stage.", "question": "What is it called when some insects go through one of three types of change?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That they were being hijacked", "The cockpit wasn't answering, someone had been stabbed in business class, Mace had been sprayed, the flight had been hijacked, and flight attendants had been stabbed", "Cockpit is not answering, someone is stabbed, and hijackers sprayed something" ], "distractor groups": [ "That they were lost", "That the engine was malfunctioning", "A passenger was ill", "Hijackers put bomb on the flight" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit; FAA rules required that the doors remain closed and locked during flight.
Sent 2: Ong speculated that they had \"jammed their way\" in.
Sent 3: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.
Sent 4: Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.
Sent 5: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.
Sent 6: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.
Sent 7: Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military.
Sent 8: He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him, not realizing that another was sitting behind him.
Sent 9: The hijackers quickly gained control and sprayed Mace, pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.
Sent 10: They claimed they had a bomb.
Sent 11: About five minutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.
Sent 12: This was the first of several occasions on 9/11 when flight attendants took action outside the scope of their training, which emphasized that in a hijacking, they were to communicate with the cockpit crew.
Sent 13: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.
Sent 14: At 8:19, Ong reported:\"The cockpit is not answering, somebody's stabbed in business class-and I think there's Mace-that we can't breathe-I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.\"
Sent 15: She then told of the stabbings of the two flight attendants.
Sent 16: At 8:21, one of the American employees receiving Ong's call in North Carolina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort Worth, Texas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manager on duty.
Sent 17: Marquis soon realized this was an emergency and instructed the airline's dispatcher responsible for the flight to contact the cockpit.
Sent 18: At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.", "question": "What did Betty Ong report on her emergency call?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pornography", "Obstruction of justice", "Child exploitation" ], "distractor groups": [ "For sexual abuse", "Eve Teasing", "Theft", "On swapping illegal images and videos online for profit", "For international trafficking using encrypted computers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- A federal court jury in Florida convicted seven people of participating in a global child pornography trafficking enterprise, according to the Department of Justice.
Sent 2: Jurors convicted the seven Wednesday of multiple counts of child exploitation, pornography and obstruction of justice.
Sent 3: Members of the organization used Internet news groups to swap and share \"illegal images and videos depicting prepubescent children, including toddlers, engaged in various sexual and sadistic acts,\" prosecutors said.
Sent 4: An indictment filed in the case detailed interactions between group members as they swapped and commented on images.
Sent 5: \"My thanks to you and all the others that together make this the greatest group of pedos to ever gather in one place,\" Freeman wrote in response to one posting, according to the indictment.
Sent 6: And a posting from Castleman, cited in the indictment, read, \"Thanks to all for the wonderful material that has been posted.\"
Sent 7: An Australian constable who infiltrated the group in August 2006 was among 50 witnesses testifying at trial.
Sent 8: He told the jury that the group traded more than 400,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse before being dismantled by law enforcement, according to the Justice Department statement.
Sent 9: Each defendant faces a sentence of 20 years to life in prison, fines and the possibility of supervised release for the rest of their lives, authorities said.
Sent 10: The seven will be sentenced April 14.
Sent 11: During the six-day trial, evidence showed the seven participated in what prosecutors called a \"well-organized criminal enterprise whose purpose was to proliferate child sex abuse images to its membership during a two-year period.\"
Sent 12: \"This was a wide-scale, high-volume, international trafficking enterprise that used sophisticated computer encryption technology and file-sharing techniques,\" Matthew Friedrich, acting assistant attorney general, said in the statement.
Sent 13: The seven defendants were James Freeman of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida; Gary Lakey of Anderson, Indiana; Marvin Lambert of Indianapolis, Indiana; Neville McGarity of Medina, Texas; Warren Mumpower of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Castleman of Lubbock, Texas; and Ronald White of Burlington, North Carolina, according to the Department of Justice.", "question": "A federal court jury in Florida convicted 7 people on multiple counts of what charges?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Knowledge of how al Qaeda raised money", "CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing", "Little emphasis was placed on terrorist financing" ], "distractor groups": [ "CIA found it was hard to attack funds of Al Qaeda", "Full freezing of al Qaeda funds", "The CIA was able to track the countries helping to fun al Qaeda" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The second major point on which the principals had agreed on March 10 was the need to crack down on terrorist organizations and curtail their fund-raising.
Sent 2: The embassy bombings of 1998 had focused attention on al Qaeda's finances.
Sent 3: One result had been the creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing.
Sent 4: On its recommendation, the President had designated Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Sent 5: This gave theTreasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system.
Sent 6: But since OFAC had little information to go on, few funds were frozen.
Sent 7: In July 1999, the President applied the same designation to the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden.
Sent 8: Here, OFAC had more success.
Sent 9: It blocked more than 34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks.
Sent 10: Another 215 million in gold and 2 million in demand deposits, all belonging to the Afghan central bank and held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were also frozen.
Sent 11: After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a \"foreign terrorist organization,\" it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds.
Sent 12: Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding.
Sent 13: Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda.
Sent 14: Although the CIA's Bin Laden unit had originally been inspired by the idea of studying terrorist financial links, few personnel assigned to it had any experience in financial investigations.
Sent 15: Any terrorist-financing intelligence appeared to have been collected collaterally, as a consequence of gathering other intelligence.
Sent 16: This attitude may have stemmed in large part from the chief of this unit, who did not believe that simply following the money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions.
Sent 17: As a result, the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing.
Sent 18: Nevertheless, the CIA obtained a general understanding of how al Qaeda raised money.", "question": "What was the result of following terrorist money flowing from point A to point B?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Exhaling", "Increase in air pressure", "Exhaling, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes which leads to decrease in size of chest" ], "distractor groups": [ "Decrease in air pressure", "Inhaling" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "What leads to decrease in size of chest while exhalingA. ExhalingB. Decrease in air pressureC. InhalingD. Increase in air pressureE. Exhaling, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes which leads to decrease in size of chestPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Inhaling occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens which increases size of chest", "Diaphragm muscle tightens", "Due to decreases in air pressure inside the lungs" ], "distractor groups": [ "Due to increase in air pressure inside the lungs", "Chest muscle tightens" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "Why inhaling increases size of chestA. Due to increase in air pressure inside the lungsB. Inhaling occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens which increases size of chestC. Diaphragm muscle tightensD. Due to decreases in air pressure inside the lungsE. Chest muscle tightensPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It will keep disease from spreading", "To fight the infection", "It can prevent an infection from spreading" ], "distractor groups": [ "To help the spread of infection", "It will let a new part grow", "It will improve photosynthesis", "It will keep water from flowing" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When you get sick, your body springs to action.
Sent 2: Your body starts to fight the illness.
Sent 3: Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep.
Sent 4: You need a strong immune system to fight off illness.
Sent 5: Plants dont have an immune system.
Sent 6: That does not mean they do not get sick.
Sent 7: Plants are affected by disease just like us.
Sent 8: Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant.
Sent 9: This prevents the infection from spreading.
Sent 10: Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease.
Sent 11: For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria.
Sent 12: The same compound is used in many acne products.
Sent 13: You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think.
Sent 14: No, they cannot talk to each other.
Sent 15: They may be able to send messages, though.", "question": "How might death of part of a plant help the plant?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The chemical that willow trees produce to kill bacteria is also a compound used in many acne products", "Willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria", "Willow trees produce the chemical this is in acne products" ], "distractor groups": [ "Willow bark is used in acne products", "Willow trees have fungus that fight acne", "Better fraFrance", "Willow trees inspired acne products" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: When you get sick, your body springs to action.
Sent 2: Your body starts to fight the illness.
Sent 3: Thats why you want to eat right and get plenty of sleep.
Sent 4: You need a strong immune system to fight off illness.
Sent 5: Plants dont have an immune system.
Sent 6: That does not mean they do not get sick.
Sent 7: Plants are affected by disease just like us.
Sent 8: Typically, their first line of defense is the death of part of the plant.
Sent 9: This prevents the infection from spreading.
Sent 10: Many plants also produce special chemicals to fight disease.
Sent 11: For example, willow trees produce a chemical to kill the bacteria.
Sent 12: The same compound is used in many acne products.
Sent 13: You can see a picture of a willow tree in Figure Plants may be smarter than we think.
Sent 14: No, they cannot talk to each other.
Sent 15: They may be able to send messages, though.", "question": "Why might people who use acne products appreciate Willow trees?" }, { "answer groups": [ "20", "Twenties" ], "distractor groups": [ "41", "Teenage", "Under 20", "Thirties" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Albrecht Durer (/'dU@r@r, 'djU@r@r/; German: ['albRect 'dy:Ra]; 21 May 1471 - 6 April 1528) was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.
Sent 2: Born in Nuremberg, Durer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality woodcut prints.
Sent 3: He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I. His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books.
Sent 4: The woodcuts, such as the Apocalypse series (1498), retain a more Gothic flavour than the rest of his work.
Sent 5: His well-known engravings include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.
Sent 6: His watercolours also mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.
Sent 7: Durer's introduction of classical motifs into Northern art, through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists, has secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.
Sent 8: This is reinforced by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics, perspective and ideal proportions.", "question": "How old was Durer when he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I?" }, { "answer groups": [ "March 7", "On or about March 7th" ], "distractor groups": [ "February 12th", "February 12", "February 7", "March 12" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official \"had called me from America\" to assure that \"we are going to make\" Anissina \"an Olympic champion.\"
Sent 2: He told her that the Russian skating federation official \"will help -- he has two or three judges.\"
Sent 3: On or about March 7, in a conversation between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina, she said she would have won the event without his assistance because the Russian judge did not vote for her and her partner.
Sent 4: She also apologized for not calling to thank him earlier, but that Gailhaguet had forbidden her.
Sent 5: She told Tokhtakhounov that she knew the FBI had interviewed Gailhaguet because of information that Tokhtakhounov \"was involved with the results\" of the ice dancing.
Sent 6: He assured her that it was nonsense, but that Gailhaguet \"knows my name very well -- he tried to help me, and later he made stuff up to scare you so you would not connect me to him even more.\"
Sent 7: The conversations seem to indicate a familiarity between Tokhtakhounov and Anissina.
Sent 8: Tass, the official Russian news agency, reported that Anissina attended a ceremony in 1999 at a Paris hotel honoring Tokhtakhounov for his philanthropy.
Sent 9: That Russian organized crime may have infiltrated international sport at the Olympics stunned Phyllis Howard, president of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
Sent 10: \"This is a criminal act and it certainly puts things in a different league,\" Howard said.
Sent 11: Lloyd Ward, chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said in a statement, \"Competitors from all nations must be assured that they compete on a level playing field.\"", "question": "On what date did Anissina reveal that Gailhaguet had forbidden her from speaking with Tokhtakhounov?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Dr. John Howard", "Administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program" ], "distractor groups": [ "Dr. John Harrington", "World Trade Center Health Program", "Advisory committee" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Sent 2: The addition finalizes a recommendation from Dr. John Howard, administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 3: Howard proposed in June that the program accept the recommendations of its Science/Technical Advisory Committee and add some cancers to the coverage list -- 14 categories in all.
Sent 4: Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk The advisory committee review called for expanded \"coverage for certain types of cancer resulting from exposure to toxins released at Ground Zero.\"
Sent 5: \"The publication of this final rule marks an important step in the effort to provide needed treatment and care to 9/11 responders and survivors through the WTC Health Program,\" Howard said in a statement Monday.
Sent 6: The rule is expected to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register, and will take effect 30 days after its publication, Howard said.
Sent 7: 9/11 detective dies after battle with lung cancer First responders, volunteers, survivors of the attacks and residents near the site who meet specific qualifications will be eligible for coverage, according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 8: According to the proposed rule, an estimated 950 to 2,150 people would take advantage of the additional coverage.
Sent 9: The estimated cost for the total cancer treatment ranges between 14.5 million and 33 million, the proposal said.", "question": "Who's recommendation was finalized by an addition made to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Latino communites", "Latino and Asian", "Latino and Asian communities", "Communities that speak english and Spanish" ], "distractor groups": [ "Arab communities", "Asian Communities", "Mandarin and cantonese communities", "Latino and Spanish communities" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What communities are most well-served by the program?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Positive and Negative charges", "One positive charge and one negative charge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Negative charge", "Neutral charge", "Stationary", "Good charge", "Bad charge", "Like a teeter-totter", "Negative", "Positive charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Static electricity is like a teeter-totter.
Sent 2: What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced?
Sent 3: Correct!
Sent 4: It does not move.
Sent 5: What about when its not balanced?
Sent 6: Yes, it will now begin to move.
Sent 7: Charges move when they are not balanced.
Sent 8: Charges can build up by friction.
Sent 9: Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet.
Sent 10: Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges.
Sent 11: The wool carpet easily gives up charges.
Sent 12: The two items become unbalanced.
Sent 13: One item has a positive charge.
Sent 14: The other has a negative charge.
Sent 15: The difference in charge is called static electricity.
Sent 16: Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move.
Sent 17: Positive charges build up on the mat.
Sent 18: Negative charges build up on you.", "question": "What kind of charges are needed to produce static electricity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Michigan's poor will not receive legal service", "Less services in landlord-tenant, bankruptcy, consumer, child custody, predatory lending, mortgage foreclosure, utility shutoffs, social security, wills, and probate. Wayne county will be affected most", "The poor will be affected the most because the demand will not change", "Will provide fewer servies & low income people are most affected" ], "distractor groups": [ "There will be no negative consequences", "Michigan will go bankrupt", "Will provide fewer servies & staff will be most affected", "No change to services", "Michigan's water resources will reduce" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Michigan will lose 2 million in federal funding and 600,000 in state funding to provide legal aid to the poor in 2003, according to Deierdre L. Weir, executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc., the state's largest provider of legal services to the poor.
Sent 2: Current federal funds of nearly 10.7 million from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will drop to 8.7 million for next year, according to Weir.
Sent 3: She said that the reductions reflect a decline in the number of persons in the state who are living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census.
Sent 4: LSC uses census data to determine funding across the nation, and according to the census, the state's poverty population fell from an estimated 1.2 million in 1990 to an estimated 968,000 in 2000.
Sent 5: The state's legal aid agencies are also bracing for yet another cut in 2003 of some 600,000 of state funding.
Sent 6: A portion of filing fees paid by litigants in the state's circuit courts, and a portion of interest on lawyers trust accounts (IOLTA) are earmarked for Michigan legal aid programs.
Sent 7: These funds are expected to drop from currently 7.5 million in 2002 to 6.9 million when the Michigan State Bar Foundation makes distributions next year.
Sent 8: Most of the decrease is attributed to the past year's low interest rates.
Sent 9: \"The irony of these funding cuts is that while there may be fewer poor people in Michigan today, the demand for service will not change because the poverty population remains so large and the legal aid funding so little that local providers will never able to serve all who need our service,\" said Weir.
Sent 10: \"It's as if the poor will be victimized twice-once for being poor and again as victims of these funding cuts.\"
Sent 11: The U.S. Census Bureau, in spite of its best efforts, cannot locate every poor person living in a census tract, therefore the poor are also undercounted, added Weir.
Sent 12: The brunt of these cuts will be felt most in Wayne County where according to the census some 333,000 poor people live, the largest concentration of poverty in the state.
Sent 13: LAD will lose more than 870,000 for legal aid in Wayne County, nearly half of the state's total loss, said Weir.
Sent 14: While difficult to measure, the loss of funds will mean that several thousand of Michigan's poor in need of legal service will not receive it, or they will receive significantly limited service.
Sent 15: Cutbacks will include service in such civil legal matters as landlord-tenant, bankruptcy, consumer, child custody, predatory lending, mortgage foreclosure, utility shutoffs, social security, wills, and probate.
Sent 16: \"Local providers will have to work harder and smarter and use more technology instead of staff to provide as much service as we can with fewer dollars,\" said Weir.
Sent 17: \"We will be providing more selfhelp training to clients enabling them to navigate the legal system on their own in routine matters, more assistance on the telephone, and less direct representation by attorneys in specific, high impact matters.
Sent 18: Currently, Michigan has 13 legal aid agencies covering the state's 83 counties.", "question": "What are the consequences of LAD funding cuts and who will be affected most?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They received two grants totaling $7 million. A three year grant worth $6.6 million and a separate technology grant", "$6.6 million for Staffing Operations", "A staffing operations grant and a grant to create a web site", "$50,000 for Web Site design", "Two grants totally over $6.5 million dollars" ], "distractor groups": [ "$50,000 for Staffing", "2 grants to feed the homeless", "Legal Aid Grant and a technology grant", "Grants to help poor people sue their workplace", "$6.6 million for Web Site Design" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On a day it celebrated 50 years of giving free legal advice, Southern Arizona Legal Aid announced it has received two grants totaling more than 7 million.
Sent 2: One of the grants includes the creation of a Web site with legal advice for the poor.
Sent 3: A three-year grant worth 6.6 million and a separate technology grant were announced at a press conference and dinner held Thursday at Evo.
Sent 4: A. DeConcini Federal Courthouse, 405 W. Congress St. Deconcini was one of the organization's early board members.
Sent 5: Thursday's celebration was the first public even held at the courthouse.
Sent 6: About 100 members of the legal community attended, including state Attorney General Janet Napolitano and Arizona Supreme Court Justice Thomas Zlaket.
Sent 7: Both grants come from the Legal Services., a private, nonprofit corporation established by Congress in 1974 to offer poor people equal access to the justice system.
Sent 8: It's funded through congressional appropriation.
Sent 9: The 6.6 million grant will pay for staffing operations.
Sent 10: The Web site, which will be created with a 50,000 grant, is intended to offer legal advice to poor people across Arizona, said Paul Julian, chief executive officer of Southern Arizona Legal Aid.
Sent 11: He said he wants every poor person in Arizona to have legal help.
Sent 12: \"This is another step in trying to realize that.
Sent 13: We feel like we do a pretty good job of helping people who find us,\" Julian said.
Sent 14: Julian said that though most people do not own computers, they can still access them at libraries, schools, and courthouses.
Sent 15: He said the Web site will help bridge the \"digital divide\" that keeps the poor from using the Internet as a resource.
Sent 16: Southern Arizona Legal Aid was founded in 1951 as the Legal Aid Society of the Pima County Bar Association.
Sent 17: It offered free legal advice on civil matters including disputes in small claims court, divorce proceedings and obtaining Social Security benefits.
Sent 18: Charles Ares, a member of the board of directors in the 1950s, said the office was kind of a charity operation.", "question": "What grants did Southern Arizona Legal Aid receive on the day it celebrated 50 years of giving free legal advice?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Terrorist threats to the US", "U.S. counterterrorism efforts", "Al Qida" ], "distractor groups": [ "Rice", "Clarke", "US", "Attack on the USS Cole", "The severity of the Al qida threat", "US Committee" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4.
Sent 2: On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note.
Sent 3: He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present.
Sent 4: The \"real question\" before the principals, he wrote, was \"are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat?
Sent 5: Is al Qida a big deal?
Sent 6: Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US,\" Clarke wrote.
Sent 7: \"What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier?
Sent 8: That future day could happen at any time.\"
Sent 9: Clarke then turned to the Cole.\"
Sent 10: The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack,\" he wrote.
Sent 11: \"Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price.\"", "question": "What was the main subject of the Principal Committee's meeting?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Less than 3", "2", "Almost 2 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "Four", "1", "1 year", "3", "Immediately" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "How many years after graduating Cairo university passed before Mohamed Atta traveled to GermanyA. FourB. Less than 3C. 1D. 1 yearE. 2F. Almost 2 yearsG. 3H. ImmediatelyPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Above the cavern", "Both above and below" ], "distractor groups": [ "President", "Beneath", "Below the cavern" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: We were cornered in a sort of way already.
Sent 2: But these butchers up the cavern had been surprised, they were probably scared, and they had no special weapons, only those little hatchets of theirs.
Sent 3: And that way lay escape.
Sent 4: Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision.
Sent 5: I had the moral advantage of a mad bull in a street.
Sent 6: But for all that, there seemed a tremendous crowd of them.
Sent 7: Very probably there was.
Sent 8: Those Selenites down the cleft had certainly some infernally long spears.
Sent 9: It might be they had other surprises for us.... But, confound it!
Sent 10: if we charged up the cave we should let them up behind us, and if we didn't those little brutes up the cave would probably get reinforced.
Sent 11: Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare--guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes--this unknown world below our feet, this vaster world of which we had only pricked the outer cuticle, might not presently send up to our destruction.
Sent 12: It became clear the only thing to do was to charge!
Sent 13: It became clearer as the legs of a number of fresh Selenites appeared running down the cavern towards us.", "question": "Where are the Selenites in relation to the narrator?" }, { "answer groups": [ "His assassination", "Alexander II's death", "Alexander II's death prevented the plans for a Duma to come to fruition", "His death" ], "distractor groups": [ "Alexander III tore up his fathers idea", "A revolutionary upheaval", "His son opposition" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Alexander II's death caused a great setback for the reform movement.
Sent 2: One of his last ideas was to draft plans for an elected parliament, or Duma, which were completed the day before he died but not yet released to the Russian people.
Sent 3: In a matter of 48 hours, Alexander II planned to release his plan for the duma to the Russian people.
Sent 4: Had he lived, Russia might have followed a path to constitutional monarchy instead of the long road of oppression that defined his successor's reign.
Sent 5: The first action Alexander III took after his father's death was to tear up those plans.
Sent 6: A Duma would not come into fruition until 1905, when Alexander II's grandson, Nicholas II, commissioned the Duma following extreme pressure on the monarchy as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Sent 7: The assassination triggered major suppression of civil liberties in Russia, and police brutality burst back in full force after experiencing some restraint under the reign of Alexander II, whose death was witnessed first-hand by his son, Alexander III, and his grandson, Nicholas II, both future emperors who vowed not to have the same fate befall them.
Sent 8: Both of them used the Okhrana to arrest protestors and uproot suspected rebel groups, creating further suppression of personal freedom for the Russian people.
Sent 9: A series of anti-Jewish pogroms and antisemitic legislation, the May Laws, were yet another result.
Sent 10: Finally, the tsar's assassination also inspired anarchists to advocate \"'propaganda by deed'--the use of a spectacular act of violence to incite revolution.\"
Sent 11: With construction starting in 1883, the Church of the Savior on Blood was built on the site of Alexander's assassination and dedicated in his memory.", "question": "What event prevented Alexander II's plans for a Duma to come to fruition?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jumping on a trampoline", "Climbing stairs", "Flying airplanes", "Flying to space", "Climbing stairs, jumping on a trampoline, jumping in the air", "Jump Rope" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bungee Jumping", "Walking", "Building a spacecraft", "Jumping from a bridge", "Swimming", "Jogging" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"What goes up must come down.\"
Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.", "question": "What are some examples of overcoming gravity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "That his misdeed far surpase Violets", "That his misdeeds surpass Violet's and that he inflicted the greatest possible loneliness as he turns into a monster", "He feels loneliness and his deeds are worse than Violet's", "That his misdeeds far surpass those of Violet" ], "distractor groups": [ "That Violet was the culprit", "He is finally happy", "That he can only blame others for her death" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: { { lang } } centers on a man who roams the street night after night .
Sent 2: Hidden under his hat and rain jacket he strives for one goal : to find the culprit - the one whom he can make responsible for his suffering .
Sent 3: If he wanted to , he could confront him , but he lacks the audacity to do so .
Sent 4: He considers suicide , but his courage fails him once again .
Sent 5: The options do not appear to present him with a way out and would not personally satisfy him .
Sent 6: Finley blames not himself , but only others .
Sent 7: In this case he looks to his girlfriend , Violet .
Sent 8: He drowns Violet in the bath whilst giving her a massage , Which had become a common ritual for them .
Sent 9: On one hand he does this out of malice , on the other to be close to her just one more time .
Sent 10: Through this action he wishes to break the growing distance he has come to feel between them , though the actual outcome is the infliction of the greatest possible loneliness , as he turns into a monster .
Sent 11: Finley only realizes with hindsight that his misdeeds far surpass those of Violet .", "question": "What does Finley realize after Violet is dead?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Distraction, Sexuality and downfall", "Disctraction, disturbed and agitated" ], "distractor groups": [ "Progress, sexuality and madness", "Nauseating, insomnia, cold to the bone", "Imprisoned, excited, scared" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "Name three effect Madame white snack beauty has on her lovers?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Six months", "6 months" ], "distractor groups": [ "Four months", "5 years", "1 year", "3 months" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus\u2002\u2014\u2002and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning \"pure\"), and adding \"stan,\" the Persian suffix for the word \"country.
Sent 9: \" The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a \"Quit India\" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was\u2002\u2014\u2002six months after his arrival\u2002\u2014\u2002but not smooth.", "question": "How long did the British departure from India take?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Pledged to step down as party president", "Step down as party president", "Step Down" ], "distractor groups": [ "Order a military coupe", "Pledge to fight for reelection", "Pledged to concede his loss", "Pledged to renew efforts to help the party" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Japan's prime minister conceded defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, signaling the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party and ending the brief rule of the disappointing upstart Democratic Party of Japan.
Sent 2: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to step down as party president after exit polls showed a smashing loss in lower house voting.
Sent 3: The party, once seen as a breath of fresh air in Japanese politics, came to be regarded as increasingly ineffective.
Sent 4: \"We got a regrettable result,\" Noda said.
Sent 5: \"The result is everything in the politics.
Sent 6: The biggest responsibility lies on me.
Sent 7: I will quit as the partly leader of DPJ.\"
Sent 8: The move clears the way for the return to power of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the current leader of the conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP.
Sent 9: \"The Japanese people will be keenly looking whether the LDP can meet with their expectations,\" Abe said in interviews after the polling.
Sent 10: The LDP ruled the country almost continuously since its establishment in 1955 until it was forced from power three years ago by the DPJ.
Sent 11: Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP and its coalition partner, the new Komei party, gained at least 302 seats in the 480-seat lower house.
Sent 12: CNN's main affiliate, TV Asahi, reports the LDP/Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats.
Sent 13: The official count is expected to be released Monday.
Sent 14: The LDP is inheriting a struggling economy, regional tensions and questions over Japan's role in Asia.
Sent 15: \"The economy is at the bottom.
Sent 16: It's our first mission to turn it around,\" Abe said.", "question": "What did Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledge to do after conceding defeat in parliamentary electionsA. Order a military coupeB. Pledge to fight for reelectionC. Pledged to concede his lossD. Pledged to step down as party presidentE. Pledged to renew efforts to help the partyF. Step down as party presidentG. Step DownPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "July 1999", "The Taliban did not take Hamdan bin Zayid's threats seriously, and because Hamdan bin Zayid valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to \"Iranian dangers\" in the region", "UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to \"Iranian dangers\" in the region", "Bin Laden", "The Taliban did not take him seriously" ], "distractor groups": [ "Because they had no reasons to break the relationship", "UAE", "There were no sanctions against the Taliban to enforce his threat", "April 1999" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Even after Bin Laden's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up.
Sent 2: The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity.
Sent 3: On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and Bin Laden.
Sent 4: Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA.
Sent 5: When the former Bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance.
Sent 6: Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted.
Sent 7: CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate.\"
Sent 8: Mike\" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting Bin Laden.
Sent 9: The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem.
Sent 10: From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan.
Sent 11: These efforts achieved little before 9/11.
Sent 12: In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over Bin Laden.
Sent 13: The Taliban did not take him seriously, however.
Sent 14: Bin Zayid later told an American diplomat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to \"Iranian dangers\" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States.", "question": "Why did Hamdan bin Zayid's threat to break relations with the Taliban achieve little results before 9/11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "It hindered them by being one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, it helped them by UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over Bin Laden", "UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance" ], "distractor groups": [ "By not getting involved", "But they were afraid of the Taliban and what they might do in Iran", "The UAE liked the benefits that came with providing the US with information about the Taliban" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Even after Bin Laden's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up.
Sent 2: The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity.
Sent 3: On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and Bin Laden.
Sent 4: Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA.
Sent 5: When the former Bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance.
Sent 6: Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted.
Sent 7: CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate.\"
Sent 8: Mike\" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting Bin Laden.
Sent 9: The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem.
Sent 10: From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan.
Sent 11: These efforts achieved little before 9/11.
Sent 12: In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over Bin Laden.
Sent 13: The Taliban did not take him seriously, however.
Sent 14: Bin Zayid later told an American diplomat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to \"Iranian dangers\" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States.", "question": "How did the UAE both help and hinder anti-terrorism efforts?" }, { "answer groups": [ "3000 years", "1000", "3000" ], "distractor groups": [ "5 centuries", "10000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "Approximately how many years passed between the Xia Dynasty and the creation of the oldest known bronze vessels in China?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Coal", "Coal allowed for people to eventually settle in what would now be Beijing", "Bejing", "Coal allowed settlement of Beijing" ], "distractor groups": [ "Coal allowed settlement of Shanghai", "Hong Kong", "Fire" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
Sent 2: Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire.
Sent 3: We might call it the first Chinese invention.
Sent 4: Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.
Sent 5: Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
Sent 6: He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat.
Sent 7: Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued.
Sent 8: And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down.
Sent 9: Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology.
Sent 10: The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel.
Sent 11: Europeans did not yet have a word for \"coal,\" nor had they discovered a use for it.
Sent 12: The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty.
Sent 13: This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees.
Sent 14: And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China's first scholars.
Sent 15: During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art.
Sent 16: Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements.
Sent 17: And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago.
Sent 18: The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.", "question": "What sort of fuel source allowed settlement of which major city in China?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wet and dry tropical climates", "Dry climates", "Deserts" ], "distractor groups": [ "Tropical rainforests", "Wet climates", "Rainforests" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tropical climates are found around the equator.
Sent 2: These climates have warm temperatures year round.
Sent 3: Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry.
Sent 4: Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator.
Sent 5: They have high rainfall year round.
Sent 6: Tropical rainforests grow in this type of climate.
Sent 7: Tropical wet and dry climates also occur near the equator.
Sent 8: They receive less rainfall.
Sent 9: Most of the rain falls in a single season.
Sent 10: The rest of the year is dry.
Sent 11: Few trees can withstand the long dry season.
Sent 12: The main plants are grasses.
Sent 13: Dry climates receive very little rainfall.
Sent 14: They also have high rates of evaporation.
Sent 15: This makes them even drier.
Sent 16: Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
Sent 17: Thats less than 10 inches per year.
Sent 18: How much rain do you get at your house?", "question": "What climates have high rates of evaporation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "If two objects are touching, gravity cannot act between them.", "distance" ], "distractor groups": [ "If two objects are too far, gravity cannot act between them. " ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: So what is gravity?
Sent 2: A typical definition of gravity is that it is a force.
Sent 3: It causes an attraction between two masses.
Sent 4: According to this definition, anything that has mass exerts a force.
Sent 5: Any object exerts gravity on other objects.
Sent 6: It does not matter how small it is, it has gravity.
Sent 7: The more matter an object has, the more gravity it has.
Sent 8: Your pencil has a tiny bit of gravity, but far too little to notice.
Sent 9: What about a planet?
Sent 10: It would have a lot of gravity.
Sent 11: An objects gravity exerts a pull on other objects.
Sent 12: Friction only occurs between objects that are touching.
Sent 13: Gravity can act between objects that are not touching.
Sent 14: In fact, gravity can act over very long distances.
Sent 15: Where else can you feel gravity?", "question": "What would keep gravity from affecting two objects?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ireland and Canada", "Poland", "Ireland" ], "distractor groups": [ "Russia", "England" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Honours and legacy In 1929, Soviet writer Leonid Grossman published a novel The d'Archiac Papers, telling the story of Pushkin's death from the perspective of a French diplomat, being a participant and a witness of the fatal duel.
Sent 2: The book describes him as a liberal and a victim of the Tsarist regime.
Sent 3: In Poland the book was published under the title Death of the Poet.
Sent 4: In 1937, the town of Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Pushkin in his honour.
Sent 5: There are several museums in Russia dedicated to Pushkin, including two in Moscow, one in Saint Petersburg, and a large complex in Mikhaylovskoye.
Sent 6: Pushkin's death was portrayed in the 2006 biographical film Pushkin: The Last Duel.
Sent 7: The film was directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Sent 8: Pushkin was portrayed onscreen by Sergei Bezrukov.
Sent 9: The Pushkin Trust was established in 1987 by the Duchess of Abercorn to commemorate the creative legacy and spirit of her ancestor and to release the creativity and imagination of the children of Ireland by providing them with opportunities to communicate their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Sent 10: A minor planet, 2208 Pushkin, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.
Sent 11: A crater on Mercury is also named in his honour.
Sent 12: MS Alexandr Pushkin, second ship of the Russian Ivan Franko class (also referred to as \"poet\" or \"writer\" class).
Sent 13: Station of Tashkent metro was named in his honour.
Sent 14: The Pushkin Hills and Pushkin Lake were named in his honour in Ben Nevis Township, Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada.
Sent 15: UN Russian Language Day, established by the United Nations in 2010 and celebrated each year on 6 June, was scheduled to coincide with Pushkin's birthday.", "question": "What are two countries other than Russia in which Pushkin has been honored in some way?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Madame White Snake", "Femme Fatale" ], "distractor groups": [ "Madame black Snake" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "Whose dangerous sexuality is key to understanding why she could not live happily with her husband?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Around the 20th Century", "Beginning of the 2nd century" ], "distractor groups": [ "Beginning of the 1st century" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "Around what time was the term Femme Fatale begun to be used?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Villainous demon", "Femme fatale" ], "distractor groups": [ "Femme Fatale", "Snake demon", "Submissive wife", "Villainous demon of the Song Dynasty", "Heroine", "Ideal Confucian wife" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Madame White Snake: East Asian Femme Fatale of Old The Chinese legend of Madame White Snake, the snake demon that takes human form and becomes the wife of a man, has exerted a lasting influence over East Asian folktales and fiction for centuries.
Sent 2: Two quintessential novellas, \"The Lust of the White Serpant\" from Ugetsu Monogatari by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari and \"Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda\" a traditional Chinese story, are both relatively complex and demonstrate not only the evolution of the White Snake figure to become a more believable human, but also what aspects may have given her enduring appeal.
Sent 3: While both these stories are ostensibly morality tales about the dangerous beauty of this femme fatale, the true source of pleasure from these narratives is the femme fatale's transgressive behavior, not her eventual punishment for it.
Sent 4: Early tales of Madame White Snake appeared in China as early as the Song Dynasty, and initially her portrayal was fairly direct, as a villainous demon who drains the life force out of her human husband.
Sent 5: But over time, characterizations of her became more complex, and the persona of Madame White Snake became more sympathetic, and perhaps even a model of the ideal Confucian wife, particularly in \"Pagoda\".
Sent 6: Whalen Lai notes, \"She was a loving wife, a caring mother, rescuer of her family from the first flood, and, at that point, a general benefactor of man.
Sent 7: She took on the virtues of a traditional Chinese female, particularly forbearance\".
Sent 8: But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Sent 9: Her dangerous sexuality is the key.
Sent 10: Femme fatale might seem an unusual term to apply to a character from pre-modern Chinese and Japanese literature who may exemplify the virtues of an ideal Confucian wife, since it is primarily associated with film characters, particularly those of the film noir genre.
Sent 11: But this term, which is relatively speaking, a neologism (The earliest uses were around the beginning of the 20th century", "question": "What was Early tales of Madame White Snake initial portrayal?" }, { "answer groups": [ "7 Minutes", "7 minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "1 minute", "9 minutes", "11 minutes", "9 Miuntes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a \"no radio\" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.", "question": "How long was there between the flight failing to heed instructions and the transponder being turned off?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a \"no radio\" aircraft.The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11", "He told the supervisor there was something seriously wrong with the aircraft. The supervisor told him to follow the procedures for a no radio aircraft", "He suspected something was seriously wrong, he was instructed to follow procedure for handing a \"no radio\" aircraft" ], "distractor groups": [ "He suspected the plane had been hijacked, he was instructed to use the emergency radio", "He told the supervisor he couldn't reach anybody and the supervisor said to try again" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a \"no radio\" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.", "question": "What did the controller tell the supervisor when he was not able to communicate with the plane?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft", "The aircraft failed to heed instructions to increase altitude, the pilot was contacted on emergency frequency", "When flight 11 failed to reach 35,000 feet. The pilot was contacted by the emergency frequency" ], "distractor groups": [ "The aircraft sent a distress signal, it was contacted by emergency radio", "AA Flight 11 failed to head instructions to raise to 35,000 feet, he was contacted via radio", "The pilot was contacted by the emergency frequency and the tower control tried to contact flight 11 because they couldn't reach them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: American Airlines Flight 11: FAA Awareness.
Sent 2: Although the Boston Center air traffic controller realized at an early stage that there was something wrong with American 11, he did not immediately interpret the plane's failure to respond as a sign that it had been hijacked.
Sent 3: At 8:14, when the flight failed to heed his instruction to climb to 35,000 feet, the controller repeatedly tried to raise the flight.
Sent 4: He reached out to the pilot on the emergency frequency.
Sent 5: Though there was no response, he kept trying to contact the aircraft.
Sent 6: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.
Sent 7: The controller told his supervisor that he thought something was seriously wrong with the plane, although neither suspected a hijacking.
Sent 8: The supervisor instructed the controller to follow standard procedures for handling a \"no radio\" aircraft.
Sent 9: The controller checked to see if American Airlines could establish communication with American 11.
Sent 10: He became even more concerned as its route changed, moving into another sector's airspace.
Sent 11: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path, and asked other aircraft in the vicinity to look for American 11.
Sent 12: At 8:24:38, the following transmission came from American 11: American 11: We have some planes.
Sent 13: Just stay quiet, and you'll be okay.
Sent 14: We are returning to the airport.
Sent 15: The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 16: The next transmission came seconds later: American 11: Nobody move.
Sent 17: Everything will be okay.
Sent 18: If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.", "question": "What circumstances prompted tower control to contact American Airlines Flight 11?" }, { "answer groups": [ "October 19th", "October 19" ], "distractor groups": [ "March 9", "October 9", "Thursday", "March 19" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- The photographer who took images of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto moments before her assassination Thursday told CNN he was \"surprised\" to see her rise through the sunroof of her vehicle to wave to supporters after delivering her speech.
Sent 2: Getty Images photographer John Moore captured Benazir Bhutto waving, moments before he heard gunshots.
Sent 3: \"I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd,\" Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore told CNN's online streaming news service, CNN.com Live, in a phone interview Thursday from Islamabad, Pakistan.
Sent 4: \"And then suddenly, there were a few gunshots that rang out, and she went down, she went down through the sunroof,\" he said.
Sent 5: \"And just at that moment I raised my camera up and the blast happened.
Sent 6: ... And then, of course, there was chaos.\"
Sent 7: Watch Moore describe Bhutto's final moments \u00bb Moore said he was about 20 yards away from Bhutto's vehicle when he took his photographs.
Sent 8: Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Sent 9: Moore said he had been following Bhutto's story since her return to Pakistan in October.
Sent 10: He was present October 19 when a terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people.
Sent 11: In the aftermath of that attack, \"The rallies had been very small,\" because of high security, Moore said.
Sent 12: However, the Rawalpindi rally was announced beforehand, he observed.
Sent 13: \"Whoever planned this attack -- they had time on their hands to plan everything properly, and you saw the results today,\" he said.
Sent 14: Between 5,000 and 8,000 were at the Rawalpindi rally, which was held at a parkground, he said.
Sent 15: \"We [the news media] all expected it to be filled ... but there were less people there than most of us expected to see,\" he said.
Sent 16: \"When I talked with a number of people, they said that people were just afraid to come out, for the simple reason that they all remembered what happened in Karachi.\"
Sent 17: Moore said he himself expected there could be another attack following the Karachi massacre.
Sent 18: He said he stayed away from gates at the Rawalpindi parkground, where police were searching people, because he suspected that's where a bomb would go off.", "question": "What was the date of the attack that forced Benazir to keep his rallies small for security purposes?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Seventeen", "17" ], "distractor groups": [ "Twenty", "20", "18" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker.
Sent 2: The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
Sent 3: Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Sent 4: All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday.
Sent 5: One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven.
Sent 6: Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year.
Sent 7: Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol.
Sent 8: It holds eight, Kelly said.
Sent 9: Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him.
Sent 10: Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added.
Sent 11: Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile.
Sent 12: \"It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that,\" said his brother, Paul.
Sent 13: \"He's going to be so missed by everybody.
Sent 14: He was a light of so many lives.\"", "question": "How many years older was Jeffrey Johnson than Steven Ercolino?" }, { "answer groups": [ "At 9:32", "Morning" ], "distractor groups": [ "9:25", "At night" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "When did Dulles detect a primary target that triggered them to alert Reagan National Airport?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north", "Lisbon" ], "distractor groups": [ "Porto", "Cities in the South", "Atlantic", "South Portugal" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a year\u00a0\u2014\u00a0more than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities abound\u00a0\u2014\u00a0several with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the ocean\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weather\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not to mention easily organized package vacations\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.", "question": "Residents of which cosmopolitan Portuguese city flock to the Algarve for vacation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Small intestine", "In the stomach and small intestine" ], "distractor groups": [ "Stomach", "Mouth and Stomach", "Large intestine", "Large Intestine and Small Intestine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "Where does the absorption of nutrients take place?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Extracts nutruents and eliminates waste", "It's the system that digests food, turning food into nutrients", "Digests food", "Helps turn food into nutrients", "It absorbes nutrients and flushes wastes" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chemicslly decomposes food", "Extracts water and nutrients", "Fights Diseases", "Increases blood flow", "It makes the nutrients" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What does the digestive system do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The small intestine", "Stomach", "In the stomach but mostly in the intestines" ], "distractor groups": [ "Esophagus", "Mouth", "Small Intestine", "The large intestine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "Where does the absorption part of digestion occur?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Extracts nutrients from food and eliminates solid waste", "Turns food into energy and Absorbs Water", "Turns food into nutrients and Absorbs Water", "It turns food into nutrients and it eliminates solid food waste", "It turns food into nutrients and processes waste" ], "distractor groups": [ "It ingests food, and expels the waste", "Absorbes nutrients and distributes among organs", "Turns food into nutrients and Absorbs waste", "Builds Muscle and Absorbs Water", "Extracts nutruents and water" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What two things does the digestion system do for the body?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Stomach and Small Intestine", "The small intestine" ], "distractor groups": [ "Large Intestine and Mouth", "The large intestin", "Esophagus", "Mouth and Large Intestine", "Large intestine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What are the parts of the organ where most nutrient absorption takes place?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Eliminates", "It eliminates solid food waste and releases it from the body", "Waste is released", "It removes them" ], "distractor groups": [ "Chemically decomposes it", "Nothing", "Waste is absorbed", "Waste is turned into nutrients", "It absorbs them" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What does the digestive system do regarding waste?" }, { "answer groups": [ "This is where water is absorbed. The food not digested is released as waste", "Water is absorbed" ], "distractor groups": [ "Food is broken down into nutrients", "Nutriets are absorbed", "Food is mechanically decomposed", "Nutrients are absorbed", "Food is absorbed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What happens in the large intestine?" }, { "answer groups": [ "West Virginia University College of Law", "The law office of Louis Bledsoe, Jr., Public Defender Corporation, and Bluefield College", "Law office", "Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, as legal secretary for attorney Louis A. Bledsoe Jr., and Bluefield College in West Virginia", "Bluefield college" ], "distractor groups": [ "Farm", "Doctors office", "Blue Ridge Law School, Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, and New York State District Attorney's Office", "Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, Blueford College, and O'Malley and Rourke Legal Firm", "Dentist office", "O'Malley and Rourke Legal Firm, Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, and Blue Ridge Law School" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Cathy Wallace did not always know what she wanted to be when she grew up.
Sent 2: She wanted to help people, but did not know exactly how.
Sent 3: A suggestion from friends sparked her interest.
Sent 4: \"When I was in college, I thought I wanted to be a doctor,\" she said.
Sent 5: \"I found I didn't want to do that and realized an interest in psychology.
Sent 6: I didn't know what I wanted to do, but all my friends thought I should go into law because I was always on a soapbox.
