input question: I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "For administrative purposes, the Federal District is divided into 16 "delegaciones" or boroughs. While not fully equivalent to a municipality, the 16 boroughs have gained significant autonomy, and since 2000 their heads of government are elected directly by plurality (they were previously appointed by the head of government of the Federal District). Given that Mexico City is organized entirely as a Federal District, most of the city services are provided or organized by the Government of the Federal District and not by the boroughs themselves, while in the constituent states these services would be provided by the municipalities. The 16 boroughs of the Federal District with their 2010 populations are:"????
output answer: Where does Mexico City get its services?

I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "Houston is served by the Houston Chronicle, its only major daily newspaper with wide distribution. The Hearst Corporation, which owns and operates the Houston Chronicle, bought the assets of the Houston Postits long-time rival and main competitionwhen Houston Post ceased operations in 1995. The Houston Post was owned by the family of former Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby of Houston. The only other major publication to serve the city is the Houston Pressa free alternative weekly with a weekly readership of more than 300,000."?
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Answer: What did the organization that possesses the sole purveyor of news to the majority of people in the fourth most populous urban settlement in the United States gain as the result of a pecuniary transaction?

Q: I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "Logan Airport, located in East Boston and operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), is Boston's principal airport. Nearby general aviation airports are Beverly Municipal Airport to the north, Hanscom Field to the west, and Norwood Memorial Airport to the south. Massport also operates several major facilities within the Port of Boston, including a cruise ship terminal and facilities to handle bulk and container cargo in South Boston, and other facilities in Charlestown and East Boston."?
A: The oldest neighborhood within the city of Boston is?

Question: I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "The term Iran derives directly from Middle Persian Eran, first attested in a 3rd-century inscription at Rustam Relief, with the accompanying Parthian inscription using the term Aryan, in reference to Iranians. The Middle Iranian eran and aryan are oblique plural forms of gentilic er- (Middle Persian) and ary- (Parthian), both deriving from Proto-Iranian *arya- (meaning "Aryan," i.e., "of the Iranians"), argued to descend from Proto-Indo-European *ar-yo-, meaning "skillful assembler." In Iranian languages, the gentilic is attested as a self-identifier included in ancient inscriptions and the literature of Avesta,[a] and remains also in other Iranian ethnic names such as Alans (Ossetic: Ir) and Iron (Ossetic: Iron)."?
Answer: The Persian and what culture contributed to Iran?

[Q]: I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "Rawski writes that Altan Khan's conversion to the Gelug "can be interpreted as an attempt to expand his authority in his conflict with his nominal superior, Tumen Khan." To further cement the Mongol-Tibetan alliance, the great-grandson of Altan Khanthe 4th Dalai Lama (15891616)was made the fourth Dalai Lama. In 1642, the 5th Dalai Lama (16171682) became the first to wield effective political control over Tibet."?
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[A]: Who died on the 82nd year of the 17th century?

Problem: Given the question: I want to test the ability of students to read a passage and answer questions about it. Could you please come up with a good question for the passage "The element was probably named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke (prong, tooth). German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is credited with discovering pure metallic zinc in 1746. Work by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta uncovered the electrochemical properties of zinc by 1800. Corrosion-resistant zinc plating of iron (hot-dip galvanizing) is the major application for zinc. Other applications are in batteries, small non-structural castings, and alloys, such as brass. A variety of zinc compounds are commonly used, such as zinc carbonate and zinc gluconate (as dietary supplements), zinc chloride (in deodorants), zinc pyrithione (anti-dandruff shampoos), zinc sulfide (in luminescent paints), and zinc methyl or zinc diethyl in the organic laboratory."?
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The answer is:
Zinc is an?