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Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation. By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity. Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers. Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed. Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors. Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed. Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomeratesa dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking. These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures. Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals. They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria. And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists. By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton. Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West. Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France. The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies. The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war. After reading the above, is "The Russian Revolution" the correct answer to the question "What event allowed the zaibatsu conglomerates to take advantage of an economic upsurge?"?

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no

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For thousands of years, people have found fossils. The fossils caused curiosity about Earths past. How did these organisms live? What type of world did they live in? Fossils can tell us a lot about Earths history. In ancient times, fossils inspired myths and stories. These stories included tales of monsters and other incredible creatures. What type of creature do you know that could inspire such stories? Of course, dinosaur fossils were once mistaken for dragons bones. Two thousand years ago, people discovered fossils in China. At the time, they were thought to be dragon bones. We know now that these were not bones, but fossils. So what is the difference? After reading the above, is "Altered humans" the correct answer to the question "What were some fossils originally thought to be?"?

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no

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One evening , Felix serves as a conductor to four singing cats . Meanwhile at a house only a few yards away , a hefty man is napping on a chair but gets awakened by their act . To silence them , the man grabs and rolls out bowling ball , knocking Felix and the other cats off their feet . Felix , however , still insist to go on performing as he plays a flute and his friends dance . Awakened once more , the man takes out an ether sprayer and showers its contents onto the cats . While his friends fall into a snooze , Felix decides to have his sleep at home . Felix enters his apartment , and lies on the sofa . But before he can rest long enough , his dwarf master calls him over . Felix comes in and hears about the dwarf's complaint about an insomnia problem . To assist his master , the cat offers a glass of warm milk but to no effect . The dwarf is still unable to sleep , and therefore craves for some entertainment instead . Felix then plays a clarinet , and the toy soldiers start dancing to his music . After moving around for a few moments , one of the little soldiers fires a small cannon , piercing a picture on a wall with its projectile . The dwarf was amazed by the presentation , and asks Felix to handover the cannon . When Felix gives it and suddenly turns around , the hostile dwarf aims the small weapon at him and fires . Felix was struck at the back and frightenedly flees the apartment . Out in the streets , Felix looks for suitable resting places . He then climbs up a telephone pole , and lies down on a set of pants hanging on one of the lines . After reading the above, is "None" the correct answer to the question "Does Felix play the 'flute' or the 'clarinet'?"?

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no

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Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business . The men are Warren Summerfield , a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency ; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain who is inattentive to his wife , and brash art designer Maxon who feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant . There are numerous long sequences of motorcycle riding on desert backroads . Summerfield has been having an affair with McIlvian's wife . He has not told his wife that he was fired and is simply serving out his tenure at the agency while looking for a new position . His wife is actually aware of the affair . Farragut convinces the ad men to make the motorcycle journey on the pretext of looking for a location to shoot a commercial . In reality , Farragut is reckless and looking to involve the men in spontaneous edgy adventure of his own manipulation . After they leave , McIlvain's wife suspects that Summerfield is planning to kill himself for the insurance money , but she can not convince Summerfield's wife to instigate a search . The four men travel deeper into Mexico on isolated dirt roads . At one point Summerfield contemplates plunging off a cliff . After being humiliated by a young American couple in a Baja bar , Farragut tracks them down on the beach while accompanied by Maxon . After reading the above, is "The girlfriend" the correct answer to the question "Whose wife is having an affair with a suicidal man?"?

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no