Sent 7: I decided to try it.\"
Sent 8: Recently, Wallace received the Outstanding Woman Lawyer in Public Interest Law Award.
Sent 9: The award was voted on and presented by the women's caucus of West Virginia University College of Law.
Sent 10: Wallace, 38, called Gastonia home from the age of 8 until she graduated from Hunter Huss High School in 1983.
Sent 11: Her parents, Carter Bond, 66, and Carol Bond, 59, are still residents of Gastonia.
Sent 12: From Hunter Huss, she moved on to pursue a degree at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer.
Sent 13: After graduation from Pfeiffer in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in both biology and psychology, she worked as legal secretary for attorney Louis A. Bledsoe Jr. for a year and a half.
Sent 14: \"Working for Louis Bledsoe was a pivotal moment,\" she said.
Sent 15: \"That was when I decided to go into the practice of law.\"
Sent 16: She received her law degree at the University of Arkansas in 1992 and began her legal career in Public Defender Corp. in Princeton.
Sent 17: She also taught criminal justice classes at Bluefield College in West Virginia.
Sent 18: Wallace lives in Athens, W. Va., with her husband Rob, 37, and her daughters Rachel, 11, and Claire, 5.", "question": "Name three places Ms. Wallace has worked.A. West Virginia University College of LawB. FarmC. Doctors officeD. The law office of Louis Bledsoe, Jr., Public Defender Corporation, and Bluefield CollegeE. Law officeF. Blue Ridge Law School, Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, and New York State District Attorney's OfficeG. Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, Blueford College, and O'Malley and Rourke Legal FirmH. Dentist officeI. O'Malley and Rourke Legal Firm, Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, and Blue Ridge Law SchoolJ. Public Defender Corp. in Princeton, as legal secretary for attorney Louis A. Bledsoe Jr., and Bluefield College in West VirginiaK. Bluefield collegePlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1", "Omen seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure", "Women seeking abortion in state of Texas must undergo a sonogram , look at the picture and doctor must explain to the women what the sonogram show" ], "distractor groups": [ "Women seeking abortion in state of Texas must talk to a doctor and court official", "A law requiring women to take a class before having an abortion" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Women seeking an abortion in Texas will have to view a picture of the embryo or fetus and hear a description of its development before having the procedure, under a law that takes effect September 1.
Sent 2: The bill stirred some controversy in Texas, but it easily passed through the state House and Senate, both of which are controlled by Republicans.
Sent 3: It was signed into law Thursday by Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
Sent 4: The law says that at least 24 hours before an abortion is performed, women must undergo a sonogram, a procedure that uses ultrasound to create an image.
Sent 5: The doctor, then, is required to give, \"in a manner understandable to a layperson, a verbal explanation of the results of the sonogram images, including a medical description of the dimensions of the embryo or fetus, the presence of cardiac activity, and the presence of external members and internal organs,\" the law states.
Sent 6: There are some exceptions, including pregnancies that resulted from sexual assault, incest or other violations of law.
Sent 7: Women seeking abortions also are exempt if the fetus has been found to have an irreversible medical condition that will cause a disability.
Sent 8: \"Governor Perry was pleased to sign this important legislation, which bolsters our efforts to protect life by ensuring Texans are fully informed when considering such an important decision,\" said his deputy press secretary, Lucy Nashed.
Sent 9: Critics say the new law is unnecessary.
Sent 10: \"What no one is focusing on is that this is a mandate to humiliate women who want an abortion,\" said Yvonne Gutierrez, vice president for public affairs at the Planned Parenthood Trust of South Texas.
Sent 11: Texas already requires a 24-hour consent period, and the new law will simply add emotional and financial costs to those seeking abortions, she said.", "question": "What law taking affect September 1st easily passed through the Texas House and Senate?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The Respiratory and Circulatory systems", "Circulatory and respiratory", "Respiratory and circulatory" ], "distractor groups": [ "All of them", "Blood cells and lungs", "The lungs and blood vessel systems" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You just got done with a long run.
Sent 2: You are gasping for air.
Sent 3: Why does your body react this way?
Sent 4: What is the purpose of breathing?
Sent 5: All the cells of your body need oxygen to work properly.
Sent 6: Your bodys circulatory system works with the respiratory system to deliver the oxygen.
Sent 7: Your blood carries red blood cells.
Sent 8: The main job of red blood cells is to carry oxygen throughout your body.
Sent 9: The red blood cells get oxygen in the lungs.
Sent 10: The lungs are the main organs of the respiratory system.
Sent 11: The respiratory system is the body system that takes in oxygen.
Sent 12: It then releases carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere.
Sent 13: The carbon dioxide is the waste material from the cells.", "question": "What body systems work together to bring in oxygen and release carbon dioxide?" }, { "answer groups": [ "In winter the days are shorter, there is extreme cold and it is also very dry", "Winter in most areas means extremely cold and dry conditions", "Winters can be very cold and dry" ], "distractor groups": [ "Winters can be very cold and rainy", "In most areas, winter kills plants and trees" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right.", "question": "What is it about winter that makes it difficult for plants to survive?" }, { "answer groups": [ "As winter approaches plants leaves fall off and they enter a dormancy period which allows them to survive cold dry winters", "Some plants' leaves change color then fall off", "Some plants go dormant" ], "distractor groups": [ "Plants grow as fast as possible to survive the winter", "Plants close their leaves to prevent water loss" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right.", "question": "What happens to plants when winter approaches?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They collect sunlight on open leaves in the day and close them at night to prevent water loss", "Open leaves in the day and close them at night", "Plants open their leaves during the day to collect sunlight and close them at night to prevent water loss" ], "distractor groups": [ "Their leaves change color during the day and turn green again at night", "Plants may close their leaves during the day to prevent burning and open them at night to collect moisture" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Plants also detect the daily cycle of light and darkness.
Sent 2: Do you know how plants respond to these changes?
Sent 3: Some plants open their leaves during the day.
Sent 4: It is during these hours the plant can collect sunlight.
Sent 5: At night, the plant closes its leaves to prevent water loss.
Sent 6: Many plants respond to the change in the length of the day.
Sent 7: As days grow shorter, some plants respond by going dormant.
Sent 8: Dormant is when a plant suspends its growth.
Sent 9: It does this in order to survive.
Sent 10: Shorter days signal the coming of winter.
Sent 11: Winter in most areas means extreme cold.
Sent 12: It is also very dry in the winter months.
Sent 13: As winter approaches, some plants respond by their leaves changing color.
Sent 14: After the change in color, they fall off.
Sent 15: This dormancy period helps trees.
Sent 16: It allows them to survive the cold and dry winter.
Sent 17: Plants only want to grow when conditions are right.", "question": "How do plants respond to changes in light conditions during the day and night?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Island\u00e2\u0080\u0099s tranquility lasted", "The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed", "The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed after an invasion", "They were left in peace" ], "distractor groups": [ "Expelled", "killed", "The Moors were forced to convert to Christianity", "Defeated", "Economy was devastated" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Arag\u00f3n and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Pon\u00e7a.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors\u2002\u2014\u2002converted by force to Christianity\u2002\u2014\u2002as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Arag\u00f3n and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Arag\u00f3n, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Arag\u00f3n for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by San\u00e7 and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Arag\u00f3n.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.", "question": "Although the Moors speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Arag\u00f3n, what happened to them?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Electrons gets discharged", "Eventually the electrons are discharged", "They discharge", "Electrons repel negative charge on ground below", "The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below" ], "distractor groups": [ "Electrons change their properties", "Slow-motion", "Electron becomes neutrally charged" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "What happens to electrons to make them turn into lightning?" }, { "answer groups": [ "As it turns out, everything", "Lightning is a form of static energy", "Lightning is an example of static energy", "Everything!" ], "distractor groups": [ "Lightning is a form of dynamic energy", "Air molecules", "Lightning and static energy are poles apart" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "What does lightning have to do with static electricity?" }, { "answer groups": [ "American parents", "Muslim parents", "Moderate Muslims" ], "distractor groups": [ "Arab parents", "Bin Laden's children", "Muslim extremists" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In short, the United States has to help defeat an ideology, not just a group of people, and we must do so under difficult circumstances.
Sent 2: How can the United States and its friends help moderate Muslims combat the extremist ideas?
Sent 3: Recommendation: The U.S. government must define what the message is, what it stands for.
Sent 4: We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors.
Sent 5: America and Muslim friends can agree on respect for human dignity and opportunity.
Sent 6: To Muslim parents, terrorists like Bin Laden have nothing to offer their children but visions of violence and death.
Sent 7: America and its friends have a crucial advantage-we can offer these parents a vision that might give their children a better future.
Sent 8: If we heed the views of thoughtful leaders in the Arab and Muslim world, a moderate consensus can be found.
Sent 9: That vision of the future should stress life over death: individual educational and economic opportunity.
Sent 10: This vision includes widespread political participation and contempt for indiscriminate violence.
Sent 11: It includes respect for the rule of law, openness in discussing differences, and tolerance for opposing points of view.
Sent 12: Recommendation: Where Muslim governments, even those who are friends, do not respect these principles, the United States must stand for a better future.
Sent 13: One of the lessons of the long Cold War was that short-term gains in cooperating with the most repressive and brutal governments were too often outweighed by long-term setbacks for America's stature and interests.
Sent 14: American foreign policy is part of the message.
Sent 15: America's policy choices have consequences.
Sent 16: Right or wrong, it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and American actions in Iraq are dominant staples of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world.
Sent 17: That does not mean U.S. choices have been wrong.
Sent 18: It means those choices must be integrated with America's message of opportunity to the Arab and Muslim world.", "question": "Which parents can be offered a vision that might give their children a better future?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Jackson, TN", "In Jackson, Tennessee" ], "distractor groups": [ "Jackson, Michigan", "Madison, TN", "Jackson, MS", "Jackson, Mississippi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 2: \"It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,\" he said.
Sent 3: More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics.
Sent 4: In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records.
Sent 5: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that.
Sent 6: I see this as helping that,\" Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant.
Sent 7: Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said.
Sent 8: And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.", "question": "Domestic violence accounts for 5 of 12 deaths in which city and state, according to the paragraph?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The grant will help victims of abuse support their children by providing work and housing", "The grants can help them attempt to regain their employment and home by successfully navigating the court proceedings", "Abusers can cause victims to lose their homes and jobs. The grants assist these victims with rectifying those issues in court", "The grant helps them by helping their parents if they are evicted or lose their job due to an abuser's actions" ], "distractor groups": [ "The grants help to identify missing children from abusive homes", "It will place children in a foster home", "The grant will provide the children government aid", "The grants help to evict abusers" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said.
Sent 2: \"It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,\" he said.
Sent 3: More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics.
Sent 4: In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records.
Sent 5: \"Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that.
Sent 6: I see this as helping that,\" Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant.
Sent 7: Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said.
Sent 8: And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.", "question": "How can the grant help children of domestic abuse victims?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Ineffective rescue efforts", "Contradictory statements by Malaysian officials", "Because Malaysia stated that the plane may have been flown into the Indian Ocean", "Because many passengers aboard the aircraft were from Chine and Vietnam", "They've issued contradictory statements, mishandled key evidence, and wasted time that could have been spent looking for survivors" ], "distractor groups": [ "Plane crash caused earthquake that affected both China and Vietnam", "Because Malaysia has stated that the aircraft may have been flown into either China or Vietnam", "Because Malaysian officials have said there were no passengers aboard from either China or Vietnam", "Malaysian government refused to work with Chinese government" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Before the mysterious disappearance of one of its passenger jets this month, Malaysia wasn't a country used to finding itself dominating headlines around the world.
Sent 2: Some of its Southeast Asian neighbors, including Indonesia and the Philippines, have suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years and are all too familiar with the media frenzy that accompanies a major crisis.
Sent 3: But Malaysia has largely managed to stay out of the international spotlight since its independence from British colonial rule more than half a century ago.
Sent 4: \"It is one of these countries, because of its geography, that doesn't have earthquakes,\" said Ernest Bower, senior adviser for Southeast Asia studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Sent 5: \"It doesn't have tsunamis.
Sent 6: It hasn't been tested with a disaster like this.\"
Sent 7: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has thrust the government into the dazzling glare of worldwide attention.
Sent 8: And it hasn't emerged with very good grades.
Sent 9: \"I think on a stress test, they're failing,\" Bower told CNN's Jake Tapper, pointing to the government's coordination of different agencies and communication with other countries.
Sent 10: China among critics Criticism and complaints have come from other countries involved in the search for the missing plane, including China and Vietnam, and from the relatives of passengers.
Sent 11: Malaysian officials have created confusion by issuing contradictory statements on key aspects of the investigation.
Sent 12: The majority of the people on board the plane were Chinese, and Beijing has increasingly voiced its displeasure with the search, especially after Malaysia announced over the weekend that evidence suggested the plane had been deliberately flown west into the Indian Ocean, away from its last confirmed location over the South China Sea.
Sent 13: \"The new information means the intensive search in the South China Sea for the whole past week was worthless and would never bear fruit,\" said a commentary published by China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
Sent 14: \"Even worse, the golden time for saving possible survivors, if any, was generously wasted.\"", "question": "Why are Chinese and Vietnamese officials critical of the Malaysian response?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Electrons have a negative charge", "Negative", "Negative charge", "An atom with more electrons than protons will have a negative charge" ], "distractor groups": [ "Neutral", "Electrons and protons don't have to touch", "An atom with more electrons than protons has an electrical charge", "An atom can't have more electrons than protons", "Positive charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Electric charge is a physical property.
Sent 2: It occurs between particles or objects.
Sent 3: It causes them to attract or repel each other.
Sent 4: They do not even have to touch.
Sent 5: This is unlike the typical push or pull you may be familiar with.
Sent 6: All electric charge is based on the protons and electrons in atoms.
Sent 7: A proton has a positive electric charge.
Sent 8: An electron has a negative electric charge.
Sent 9: Forces on Charged Objects Most atoms are balanced electrically.
Sent 10: They have the same number of positive and negative charges.
Sent 11: Therefore, the number of protons equals the number of electrons.
Sent 12: Neutrons do not matter as they have no charge.
Sent 13: When an object loses some electrons, it becomes positively charged.
Sent 14: There are now more protons than electrons inside the atom.
Sent 15: The lost electrons may remain free.
Sent 16: Or, they may attach to another object.
Sent 17: The new object now has more electrons than protons.
Sent 18: It then becomes negatively charged.", "question": "What kind of charge does an atom with more electrons than protons have?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Less often than partial lunar eclipse which happen at least twice a year and the moon glows a dull red", "Dull red", "Less often" ], "distractor groups": [ "At least twice a year and the moon is dark", "More often", "The Moon glows with a dull red coloring during a total lunar eclipse, and they occur less than three times a year", "Bright red" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes a full Moon moves through Earths shadow.
Sent 2: This is a lunar eclipse .
Sent 3: During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon travels completely in Earths umbra.
Sent 4: During a partial lunar eclipse, only a portion of the Moon enters Earths umbra.
Sent 5: When the Moon passes through Earths penumbra, it is a penumbral eclipse.
Sent 6: Since Earths shadow is large, a lunar eclipse lasts for hours.
Sent 7: Anyone with a view of the Moon can see a lunar eclipse.
Sent 8: So unlike a solar eclipse, it doesnt get dark on Earth.
Sent 9: Instead it gets dark on the Moon.
Sent 10: Partial lunar eclipses occur at least twice a year, but total lunar eclipses are less common.
Sent 11: The Moon glows with a dull red coloring during a total lunar eclipse.", "question": "How often does total lunar eclipse occur and what color is the moon?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Because he let Nathan read his story", "He wanted to know nathan's opinion", "He thought that it was a waste of ink and paper, a futile expedition into morbidity or a literary debauchery" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was worried that Nathan would not like what he wrote", "He knew his story was rubbish" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Nathan read the package of words in silence, his only motions the steady progress of his eyes and occasional replacement of pages.
Sent 2: Allan sat nervously across from him in a chair Nathan had probably upholstered himself, a patchwork design of fabric containing easily more stuffing than any other furniture item of the period.
Sent 3: At long last, Nathan reached the end and set down his reading on the table between them.
Sent 4: Allan leaned forward unconsciously.
Sent 5: \"It's the best story you've ever written.\"
Sent 6: Allan exhaled and leaned back into the chair, his face relaxing in imitation of his thoughts.
Sent 7: \"So,\" he asked, \"you don't think it's a waste of ink and paper, a futile expedition into morbidity or literary debauchery?\"
Sent 8: \"Heavens, no,\" said Nathan, aghast.
Sent 9: \"This is one of the strongest works I've read in ages.
Sent 10: It speaks to the deepest storyteller's instinct within us all, yet is entirely original.
Sent 11: My dear friend, you have done it.
Sent 12: Oh, they may rail against you at first; they may decry you as a heathen or a literary savage; but while those in power say such things, others will read your tales and see their true worth.
Sent 13: Believe me when I say that you will be read a century from now.\"
Sent 14: Allan, though dubious as to that possibility, felt some temptation from the compliment; mainly, it granted him the encouragement he still needed.
Sent 15: Nathan promised to show the story to a printer he knew and Allan left it with him, then walked home under the spreading maples with a smile lingering on his face.
Sent 16: He felt now that perhaps Nathan was right; although the man was somewhat peculiar, he had both an unimpeachable honesty and a certain propensity for insight.
Sent 17: Certainly, it was undeniable that the stories had an originality to them.
Sent 18: His mind's strangest fruit had ripened at last, and he found the taste less bitter than expected.
Sent 19: These thoughts and others like them filled his head as he walked the long road home.
Sent 20: It was evening, and the sky burned orange in the west when he neared home at last.", "question": "Why was Allan nervous?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength and Wave height is also called amplitude", "The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave. and The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength", "Amplitude is a vertical distance (the height of the wave). Wavelength measures a horizontal distance (between two crests)", "Horizontal distance between two troughs is wavelength and vertical distance between a crest and a trough is called amplitude" ], "distractor groups": [ "The horizontal distance between two crests is the amplitude and vertical distance between a crest and a trough is called wavelength", "Both are same", "Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The highest point of a wave is the crest.
Sent 2: The lowest point is the trough.
Sent 3: The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave.
Sent 4: Wave height is also called amplitude.
Sent 5: The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength.
Sent 6: Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size.
Sent 7: The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows.
Sent 8: The greater each of these factors is, the bigger a wave will be.
Sent 9: Some of the biggest waves occur with hurricanes.
Sent 10: A hurricane is a storm that forms over the ocean.
Sent 11: Its winds may blow more than 150 miles per hour!
Sent 12: The winds also travel over long distances and may last for many days.", "question": "What is the difference between wavelength and amplitude?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They are making about 710,000 dollars per store", "$713,793", "$1.4 million" ], "distractor groups": [ "They are making 57.50 per store", "61.2 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Ratners Group PLC, a fast-growing, acquisition-minded London-based jeweler, raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield's Inc. to 57.50 a share, or 62.1 million, from 50 a share, or 55 million, after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners's initial offer.
Sent 2: The other concern wasn't identified.
Sent 3: Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of \"substantial benefit to Ratners.\"
Sent 4: In London at mid-afternoon yesterday, Ratners's shares were up 2 pence (1.26 cents), at 260 pence (1.64).
Sent 5: The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield's shareholders, and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10.
Sent 6: The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield's raises Ratners's U.S. presence to 450 stores.
Sent 7: About 30% of Ratners's profit already is derived from the U.S.", "question": "How much money is Weisfield making per store from this acquisition?" }, { "answer groups": [ "3", "3 minutes", "Three minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "5 minutes", "1 minute", "4", "2 minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At 8:38, Ong told Gonzalez that the plane was flying erratically again.
Sent 2: Around this time Sweeney told Woodward that the hijackers were Middle Easterners, naming three of their seat numbers.
Sent 3: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.
Sent 4: The hijackers had gained entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.
Sent 5: The aircraft was in a rapid descent.
Sent 6: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.
Sent 7: Other flight attendants were busy at duties such as getting medical supplies while Ong and Sweeney were reporting the events.
Sent 8: At 8:41, in American's operations center, a colleague told Marquis that the air traffic controllers declared Flight 11 a hijacking and \"think he's [American 11] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New York City].
Sent 9: They're moving everybody out of the way.
Sent 10: They seem to have him on a primary radar.
Sent 11: They seem to think that he is descending.\"
Sent 12: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.
Sent 13: About this same time Sweeney reported to Woodward, \"Something is wrong.
Sent 14: We are in a rapid descent .
Sent 15: we are all over the place.\"
Sent 16: Woodward asked Sweeney to look out the window to see if she could determine where they were.", "question": "How many minutes passed until Sweeney confirmed the ground operations belief that the plane was descending and trying to land.A. 5 minutesB. 1 minuteC. 3D. 4E. 3 minutesF. 2 minutesG. Three minutesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Three minutes", "3 minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "1 minute", "2 minutes", "7 minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.
Sent 2: Millions of men and women readied themselves for work.
Sent 3: Some made their way to the Twin Towers, the signature structures of the World Trade Center complex in New York City.
Sent 4: Others went to Arlington, Virginia, to the Pentagon.
Sent 5: Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session.
Sent 6: At the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour.
Sent 7: In Sarasota, Florida, President George W. Bush went for an early morning run.
Sent 8: For those heading to an airport, weather conditions could not have been better for a safe and pleasant journey.
Sent 9: Among the travelers were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who arrived at the airport in Portland, Maine.
Sent 10: Boston: American 11 and United 175.
Sent 11: Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston's Logan International Airport.
Sent 12: When he checked in for his flight to Boston, Atta was selected by a computerized prescreening system known as CAPPS (Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System), created to identify passengers who should be subject to special security measures.
Sent 13: Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta's selection by CAPPS was that his checked bags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the aircraft.
Sent 14: This did not hinder Atta's plans.
Sent 15: Atta and Omari arrived in Boston at 6:45.
Sent 16: Seven minutes later, Atta apparently took a call from Marwan al Shehhi, a longtime colleague who was at another terminal at Logan Airport.
Sent 17: They spoke for three minutes.
Sent 18: It would be their final conversation.", "question": "How long was Atta's final conversation with Marwan al Shehhi?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They can place a force on certain materials called a magnetic force", "Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials" ], "distractor groups": [ "Magnets can touch and produce force", "Magnets can produce change on materials" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials.
Sent 2: This force is called a magnetic force.
Sent 3: The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about.
Sent 4: You exert a force on a book when you lift it.
Sent 5: You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle.
Sent 6: In both those cases, those forces cause a change.
Sent 7: The change you see in both these cases is called motion.
Sent 8: Magnets, too, can produce change.
Sent 9: They can produce motion just like you do.
Sent 10: Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force.
Sent 11: A magnetic force is exerted over a distance.
Sent 12: Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them.
Sent 13: Thats how the maglev train works.
Sent 14: Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch?
Sent 15: These forces are known as non-contact forces.
Sent 16: Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity.
Sent 17: Gravity too can cause changes in motion.
Sent 18: Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it.", "question": "What can magnets do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Twenty-three percent of Georgia's active lawyers reported in giving 50 hours of pro-bono service, whereas 70% of the lawyers nationally volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually", "Twenty-three percent of Georgia's active lawyers reported in giving 50 hours of pro-bono service, whereas 23% of the lawyers nationally volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually" ], "distractor groups": [ "Twenty-three percent of Georgia's active lawyers reported in giving 23 hours of pro-bono service, whereas 50% of the lawyers nationally volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: On Monday, departing Gov. Roy Barnes will spend his first day as a private citizen by starting his new job as a full-time, pro-bono (unpaid) lawyer at the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 2: The decision by Barnes, the most improbable casualty of Election Day 2002, to go to work for legal aid was almost as unexpected as his November defeat.
Sent 3: As a legal services attorney, Barnes will help women escape domestic violence, Mauricio Vivero is vice president seniors fight predatory lending scams and parents obtain child support for their kids.
Sent 4: of Legal In doing so, he will take his place on the front line of the U.S. legal community's Services Corporation, the uphill and underpublicized struggle to achieve equal access to justice for millions of Washington-Americans too poor to afford legal representation.
Sent 5: based nonprofit corporation chartered by The inaccessibility of the U.S. civil justice system is hardly a new development, but it Congress in took Barnes' decision to put the national media spotlight on our country's ongoing 1974 to promote equal access to access-to-justice crisis.
Sent 6: civil justice.
Sent 7: The 2000 U.S. census reports that more than 43 million Americans qualify for free federally funded legal assistance, yet fewer than 20 percent of eligible clients (annual income: 11,075 or less) are able to obtain legal help when they need it, according to the American Bar Association.
Sent 8: In Georgia, there is just one legal aid lawyer for every 10,500 eligible poor people.
Sent 9: Barnes understood this problem long before he became governor.
Sent 10: While in private practice, he handled many pro-bono cases and was a frequent volunteer in the Cobb County office of the federally funded Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
Sent 11: Most memorably, he secured a 115 million judgment in 1993 against Fleet Finance for victimizing 18,000 homeowners -- many of them senior citizens -- with its widespread predatory lending mortgage practices.
Sent 12: His long-standing commitment to the underserved is certainly admirable, but it should not be viewed as a rare and laudable act of civic virtue.
Sent 13: To be admitted to practice law, every attorney must take a professional oath to promote justice -- and every state's ethical rules include language indicating lawyers' responsibility to be guardians of fair play for those living in poverty.
Sent 14: In Georgia, many law firms, corporations and private attorneys are working pro bono to serve the neediest clients.
Sent 15: Yet only 23 percent of the state's 23,598 active lawyers reported meeting the Georgia State Bar's goal of 50 hours of pro-bono service in 2002.
Sent 16: The need for volunteers is most severe outside the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area, where 70 percent of the state's poor people are served by only 24 percent of the state's lawyers.
Sent 17: National pro-bono participation is even worse.
Sent 18: Only 23 percent of the roughly 1 million attorneys in America volunteer even one hour of pro-bono service annually, according to the ABA.", "question": "How do Georgia's lawyers compare to lawyers nationally in pro-bone participation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "They have a negative charge", "Negative Only" ], "distractor groups": [ "No", "Positive Only", "Yes", "They have a positive charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Surely, you have noticed the tall poles along the roadside.
Sent 2: Do you know what is on top of those poles?
Sent 3: Thats right, wires that carry electric current.
Sent 4: These wires carry electric current to your home.
Sent 5: But what is electric current?
Sent 6: Electric current is actually the flow of electrons.
Sent 7: You may recall, an electron is the outer-most particle in an atom.
Sent 8: They have a negative charge.
Sent 9: Electricity is the continuous flow of these particles.
Sent 10: Electrons are able to move through wires.
Sent 11: Their speed can even be measured.
Sent 12: The SI unit for electric current (or speed) is the ampere (A).
Sent 13: Ampere is often shortened to amp.
Sent 14: Electric current may flow in just one direction, or it may keep reversing direction.
Sent 15: Direct current (DC) flows in only one direction.
Sent 16: Direct current is what is used in devices like flashlights.
Sent 17: Alternating current (AC) flows in two directions.
Sent 18: This is the type of current that flows into your home through wires.", "question": "Electric current is a flow of electrons. Do electrons have a negative or positive charge?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Medellin cartel", "Colombian drug cartel", "Medellin drug cartel" ], "distractor groups": [ "M-19 drug cartel", "Guerrillas cartel", "The drug lords in Colombia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In Colombia, the drug-financed guerrillas trying to seize the country and destroy democracy include M-19, which Castro has clearly backed.
Sent 2: Robert Merkel, a former U.S. attorney handling drug indictments in Florida, doesn't think for a minute that Castro's much publicized trials of high officials engaged in the drug trade mean he has broken off with the Medellin drug cartel.
Sent 3: \"If the cartel succeeds in blackmailing the Colombian authorities into negotiations, the cartel will be in control and Fidel can exploit his past relationships with them,\" he told the Journal's David Asman recently.
Sent 4: The struggle against the drug lords in Colombia will be a near thing.
Sent 5: This week, the government arrested Jose Abello Silva, said to be the fourth-ranking cartel leader.
Sent 6: He will probably be extradited to the U.S. for trial under an extradition treaty President Virgilia Barco has revived.
Sent 7: Later, another high-ranking trafficker, Leonidas Vargas, was arrested and 1,000 pounds of dynamite seized.
Sent 8: Mr. Barco has refused U.S. troops or advisers but has accepted U.S. military aid.
Sent 9: President Bush has agreed to meet within 90 days with Mr. Barco, President Alan Garcia of Peru and President Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia to discuss the drug problem.
Sent 10: It might not be a bad idea to do that sooner, rather than later.
Sent 11: After the Panama fiasco, they will need some reassurance.
Sent 12: Certainly, the Colombian press is much in need of that.", "question": "Fidel Castro is said to have ties to what cartel in Columbia?" }, { "answer groups": [ "1.5 Million", "1,500,000", "1,500,000 shares" ], "distractor groups": [ "750,000 shares", "5 milliion", "8", "750,000" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Meridian National Corp. said it sold 750,000 shares of its common stock to the McAlpine family interests, for 1 million, or 1.35 a share.
Sent 2: The sale represents 10.2% of Meridian's shares outstanding.
Sent 3: The McAlpine family, which operates a number of multinational companies, including a London-based engineering and construction company, also lent to Meridian National 500,000.
Sent 4: That amount is convertible into shares of Meridian common stock at 2 a share during its one-year term.
Sent 5: The loan may be extended by the McAlpine group for an additional year with an increase in the conversion price to 2.50 a share.
Sent 6: The sale of shares to the McAlpine family along with the recent sale of 750,000 shares of Meridian stock to Haden MacLellan Holding PLC of Surrey, England and a recent public offering have increased Meridian's net worth to 8.5 million, said William Feniger, chief executive officer of Toledo, Ohio-based Meridian.", "question": "How many total shares of stock has Meridian sold to two companies recently?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout and corporate leaders", "Fred Hopes and Randy Hill" ], "distractor groups": [ "Leslie Stewart", "Fred Hill", "Randy Hoopes", "Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout and Randy Gregory", "Idaho Chief of Police Bob Hoskins" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Victims of domestic violence will have access to quality legal representation through a campaign undertaken by Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout and corporate leaders.
Sent 2: \"Thousands of times a year, Idahoans are victims of domestic violence.
Sent 3: The victims are often women and their children and they frequently have few resources with which to pursue their legal rights,\" Trout said Tuesday.
Sent 4: \"This campaign helps fill that gap in legal services for women who need the help at a time when they are in crisis.\"
Sent 5: The Idaho Partners for Justice Project has already secured pledges of more than 35,000 from law firms, attorneys, corporations and individuals.
Sent 6: The goal is 100,000.
Sent 7: The drive to pay for free legal services will continue for the next two months.
Sent 8: The money goes to Idaho Legal Aid Services and the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program.
Sent 9: Last year, more than 5,000 petitions were filed in Idaho for protection orders in domestic violence cases.
Sent 10: More than 12,000 victims contacted shelters or crisis hotlines.
Sent 11: Joining Trout in the announcement was Idaho Bar Association President Fred Hoopes of Idaho Falls and Ida-West Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Randy Hill, members of the project's executive committee.
Sent 12: Also on hand were some women who were victims of such violence, but benefited from free legal services.
Sent 13: Last year's campaign generated enough money and resources to help more than 450 victims.
Sent 14: The help ranged from representation in protection order hearings to legal assistance in divorce, visitation and child support cases.
Sent 15: The donations are tax deductible.", "question": "Who is on the Idaho Project for Justice Committee?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Defense Minister of UAE", "Dubai's Crown Pirince", "Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates" ], "distractor groups": [ "UAE President", "Defense President of the United Arab Emirates", "Dubai's king" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Dubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated a free zone for e-commerce today, called Dubai Internet City.
Sent 2: The preliminary stages of the project, the only one of its kind according to its designers, are estimated at 200 million.
Sent 3: Sheikh Mohamed, who is also the Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates, announced at the inauguration ceremony that \"we want to make Dubai a new trading center.\"
Sent 4: The minister, who has his own website, also said: \"I want Dubai to be the best place in the world for state-of-the-art technology companies.\"
Sent 5: He said companies engaged in e-commerce would be able to set up offices, employ staff and own equipment in the open zone, including fully-owned foreign companies.
Sent 6: The e-commerce free zone is situated in north Dubai, near the industrial free zone in Jebel Ali, the top regional and tenth international leading area in container transit.
Sent 7: The inauguration of Dubai Internet City coincides with the opening of an annual IT show in Dubai, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (Gitex), the biggest in the Middle East.", "question": "Who is Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al MaktoumA. Defense Minister of UAEB. UAE PresidentC. Defense President of the United Arab EmiratesD. Dubai's Crown PirinceE. Dubai's kingF. Defense Minister of the United Arab EmiratesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties", "An atom is the very smallest particle that still the element's properties, and all the atoms of an element are alike" ], "distractor groups": [ "An atom is the very bigest particle that still the elements properties", "An atom is a tiny metal object" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "What are atoms and their characteristics?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Gold is more rare and expensive than copper and is a better conductor of electricity", "Gold is more expensive than copper" ], "distractor groups": [ "Copper is more expensive than gold", "Copper is more rare and expensive than gold and is a better conductor of electricity" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: An atom is the very smallest particle that still the elements properties.
Sent 2: All the atoms of an element are alike.
Sent 3: They are also different from the atoms of all other elements.
Sent 4: For example, atoms of gold are always the same.
Sent 5: It does not matter if they are found in a gold nugget or a gold ring.
Sent 6: All gold atoms have the same structure and properties.
Sent 7: For example, all gold atoms contain 79 protons.
Sent 8: One of golds unique properties is that it is a great conductor of electricity.
Sent 9: Gold is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Sent 10: Gold is more rare and expensive than copper.
Sent 11: Copper is used in house wiring.
Sent 12: Gold is far too expensive.", "question": "What are differences between gold and copper?" }, { "answer groups": [ "9:25 AM", "9:25a" ], "distractor groups": [ "9:40am", "10:00am" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.
Sent 2: The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex.
Sent 3: The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington.
Sent 4: These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.
Sent 5: The FAA and White House Teleconferences.
Sent 6: The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30.
Sent 7: Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings.
Sent 8: At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department.
Sent 9: The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks.
Sent 10: The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit.
Sent 11: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11.
Sent 12: Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call.
Sent 13: At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism.
Sent 14: Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter.
Sent 15: The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40.
Sent 16: The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.
Sent 17: Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon.
Sent 18: We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.", "question": "When did the video teleconference in the situation room begin?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Three people are discussed. The nurse, the grandmother and the mother", "3" ], "distractor groups": [ "Two people the nurse and the grandmother", "5", "One person the mother" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The first rule is parental.
Sent 2: The primitive monarchy is in the home.
Sent 3: A young baby cries.
Sent 4: The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song.
Sent 5: When next the baby is put down to sleep, more cries, more soothing and disturbance, and the setting of a tiny instinct which shall some day be will--the power of control.
Sent 6: The grandmother arrives on the scene.
Sent 7: When baby cries, she plants the little one firmly in its crib, turns down the light, pats and soothes the tiny restless hands that fight the air, watches, waits.
Sent 8: From the crib come whimpers, angry cries, yells, sobs, baby snarls and sniffles that die away in a sleepy infant growl.
Sent 9: Silence, sleep, repose, and the building of life and nerve and muscle in the quiet and the darkness.
Sent 10: The baby has been put in harmony with the laws of nature--the invigoration of fresh air, sleep, stillness--and the little one wakens and grows like a fresh, sweet rose.
Sent 11: The mother, looking on, learns of the ways of God with men.", "question": "How many related people are discussed in this passage?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The land was being settled", "The occupation of Hong Kong by pirates and the settling of mainland China by the \"Five Great Clans\"", "Pirates preying on the shipping" ], "distractor groups": [ "Portuguese taking over the land", "The occupation of China by pirates and the settling of Hong Kong by the \"Five Great Clans\"", "The British leaving land to the Chinese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In the popular mind, the history of Hong Kong, long the entryway to China for Westerners, begins in 1841 with the British occupation of the territory.
Sent 2: However, it would be wrong to dismiss the long history of the region itself.
Sent 3: Archaeologists today are working to uncover Hong Kong's past, which stretches back thousands of years.
Sent 4: You can get a glimpse into that past at Lei Cheng Uk Museum's 1,600-year-old burial vault on the mainland just north of Kowloon.
Sent 5: In 1992, when construction of the airport on Chek Lap Kok was begun, a 2,000-year-old village, Pak Mong, was discovered, complete with artifacts that indicated a sophisticated rural society.
Sent 6: An even older Stone Age site was discovered on Lamma Island in 1996.
Sent 7: While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East.
Sent 8: By a.d.
Sent 9: 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century.
Sent 10: In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the \"Five Great Clans\": Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man.
Sent 11: First to arrive was the Tang clan, which established a number of walled villages in the New Territories that still exist today.
Sent 12: You can visit Kat Hing Wai and Lo Wai, villages with their walls still intact.
Sent 13: Adjacent to Lo Wai is the Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall, built in the 16th century, which is still the center of clan activities.
Sent 14: The first Europeans to arrive in the Pearl River Delta were the Portuguese, who settled in Macau in 1557 and for several centuries had a monopoly on trade between Asia, Europe, and South America.
Sent 15: As Macau developed into the greatest port in the East, it also became a base for Jesuit missionaries; it was later a haven for persecuted Japanese Christians.
Sent 16: While Christianity was not a great success in China, it made local headway, evidenced today by the numerous Catholic churches in Macau's historic center.
Sent 17: Intermarriage with the local Chinese created a community of Macanese, whose culture can still be seen in Macau's architecture and cuisine.", "question": "What occurred simultaneously in 900AD?" }, { "answer groups": [ "European lower class people had no belief that they could gain wealth, whereas Americans believed they could if they worked hard", "They could make money via hard work versus in europe no one cared about making money", "American lower classes aspired to improvements and luxury enjoyment through hard work while European lower classes had no hope of gaining more than minimal wealth" ], "distractor groups": [ "American lower class found wealth and fine possessions morally good while European lower class deemed it immoral", "American lower class was more prone to share wealth and possessions than European lower class", "No one cared about making money in america, in europe they all worked hard for their money" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tocqueville asserted that the values that had triumphed in the North and were present in the South had begun to suffocate old-world ethics and social arrangements.
Sent 2: Legislatures abolished primogeniture and entails, resulting in more widely distributed land holdings.
Sent 3: This was a contrast to the general aristocratic pattern in which only the eldest child, usually a man, inherited the estate, which had the effect of keeping large estates intact from generation to generation.
Sent 4: In America, in contrast, landed elites were less likely to pass on fortunes to a single child by the action of primogeniture, which meant that as time went by, large estates became broken up within a few generations which, in turn, made the children more equal overall.
Sent 5: It was not always a negative development, according to Joshua Kaplan's interpretation of Tocqueville, since bonds of affection and shared experience between children often replaced the more formal relation between the eldest child and the siblings, characteristic of the previous aristocratic pattern.
Sent 6: Overall, in the new democracies, hereditary fortunes became exceedingly difficult to secure and more people were forced to struggle for their own living.
Sent 7: This rapidly democratizing society, as Tocqueville understood it, had a population devoted to \"middling\" values which wanted to amass, through hard work, vast fortunes.
Sent 8: In Tocqueville's mind, this explained why America was so different from Europe.
Sent 9: In Europe, he claimed, nobody cared about making money.
Sent 10: The lower classes had no hope of gaining more than minimal wealth, while the upper classes found it crass, vulgar, and unbecoming of their sort to care about something as unseemly as money; many were virtually guaranteed wealth and took it for granted.
Sent 11: At the same time in America, workers would see people fashioned in exquisite attire and merely proclaim that through hard work they too would soon possess the fortune necessary to enjoy such luxuries.
Sent 12: Despite maintaining with Aristotle, Montesquieu, and others that the balance of property determined the balance of power, Tocqueville argued that, as America showed, equitable property holdings did not ensure the rule of the best men.
Sent 13: In fact, it did quite the opposite.
Sent 14: The widespread, relatively equitable property ownership which distinguished America and determined its mores and values also explained why the American masses held elites in such contempt.", "question": "How were the American lower class's views of wealth and fine possessions different from those of the European lower class?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Americans devoted to \"middling values\" of wanting to make fortune through hard work while Europeans did not care about making money with static classes", "Europeans left their wealth to the eldest, americans split it up", "Europeans had no interest in it, while Americans desired it" ], "distractor groups": [ "Europeans preferred money while Americans preferred estate", "Americans left their wealth to the eldest, europeans split it up", "Europeans though wealth was unnecessary while Americans were greedier" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tocqueville asserted that the values that had triumphed in the North and were present in the South had begun to suffocate old-world ethics and social arrangements.
Sent 2: Legislatures abolished primogeniture and entails, resulting in more widely distributed land holdings.
Sent 3: This was a contrast to the general aristocratic pattern in which only the eldest child, usually a man, inherited the estate, which had the effect of keeping large estates intact from generation to generation.
Sent 4: In America, in contrast, landed elites were less likely to pass on fortunes to a single child by the action of primogeniture, which meant that as time went by, large estates became broken up within a few generations which, in turn, made the children more equal overall.
Sent 5: It was not always a negative development, according to Joshua Kaplan's interpretation of Tocqueville, since bonds of affection and shared experience between children often replaced the more formal relation between the eldest child and the siblings, characteristic of the previous aristocratic pattern.
Sent 6: Overall, in the new democracies, hereditary fortunes became exceedingly difficult to secure and more people were forced to struggle for their own living.
Sent 7: This rapidly democratizing society, as Tocqueville understood it, had a population devoted to \"middling\" values which wanted to amass, through hard work, vast fortunes.
Sent 8: In Tocqueville's mind, this explained why America was so different from Europe.
Sent 9: In Europe, he claimed, nobody cared about making money.
Sent 10: The lower classes had no hope of gaining more than minimal wealth, while the upper classes found it crass, vulgar, and unbecoming of their sort to care about something as unseemly as money; many were virtually guaranteed wealth and took it for granted.
Sent 11: At the same time in America, workers would see people fashioned in exquisite attire and merely proclaim that through hard work they too would soon possess the fortune necessary to enjoy such luxuries.
Sent 12: Despite maintaining with Aristotle, Montesquieu, and others that the balance of property determined the balance of power, Tocqueville argued that, as America showed, equitable property holdings did not ensure the rule of the best men.
Sent 13: In fact, it did quite the opposite.
Sent 14: The widespread, relatively equitable property ownership which distinguished America and determined its mores and values also explained why the American masses held elites in such contempt.", "question": "How did Europeans' and Americans' attitudes toward amassing wealth differ?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Musharraf", "The State Department felt he should visit Pakistan and the Secret Service and the CIA were against it", "The State Department was for President Clinton visiting Pakistan and the Secret Service and the CIA were against it", "State department was for and CIA and Secret Service were against" ], "distractor groups": [ "Secret service was for", "Bin Laden", "State department and CIA were against", "The Secret Service and the CIA was for President Clinton visiting Pakistan and the State Department were against it" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: While this process moved along, diplomacy continued its rounds.
Sent 2: Direct pressure on the Taliban had proved unsuccessful.
Sent 3: As one NSC staff note put it, \"Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is not so much a state sponsor of terrorism as it is a state sponsored by terrorists.\"
Sent 4: In early 2000, the United States began a high-level effort to persuade Pakistan to use its influence over the Taliban.
Sent 5: In January 2000, Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth and the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Michael Sheehan, met with General Musharraf in Islamabad, dangling before him the possibility of a presidential visit in March as a reward for Pakistani cooperation.
Sent 6: Such a visit was coveted by Musharraf, partly as a sign of his government's legitimacy.
Sent 7: He told the two envoys that he would meet with Mullah Omar and press him on Bin Laden.
Sent 8: They left, however, reporting to Washington that Pakistan was unlikely in fact to do anything,\" given what it sees as the benefits of Taliban control of Afghanistan.\"
Sent 9: President Clinton was scheduled to travel to India.
Sent 10: The State Department felt that he should not visit India without also visiting Pakistan.
Sent 11: The Secret Service and the CIA, however, warned in the strongest terms that visiting Pakistan would risk the President's life.
