Question: Corky walked to the store to buy some milk, like he does every Tuesday. On his way, he passed the red house where John lives, the green house where June lives, the white house where Barack lives, the blue hat store, and the orange house where Jessie lives. He finally reached the store at 5 o'clock.

Corky thought about buying some other things too. He looked at the potato chips, but didn't like the flavors they had left. All of the normal flavored ones were gone. He never liked hard candy, so he ignored those. He saw the apples, but didn't need one because he had apples at home. So he picked out some cookies instead. Corky thought he'd eat them on his way home. He waited in line until it was his turn, and then paid Abe the cashier. Abe gave him his change and wished him a good day.

On his way home, Corky ate his cookies. He had hoped to buy peanut butter cookies, but the store never has those. Instead, he bought sugar cookies. He liked them very much too, so he wasn't at all upset. When he got home, he poured a glass of milk and finished his cookies. 1. Who walked to the store?
2. What day was it?
3. and what was being bought?
4. what color houses did he pass?
5. What time did he reach the store?
6. What other things did Corky consider buying?
7. and what extra thing did he buy?
8. What was the cashiers name?
9. Did he give corky any change?
10. What did Cory do on his way home?
11. what kind were they?
12. and what kind did he wish he had?
13. was he upset about getting sugar cookies?
14. What did corky do when he got home? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Corky
2. Tuesday
3. milk
4. red, green, white, orange
5. 5 o'clock.
6. potato chips
7. cookies
8. Abe
9. yes
10. ate his cookies
11. sugar cookies
12. peanut butter cookies
13. no
14. poured a glass of milk and finished his cookies

Q: (CNN) -- The threatening calls reportedly came one after the other to Mexico's main Catholic seminary.

Callers, claiming to be from one of the country's feared drug cartels, offered an ominous warning: Pay up if you value the safety of your priests.

"They called several times. They identified themselves as the Familia Michoacana, but who knows?" Cardinal Norberto Rivera, archbishop of Mexico City, revealed at a Mass this week. "I spoke with the authorities. We made the appropriate report. Because they wanted us to pay. Because if not, they would kill one of us. They wanted to extort 60,000 pesos ($4,600)."

Reports of extortion have become increasingly common as drug cartels expand their reach in Mexico. But public denouncements of such attempts are rare.

Rivera called on parishioners to report extortion to authorities, and he urged them not to pay.

His description Sunday of the extortion attempts and a statement denouncing drug violence give a glimpse into the problems faced by a Catholic Church often caught in the crossfire of warring cartels and government efforts to stop them.

In the country's capital alone, more than 10 priests have been threatened with extortion, said the Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero, a spokesman for the archdiocese.

"None of them have paid," he told CNN. "Last year, two extortionists were arrested."

It's not uncommon for individual parishes to face extortion threats, he said. But the calls last month to the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Mexico marked the first time such a large church-run institution in the capital had been targeted, Romero said.

1. main Catholic seminary
2. in Mexico
3. drug cartels
4. money
5. hurt the priests
6. yes
7. drug cartels expanded
8. rarely
9. several times
10. Familia Michoacana
11. Norberto Rivera
12. archbishop
13. Mexico City
14. at a Mass
15. this week
16. 60,000 pesos ($4,600)
17. I spoke with the authorities
18. 10
19. Reverend Hugo Valdemar Romero
20. as a spokesman for the archdiocese

Numbered questions:
1. Who got the threats?
2. Where?
3. Who the callers claimed to be?
4. What they want?
5. If not paid, what they would do?
6. Is this types of activity common?
7. Why?
8. Do people denounce it?
9. How many times they called in this case?
10. Who they said they are?
11. Who says that?
12. Who is he?
13. of what?
14. Who did he inform that?
15. When?
16. How much they wanted?
17. Did he talk to the appropriate persons?
18. How many priests were threatened in the capital?
19. Who informed that?
20. In what capacity?

input: The MexicanAmerican War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and a part of its territory after its "de facto" secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier.

After its Treaty of Cordoba with obtaining independence in 1821, from the Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire as New Spain for the past 300 years, and a brief experiment with a monarchy government, Mexico became a republic in 1824. It was characterized by considerable instability, leaving it ill-prepared for international conflict only two decades later when war broke out in 1846. Native American raids in Mexico's sparsely settled north in the decades preceding the war prompted the Mexican government to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border (since 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase from the French Empire (France) of Emperor Napoleon I) to the Mexican province of Texas to create a buffer. However, the newly-named "Texians" revolted against the Mexican government of President / dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, who had usurped the Mexican constitution of 1824, in the subsequent 1836 Texas Revolution, creating a republic not recognized by Mexico, which still claimed it as part of its national territory. In 1845, the Texan Republic agreed to an offer of annexation by the U.S. Congress, and became the 28th state in the Union on December 29 that year. 1. When did Mexico become a republic?
2. So, how long after that was the Mexican-American War?
3. Who were the parties to the Mexican-American War?
4. What was the time period of that war?
5. Did the United States annex anything?
6. What?
7. Did Mexico think it was part of Mexico?
8. What part?
9. When was the Texas Revolution?
10. Was Mexico ever a monarchy?
11. How long was it?
12. Before when?
13. Who was raiding Mexico in the north?
14. What was Mexico's attempted solution to those raids?
15. When did Texas become a US state?
16. What was it just before that?
17. What was the offer it took up from the US then?
18. Which French person was party to the Louisiana Purchase?
19. When was that?
20. What was a new name for Texans? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. 1824
2. 22 yearrs
3. United States of America and the United Mexican States
4. 1846 to 1848
5. Yes
6. the independent Republic of Texas
7. Yes
8. northeastern province
9. 1836
10. Yes
11. brief
12. 1824
13. Native Americans
14. to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border
15. 1845
16. Texan Republic
17. offer of annexation
18. Emperor Napoleon I
19. 1803
20. Texians