TASK DEFINITION: You need to answer a given question containing a blank (_). Your answer must be one of the two objects mentioned in the question, for example "trophy" and "suitcase". Your answer must not contain a word that is not present in the question. Please don't use articles (e.g., the, a) before the answer.
PROBLEM: The shrub needed to be pruned more than the tree because the _ had more leaves.

SOLUTION: shrub

PROBLEM: Poems were excluded out of the new volume, but were left in the archive.  The _ 's readers were unsophisticated.

SOLUTION: volume

PROBLEM: The band was allowed to play its music at the park but not at the mall, as the _ forbade live performances.

SOLUTION:
mall