Sent 12: Counterterrorism officials also argued that Pakistan had not done enough to merit a presidential visit.
Sent 13: But President Clinton insisted on including Pakistan in the itinerary for his trip to South Asia.
Sent 14: His one-day stopover on March 25, 2000, was the first time a U.S. president had been there since 1969.
Sent 15: At his meeting with Musharraf and others, President Clinton concentrated on tensions between Pakistan and India and the dangers of nuclear proliferation, but also discussed Bin Laden.
Sent 16: President Clinton told us that when he pulled Musharraf aside for a brief, one-on-one meeting, he pleaded with the general for help regarding Bin Laden.\"
Sent 17: I offered him the moon when I went to see him, in terms of better relations with the United States, if he'd help us get Bin Laden and deal with another issue or two.\"
Sent 18: The U.S. effort continued.", "question": "Who was for President Clinton visiting Pakistan and who was against it?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Wind, solar and water energy are listed", "The renewable energy types listed are water, solar and wind", "Sunlight, waterfall , wind", "Solar, water, and wind energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "The renewable energy forms listed are wind, nuclear and solar", "Thermal, wind and water energy are listed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What are some forms of renewable energy listed in the paragraph?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Noisy and not very nice to look at", "Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind and many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at", "People think turbines are noisy and ugly, and only certain areas get enough steady wind", "Wind turbines can be limited by still air or wind that moves too fast" ], "distractor groups": [ "Wind turbines aren't practical in areas that don't get enough steady wind, and some areas are too cloudy", "Wind turbines aren't very reliable, and people think they're noisy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Renewable Energy Resource Sunlight Sunlight can be used to heat homes.
Sent 2: It can also be used to produce electricity.
Sent 3: This conversion is made possible by solar cells.
Sent 4: However, solar energy may not always be practical.
Sent 5: Some areas are just too cloudy.
Sent 6: Example Solar panels on the roof of this house generate enough electricity to supply a familys needs.
Sent 7: Moving Water Falling water can have a lot of energy.
Sent 8: Its energy can be converted into kinetic energy.
Sent 9: This energy can turn a turbine and generate electricity.
Sent 10: The water may fall naturally over a waterfall or flow through a dam.
Sent 11: A drawback of dams is that they flood land upstream.
Sent 12: They can also reduce water flow downstream.
Sent 13: Either effect may harm ecosystems.
Sent 14: Wind Wind is moving air.
Sent 15: It has kinetic energy that can do work.
Sent 16: Wind turbines change the kinetic energy of the wind to electrical energy.
Sent 17: Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind.
Sent 18: Many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look at.", "question": "What are 2 things that limit the use of wind turbinesA. Noisy and not very nice to look atB. Wind turbines aren't practical in areas that don't get enough steady wind, and some areas are too cloudyC. Wind turbines aren't very reliable, and people think they're noisyD. Only certain areas of the world get enough steady wind and many people also think that wind turbines are noisy and not very nice to look atE. People think turbines are noisy and ugly, and only certain areas get enough steady windF. Wind turbines can be limited by still air or wind that moves too fastPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Yes", "Natural" ], "distractor groups": [ "Not natural", "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Sometimes traits can vary from parent to offspring.
Sent 2: These changes are due to mutations.
Sent 3: Mutations are a random change.
Sent 4: Mutations are natural.
Sent 5: Some mutations are harmful.
Sent 6: In this case, the organism may not live to reproduce.
Sent 7: The trait will not be passed onto offspring.
Sent 8: Others variations in traits have no effect on survival.
Sent 9: Can some mutations be good for a living thing?
Sent 10: Other mutations can have great benefits.
Sent 11: Imagine being the first moth that can blend into its background.
Sent 12: It would have a better chance of survival.
Sent 13: A living thing that survives is likely to have offspring.
Sent 14: If it does, it may pass the new trait on to its offspring.
Sent 15: Thats good news for the offspring.
Sent 16: The offspring may be more likely to survive.
Sent 17: Mutations are one way living things adapt to new conditions.", "question": "Is it natural for some traits to vary from parent to offspring?" }, { "answer groups": [ "After", "9:41 AM" ], "distractor groups": [ "9:27 AM", "Before" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Right after the Pentagon was hit, NEADS learned of another possible hijacked aircraft.
Sent 2: It was an aircraft that in fact had not been hijacked at all.
Sent 3: After the second World Trade Center crash, Boston Center managers recognized that both aircraft were transcontinental 767 jetliners that had departed Logan Airport.
Sent 4: Remembering the \"we have some planes\" remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked.
Sent 5: Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possible hijack.
Sent 6: NEADS warned the FAA's Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.
Sent 7: The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too.
Sent 8: During the course of the morning, there were multiple erroneous reports of hijacked aircraft.
Sent 9: The report of American 11 heading south was the first; Delta 1989 was the second.
Sent 10: NEADS never lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it.
Sent 11: The flight never turned off its transponder.
Sent 12: NEADS soon learned that the aircraft was not hijacked, and tracked Delta 1989 as it reversed course over Toledo, headed east, and landed in Cleveland.
Sent 13: But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard nothing: United 93.
Sent 14: United Airlines Flight 93 FAA Awareness.
Sent 15: At 9:27, after having been in the air for 45 minutes, United 93 acknowledged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller.
Sent 16: This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.
Sent 17: Less than a minute later, the Cleveland controller and the pilots of aircraft in the vicinity heard \"a radio transmission of unintelligible sounds of possible screaming or a struggle from an unknown origin.\"
Sent 18: The controller responded, seconds later: \"Somebody call Cleveland?\"This was followed by a second radio transmission, with sounds of screaming.", "question": "Did Boston Center call NEADS regarding Delta 1989 before or after problems were identified on United 93?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Saliva and acid in the stomach", "Saliva, stomach acid, small intestine's chemicals" ], "distractor groups": [ "Saliva and stomach acid", "Blood", "Respiratory fluid and saliva", "Saliva and blood oxygen", "Saliva Acid" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: As food is pushed along, it undergoes digestion.
Sent 2: Digestion is the process of breaking down food into nutrients.
Sent 3: There are two types of digestion: mechanical digestion and chemical digestion.
Sent 4: Mechanical digestion occurs when large chunks are turned into smaller chucks.
Sent 5: Perhaps not surprisingly, this happens when you chew your food.
Sent 6: Once you swallow the food, your stomach also does some of this work.
Sent 7: Chemical digestion occurs when food is broken down into useful nutrients.
Sent 8: This is a chemical process that begins as you start to chew your food.
Sent 9: The saliva in your mouth starts this process.
Sent 10: Once you swallow, the acid in your stomach further breaks down food.
Sent 11: From the stomach, the foods moves into the small intestine.
Sent 12: In the small intestines, another set of chemicals goes to work.
Sent 13: Are you surprised?
Sent 14: Your small intestine, and not your stomach, does most of the work!", "question": "What bodily fluids aide in digestion?" }, { "answer groups": [ "He was more determined", "Yes", "Howland was more determined than Thornton" ], "distractor groups": [ "He was not determined", "Howland had the same determination as Thornton", "He was determined to drive the others away", "No" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Howland talked but little on their way back to camp.
Sent 2: The scene that he had just witnessed affected him strangely; it stirred once more within him all of his old ambition, all of his old enthusiasm, and yet neither found voice in words.
Sent 3: He was glad when the dinner was over at Thorne's, and with the going of the mail sledge and the senior engineer there came over him a still deeper sense of joy.
Sent 4: Now _he_ was in charge, it was _his_ road from that hour on.
Sent 5: He crushed MacDonald's hand in a grip that meant more than words when they parted.
Sent 6: In his own cabin he threw off his coat and hat, lighted his pipe, and tried to realize just what this all meant for him.
Sent 7: He was in charge--in charge of the greatest railroad building job on earth--_he_, Jack Howland, who less than twenty years ago was a barefooted, half-starved urchin peddling papers in the streets where he was now famous!
Sent 8: And now what was this black thing that had come up to threaten his chances just as he had about won his great fight?
Sent 9: He clenched his hands as he thought again of what had already happened--the cowardly attempt on his life, the warnings, and his blood boiled to fever heat.
Sent 10: That night--after he had seen Meleese--he would know what to do.
Sent 11: But he would not be driven away, as Gregson and Thorne had been driven.
Sent 12: He was determined on that.", "question": "Was Howland determined Like Thornton was?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Less than two decades", "About 12 years", "It took less than two decades for Japan to overtake Britain economically", "After the Korean war", "1964" ], "distractor groups": [ "10 years", "Article 9", "Russia", "Britain", "Before 1964", "It took three decades for Japan to overtake Britain economically", "After 1970", "Few years", "Soviet Union", "More than two decades" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Peace and Prosperity: After years of government propaganda predicting the worst atrocities, most Japanese civilians were surprised at the warmth and friendliness of the occupying forces.
Sent 2: The postwar period began, however, with millions of displaced people homeless and starving.
Sent 3: To counter a perceived communist threat from the Soviet Union, the US quickly set to work reconstructing the economy by transforming Japan's institutions and devising a new pacifist constitution.
Sent 4: Article 9 renounced Japan's right to maintain armed forces, although the ambiguous wording was later taken to permit the creati on of a \"self-defense\" force.
Sent 5: The zaibatsu conglomerates that had proved so instrumental in boosting Japan's militarism were disbanded, later to re-emerge as the keiretsu trading conglomerates that dominated the economy once again.
Sent 6: The entire economy received a massive jump-start with the outbreak of the Korean War, with Japan ironically becoming the chief local supplier for an army it had battled so furiously just a few years earlier.
Sent 7: The occupation lasted until 1952, having already planted the seeds for Japan's future stunning economic success.
Sent 8: Economic output was back to prewar levels, and British auto companies provided the support needed to get Japan's auto industry back on its feet.
Sent 9: Japanese companies then enthusiastically imported any Western technologies they could get their hands on.
Sent 10: This included transistor technology\u2002\u2014\u2002invented in the US but then considered to have only limited applications\u2002\u2014\u2002for the surreal sum of 25,000.
Sent 11: It was Japan that produced the world's first transistor radio.
Sent 12: The electronic technology spurt that followed is now legendary.
Sent 13: Parliamentary democracy finally came into its own, albeit with distinctly Japanese characteristics reflecting the dislike of debate and confrontation and the group-oriented preference for maintaining the appearance of harmony at all times.
Sent 14: The government, through the powerful Finance Ministry and Ministry of International Trade and Industry, generously supported favored private corporations: first shipping, then cars, then electronics firms basked in the warmth of the government's loving attentions.
Sent 15: Japan overtook Britain economically in 1964.
Sent 16: By the end of the decade, Japan's was the third largest economy in the world\u2002\u2014\u2002less then two decades after the war had left the country in ruins.
Sent 17: Prosperity was not without its own problems: pollution caused by \"dirty\" industries, a high incidence of stomach ulcers (even suicides) among schoolchildren pressured by over-ambitious parents, and the awkward questions of what to do about nuclear energy.
Sent 18: The famous coziness among politicians, bureaucrats, and private companies, together with the strong cultural emphasis on relationship-building and a lack of transparency and accountability, eventually led to corrupt practices of endemic proportions.", "question": "How long after the occupation ended did it take for Japan to overtake Britain economically?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Africa, Australia. Europe, North America and Asia", "Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America", "Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Africa and Australia" ], "distractor groups": [ "North America, Africa, Asia, and Astralia", "Australia, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Asia" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: There once was a guy named Kevin and girl named Erin.
Sent 2: They really liked spending time together.
Sent 3: One day, Kevin traveled from his home in the United States of America to Erin's house in England.
Sent 4: They then thought to take a sudden trip around the world.
Sent 5: They first traveled by plane around Europe, where they saw many different people and sights.
Sent 6: They then took a boat to Africa and Asia, where they went on a trip through the mountains.
Sent 7: Later in the month, they traveled to China by train and were allowed to see how different life was over there.
Sent 8: Next they took another plane to Australia, where they had a lot of fun seeing kangaroos and a different type of English speaking people.
Sent 9: After spending a week in Australia, Kevin and Erin took a really long plane ride to North America, where they drove across the land.
Sent 10: They saw everything from the mountains to forests.
Sent 11: They even got to visit the beach!
Sent 12: Because they had so much fun, Kevin returned home with Erin to England where they hung out and spent the next few days and months talking about all of the neat things they saw and did on their trip.", "question": "What are the continents Kevin and Erin visited in their world tour?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Things that have more energy can do more work", "Water that is moving more has more kinetic energy; things that have more energy can do more work", "Water that moves more has more kinetic energy" ], "distractor groups": [ "Water that is moving more has less energy", "Water that moves more has less kinetic energy" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Flowing water causes sediment to move.
Sent 2: Flowing water can erode both rocks and soil.
Sent 3: You have already learned that materials can dissolve in water.
Sent 4: With enough time, even rocks can be dissolved by water.
Sent 5: This process happens really slowly.
Sent 6: It may take over a million years to dissolve a rock.
Sent 7: It doesnt matter how big the rock is.
Sent 8: With enough time, flowing water can dissolve it.
Sent 9: Moving water also has the ability to move small pieces of rock and soil.
Sent 10: How can water move a rock?
Sent 11: Doesnt it need energy?
Sent 12: Of course, water gets its energy because it is moving.
Sent 13: Moving water has kinetic energy.
Sent 14: Things that have more energy can do more work.
Sent 15: When water stops moving it will have no energy.
Sent 16: It will no longer be able to move the rock and soil.
Sent 17: When this happens the rock and soil will settle to the bottom of the calm water.
Sent 18: Scientists call this process deposition.", "question": "Why can water that is moving more do more work than water that is moving less?" }, { "answer groups": [ "None of it", "$1 million per year until 1994", "Less than $1 million a year", "$300 million" ], "distractor groups": [ "400 thousand", "$30 million per year until 1994", "$30 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Bin Laden and his aides did not need a very large sum to finance their planned attack on America.
Sent 2: The 9/11 plotters eventually spent somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 to plan and conduct their attack.
Sent 3: Consistent with the importance of the project, al Qaeda funded the plotters.
Sent 4: KSM provided his operatives with nearly all the money they needed to travel to the United States, train, and live.
Sent 5: The plotters' tradecraft was not especially sophisticated, but it was good enough.
Sent 6: They moved, stored, and spent their money in ordinary ways, easily defeating the detection mechanisms in place at the time.
Sent 7: The origin of the funds remains unknown, although we have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading up to 9/11.
Sent 8: General Financing As we explained in chapter 2, Bin Laden did not fund al Qaeda through a personal fortune and a network of businesses in Sudan.
Sent 9: Instead, al Qaeda relied primarily on a fund-raising network developed over time.
Sent 10: The CIA now estimates that it cost al Qaeda about 30 million per year to sustain its activities before 9/11 and that this money was raised almost entirely through donations.
Sent 11: For many years, the United States thought Bin Laden financed al Qaeda's expenses through a vast personal inheritance.
Sent 12: Bin Laden purportedly inherited approximately 300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda.
Sent 13: In early 2000, the U.S. government discovered a different reality: roughly from 1970 through 1994, Bin Laden received about 1 million per year-a significant sum, to be sure, but not a 300 million fortune that could be used to fund jihad.
Sent 14: Then, as part of a Saudi government crackdown early in the 1990s, the Bin Laden family was forced to find a buyer for Usama's share of the family company in 1994.
Sent 15: The Saudi government subsequently froze the proceeds of the sale.
Sent 16: This action had the effect of divesting Bin Laden of what otherwise might indeed have been a large fortune.
Sent 17: Nor were Bin Laden's assets in Sudan a source of money for al Qaeda.
Sent 18: When Bin Laden lived in Sudan from 1991 to 1996, he owned a number of businesses and other assets.", "question": "To fund a jihad, how much of Bin Laden's personal inheritance could have gone to the terrorists?" }, { "answer groups": [ "22 years", "20 years" ], "distractor groups": [ "2 years", "Over 20 years" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In October 1933 Einstein returned to the U.S. and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton, New Jersey), noted for having become a refuge for scientists fleeing Nazi Germany.
Sent 2: At the time, most American universities, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, had minimal or no Jewish faculty or students, as a result of their Jewish quota which lasted until the late 1940s.
Sent 3: Einstein was still undecided on his future.
Sent 4: He had offers from several European universities, including Oxford where he stayed for three short periods between May 1931 and June 1933, however in 1935 he arrived at the decision to remain permanently in the United States and apply for citizenship.
Sent 5: Einstein's affiliation with the Institute for Advanced Study would last until his death in 1955.
Sent 6: He was one of the four first selected (two of the others being John von Neumann and Kurt Godel) at the new Institute, where he soon developed a close friendship with Godel.
Sent 7: The two would take long walks together discussing their work.
Sent 8: Bruria Kaufman, his assistant, later became a physicist.
Sent 9: During this period, Einstein tried to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics, both unsuccessfully.", "question": "How many years was Einstein affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The brother and the older sister", "The brother", "The fathers son and elder daughter" ], "distractor groups": [ "The father", "The youngest sister" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: A married couple and their three young adult children , a son and two daughters , live in a large compound with a garden and a swimming pool .
Sent 2: A tall fence surrounds the property and the children have never been on the other side of it , for their parents have kept them unaware of the outside world , even of the existence of the telephone .
Sent 3: They are taught different meanings for everyday words .
Sent 4: For example , they are told that a `` zombie '' is `` a small yellow flower , '' and that `` sea '' is a chair .
Sent 5: The parents promise that each child will be ready to venture outside the compound once she or he has lost a dogtooth .
Sent 6: Although the children are told they have a brother just on the other side of the barrier , he never appears .
Sent 7: The only non-family member to come into the house is Christina , a young woman who works as a security guard at the father's factory .
Sent 8: She is driven by the father to the compound traveling both ways blindfolded where she performs sexual favors for the son .
Sent 9: Dissatisfied with his preference for intercourse , Christina seeks oral sex from the elder daughter in exchange for a headband.
Sent 10: The elder daughter obliges but does not recognize the significance of performing cunnilingus .
Sent 11: Later , she gives the headband to her younger sister , in exchange for being licked on the shoulder , Which is marked by an unexplained scar .
Sent 12: The parents have tricked the children into believing that overhead planes are merely toys .
Sent 13: They allow the children to search for toy planes that they have planted on the grounds , and the child that finds the toy owns it .", "question": "Which siblings does Christina have sexual encounters with?" }, { "answer groups": [ "110 attorneys including St. Mary's and University of Texas Law School", "110", "110 attorneys encompassing St. Mary's University Law School and the University of Texas Law School" ], "distractor groups": [ "68", "68 attorneys encompassing St. Mary's University Law School and the University of Texas Law School", "220" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The letterhead on correspondence still bears the Bexar County Legal Aid name, even though the organization is no longer.
Sent 2: Texas Rural Legal Aid - known for its fearless and sometimes controversial advocacy of the poorest of the poor - last week took over four other corporations serving the legal needs of the indigent in Southwest Texas, including the one in Bexar County.
Sent 3: The new 68-county legal aid organization has yet to be named and stretches from El Paso to Corpus Christi, Harlingen to Austin.
Sent 4: The leader for the super-sized law firm has big plans.
Sent 5: \"I'm more interested in looking at what we as advocates can do to address the serious problems of poverty than the number of cases we close,\" said David Hall, the TRLA executive director.
Sent 6: In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
Sent 7: They also operate a legal arm that assists migrant workers from Texas to Kentucky.
Sent 8: Now, Hall said, he wants to make services to the poor more efficient by working with law students who will handle less complicated legal matters, allowing licensed attorneys to take more \"high impact\" cases to court.
Sent 9: \"What we need to do is handle cases as efficiently as we can, leveraging the amount of time of the lawyer that goes in there and maximizing the number of people that they can help at one time,\" Hall said.
Sent 10: His plan is to place the 110 attorneys on staff in teams working on specialized legal issues.
Sent 11: He wants to expand the law clinic it already has with St. Mary's University Law School to involve students at the University of Texas Law School.
Sent 12: The law students at St. Mary's interview potential clients, assist them with filling out legal documents and answer the telephones for the legal hotline, freeing up TRLA lawyers to handle the complicated cases, Hall said.
Sent 13: By the end of September, Hall said all the attorneys working with the poor in the 68county area will be placed on the same computer network so they can pass cases to the best available attorneys.
Sent 14: Last year, board members on the former Legal Aid of Central Texas and Bexar County Legal Aid resisted the merger, saying that the mergers were done illegally and without the input of board members.
Sent 15: They also argued that Hall's litigious style hampered their ability to garner funds from Congress.
Sent 16: TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.
Sent 17: Brendan Gill, the former executive director of the Bexar County group, said he has since come to see the merger as a positive move for South Texas.
Sent 18: \"I always knew there were good points to merging, just as I knew that there were bad points,\" Gill said.", "question": "How many attorneys are planned to be brought onboard and to encompass which law schools?" }, { "answer groups": [ "There is moderate rainfall throughout the year", "Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly", "They are humid, summers are hot and humid, winters are chilly and there is moderate rainfall throughout the year" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mild summers and winters", "Summers are cool and winters are slightly colder", "Temperatures are mild and rain is moderate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Temperate climates have moderate temperatures.
Sent 2: These climates vary in how much rain they get and when the rain falls.
Sent 3: You can see different types of temperate climates in Figure 2.40.
Sent 4: Mediterranean climates are found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 5: The coast of California has a Mediterranean climate.
Sent 6: Temperatures are mild and rainfall is moderate.
Sent 7: Most of the rain falls in the winter, and summers are dry.
Sent 8: To make it through the dry summers, short woody plants are common.
Sent 9: Marine west coast climates are also found on the western coasts of continents.
Sent 10: The coast of Washington State has this type of climate.
Sent 11: Temperatures are mild and theres plenty of rainfall all year round.
Sent 12: Dense fir forests grow in this climate.
Sent 13: Humid subtropical climates are found on the eastern sides of continents.
Sent 14: The southeastern U.S. has this type of climate.
Sent 15: Summers are hot and humid, but winters are chilly.
Sent 16: There is moderate rainfall throughout the year.
Sent 17: Pine and oak forests grow in this climate.", "question": "What are some characteristics of Subtopical climates?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Mass is constant whereas weight differs with gravity", "Mass and Weight are closely related but mass does not change based on gravity", "Weight changes with the force of gravity" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mass changes with the force of gravity", "Mass changes and weight is constant" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: If you have a mass of 50 kg on Earth, what is your weight in newtons?
Sent 2: An object with more mass is pulled by gravity with greater force.
Sent 3: Mass and weight are closely related.
Sent 4: However, the weight of an object can change if the force of gravity changes.
Sent 5: On Earth, the force of gravity is the same everywhere.
Sent 6: So how does the force of gravity change?
Sent 7: It doesnt if you stay on Earth.
Sent 8: What if we travel to another planet or moon in our solar system?
Sent 9: Look at the photo of astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. taken by fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong in the Figure.
Sent 10: They were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Sent 11: An astronaut weighs less on the moon than he would on Earth.
Sent 12: This is because the moons gravity is weaker than Earths.
Sent 13: The astronauts mass, on the other hand, did not change.
Sent 14: He still contained the same amount of matter on the moon as he did on Earth.
Sent 15: If the astronaut weighed 175 pounds on Earth, he would have weighed only 29 pounds on the moon.
Sent 16: If his mass on Earth was 80 kg, what would his mass have been on the moon?
Sent 17: [Figure 3]", "question": "How do mass and weight differ?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania caused US agencies to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden", "The August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania", "Bombings of American embassies" ], "distractor groups": [ "Bombings in Boston, Mass US agencies to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden", "The August 1997 bombings of the American embassies", "The bombings of American embassies in Afghanistan" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In chapters 3 and 4 we described how the U.S. government adjusted its existing agencies and capacities to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin Laden and his associates.
Sent 2: After the August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton and his chief aides explored ways of getting Bin Laden expelled from Afghanistan or possibly capturing or even killing him.
Sent 3: Although disruption efforts around the world had achieved some successes, the core of Bin Laden's organization remained intact.
Sent 4: President Clinton was deeply concerned about Bin Laden.
Sent 5: He and his national security advisor, Samuel \"Sandy\" Berger, ensured they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Laden's reported location.
Sent 6: In public, President Clinton spoke repeatedly about the threat of terrorism, referring to terrorist training camps but saying little about Bin Laden and nothing about al Qaeda.
Sent 7: He explained to us that this was deliberate-intended to avoid enhancing Bin Laden's stature by giving him unnecessary publicity.
Sent 8: His speeches focused especially on the danger of nonstate actors and of chemical and biological weapons.
Sent 9: As the millennium approached, the most publicized worries were not about terrorism but about computer breakdowns-the Y2K scare.
Sent 10: Some government officials were concerned that terrorists would take advantage of such breakdowns.
Sent 11: On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a telephone call between Abu Zubaydah, a longtime ally of Bin Laden, and Khadr Abu Hoshar, a Palestinian extremist.
Sent 12: Abu Zubaydah said, \"The time for training is over.\"
Sent 13: Suspecting that this was a signal for Abu Hoshar to commence a terrorist operation, Jordanian police arrested Abu Hoshar and 15 others and informed Washington.
Sent 14: One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Middle East, he had returned to northern California, taken refuge in extremist Islamist beliefs, and then made his way to Abu Zubaydah's Khaldan camp in Afghanistan, where he learned the fundamentals of guerrilla warfare.
Sent 15: He and his younger brother had been recruited by Abu Hoshar into a loosely knit plot to attack Jewish and American targets in Jordan.
Sent 16: After late 1996, when Abu Hoshar was arrested and jailed, Hijazi moved back to the United States, worked as a cabdriver in Boston, and sent money back to his fellow plotters.
Sent 17: After Abu Hoshar's release, Hijazi shuttled between Boston and Jordan gathering money and supplies.
Sent 18: With Abu Hoshar, he recruited inTurkey and Syria as well as Jordan; with Abu Zubaydah's assistance, Abu Hoshar sent these recruits to Afghanistan for training.", "question": "What bombings caused US agencies to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin LadenA. Bombings in Boston, Mass US agencies to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin LadenB. The August 1997 bombings of the American embassiesC. The August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania caused US agencies to address the emerging threat from Usama Bin LadenD. The August 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and TanzaniaE. The bombings of American embassies in AfghanistanF. Bombings of American embassiesPlease select all choices that apply.?" }, { "answer groups": [ "9 Minutes", "Nine minutes", "9 minutes" ], "distractor groups": [ "9 Hours", "15 minutes", "9 Seconds", "30 Minutes", "500 minutes" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The 1933 double eagle, a 20 gold piece with a mysterious history that involves a president, a king and a Secret Service sting operation, was auctioned Tuesday last night for a record price for a coin, 7.59 million, nearly double the previous record.
Sent 2: The anonymous buyer, believed to be an individual collector who lives in the United States, made the winning bid in a fiercely contested nine-minute auction at Sotheby's in Manhattan.
Sent 3: Eight bidders were joined by 500 coin collectors and dealers in an auction house audience seemingly devoid of celebrity bidders, while an additional 534 observers followed the bidding on eBay.
Sent 4: As auction houses prepare for their fall seasons in an uncertain economy, the sale price \"suggests that the marketplace for important items is enormously strong,\" said David Redden, a vice chairman at Sotheby's, who was the auctioneer.
Sent 5: \"This is an astonishing new record for a coin,\" he said.
Sent 6: In an unprecedented move, the auction proceeds were split by the U.S. Mint and a London coin dealer, Stephen Fenton, who had won that right in court after having been arrested by Secret Service agents for trying to sell the coin in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan in 1996.
Sent 7: Henrietta Holsman Fore, the director of the U.S. Mint, who witnessed the sale, said, \"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism.\"
Sent 8: Fenton commented that the double eagle had been on \"a long historic journey, with a very satisfying ending.\"
Sent 9: He added, \"I am thrilled with the price.\"
Sent 10: The previous numismatic record holder was an 1804 U.S. silver dollar, which sold for 4.14 million in 1999.
Sent 11: Sotheby's partner in the one-lot auction was Stack's Rare Coins, with which it shared the customary 15 percent commission.
Sent 12: \"I have never seen as much interest in the sale of any coin in my 30 years in the business,\" said Lawrence R. Stack, the company's managing director.
Sent 13: \"This is the Mona Lisa of coins,\" said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication in the United States, with a circulation of 85,000.
Sent 14: \"It is unique.
Sent 15: Forbidden fruit.\"
Sent 16: Collectors' Web sites have surged with speculation about the sale price, and enthusiasts even organized betting pools.", "question": "How long did the bidding for the 1933 double eagle last?" }, { "answer groups": [ "New York State and Vt", "New York and Vermont" ], "distractor groups": [ "California and North Carolina", "Vt. and Virginia", "New York State and Connecticut", "Virginia and New York State" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: In remarks during a ribbon-cutting ceremony here on Wednesday, Gov. George E. Pataki said he expected the facility to generate thousands more jobs in the Hudson Valley area for contractors and suppliers catering to the factory.
Sent 2: He praised IBM for being \"a critical partner in our economic development efforts\" in New York state.
Sent 3: In a brief speech, Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM's chief executive, emphasized that it was important to make long-term investments despite the current slump in the technology business.
Sent 4: \"To play to win in technology, you innovate and you lead,\" he said.
Sent 5: But manufacturing technology products is a costly and cyclical business.
Sent 6: In June, IBM announced that it was taking a charge of more than 2 billion against earnings.
Sent 7: The largest single reasons for the charge were the cost of getting out of the business of manufacturing hard disks for storage, which it sold to Hitachi, and closing down some of its older semiconductor operations.
Sent 8: But Kelly said the demand for advanced chips, like those produced at IBM's facility in Burlington, Vt., is strong.
Sent 9: \"I need more capacity in that end of the market,\" he said, \"and this is factory is critical to meeting that growing demand.\"
Sent 10: If IBM has miscalculated the demand, it will suffer badly as both the high operating costs and depreciation on the huge capital investment for the East Fishkill factory drag down earnings.
Sent 11: But industry analysts said the plant should be insulated from a falloff in one or a few segments of the semiconductor market.", "question": "In what two states can you find an IBM manufacturing plant?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Nuclear fission splits the nucleus and fusion fuses the nucleus", "In nuclear fission, the nucleus of the atom is split apart. In nuclear fusion, atoms are fused, or joined together", "The nucleus splits in nuclear fission, but does not in nuclear fusion", "Fusion joins atoms nuclei", "Fission splits atoms nuclei" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fission fuses the nucleus and fusion splits the nucleus", "Fission causes photosynthesis and fusion doesn't", "Fusion comes from the moon and fission from the sun", "Fission joins atoms nuclei", "Fusion splits atoms nuclei" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The center of an atom is held together by powerful forces.
Sent 2: This gives them a huge amount of stored energy.
Sent 3: This type of energy is called nuclear energy.
Sent 4: This energy can be released and used to do work.
Sent 5: This happens in nuclear power plants where they split apart the nucleus of an atom.
Sent 6: This splitting apart is called nuclear fission.
Sent 7: Another type of nuclear energy happens in the Sun.
Sent 8: Here the atoms nuclei are not split apart.
Sent 9: Instead, the nuclei of the atoms are fused, or joined together.
Sent 10: This process is called nuclear fusion.
Sent 11: Some of the suns energy travels to Earth.
Sent 12: This energy from nuclear fusion warms the planet and provides the energy for photosynthesis.", "question": "How do nuclear fission and nuclear fusion differ?" }, { "answer groups": [ "\"President's press secretary\"", "Bolten, President, Fleischer", "Bolten, Cheney and Bush" ], "distractor groups": [ "Fleischer, Cheney and Bush", "Bolten and Fleischer", "\"Vice President\"" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "Who was a part of this conversation?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Since there had been no prior discussion with the President, He wanted the President to know that the Vice President had executed the order", "No prior discussion - he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order" ], "distractor groups": [ "No prior discussion - he wanted to make sure that the vice president knew everything that was going on", "Yes there was - he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called \"a quiet moment,\"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to \"engage or \"take out\" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: \"I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out.\"
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, \"It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it.\"
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.", "question": "HAd there been prior discussion and what was Bolten's concern?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Creating an Infrastructure Bank, which would guide spending in order to receive the biggest results for the dollars spent", "The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that were the most efficient" ], "distractor groups": [ "The long-term plan would include the establishment of a National Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that were the most efficient" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "What is the framework to improve transportation spending?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Renew the country's transportation infrastructure through rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, rails, and runways", "A six year period to rebuild 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways", "A plan to rebuild 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways" ], "distractor groups": [ "Six year period -- rebuilding 25,000 miles of roads, 1500 miles of rail and 500 miles of airport runways", "Congress", "A seven year plan to rebuild rails, roads, and runways" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, in a bid to create jobs and boost economic growth, called on Congress on Monday to pass a 50 billion plan to renew the country's transportation infrastructure.
Sent 2: His address was the first of two speeches the president is scheduled to make this week to frame his administration's ongoing response to the recession, less than two months ahead of midterm elections in which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are in jeopardy.
Sent 3: \"Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads, and rails and runways for the long term,\" said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- a state with competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
Sent 4: \"We used to have the best infrastructure in the world.
Sent 5: We can have it again,\" he said to loud cheers from a crowd of union workers.
Sent 6: The proposal envisions -- over a six year period -- rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rail and 150 miles of airport runways.
Sent 7: It also would include modernizing the nation's air traffic control system in an effort to reduce delays and travel time.
Sent 8: \"This will not only create jobs immediately.
Sent 9: It's also going to make our economy hum over the long haul,\" said the president.
Sent 10: Obama hopes to work with Congress to enact an up-front investment of 50 billion -- an amount a White House statement said would represent a significant chunk of new spending on infrastructure.
Sent 11: The investment would then be paired with what the administration called a framework to improve transportation spending.
Sent 12: The long-term plan would include the establishment of an Infrastructure Bank, which would leverage federal dollars and focus on projects that could deliver the the biggest bang for the buck, Obama said.
Sent 13: The president stressed the need for Democrats and Republicans to work together on the transportation initiative, which would need to be approved by Congress.", "question": "What was involved in President Obama's plan to create jobs and boost economic growth?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Blows air and gases to enter the lungs", "Inhaling", "Inhaling, or breathing in" ], "distractor groups": [ "Blows air and gases to enter all the other parts of the body", "Exhaling" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Breathing is the process of moving air into and out of the lungs.
Sent 2: The process depends on a muscle called the diaphragm.
Sent 3: This is a large, sheet-like muscle below the lungs.
Sent 4: Inhaling, or breathing in, occurs when the diaphragm muscle tightens.
Sent 5: This increases the size of the chest.
Sent 6: This too decreases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 7: This action allows air and gases to enter the lungs.
Sent 8: Exhaling, or breathing out, occurs when the diaphragm muscle relaxes.
Sent 9: This decreases the size of the chest.
Sent 10: This increases air pressure inside the lungs.
Sent 11: This action allows for air to leave the lungs.
Sent 12: When you inhale, air enters the respiratory system through your nose and ends up in your lungs, where gas exchange with the blood takes place.
Sent 13: What happens to the air along the way?
Sent 14: In the nose, mucus and hairs trap any dust or other particles in the air.
Sent 15: The air is also warmed and moistened.
Sent 16: Next, air passes through a passageway that is connected to the windpipe.
Sent 17: The air then finds its way to the lungs.
Sent 18: In the chest, the windpipe splits so that air enters both the right and left lung.", "question": "What is happening when your chest increases in size while breathing?" }, { "answer groups": [ "14.5 million to 33 million dollars", "Between $14.5 million and $33 million" ], "distractor groups": [ "$2.5 million", "$5.5 million to $9 million", "$14.5 million", "Less than $14.5 million" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Federal health authorities Monday added 58 types of cancer to the list of covered illnesses for people who were exposed to toxins at the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Sent 2: The addition finalizes a recommendation from Dr. John Howard, administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 3: Howard proposed in June that the program accept the recommendations of its Science/Technical Advisory Committee and add some cancers to the coverage list -- 14 categories in all.
Sent 4: Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk The advisory committee review called for expanded \"coverage for certain types of cancer resulting from exposure to toxins released at Ground Zero.\"
Sent 5: \"The publication of this final rule marks an important step in the effort to provide needed treatment and care to 9/11 responders and survivors through the WTC Health Program,\" Howard said in a statement Monday.
Sent 6: The rule is expected to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register, and will take effect 30 days after its publication, Howard said.
Sent 7: 9/11 detective dies after battle with lung cancer First responders, volunteers, survivors of the attacks and residents near the site who meet specific qualifications will be eligible for coverage, according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
Sent 8: According to the proposed rule, an estimated 950 to 2,150 people would take advantage of the additional coverage.
Sent 9: The estimated cost for the total cancer treatment ranges between 14.5 million and 33 million, the proposal said.", "question": "According to the World Trade Center Health Program, 950 to 2150 people would take advantage of additional coverage, which would incur an estimated cost of how much money?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai", "Japanese", "Korean", "Cantonese", "Khmer", "Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean", "Tagalog", "Vietnamese", "Mandarin", "Thai" ], "distractor groups": [ "Italian, ASL, Gaelic", "Tamil", "Tagalog, Vietnamese and Cantonese", "Cantonese, Thai and Vietnamese", "Lao", "Hindi" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What languages spoken by the different attorneys of Neighborhood Legal Services?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Vietnamese", "Thai", "Tagalog", "Mandarin", "Korean", "Cantonese", "Khmer", "Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai", "Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog", "Japanese" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mandarin, Hindi, English, French", "French, Polynesian, Arabic", "Hindi", "Lao", "Tamil", "English, Tamil, Mandarin, Cantonese" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Neighborhood Legal Services, which provides free legal services to the poor, has expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys, areas with large Asian populations, many of whom speak limited or no English.
Sent 2: Language is their biggest obstacle, but the Asian communities' cultural isolation and service providers' lack of cultural expertise also play a part, said NLS executive director Neal Dubovitz.
Sent 3: And with 13 percent to 15 percent of the Asian population in the U.S. living below the poverty line, NLS services are badly needed, Dubovitz said.
Sent 4: \"Although it is a significant part of the poverty population, Asians historically have not been able to participate in the services and programs available to the poor,\" he said.
Sent 5: From simple telephone advice to complete legal representation in court, the agency provides free consumer, health, family, immigration, housing, public benefits and labor legal services to people who earn under 1,380 per month.
Sent 6: Legal service providers have long served large Latino populations, who have cultural diversity but share a common language.
Sent 7: \"I remember the days when there were only a handful of people in the legal offices who spoke Spanish,\" Dudovitz said.
Sent 8: \"Now Spanish and English are interchangeable.
Sent 9: Our goal is to have that for the major Asian languages as well.\"
Sent 10: Before the expansion, only a few NLS lawyers spoke Asian languages, said attorney Rebecca Yee, who was hired by NLS in April 2002 to design and head the project.
Sent 11: \"Now we have people speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, Khmer (from Cambodia), Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese and Tagalog,\" Yee said.
Sent 12: One of the 13 attorneys hired to work with the program is Irene Mak, a family law attorney who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Thai.
Sent 13: Mak was a partner at a private law firm before she went to work for NLS two years ago, earning up to 20,000 less a year working on domestic violence cases.
Sent 14: \"The job is more satisfying than the money,\" said Mak, who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand before coming to the United States.
Sent 15: \"I could use my language skills and wanted to give back to the Asian community.\"
Sent 16: NLS expanded when Legal Services Corp., the federal agency that funds providers of free legal services nationwide, reduced the number of grantees in the Los Angeles area from five to three, Dudovitz said.
Sent 17: NLS won the competitive grant over the Legal Services Program for Pasadena, San Gabriel-Pomona valleys.
Sent 18: That boosted its client base from 16,000 to around 25,000, and NLS opened an office in El Monte.", "question": "What are some of the languages are now spoken by employees of the NLS?" }, { "answer groups": [ "After", "After boiling", "The meat is removed from the bone after boiling" ], "distractor groups": [ "The meat is removed from the bone before boiling", "Without boiling" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: 863.
Sent 2: INGREDIENTS.--The remains of a boiled calf's head, 1-1/2 pint of the liquor in which the head was boiled, 1 blade of pounded mace, 1 onion minced, a bunch of savoury herbs, salt and white pepper to taste, thickening of butter and flour, the yolks of 2 eggs, 1 tablespoonful of lemon-juice, forcemeat balls.
Sent 3: _Mode_.--Remove all the bones from the head, and cut the meat into nice square pieces.
Sent 4: Put 1-1/2 pint of the liquor it was boiled in into a saucepan, with mace, onion, herbs, and seasoning in the above proportion; let this simmer gently for 3/4 hour, then strain it and put in the meat.
Sent 5: When quite hot through, thicken the gravy with a little butter rolled in flour, and, just before dishing the fricassee, put in the beaten yolks of eggs and lemon-juice; but be particular, after these two latter ingredients are added, that the sauce does not boil, or it will curdle.
Sent 6: Garnish with forcemeat balls and curled slices of broiled bacon.
Sent 7: To insure the sauce being smooth, it is a good plan to dish the meat first, and then to add the eggs to the gravy: when these are set, the sauce may be poured over the meat.", "question": "Is the meat removed from the bone before or after boiling?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Born in Kafr el Sheikh and studied in Cairo University", "He was born in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt and attend Cairo University", "Cairo University", "Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt", "In Kafr el Sheikh, Cairo University" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cairo", "Born in Kafr el Sheikh and studied in", "Born in Cairo and studied in Cairo University", "In Kandahar, Edinburg University", "University of Hamburg" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Although Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM initially contemplated using established al Qaeda members to execute the planes operation, the late 1999 arrival in Kandahar of four aspiring jihadists from Germany suddenly presented a more attractive alternative.
Sent 2: The Hamburg group shared the anti-U.S. fervor of the other candidates for the operation, but added the enormous advantages of fluency in English and familiarity with life in the West, based on years that each member of the group had spent living in Germany.
Sent 3: Not surprisingly, Mohamed Atta, Ramzi Binalshibh, Marwan al Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah would all become key players in the 9/11 conspiracy.
Sent 4: Mohamed Atta was born on September 1, 1968, in Kafr el Sheikh, Egypt, to a middle-class family headed by his father, an attorney.
Sent 5: After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.
Sent 6: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany.
Sent 7: They suggested he come to Hamburg and invited him to live with them there, at least initially.
Sent 8: After completing a course in German, Atta traveled to Germany for the first time in July 1992.
Sent 9: He resided briefly in Stuttgart and then, in the fall of 1992, moved to Hamburg to live with his host family.
Sent 10: After enrolling at the University of Hamburg, he promptly transferred into the city engineering and planning course at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, where he would remain registered as a student until the fall of 1999.
Sent 11: He appears to have applied himself fairly seriously to his studies (at least in comparison to his jihadist friends) and actually received his degree shortly before traveling to Afghanistan.
Sent 12: In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant, with an excellent command of the German language.
Sent 13: When Atta arrived in Germany, he appeared religious, but not fanatically so.
Sent 14: This would change, especially as his tendency to assert leadership became increasingly pronounced.
Sent 15: According to Binalshibh, as early as 1995 Atta sought to organize a Muslim student association in Hamburg.
Sent 16: In the fall of 1997, he joined a working group at the Quds mosque in Hamburg, a group designed to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians.
Sent 17: Atta proved a poor bridge, however, because of his abrasive and increasingly dogmatic personality.
Sent 18: But among those who shared his beliefs, Atta stood out as a decisionmaker.", "question": "Where was Mohamed Atta born and what university did he attend to get and architect degree?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Lust of the White Serpant and Eternal Prisoner", "Lust of the White Serpent, and Eternal Prisoner", "Works with , \"Serpent\", and, \"Prisoner\", in their names" ], "distractor groups": [ "White Snake", "Eternal Prisoner's Lust", "Femme and Eternal Prisoner" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: \"Femme\" is an apt description of the depiction of Madame White Snake and all her incarnations.
Sent 2: It refers to a woman who is dangerously attractive, and lures men to their downfall with her sexual attractiveness.
Sent 3: In both incarnations of Madame White snake, the authors depict her as bewitchingly beautiful.
