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.

Shooting deaths were frequent in the town, but not in the village, as firearms were prevalent in the _ .
town

The woman didn't have any oranges for the juice, so she used apples instead, because the _ were plentiful.
apples

It was harder to clean the car than the truck because there was more mud on the _ .

car