TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Imagine you are standing in a farm field in central Illinois.
Sent 2: The land is so flat you can see for miles and miles.
Sent 3: On a clear day, you might see a grain silo 20 miles away.
Sent 4: You might think to yourself, it sure is flat around here.
Sent 5: If you drive one hundred miles to the south, the landscape changes.
Sent 6: In southern Illinois, there are rolling hills.
Sent 7: Why do you think this is?
Sent 8: What could have caused these features?
Sent 9: There are no big rivers that may have eroded and deposited this material.
Sent 10: The ground is capable of supporting grass and trees, so wind erosion would not explain it.
Sent 11: To answer the question, you need to go back 12,000 years.
Sent 12: Around 12,000 years ago, a giant ice sheet covered much of the Midwest United States.
Sent 13: Springfield, Illinois, was covered by over a mile of ice.
Sent 14: Its hard to imagine a mile thick sheet of ice.
Sent 15: The massive ice sheet, called a glacier, caused the features on the land you see today.
Sent 16: Where did glaciers go?
Sent 17: Where can you see them today?
Sent 18: Glaciers are masses of flowing ice.
Question: How long ago was Springfield, Illinois covered by over a mile of ice?.

SOLUTION: Around 12,000 years ago.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: When Alexander destroyed Tyre, most of the towns on the route to Egypt quickly capitulated.
Sent 2: A later tradition recorded his entry into Jerusalem: according to Josephus, Alexander was shown the Book of Daniel's prophecy, presumably chapter 8, which described a mighty Greek king who would conquer the Persian Empire.
Sent 3: He spared Jerusalem and pushed south into Egypt.
Sent 4: However, Alexander met with resistance at Gaza.
Sent 5: The stronghold was heavily fortified and built on a hill, requiring a siege.
Sent 6: When "his engineers pointed out to him that because of the height of the mound it would be impossible... this encouraged Alexander all the more to make the attempt".
Sent 7: After three unsuccessful assaults, the stronghold fell, but not before Alexander had received a serious shoulder wound.
Sent 8: As in Tyre, men of military age were put to the sword and the women and children were sold into slavery.
Sent 9: Alexander advanced on Egypt in later 332 BC, where he was regarded as a liberator.
Sent 10: He was pronounced son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
Sent 11: Henceforth, Alexander often referred to Zeus-Ammon as his true father, and after his death, currency depicted him adorned with rams horn as a symbol of his divinity.
Sent 12: During his stay in Egypt, he founded Alexandria-by-Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom after his death.
Question: What happened to the citizens of Gaza?.

SOLUTION: Men of military age were put to the sword and the women and children were sold into slavery.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The driver of the Facel Vega car, Michel Gallimard, who was Camus's publisher and close friend, also died in the accident.
Sent 2: In August 2011, the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera reported a theory that the writer had been the victim of a Soviet plot, but Camus's biographer, Olivier Todd, did not consider it credible.
Sent 3: Camus was buried in the Lourmarin Cemetery, Lourmarin, Vaucluse, France.
Sent 4: He was the second-youngest recipient, at the age of 44, of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Rudyard Kipling, at the age of 42.
Sent 5: He was survived by his wife and twin son and daughter, Jean and Catherine, who hold the copyrights to his work.
Sent 6: Two of Camus's works were published posthumously.
Sent 7: The first, entitled A Happy Death (1970), featured a character named Patrice Mersault, comparable to The Stranger's Meursault.
Sent 8: There is scholarly debate as to the relationship between the two books.
Sent 9: The second was an unfinished novel, The First Man (1995), which Camus was writing before he died.
Sent 10: The novel was an autobiographical work about his childhood in Algeria.
Question: What was "The first Man" mainly about?.

SOLUTION:
It was an autobiography about Camus's childhood in Algeria.