Sent 4: Toyoo, her human lover in \"Lust of the White Serpant\" cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself \"disturbed and agitated\" by her \"ethereal beauty\".
Sent 5: In \"Eternal Prisoner,\" Madame White Snake's bewitching beauty follows her lover Hs\u00fc into his dreams, and the next morning \"he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.\" Both of these stories align negative connotations with her beauty, suggesting that her sexuality is the cause of their distraction.
Sent 6: In addition to distracting sexuality, the irregular characterization of Madame White Snake might be another trait her character has in common with the archetypical noir femme fatale.
Sent 7: In her essay analyzing the noir film from a feminist perspective, Christine Gledhill writes \"Not only is the hero frequently not sure whether the woman is honest or a deceiver, but the heroine's characterisation is itself fractured so that it is not evident to the audience whether she fills the [femme fatale] stereotype or not\".", "question": "What works are about Madame White Snake?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats and NHK says Komei party, gained at least 302 seats", "Asahi, reports the LDP" ], "distractor groups": [ "Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats and NHK says Komei party, gained at least 306 seats", "Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats and NHK says Komei party, gained at least 300 seats", "TV Asahi reports at least 302 seats gained, and Public broadcaster NHK reports at least 312 seats gained", "Komei coalition gained at least 308 seats and NHK says Komei party, gained at least 302 seats" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: (CNN) -- Japan's prime minister conceded defeat in parliamentary elections Sunday, signaling the return to power of the Liberal Democratic Party and ending the brief rule of the disappointing upstart Democratic Party of Japan.
Sent 2: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to step down as party president after exit polls showed a smashing loss in lower house voting.
Sent 3: The party, once seen as a breath of fresh air in Japanese politics, came to be regarded as increasingly ineffective.
Sent 4: \"We got a regrettable result,\" Noda said.
Sent 5: \"The result is everything in the politics.
Sent 6: The biggest responsibility lies on me.
Sent 7: I will quit as the partly leader of DPJ.\"
Sent 8: The move clears the way for the return to power of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the current leader of the conservative-leaning Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP.
Sent 9: \"The Japanese people will be keenly looking whether the LDP can meet with their expectations,\" Abe said in interviews after the polling.
Sent 10: The LDP ruled the country almost continuously since its establishment in 1955 until it was forced from power three years ago by the DPJ.
Sent 11: Public broadcaster NHK said the LDP and its coalition partner, the new Komei party, gained at least 302 seats in the 480-seat lower house.
Sent 12: CNN's main affiliate, TV Asahi, reports the LDP/Komei coalition gained at least 312 seats.
Sent 13: The official count is expected to be released Monday.
Sent 14: The LDP is inheriting a struggling economy, regional tensions and questions over Japan's role in Asia.
Sent 15: \"The economy is at the bottom.
Sent 16: It's our first mission to turn it around,\" Abe said.", "question": "What is the discrepancy between TV Asahi and Public broadcaster NHK as to how many seats the LDP/Komei coalition has gained so far?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Tropical climates", "Climates near the equator", "Tropical" ], "distractor groups": [ "Deserts", "Sub-tropical", "Climates near north and south poles", "Season climate" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tropical climates are found around the equator.
Sent 2: These climates have warm temperatures year round.
Sent 3: Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry.
Sent 4: Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator.
Sent 5: They have high rainfall year round.
Sent 6: Tropical rainforests grow in this type of climate.
Sent 7: Tropical wet and dry climates also occur near the equator.
Sent 8: They receive less rainfall.
Sent 9: Most of the rain falls in a single season.
Sent 10: The rest of the year is dry.
Sent 11: Few trees can withstand the long dry season.
Sent 12: The main plants are grasses.
Sent 13: Dry climates receive very little rainfall.
Sent 14: They also have high rates of evaporation.
Sent 15: This makes them even drier.
Sent 16: Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
Sent 17: Thats less than 10 inches per year.
Sent 18: How much rain do you get at your house?", "question": "Which climates have warm temperatures year round?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Very wet or wet and dry with warm temperatures around", "Warm year round", "Tropical climate" ], "distractor groups": [ "Cold", "Wet climate", "Very dry", "Extremely hot" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Tropical climates are found around the equator.
Sent 2: These climates have warm temperatures year round.
Sent 3: Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry.
Sent 4: Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator.
Sent 5: They have high rainfall year round.
Sent 6: Tropical rainforests grow in this type of climate.
Sent 7: Tropical wet and dry climates also occur near the equator.
Sent 8: They receive less rainfall.
Sent 9: Most of the rain falls in a single season.
Sent 10: The rest of the year is dry.
Sent 11: Few trees can withstand the long dry season.
Sent 12: The main plants are grasses.
Sent 13: Dry climates receive very little rainfall.
Sent 14: They also have high rates of evaporation.
Sent 15: This makes them even drier.
Sent 16: Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
Sent 17: Thats less than 10 inches per year.
Sent 18: How much rain do you get at your house?", "question": "What are the climates around the equator like?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Fraudulent documents", "A case", "A court case where 3 people plead guily for conspiring to defraud a holocaust reparations organization", "Claims Against Germany" ], "distractor groups": [ "Holocaust reparations by Europe", "Hundreds of fraudulent applications", "Less than 3 people in a cour case", "Bank statements", "Job application" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: New York (CNN) -- Three defendants pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiring to defraud a Holocaust reparations organization out of 57.3 million, according to court documents.
Sent 2: Genrikh Kolontyrskiy, Moysey Kucher and Dora Kucher, all of Brooklyn, helped produce and process some of the thousands of fraudulent applications for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany that are under investigation.
Sent 3: The organization, also known as the Claims Conference, distributes more than 400 million a year from funds provided by the German government to victims of the Holocaust.
Sent 4: \"Our efforts to hold to account all of the individuals who participated in defrauding an organization that exists solely for the purpose of aiding victims of Nazi atrocities continues,\" said Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a statement.
Sent 5: The defendants aided in defrauding two funds managed by the Claims Conference, the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund, of 45 million and 12.3 million, respectively, according to court documents.
Sent 6: The Article 2 Fund makes monthly payments of around 400 to survivors of Nazi persecution who make less than 16,000 per year \"and either lived in hiding or under a false identity for at least 18 months,\" according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office.
Sent 7: The Hardship Fund pays a one-time payment of 3,500 to \"victims of Nazi persecution who evacuated the cities in which they lived and were forced to become refugees.\"
Sent 8: Kolontyrskiy, 80, knowingly processed fraudulent applications for payment while employed with the Article 2 Fund, according to court documents.
Sent 9: Moysey Kucher, 66, and Dora Kucher, 58, recruited individuals to provide identification documents that were used to prepare fraudulent applications for both funds, in exchange for money paid out to the false applicants, according to court documents.
Sent 10: Jesse Siegel, Kolontyrskiy's attorney, said his client was by no means a major instigator, but he takes responsibility for his actions.", "question": "What did the material contain?" }, { "answer groups": [ "63", "4" ], "distractor groups": [ "3", "67" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is the public radio and TV broadcaster of Albania, founded by King Zog in 1938.
Sent 2: RTSH runs three analogue television stations as TVSH Televizioni Shqiptar, four digital thematic stations as RTSH, and three radio stations using the name Radio Tirana.
Sent 3: In addition, 4 regional radio stations serve in the four extremities of Albania.
Sent 4: The international service broadcasts radio programmes in Albanian and seven other languages via medium wave (AM) and short wave (SW).
Sent 5: The international service has used the theme from the song \"Keputa nje gjethe dafine\" as its signature tune.
Sent 6: The international television service via satellite was launched since 1993 and aims at Albanian communities in Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and northern Greece, plus the Albanian diaspora in the rest of Europe.
Sent 7: RTSH has a past of being heavily influenced by the ruling party in its reporting, whether that party be left or right wing.
Sent 8: According to the Albanian Media Authority, AMA, Albania has an estimated 257 media outlets, including 66 radio stations and 67 television stations, with three national, 62 local and more than 50 cable TV stations.
Sent 9: Last years Albania has organized several shows as a part of worldwide series like Dancing with the Stars, Big Brother Albania, Albanians Got Talent, The Voice of Albania, and X Factor Albania.", "question": "How many radio stations in Albania are not hosted by RSTH?" }, { "answer groups": [ "9:32", "Just after 9:30" ], "distractor groups": [ "9:21", "Just before 9:30" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said \"we have some planes.\"
Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a \"nationwide ground stop.\"
Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers \"observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed\" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.", "question": "The Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles were urged to have their controllers look for primary targets and they found one at what time?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Water is absorbed and Food not absorbed is release as waste", "Water is absorbed and food is eliminated as waste", "Water absorbed, food waste eliminated" ], "distractor groups": [ "Waters is released as waste and Food is absorbed", "It is flushed out", "Water eliminated and nutrients are absorbed", "Both food and water are released as waste", "Water distributed, food absorbed" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What happens to the food and water in the large intestine?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Chemically and mechanically", "Via the esophagus all the way to the large intestine", "Mechanically in the mouth and chemically in the stomach and small intestine", "Food is digested mechanically and chemical through a process that includes the mouth, esophagus, small intestine and large intestine" ], "distractor groups": [ "Food is digested personally and chemically through a process that includes the mouth, esophagus, small intestine and large intestine", "Food is digested mechanically and chemical through a process that includes the mouth, esophagus, small intestine and bladder", "Via the nose and to stomacch", "By stomach", "By large intestine" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "How is food digested?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Large intestine absorbes water and eliminates waste", "Large Intestine. The large intestine absorbs water and release waste", "The large intestine which absorbs water and releases waste" ], "distractor groups": [ "Absorbs water", "Edophagus transfers solid food waste", "Small intestine absorbes waste", "Large Intestine. The large intestine absorbs nutrients", "Small Intestine. The small intestine absorbs water and releases waste" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: The digestive system is the body system that digests food.
Sent 2: It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically.
Sent 3: Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients.
Sent 4: The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste.
Sent 5: The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines.
Sent 6: These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat.
Sent 7: Digestion starts in the mouth.
Sent 8: When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach.
Sent 9: In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place.
Sent 10: Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine.
Sent 11: This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Sent 12: The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system.
Sent 13: This is where water is absorbed.
Sent 14: The food not digested is released as waste.", "question": "What is the last organ of the digestive system and what does it do?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Khallad helped in Yemen", "Nashiri was the field commander", "Nashiri managed the operation in Yemen", "Bin Laden was supervising the attack", "Plotting terror attacks", "Operational roles", "Bin Laden was the leader, whereas Khalland and Nashiri were coordinators", "Bin Laden was the al Qaeda operation supervisor, Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen, and Khallad helped in Yemen" ], "distractor groups": [ "Mentors", "Bin Laden managed the operation in Yemen", "Bin Laden was the leader, and the other two were uninvolved", "Nashiri helped in Yemen", "Khallad was the field commander", "Supervisors", "Khallad was supervising the attack" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: Early in chapter 5 we introduced, along with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, two other men who became operational coordinators for al Qaeda: Khallad and Nashiri.
Sent 2: As we explained, both were involved during 1998 and 1999 in preparing to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen with a boatload of explosives.
Sent 3: They had originally targeted a commercial vessel, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Laden urged them to look for a U.S.warship instead.
Sent 4: In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a warship in the port of Aden, but the attempt failed when the suicide boat sank.
Sent 5: More than nine months later, on October 12,2000, al Qaeda operatives in a small boat laden with explosives attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Cole.
Sent 6: The blast ripped a hole in the side of the Cole, killing 17 members of the ship's crew and wounding at least 40.
Sent 7: The plot, we now know, was a full-fledged al Qaeda operation, supervised directly by Bin Laden.
Sent 8: He chose the target and location of the attack, selected the suicide operatives, and provided the money needed to purchase explosives and equipment.
Sent 9: Nashiri was the field commander and managed the operation in Yemen.
Sent 10: Khallad helped in Yemen until he was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and freed with Bin Laden's help, as we also mentioned earlier.
Sent 11: Local al Qaeda coordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.
Sent 12: The two suicide operatives chosen were Hassan al Khamri and Ibrahim al Thawar, also known as Nibras.
Sent 13: Nibras and Quso delivered money to Khallad in Bangkok during Khallad's January 2000 trip to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
Sent 14: In September 2000, Bin Laden reportedly told Nashiri that he wanted to replace Khamri and Nibras.
Sent 15: Nashiri was angry and disagreed, telling others he would go to Afghanistan and explain to Bin Laden that the new operatives were already trained and ready to conduct the attack.
Sent 16: Prior to departing, Nashiri gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S.warship that entered the port of Aden.", "question": "What roles did Bin Laden, Khallad, and Nashiri have in al Qaeda?" }, { "answer groups": [ "Top and bottom clouds are oppositely charged", "The positive charges are concentrated at the top", "Negative charges are concentrated at the cloud base and positive charges are concentrated at the top", "Top and bottom clouds have opposite charges" ], "distractor groups": [ "Top of cloud is neutral in charge", "He negative charges repel electrons on the ground below", "Bottom of cloud has dormant charge" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "How is the top of a cloud different from the base of the cloud during a rainstorm?" }, { "answer groups": [ "The negative charges which are concentrated at the base of the clouds repel electrons on the ground below", "The negative charges from the cloud base repel electrons on the ground below", "Negative charges at the base of the clouds.repel electrons on the ground below" ], "distractor groups": [ "The positive charges which are concentrated at the base of the clouds attract electrons on the ground below", "Positive charges at the base of the clouds.attract electrons on the ground below" ], "paragraph": "Paragraph: Sent 1: You may wonder if there are other examples of static discharge.
Sent 2: The answer is yes.
Sent 3: Lightning is a form of static discharge.
Sent 4: It is much more dramatic than what happens between you and the door knocker, but it is the same principle.
Sent 5: You can see how it occurs in the following diagram and animation.
Sent 6: You have no doubt seen lightning in a rainstorm.
Sent 7: What does lighting have to do with static electricity?
Sent 8: As it turns out, everything!
Sent 9: During a rainstorm, clouds develop regions of different charges.
Sent 10: This happens due to the movement of air molecules, water drops, and ice particles.
Sent 11: The negative charges are concentrated at the base of the clouds.
Sent 12: The positive charges are concentrated at the top.
Sent 13: The negative charges repel electrons on the ground below.
Sent 14: The ground then becomes positively charged.
Sent 15: Over time the differences increase.
Sent 16: Eventually the electrons are discharged.
Sent 17: This is what we see as lightning.
Sent 18: You can watch an awesome slow-motion lightning strike below.", "question": "How does ground become positively charged?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So, the ratings are pretty good on Dating Naked, thanks to the show\u2019s Dating Naked is more than a gimmicky premise for the network.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I had never like being so flat chested with wide hips and bigger thighs, but he seemed to really like my bigger hips and thighs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Imagine you've made a sex tape and you're pleased with it \u2013 that you consent to sex, and consent to the filming and you think you look hot.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I was never blessed with a buxom bosom, but I always thought that once I was had a baby and began breastfeeding, I would have the voluptuous breasts I dreamed of as a prepubescent teenager.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.With each jump, push evenly off the balls of your feet, keeping your knees soft and your torso upright.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Because your body and boobs will be changing so much, you need to keep an eye on how well your bras fit you throughout your whole pregnancy so you can spot when you need a different size.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When she arrived, she says he kissed her on the lips and complimented her for her \u201cballs\u201d on seeking a meeting with him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you don't explicitly ask for and get permission for your clothed body to touch another person's clothed body in a hug, you could now be accused of \"sexual assault\" through \"sexual contact\" at UVA.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If the female orgasm was abolished, women would continue to have sex because the act of feeling a man thrusting deep inside them with masculine power would still be pleasing.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Last month, photos that Johansson took of herself in the nude appeared online and showed her looking seductively at a phone camera as she snapped images of her bare breasts while lying on a bed.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He then kissed her neck and reached under her shirt to grope her breast, she said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If I want more sex, more romance, more love in my life should I focus on more sex, more romance, more love?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The Court of Appeal granted the elusive socialite bail to travel abroad to remove her breast implants last year after she told court that her breasts were swollen and the implants inside needed to be removed.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This sex tape is what made her famous and its still selling like hotcakes today thanks to amazing naked photos like these.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Just like you\u2019re a heterosexual but you don\u2019t have sex with every woman that you\u2019re attracted to, so I can be who I am and exclusively have sex with my wife and be perfectly satisfied.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Kennedy arranged to have sex with two girls under age 18, while Parakh agreed to have sex with one underage girl, whom he believed to be 17 years old.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You prefer romance and long talks to hot bodies and actual sex, but that\u2019s not how us guys are.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Before last year's election, Zervos publicly claimed that Trump repeatedly kissed her on the mouth, grabbed her breast and thrust his genitals at her in 2006, when she was a contestant on \"The Apprentice.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.One woman said that Roy Moore touched her sexually and kissed her when she was 14 and he was 32.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He kissed the corners of her mouth; stroked her legs, breasts and thighs; caressed her face; laid his body on top of hers; and frequently explained full, passionate kisses as \u2018blowing the Holy Spirit into her.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"A fetish is an intense erotic fascination with an object or part of the body that may give the fetishist as much (or more) arousal and satisfaction as a straight sex act.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Sharon Stone, who famously uncrossed and recrossed her sexy legs in the 1992 hit movie \"Basic Instinct,\" has some advice for younger actresses: don't be afraid to get naked.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A girl lays back in a knotted top that would fall just below her breasts if she had any, and another is caught applying a Toddlers & Tiaras-worthy amount of makeup while lounging in her underwear.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It also uses a specially made touching sensor suit that makes your body feel as though it\u2019s being touched, as well as a pair of boob-like appendages for you to grope and manipulate.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then, your gym teacher tells you to strip naked and walk onto the pool deck with your nude male classmates.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A short while later they found a large statue of a naked women with legs spread and a red cloth crawling tunnel for children between her legs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This time, she's challenged herself to even more sexy shots by wrapping herself in bed sheets and posing in lingerie with a mature expression.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Al Franken (D-MN) of fondling her while she was asleep and shoving his tongue down her throat without her consent.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There are two aunties bent over me, one with a safety pin in her mouth and the other with her hand tucking my bra strap back into my choli.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This time around, it looks like he's hinting at a brand-new Better Than Sex product.Blandino captioned the pic, \"I want your SEX...#toofaced #FutureLovers #ImATease.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Pauletti seduced him on her couch, kissing him, stroking his body, and performing oral sex on him three times, the SCI report says.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Like.. she whitewashed a Black woman\u2019s body to put her head on it for coolness/edgy/sexy points\u2026 because she is literally using the sexuality of a Black woman but making it white aka ok and attractive.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She saw the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts as a curse upon women everywhere.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In the open, public area of the house they found a large set of \u201cSex Dice\u201d with the pictures of of body parts on one die and words like kiss, suck or caress on the other.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.because I was a horny 13 year old boy and I totally wanted to have sex, and now I totally had had sex with an adult I trusted.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Suck your stomach in,\" she says, pulling the drawstrings of my red petticoat as tight as she can at my waist so that she can tuck in the pleats of my six-yard sari.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He appears to kiss her cheek, stroke her neck, and run his hand along her breast.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On a bed, I am on my knees, legs parted and tied, with my wrists spread out bound to the headboard; a rope goes around my waist and pulls through my lips and on other side of my clit, you tug repeatedly on the rope.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The lucky guy soon gets to feel her lips on his and on down to his rock hard rod as she gives him a blowjob, and he returns the favor with plenty of fingering, pussy licking, and much more.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then I hot glued her onto the chain at her hands and glued her to the bulb at her butt and feet.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In some, she is posing in bikini showing off a tiny waist and what seem out of proportion large breasts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Commenting on one busty actress, Saltzman said, \"On those occasions where her cleavage is more visible, I see what happens on her Instagram feeds afterwards, and out of about 100,000 comments, 90,000 will be about her boobs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Big Boob Bettys is the best bigboobs tube online today. we offer the latest and greatest big boobs porn videos featuring some of the worlds biggest tits.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Eating out a butt can seem daunting, but it\u2019s one of the most intimate and sensual sex acts you can do with your partner.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I've done a lot of posts featuring Mad Men'sbecause well, I'm in love with her absolutely massive boobs, so when I found out there were pictures of her in a see through top I had a familiar feeling in my pants.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then he knelt between her legs and felt her soft skin from her hips up to her breasts and gently squeezed her breasts again.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She made out with him, took sexy pictures in a photo booth, and watched him whip out his \"short,\" \"fat,\" \"nub-like\" penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.After concluding that their mothers might discover the nude women if they brought them home, the boys reportedly decided to tuck the naked ladies under some bushes and come back to look at them later.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He even asked her to take off her pants and her panties, so that he could see her butt.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Its body wraps around your legs and as its head squeezes through your thighs so its bottom jaw rests against your crotch.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I heard a rumor that young rapper lil bow wow\u2019s bodyguard raped him up the butt, and bow wow had to get stitches in his bum.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The hold that breasts can have upon the male mind is immeasurably powerful, and sometimes when talking to a woman a man will be unable to resist the urge to glance down, almost as though, like the eyes, the boobs could be windows to the soul.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She reached over and pull down his sweatpants and proceeded to suck his dick while I sat there and watched.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Do you enjoy watching those extra kinky cam girl acts, where the beauty will just get lost in pleasure while reaching the hottest orgasm you have ever seen?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I don\u2019t want you to try to fuck me \u2013 to tease me gently and have me panting and gasping.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is a place that's seen its better years, but if you cock your head the right way, there's plenty of beauty on display here.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I realize I have boobs, and some of my cosplays are on the sexy side, but constantly getting comments like \"wow so sexy\" gets old pretty quickly.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She pursed her lips and flicked her tongue, gazing steadily at her viewers, who encouraged her to \u201ctwerk,\u201d \u201cshow tits,\u201d and \u201cblow me, girl.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Audio Live Now 43 f US Sexy cougar with a phat ass ready to make you cum!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.My So-Called Life's Angela Chase, for instance, backs out of losing her virginity to her longtime crush, the dopey but sexy Jordan Catalano, because she's simply not ready.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Weinstein is nude in the bathtub and asks Roberts to bare her breasts, she told The New York Times.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Every time some hot guy got fresh with me, I just thought, OK, I could fuck you, but there might be some even hotter stud serving it up later.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.do it for Compton/I'm willing to die for this shit, nigga/I'll take your fucking life for this shit, nigga/We ain't going back to broke, family selling dope/That's why you maney-ass rap niggas better know,\u201d Kendrick raps on the opening verse.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.For five years she was on and off with a sexist pig who would make her take off her pants for his friends so they could see how hot she was.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Don't tell me, while lying in bed after the first time we have sex, that my breasts are almost as nice as [insert woman's name here].", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The breast enhancing bar makes a great holiday gift for a gal with small breasts and a sense of humor! Find it at Amazon.com", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.W]ith the last breath I draw I will help rid this America of the scum infested in its government--and if that means dragging that ball less dick head from the white mosque and hanging his scrawny ass from the portico--count me in !!!!!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I was 24, in college, 5\u20193, VERY busty, nice curves, long light brown/ red hair, green eyes and BIG juicy lips\u2026 Kind of a hottie if I do say so myself.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is Chapter 1 from my ebook How To Fuck Like A Pornstar: The Step-by-Step Guide To The Best Sex of Your Life available here (on-sale for a limited time!).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Roll through in your best red, white and blue (or be naked for all I care, just make sure your ass makes it out tonight).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Firstly she will strip and show you her fit body and Huge Tits, and then she will go hard on you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In her book, Lena writes that she touched her sister\u2019s genitalia and tried to get her toddler sister to kiss her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And then several days later you find out your dad has been sneaking into your room while you slept and has been sucking on your chest to make giant hickeys where your nipples should be.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The glamorous lifestyle a horny male writer dreams of fucking can be yours!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There are five tips below and if to apply them to your sex life they will help you become the amazing lover you want to be, giving her multiple, earth-shattering, full body orgasms.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Karim grabbed the 17-year-old girl's butt, tried to kiss her on the mouth and made it clear that he wanted to have sex with her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.and you'll find a sexy mesh trunk except the ass has been cut out of it and that hole is edged in black....", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A queue of women with naked breasts might sound sexy to some, but it's different in reality when they're SEX DOLLS being produced on a factory line.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Or if you\u2019ve got a partner, you can get your partner to insert their finger or fingers inside your vagina in the front wall of your body in a sort of a J curve.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I'm going to enjoy my time with you,' he said, vilely licking his lips as he smiled at her, before tearing her clothes off with his claws.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And, as if by magic, the most beautiful pinch atop his browned head, tightly sliced by the anus of some kind of goddess.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.From creamy facial cumshots to surprise anal creampie surprises, you'll be hard pressed to go anywhere else to feed your erotic appetite.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u2026THEN WHY THE HELL DO WHITE PEOPLE STILL ASSUME THAT A LONE BLACK MAN IS GONNA KILL THEM IN THEIR HOUSE WHEN IT\u2019S ALWAYS A FUCKING GODDAMN WHITE-ASS STRAIGHT MAN WHO GOES AND MURDERS THE FUCKING FAMILY ALONG WITH THE DOG WITH A GREAT BIG OLD GUN AND AXE COMBO.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He catches the teep, pulls you into him a tiny bit and steps forward a tiny bit just enough to get his thigh under the falling leg, then uses his thigh against your teeping leg to take you on a torpedo turn onto your ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.My sleeve has been custom molded directly from my body so very soon you will be able to take home an exact replica of my vulva and anus that you can pleasure yourself with while you watch my movies.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.What does stick to my thoughts, because this is what turned me on so strongly afterwards, is that after many orgasms already, I was on my hands and knees, my boyfriend laying underneath me, his hands wrapped around my thighs, his gifted tongue between my legs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Her pussy selfies are very sexy and you can expect a nice shaved snatch to view in intimate angles.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Have curves, \u201cperfectly\u201d-sized boobs \u2013 not too big or too little, and of course have some semblance of a booty.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Two of the biggest errors men make when they first meet a woman is touching her breasts too soon, then, if they happen to get her naked they'll forget all about her top half altogether, directing their attention to other parts of the female anatomy.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It's your favorite color, it flatters your butt and never gives you a front-wedgie, and yet you'd like your girls to be a little more showy.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Fueled by a \u201cpure hatred of niggers,\u201d Tyler begins by killing \u201ca single black in the temple\u201d \u2014 whose presence is the result of a \u201ckike slut\u201d who believes in \u201crace mixing propaganda\u201d \u2014 then begins to shoot the rest of the \u201cfilthy Jew[s].\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A delicious ass, perfect tits, and a gorgeous face make her one of the hottest live cam girls that you can encounter.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You don\u2019t get to use our words to try to justify yourself to other FA people, any more than you get to use Your Gay Best Friend saying it\u2019s ok to use the words faggot and dyke to tell me I shouldn\u2019t have a problem with straight people saying those words.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He himself has said that he is gay, gay is not the Peruvian word, the word is [faggot].\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The first big October surprise was a 2005 hot mic recording of Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women \u201cby the pussy,\u201d aggressively kissing them and getting away with it because he\u2019s a star.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"She then moved in front of me and touched the top and underneath portions of both of my breasts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If your baby has a habit of licking her lips, she is prone to having chapped lips.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Waddles, now 67, proceeded to kiss the girl\u2019s neck, put a hand inside her pants and touched her groin, Pease-Harkin said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She has a great body with fake but stunning 34E (75F) boobs that look amazing on her rather small frame.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Basically, it says these women are horny as hell, and implies that they\u2019re getting all dolled up and strutting their stuff to snag a shag.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.(As an eighth grader I was as sex-crazed as any of my peers, but the first time a girl stuck her tongue in my mouth, I practically fainted with disgust.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A busty brunette says cops trampled on her God-given \u2014 and perfectly legal \u2014 right to flaunt what Mother Nature gave her when they arrested her for going topless in a Brooklyn park and forced her to cover up.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We've got a direct line to the hottest girls in the UK, they've all got their sex toys ready and each lady is gagging to get wet and sexy with you on the phone.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She claims Doe forcefully kissed her even after she told him she didn't want to, forced his hand down her pants and that she was so scared he would rape her, she agreed to give him oral sex in order to end the evening.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When I got there, he pulled me inside the barbed wire, covered my mouth, and raped me.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He absentmindedly unrolled a sucker from its wrapper and placed it in his mouth, eyes still glued to the filigree pendant that was dangling from Robin\u2019s neck, a good three inches above her generous cleavage.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Labia are the lips or folds of skin that sit on either side of the vaginal opening.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Girls Gone Wild: Girls on Girls, Surrender the Booty 3: The Search for More Arse, Jenna Jameson: Ultimate Collection, Playboy: the Complete Centerfolds, Girls Kissing: Volume One, Hot Babes\u2026I don\u2019t think I need to go on.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Screeners then pulled her aside and gave her a pat-down with their hands, including touching her on her legs and her torso near her breasts and around her arms, she said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She sat naked on a tree branch, her arms stretched upwards, but her hair largely covered her breasts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Rogers also says the former Senator from Clearwater \"rubbed her thigh area\" while at a social event and \"grabbed her midsection\" and touched the underside of her breasts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Gorgeous features, perfect bodies, big tits and sexy clothing, it presents an air of mystery to think they also sport a huge package between their legs and this is what drives straight men to love tranny's so much.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"In Europe they kill Jews because they're Jews, here they kill Jews for being black,\" read one placard.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"If you decide one day you\u2019re going to be a terrorist and you\u2019re willing to kill yourself, you can go out and kill some people.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Now let me see if I got this right, we have guaranteed the death of life on earth because gays and white trash hate each other, all while we kill the oceans and lands so fast we guarantee unstoppable runaway mass extinction within 20 years.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019m a hot, horny MILF who wants to bury your face in my size 44 DD tits, while I fuck your brains out on my kitchen counter!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Before Peirce\u2019s speech, students hung posters that said, \u201cF*ck Your Transphobia,\u201d \u201cTrans Lives Do Not Equal $$,\u201d and \u201cF*ck this cis white b*tch.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"If you don't pay me the money, I will f**k you guys and if you try to go to anyone else about this I will f**k you,\" Mr Baird claimed that Mr McGrath told him before getting up and leaving the meeting.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In my family I often heard that all gays should be destroyed, that they should be bombed, and that if anyone in our family turns out to be gay, my family should kill them with their bare hands.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you avoided the Black Plague and survived the 100 Years War, you still might get some of your disease-laden drinking water on a hangnail and die of septicemia.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The women kick the men, hit them with a club, spit upon them, and spray them with a liquid spray.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That\u2019s right, suggesting that people who leave the religion of Islam probably shouldn\u2019t have their heads chopped off is now not just \u2018offensive\u2019 to leftists, it\u2019s an opinion for which I deserve to be thrown in a cage.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I want to spit on your cunt,\" he bellowed at me, his face contorted into a Punch and Judy grin.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I was drinking a cup of whiskey..walked up to one of them and kicked on his ass..the other one tried to react, i threw my alcohol on his face like the barbershop and when I approach to hit him..they all ran away.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Anal Lube 9000 07-19-2015, 12:26 AM I printed this out and placed my penis on the bottom part and jerked off as if she's sucking me off.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I want the G-damn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Felarca was filmed calling a man a Nazi, and punching him in the stomach repeatedly while shouting for him to \u201cget the fuck off our streets.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The witness: \"We lay you down, slit your throat und butcher you and throw your head away, your intestines.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Despite the media\u2019s overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cFor the rest of my life I\u2019m going to stay out late and come back whenever I want, kill things, scratch people, attack kids, shit on things, take catnip, if you don\u2019t like it then cash me outside.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.People at the scene described how he allegedly shouted \u2018I\u2019m going to kill all Muslims \u2013 I did my bit\u2019 after ramming the crowd gathered on the pavement.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cWith the intent to point out the ridiculous nature of the threats (\u2018shoot every black person\u2019) and the illiterate language used by racists (\u2018gonna\u2019), Matthew posted the following: 'Gonna shoot all black people......", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Sometimes when someone screams to F**K someone Right in their P***y they are not who they seem!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 3.13 KB What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cSo the only answer to that is to kill male babies and just kill any man you see in the street.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I deleted all the foaming-mouth fuck this, fuck that, fuck you comments and got back on with my writing work.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They hit her over the head with a hammer, tried to strangle her with a cell phone cord, covered her head with a plastic bag and then stuffed the bag into her mouth, trying to kill her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Durban - A terminally ill Schabir Shaik on Wednesday threatened a News24 journalist, telling him his health had improved enough for him to be able to headbutt the journalist and kick him in the genitals.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Yes, I would like you to kill sheep and chickens so I can eat bits of their dead corpses, but could you do it as nicely as possible please?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Kim K gives the most amazing blowjobs ever working over his huge black dick like a pro before getting her sweet tight shaved pussy fucked.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.ow fuck all that, get your cock out and watch Farrah Abraham in full hardcore sex tapes sucking cock, getting fucked, in the ass too and loving cum facials all over. B", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The bomb threat allegedly made by D\u2019Ambrosio was a Facebook posting where he bragged: \u201cF*** a boston bomb wait till u see the s*** I do, I\u2019m be famous rapping, and beat every murder charge that comes across me!\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I was the only white person and only girl in the room, and literally got death threats and people telling me they would \u201ckick my ass after class\u201d because I was \u201conly a stupid white girl.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.;DI hope you like it.Kill la Kill belongs to Trigger - I love you guys!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cIf you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself as getting their parents to do it would be too painful.\u201d said Duterte, going on to add, \u201cThese sons of whores are destroying our children.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cIf you throw stones, we will hit you with gas until you all die - the youth, the children, the old people, you will all die.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Her boobs are a fresh C and she has a small bald pussy that you can view when you take her private.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I swear to God, I\u2019ll throw you on the ground and put my foot straight through your fucking skull.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He and the band then launched into \u201cNazi Trumps F*ck Off,\u201d which is a play on the old Dead Kennedys song \u201cNazi Punks F*ck Off.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Republicans are of the more modest opinion that if you want to slaughter your child in utero, you should have to pay for it yourself.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Will I always be perceived as the black girl with the big tits and the fat ass, or am I seen as the black girl with the big tits and the fat ass because of the way I dress?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They shouted such pleasant things as \u201cf*ck white people\u201d and \u201cf*ck Donald Trump\u201d as they live streamed the assault.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then Ayem threw tha netchimanz hoe tha fuck into tha ocean wata where dreughs took her tha fuck into castlez of glass n' coral.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"One day, I heard her curse out the little baby, \u2018I\u2019ll punch you in the f------ face.\u2019\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.and \u201cUGH WALT SHOULD HAVE LET HER DROWN HERSELF\u201d and \u201cI CAN\u2019T WAIT TILL HE KILLS THAT SLUT.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So I fucked her, and the first time we tried to do doggystyle, for some reason I thought you were supposed to fuck her in the ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.'Prank my phone again and I'll break your f*****g legs, which would suck because you shred like a motherf****r.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"If you time-travel to the time of your grandfather and kill him before he has any children, then your father would not have been born, and then you would not have been born.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He can still hear Williams pleading for Mader to kill him, to end his life with a bullet.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Singh says the man started yelling \"You're trying to blow up this country, I should (expletive) kill you right now, you know, I'm gonna kill you right now you're trying to blow up the country.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I've been the champ; I've been kicking ass!\"\n\nKristaps's style is impetuous! His defense is impregnable! He's gonna eat your children!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When she ran into the bathroom crying, he reportedly yelled, \u201cI'm going to fuck you, you are going to suck my dick,\u201d before throwing her naked into the hallway of the hotel.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It's okay to fuck me up the ass for an extra $20, twist my nipples like you are turning on a goddamned radio station, and slobber all over and come on my tits.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.--Donald Trump is a fascist threat to our way of life, says racist things and loves to attack women over their looks.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You are a member of a mysterious order of assassins where you have trained your whole life to do one thing and one thing only \u2013 to kill.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Did you ever....d-did... you ever hear of a single fucking case where saying \"no\" to fucking armed to the teeth Russians ends in an happy ending?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cAnd I could have killed him,\u201d Clinton continued, \u201cbut I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"If you want to kill a man, or a child you put a bullet in his head or heart.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019m not just killing them I\u2019m fucking slaughtering them and I\u2019m going to gut them and skin them, quarter them and butcher them and feed them to the soup kitchen and homeless shelters of America.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"When he was running, he said 'I want to kill more people, I want to kill more Muslims,'\" he said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Lotz of thangs n' lyrics ta git tha fuck into so let\u2019s just jump tha fuck into dat shiznit son!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cWe received many messages like: \u2018You should be sent to gas chamber,\u2019 \u2018I will cut your throat when I meet you,\u2019 \u2018Your neighbors are coming after you.\u2019\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cNoels out of the fucking country weren't we all love get on a fucking plane and play your tunes for the kids you sad fuck,\u201d a subsequent tweet reads.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Praying hard for the Philly cop shot today by another black thug ... may [be] all white people should start riots and protests and scare the hell out of them.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Mnyukulo made him suck his breast, perform oral sex, and went on to sit on his lap and penetrate himself using the teen\u2019s penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Punching and kicking her to the ground while she writhed in agony, her attackers then ripped her clothes off and continued the beating, pulling her hair and kicking her in the breasts and groin.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Morgan proceeds to suck his massive wang and get fucked all over the kitchen. The best part was when she fit herself on the stool to get mounted and harsh fucked. Watching her guzzle down jizz was quite the treat too!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He then proceeded to load a black revolver, point it at his girlfriend, and say \"kill me b----, or I will kill you,\" according to the complaint.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There are songs that make me want to shoot myself and then there are songs that make me want to stick bullet casings in my ears.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"And then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot 'em and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off in front of him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The message exhorted people to \u201ckill them in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk their street.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There\u2019s about twenty drunk people and they start screaming things like \u201cFuck the police,\u201d \u201cNYPD, KKK, how many children did you kill today?\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A controversial New York City pastor warns protesters: If you disrupt my church we will \u201ccastrate your men and slit the throats of your women\u201d and then \u201cpiss on the graves of your ancestors.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You fucking film yourself doing this shit and then you send us the fucking video and we put it on the fucking internet.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She loves pussy just as much as she loves cock and you can see her licking, eating and scissoring other mature women on her personal website as well as taking facials, sucking cocks and fucking like a naughty milf.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Took her to the cash machine, helped his cousin rape her, then blew half her pretty, Jewish face off with a shotgun.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You get killed... walk it off,\" it comes across in Chinese as \"Run fast if someone tries to kill you.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But the Moroccan scum in the Netherlands \u2013 not all are scum, but there is a lot of scum \u2013 make the streets unsafe, mostly young people, and they are not taken seriously.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.John] McCain because Obama wants to gas the Jews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Also in the video, they appeared to be saying \"f*ck Trump, f*ck white people,\" as they showed no mercy to the teen.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.-Leftist whores burn already, you should all be shot in the head. -You should all be cut up into pieces immediately!!!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"So cute I could... die, eat you up, kill you, maul you,\" Aragon continued.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"F*** you, f*** me, and f*** everybody they sent to their deaths.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.While everything else in the world takes it sweet ass time picking up the pace into the New Year, heavy metal has begun 2014 with a nice handful of quality-ass music for our listening pleasure.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cHow many young girls have been raped due to the effects their clothing has had on the human animals [who rape them],\u201d he wrote on Facebook.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I once prevented the rape of a woman by butt stroking her attacker with a shotgun while he was in the act of penetrating her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On one occasion, the girl was gang-raped by five of the men who \u201clined her up\u201d and took it turns to abuse her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This album is about rape. Rape of women, rape of the land, rape of children, despoiling of traditional lands without consent.\n\n\n\nMORE", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It is believed that the mother endured the rape of her 13 year old daughter for months together but finally gave up when she found out that Marak was also now raping his 6 year old daughter.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Tests led a team of US researchers, headed by Professor Gordon Gallup, to conclude that the penis acts as a \"semen displacement device\" and its shape has evolved in part to displace another man's semen.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Two boys aged 10 and 11 were today found guilty of attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl, but were cleared of raping her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So it is the same \"non-consensual rape\" if a 17 year old takes the initiative to work hard to seduce an adult to have sex, or if the same adult rapes him/her at knifepoint.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cShe is such a whore, that bitch seems to be completely deranged.