TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a text, a pronoun from the text, and two candidate names. You should determine what the pronoun refers to and classify the answers into A, B, or Neither. A and B here are referring to option A and option B. Position of the pronoun in the text is showed within two "_"s.
PROBLEM: In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, music critic Lester Bangs called Hot August Night a ``fine presentation of the entire spectrum'' of Diamond's work and praised its music as ``great, pretentious, goofy pop'' with a melodramatic, ``hymn-like feeling''. In _his_ review for Creem, Robert Christgau panned the album as a failed attempt at ``bad art'', and found Diamond's humor ``sententious'' and his country-western songs tasteless. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Lester Bangs <sep>, B: Robert Christgau

SOLUTION: B

PROBLEM: Long a Soviet underground classic, Mikhail Bulgakov 's novel The Master and Margarita was finally brought to the Russian stage at the Taganka in 1977, in an adaptation by Lyubimov. After Vysotsky's death in 1980, all of Lyubimov's productions were banned by the Communist authorities. In 1984, _he_was stripped of Soviet citizenship. <sep>, Pronoun: he <sep>, A: Vysotsky <sep>, B: Lyubimov

SOLUTION: B

PROBLEM: As the Director of Authorities Unit, Paul worked as the New Jersey Governor's liaison to the State of New Jersey's 53 independent authorities, boards and commissions, which include the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Sports and Exposition Authority, the Casino Reinvestment and Development Authority, and the Economic Development Authority. Paul superintended more than 44,000 employees, and an annual aggregate revenue stream exceeding $14 billion. In 2004, Paul was asked to serve as Chief Counsel to then Governor James E. McGreevey. Upon on the resignation of James E. McGreevey as Governor and _his_ replacement by Richard J. Codey as acting Governor of New Jersey, Paul was asked to serve as Codey's Chief Counsel and provide legal counsel to, and representation for, the Governor of the State of New Jersey on a daily basis pertaining to issues involving all aspects of state governance. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Richard J. Codey <sep>, B: Paul

SOLUTION:
Neither