TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
PROBLEM: Statement: In 1929, disillusioned by the revolution, Mayakovsky wrote a protest play about the growing repressiveness of the regime. Choices:  1. Mayakovsky was not a write of plays. 2. Mayakovsky wrote a play to convince people to fight the regime. 3. Mayakovsky wrote a play about the regime's repressive acts.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: When you hear that despite the fact that he has economists who know better, the Justice Department's Joel Klein apparently either believes or chooses to claim that this case is about path dependence, you start to wonder. Choices:  1. Joel Klein is lying about the case, and it's obvious why. 2. Joel Klein's claim that the case is about path dependence is fully backed up by his economists. 3. Joel Klein says that this case is about path dependence, even though the economists who work for him know that isn't true.

SOLUTION: 3

PROBLEM: Statement: so if they've just taken such action it would seem to indicate to me either they're doing it because they're afraid they might become a state and want to declare this before they become a state or maybe because they don't want to become a state for fear of losing the Spanish or Hispanic heritage Choices:  1. They might not become a state. 2. They may be scared they'll lose heritage. 3. They want to lose Spanish heritage.

SOLUTION:
2