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He might be a bit annoying, and yeah he's an easy target for ridicule, but if you say you've never been pissed at 4am, singing every lyric on the Back to Bedlam album, you're a liar.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The general confusion is that we are all racist, stupid, rednecks and we lost the war so we need to shut up.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We heat the planet more and more in some of the most ridiculous ways, all so people can enjoy an latte and a fag outdoors on a cold day.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos./ I treat y\u2019all n***as like y\u2019all treat us\u201d) and demands of oral sex and money (\u201cAll I wanna do is get my pussy sucked / Count a million bucks in the back of an armored truck\u201d).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Delilah is both a whore, as she is paid by the Philistines to discover the secret of Samson\u2019s power, and a liar, as she pretends to care for Samson in order to extract his secret and render him impotent.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cThe defendant shouted \u2018fucking nigger,\u2019 fired one round toward [the victim] from about fifteen yards away, and yelled \u2018get the fuck out of Oildale,\u2019\u201d before driving away, Assistant U.S.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is going to be 'om nom nom nommed' in front of my PC while kicking ass in Battlefield 3 with the brand new Logitech G510 keyboard which my secret santa gifted to me.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u0093Fuck off,\u0094 the Ayakashi bark snarled, unpleased that it was now gum for the Devestating Bitch of Gensokyo, as Kaguya had come to call her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Y'all redditors ain't know shit All ya motherfuckers talk about Bulba ain't no hitta Bulba ain't this Bulba a fake SHUT THE FUCK UP Y'all don't play with that Bulba.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Yo momma so fat she needs a heavy stasis grappler to slow her roll Yo mamma is so fat, you can harvest her rolls for moon goo Yo momma so fat Dante wouldent let Sapporo use her to make money.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I would destroy this bitch and treat her like the slut bag she is,\" reads one.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So how the hell did the smart and sober people of Jagjaguwar turn the reigns of a label over to the drunken idiots who make up the band Oneida?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Tom Perkins said something very stupid, and was widely ridiculed as someone who had said something very stupid.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.DREAMEATER10 (Garen) [00:20:51] : nigga first of all ur both soft n i can fuck u up in person thats on everythin BITCH Vetaut (Twitch) [00:21:03] : sadly u cant...", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Why \"Nice Guys\" are often such LOSERS You hear it all the time: \"He was such a NICE Guy, and she's such a Heartless Bitch for dumping him.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They called her, among other things, an \u201cold racist bitch,\u201d and a \u201cwitch,\u201d and \u201csick in the head.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On deck to serve the next four years as president of the United States is undoubtedly one of the most racist, sexist, hate-filled idiots, and he won the presidency by being a full-on racist, sexist, hate-filled idiot.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Incase you are an idiot, the way it works is, you aren't actually being hauled around in a cage, the human legs are fake, and the head of the gorilla are fake, and you are standing in the gorillas legs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Dumb Leaf fans were not dumb because they were Leaf fans, they were dumb because they were dumb.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u2018\u2018My wrists look like I am a jewel thief/But that\u2019s just cuz I am a boss bitch/Now macaroni cheese and grill my swordfish,\u2019\u2019 she says in a song entitled, appropriately enough, \u2018\u2018Boss Ass Bitch.\u2019\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Clocking in at 52 minutes the freestyle features Ol\u2019 Dirty Bastard, The RZA, Method Man, Masta Killa and U-God, as they each spit some bars over instrumentals spun by DJ Mathematics.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Women have posted things as bland as \u201cmen ain\u2019t shit,\u201d \u201call men are ugly,\u201d and even \u201call men are allegedly ugly\u201d and had their posts removed.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Stop saying you run this shit fuck nigga, before we beat your ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Martin Luther King Jr. cheated on his wife, Ghandi had a thing for little girls and hated black Africans, and Mother Teresa, despite being the go-to metaphor for goodness, was a complete asshole.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Just when I thought you Dumb-o-crats couldn\u2019t get any dumber, you\u2019ve somehow managed to find a way to take your stupidity to a whole new freakin\u2019 level.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She'll not only give you a butt reading for your money, but she'll send you an 8 1/2 x 11 glossy color print of your butt, suitable for framing.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cthis cow eating smelly fuckers don\u2019t have any other good things to do that\u2019s why this kind of mother fuckers talks bad on other religions\u201d and \u201cthis shit eater\u2019s stupid religion must be insulted in the same way as I [am].\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The only way to teach something so stupid is to be extremely stupid, and that's the only thing these campaigns got right.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The sign reads, \"No Concealed Weapons Allowed\" and in smaller print, states, \"If you are such a loser that you feel a need to carry a gun when you go out, I do not want your business, douchebag.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The headliner will be none other than Ann \"Come On I Dare You To Punch Me in My Smug Face, You Fairy\" Coulter, who previously called John Edwards a \"faggot\" when he was running for president, and called former vice president Al Gore a \"total fag.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.*** Rick Perry has craved fucking men in the ass most of his life!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"He should jump off a cliff, f***ing maniac, that guy is such a f***ing douche bag.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He's the goofy uncle of action stars, the kind of guy who can kick your ass while in the midst of comically falling down an escalator.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Yesterday I played against some jerk who wrote to me \"I wish you and all of your family die of cancer\" right from the start of the game.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A little bit of stupidity is simply mandatory if one wants to be happy day to day, one has to get at least a degree of stupid on, and be a successful person.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Boiled down, the new Obama message to Americans is: you\u2019re too stupid to overcome your fears\u2026 This year, Democrats have embraced with gusto the notion that Republicans, and by extension anyone thinking of voting for them, are dimwits.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then last year, some moron producer at TruTV found it and decided it would be just perfect for their \u201cWorld\u2019s Dumbest Partiers\u201d clip show.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.His attackers laugh and shout \"f*ck Donald Trump\" and \"f*ck white people\" as they kick and punch him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u200bThe blackpoll warbler is a tiny songbird that makes the rest of us look lazy as shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Or maybe he planned to hide the filthy kafir nude slut statues with a coat of paint.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There are simply too many acts of stupidity being done by people who run religious and charter schools in the state, and one of them is so stupid that it\u2019s probably illegal.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Azealia Banks was supposed to be the new Lil Kim - the baddest bitch on the block, a strong sister, with a potty mouth that could rhyme and didn't give a fuck.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Even as fools walk along the road, they lack sense and show everyone how stupid they are.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On Flop FNF Friday the 13th fuck California gay issues go bother someone else you darn kids go cry about it Hey Kids!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Duterte famously joked about a woman who was a victim of a gang rape in his home city, saying he thought she was so attractive he only wished he\u2019d raped her first.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Ann Coulter, of here, there and everywhere, says the Democratic Party is so dumb that \u201cit's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting block\u201d.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you talk shit to them like you just talked shit to the CHP they will drag your ass into a little room and beat the fuck out of you.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard \u2026 Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Signs in the street read, \"Sale Juif\" (\"dirty Jew\"), \"Death to the Jews,\" and \"Jews to the gas.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Soon sufficient Lucia and Amber are on their knees deep throating Andy\u2019s dick after which he ravage their desperates teen\u2019s pussies until he shot his cum out whilst Amber masturbates him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I don't give a fuck how much soap you put on your little bird ass chest nigga.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I guess she just saw the girls twitter picture and called her fat. And a \u201ccyber bully\u201d. So, whatever. Go Rihanna, be an idiot. Go date Chris Brown again, and then get your ass beat again. I bet the sunglasses salesman in your mall can\u2019t wait.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I did not recall seeing Boba Fett\u2019s face ever, because those first three movies are a damn mess imso [in my stupid opinion] and I\u2019ve literally erased everything about them from my mind cave (by drinking), and this just looks real gay to me, sorry about it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Protesters outside the building waved posters that read: \"Cut their penis \u2013 no bail,\" \"Let them rot in jail,\" and \"Done with rapists.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cBut you know what the fuck I think is just pathetic and gay, When niggas speculate what the fuck \u2018Pac would say, You don\u2019t know shit about a dead man\u2019s perspective, And talking shit\u2019ll get your neck bone disconnected.\u201d \u2013 Immortal Technique, Obnoxious, Revolutionary Vol.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cYou\u2019re all weak f---ing weak, you weak f---ing dogs ... f---ing black c--ts,\u201d he is heard to say.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.E-40\u201d: \u201cLittle stupid ass, I don\u2019t give a fuck, I don\u2019t give a fuck / I don\u2019t I don\u2019t I don\u2019t give a fuck / Bitch, I don\u2019t give a fuck about you or anything that you do.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cBefore I go any further, I want y\u2019all to do me a favor and stop listening to songs of niggas that pose naked on they motherfucking album cover,\u201d Wayne told the crowd, referencing Thug\u2019s nude pose on Tha Barter VI.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You better get you a motherf***ing gun before you get your a** shot.\u2019\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A MAN, who pleaded guilty to raping one woman and attempting to rape a second, shouted at the infant son of his rape victim: \u201cThis is all your mother is worth ... this is what your f***ing mother deserves.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Well then guess fucking what. Men also get kidnapped with amazing frequency in games. You better make an overhyped video talking about the demasculization of damsos in distress now or else you\u2019re gonna look like a major fucking hypocrite.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Northern League MEP Mario Borghezio said her nomination was \"bloody stupid\" and that she had \"a face like a housewife\", while one local party activist said the minister should be raped in a vicious Facebook rant about crimes committed by immigrants.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I don't walk into a fucking Wallmart and ask you where the fucking cyanide is cunt, stay the fuck out of shit that has less than nothing to do with you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But when he called his new baby a dirty little whore last night, I had to draw the line.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Gooey Pustules: Big, full, juicy, and screaming to be fucked with.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Trump has described Arianna Huffington as \u2018unattractive inside and out\u2019, Rosie O\u2019Donnell as \u2018fat, dumb and a loser\u2019 and Megan Kelly as having \u2018blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Lyrical gems include \u201cI could kill a bitch man, I\u2019m so fucking crazy\u201d and the oh-so-catchy hook \u201call the dudes wiggle your dicks for Brooke Candy.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.However, if you do want to stick a saw in there, you'd do well to invest in the FuckSall Fucking Adapter (pictured), a $98 gizmo that can be used \"alone if you like raw metal,\" or \"with the Doc Johnson 8 inch vacu lock penis for a more realistic fuck.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Root blasted Obama as a \u201cpsychopath, sociopath and ego-maniac who rules as a tyrant\u201d and claimed that the president sees himself as a god who can exploit \u201cignorant, na\u00efve and gullible voters.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"She did not move much when I raped her,\" he said, admitting the girl had already been gang-raped.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Donald Trump and Insane Clown Posse tell the Deplorables and Juggalos, respectively, that the establishment is laughing at them, and that the people in power think that they're stupid and racist.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Here's to the end of 2015, you awful bastard of a beautiful year that taught me a lot.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The White House, your f***ing White House, your f***ing presidents, they must go!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cThey may think Trevor is my least favorite, because he\u2019s the whiny fucking baby, but Claire can be a complete bitch, and Jeffrey is a lazy, disgusting slob who bugs the shit out of me, too,\u201d Kovach said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Baldwin then called the reporter a \"f***ing little bitch\" several times and then just plain threatened, \"I'm gonna f**k you up.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When I was born, my dick looked like any other baby boy's\u2014tiny and pink, bobbing around on top of a big set of balls like an elf hat.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.To be fair, anal rape, or at least the abundance of anal rape, might be a bit much for some Academy members, but Jodie Foster won Best Actress in 1988 for THE ACCUSED, which featured a rather brutal rape scene.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.What\u2019s worse, she keeps being friends with the guy who she has betrayed (by not sucking his dick) and has the audacity to date and copulate with OTHER DUDES who are obviously inferior to our hero.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you are a radical feminist or a man-fem and you read this and you black out and start spewing hysterical lies, I HATE FEDORA rants and other nonsense, remember, it\u2019s all your fault.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Whether you\u2019re a member of the MCRmy or the BVB Army, signed up to the Idiot Club or dedicated to the Echelon, or you count yourself a Hustler, Human, Maggot or more, we want to hear from you!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cYou know, this f*cking n**ger, you n**gers are not gonna be satisfied until you change every f*cking piece of sh*t holiday to \u2018N**ger Day.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI know niggas that will not do a song with Frank Ocean just because he gay, but they need him on the fucking song and that\u2019s so terrible to me, man...", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.With such hateful gems as \u201cfuck Abraham Lincoln,\u201d \u201cI hate your gay, fag videos,\u201d and \u201cNiggers trash cars.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Awful, awful show.\" , to which Apostolate replied with a Barney Stinson Gif calling him a jerk.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.For the next ten minutes he relentlessly pummeled the pro-Leave lobby - whom he characterized as oafs and liars - and also ex-British Prime Minister David Cameron, whom he called a 'pig-f***er'.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"It is not your f***ing body, it is not your f***ing body and you do not f***ing grab at someone.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Takei also comes with a warning: \"If any of you motherf**kers give him s**t about it, I am going to come back and f**k your s**t up,\" says the \"Star Trek\" actor.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.i can hear her now, \"ahh...mr. goodfucks it is so nice to finally get some good dicking. my libido-less boyfriend never humps me even when i ask nicely at 3 O-FUCKING-CLOCK-IN-THE-SHITTING-A-M!!\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Man can Tripp yell like a motherfucker - and the shit that comes out of that kid's ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If they are old enough to talk, they may refer to themselves as stupid and ugly, friendless, unloved and unlovable, worthless, or even hopeless.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As long as the motherfucking government let us keep food stamps\u2026 we gonna be good, but the first time this nigga pass a law talking about he taking Louisiana purchase, shit going to get ugly.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The closeup of the \"you burned my tongue like the asshole motherfucker you are\" is from one of my favorite tumblr posts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.W. Jackson, is a nutjob who has claimed that the Democratic party is worse than the KKK, and that gays are pedophiles and perverts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The girls, being the cruel little beasts that they are, texted her that she was a slut (there\u2019s nothing wrong with being a slut if done for honorable reasons).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They and the media Koch suckers who spew this garbage are lying.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cYou take it in the ass and I don\u2019t give a f*ck what you say so you can all just go f*ck yourselves.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Bitcoin is not backed by anything other than the faith of the fools who buy it and of the greater fools who buy it from these lesser fools.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And you won\u2019t even be a good whore because nobody wants to fuck a girl with a book in front of her face.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is the path I'm taking to not suck at design anymore, as frankly, I'm getting tired of sucking.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.momma is so fat, she cant fit inside a large pos yo momma so fat when she jumps and lands she forces everything around her to bridge Yo momma is so fat, POSes can be built around her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The nigga did serve a nigga in the crowd at his show wit the 1 piece combo so Imma give him that credit where its due n shit namsayin.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Exhibit B: I Love Dick's entire premise rests on a couple's shared crush on a famous artist (named, of course, Dick).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Edit: How crazy would it be if there were different idiot savant speech options that still sounded dumb but weren't because you have a high intellect.\n\nClick to expand...", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The Republican tax plan may be kind of dumb, but if it were three times as dumb as it is, it would only be half as dumb as the Washington Post\u2019s analysis of it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As the whole world now knows, he boasted that he\u2019s able to grab women by the genitals and get away with it because he\u2019s a star, and then gave Stern permission to call his own daughter Ivanka \u201ca piece of ass.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.can only make a fool of mein every sort of way.She stays so close behind me,she's a coward you can see;I'd think shame to stick to Applejackas that shadow sticks to me!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cYou would think a basic understanding of physics would prevent people from doing something this foolish, but dumbasses continue to do it and mess things up for the rest of us.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I would rather chew off my f***ing scrotum than ever listen again to this boneless f***ing melange of morose f***ing piss-shit!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Mr. Harper, suck my dick, because that is all that you are good at next to the flatulence of Jim Flaherty.This man is fucking Hussein!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The fact that these dumbass racist fucks don\u2019t even know the difference between the naming conventions of Pokemon and Digimon notwithstanding, as you can see, this shit is fucking heinous.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I'm giving him your address, your mom's f****** address and everybodies' address that you know and I hope his family comes over and takes a f****** ball bat to your f****** head.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.At any moment, you might take a sword to the face, or a screw to the foot, or have your Hodor hodored off by some crazy hodoring bastard.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Media mogul, showman and willing to play the buffoon but always with a sense of menace, Berlusconi was Tony Soprano in real life, a man to whom women were inevitably little more than a piece of ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The line, which is called Mushroom Penis Lipsticks, is brought to you by Diamond Dream, a makeup brand I\u2019ve never actually heard of but am already skeptical about because hello, they\u2019re making d*ck shaped lipsticks.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A young guy looked up from his booze and roared: \u201cYou\u2019re going to f****** die here,\u201d at his housemates, before muttering to himself: \u201cI\u2019m going to f****** die here.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As such, Fischer said, \u201cthat\u2019s why it is dumb, dumb, dumb; it is stupid, stupid, stupid; it is ignorant, ignorant, ignorant to think that there is anything that man can do to control the climate through human behavior.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Smith continued, \"f*ck them n*gers b*tchs wat you got on us not a dam thing so f*ck off d*cks.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u2018Fuck this, I could die tomorrow, let's go out there and I'm gonna fucking kill this guy!'", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Stone is a notorious \"dirty trickster\" who formed the anti-Hillary Clinton group C.U.N.T. in 2008 and has spent much of the 2016 cycle pushing smears about the Clintons.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Anytime that you caught somebody doing something stupid, then you could collect $5 from them as a tax\u2026and if they paid you the Stupid Tax, then they had done something stupid again and so they should give you another $5.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That's the first time he rips my pants off and touched my little boy penis, then he continued to put it in my ass and made me give him blow job.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Samantha Bee was so eager to take on Donald Trump\u2019s 2005 boasts about grabbing women \u201cby the pussy\u201d that her Full Frontal team rushed out a video Friday night in which she had some similar things to say about men\u2019s balls.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.>but army vets are VERY much the soul of the cuckservative [even if I hate this therm], they are pretty dumb because they never think for themselves they obey orders, many of them they are dumb as rocks because the never even dig into anything.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cYou are not welcome here\u2026 You lower the value and safety of our good town\u2026 You bring death wherever your cursed people go.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Millar\u2019s scripts have brought us fine moments like an incestual baby bomb, gang rape with plenty of wisecracks, and ending a comic by giving the reader a middle finger while anally raping them.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Overnight, they forgot what a two-faced, cowardly liar Bob had been and what crap they\u2019d all had to suffer through because of his shortcomings as a manager.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.How stupid does the Senate background-check vote look now, I ask the pundits and others who thought it was dumb politics for Obama and the Democrats to push for a vote that they obviously knew they were going to lose.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Many others will say, \"What a stupid question, don't be such a pig\".", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Donald Trump is an amalgam of Leslie\u2019s two worst male rivals: first, Bobby Newport, the spoilt manboy as rich in money as he is poor in self-awareness; second, the proudly offensive Jeremy Jamm, with a fondness for saying things like, \u201cI love Chinese crap.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It says the whites were killers, rapists, murderers, thieves and other scum.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you TELL US that you\u2019re sure we\u2019re going to assume you\u2019re a troll BUT REALLY YOU\u2019RE NOT, then yeah, actually, you are a fucking troll, because you\u2019re still writing in with shit you know will piss people off and be disruptive, and you\u2019re doing it on purpose.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Kill 4yo Og not kill her wat type Gay shit is dat cause u broke nd shit smh...#300,\" he wrote on his Twitter account.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.To keep this shit fair I aint gon mention no niggas from the first time around n shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.According to Kevin Beary's Florentine Locutions (1991), it's properly spelled vaffanculo, a contraction of \u201cva a fare in culo\u201d, and literally means \"go do [it] in the ass,\" (i.e., bugger off, f_ck off, and f_ck you).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.EVERYONE. people really wanna be mad at Black people for everything and not talk about this shit. but we have the power to be ANTI everything. lmao. suck my dick from the back if you believe that.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.they r coming for u dipshit and ur kids \u2026 ur days r numbered \u2013 u fool nobody \u2013 u tool \u2013 go to hell \u2013 we r not afraid of u #TrumpTreason pic.twitter.com/JuFcawvfZw \u2014 ROSIE (@Rosie) December 2, 2017", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I wake up every morning to abusive comments, tweets, and emails about how I\u2019m a slut, prude, ugly, fat, feminazi, retard, bitch, and cunt (just to name a few).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.One such motion was a \u201cMotion to Kiss My Ass\u201d, in which me moved \u201call Americans at large and one corrupt Judge Smith to kiss my got damn ass sorry mother fucker you.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But the arguments came to a crux in January this year when Langley told Mr Hughes 'Come down here you Paddy b******, I'm going to kill you' as well as 'Irish b****** - come and fight me'.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Now you God damned old Abolition son of a bitch God damn you I want you to send me God damn you about one dozen good offices Good God Almighty God damn your God damned soul and three or four pretty Gals God damn you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Let's put those pissy little 2cent soap boxes away, quit your bitchin' and feed those gripes to your dog.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Let\u2019s face it, we wouldn\u2019t know who the fuck Carmen Carrera was if she didn\u2019t fucking get on Drag Race,\" Haylock said Saturday at The Manor in Wilton Manors, Fla.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So them muthafu***** ova at Odd Future records done signed a fu***** group of crackas and ni**** in a hardcore punk band called Trash Talk.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The anus is a 1\u00bd-inch canal located at the lower end of the rectum, between two rather rounded, muscular pieces of meat, the buttocks.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The man is a fucking genius when it comes to dark fucking characters and complex fucking story telling, and Anne Frank was never either of those fucking things.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I HATE you,\u201d adding, \u201cI will try to figure a way out to fuck these fuckers.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.After sliding the front seats of her SUV as far back as they would go, Nikki climbed on top of me - rubbing her crotch back and forth over the growing bulge in my pants while I groped her ass and ran my hands through her hair and up and down her back.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Erase This Game is a new offseason feature in which we, merciless jerks that we are, find the dumbest football game ever played by one school.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Fucked up on several different drugs at the apartment of a famous friend he wouldn\u2019t name (but says you would know), Bearer got depressed because his three baby mamas\u2014\u201dgroupie-ass bitches\u201d\u2014had all filed restraining orders and blocked his phone.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Roy says that goombas (escpecially poopy ones) are so dumb that they are stupider that Stupid von Koopa and Epic Fail Koopa.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"That's a possible twelve fucking years I'm going to have to be sitting in kids chairs next to that asshole with other people trying to lump us in together,\" he wrote.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You can actually go online and buy a T-shirt with the phrase \"Truvada Whore\" on it if you'd like to protest the slut-shaming so prevalent in what should be an intelligent conversation about our health.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This means you can forego the stupid, terrible, awful, (did I mention stupid?)", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He talks shit and that is his schtick, so if he can\u2019t take a little bit of banter but is prepared to attempt to ruin careers then fuck it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.However, now that we are more than 100 days into 45\u2019s first term\u2014which seems to be permanently set at basic bitch level\u2014not only is it the perfect time for Clinton to launch her \u201cBitch, I Told You So\u201d tour, but she should keep adding dates.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The \u201cfreebies\u201d argument is a wicked and deplorable white-supremacist lie that many conservatives (even black ones) swim in like a pig in shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He stopped to shit on a street, and his feces came out with such force that the poo ricocheted off the ground and on to a small child.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cFuck Africa,\u201d snarls the young Moroccan kid as he pushes past the caf\u00e9 table, spitting on the ground and sticking his middle finger up at my Senegalese translator, Babs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Want to pick up the phone and call a slutty girls who's up for wanking herself with her dildo while you listen?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Emma Watson shows up to shout, \u201cI\u2019m not fucking around\u201d and smash Seth Rogen in the schnoz with an axe handle, and the phrases \u201cHermione just stole all of our shit\u201d and \u201cFuck your house, Franco\u201d set themselves up to compete for legendary status.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"For me to say that a Star Wars game sucks sh*t, it must really be a sh*tty game, and that it is,\" Burnley explains.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.With a little help from my 7 habits of highly effective wankers, you too could be the talk of the town; the cringe-worthy belle of the horrible, horrible ball; or as the Germans say, a bit of a dickhead (most of them speak English).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You're going to need superior firepower if you ever want to shut up that damn mermaid and her stupid racist caricature crab friend, and an Uzi covered in Saran Wrap just isn't cutting it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I mean, it's not like the guy had any qualms making two shit Ewok movies, a legendarily bad Star Wars Christmas special, a shitty Droids cartoon, and an even shittier Ewoks cartoon (in fairness, the Clone Wars series is pretty decent).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And while we have your attention, listen up: Do yourself a favor and learn how to unclasp the two or three stupid hooks on the back of any normal, functional bra without having to fumble around like an idiot because you're a) rusty or b) asexual.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Usually you can smell the bullshit that\u2019s being served as prime rib from a mile away, but every once in a while (see: the majority of the time) websites around the world eat the bullshit and ask for more (I am sure even DG has done it).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019m wondering if these fellows are vying for the idiots of the year award or the idiots of the century award,\u201d she told ABC radio.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.(This is why the poll at the bottom of British Cycling\u2019s article is rather stupid \u2013 \u201cwould you prefer to be fed shit, or shit with a crispy sugar coating?\u201d)", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But some of you, customers that is, are total fucking assholes, and from time to time I will take a stand.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.One breeding bitch on a puppy farm can produce \u00a325,000 worth of pups in her lifetime, so if a supplier has several hundred breeding bitches, they are running a multi-million pound business.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cWhen the shit hits the fan you\u2019d rather be the fan than the shit.\u201d \u2013 Falopians 2:83 (No offence Ladies)", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She felt a tingle rush through her when the little boy pulled his pants down to his ankles, exposing his pale butt cheeks, and leaned in and pissed without having to hold his penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And during a long interlude where he asked fans to tell various different celebrity women that they \u201cshould fuck with me,\u201d he made an offhand comment that pissed off a lot of his fans: \u201cI don\u2019t really like black girls like that.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"But whether you think Hamilton is cheesy or stupid, it's cool whenever something comes out and takes a medium, whatever it is, and flips it upside down, when people do original shit and people take notice.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.slight deviation from usual content but this needed to be done. sort this shit out and then norway. i swear im not trying to drag it on, it's just...shit keeps popping up.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Some women have started putting \u201cherb balls\u201d in their vaginas to \u201cdetox their wombs\u201d and make their vaginas less depressed?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And you come back rapping on our door, hat in hand, and you say: \u2018Baby, I know you left me, but if we get back together, I pledge to you, I promise you, I will still try to fuck your sister.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.No! He sits on his ass all day smokin\u2019 dope and jerkin\u2019 off while he plays that fuckin\u2019 game!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Only, if you\u2019re a predator and you piss them off, they will wreck the shit out of you with their opioid-laced venom.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We\u2019ve half-assed shit in the past, and it\u2019s come to bite us in the ass, and we always tend to get rid of stuff that we half-ass.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If J.Lo\u2019s naked butt touches the gown, and then you borrow the gown next and the gown touches your butt, does that mean you touched butts with J.Lo?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In October the actor was featured in a celebrity endorsement video in which he called Trump \u201cblatantly stupid\u201d, \u201ca punk\u201d, \u201ca dog\u201d, \u201ca pig\u201d, \u201ca con\u201d and \u201ca bullshit artist\u201d.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Who the fuck\u2019s the dumbass to call her \u201csexy but stupid\u201d as if she doesn\u2019t dumb herself down enough just to be AROUND Joker. omfg I need a minute.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Dear Goatsec, I have taken the liberty of exposing your gaping hole, and hope in doing so that I\u2019ve given your balls a good twist.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Essentially, there's some mysterious girl who comes down and starts fucking up shit, and it's up to our heroes to save the world.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We\u2019ve all had those fantasies as a kid; the one where you\u2019ve finally had enough of this shit and you rip off your school uniform to reveal a black belt in kung fu and open a can of whoop-ass on some unsuspecting bully.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is welcome news, especially because we're no longer the gayest city according to some dumb gay magazine that is barely even a magazine anymore so we won't even mention it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I don't have time to listen to girls bullshit, I have enough shit going on in my life.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I will burn this f***ing place to the ground before I get rid of that mirror... this is a fun house, honey, and if you don't like the two-way mirror, go f*** yourself.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Trash Talk is supposed to be releasing they album called \"119\" or some sh** thru they Trash Talk Collective Label in the fall.. don't ask me what the f*** that means cuz I don't fu***** kno.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A guy started trolling his 'friend' for saying stupid stuff on Facebook, but who is really the jerk here?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.YOU KNOW, LIKE IN THE VERY FIRST EPISODE OF THE FUCKING SHOW ALL THE FUCKING WAY BACK IN SEASON FUCKING ONE, FOR EXAMPLE.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.To do this, you really have to tighten your anus and have it stay that way; if you let go, you are more likely to release the fart.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.(Look at the fucking cat look at Cao Lu and then look at Jia and then look down like \u201cfuck my life\u201d.)", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Fucking four tables and everything is going wrong.\n\n\"I don't want to say any more about this. It's just crap. It's for amateurs.\"\n\nDing is expected to be fined for his outburst, but further sanctions are unlikely.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The old man grandpa is a complete and utter jackass who keeps on keeping secrets to himself and not even one single damn idiot in the show even questions his morality in the grand scheme of things.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Trump (the \u201cJ\u201d stands for \u201cjerks off to pee porn\u201d), anyone who chooses to kneel during a rendition of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d is disrespecting the flag, hates soldiers, and was born to and raised by a bitch.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The devil walks around and beats the shit out of you, and demons laugh at your torment while they probably rape you and spit in your face.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cThey didn\u2019t tell me this was a motherfuckin\u2019 Dungeons & Dragons book,\u201d Ice says, explaining to partner Mick Benzo that D&D is \u201csome of the most crazy, deep, deep nerd shit.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If there was ever a comic begging to be animated it\u2019s the one where Batman calls Robin a retard, fucks Black Canary on a filthy dock and runs around laughing insanely because it\u2019s so fucking awesome being Batman. (", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.[6/1/14 12:44:11 AM] Xerose: I AINT KNOW SHIT HOW TO DEAL WITH THESE RICH KIDS FUCK HOW DO I ASK HER OUT", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.EEeeeee! Can't wait to frame it.\n\nEDIT #2: A goddamned lightsaber showed up on my doorstep today. Holy fucking shit balls!! This is the most exciting thing, ever.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This babe with long blonde hair and slim body loves sex so much that she started fucking immediately when she turned 18.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I had listed six months of experience as a super market bitch (\u201ccourtesy clerk\u201d) and ASB President, which by the way is a great piece of experience to add to a resume if you are an asshole.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So yeah, just like you don;t give a shit about outing the identity of a potential rape or sexual assault victim, don\u2019t expect me to give a shit about what happens to the likes of you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.@...> An: ichthyost...@web.de Listen, you Nazi piece of shit, the story was there for your little failed brain to discern that the website was fucking dead and that I made many friendly overtures asking for thoughts and concerns and ideas.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI\u2019m a goddamn man and sometimes I have to make the tough decisions that no one asked me to make and my jaw looks like a shovel and I have an important job, so fuck you,\u201d just in case someone was listening.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Create Your FREE Profile and Start to Connect with Large Black Bulls with Huge Cocks Who Are Ready to Satisfy Your Hot Wife & Then Let You Clean It Up!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That pair of fine natural tits won\u2019t let you down, even on a rainy Sunday afternoon, you\u2019ll be unleashing gallons of sticky semen between them while she looks at you with those kinky brown eyes.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Some fans from 1860 Munich called him Nigger or black pig each time the ball came to him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In 1950, The Catcher in the Rye\u2019s Holden Caulfield, for all of his contempt for \u201cphonies,\u201d said goddam and hell but never fuck up, No shit or asshole; Nunberg points out that \u201cadolescent boys didn\u2019t yet talk that way.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You spend your day being bitched at by rude people who don't tip, and often have to deal with all kinds of other work-related bullshit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I was trying to snoop in on some shit with the Vipers and turns out she was there... then I saw that she BLEW UP A FUCKING BUILDING.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A few weeks later, he called the War on Drugs \"beer commercial lead guitar shit\" and introduced a song by saying \"This next song is called 'The War on Drugs Can Suck My Fucking Dick\" after their sound bled into his during simultaneous sets at a festival.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I mean, I weigh a lot and I can really haul ass when I see something I want to kill, eat, kill and eat or something scares the shit out of me.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Lopez-Pierre wrote that Benjamin was an \u201cuncle Tom [n-word] bitch,\u201d for supporting Levine, adding, \u201c[Harlem residents] know that you are a weak, little short man who sucks White/ Jewish cock.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And if you were one of the many who \"shit\" on their fight, then you're a \"fucking idiot,\" a \"moron\" and a \"weirdo\" who doesn't know a lick about fighting, according to the boss.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.While I do not have time to break down all of the bullshit in Trump\u2019s speech, I\u2019ve highlighted the most egregious lines and broken down why they are bullshit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The good thing is that they are good at sucking dick and are willing to play with you balls after training.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then one of her other friends told her that it was basically like Charmed but with penises, at which point Bec was all, \u201cSign me the hell up, bitches!\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Well, the one-eyed bastards have gone too far this time, one of them decided it would be a grand old time to steal a chunk of lawn, the bloody filthy animals.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Judging by the fact that you\u2019re on the finest Melee shitpost archive known to the galaxy, you too were once a pre-pubescent esports masturbator.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If after seven years of the schmuck you want to have a beer with you've found yourself longing for the good old todays, you're just a retard.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So I can now add \u201cbitch\u201d to the list of profanities I\u2019ve had thrown my way for failing to smile at street harassers; I\u2019d already crossed off \u201ccow\u201d, \u201cwhore\u201d, \u201cslut\u201d and \u201cc***\u201d.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I'm done with his bullshit and lies, and I'm done with his supporters and the bullshit they spew to cover for him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Okay, so, operations on Jakku: what was supposed to happ \u2013 dammit, GD796, if you can\u2019t keep your hand out of your crotch piece for five seconds, I will cut it off.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The camera pans down, and holy shit there really is a kid just passed the fuck out on James's floor right now.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Yet this poster had none of the dumb, provocative crudity of the sign reading \u2018Jesus is a fag\u2019 carried by a marcher in the 2006 parade.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I will beat your turn count the fuck out with rigging the likes of which has never been seen before on this subreddit, mark my fucking words.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I could give a fuck about your weight because things like that prove that you're an ugly person regardless.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And I know a lot of you were really fucking looking forward to getting it this year and yes, this sucks.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201chey fuck your phd i\u2019m uhhhh a sex ed teacher\u2026. basic bio 101 says ur neuroendocrinology phd is uhhh bullshit and wrong?\u201c", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Yeah, these lily-white assholes come in, started trying to take over our own protest, actually attacked some of our people, destroyed OUR neighborhood and then started shouting all this proletariat bullshit like they weren't wearing $800 designer leather.\" said local resident Quantrel Jones.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Holy, The God Of Fuck must be truly pissed off at some audiencies.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And this means that we\u2019re only three weeks away from all of those idiot baseball shitheads doing their whole \u201cPITCHERS AND CATCHERS PITCHERS AND CATCHERS\u201d bullshit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.To the people stealing: I'd bet you have done your shitty intelligence, you think I bought a Huawei Y20 and a whole bunch of other shit for the alt income plan and YOU ARE WRONG.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In SCUM, you play as a prisoner on Bagne de Cayenne (also known as Devil\u2019s Island), where the titular TV show SCUM is being broadcast this season.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You get yo\u2019self over there and give those limp assed liberal sons of bitches a taste of the United States of Freedom.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Over here just giving a nigga trouble for all types of stupid shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.1] However, calques of English fuck using knull (noun), knulla (verb) do occur; this comes across as more offensive than fuck does in English.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Even middle-class and wealthy blacks hate blacks, if Chris Rock\u2019s Niggas vs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Also sex with a colon vaginoplasty is just as good as anal sex since you will be hitting the prostate just like in anal sex so orgasums are completely possible.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That\u2019s concrete,\u201d said local pedestrian Frank Brogden, who shook his head while pondering why the dumbshit California black oak was stupid enough to believe its saplings could grow in an area devoid of soil, nutrients, and water.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The most recent example was his response to \u201cCena Sucks\u201d chants and he responded to the audience with \u201cwhen Roman Reigns in the ring your damn right.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"At this point, I could give a fuck about selling a million records, as long as I put out an album that you can rock to all motherfucking summer.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It seems that old any piece of bullshit can now gain currency if it helps to further the myth that unemployment is caused by unemployed people and not by a fucked economy.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You then take your finger, lick it, touch it to the powder and rub it gently on your butthole.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They called her \u201cwhite bitch,\u201d pelted her with pencils, and tossed rocks as she walked to her car, warning that she would \u201cget shot\u201d and \u201cget my ass kicked.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.EDIT)WHO THE HELL KEEPS PUTTING MY SHIT IN RANDOM GAME FORUM THREADS?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The officer then grabs the man's arm and theman jerks away -- that's when the officer pushes him to the ground.The man, lying on the ground, shouts \"Fuck you!\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then, you wake up from that dream and realize, holy shit, you're in Inception...but Leo's not naked next to you so you're really pissed (or really happy, depending).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.No longer can the phrases: \u201cfuck, this corn dog is the shit\u201d, or \u201cshit, that son of a bitch has a gun\u201d be uttered without immediate dismissal from the event.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Qoutes from The Daily Mail 2.\"And then the black guy stole my baby and the gay man shot my husband and then the emo kid commited suicide right there in front of me!\"\"Are you from The Daily Mil?\"FUCK THE DAILY MAIL", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.With a laugh, he added, \"If I look like an idiot, that's because I'm talking to idiots, so cut me some slack.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Someone might say that feminists look like uptight ugly fat chicks who are pissed off that hotter chicks get more dick.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Seweid claimed in a Facebook post that Trump supporters yelled \u201cLook, it\u2019s a fucking terrorist,\u201d and \u201cGet the hell out of the country\u201d and \u201cYou don\u2019t belong here!\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I dont kno what hour in the day this shit was recorded but it sounds like some 5 AM shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When Thomas was read her Miranda rights by a Monroe Police Department officer, she stated that her boyfriend was a \u201cbitch,\u201d adding that he \u201cgot in her face so she beat his ass,\u201d according to a May 16 probable cause affidavit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Editor's note: Think that Clive Martin is being a stupid garbage person who doesn't know when to keep his dumb mouth shut about shit he doesn't understand?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"So, I'm riding in the car and, nigga, I'm so loaded on that gas that I was sitting here thinking like... nigga the seatbelt is the truth, nigga,\" Chris said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But if you do something stupid because you're stupid, that's a problem.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.... the kind who gets drunk or high with you and then lectures you about being fucked up until they finally sober up and realize they've been an asshole for the last eight hours.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Your average pop musician has but two options: You can make it through the song without fucking up, sell the ending and cash your Jerry Jones check, or you can fuck up so bad that your performance lives on in YouTube perpetuity.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Evidently desperate for some fast food, she quickly \"pulled his trousers down and sank her teeth into one side of his penis\" and \"scratched him in the face\" for good measure.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And then Robert Kraft goes and gets a fucking handy from a slave and dammit now it\u2019s pushed out another 2 days well here you go.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are \"Supporting our Troops\" and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You have to be so psychologically fucked up that you do this to most of the world, benefit from it today, and act as if shit is all fine and dandy.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.No bandmates blocking my cock, no heavy gear breaking my back, and no shitty 30-year-old van getting 8 miles per gallon.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She claims that 2-face would \u201cput her snout into her vagina on her own\u201d without any prompting, but denies touching the dog in any sexual way.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"We all die one day and you're old so fuck it,\" Ocean wrote in his post, before sarcastically thanking them for reminding everyone of his 2013 performance, which he called \"absolute shit.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I mean, that shit was in the bag til your drunk ass ruined it. sigh.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So any thieving little shit who gets caught can very easily lie to his parents that he was looking at straight porn.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If I didn\u2019t love you as much as I did, I would have never given a fuck, but you were the person whom I wanted to be happy so, yeah, I did give one big fuck.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Like your mate putting his dirty socks in the damn hamper, for example.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A couple of days ago I leaked a bunch of shit from #Modtalk under my policy of \"fuck with me and I post stuff\".", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So, the lack of shits in Napa played a substantial role in its high rating, while the prevalence of shits hurt Beaumont's happiness rating.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This one has been used to prove that masturbation is evil and punishable by death, so much so that the words masturbation and onanism are synonymous.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"Just like that old shit that I had, the shit with A$AP Rocky and Yams and all that shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cHe was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.What the hell is one supposed to say in response to this class of thing, except, you\u2019re a dick?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This kind of shit is the equivalent of, \u201cI\u2019m not a racist, but\u2026\u201d It\u2019s \u201cWomen shouldn\u2019t be raped, but\u2026\u201d You wouldn\u2019t have to preface your shit with a disclaimer if what you were about to say didn\u2019t indicate that you do, in fact, believe these very things.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cWell, Donald Trump maybe because his views on the environment are pretty f***ing scary, and that will affect my children,\u201d he told the online magazine, before going on to dismiss all politicians as \u201cf****** idiots\u201d.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Margaret, I am here to tell you that Dick Cheney is a bitch \u2013 a big one too.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You are leftist scum are going to bash white suprecmacy, you need to also cal lout black supremicsts like Wes Bellamy, the Vice Mayor of the Charlottesville.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He goes on the vent loudly about the restaurant \u201cbitching about someone holding a f*cking door for people,\u201d which he claims to be doing because he\u2019s a \u201cf*cking Christian\u201d who\u2019s got to \u201cstand up for other f*cking Christians.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I wish she leapt through a meat grinder.Koi Kaze, if I thought incest was wrong I would stop having sex with my little sister.Higurashi, shitty horror bullshit, a failed attempt of Chaos Head.Akagi.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You have to be stupid to imagine that scar is recent, very stupid.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I got shit to say and you\u2019re a fucking idiot if you think I can be shut up.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.3. You\u2019re more worried about landing in cow shit than getting cut off of the rusty shit your doing tricks off of.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Some of the more interesting signs: \u201cEating raped murdered animals makes you a hypocrite,\u201d \u201cGet out of my box [ie: vagina],\u201d \u201cThis [a Bible] is not a health care plan,\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s the boss?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So I piss all in ther elike thighs out man, cock o the walk, yeah I'm the best fucken sculler you ever got your hot load boilin for, mamanger creep, gimme the gig, you'd be lucky if yyou had me in there.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If yo' lil pimp knows how tha fuck ta have empathy fo' others, then he'll be able ta peep tha ghetto from a mo' judgment-free perspectizzle n' is ghon be able ta put his dirty ass up in one of mah thugsz shoes.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Now, with people like me giving Californians a whole bunch of shit for their attitude towards water falling from the sky, they\u2019ve now gotten feisty about the people giving them shit for their lack of rain tolerance.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And, of course, all straight males are pedophiles, because all straight males are sexually attracted to fifteen year old girls with delicious breasts, bouncy buttocks, and slim waists.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The words \"a*s,\" \"bastard,\" and \"b*tch\" can be heard in the dialogue.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You\u2019d have one two-fingered hand swinging from your face \u2013 a hand as sensitive as tumescent genitals, but which could smash a wall or pick a cherry.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This straight-up, non-stop, hardcore shit, y'all, an' tol' wit' mad suspense, too, tha kind that make yo' shit evacuate, know what I'm sayin'?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So guard the exit door and try not to lose your shit as this week I educate you on the politics of anal.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Eyespian: \"I agree, he sucks at his job, is a major jerk, and wears the ugliest shit ever, have you seen his ties??\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.he even strokes a huge load of cum into her mouth and onto her face. S", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The game, just as japanese moe and fanservice garbage, presents the girls as stupid, brainless humanoid objects, only created to fit an stupid clich\u00e9 and try to make the guys wet dreams real.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It is, in fact, the same goddamn gnome I carried through Episode goddamn Two, for the same goddamn reason: there was an achievement for it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I don't say they're all idiots, I am just saying there's a lot of them that are very good at being idiots.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That retarded frat game is called \" Limp Biscuit \"... which kind of indirectly explains why the band of the same namesake is so fucking horrible.3.)", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As if Comcast's recent account name change to \u201casshole\u201d wasn\u2019t bad enough, there are new reports of more rude names like \"whore,\" \"dummy,\" and \u201cFakoe Boz.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There are small balls that you eat and large balls that try to eat you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As I got older, I sought comfort in sex, drugs, alcohol, bullshit, vanity... should I continue or can I stop there?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Cause they got this young nigga Joey Bada$$ coming out talking about this shit before they got the chance to talk about it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If it weren\u2019t for the heaping pile of dog shit that is Burger King (other than chicken fries, shout out chicken fries), more people would be woke to the fact that McDonald\u2019s is a cancer on the American culture.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.To be fired I would have to grab Emma\u2019s ass twice and she would have to complain about it, I would have to sexually harass someone.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.What the fuck is the point in me and other women standing in solidarity with men if they are foolish enough to keep falling hook line and sinker for the charms of some women?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Welcome to another\u2026 god damn it\u2026 episode of\u2026 son of a\u2026 Retrograde where this week\u2026 oh, what the\u2026 the team take on the stupidly difficult\u2026 jump you idiot\u2026 Mega-Man!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The faggot, RuPaul Andre Charles, claims that trans people are \u201cbitches\u201d who need to \u201cget stronger\u201d with regard to his use of tranny.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I think it\u2019s so stupid for everybody \u2014 because of this whole, you know, \u2018minorities in Hollywood\u2019 thing\u2026But it\u2019s so stupid, it\u2019s like, stop stealing all the white people\u2019s superheroes.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Selfish bastards from across England who have consigned the rest of the UK to a five-year shitstorm, have decided to come out of the closet in an unprecedented show of public pride.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.THERE was a man with two penises, a dude with no buttcrack and now there is a guy with three testicles.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.There might even be a \u200bnaked fat guy's ass if you play your cards right.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.-Armpit Fetishes: Maschalagnia is when you are aroused by smelly armpits and axillism is when a man has sex with an armpit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They would really have to do some fucked up shit for me not to like it (i.e.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He allegedly boasted to the basketball team that he \"f***d that boy up the ass and stuck a Gatorade bottle in him\".", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She burps, she kicks ass, she's witty, and she doesn't take shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u2018So you, you little c*** when I tell you to do something and you, you f****** big c*** - when I tell you to do something, do it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"We are not in the business of banning people who express moronic, stupid and wrong points of view,\" Mr Lucas said of the festival.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Blacks will stop using the word nigger when the world stops treating us like niggers, not the other way around.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is dedicated to the rap-rock band that started this shit\u2026 When I first heard this song, that shit hit me right the fuck here [points to heart].", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I've lost family members due to those arseholes in the 1940s BUT if some idiot wants to glorify them on these key-cap designs with their moronic Logo, then let him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The ideal position is similar to trying to take a shit in a public toilet and not wanting your ass to touch the nasty ass toilet.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott once said in a speech that \u201cthe climate change argument is absolute crap\u201d and then sort of tried to play it down while spewing a bunch of his own crap in a 2010 ABC radio interview.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Our analysis reveals a dearth of fucks in the District relative to the rest of the nation; the local fuck frequency in D.C. is a scant 11.7 per 1000 tweets.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI need to say some shit about the UTR, and I need to say some shit about racism, \u2019cause I\u2019m not fucking racist, I\u2019m Spanish,\u201d he said on the Facebook Live video.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That\u2019s about as dumb as a woman saying she\u2019ll protect house and hearth for the love of her man\u2019s penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It\u2019s bullshit, and I\u2019m going to tell you why it\u2019s bullshit, but first let me lay some context down for you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.These days, everyone likes to laugh and point fingers at our dumb idiot ancestors who were so dumb, they thought the Irish were bad immigrants.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Earlier we Badlanded \"Pieces of shit for Trump\", where little flags are put in dog poop, with the 2008 Pieces of Shit for McCain campaign that also put little flags in dog poop.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This week, Dick Metcalf has been fired by his longtime employer and cursed, threatened and damned by many of his former readers for something he wrote.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You\u2019ve said of NieR: Automata that \u201cIt\u2019s all poop.\u201d, but your fans are all obsessed with 2B\u2019s butt.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This cam babe is a true sexy sweetheart with a short and petite body and a great ass that you will rate a perfect ten.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Doesn\u2019t like that women can be judged on their breasts size, but has no qualms about making fun of men\u2019s penis sizes.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It\u2019s better to look a little stupid now, than a lot stupid later.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The sex boycott already has its own line of t-shirts, all carrying the official logo: two hands clasped together, creating a shape that suggests an open vagina (see above).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then at the wrap party, Harmon got up and gave a \u201cFuck you, Chevy\u201d speech in front of Chase and his wife and daughter, and encouraged the crew to join him in saying \u201cfuck you\u201d to the actor.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In one transcript, one of the self-proclaimed Crusaders says, \"the only fucking way this country's ever going to get turned around is it will be a bloodbath and it will be a nasty, messy motherfucker.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is the best known of the female genital hot spots, located at the top of the vulva, where the inner labia join at their upper ends.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Young women in our office have been called \u201cbitch,\u201d \u201cslut,\u201d \u201cwhore,\u201d and worse \u2013 if you can imagine.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This is great news for Ponzis who want free money from stupid lenders, but it\u2019s a dangerous warning for all of us who supplied taxpayer bailout money to the stupid bankers who gave out free money last time.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Without talking about what it means to have a vagina, what is expected from a vagina, and how that ownership affects that trajectory of a young girl\u2019s life, we are screwed.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He called the airport cops\u2026 No shit, I was just detained at SFO for 30 minutes for calling someone a sissy.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.His being given this character is almost a chance to make right how DC fucked themselves up on their relaunch and how they were really shitty to their female readers.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And Nugent\u2019s threatening words were nothing new; in 2007, he held up two machine guns at a concert and told Obama to \u201csuck on my machine gun,\u201d adding, \u201cHillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When I told him all the sports the school offered sucked and I hated teams because people sucked too, he suggested boxing.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then they put a stick of bacon in it. And then a motherf***ing beef straw.It\u2019s brunch in a glass. It\u2019s the liquid equivalent of taking two defibrillation paddles to the chest. And most importantly, it\u2019s real.Real ridiculous, but who cares.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The God Of Fuck was performing at Budapest Open Air on July 20, when he premiered the tracks \u2018Say10\u2019, \u2018We Know Where You Fucking Live\u2019, \u2018Heaven Upside Down\u2019 and \u20181\u00b0\u2019.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Of course there are some useful idiots in Congress, the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, etc., who actually take this shit at face value.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And police say Kreft told them he had been watching \u2018horse pornography\u2019 before going to the barn, performing oral sex on the horse there and then trying to arouse the horse with his hand.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cMy bars is Gang Starr, nobody can fuck with me/Rest in peace Guru, nobody can fuck with he,\u201d the A$AP Mob standout rhymes.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On the shaft of the penis, Fordyce spots are more visible when the skin is stretched, and may only be noticeable during an erection.[", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019ve written in favor of marriage equality many times, which presumably puts me on NOM\u2019s shit list (and, not to be too holy about it, it is on my shit list too).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.One of the oldest, most outrageously sexist ideas presents sex as a lose-lose for girls: girls who have sex are slutty, while girls who don't have sex are prudes.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It can be hard to part with the crap that clutters our homes, especially when we are not yet aware that it is crap.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I was sitting there having a fag when some woman comes up and smashed me window in and starts calling me a bastard!\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He once referred to the former president as \u201ca piece of sh*t\u201d and \u201csub-human mongrel\u201d and urged him to \u201csuck on my machine gun.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.For example, choice phrases include \u201cI\u2019m not some pretty fucking hopeless princess in distress!\u201d, \u201cPay up, motherfucker!\u201d, and \u201cStart teaching boys not to fucking rape!\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Free porno on the Internet has become so boring so rediscover a sensual world of nude babes with luscious boobs who live to make you blow the biggest loads of jizz possible!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.End of the day, you hit that ATWR squat/bench/total or just a huge ass PR, and you came 1st in your weight class AND the meet (too bad there was only one other guy in your class you out totaled by 300lbs) and holy shit do you feel like your balls are the size of coconuts.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Trombones are a \"big ass\" instrument, so they use the big ass clef, also known as the bass clef.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Prior to May 8th of this year, if you lived in this country and had your penis removed (accidentally or on purpose), your options were slim\u2014the chances you'd be able to urinate standing up again or reproduce through sex seemed like a pipe dream.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.His shit against Rone was fire and I\u2019ve told him that to his face, \u2018Your shit against Rone was amazing.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.048 Bad Blowjobs, What A Female Orgasm Feels Like Topics for this show are bad blowjobs (and how a diligent cocksucker can avoid giving one), as well as the plight of a woman who's not quite sure she's ever had an orgasm.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI AM A HUGE FUCKING CHEAP ASSHOLE PLEASE SHIT IN MY SOUP\u201d is all this says.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And this is Grimes on big set-pieces in live shows: \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Do you understand how fucking bad it is for the environment for everyone to be having 20,000 lbs of lights and this giant fucking fake set of New York?\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you\u2019re walking down the street one day, and some bitter douchebag gives you a dirty look, he may be more than just a bitter douchebag giving you a dirty look while you walk down the street.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.David Galloway urged his girlfriend Carol Bowditch, both from Evedon, Lincolnshire, to take part in the sick orgies where dog owners would get kicks out of watching women having sex with their pets, before they would have sex with the men.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.No one likes having to deal with stupid people, but the truth is most of us have to interact with people who we find to be stupid on a daily basis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then, because life is terrible and people are sick, the idiot doesn't know what the fuck you're talking about because nobody cares about the music anymore, man.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.DMX previously said that he would \"beat the living f**k out him\u2026I am breaking every rule in boxing to make sure I f**k him right up.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.you gonna pay for that sh*t,\" \u201cbeat his ass,\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t vote Trump.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Bill took no time in jumping on Silverman for \u201ccalling Americans stupid\u201d, Bill said that Silverman said religion was a \u201cscam\u201d, that implies that anyone that believes in it is stupid.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She then goes onto scream \u201cF*** off cos you f*****g knew an\u2019 all.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.You know an animal is dedicated to sex when they are willing to chop off their own genitals to keep rivals off the scene.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.i\u2019m sorry, maybe i fucked up. i tend to use \u201ccishets\u201d instead of \u201cstraight people\u201d because i don\u2019t want to shit on straight trans people, just straight cis people. do you have a better suggestion?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Tebow took the much worse route of continuing to suck and refusing to try other options until a nutjob coach willing to try anything said F**k it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you found your dog pissing on a rug and then your child urinating on the dog, you would think, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m annoyed, but they\u2019re idiots who don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing so they get to walk away from this one.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It's a Thursday night and all my mates are off their tits on coke and shit... [we just want to] do something creative.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Years later, I found the magazine at the bottom of a closet, called him a fuckhead, and made him the poster idiot for a feature called Dear Nintendo: My Life is a God Damn Mess.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I mean a show that is about something stupid, and knows it's about something stupid, and somehow makes you care about that very stupid thing.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The project had a very edgy tone, using phrases like, \"It\u2019s just another fucking phone but it\u2019ll only cost you $180,\" and, \"It\u2019s about time to disrupt the shit out of the North American smartphone industry.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you don't think Siegmeyer's story isn't the tightest shit because of both what it is in general as well as what the kind of player Siegmeyer represents, then you need to get the fuck out of my face.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The short version: no embeds, don't out people's real names, don't bemuch of an asshole, body fluids are off topic, Mods reserve the right to delete, screen, and freeze the fuck out of stuff.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The figures are one gorgeous, fucking DEAD, African leopard, and the poor creature's murderers: Donald Trump moral-moron sons Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I publicly predicted it on that sh***y show they are cancelling now with that stupid host,\" Askren said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But one of the gTLDs up for debate is '.sucks,' which Rockefeller believes is, uh, well\u2014he thinks it sucks.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you want to call me a bitch, call me a bitch, but that\u2019s just kind of stupid.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And the one of a woman having sex with a horse, and the one headlined \"Miss France 2008 Fuckin\" complete with video.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But basically [he] said this deal sucks, and the implication is that you have to be an idiot not to see it.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She prostitutes herself \"about twice a month\" in order to buy the black market hormones that enlarge her breasts, raise the pitch of her voice and keep hair from growing on her face.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It was always about \"I dont give a fuck about what you think of me, I dont give a fuck what you call me, I dont give a fuck how the world treats me.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The great \u201cGreek Empire\u201d that history books love to tout never fucking existed and your view of ancient race relations is entirely based on modern American race relations, which is ahistoric, fucked up, and racist.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.1. \u201cFuck who thought this ad was a good idea. \u2018what if, right, a giant banker was taking a literal shit on the city'\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Much of this, in retrospect, may have simply been stupid kids saying and doing stupid things because they were too immature to realize just how awful it was.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In a New York Magazine profile this month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) included one \u201cfuck,\u201d two \u201cfucking\u201ds, one \u201cbullshit,\u201d one \u201cpissed off,\u201d one \u201cthey suck,\u201d and a \u201cwhat the hell is going on?\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Real Sex Dolls in pictures A sex doll (also love doll or blow up doll) is a type of sex toy in the size and shape of a sexual partner for aid in masturbation.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In one LSD dream, I shit all over the rug and shit all over the floor.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.People who don\u2019t know shit about any religion and yet act like they do are some of the most arrogant motherfuckers on the planet.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This shit is free. Did you see any ads on this site? Yeah, I didn't think so. We're not like a \"click-baity/pop-up ad\" kinda place. We're just some people that love movies trying to have a good time and drink some whiskey and talk about dumb shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Haslam then added to reporters that if fans were going to just half-ass it the rest of the way, he\u2019d rather they just quit and get the fuck out of his sight.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Most jobs are honestly not that far off from Office Space, though don\u2019t expect to find three people beating the shit out of a malfunctioning printer in a field.We\u2019re told our whole fucking lives to jump through all of these various hoops.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI got rid of my nipples and I\u2019m selling them,\u201d he captioned a photo of his nipples, which now resemble pieces of dried mango.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On the front it shows an image of a masturbating nun while on the reverse it has the phrase \"Jesus is a c***\".", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I would expect this if I had a big butt, but I don't at all, I have a very flat butt.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cAnd by the way I don\u2019t like this mic, whoever the hell brought this mic system, don\u2019t pay the son of a bitch who brought it in,\u201d said Trump through visible annoyance and several pops.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"It was stupid, it was a stupid idea that we sent out and we apologize for our stupidity and we really hope that you forgive us for what we have done,\u201d said Bonnano.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\\I don't hate you D*N.. but you SUCK, and I mean SUCK as a producer.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Even if you don\u2019t give a shit about making a pie crust you\u2019ll watch this damn thing from start to finish.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.After reading this Blow Job Guide, you\u2019ll be armed with multiple techniques to smoothly start giving your man a blow job, tips and tactics to heighten his pleasure during it and how to finish giving him head so that orgasms harder than he ever has before.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In fact, if we were IRL and someone started talking shit about all trans people, I\u2019d put the liberal smack-down on their ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Knicks owner James Dolan is an asswipe and a schmuck, and according to the New York Post, he is also a giant asshole.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As someone who spent years deprogramming myself from the bullshit the Catholic church brainwashed me with, such as \"people who masturbate will spend eternity in hell,\" I should not be surprised when I see evil like this from the Church.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cYeezy introduced the skinny jeans to the Rap scene / Then wore a fuckin\u2019 skirt on the video screen / Then he wore it again at a memorial / I can\u2019t pretend that the shit ain\u2019t deplorable.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"This idiot with his slaves for sale, are you fricking kidding me?\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Kids are loud, stupid, annoying, ugly, and they smell like dog shit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In this premier quality porn video content, we have the ever cute Sydney Cole bobbing up and down on a fat cock.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It sucks huge hairy balls and doubley so if you\u2019re on a budget as, of the rare as rocking horse shit plus stores there are, they are mostly heinously over priced.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.'You're being f****** stupid and you're in my m*****f****** property, you need to get the f*** out', shouts the man in the footage.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I said to the teacher, \u2018This is stupid\u2019 and she said \u2018You\u2019re stupid if you can\u2019t understand it\u2019.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Talk crap, then play the victim when you get challenged on your crap.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "profanity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This sex toy can be used for both clitoral and gspot stimulation as well as on nipples and other sensitive spots of the body.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"If\" I was Guccifer (LOL), I'd hack the shit out of their video backend platform and use that to infect all the rest of the Dhimmi cucks with NSA implants to jack everything from all of them at once.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "flirtation" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Instead of \u2018boobs\u2018, for instance, you can search for \u2018nude boobs\u2018.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.While there done been tonz of theories bout how tha fuck \"Ganja Day\" came ta be, what tha fuck aint disputed is dat folks ludd ta recognize it up in a myriad of ways.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cIt don\u2019t matter which one of them motherfuckers is in the office,\u201d he says, \u201cwe gonna still do what the fuck we\u2019ve been doing \u2019cause that\u2019s all we know.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So, the Cursed Question of How to Write Believable Female and/or Other Characters will simply not die, stupid as I, at least, find it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I mean, I knew that 100% pure is bullshit, but I didn\u2019t know just how much bullshit. 100% bullshit.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It\u2019s just that she is out there allegedly fuckin\u2019 the rockstars of her dreams and you out there fuckin\u2019 groupies.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Instead he just stared at his podium with the body language of a shy nerd getting his ass kicked at a game he's supposed to be good at, by the jock that everyone thought was an idiot.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This was the SOLE piece, the only one out of all the shit I dropped in their lap for two years (\u201cUncle Goddamn,\u201d Kembra Pfahler sewing her pussy shut, the extreme porn segment, etc, etc, etc) that the Channel Four lawyers docked from the show.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "insult", "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.SUCK IT, FORMER SCHOOLMATES, YOU WERE HORRIBLE AND NOW YOU ARE THE LOSERS.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Can't wait to see MVP Cheese shake things up with their stupid bullshit :DMake sure to keep this thread bumped too, guys http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The lyrics (which sound much, much better in Swedish) include lines such as \"Here comes the penis at full pace\", and \"the vagina is cool, you better believe it, even on an old lady.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The patriarch of A&E\u2019s hit show had opined at the time that \u201ca vagina\u2014as a man\u2014would be more desirable than a man\u2019s anus.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I wasn\u2019t a fan of the South Park movie (139 Fucks), I thought Jay and Silent Bob was pretty middle of the road (248 Fucks)\u2026it just isn\u2019t a major selling point for me.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cThis article doesn\u2019t mention the clitoris until halfway down, but ALL FEMALE ORGASMS COME FROM THE CLITORIS,\u201d Bloom said in a tweet that some may place in the TMI category.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The legend being that a jealous sharp-toothed demon hid inside the vagina of a young woman the demon fell in love with and bit off penises of two young men on their wedding nights.[", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.De Luca, who was killed in 2013, made her give him oral sex, then \u201ccame around and had vaginal sex with her,\u201d the report says.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On the album\u2019s first track, El-P calls his rap peers \u201cvaginas for the fame;\u201d on the second, he exhorts the naysayers in the audience to \u201crun backwards through a field of dicks;\u201d and on the third, Killer Mike brags about \u201ckilling cunts in [his] Colosseum.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A teenage girl claims that an NYPD detective raped her and another forced her to perform oral sex after she was caught smoking pot in Coney Island.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The idea is to avoid looking at girl with vaginas and instead always make sure they have a cock.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The child stated that the soldier then opened his trousers, showing him his erect penis, and asked him to suck his \u201cbangala\u201d (penis).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When I am fired as the Editor of Cracked and run out of ideas for penis-based horror novels, I want to write this up as a self-help book, probably titled Fuck The Karate Kid: Why Life is So Much Harder Than We Think, by Dr.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It was more of a frustrated and flustered \u201cFuck me\u201d kind of way, and that\u2019s not me being insightful, that\u2019s just me having eyeballs and seeing him mouth the words \u201cFuck me\u201d to himself after he stood up.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I heard if you lie on your cock til it goes numb then it feels like you're wanking off someone else.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Call me weird, but I just love to suck cock, and I used to practice doing it on dildos.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Was seen holding a double-headed dildo and moving the dildo while each end was inserted into the vagina of two women who were lying on the floor near the lounge area of the charter boat.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Anal Gland Issues One of the main reasons a dog licks at his buttocks is that his anal glands have become impacted or infected.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Others are less impressive, like Gaston\u2019s (\u201csmall dick \u2014 very tiny \u2014 pube-less and uncut\u201d), or just decidedly average, such as Prince Eric\u2019s (\u201cNice medium-sized, half erect dick with the foreskin pulled back a little.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cIt seems like, to me, a vagina \u2014 as a man \u2014 would be more desirable than a man\u2019s anus.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Penile advancement can be something that a lot of men want to alter about themselves, but for much a males the question is, how could I improve my penile sizing?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I say if you had a dick at one point in time, you also have all the bone structure that comes with having a dick.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Nobody feels sympathy for a guy who complains about his big dick, but possessing a monster cock comes with its share of problems.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A $5,000 grand prize goes to the women with the most popular vagina, who will also be flown out to Los Angeles to have her lady bits 3-D scanned and memorialized as one of Sloan\u2019s sex toys.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Front page titles over the past three years included: \u201cMouth raping your little sister since 1905,\u201d \u201cSucking the nipple and biting the tit since 1905\u201d and \u201cPerpetuating racial stereotypes since 1905.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The Secular Student Alliance showed up in force brandishing signs reading \u2018This guy is full of shit,\u201d \u201cSex: a lot of fun,\u201d and \u201cKeep your church out of my sex life and I won\u2019t have sex in your church.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I don't regret the skins grabbing RG, I do regret having a sorry ass team owner and sorry ass front office who couldn't put a winning coaching staff together who could actually compete for a super bowl.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.After the third or fourth dumb asshole tried to take her up on it, nobody ever had the balls to do it again.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Since many women wore \u201cpussy\u201d hats and many of the signs at the protest referenced pussies, some believe this promoted \u201ccisnormativity,\u201d or the idea that women are supposed to have vaginas.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That used condom\u2014you know the one, tied to an F Train handrail, sagging under the weight of its own viscous insides\u2014it's still fucking there.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The hideous sounding event, billed as BYOS \u2013 Bring Your Own Semen \u2013 will teach participants to cook ejaculate into starters, mains, puddings and even drinks.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Its role in the brain is interesting. it's what keeps you from wanting to fuck all the time.When (most) people have an orgasm, there's a drop in sexual arousal immediately afterward.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Hopefully, the UK will, then, pull the dildo of Islam out if its ass and give you what you deserve\u2026a firing squad.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This week: When you're fucking a guy named \"Dirty Jersey,\" and he doesn't want to wear a condom; how to stop being friends and start getting laid; is bisexuality the new black?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019ve already touched on this idea a little in my post on the barbed penis, where I examined a study claiming proto-humans used to have magnificent barbed penises like many other primates.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We have already seen Lady Gaga go bondage crazy, not to mention her recent ass shots for Culo, so this is just another round of fun for us men.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He then had sex with her after pinning her arms and trying to force her legs apart to insert his unprotected penis, which she did not want, she said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But we see Eve\u2019s wailing face clearly, because her right hand covers her breasts, her left her vulva, which is partly obscured anyway by her right leg.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Why anal glands do not always empty The dog\u2019s diet may be to blame for anal sacs that do not empty on their own.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The \u201cGirls\u201d creator dressed up as a \u201cGrabbed Pussy\u201d for Halloween, a play on Donald Trump\u2019s despicable \u201cgrab them by the pussy\u201d comments from a 2005 hot mic recording leaked to the Washington Post several weeks ago.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit", "identity_attack" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Too surprised to see a body like mine fucking in this city where my gay Indian friends ask me if I\u2019ve ever slept with a white men because \u201cthey are cleaner than us\u201d because they\u2019ve \u201cseen it on porn.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.That \"gobbledegook\" appears to be a an assortment of butt plugs, dildos and other sex toys arranged to look like the ISIS flag.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As Ron Swanson himself would say \u201cNever Half ass one thing. Whole ass two things\u201d and this thing, is two whole asses.\n\nShare this: Facebook\n\nTwitter\n\nTumblr\n\nPinterest\n\nPocket", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He told her he was \u2018hard\u2019; that he \u2018would bust that tight p****\u2019; sent her unclothed pictures; and told her he had rape fantasies about her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A punk rock musician known as Pussy who cut off his girlfriend's head and had sex with it while wearing one of her dresses has been declared insane.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.His presentation addressed anal and oral sex as well as sadism and masochism, and included the following lines: \u201cThe hadith [says] \u2018He who has an anal intercourse with his wife is accursed.\u2019", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So the one penis we found, he had bought foundation, like the one women use for their zits, they put that on when I was doing the CNN thing, and he made it a white penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Greg Gregerson and the penis boys were known about town to herd cattle to their branding post and would brand penises onto unsuspecting heffers .", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On a church message board in 2001, Driscoll called man's penis a creation of God, and said that God created woman to house man's penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Did you hear the one about the Amazonian fish who swam up a penis, took up residence in said penis owner\u2019s bladder, and could not be extracted due to its umbrella-like spines?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She accuses Weinstein of taking his penis out in a hotel room and suggesting it would help her career if she had sex with him, then holding her down and forcibly performing oral sex on her against her will.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In a sit-down interview with Twain, Kelly admitted that the costume \u201cgave me boobs where boobs didn\u2019t exist, a waist where a waist didn\u2019t exist, and a flat stomach.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.What happens when a mentally ill, partial man, who cut off his penis and purposely grew boobs, gets in a MMA cage and fights a woman?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And rape is all about power and has nothing to do with sex, despite, again, the persistence of all those penises and vaginas.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On top of all that, this woman taught me about menstruation, masturbation, making out and sex, which is a damned sight more than any teacher ever did.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.According to a new survey of world penis size by Mandatory.com, a factual look at penis size offers a wake-up call for a universally size-obsessed culture.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"You get kicked in the balls, and they pick you up and kick you in the balls again as soon as you regain sensation.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.After performing her ass off at the half-time show of Super Bowl LI, Lady Gaga was body shamed by the kind of people who think their opinions about women\u2019s bodies matter, and who want to attract other sexist misogynist assholes by taking to the internet to show off their bigotry.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then they plunged a penis-shaped dildo -- with a flared glans -- into the vagina and observed that the action of the penis did, in fact, force the \"competing\" semen behind the glans, which then scooped it out of the vagina.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Ben Wa balls should not be confused with anal kegel exercisers and prostate stimulators for men: Ben Wa balls sometimes have a retrieval string or attachment of some sort, but they do not have an adequately flared base for safe anal play.[", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Apryl Brown, 47, lost her arms, legs, and the flesh around her buttocks after injecting fillers into her posterior in an effort to get rid of her flat butt.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Not content to just chop off a man's penis and let that be the end of things, Feng snuck into the hospital after the surgery, and chopped off his penis again.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When the accused tried to again rape her at her home on Friday night, the woman grabbed a sharp object and chopped off his penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Did the man who once yelled at Edwina Currie on camera, \"One minute you are shagging the prime minister, now you're trying to shag me from behind\", just get upset with me for being \"too personal\"?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cIf you\u2019ve ever been curious if which one of us has a birthmark on our penis or which one of us has a tighter butthole, this is your chance to find out!\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The erection is caused by blood filling two main tubes that run up either side of the penis, causing the penis tissue to expand and become stiff.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.One of them gently swipes her genital area with antiseptic and then swiftly pricks the hood of her clitoris with a fresh sewing needle, drawing no blood.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Then the thumb is placed on the penis, and the forefinger below it pressing three times up to the point of circumcision, then the front part of the penis should be jerked three times.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So here is a woman knitting from her vagina:\n\nThis originally aired on The Feed, which airs 7:30 weeknights on SBS2.\n\nAnd while you\u2019re in a vagina mood, here\u2019s a gallery of things that accidentally look like vaginas. Because mature:", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Via Dick Code Dick Code users are asked to select the penis that most closely matches their own.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Grisham fired back: \"You are an embarrassment to boobs everywhere.\"\n\nShe responded with a sign she was wearing: \"Sorry about your small penis issues.\"\n\nThe woman would not give her name. But she did give her age: 56.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A Chinese porn addict is now recovering in hospital after undergoing intensive surgery to extract a giant live eel that had gnawed its way up his digestive tract after he shoved it up his anus.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Huang explained the ghosts in her vagina were stopping her from developing a relationship with her boss and said they could only be caught with his penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"He pretty much asked me if it was OK if he masturbated in front of me or masturbated in the bed next to me,\" Haas said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.LUCKY BASTARD is a thriller about a porn website run by Mike (Don McManus) that invites fans to have sex with porn stars.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We would have thought it would have gone without saying that \u2018penis biting\u2019 was also off the scale but it is being alleged Down Under that a rugby league player bit another player\u2019s penis during a game.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.His penis was made using a skin graft from his arm and works via a pump hidden inside one of his testicles.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Your deer season is about to suck \u2026 unless you get off your butt and do something about it.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"But in space, I get to make balls out of it -- so check this out and then suck the balls,\" Fischer said on the video.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But let me clear something up right away \u2014 when I say vagina, I mean the canal that connects the uterus to the vulva.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019ve often noticed people leaving comments based on the assumption that if someone who (you believe) has a penis and someone who (you believe) has a vagina are having sex, then they must be having penis-in-vagina sex.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I went on an op for the organization, all I can tell you fucks about what happened is that it ended with me playing cricket with a fat black guys balls and let me tell you the mess that was made was fucking horrible.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But that's okay, because he can buy and sell your sorry ass fives times over, and writes golden checks for wish-granting blowjobs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I've tried lots of weird looking sex toys in my day, but the clit pump - which is an electronic sucking device that cups over the clitoris to engorge it with blood - looks kind of scary.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I once ate at a restaurant in Beijing that only served a variety of animal penises (with Los Angeles Times/ESPN\u2019s Bill Plaschke, no less), and I certainly didn\u2019t do it because I was craving boiled dick.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cThe penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A few minutes after the man sat down, he \u201cpulled his penis out of his pants and began to masturbate,\u201d according to a police report.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A man has organised Britain's first \"small penis party\" in an effort to make people celebrate, in his own words: \"tiny todgers, compact cocks, wee willies, mini members, and dinky dicks.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"There they are. Look at them, high-fiving each other and congratulating him. Look at all these white assholes,\" Maher said. \"Somewhere there's an Elks Lodge going: where's everybody? Trump got carried away and grabbed a pussy, [House Speaker Representative] Paul Ryan.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI\u2019m not Steve Bannon, I\u2019m not trying to suck my own cock,\u201d he said, speaking of Trump\u2019s chief strategist.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Wayne Hayes, a masturbator, said: \"It's a log cabin, lit only by firelight, Lohan is lying naked on a fur rug, she's fondling her own breasts, This is good.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.by far the most viewed entry, it relates to a painful penile ritual that some Filipino sailors engage in, the beading or pearling their penises.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The same student also allegedly bragged that he \u201cf*cked that boy up the ass and stuck a Gatorade bottle in him.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.As Global News points out, many just heard chuckling and then snippets of conversation about oral sex, body grooming, and something one of the cops was paying \u201c$600 fucking dollars for.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you ever wanted to listen to Lawrence O\u2019Donnell talk about vaginal, anal, or oral sex for a good few minutes, this is DEFINITELY the post for you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She\u2019s got a great support system but I just wanted to take a moment here in the land of boobs and bacon to wish her the best of luck and send strength her way as she kicks cancer\u2019s ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He couldn\u2019t keep his dick up so I started watching porn, and the only thing that entertained me was butt sex.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"They think if you suck pussy you'll suck anything,\" says Junior.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Woman\u2019s Ass Size Study There is a new study about women and how they feel about their asses.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And he added that he was \u201cembarrassed because I masturbated in the lounge, and it was possible that the ejaculate may have gone from my hands to the woman\u2019s blanket.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Actually, it probably won't do that, but it's fun to see a man who hates gay people and porn (and just about everything else that is fun and decent in modern American society) with his nose made out of an anal sex scene.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If it's not Franco's dick, it still very much looks like a dick, so maybe the real question is: Whose dick is it?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The three words that make up the phrase are Arabic [\u062a\u0650\u0644\u062d\u0633\u0652 \u0637\u0650\u064a\u0632\u064a, tilhas tizi, \"lick my ass\"] and Yiddish [\u05d2\u05e2\u05e9\u05e2\u05e4\u05d8\u05df, gesheften, \"business\"], combined to form a modern Hebrew slang expression, meaning \"You-lick-my-ass business.\"[", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Kevin Chaney repeatedly would ask her to perform oral sex on him in the office, that he once blocked her from leaving after she rejected his request for oral sex, and that he once rubbed the zipper of her jeans with his hand.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.She said he also forced her to touch his penis over his clothing and then exposed his penis to her.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Thanks to the movies everyone wants to be a bad ass but look at the successful people and none of them is bad ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Elephants and odd hoofed mammals (like rhinos and horses) have huge penises, that can be 1.5 m (5 ft) long, but actually the biggest penis belongs to the biggest animal: the blue whale.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Look no further, my dick-thirsty readers, for he and I have swiped right on each other in order to fulfill our destinies and secure his dick-pic legacy for years to come.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So, he's lying there, on his back, sort of propped up a bit, sliding his penis into this snake's cloaca (a cloaca is basically an animal vagina for animals that don't have vaginas\u2014it's a hole).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.They\u2019re a punchline all their own: Just say \u2018small penis\u2019 in front of a group of women, and they\u2019ll all burst out laughing, because they\u2019ve all known that one guy with a dick the size of a finger.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I know there\u2019s a lot more to sex than putting the penis into the vagina and ejaculating, but the rest is not always easy to define (kissing?", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The Hair Flip says, \u201cFuck you, dude, I have other things to do than care about your sad boner.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I will smack any male whom you decide to smash against his pelvis \u2013 after I first knock you on your butt for forgetting how a lady acts in public.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cI\u2019m just afraid that God\u2019s patience with butt sex is wearing thin is all,\u201d Robertson said, \u201cand the last thing we want is to incur his wrath simply because The Gays couldn\u2019t keep their anal sex to a respectable level, is all.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In animals with an os penis, blood pressure still plays an important role, but the pressure functions to push a bone structure into the penis in order to achieve an erection.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.And there\u2019s no better way to do that than serving an asshole a slice of truly homemade bread...leavened with the yeast of your own vagina.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.During the examination and according to the indictment the nurse \u201cheld a hand over the victim\u2019s penis and while the victim got an erection, he took the victim\u2019s penis in his mouth\u201d.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But, if there are live sperm inside a guy's urethra (because he has ejaculated recently), the pre-*** can \"pick up\" the leftover sperm on its way through the urethra and out of the penis.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In Germany, it\u2019s perfectly legal to kiss someone without her consent, grab her breasts, or fondle her genitals in a public space as long as she doesn\u2019t fight back.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But now that I\u2019ve given birth to my own future set of tits, I know that maybe things aren\u2019t as simple as \u201cthings I can fuck\u201d and \u201cthings I could but don\u2019t want to.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Take those already infamous alien boobs : He gleefully told Playboy , \"Right from the beginning I said, 'She's got to have tits,' even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na'vi, aren't placental mammals.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It turns her on to know that someone may catch her masturbating herself while she is enjoying public masturbation and get hard as a rock upon seeing her touch herself.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.One note of advice, you know what they say, if you assume you make an ass out of \u2018u\u2019 and an ass out of \u2018me\u2019 (Ass-u-me).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.With her memoir Bossypants, in which she recollects a man calling to her when she was 13 \u201cnice tits,\u201d and her calling back \u201csuck my dick,\u201d Tina Fey is the prototype of the new kind of feminist figure I am talking about.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This week's theme is vulva watching, which is described on the event's Facebook page as: \"Exchanging the gift of being seen and heard through our beautiful and unique pussies.\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Police in southern Bangladesh say a woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempt to rape her and took it to a police station as evidence.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The Murfreesboro Post reports that Garner allegedly grabbed his penis and tried to take off his shorts in an attempt to perform oral sex on him.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.This AB.....well it was easier than I expected but still a pain in the ass.I was a total jerk on the muffin on this one....people said I was making them too easy.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.In the DrEd survey, women rated the ideal penis length as 15.8 cm (6.2 in), while men rated the ideal penis length as 16.6 cm (6.5 in).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But she had a vagina (at least as far as anyone was willing to check) so that means she was the candidate for every lumpy she-hadist with her tits in a twist.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The primary purpose of wearing a cock ring is to restrict the flow of blood from the erect penis in order to produce a stronger erection or to maintain an erection for a longer period of time.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When his son called him a \"dick,\" he suggested that God the Father was a bigger \"dick\" for sending him to his death.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The pamphlets contained phrases like \u201cI will rape you with a lamp\u201d and photos of band members as \u201cpeople with dicks in their mouths.\u201d", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On the contrary, the Dirk Diggler of the animal kingdom has a penis up to 50 times it's body length - making it the world's largest penis, relative to size.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.On a guy who wanted to \"share a cock\" with Klausner, she writes: \"like anybody's cock is so big that you'd be like, 'I can't finish this!", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Jodi Arias testified today that her Mormon boyfriend Travis Alexander forced her to have anal sex after he baptized her into the church by saying vaginal sex was off limits but 'everything else' was allowed.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"As for my own personal aesthethics, I first look at the breasts, then the face, then the ass, and lastly the legs,\" wrote Qiao.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.But until now, there has been no formal review of research into penis size and no attempt to develop a system to show the range of sizes of flaccid or erect penises, the researchers said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.We have a program where we go to Senior Citizens homes and suck all of the men's cocks to help out with the moral of the old timers in the facilities.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.For those of us who feasted\u2014or starved\u2014on a diet of circumcised penises, the first taste of uncut dick could be, well, quite a mouthful.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The final page of last month\u2019s debut issue revealed that Dick\u2019s teenage son has manifested his own superpowers, putting Dick in a position where he has to choose between his son\u2019s freedom and the obligations of his job.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Politicians face scandals not just for cheating, but for receiving oral sex in the White House, paying prostitutes to indulge their adult baby fetish, soliciting sex in airport bathrooms and sending pictures of their genitalia over social media.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"I know there aren't any bones in the penis, but can you still break it, like if you bend it too much when you're erect?\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If you have a vagina, and it could break into a monologue (thank you, Eve Ensler), it would probably ask you to keep it away from vagina steam baths.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.So, completely out of the blue, Maher reduces Caitlyn Jenner to \u201ca woman with a dick\u201d just to make some stupid joke: \u201cthere\u2019s no rules anymore\u201d (Here\u2019s a rule: Don\u2019t be an asshole).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Diaosi is a meme moniker that translates to penis hair. first used in a petty forum argument (if I\u2019m a penis, then you\u2019re something smaller), the word can be seen as somewhat analogous to the Japanese word Otaku.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He was that classic \u201cpain in the ass\u201d little brother, but he was my pain in the ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Nephthys, hoe of Set - tha Dogg of Darkness, desired a cold-ass lil child, yet her homeboy was infertile, so Nephthys disguised her muthafuckin ass as Isis, tha hoe of Setz brutha Osiris, n' seduced his muthafuckin ass.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cMultiple people have grabbed my butt and grabbed my breasts,\u201d she said.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\u201cPARTYNEXTDOOR and his crew are some bitch ass niggas. Now tell me that. Tell me what I said now?\u201d he said, before adding, \u201cTell him to pay that fake-ass budget they\u2019ve been pressing at night.\u201d\n\nThe full Live Nation statement:", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He needs to feel a penis go in and out of his vagina\u2014you know, like all women crave.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I fully expect to suck ass at Mortal Kombat X and to be mercilessly teased and mocked by whoever I play with until I can get a handle on the controls, after which will come having my ass handed to me numerous times playing online while I attempt to learn the game.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.It\u2019s also a fact that orgasms after anal sex are a lot stronger than those that come from vaginal sex, and over 90% of women that have had anal in their last sexual encounter had an orgasm, which is a very important metric to keep in mind.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"you know what they say son. when you gotta wait just masterbate.\" walt said with a big ass smile on his face. walt jr got a big smile.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.After the male has ejaculated, he pulls out, and small barbs on the end of his penis rake the vaginal walls inside the female cat which stimulates her to release an egg.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Briggs is wasting his time trying to lock up a fight with Wlad -- because Klitschko would beat his ass anyway.So, his advice to Shannon ... bring your ass back to the U.S. and \"come see me!\"", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019ve been a dick to a lot of people, and some people have been a dick to me.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Horse porno guy didn\u2019t start there; he probably started like the rest of us, stealing a Playboy from dad and looking at some boobs.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I\u2019m not expecting you to know how to salsa, but rubbing your dick against my ass definitely doesn\u2019t make up for your lack of dancing skills.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male's penis but does not lick the glans penis which has already penetrated the vagina.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.If her worst fears come true, and a man attempts to rape her, the Rape-Axe's inside hooks attach themselves to the penis and don't come off, instead getting even tighter and stopping the man from being able to urinate.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "threat", "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The Queen kicks his ass in their first fight and then proceeds to rape him in the mouth.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.\"When most people think of men's health, they think of the penis and the prostate and we need to get beyond that and say, 'there's more to a man than a penis and a prostate.'", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The show that brought you Michael's dick, James's ass, Aaron's eyebrows, Adam's nipples, Jack's foot & Maggie's boobs is back.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.By that I don\u2019t mean that I want them to boast about how big their cock is* or many women they\u2019ve fucked or how many times each one of those women came.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.>Derpy's ass broke your Nokia from 2001 by sitting on it (Good lord you are afraid of that ass) so no more Snake for you.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.While this one is more of an introduction to meaty cocks, because it\u2019s not really all that meaty, it does its job well and if you love what cums out of it, then you, my friend, are a meaty cock enthusiast.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Women with ReGS report weird sensations at the clitoris, vagina, labia and the region around the vagina, (such as on the pubic bone and the groins) and sometimes the anal region.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.The vaginas were grown in a lab from the female patients' own cells and later transferred to their bodies, where they formed into normal vaginas.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Yet, I sucked it up to bring you the trailer for the newly titled Big Ass Spider!, directed by Real Killers and The Gravedancers\u2018s Mike Mendez.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.Some White House staffers still hope to convince the president to alter his strategy and start calling his opponents \u2018dicks\u2019, \u2018fuckers\u2019 and \u2018deviant gimp-felchers who would rape their own grandmothers if she looked at them the wrong way\u2019.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.F**k you!\u201d And she took out Margaery Tyrell Natalie Dormer and her low-cut blouse. Bye, perky tits.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.He then goes on to ask the girls if they masturbate, how frequently they masturbate, what they do to excite themselves, what it felt like to masturbate for the first time and if they have been caught red-handed ever.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.When you have to combine David Cameron\u2019s face with some kind of weeping anus/animal vagina combo, you know that\u2019s going to be an unpleasant day of googling.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.I think. 12-year-olds Frank and Louie (or \u201cFrankenlouie\u201d if your ass is too lazy to pause) were just inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world\u2019s longest-living Janus cat (that\u2019s fancy talk for two-faced pussy).", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "toxicity", "profanity", "sexually_explicit" ], "distractor groups": [ "threat", "insult", "severe_toxicity", "identity_attack", "flirtation" ], "paragraph": "A threat describes an intention to inflict pain, injury, or violence against an individual or group. An insult refers to an inflammatory or negative comment directed towards a person or group. severe_toxicity is characterized by a very hateful, aggressive, or disrespectful comment. toxicity involves rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable remarks that may cause people to leave a discussion. profanity includes swear words, curse words, or other obscene or profane language. sexually_explicit refers to references to sexual acts, body parts, or other lewd material. An identity_attack involves negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their identity. Lastly, flirtation consists of pickup lines, compliments about appearance, or subtle sexual innuendos.A Boston man who lost most of his penis in a fight with cancer has become the first US patient to receive a penis transplant.", "question": "Does this sentence satisfy any of the following definitionss?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "linseed", "lei", "nickel", "saudriyal" ], "paragraph": "Argentine meat exports duringJan/Feb 1987 totalled 39,714 tonnes, against 36,594 tonnesshipped in the same 1986 period, National Meat board said. Shipments in tonnes with comparative figures for the 1986period, in brackets, included: beef 26,945 (20,096), horse meat3,257 (4,211) and beef offal 7,660 (10,502). Argentine's meat exports totalled 20,243 tonnes in February1987, against 19,217 tonnes shipped in the same 1986 month. Shipments in tonnes, with comparative figures for February1986, in brackets, included: beef 13,272 (11,464), horse meat1,543 (2,083) and beef offal 4,476 (4,672), the board added. Main destinations for refrigerated beef (bone inequivalent) were as follows, in tonnes, with comparativefigures for 1986 in brackets - EC 5,500 (7,900), Brazil 5,200 (unavailable), Israel 3,700(3,000), Peru 2,500 (800), Singapore 500 (300), Switzerland 500(400), Canary Islands 500 (300), Malta 500 (700), Aruba/Curazao200 (300), Chile 100 (600). Main destinations for canned meat and cooked beef (bone inequivalent), in tonnes with comparative figures for Jan/Feb1986, in brackets, were - United States 11,200 (13,400), EC 4,700 (5,100).", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "skr", "stg", "bfr", "wpi" ], "paragraph": "Australia expects meat and livestockexports to the Middle East to maintain an upward trend thisyear, managing director of the Australian Meat and LivestockCorp, Peter Frawley, said. He told Reuters an improvement in the economic climate andless competition from the European Community should lead in theGulf area to higher beef sales, which dropped from 33,000tonnes in 1980 to just 2,300 tonnes last year. \"In the last three to four months there has been aresurgence of inquiries,\" he said. Frawley is on a Gulf tour which will also take him to SaudiArabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to assess marketpotential. On beef exports, he said a 50 pct drop in EuropeanCommunity intervention stock in the past 12 months would helpAustralian sales. The fall meant the EC was not as aggressive in thesemarkets, where the Australian trade was the natural source ofsupply, and Australia was \"now back in,\" Frawley said. He said there was a debate in Australia as to whether theMiddle East market for livestock, which accounts for two-thirdsof meat export value to the area, would be maintained. He believed the trade would remain with a continuing demandfor fresh meat. The number of live sheep shipped last year to Saudi Arabia,the biggest single market, was 3,214,159 compared with2,939,226 in 1985. The numbers shipped to the United ArabEmirates and Bahrain fell, however. Frawley said the slackening in demand in the Gulf had beenoffset by other Arab countries around the Mediterranean. Other than livestock, Australia's overall meat sales to theMiddle East rose to 72,374 tonnes in 1986 from 52,403 tonnesthe previous year, largely due to the sale of 25,790 tonnes ofmutton and lamb to Iran. Australia sold 9,824 tonnes to Iran in 1985 after beingvirtually excluded by New Zealand competition for severalyears. Frawley said the 1986 sale contract had included abarter provision, but Iran had paid in full in cash. Negotiations with the Iranians for 1987 shipments werecurrently under way, with Iran again seeking credit and barterprovisions, he said. Frawley said there had been a tremendous growth in demandfor chilled lamb in the last four to five years and hepredicted this would continue. \"The Middle East, and the Gulf in particular, is nowAustralia's largest market for lamb, chilled and flown in.Australia is in an ideal position to provide the supplies ifthe market is willing to pay a premium for a fresh, youngproduct,\" he said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "trade" ], "distractor groups": [ "naphtha", "peseta", "hog", "livestock" ], "paragraph": "Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrigehas asked the White House to consider blocking the plannedJapanese acquisition of a major U.S. supercomputer andsemiconductor manufacturer for national security reasons, U.S.officials said. The officials, who asked not to be named, said yesterdaythat Baldrige has \"serious concerns\" about the sale of FairchildSemiconductor Corp. to Fujitsu Ltd., another major electronicsfirm. The officials told Reuters that if the sale went through itcould leave the U.S. military overly dependent on a foreign/ompany for vital high technology equipment used in itsadvanced missiles, aircraft electronics and intelligencegathering. In addition, they said, the sale would also worsen thealready strained trade relations between the U.S. and Japanstemming from the huge Japanese surplus. The White House Economic Policy Council would consider thesale in the coming weeks, they said. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's position was notimmediately known but in the past he has opposed the transferof high technology to foreign governments and companies. Supercomputers made by Fairchild and other U.S.manufacturers are widely used throughout the world, but nonehave been sold to the Japanese government or to Japanesegovernment-run agencies and universities.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "oilseed", "rapeseed" ], "distractor groups": [ "nzdlr", "copper", "can", "lei" ], "paragraph": "Japanese crushers bought 8,000 tonnesof Canadian rapeseed in export business overnight for Aprilshipment, trade sources said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "gnp", "cpi", "reserves" ], "distractor groups": [ "linseed", "sorghum", "copra-cake" ], "paragraph": "Bolivia is to make a formal offer duringthe next few months to buy back its 900 mln dlrs debt fromcommercial banks at a discount of up to 90 pct, central bankpresident Jier Nogales said. Nogales told Reuters in an interview the steeringcommittee of Bolivia's creditor banks had agreed to considerthe offer at a meeting in New York last month. He said the offer would be based on the value of Bolivianpaper on the international secondary debt market, where it nowtrades at between 10 and 15 pct of its face value. Nogales said Bolivia will make a single offer to buy backits commercial debt and banks who accepted would be paid thediscounted rate in full. Banks which declined the offer would be repaid over 20 to30 years at interest rates below those fixed in theinternational markets, he added. Bolivia has frozen payments on medium and long term loansto commercial banks since March, 1984, and Nogales said therewould be no money available to restart traditional debtservicing to them for some time. Several Latin American countries have initiated schemes tocancel foreign debt by equity swaps or third party buy-backs,but Bolivia would be the first country in the region to make aformal offer to buy back all its commercial bank debt atdiscounted rates. Nogales said practical and strategic considerations woulddetermine the exact timing of the offer but it would be made inthe next few months. He said Bolivia would not bargain with creditor banks overthe price to paid for the debt paper they hold, and would makea single non-negotiable offer. He said Bolivia could not even pay interest to friendlycreditor countries, let alone commercial banks. The onlytraditional way forward was to capitalise interest, which wouldmean greater bank exposure in Bolivia and greater lossprovisions, he added. \"We are confident that the banks are going to bereasonable,\" Nogales said. \"Now they can resolve their problemsfor once and for all.\" \"The most conservative ones who want a little more willwait a year, but I don't know if the window of opportunity willbe open all the time,\" he added. Discussing the status of other parts of Bolivia's fourbillion dlr foreign debt, 2.5 billion of which is owed togovernments and the rest to international agencies, Nogalessaid negotiators had achieved considerable success in recentdiscussions with the Paris Club. He said Paris Club creditors had agreed to rescheduleBolivian debt over 10 years with five to six years grace, whileaccepting that interest would not be paid until 1989. Interestrates were being discussed on a bilateral basis under ParisClub rules, he added. He said some Paris Club members had agreed to disregardpenalty interest payments and negotiations were continuing withArgentina and Brazil, who hold 700 mln dlrs of Bolivian debt. He said Bolivia was continuing to service loans frominternational agencies, and it expected to receive up to 400mln dlrs in disbursements this year. The capital flow for loans and their servicing had changedfrom a negative balance of 250 mln dlrs in 1985 to a net inflowof 130 mln dlrs last year, he added. Nogales said that Bolivia's net international reserves nowstood at around 250 mln dlrs, compared to one mln dlrs indisposable funds when the government of Victor Paz Estenssorotook office in August, 1985. Nogales said inflation, which soared to over 20,000 pct ayear in the government's first month in office, was now down to10 pct on an annualised basis from the last six months, and theplan was that it should continue at this level. He said the government was also expecting at least threepct growth in gdp this year after several years of negativerates.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "gnp", "cpi" ], "distractor groups": [ "fishmeal", "palmkernel", "plywood", "acq" ], "paragraph": "president jaime lusinchi defended the20.3 billion dlr debt rescheduling accord his governmentrecently signed, saying it will open new credit flows and bringneeded foreign investment to venezuela. In his annual state of the nation speech, lusinchi alsosaid venezuela supports other latin american debtors, despitehaving reached a rescheduling accord on its own. In the 90-minute speech to the congress, lusinchi summed upthe achievements of his administration, which took office infebruary 1984. He pointed to the 3.3 pct growth in non-oil gdpin 1986 and to a \"moderate\" 12 pct inflation rate. Lusinchi said the 20.3 billion dlr debt rescheduling signedfeb. 27 put an end to a process which had been 'the calvary ofour nation over the post four years.' In the refinancing accord, he said, venezuela managed toachieve 'the most inmportant thing, which is the reopening offinancial flows from abroad, essential for the financing ofdevelopment and the (financing) of trade and investment.' Once all the details of the agreement are finalized, hesaid, venezuela will seek new financing for the importedcomponents of new development projects. \"our intention is not to continue being net exporters ofcapital, but to protect our balance of payments with a flow ofcapital towards venezuela,\" he said. Under the agreement signed february 27, venezuela extendedpayments on the debt from 12 to 14 years, while the interestrate was lowered from 1 y 1/8 to 7/8 of a pct over libor. At the same time, payments over the next three years werelowered from 3.450 to 1.350 billion dlrs. Lusinchi defended the rescheduling accord against criticswho said it merely deferred the weight of payments to futuregovernments.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "wpi", "rupiah", "gas", "ship" ], "paragraph": "Local 222 of the United Food andCommercial Workers Union said it is calling a membershipmeeting, possibly Sunday, to discuss its response to a decisionby Iowa Beef Processors Inc to lift a lockout at its DakotaCity, Nebraska plant and resume operations. The UFCWU will consider all options available to itincluding a strike or returning to work under IBP's last laborcontract proposal, a spokeswoman for Local 222 said by phone. About 2,800 UFCWU members have been locked out at theDakota City plant since December 14. IBP is a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "gas", "soy-meal", "groundnut-oil", "carcass" ], "paragraph": "Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa told apress conference he thinks exchange rates will remain stabledue to the currency accord reached in Paris last month by sixmajor industrialised nations but he did not say for how long. The dollar has hovered around 153 yen since the six agreedto cooperate to bring about currency stability. Asked to comment on remarks by some U.S. Officials callingfor a further decline of the dollar, Miyazawa said only theU.S. President and the U.S. Treasury Secretary can makeofficial statements about exchange rates.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "livestock", "carcass" ], "distractor groups": [ "retail", "dfl", "rye", "lit" ], "paragraph": "The Agriculture Ministry said it setJapan's beef import quota for the six months from April 1 at93,000 tonnes, up from 83,000 in the second half of 1986/87 and85,000 a year earlier. Under an agreement with the U.S. And Australia, Japan hasbeen increasing imports by 9,000 tonnes a year from March 31,1985, to reach a projected 177,000 tonnes in the year to March31, 1988.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr", "yen" ], "distractor groups": [ "instal-debt", "sun-oil", "corn-oil" ], "paragraph": "", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "interest" ], "distractor groups": [ "linseed", "groundnut-oil", "corn", "coconut" ], "paragraph": "The Bank of England said it provided themoney market with a further 195 mln stg assistance during theafternoon. This brings total help today to 841 mln stg compared with aliquidity shortage it has estimated at a revised one billionstg. The Bank bought 176 mln stg of band two bank bills outrightat 10-5/16 pct and 13 mln stg of band one bank bills at 10-3/8pct. In addition, it bought four mln stg of bills for resale tothe market on March 30 and two mln stg for resale on April 8,at a common interest rate of 10-7/16 pct.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "trade", "acq" ], "distractor groups": [ "propane", "naphtha", "ringgit", "rapeseed" ], "paragraph": "Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saidthe U.K. Was growing more impatient with Japanese tradebarriers and warned that it would soon have new powers againstcountries not offering reciprocal access to their markets. She told Parliament that the bid by the U.K.'s Cable andWireless Plc to enter the Japanese telecommunicationsmarket was being regarded by her government as a test case. \"I wrote to the prime minister of Japan, Mr Nakasone, on thefourth of March to express our interest on the Cable andWireless bid. I have not yet had a reply. We see this as a teston how open the Japanese market really is,\" Thatcher said. Thatcher told Parliament that \"shortly ... We shall havemore powers than we have now, when, for example the powersunder the Financial Services Act and the Banking Act becomeavailable, then we shall be able to take action in cases whereother countries do not offer the same full access to financialservices as we do.\" Cable and Wireless is seeking a stake in the proposedJapanese telecommunications rival to Kokusai Denshin Denwa. But the Japanese minister for post and telecommunicationswas reported as saying that he opposed Cable and Wirelesshaving a managerial role in the new company.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "earn" ], "distractor groups": [ "linseed", "tin", "ship", "sun-oil" ], "paragraph": "Honeywell Inc said its total debtrose by more than 85 pct in 1986, mainly due to its 1.02billion dlr acquisition of the Sperry Aerospace Group. At yearend, according to the company's 1986 annual report,Honeywell's total debt stood at 1.44 billion dlrs, comparedwith 776.6 mln dlrs in 1985. Honeywell said that if it had acquired the Sperry unit atthe beginning of 1986, its loss for the full year would havebeen 9.88 dlrs a share. Honeywell's actual loss in 1986 was 8.33 dlrs a share.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "sorghum", "trade", "sunseed", "sun-meal" ], "paragraph": "", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "hog", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "ringgit", "rupiah", "wpi", "rape-oil" ], "paragraph": "", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "nzdlr", "austdlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "oilseed", "pet-chem", "linseed", "sorghum" ], "paragraph": "Floating-rate notes denominated in aforeign currency, a relatively new wrinkle on Wall Street, willprobably be issued infrequently because the so-called \"windowof opportunity\" opens and closes quickly, traders say. \"In just two days we had as many issues. As a result, themarket became glutted,\" said one trader. He said the window depends more on supply than on foreignexchange or interest rate risk, at least for the moment.\"Obviously, currency risk is important. But there is a limitednumber of investors right now for the paper,\" he said. On Thursday, Bear, Stearns and Co sole-managed a 100 mlnNew Zealand dlr offering of three-year floating-rate notesissued by Ford Motor Credit Co, a unit of Ford Motor Co . The initial rate for the notes will be set on April 15, andquarterly after that, at 200 basis points below the 90-day NewZealand bank bill rate. They are non-callable for life. This followed by a week another Bear Stearns-led offeringof the same amount of New Zealand dollar notes for Dow ChemicalCo . The initial rate was also to be initially set onApril 15, and quarterly after that, at 340 basis points belowthe same 90-day New Zealand rate. Because the Dow Chemical notes carried an interest ratefloor of 17 pct, the issue saw strong investor demand,underwriters said. But the Ford Credit notes and Friday's offering of 130 mlnNew Zealand dlrs of floating-rate notes due 1990 issued byGeneral Electric Co's General Electric Credit Corp viaPrudential-Bache Securities Inc, did not have such a floor. \"Obviously, the two firms did not want to issue floatersand face the risk of New Zealand rates falling sharply,\" anunderwriter away from the syndicates said. He and others notedthat the New Zealand 90-day rate was 27 pct late last week. An underwriter familiar with the Dow Chemical deal pointedout that because of the interest rate and currency swaps Dowdid, the issuer felt comfortable setting a rate floor. Domestic offerings of foreign currency denominated datefirst surfaced in Fall 1985. By using currency and rate swaps,companies can sell debt that pays a high interest rate in aforeign currency like Australian or New Zealand dollars. Butthe issuers actually realize savings on borrowing costs. \"I would say that every company which issued foreigncurrency debt saved some basis points when compared tosame-maturity plain vanilla U.S. issues,\" an analyst said. Investors, mainly institutions, were attracted to the earlyissues because of the high interest rates. They were willing toabsorb foreign currency risk until mid-1986, when sharp slidesposted by the Australian and New Zealand dollars brought suchissuance to a quick halt. It was not until late last year, after the currenciesstabilized, that companies again started issuing debtdenominated in Australian and New Zealand dollars. But many investors have still shied away from the debt,remembering the mid-1986 downturn of the Australian and NewZealand dollars, analysts noted. To attract some of those investors back to the fold,underwriters like Bear Stearns decided to structure the foreigncurrency issues as floating rate debt, sources said. This occurred against a backdrop of uncertainty over thecourse of U.S. interest rates for the intermediate term, andpredictions by a number of economists that Treasury yieldswould rise in the second half of the year, the sources noted. A Bear Stearns officer said more than half of the FordCredit notes were sold by late Friday afternoon, the second dayof offering. \"That is quicker than some recent fixed-rate NewZealand dollar note issues,\" he said. However, underwriters away from the Bear Stearns syndicatesaid the issue may have sold even faster if Prudential-Bachedid not offer the General Electric Credit notes on Friday. They pointed out that the Ford notes were rated A-1 byMoody's Investors and AA-minus by Standard and Poor's, whilethe General Electric notes, which had the same interest rateterms and were also non-callable to maturity, carriedtop-flight AAA ratings by both agencies. \"We have sold 20 to 25 pct of the GE notes. For first-daysales on a Friday afternoon, I'm happy with the results,\" anofficer on Prudential-Bache's syndicate desk said. Investors pay the U.S. dollar equivalent of the foreigncurrency-denominated notes, underwriters said. Investment bankers said the next floating-rate issue of NewZealand or Australian dollar-denominated debt is probably a fewweeks away. \"I would like to underwrite a deal a day. But with the Dow,Ford and GE offerings, the marketplace has had enough for thetime being,\" the Prudential-Bache officer admitted. Meanwhile, IDD Information Services said the 30-daycorporate visible supply fell to 3.29 billion dlrs last weekfrom 3.98 billion dlrs in the previous week.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "wheat", "corn" ], "distractor groups": [ "wpi", "naphtha", "propane" ], "paragraph": "The Louisiana weekly USDA state cropreport said there were 2.4 days suitable for fieldwork. Soil moisture supplies rated 41 pct adequate and 59 pctsurplus. Winter Wheat - fair to good condition. eight pct headed vs27 pct a year ago and 17 pct average. Corn - eight pct planted vs 64 pct a year ago and 51 pctaverage. two pct emerged vs 45 y/a and 23 avg. Spring Plowing - seventeen pct completed vs 66 pct a yearago and 48 pct avg.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "dlr", "money-fx" ], "distractor groups": [ "cottonseed", "grain", "sorghum", "f-cattle" ], "paragraph": "Brazilian President Jose Sarneyannounced a move which temporarily legalises the purchase ofU.S. dollars in the parallel currency market, aimed atpromoting imports of foreign goods. In a speech, Sarney justified his measure as a need to face\"current well known difficulties to obtain foreign loans for thepurchase of goods.\" The parallel market, although officially tolerated, istechnically illegal in Brazil. For the past year, the dollar inthe parallel market has sold at between 25 and 100 pct abovethe official rate. Sarney's decision means Brazilian importers of machineryand industrial equipment can buy dollar currency in theparallel market without having to wait for an official orderfrom the Banco do Brasil's Foreign Trade Department (Cacex). Sarney also announced measures to boost exports in aneffort to strengthen the country's trade balance and alleviatethe risk of a reduction of foreign loans for this sector of theeconomy. The president authorised the National Foreign Trade Council(CONEX) to resume operating as the ruling body of Brazil'strade policy, with participation of the private sector. The Council had been closed three years ago by the militarygovernment of former President Joao Figueiredo.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "trade", "yen", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "coconut", "strategic-metal", "livestock" ], "paragraph": "The U.S. Is willing to drop tariffs onJapanese electronic imports if Japan shows it will abide by anagreemement opening its markets to American goods, U.S. TradeRepresentative Clayton Yeutter said in a TV interview. \"But there has to be a clear indication that they arewilling to act,\" he said. Yeutter said difficulties in the Japanese economy caused bythe U.S. Tariffs and the yen's rise against the dollar areproblems \"they have brought on themselves.\" The dollar fell to 40-year lows against the yen today. \"Certainly the movement of the yen is causing some economicturmoil in Japan,\" he said. \"My only response is that we havegone through about five years with the dollar going in just theopposite direction. Although I can sympathise, it's occurredfor only a few weeks or months in Japan.\" The tarriffs, announced on Friday by President Reagan, willaffect about 300 million dlrs worth of products, only a tinyfraction of Japan's total exports to the U.S. Even so, Reagan's decision \"doesn't give us any joy. Wedon't want to take retaliatory action here if we don't have to,\"Yeutter said. Yeutter said the meetings scheduled next month inWashington between Reagan and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasonewill include \"some difficult items on the agenda.\" Japan has failed to implement two parts of a three-partsemiconductor agreement, Yeutter said. Japan has stopped dumping chips in the U.S. But it hasfailed to open its domestic markets to U.S.-made chips and hasfailed to end predatory pricing in Third World countries,undercutting U.S. Products, he said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "wheat" ], "distractor groups": [ "naphtha", "bop", "dfl", "cpu" ], "paragraph": "U.S. Agriculture Secretary RichardLyng declined to confirm statements made today by a farm statecongressman that the United States will offer subsidized wheatto the Soviet Union within the next 10 days to two weeks. When asked to clarify comments by Rep. Pat Roberts ofKansas that the administration would soon offer ExportEnhancement wheat to the Soviet Union Lyng said, \"well it won'tbe today,\" and then added, \"we have no official comment one wayor the other.\" Lyng would not comment on whether a wheat subsidy offer tothe USSR is under more active consideration at the USDA, sayingthat any remarks by him would be tantamount to an officialannouncement and could be construed inappropriately.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr", "yen" ], "distractor groups": [ "soybean", "cruzado", "pet-chem" ], "paragraph": "", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "sun-oil", "pet-chem", "cottonseed", "tapioca" ], "paragraph": "Bank of Japan Governor Satoshi Sumita saidthe present foreign exchange market instability will not lastlong as there is caution in the market regarding the rapiddecline of the U.S. Unit. He told reporters the major currency nations are determinedto continue their concerted intervention whenever necessary tostave off speculative dollar selling in line with theirFebruary 22 currency stability agreement in Paris. Sumita also said he did not see the recent dollar drop asanything like a free-fall.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "livestock", "carcass" ], "distractor groups": [ "palmkernel", "oat", "lin-oil", "interest" ], "paragraph": "The American Meat Institute, AME,said it intended to ask the U.S. government to retaliateagainst a European Community meat inspection requirement. AME President C. Manly Molpus also said the industry wouldfile a petition challenging Korea's ban of U.S. meat products. Molpus told a Senate Agriculture subcommittee that AME andother livestock and farm groups intended to file a petitionunder Section 301 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Tradeagainst an EC directive that, effective April 30, will requireU.S. meat processing plants to comply fully with EC standards. The meat industry will seek to have the U.S. governmentretaliate against EC and Korean exports if their complaints areupheld.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "pet-chem", "crude" ], "distractor groups": [ "platinum", "yen", "cpu", "palmkernel" ], "paragraph": "Yugoslavia's top oil and natural gasproducer has started to implement a cooperationcontract signed last year with the French petrochemical concern, the official Tanjug news agency said. Under the deal Petro Chemie supplies oil to Ina refineriesin Sisak and Rijeka and ships parts to 12 Yugoslav firms in thepetrochemical, chemical, textile and plastics industries. TheYugoslav firms, in turn, will export oil products to France. Tanjug said this year's exchange will value 530 mln dlrs. Ina signed a similar deal with West Germany's Hoechst AG two years ago. Ina also has joint ventures and co-production projects,involving Yugoslavia's other main producer of NoviSad, with partners in Angola, Algeria and Tunisia, exploringfor and exploiting oil and natural gas. An estimated 300,000 tonnes of oil will thus be obtainedfrom fields in Angola over the next 15 years, Tanjug said. Ina accounts for some 75 pct of Yugoslavia's total oilproduction, which amounts to 4.2 mln tonnes a year. Ina earned more than 154 mln dlrs from exports of goods andservices to 39 countries last year and ranks among Yugoslavia'sleading export enterprises. In a separate statement issued through Tanjug, Ina said ithas successfully completed the first drill at the depth of over3,000 meters in the Bay of Baes, in Tunisia. Ina is jointlyprospecting with the U.S. Firm Conoco for oil and gas there. Work on a second drill, below 4,000 meters, would startsoon in the Bay of Gabes, the statement said. Ina would investabout 8.5 mln dlrs in prospecting in the Gabes area. Conoco, which has completed geological prospecting for theTunisian government, has transferred one third of its optionrights in the region to Ina, it said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "iron-steel", "zinc", "lead" ], "distractor groups": [ "nzdlr", "palmkernel", "instal-debt" ], "paragraph": "India will get 104.65 mln stg asgrants from Britain to develop its coal, zinc and leadindustries, the British Information Services said in astatement. It said a 31 mln stg grant would be disbursed over three tofour years under an agreement signed here yesterday between theIndian Finance Ministry and the British Overseas DevelopmentAdministration. The British grants for developing the Indian coal industryusing British mechanised longwall technology totalled 52 mlnstg in the past 10 years, it said. Under a separate agreement, the British government agreedto provide 73.65 mln stg as a grant to develop a zinc and leadmine at Rampura-Agucha and an associated smelting complex atChaneriya, both in India's northern state of Rajasthan, thestatement said. The grant will finance the basic engineering for thesmelter complex to be undertaken by Britain's ofStockton. It will also help develop the mine complex, it added.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "ipi", "inventories" ], "distractor groups": [ "f-cattle", "saudriyal", "sorghum", "corn" ], "paragraph": "Japan's January seasonally adjustedindustrial production index (base 1980) was revised upwards to122.3 from a preliminary 122.0, the Ministry of InternationalTrade and Industry said. The revised adjusted January index was down 0.5 pct fromDecember when it rose 3.6 pct from a month earlier. The revised unadjusted January index rose 0.5 pct from ayear earlier, after a one pct year-on-year December rise. The adjusted producers' shipment index (base 1980) forJanuary was revised upward to 117.7 from a preliminary 117.4. The index was down 0.7 pct from December when it rose threepct from a month earlier. The revised unadjusted index was up1.0 pct from a year earlier after a 1.4 pct year-on-yearDecember rise. The adjusted index of producers' inventories of finishedgoods (base 1980) for January was unchanged from a preliminary105.9. The index was down 0.3 pct from December when it rose1.1 pct. Unadjusted, the revised index was down 2.3 pct from ayear earlier after a 2.1 pct year-on-year drop in December.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "trade", "gnp" ], "distractor groups": [ "cpi", "hog", "meal-feed", "cotton" ], "paragraph": "Brazilian Finance MinisterDilson Funaro said his country's foreign debt crisis could onlybe solved by changes in the international financial system. Speaking to a business conference he said \"It is not Brazilthat has to make adjustments with the IMF (InternationalMonetary Fund). It is the international financial communitythat is taking away resources from the developing countries.\" \"The crisis is not in Brazil, a country that has had thethird biggest trade surplus ...In the past two years Brazil hadremitted 24 billion dlrs in debt servicing and received onlytwo billion in fresh funds,\" he added. Funaro said that during his recent trip to the U.S., Europeand Japan to explain Brazil's decision last month to suspendinterest payments on 68 billion dlrs of commercial debt, hestressed the country's commitment to growth. \"We need to and will make the effort (to solve the debtproblem) but we cannot make an effort that means we stopgrowing,\" he said, adding that political and not purelycommercial solutions were needed to the debt crisis. Brazil, whose 108 billion dlr foreign debt is the largestin the developing world, has been under pressure from officialand private creditors to work out an economic adjustmentprogram with the IMF to combat rocketing inflation and foreignpayments problems. President Jose Sarney's government has repeatedly refusedto approach the Fund, arguing that an IMF programme would leadto recession. Funaro said that in his talks with creditors hehad tried to restore credibility in the country in the hope offinding a lasting solution to the debt problem. \"We are negotiating so that the debt question should not beone of continuous crisis.\" To sustain internal growth Brazil would have to import moremachinery and equipment this year and export fewer rawmaterials. The country was thus targetting a fall in thisyear's trade surplus to 8.0 billion dlrs from 1986's 9.5billion. Domestically, Funaro said economies had led to a reductionin the public sector deficit to 2.7 pct of gross domesticproduct in 1986, the lowest for many years and that this shouldfall to 1.5 pct this year.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "castor-oil", "iron-steel", "red-bean", "dkr" ], "paragraph": "The United Food and Commercial Workersunion, Local 222 said its members voted Sunday to strike theIowa Beef Processors Inc Dakota City, Neb., plant, effectiveTuesday. The company said it submitted its latest offer to the unionat the same time announcing that on Tuesday it would end alockout that started December 14. Union members unanimously rejected the latest company offerthat was submitted to the union late last week, UFCW unionspokesman Allen Zack said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "corn", "wheat", "oilseed", "soybean" ], "distractor groups": [ "income" ], "paragraph": "The USDA's weekly export inspectionreport is expected to show steady corn and wheat exports andlower soybean exports, according to CBT floor traders'forecasts. Traders projected soybean exports at 16 mln to 18 mlnbushels, down from 18.6 mln bushels a week ago and 20.3 mlnbushels a year ago. Corn guesses ranged from 22 mln to 26 mln bushels, comparedwith 25.2 mln bushels a week ago and 22.4 million bushels ayear ago. Wheat guesses ranged from 13 mln to 17 mln bushels,compared with 16.8 mln bushels a week ago and 13.4 mln bushelsa year ago.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "bop", "trade", "austdlr", "money-fx", "interest" ], "distractor groups": [ "cotton-oil" ], "paragraph": "The Australian dollar rose more than 40points and money market interest rates retreated on the betterthan expected improvement in the February current accountdeficit, but economists and dealers were cautious aboutidentifying it as the start of a downward trend. The current account deficit narrowed to 750 mln dlrs inFebruary from 1.23 billion in January. It hit 13.82 billiondlrs in 1985/86 to end-June. The currency jumped to 0.6858/63 U.S. Dlrs and traded ashigh as 0.6875 before retreating to around 0.6864/69. \"It's got 69 cents written all over it,\" one dealer said. Foreign exchange dealers said some buyers had gone long onthe dollar expecting a lower figure and sold it down about 30points to 0.6820 U.S. Dlrs before the release. The 750 mln dlr deficit was at the lower end of forecastsand analysts said the market would welcome any figure below onebillion dlrs for March. Banque National de Paris senior dealer PeterNicolls cautioned that in the long term the currency andinterest rates were too high for import substitution and exportindustries. Nicolls said he expected the dollar to go as high as 0.6875and perhaps to 69 cents tomorrow. chief economist Will Buttrose saidthe 42 mln dlr trade surplus was encouraging as were imports at2.77 billion dlrs, down from 2.99 billion in January. But he warned that the outlook for rural and iron and coalexports remained poor. \"We should remember we are payingsomething like seven to eight billion dollars simply to serviceour foreign debt and that is not going to go away in the nearterm,\" Buttrose said. Buttrose said he expected a March deficit of around 900 mlndlrs, and added \"Any figure under a billion dollars will beacceptable (to the markets).\" ANZ Banking Group Ltd senior economist Ian Littlesaid the big question was whether the improvement in exportscould be sustained. February FOB exports rose to 2.82 billiondlrs from a revised 2.74 billion in January. Interest rates responded quickly to the deficit news, with90-day bank bill yields falling to 16.42-16.45 pct from earlyhighs of 16.50 and yields yesterday as high as 16.65. Longer term yields fell with 10-year bonds at 13.66/68 pctfrom 13.74 before the release and highs of 13.87 yesterday. The stock market was easier at midsession but brokers saidthe current account data had little impact on trading.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "austdlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "soybean", "orange", "hog", "citruspulp" ], "paragraph": "Spot volume in the Australian foreignexchange market jumped to a record 22.63 billion dlrs a day inJanuary from 16.18 billion in December and 8.27 billion a yearearlier, the Reserve Bank said in its monthly bulletin. The previous record was 17.51 billion dlrs last August. The peak broke a steady trading trend of 15 to 17 billiondlrs a day seen in the second half of 1986. Including forward deals, total deliverable volume was 27.01billion dlrs a day (13.43 billion against the Australiandollar) against 19.56 billion (8.48 billion) in December and9.92 billion (5.88 billion) a year earlier, the bank said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "wheat", "grain" ], "distractor groups": [ "propane", "cruzado", "rand", "dlr" ], "paragraph": "The U.S. Agriculture Department saidit has accepted a bid for an export bonus to cover the sale of50,000 tonnes of hard red winter wheat to Sri Lanka. A bonus of 37.44 dlrs per tonne was awarded to ContinentalGrain Co on the shipment scheduled for April 8-16, Melvin Sims,USDA general sales manager said. An additional 10,000 tonnes of wheat are still available toSri Lanka under the export enhancement program, Sims said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "nat-gas", "propane" ], "distractor groups": [ "rye", "cottonseed", "platinum", "citruspulp" ], "paragraph": "International LPG prices were mixed inthe past week, with North Sea prices easier while prices in theMediterranean and the Gulf were up in April, traders said. In the North Sea market, small cargoes of propane were soldas high as 126 dlrs per tonne on the f.o.b. basis early in theweek, but prices eased after the majors posted their Aprilcontract prices, traders said. British Petroleum plc left propane unchanged at 110dlrs and raised butane prices 5.50 dlrs to 123 dlrs, Shell, aunit of Royal Dutch/Shell Group raised propane threedlrs to 113 and butane 5.50 dlrs to 123 dlrs, they said. In the Mediterranean, prices firm in Lavera as Algeriansupplies were not always available. Spot propane was unchanged,while butane rose about 25 dlrs from last week, traders said. They said, however, the Mediterranean butane market wasvery thin, making it subject to wide price swings. In the Gulf, strong demand from the Far East pushed premiumon small cargoes five to 10 dlrs above government selling price(gsp) for propane and 10 dlrs for butane, traders said. The rising premium over gsp, however, was partially offsetby about 10 pct decline in shipping, making prices for propaneabout unchanged and butane five dlrs higher, basis c. and f.Japan, the traders said.SPOT.(DLRS/TONNE)......PROPANE..............BUTANE...........NORTH SEA (FOB)........113/117..............125/130..........NORTH SEA (CIF)........120/125..............135/140..........MEDITERRANEAN.(CIF)....140/145..............175/180..........THE GULF (FOB).........130/135..............140/145..........JAPAN (C AND F)........155/160..............160/165..........OFFICIAL PRICES-FOB..........................................SAUDI ARABIA (3/1)........125.................125............ALGERIA......(3/1)........120.................130............BP/POSTED PRICE.(4/1).....110.................123.00.........SHELL/POSTED PRICE.(4/1)..113.................123.00.........", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "trade", "gnp" ], "distractor groups": [ "carcass", "instal-debt", "money-fx", "coffee" ], "paragraph": "The U.S. Administration, underCongressional pressure to cut the trade deficit, will urgeTokyo and Bonn to meet commitments to speed economic growth tostabilise currencies at Wednesday's meetings of leadingindustrial nations in Washington, monetary sources said. The U.S. Will also try to develop proposals made at the1986 Tokyo Summit for measures to ensure agreements such as theParis Accord are more binding, they said. Treasury Secretary James Baker's dual initiatives reflectU.S. Frustration with the two countries for not moving fastenough to curb their huge trade surpluses, they added. Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa is expected tobring the outline of an economic stimulus package to themeeting, which will be attended by West Germany, France,Britain, Italy and Canada as well as the U.S. And Japan, thesources said. \"The sooner the Japanese can announce their intention toannounce a stimulative package,the better it is for Japan andfor the exchange markets in general,\" one of the sources said. Treasury Secretary James Baker said the Paris Agreement, inwhich West Germany and Japan made their commitments, will berenewed by the industrial countries this week. Other U.S. Officials said a meeting of the Group of Sevenwill be a status report on progress Bonn and Tokyo have madesetting up stimulus measures. The U.S. Will tell its partners that it expects a furthersubstantial budget deficit reduction package to be agreed withCongress this year, the sources said. Washington would like its economic partners to establishspecific economic policy goals. Sharp deviations from the setobjectives would trigger consultations among the countries onappropriate corrective action, they added. The Paris accord envisaged surplus countries like Japan andWest Germany stimulating domestic demand to absorb more importsand the U.S. Cutting its budget deficit, thereby depressing itsdemand for imports. But the markets are signalling the dollar's floor may befar below its level at the time the Paris agreement was struck,the sources said. Monetary sources also said the dollar's recent sharp fallagainst the yen reflected the U.S.-Japanese dispute oversemi-conductor trade which resulted in U.S. Tariffs on certainJapanese electronic goods. One of the sources said the dispute has to some extentsoured the atmosphere ahead of the meetings. Congressional sentiment for protectionist measures, aimedparticularly at Japan, has strengthened, the sources said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "palmkernel", "gnp", "coconut", "tapioca" ], "paragraph": "The Bundesbank did not intervene asthe dollar was fixed lower at 1.8218 marks after 1.8243yesterday, dealers said. Dealers said dollar trading was very quiet over theEuropean morning, with operators made wary by today's meetingof the Group of Five finance ministers and central bank chiefsahead of the full IMF/World Bank session in Washington. It was undermined by remarks from U.S. Council of EconomicAdvisers Chairman Beryl Sprinkel who told Iowa bankers the U.S.Had no objective regarding the value of the dollar. Sprinkel also called the reference to stabilizing exchangerates at about current levels, made at the Paris meeting onFebruary 22, a \"vague statement,\" casting doubt on operators'assumptions that a secret target level had been set. Sprinkel added that if West Germany and Japan made progressto stimulate their economies as the Paris agreement envisaged,\"there would not be the necessity of significant declines in thedollar.\" One dealer for a U.S.-based bank noted the dollar tendedeasier after the remarks. \"They were obviously regarded as beingnegative. And if the market starts regarding anything thatcomes out negatively then it means that the underlyingsentiment is negative,\" he said. Some early selling pressure softened the dollar'sundertone. Most operators overlooked intervention by the Bank of Japanto support the dollar against selling in favour of the yen byinstitutional investors and overseas operators, dealers said. After the strong focus on the dollar/yen rate in recentweeks up to the end of the Japanese financial year on March 31,interest and activity was likely to switch, dealers said. \"We can start to look at a point in time where the interestshifts away from dollar/yen and more into dollar/mark and theother European currencies,\" the U.S. Bank dealer said. Despite the softer undertone, traders would remain wary oftaking significant new positions during the Washingtonmeetings, dealers said. Aside from the G-5 session today,Bundesbank President Karl Otto Poehl is due to meet the GermanAffairs group on international monetary issues later. The mark gained some strength from news the Bundesbank seta new securities repurchase tender to add money marketliquidity at a fixed 3.80 pct, unchanged from those over thelast several weeks. Some expectation had been growing that itmight cut the rate or move to a minimum interest rate tender,signalling a desire for a slight easing in credit policy. Bundesbank central bank council member Lothar Mueller saidthe Bundesbank had not given up its focus on money supply. Amonetary policy which took into account exchange rates andcapital flows could not be confused with an exchange-rateoriented policy, he said, contradicting some growing sentiment. Sterling eased a touch to 2.950 marks at the fixing from2.957. The yen's unabated strength, despite the intervention,brought it up to 1.2555 marks per 100 from yesterday's 1.2480. The Swiss franc rose to a fix of 120.515 marks per 100 from120.180. The French franc eased to 30.055 marks per 100 after30.060, Belgian franc was little changed at 4.829 marks per100.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr", "trade" ], "distractor groups": [ "oilseed", "rand", "palladium" ], "paragraph": "Shifts in domestic economic policy,not a further fall in the dollar or trade restrictions, are thekey to reducing imbalances in trade and payments, Dutch FinanceMiniister H. Onno Ruding said. Ruding told a meeting of the World Trade Forum here thatprotectionism would naturally lead to retaliation and aggravatethe problems of heavily indebted developing countries. \"The main contribution towards resolving the still enourmousU.S. trade deficit is not repeat not a further fall in thedollar, is not still more protectionism in your country.\" \"No, it is - like in other countries - changes in domesticeconomic and financial policies,\" Ruding said. Ruding said he was less worried about a crisis of theweakening dollar than he was in January before the Paris accordto stabilize foreign exchange rates. He said the highest priority should be given to policychanges in the United States, especially reducing the budgetdeficit and encouraging domestic savings. But he said other countries, such as Japan and WestGermany, also needed to take greater steps toward reducingtheir trade surpluses.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "hog", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "palmkernel", "pet-chem", "alum", "soy-meal" ], "paragraph": "Chicago Mercantile Exchange floortraders and commission house representatives are guesstimatingtoday's hog slaughter at about 295,000 to 305,000 head versus307,000 week ago and 311,000 a year ago. Cattle slaughter is guesstimated at about 124,000 to128,000 head versus 127,000 week ago and 126,000 a year ago.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "crude", "nat-gas" ], "distractor groups": [ "yen", "rupiah", "rapeseed", "tapioca" ], "paragraph": "Amoco Corp's petroleum liquids reservestotal 2.42 billion barrels at the end of 1986, down from 2.77billion a year earlier, but its natural gas reserves increasedto 15.37 trillion cubic feet from 15.14 trillion, the company'sannual report said. It said the drop in crude oil and natural gas liquidreserves reflected downward revisions of previous estimatescaused by the sharp drop in oil prices last year. Thisaccounted for 178 mln barrels of a worldwide downward revisionof 188 mln barrels, with 158 mln barrels of the total revisionoccurring in the United States, the report said. Amoco said there were upward revisions in the size of itsworldwide gas reserves totalling 404 billion cubic feet lastyear, while it discovered 568 billion cubic feet and purchased298 billion cubic feet of reserves. Production of one trillion cubic feet offset much of thesegains, the report said. All of the gas reserve purchases, as well as all of the 14mln barrels of oil reserves bought in 1986, were in the UnitedStates, Amoco said, noting it has spent 1.1 billion dlrs toacquire U.S. producing properties over the past three years. Commenting on 1987, Amoco said acquisitions \"will be anintegral part of our strategy, should reserves become availableat attractive prices.\" The company said it expects \"the marketing climate fornatural gas to improve in 1987, which should provide theopportunity for Amoco to expand sales. As prices and demandimprove, we are poised to accelerate capital spending on ourinventory of attractive opportunities.\" Amoco previously announced a 1987 capital spending budgetof 3.2 billion dlrs. Such spending totaled 3.18 billion dlrslast year, down from 5.31 billion in 1985.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "rice", "wheat", "tea", "sugar" ], "distractor groups": [ "hk" ], "paragraph": "Three geographically diverse droughtsin Asia are being linked by some scientists to areintensification of the complex and little-understood El Ninoweather pattern, , a commercial weatherforecasting service, said. Rice and wheat farmers in China, wheat and sugarcanegrowers in Australia and tea planters in Sri Lanka all faceserious losses to their respective harvests unless rains arrivein time to break the droughts, offical reports, governmentofficials and meteorologists said. Wen Wei Po, a Hong Kong daily with close Peking links, saidthe drought is the worst in over 20 years and some provinceshave been without adequate rainfall for more than seven months. Rice planting is threatened in eight provinces, it added. Rainfall in the key farming provinces of Henan and Sichuanwas 70 pct below average during February, the lowest figure forover 20 years, the paper said. The dry weather has cut stored water volumes by over 20 pctcompared with last March and lowered the water levels of manyrivers, it added. This has resulted in reduced hydro-electric power, causingshortages to industry and households. The upper reaches of theYangtze are at their lowest levels in a century, causing manyships to run aground, Wen Wei Po said. Unusually high temperatures have also been reported acrossChina, media reports said. The People's Daily said Sichuan hasrecorded temperatures three degrees Celsius higher than averagesince early February. The New China News Agency said the average Decembertemperature in Harbin in the northeast was six degrees higherthan last December and 14 degrees higher than December 1984. Severe drought is affecting about one-third of Sri Lankaand threatens to reduce the country's tea crop, Ministry ofPlantation Industries officials told Reuters In Australia, concern is growing about below-averagerainfall levels in parts of the sugarcane belt along theQueensland coast and in Western Australia's wheat belt, localMeteorological Bureau officials said. For many farmers and government officials the fear is thatwhile the present low rainfall does not yet pose a majorthreat, the prospect of a dry autumn/winter season when thewheat crop is in its early stages certainly does, they added. Concern is heightened by the memory of the 1982/83 droughtwhich devastated the wheat crop and coincided with theoccurrence of the barely understood weather phenomenon known asEl Nino, they said. Although meteorologists are cautious about linking theAsia-Pacific region's disrupted weather patterns to any singlecause, El Nino's role is being closely studied, they said. Accu-Weather Inc, which specialises in providing data foragriculture and shipping interests, said each El Nino 'event'was unique. The El Nino does not always produce the same effects andthe present occurrence is much less pronounced than the lastmajor event in 1982/83, it said. El Nino, Spanish for \"Christ Child\" because it appears aroundChristmas, is formed by the action of warm air, bearing cloudsand rain, shifting from the Indonesian archipelago to the coastof Peru, where it mingles with the cold waters associated withthe Peru current and returns across the Pacific as the tradewinds, meteorologists said. The winds, strengthened by El Nino's \"pump\" effect, raise thesea level off Australia and Indonesia, they said. When the winds drop, the ocean, seeking equilibrium, sendsa surge of warmer water back across the Pacific where itcollides with the cold seas off Peru, they said. One effect of this heat exchange is to deflect therain-bearing clouds away from Australia and Indonesia into thePacific, where they further disrupt other weather patterns. The prospects for an end to the droughts vary, Accu-Weathersaid. China, where the affected areas have received between 40and 75 pct of normal rainfall, will have to wait for theMay-September rains, it said. The May-September rains normally provide thedrought-striken areas with 80 pct of annual rainfall. In Australia, areas of Queensland's coastal strip havereceived less than half the normal rainfall during the currentwet season, but prospects for increased rains are diminishingas the rainy season draws to an end. In Sri Lanka, the drought has come when rainfall should beat its maximum for the year. The year's secondary rains usuallyoccur between April and June, although it is not possible atthis stage to forecast whether they will arrive as usual.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "earn", "acq" ], "distractor groups": [ "soybean", "l-cattle", "cocoa", "palladium" ], "paragraph": "Bally Manufacturing Corp's proposedpublic offering of 24 pct of its Health and Tennis Corp unit isseen as the first step towards the sale of the entire unit,analysts said. \"In the longer-term horizon, Bally wants to concentrate onits gaming businesses,\" said analyst Dennis Forst of SeidlerAmdec Securities Inc. Last week, Bally said it was considering the sale ofanother non-casino unit, its Six Flags amusement park unit,which analysts said could fetch about 300 mln dlrs. Bally spokesman Bill Peltier said \"the company currentlyhas no hard plans to the sell any more of the health clubcompany, but in the long term we'll wait and see how theoffering goes.\" Once Bally's biggest revenue producer, the health club unithad 1986 operating income of 60 mln dlrs on revenues of 456.2mln dlrs, 28 pct of Bally's revenues. Analysts estimate theunit could be sold for for 300-500 mln dlrs. Analysts said Bally's decision to offer shares in the unitcould be the first step to selling it. \"It would seem obvious that an offering would decrease thehealth club unit's debt, increase its cash flow and operatingincome, making it an attractive buy to a third party,\" StevenEisenberg of Bear Stearns said. On Monday, Bally said it filed with the Securities andExchange Commission for an initial offering of 24 pct, or 5.8mln shares, of the unit's common stock at 13-15 dlrs a share. About half the proceeds, 40 mln dlrs, will be used to reduceparent Bally Manufacturing's debt which has swelled to 1.6billion dlrs due to recent hotel acquisitions and the purchaseof shares from Donald Trump who had threatened a hostiletakeover, according to Bally treasurer Paul Johnson. Remaining proceeds from the stock offering and from aseparate offering of 50 mln dlrs of 20-year convertiblesubordinated debt would be used to repay about 75 mln dlrs ofshort term senior bank debt of the health chain unit, a Ballyspokesperson said. Analysts said Bally's health club unit's profits haveremained strong, but are skeptical about the industry's longrange prospects. \"The fitness club industry, over the last 10 years, hasgrown tremendously, but the question is whether its a fad or apermanent part of our lifestyle,\" said Eisenberg of BearStearns. Analysts said fitness clubs will likely flourish if thepublic stays at its peak of health consciousness, but thatovercapacity is likely to occur as consumer enthusiasm wanes. In addition, \"the returns in the fitness club industry arejust not as high as they are in the gaming industry,\" said oneanalyst. There are about 6,500 fitness clubs in the U.S., excludingclubs run by not-for-profit organizations, according to theAssociation of Physical Fitness Centers who estimates it to bean 8.0-billion-dlr-a-year industry. Asked if anyone has offered to buy the unit, which is thenation's largest health club chain, Peltier said, \"no one hasthe money to offer to buy it.\" \"The fitness industry is a fragmented industry with noleader and there is a great opportunity for growth throughacquisition and then standardization,\" said Wayne LaChapelle,chief financial officer of Livingwell INc , the nation'ssecond largest fitness chain operator whih LaChapelle said Livingwell is always interested inacquisition opportunities but \"could not afford an acquisitionthe size of Bally at this time.\"", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "corn" ], "distractor groups": [ "nzdlr", "ipi", "tapioca", "l-cattle" ], "paragraph": "", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "ship" ], "distractor groups": [ "nickel", "pet-chem", "carcass", "wpi" ], "paragraph": "Regency Cruises Inc said it agreed tosell a 40 pct interest in the corporation that owns the M/VRegent Sea cruise ship for 2.1 mln dlrs to MonmouthInternational SA, which owns the other 60 pct. The company said it also extended a 1.7 mln dlr securedloan to Monmouth to finance completion of the renovation ofanother vessel, the M/V Regent Star, which is scheduled tobegin operating in late June. Regency Cruises, which operates both ships, received afive-year extension, to November 1995, to the Regent Sea'soriginal charter agreement, it said. It also received areduction, to 600,000 dlrs from 1.6 mln dlrs, of its totalcharter guarantee for the Regent Sea and Regent Star. Regency also reported 1986 earnings of 5,695,000 dlrs or 37cts a share on revenues of 40.9 mln dlrs. It began operationsin November 1985. In addition, the company said its bank, Irving Bank Corp, agreed to waive a one mln dlr counter guarantee for thebank to provide a 2.6 mln dlrs guarantee for Regency's FederalMaritime Commission bond. The company said after April 3 the exercise price of itswarrants will return to two dlrs until they expire April 21.The price had been reduced to 1.50 dlrs for the three weeksending April 3.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "wheat", "rice" ], "distractor groups": [ "nkr", "trade", "retail" ], "paragraph": "Light, scattered showers coveredwinter wheat areas in the North China Plain in the week endedMarch 14, moistening topsoils for wheat, just breaking dormancyin most central and northern areas, the Joint AgriculturalWeather Facility of the U.S. Agriculture and CommerceDepartments said. In its International Weather and Crop summary, the agencysaid southern winter wheat areas are in the early vegetativestage. Above-normal February temperatures over the North ChinaPlain caused winter grains to break dormancy early in thesouth. Moderate to heavy rains in southern Jiangsu, Anhui,eastern Hebei, Hunan , Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zheziang, reversedFebruary's below normal precipitation pattern. The agency said the wet weather in these areas providedample moisture for rice planting and lessened the need forirrigation. Mostly dry weather in early-rice areas of Guanxi andGuandong resulted in irrigation for continued rice planting, itsaid.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "wheat", "corn" ], "distractor groups": [ "lit", "reserves", "income", "hk" ], "paragraph": "The U.S. Agriculture Department saidprivate U.S. exporters reported sales of 350,000 tonnes of cornfor delivery to unknown destinations during the 1986/87marketing season. The marketing year for corn began September 1. This is the second day running that exporters have reportedcorn sales to unknown destinations. Yesterday, they reportedsales of 150,000 tonnes to unknown.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "corn" ], "distractor groups": [ "saudriyal", "ringgit", "inventories", "dkr" ], "paragraph": "The joint committee of Taiwan's maizeimporters awarded contracts to five U.S. Companies to supply atotal of 462,000 tonnes of maize for delivery between May 10and October 10, a committee spokesman said. Cigra Inc won a contract for a cargo of 56,000 tonnes,priced at 79.41 U.S. Dlrs per tonne fob pacific northwest port,for delivery on July 5 and 20. Continental Grain Co of New York received three shipments,totalling 143,000 tonnes, price ranging from 90.95 to 95.75U.S. Dlrs per tonne c and f Taiwan for delivery between May 10and October 10. Cargill Inc of Minnesota took two shipments, totalling83,000 tonnes priced between 92.00 and 92.93 U.S. Dlrs pertonne c and f Taiwan for September 5-20/September 10-25delivery. United Grain Corp of Oregon won three contracts tosupply 93,000 tonnes priced from 92.32 to 93.19 U.S. Dlrs pertonne c and f Taiwan for delivery between May 10 and July 30. Garnac Grain Co Inc of New Jersey received two shipments,totalling 87,000 tonnes at 88.90 to 92.29 U.S dlrs c and fTaiwan for delivery between July 10 and August 10.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "interest", "trade", "gnp", "bop", "cpi" ], "distractor groups": [ "groundnut-oil" ], "paragraph": "New Zealand's inflation and interestrates should decline and the balance of payments improvesignificantly in the fiscal year to the end of March 1988, theInstitute of Economic Research (NZIER) said. The independent institute said in its quarterly March issuethat it was also revising its fiscal 1987 real gross domesticproduct (GDP) forecast to a fall of 0.5 pct against the one pctdrop forecast in December. Government figures show GDP grew at an annual 1.8 pct inthe quarter to September and 3.4 pct in the June quarter. The NZIER said the sharp improvement in the June andSeptember quarters was due mainly to a new tax structure andthe introduction of a 10 pct value-added goods and services taxand is not expected to continue in the second half of 1986/87. The government's tight fiscal position is not expected tochange, it said. Annual inflation, measured by the consumer price index, isforecast to fall to nine pct by next March from 18.2 pct incalendar 1986, it said. \"Falling inflation is likely to give significant scope forreductions in nominal interest rates; real interest rates arealso expected to ease (albeit slightly) as the balance ofpayments deficit and hence the call on overseas capital, fallsaway,\" the NZIER said. Short-term interest rates are forecast to remain between 20and 25 pct until the June quarter, but will decline over thesecond half of 1987/88 to between 16 and 18 pct. Long-termrates are expected to fall to between 14 and 16 pct. Five year government bond rates are currently 18.40 pct andthe key indicator 30-day bank bills 26.53 pct. The local dollar is expected to depreciate steadily in theearly part of the coming year and, by next March, reach 57.5 onthe Reserve Bank's trade weighted index, which is based on abasket of currencies. The index now stands at around 66.4. \"A marked improvement in the balance of payments isforecast,\" the NZIER said. \"The current account deficit isexpected to fall from 7.5 pct of GDP in 1985/86 to 4.5 pct in1986/87 and 2.5 pct in 1987/88.\" The current account deficit is forecast to shrink to 1.32billion N.Z. Dlrs in 1987/88 from 2.40 billion in 1986/87 and3.33 billion in 1985/86. The 1987/88 budget deficit is forecast to be 2.8 billiondlrs against an expected 2.9 billion dlrs in 1986/87 and 1.87billion in 1985/86. This compares with the government's 1986/87 deficit figureof 2.92 billion against an earlier forecast of 2.45 billion. \"Conditions in the coming year are sufficiently subdued tocontribute to marked improvements in both the balance ofpayments and the rate of inflation ...,\" the NZIER said. \"Overall, these are significant gains for the New Zealandeconomy and, if they continue to be improved upon, bode wellfor future prospects.\"", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "livestock", "carcass" ], "distractor groups": [ "sugar", "silver", "palmkernel", "cotton" ], "paragraph": "Exotic Newcastle, a highly contagiousdisease of pet birds and poultry, has been confirmed in twopet-bird dealer facilities in Maryland, and New York, the U.S.Agriculture Department said. The department said no domestic poultry are involved in theoutbreak. State quarantines have been placed on the two facilities,in Hunt Valley, Maryland, and Schenectady, New York. The most serious U.S. outbreak of the disease occurred in1971-73 in southern California, where the disease spread frominfected pet birds to a dense poultry population and nearly 12mln birds, mostly laying hens, were destroyed at a cost of 56mln dlrs, the department said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "wheat" ], "distractor groups": [ "tapioca", "cpi", "veg-oil", "nzdlr" ], "paragraph": "Australia is risking wheat exportsales by not providing enough specific quality grades to meetbuyer requirements, the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) said. \"Many AWB customers are becoming increasingly qualityconscious, demanding strict adherence to contractual qualityspecifications,\" the board said in a submission to the RoyalCommission into Grain Storage, Handling and Transport. \"Many of the specifications are more specific than thecurrent categories used in Australia,\" it said. The commission is trying to identify ways of saving costsand boosting efficiency of the grain handling system. Australia must rely on quality to retain its wheat marketshare because its competitors are supplying cheaper butlower-quality grades, the AWB submission said. It stressed the need to segregate wheat categories at everystage from receival to shipping. Better industrial relations at grain terminals, moreuniform transport systems across the states and extensive stockcontrol were vital to improved marketing, it said. The submission also said Australia's federal system impededthe AWB's role of coordinating and managing the marketing ofwheat. The AWB called for an end to physical and legislativeconstraints at state borders that prevent the efficienttransport of grains to other states for shipment. \"It is essential that wheat moves by the most economic modeto the nearest efficient port, irrespective of the state inwhich the wheat is grown or stored,\" it said. For example, wheat grown in northern New South Wales (NSW)might move more efficiently to Brisbane, in Queensland, than toSydney or Newcastle in New South Wales, it said. Similarly,southern NSW wheat might better be shipped to Portland orGeelong, in Victoria. Legislation giving state rail authorities a monopoly overgrain shipments was one notable impediment, it said. The AWB said the current approach of state-based bulkhandling authorities is not essential, although it said itfavoured the authorities maintaining at least their currentlevel of control of storage and transport as long as qualitywas maintained. An appendix on port loading costs showed it cost between26,500 and 34,700 U.S. Dlrs to load a 50,000-tonne vessel atvarious Australian ports compared with 21,200 dlrs at Houstonand 16,300 at Port Cartier, Quebec, for a 60,000-tonner.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "austdlr", "dmk" ], "distractor groups": [ "rubber", "wheat", "cornglutenfeed", "cpu" ], "paragraph": "Citicorp said that on behalf of itsCitibank N.A. Subsidiary, it is issuing 100,000 naked currencywarrants priced at 67-1/2 marks each to purchase Australiandlrs for marks at a rate of 1.1825 marks per Australian dlr. The current rate is 1.2850 marks per Australian dlr. Eachwarrant is for a nominal amount of 1,000 marks and the minimumpurchase will be for 100 warrants. The warrants expire on January 8, 1988. Payment is due onApril 8 and the warrants will be listed on the Luxembourg StockExchange.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "crude", "livestock", "carcass" ], "distractor groups": [ "dmk", "lead", "alum" ], "paragraph": "Brazil will export 6,000 tonnesof poultry and 10,000 tonnes of frozen meat to Iraq in exchangefor oil, Petrobras Commercial Director Carlos Sant'Anna said. Brazil has a barter deal with Iraq and currently imports215,000 barrels per day of oil, of which 170,000 bpd are paidfor with exports of Brazilian goods to that country.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "livestock", "carcass" ], "distractor groups": [ "palm-oil", "rupiah", "propane", "saudriyal" ], "paragraph": "U.S. Agriculture Secretary RichardLyng, reacting to recent criticism of U.S. meat inspection,defended the program saying the United States has the bestinspection system in the world. Speaking to representatives of the U.S. NationalCattlemen's Association, NCA, Lyng attacked what he calledrecent \"terribly biased\" press reports critical of USDA poultryinspection. He cited a report on CBS \"60 Minutes\" whichcriticized USDA salmonella detection in poultry. \"I know we have the finest meat and poultry inspectionsystem in the world,\" Lyng told the cattlemen. Lyng said USDA makes every effort to minimize the levels ofsalmonella in poultry, but added \"the total elimination ofharmful bacteria is virtually impossible in this world.\"", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr", "dmk" ], "distractor groups": [ "rand", "sun-oil", "propane" ], "paragraph": "Turkey's Central Bank set a lira/dollarrate for April 6 of 781.95/785.86 to the dollar, up from782.50/786.41. It set a lira/D-mark rate of 430.15/432.30 tothe mark, down from 428.30/430.44.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "dlr", "money-fx" ], "distractor groups": [ "f-cattle", "red-bean", "peseta", "livestock" ], "paragraph": "The Bank of Japan actively bought dollarshere in early afternoon trade at around 142.20 yen, dealerssaid. The central bank had placed buy orders at that level andprevented the dollar from falling when it came under heavyselling pressure from investment trusts and trading houses,they said. However, the intervention failed to boost the U.S. Currencysignificantly from the 142.20 yen level, they added. The dollar was trading around its midday rate of 142.30yen. It had opened here at 141.85 yen.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "f-cattle", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "jet", "cornglutenfeed", "palm-oil", "wpi" ], "paragraph": "The U.S. Feeder Steer Price, or USFSP,as posted by the CME is calculated by Cattle Fax and representsthe price used for cash settlement of the CME Feeder Cattlecontract. The USFSP is a seven-calendar-day average of feeder steerprices from 27 states, based on auction and direct countrysales for feeder steers that weigh between 600 and 800 lbs andare estimated to grade between 60 and 80 pct choice when fed toslaughter weight. April 9 Previous quote 70.03 69.87", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "livestock", "carcass" ], "distractor groups": [ "soy-oil", "rand", "fishmeal" ], "paragraph": "Swift Independent Packing Co said itagreed in principle to sell its Huron, South Dakota, pork plantto Huron Dressed Beef, for undisclosed terms. Completion of the proposed transaction is subject toHuron's ability to hire an experienced work force atcompetitive rates, and receive government approval of thepurchase and operation of the plant, Swift said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "earn" ], "distractor groups": [ "cocoa", "orange", "palm-oil", "rice" ], "paragraph": "Carlo De Benedetti's foodcompany Industrie Buitoni Perugina Spa said it has acquired theItalian food group Vismara. Buitoni said in a statement that Vismara had 1986 sales of181 billion lire and net profit of 11 billion lire, employs 950people and has four subsidaries. Buitoni did not disclose financial details about theacquisition. De Benedetti said last week that his group wasnegotiating a purchase of an unidentified Italian food firm. Vismara primarily produces a variety of pork products. \"Theacquisition represents a diversification in a market sectorwith annual consumption of 8,500 billion lire,\" Buitoni said. Buitoni also said its consolidated revenue during the firstquarter of this year was 429 billion lire, up 51 pct from thecomparable 1986 period. As reported, Buitoni's consolidated revenue rose last yearto 1,623 billion lire from 1,177 billion in 1985. Net profitrose to 18.5 billion lire from 448 mln lire in 1985.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "oilseed", "rapeseed" ], "distractor groups": [ "austdlr", "nat-gas", "alum", "instal-debt" ], "paragraph": "Japanese crushers bought 3,000 to4,000 tonnes of Canadian rapeseed in export business overnightfor last half May/first half June shipment, trade sources said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "earn" ], "distractor groups": [ "cruzado", "lin-meal", "cotton", "fuel" ], "paragraph": "Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co said itexpects to sell its Celeron Corp oil and gas subsidiary forabout two billion dlrs in about two months. After the company's annual meeting, Rober Mercer,Goodyear's chairman and chief executive officer, also said Goodyear expects to report a profit of more than one dlr ashare from continuing operations in the first quarter. In thesame year-ago period, Goodyear reported a loss of 64 cents ashare from continuing operations. Mercer said about seven companies are interested in buyingCeleron and they may form a consortium to buy the unit. Celeron consists of oil and gas reserves and an almostcomplete pipeline linking drilling operations in Santa Barbara,Calif., to Texas refineries. Mercer said Celeron's reserveswould not be sold separately from the pipeline. Concerning speculation that two billion dlr price tag forCeleron was too high, Mercer said \"There is no fire sale goingon here and we can continue to keep Celeron as a profitableoperation throughout the year.\" Mercer said the expected 1st quarter operating profit wasbased on the new share total after Goodyear's share repurchaselast year to fend off Sir James Goldsmith's hostile takeoverbid.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "tea", "trade", "bop", "castorseed" ], "paragraph": "U.S. officials said they held outlittle hope the European Community, EC, would withdraw acontroversial meat inspection requirement, due to go intoeffect April 30 and which U.S. meat producers claim will cutoff their exports. But the officials said they expect the EC to allow U.S.plants to continue shipping meat through the end of the yearprovided they submit a plant improvement program with the U.S.Agriculture Department. The EC's so-called Third Country Meat Directive willrequire foreign meat processing plants to comply fully with ECinspection standards beginning April 30. The U.S. meat industry has prepared a petition requestingthe Reagan administration to retaliate against the EC rule. At issue are U.S. meat exports to the EC valued at 132 mlndlrs in 1985. The EC rule would require all U.S. plants to make changesin their inspection methods, ranging from veterinary staffingto use of wood. Last December, the EC determined that only one U.S. cattle,one hog and one sheep slaughtering facility could be approvedwithout further review. USDA would have to certify that theplants had corrected the deficiencies. All remaining plants with a history or potential ofshipping to the EC -- totaling nearly 400 -- would require moresignificant changes in plant constructions or procedures beforefurther EC review. Robert Hibbert, general counsel for the American MeatInstitute, said the meat industry expected to submit a formaltrade retaliation petition by April 30. An interagency committee is reviewing the industry's draftpetition. An official at the U.S. Trade Representative's Office saidU.S. officials continued to press the EC to withdraw the rule,but that \"the chances of that are not too good at this time.\" However, there is the \"expectation\" in U.S. government andmeat industry circles that the EC will continue to allowshipments, at least through the end of the calendar year, fromU.S. plants that submit to USDA a plan on how they will bringtheir operations into conformity with the EC regulation, theUSTR official said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "earn", "alum" ], "distractor groups": [ "propane", "f-cattle", "yen", "instal-debt" ], "paragraph": "Alcoa of Australia Ltd , owned51 pct by the Aluminum Co of America , said net profit roseto 20.2 mln dlrs in the first quarter of 1987 from 0.8 mln inthe same 1986 period. Sales revenue climbed to 300.9 mln from 233.0 mln. Thecompany paid 36.5 mln income tax compared with 4.8 mln. Capital expenditure was 24.0 mln, against 33.4 mln. Alcoaspent 15.7 mln on its new Portland aluminium smelter comparedwith 25.8 mln the year before. Over 65 pct of the smelter'sfirst potline is on stream and by the second quarter it will beproducing at the full annual rate of 150,000 tonnes a year.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "veg-oil", "palm-oil" ], "distractor groups": [ "income", "ipi", "copra-cake", "platinum" ], "paragraph": "Pakistan bought 6,000 tonnes of rbd palmoil at its import tender today for first half May shipment,traders said. The price was believed to be in the region of 345.50 dlrsper tonne cost and freight, but confirmation is awaited, theysaid. Pakistan sought to buy up to 12,000 tonnes for first halfMay and has not said when it is likely to tender for thebalance.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "trade", "ipi" ], "distractor groups": [ "rand", "groundnut-oil", "potato", "lin-oil" ], "paragraph": "North Korea unveiled plans to boostindustrial and agricultural production sharply over the nextseven years and to greatly expand its foreign trade. Prime Minister Li Gun-mo told the eighth Supreme People'sAssembly in Pyongyang that North Korea intends to increaseinternational trade by 220 pct in the period 1987/93, grossindustrial output by 90 pct and agricultural production by 40pct, according to the North Korean Central News Agency,monitored here.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "crude", "nat-gas" ], "distractor groups": [ "sfr", "orange", "instal-debt", "bfr" ], "paragraph": " saidthe value of its oil and gas reserves increased by 19 pct to52.6 mln dlrs from 44.2 mln dlrs reported at year-end 1985,according to an independent appraisal. Orbit said it has reserves of 2.4 mln barrels of oil andnatural gas liquids and 67.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas. In addition, 75 pct owned hasCanadian reserves of 173,000 barrels of oil and 1.6 bcf ofnatural gas with a current value of 2.2 mln dlrs, Orbit said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "earn" ], "distractor groups": [ "sorghum", "palm-oil", "can", "rand" ], "paragraph": "Corning Glass Works' subsidiaryCorning International Corp said it agreed to transfer 55 pct ofits capital stock of an Argentine glass manufacturer to aEuropean group. It said it will transfer the capital stock of Rigolleau,S.A., to the group controlled by Camillo Gancia, an Argentineindustrialist. The company said the transaction would reduce Corning'sownership in Rigolleau to approximately 20 pct. The companysaid the change will not impact on its net income for th year.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "hog", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "lin-meal", "ipi", "heat", "palm-oil" ], "paragraph": "Chicago Mercantile Exchange floortraders and commission house representatives are guesstimatingtoday's hog slaughter at about 300,000 to 305,000 head versus292,000 week ago and 316,000 a year ago. Saturday's hog slaughter is guesstimated at about 30,000 to55,000 head. Cattle slaughter is guesstimated at about 128,000 to130,000 head versus 129,000 week ago and 119,000 a year ago. Saturday's cattle slaughter is guesstimated at about 20,000to 40,000 head.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "corn", "cornglutenfeed", "meal-feed" ], "distractor groups": [ "hk", "housing" ], "paragraph": "Canada's ruling in favor of a duty onU.S. corn was a keen disappointment to the National CornGrowers Association and has set a dangerous precedent for othernations to follow, said Mike Hall, lobbyist for theassociation. \"The French corn growers will clearly charge ahead now andjust change corn to corn gluten feed\" in their complaint, Halltold Reuters. A Canadian government agency ruled today that U.S. farmpolicies are causing injury to Canadian corn farrmers andsupported an earlier imposed countervailing duty of about 85cts per bushel. \"This was cleary a political decision,\" Hall said. \"Theamount of corn we export to Canada is insignificant.\" The unexpected ruling appeared to be based on the agrumentthat Canada bases its corn prices on U.S. futures prices andthat American farm policy has driven down these prices, thuscausing lower prices to Canadian farmers and larger governmentpayments through its farm stabilization program, Hall said. Hall said this is a new definition for injury, but thatother nations might also now apply this same argument to attackU.S. farm programs. The French corn growers could now charge that U.S. farmprograms create an unfair subsidy for corn gluten feed, Hallsaid. The French have long wanted to control the imports ofU.S. corn gluten feed into the community, saying that theimported feed was unfairly displacing European grain.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "trade", "gnp", "bop", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "plywood", "rupiah" ], "paragraph": "The 24 nations of the Organisation forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD), hampered bysluggish industrial output and trade, face slower economicgrowth, and their joint balance of payments will swing intodeficit in 1987, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU ) said. The EIU said in its World Trade Forecast it revised OECDeconomic growth downwards to 2.5 pct this year, compared with a2.8 pct growth forecast in December. It said the new areas of weakness are West Germany and thesmaller European countries it influences, and Japan, hardesthit by currency appreciation this year. The independent research organisation cut its 1987 growthrate forecasts for West Germany to 2.2 pct from 3.2 pct inDecember and to 2.3 pct from three pct for Japan. It said it expected the OECD to post a current accountdeficit of some 13 billion dlrs in both 1987 and 1988, due inlarge part to a 1.50 dlrs a barrel rise in 1987 oil prices. It said the U.S. Current account deficit looked likely tofall even more slowly than forecast, to 125 billion dlrs in1987 and 115 billion in 1988 from 130 billion in 1986. It said it expected West Germany to post a 31 billion dlrpayments surplus and Japan a 76 billion dlr surplus this year. The EIU said it saw oil prices dropping to around 16.50dlrs a barrel by end-1987 and 15.50 dlrs in 1988 from about 18dlrs last year, as adherence to OPEC output policy becomesincreasingly ragged. It said the dollar is poised to resume its decline inforeign exchange markets, and will lose a further 13 pct on itstrade-weighted index this year and five pct in 1988 after lastyear's 18.4 pct drop. The average mark/dollar rate is put at1.80 marks this year and 1.70 in 1988 while the yen/dollar rateis expected to break through the 150 yen barrier with anaverage value of 150 yen in 1987 and 146 yen in 1988, it said. \"This is not a crash scenario but the dollar's steeperangle of descent increases the risk of ending with a fireballrather than a three-point landing,\" the EIU said. \"Talking will not stop the dollar's slide for long and theFebruary meeting (of finance ministers of the Group of Five andCanada) produced scant promise of either a decisive shift tomore expansive policies in West Germany and Japan, or a tighterU.S. Fsical policy,\" it said. It said the key to the dollar's fortunes was thewillingness of Japanese institutions to buy U.S. Governmentassets despite prospects of sustaining a currency loss. \"Thus far they have been willing,\" the EIC said, addingthat if Japan was deterred from buying U.S. bonds the dollarwould collapse. To contain such a currency crisis, dollar interest rateswould have to soar, bringing recession and a Third World debtcrisis, it said. On trade, the EIU said prospects for 1987 look\"increasingly sick.\" Import growth, forecast in December at 4.5 pct, is now seenslowing down to around 3.8 pct in 1987 with a recovery only to4.2 pct in 1988, it said. The weakness of the West German economy is the biggestsingle factor, with import growth there expected to feature asluggish 3.5 pct growth in 1987 against the 6.5 pct forecast inDecember, the EIU said. On the export side, it said it saw weak demand in WestGermany affecting export prospects elsewhere in Europe, whileJapan's exports in 1987 would remain flat and sales by U.S.Exporters would respond only marginally to a lower, morecompetitively-priced dollar. It said in most of Europe and in Japan, raw materials andoil will cost less in domestic currency in 1987 than in 1986.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "gnp", "jobs", "cpi", "bop", "dfl" ], "distractor groups": [ "cottonseed" ], "paragraph": "Dutch economic growth is slowing as afirming guilder cuts competitiveness abroad and industriesreduce the pace of investment, the Dutch official planningagency CPB said. The Centraal Planbureau, publishing its 1987 economicoutlook, said Dutch Net National Income (NNI) was expected togrow by one pct this year, down from two pct growth recorded in1986 and 2.5 pct in 1985 and 1984. Dutch Gross National Product is expected to rise to 432.20billion guilders in 1987 in constant prices, a two pct increasefrom last year's 423.95 billion. The CPB, forecasting an 8.5 pct increase in the value ofthe guilder on a trade-weighted basis compared with 10.0 pctlast year, said the dollar was expected to trade at an averageof 2.0 guilders in 1987 compared with 2.45 guilders in 1986. \"The higher guilder is causing a substantial fall in unitlabour costs abroad, when measured in guilder terms, whilethese are rising slightly in the Netherlands,\" the CPB said. More of economic growth now depended on domesticconsumption, the CPB said, but noting that higher margins setby domestic producers and importers mitigated the effect onpurchasing power of lower import costs and deflation. Consumer prices were set to fall by 1.5 pct this year, theCPB said. Inflation was zero last year. Gross investment in industry was expected to grow by fivepct this year, a slowdown compared with 11.5 pct growth lastyear, the CPB said. Exchange rate and oil price fluctuations will continue tocondition the Dutch economy in the future as it has in recentyears, the CPB said, noting a continued depressing impact ofthese factors on Dutch competitiveness. In addition, it noted a slight rise in taxation and socialsecurity costs to employers. The CPB, forecasting a rise in the budget deficit to 7.2pct of Net National Income in 1987 from 6.3 pct last year,urged the government to cut expenditure further to bring downthe deficit and reduce tax and social security payments infuture. Dutch government revenue is being depressed further byfalling income from natural gas sales in 1987, the CPB said. It said unemployment was expected to fall to 675,000 thisyear from 710,000 last year. While the two pct GDP growth forecast set by the CPB iswithin its latest forecast, issued last month, of 1.5 to twopct growth, the figure is well above recent market estimates. Dutch merchant bank Pierson, Heldring en Pierson said inits February economic outlook that GDP growth at constantprices was expected to be 1.1 pct this year and market analystshad expected the CPB's final forecast to be below its ownlatest estimate. \"It is too early to comment because I haven't seen the wholedocument yet, but it would seem we are more pessimistic in someof our estimates,\" a Pierson economist said. The CPB forecast 2.5 pct export growth in volume terms in1987, after four pct growth last year. Excluding energyexports, the 1987 figure would be two pct, it said. Imports were set to rise by 4.5 pct this year compared withfour pct in 1986 in volume terms, the CPB said. The balance of payments would see a sharp decline in thesurplus, to six billion guilders in 1987 compared with 12.1billion last year, the CPB forecast.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "wheat", "barley" ], "distractor groups": [ "reserves", "lei", "saudriyal" ], "paragraph": "The West German Intervention Board saidit accepted 962,192 tonnes of grain from the start of thecurrent agricultural year to the end of last month, comparedwith 1.8 mln tonnes during the July/February period in 1985/86. It said it accepted 336,097 tonnes of bread wheat (nil inthe year-earlier period), 16,818 (nil) tonnes of high qualitywheat, 33,623 (523,625) tonnes of feed wheat, 3,426 (168,682)tonnes of rye, 88,494 (32,766) tonnes of high quality rye,2,313 (105,005) tonnes of summer barley and 481,421 (972,794)tonnes of winter barley.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr", "trade", "acq" ], "distractor groups": [ "sun-meal", "naphtha" ], "paragraph": "USX Corp chairman David Roderick calledfor a lower value for the U.S. dollar against other currenciesto help speed a correction in the U.S. trade deficit, whichlast year reached 170 billion dlrs. In remarks prepared for a speech before the Economic Clubof Detroit, Roderick said, \"There should be total resolve thatthe dollar versus other major currencies, as well as thecurrencies of other nations having a substantial trade surpluswith us, must continue to decline so that the correction in ourtrade deficit starts on the road to recovery.\" Roderick said the U.S. should be understanding of the\"economic pain\" our trading partners experience as a result ofa falling dollar. But, he added, \"As painful as the correction may be to ourtrading partners, it is less painful than leaving the problemuncorrected because that would lead us into an inevitable,lengthy and steep world recession.\" Roderick said between February 1985 and December 1986 thedollar fell by more than 40 pct in real terms against majorindustrial currencies and by 30 to 35 pct against a broadergroup of currencies of nearly all developing nations. At the end of 1986, he said, the value of foreign assets inthe U.S. exceeded the value of U.S. assets abroad by 240billion dlrs, compared to five years ago when the U.S. had asurplus in assets of 141 billion. A company spokesman said thedata were provided by economic consultants to USX. The primary reason for the trade imbalance was the 70 pctrise of the dollar between 1980 and 1985, although otherfactors were involved, Roderick said. But it is wrong, he said,\"to attribute the massive trade deficit to a fundmentaldeterioration of U.S. productivity or of American productquality.\" These areas need to be improved but they are not the rootcause of the trade gap problem, Roderick said. He urgedAmerican manufacturers to become more competitive so they cancompete in global markets. In the speech, the USX chairman also called for changes insecurities laws to curb what he called abuses by corporateraiders and speculators. Among his proposals, which he presented to the SenateBanking Committee in testimony last week, were a requirementthat raiders give 24-hour notice for every one pct of stockthey acquire in a company. Roderick proposed that tender offers must be made for allcash to all stockholders on equal terms and that raiders berequired to have financing in place before a tender is made. Further, raiders should be required to make an all-cashtender offer once they acquire 10 pct of a target company'sstock, he said. And payment of greenmail, or a preferentialprice by a target company to buy back a raider's stake, shouldbe prohibited under the revised laws. Roderick said changes were necessary to curb abuses butthat he did not want laws that would hurt the financial marketsor discourage \"fair price to all\" takeovers.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock", "hog" ], "distractor groups": [ "austdlr", "bfr", "cpi" ], "paragraph": "About 800 members of the United Food andCommercial Workers Union, UFCWU, struck John Morrell's SiouxCity, Iowa, pork processing plant at midnight Sunday, aspokesman for the UFCWU national said. Meatpackers at the plant have been working without acontract since the old pact expired January 31, UFCWU spokesmanJohn Mancuso said. The plant can slaughter and process about13,000 to 14,000 hogs a day, he estimated. The UFCWU bargaining committee and full membership rejectedin late January a contract proposal by John Morrell, asubsidiary of United Brands Inc, he said.\u0003", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "earn", "strategic-metal" ], "distractor groups": [ "ship", "soy-meal", "tapioca", "dkr" ], "paragraph": "Highveld Steel and Vanadium CorpLtd said it expects 1987 earnings will be lower than lastyear's previously reported 85 cts a share. But profits \"will be at a satisfactory level,\" the companysaid in the annual report without giving a specific estimate. Highveld said it expects appreciation of the rand will beoffset to some extent by increasing U.S. Dollar prices for itsexports as the year progresses. Highveld said measures taken last year by the EuropeanEconomic Community and the United States prohibiting all SouthAfrican steel products \"presents a challenge to management toplace the steel in other areas.\" The company said overall world vanadium consumption in 1987is expected to be similar to last year although China's role isstill an unknown factor in the total supply-demand situation. \"World vanadium production capacity is still believed to beadequate to cater for any foreseeable demand,\" it added.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "copper", "earn" ], "distractor groups": [ "dlr", "hog", "pet-chem", "lin-oil" ], "paragraph": "Finland's mining and metals groupOutokumpu Oy , which last week reported a 1986 loss of83 mln markka after three successive years of profits, said itrestructured its key copper processing division in an attemptto rationalize production and improve profitability. Outokumpu's Managing Director Pertti Voutilainen told anews conference the reorganization involved a split of thedivision into a new independent division with six profitcentres. Outokumpu group had a 1986 loss before appropriations andtaxes of 83 mln markka after a profit of 355 mln in 1985. Ithad profits in 1984 and 1983 but a loss, 171.2 mln, in 1982. Outokumpu acquired two Swedish copper manufacturers inJanuary 1986, and , thatwere merged into its copper processing division. The division had a turnover of 3.2 billion markka lastyear, 42 pct of Outokumpu's group turnover of 7.58 billion. The new Outokumpu division, called Copper ProductsIndustry, is to incorporate Outokumpu's copper productionplants, including its two U.S. Subsidiaries and, as well as Metallverken and part of Wirsbo. Outokumpu is planning to make Wirsbo an independentdivision in the Outokumpu group and transfer only Wirsbo'scopper tube production into one of the new division's profitcentres. A definite decision on Wirsbo will be taken later thisyear. The new division will have production plants in Finland,Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and the U.S.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "bop", "ipi", "trade" ], "distractor groups": [ "alum", "housing", "wheat" ], "paragraph": "A range of substantial policyinitiatives need to be implemented to shift resources fromconsumption to production in the Zimbabwe economy, says theZimbabwe Banking Corporation (ZBC) in its quarterly economicreview. The state owned banking group says although Zimbabwe'sbalance of payments improved significantly last year theunderlying position deteriorated. Last year's improved tradesurplus was partly the result of sales of stockpiled gold andcontinued import restraint. It says debt service charges are projected to exceed 35 pctof exports in 1987 and warns against squeezing imports further. ZBC says mining industry import quotas for the first sixmonths of 1987 have been halved and those for manufacturingindustry cut by a third. It contrasts the performance of manufacturing industry in1967 to 1974, with that since independence in 1980. Industrialproduction almost doubled between 1967 and 1974, when foreigncurrency allocations almost trebled in real terms. Since 1980, import allocations have been cut 45 pct and theZimbabwe dollar has depreciated by more than 60 pct. As aresult the bank says the external purchasing power of foreigncurrency allocations is currently only 20 pct of its 1980levels.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "lead", "zinc" ], "distractor groups": [ "earn", "nzdlr", "palmkernel", "cruzado" ], "paragraph": "Cominco Ltd's 3,200unionized workers at its Trail and Kimberley, British Columbialead-zinc operations voted 94 pct in favor of authorizing apossible strike, the union said in reply to an inquiry. Their two-year contracts expire on April 30. A spokesman for the United Steelworkers of America, whichrepresents the workers, reiterated that private mediation talksare set for Monday and that no strike date had been set. The union has said it is asking for a three pct wage hikein each year of a proposed two-year contract, while Cominco hasoffered a 40 ct an hour increase in the third year of aproposed contract if workers agree to loosen rules on jobclassifications. The average unionized worker's wage is now about 14.78 dlrsan hour. Cominco's Trail operations produced 240,000 long tons ofzinc and 110,000 long tons of lead in 1986. The Sullivan mineat Kimberley produced 2.2 mln long tons of ore last year, mostfor processing at the Trail smelter.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr", "yen" ], "distractor groups": [ "cottonseed", "fuel", "sorghum" ], "paragraph": "Japan's Jiji Press quoted Bank of JapanGovernor Satoshi Sumita as telling Japanese reporters thecentral bank will continue determined market intervention toprevent a further rise in the value of the yen. Sumita, who is attending an annual meeting of the AsianDevelopment Bank, also said he does not think the yen willcontinue to rise, Jiji reported. He said the Bank of Japan iskeeping close contact with other major industrial nations onconcerted market intervention, Jiji said. He said coordinatedintervention is the only way to stop the dollar from droppingtoo fast, Jiji said. The dollar fell below 138 yen today.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "money-fx", "dlr" ], "distractor groups": [ "cotton-oil", "acq", "groundnut-oil", "corn" ], "paragraph": "The Bundesbank intervened in the Tokyoforeign exchange market to buy a small amount of dollarsagainst marks through the Bank of Japan, dealers said. The West German central bank bought dollars when the dollarwas at about 1.7770-80 marks. Dealers' estimates of theintervention amount varied from 100 mln to one billion dlrs. Some dealers said the Bank of Japan appeared to haveundertaken small-lot mark-selling intervention on its ownaccount.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "ipi", "inventories" ], "distractor groups": [ "cottonseed", "income", "cornglutenfeed", "corn" ], "paragraph": "Japan's preliminary industrial productionindex (base 1980) rose 0.7 pct to a seasonally adjusted 122.8in March from the previous month, the Ministry of InternationalTrade and Industry said. Production had fallen 0.2 in Feburary from a month earlier. The preliminary, unadjusted March index fell 0.2 pct from ayear earlier after remaining flat in Feburary. The adjusted March producers' shipment index (same base)fell 0.6 to 117.3 from February. The unadjusted index rose 0.3pct from a year earlier. The adjusted March index of producers' inventories offinished goods (same base) rose 0.7 pct to 105.4 from Feburary.The unadjusted index fell 1.1 pct from a year earlier.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "carcass", "livestock" ], "distractor groups": [ "ipi", "nkr", "stg", "coffee" ], "paragraph": "Members of local 174 of the United Foodand Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, representing 1,900 meatcutters in New York city, yesterday rejected the latestmanagement offer on a new contract. \"Members rejected the latest offer by a 2 to 1 margin,\" BobWilson, executive officer of local 174 said. But workers havebeen asked to remain on the job while negotiations continue. The union has been in negotiations with the Greater NewYork Association of Meat and Poultry Dealers, a group of meatwholesalers and distributors. The contract expired April 26 andthe latest management offer sought \"give backs\" in holiday andsick leave which the membership rejected, Wilson said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "nat-gas", "ship" ], "distractor groups": [ "tapioca", "hk", "oat", "cocoa" ], "paragraph": "The Panamanian liquified gas carrierNyhammer, 48,772 dwt, was attacked by an Iranian gunboat on May24, Lloyds Shipping Intelligence said. One rocket was fired but missed. The vessel subsequently arrived at its destination of RasTanura on May 25 and left this morning.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "pet-chem", "acq" ], "distractor groups": [ "rape-oil", "can", "strategic-metal", "wpi" ], "paragraph": "Monsanto Chemical Company, a unit ofMonsanto Co , is to acquire the polyphenyls business ofRhone-Poulenc Chimie, a unit of Rhone-Poulenc ,Monsanto said in a statement issued from its Europeanheadquarters. The statement did not disclose financial details. Gustaaf Francx, general manager of Monsanto Chemical CoEurope-Africa, said the acquisition would help Monsanto toexpand its customer base for polyphenyls, which are used ascomponents for high temperature heat transfer fluids.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "acq", "pet-chem" ], "distractor groups": [ "oat", "lead", "rupiah", "yen" ], "paragraph": "Monsanto Co said it is acquiringcertain commerical assets of polyphenyl business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Among the assets being acquired are its polyphenyl businessworldwide, including biphenyl and the heat transfer fluidGilotherm TH, together with associated manufacturing andapplication technology, Monsanto said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "grain", "wheat", "oilseed" ], "distractor groups": [ "dmk", "plywood", "acq" ], "paragraph": "The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)has reallocated 50.0 mln dlrs in credit guarantees from thepreviously announced undesignated line to provide additionalguarantees for sales of feedgrains, oilseeds, and wheat toSouth Korea, the U.S. Agriculture Department said. The department said the action increases the feed grainsline by 23 mln dlrs to 63 mln, the oilseed line by seven mlndlrs to 52 mln, and the wheat guarantee line by 20 mln to 165mln dlrs. The undesignated line is reduced to zero. The commodities are for delivery during the current fiscalyear ending this September 30, it said.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "livestock", "carcass", "grain" ], "distractor groups": [ "citruspulp", "zinc", "nkr" ], "paragraph": "The 350 mln Ecu three-year package ofsocial and structural measures agreed early today by EuropeanCommunity farm ministers features a plan to compensate farmersfor reducing output of certain surplus products, EC Commissionsources said. The ministers agreed that under this \"extensification\"scheme, farmers would qualify for compensation if they cutoutput of specific products by at least 20 pct. The plan would initially apply to cereals, beef, veal andwine, they added. Cereals farmers would have to achieve their output cuts byreducing acreage, while cattle farmers would reduce theirnumber of head and vinegrowers would cut yield. In each case,farmers would have to undertake not to step up their capacityfor output of other products which are in surplus in the EC. The sources said payment levels have not yet been fixed butwill be designed to compensate farmers for loss of profit onthe production they forego. The sources said the package also contains provisions forpayments to farmers who embark on a program aimed at protectingor improving the environment. It would also mean compensatory allowances in less favouredfarming areas would be extended to crops. At present suchallowances are available only for livestock. The package would provide 20 mln Ecus for research intoalternative farming techniques, the sources added. At a news conference EC Farm Commissioner Frans Andriessensaid the Commission is also working on proposals to enable theEC and member states to provide direct income supports forrelatively poor farmers. Andriessen did not give full details, but said member stateaid would be subject to \"strict criteria to avoid distortion ofcompetition.\" EC payments would aim to help farmers to survive adifficult period while the EC tackles the problems of surplusproduction. The Commission withdrew from the package agreed last nightproposals to pay \"early retirement\" pensions to farmers aged 55or over who gave up production. Those who took their landcompletely out of farm production, rather than passing it on totheir heirs, would have received more generous payments. Andriessen said the Commission plans to present revisedproposals along these lines in an effort to get a schemeagreed.", "question": "What topics are related to the document above?" }, { "answer groups": [ "livestock", "carcass", "trade" ], "distractor groups": [ "cotton-oil", "castorseed", "nat-gas" ], "paragraph": "Congressmen from beef producingstates and representatives of the U.S. livestock industry urged the Reagan administration to press Japan and South Koreato open up their markets to imports of beef. Testifying at a House subcommittee hearing on livestockissues, Rep. Hal Daub (R-Nebr.), said the administration shouldpush hard for greater beef imports by Japan and South Korea.Daub was joined by several other lawmakers. U.S. assistant trade representative Suzanne Earley, replied\"we're not going to let Japan off the hook, or Korea.\" Shenoted trade representative Clayton Yeutter met with a seniorKorean official last week on the beef issue, and that Yeutterand Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng will visit Tokyo inApril for discussions on farm trade issues. Japan maintains a quota on beef imports, set at 58,400tonnes high quality beef in fiscal 1987. South Korea has bannedbeef imports but there are indications Seoul may bow to U.S.pressure and allow some imports soon, industry officials said. In testimony today, Tom Cook, director of industry affairsfor the National Cattlemens Association said \"the Congress,administration and the industry must take a strong, tough andunited stand to impress the Japanese that we mean business andthat we expect them to open their markets.\"", "question"