TASK DEFINITION: You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.
Sent 2: He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.
Sent 3: The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Durer and his assistants c.
Sent 4: Around 1503-1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.
Sent 5: Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.
Sent 6: During the same period Durer trained himself in the difficult art of using the burin to make engravings.
Sent 7: It is possible he had begun learning this skill during his early training with his father, as it was also an essential skill of the goldsmith.
Sent 8: In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.
Sent 9: He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis (1502), The Sea Monster (1498), and Saint Eustace (c.
Sent 10: 1501), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.
Sent 11: His landscapes of this period, such as Pond in the Woods and Willow Mill, are quite different from his earlier watercolours.
Sent 12: There is a much greater emphasis on capturing atmosphere, rather than depicting topography.
Sent 13: He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures.
Sent 14: Prints are highly portable and these works made Durer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.
Question: When did Durer first produce a set of seventeen prints illustrating the Life of the Virgin that was sold individually for several years? (A) 1505 - 1505 (B) 1503 - 1505 (C) 1504 (D) 1496 - 1498 (E) 1499 (F) 1505 - 1507.

SOLUTION: B.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: For much of the world, the Algarve is synonymous with Portugal, yet the Portuguese will tell you the exact opposite: the region has little in common with the rest of the country.
Sent 2: The southern stretch of coast is more reminiscent of a North African landscape than a European one.
Sent 3: It has no cosmopolitan cities, like Lisbon and Porto, which are farther north.
Sent 4: Most of Portugal is known for quaint towns, medieval castles, and grand palaces.
Sent 5: The Algarve is more recognizable for impenetrable blocks of tourist apartments, hotels, and meticulously manicured golf courses.
Sent 6: And beaches.
Sent 7: Think Algarve and the mind pictures long, glorious stretches of golden sands, secluded coves framed by odd ochre-colored rock formations, and deep green waters.
Sent 8: With about 160 km (100 miles) of coastline, Portugal's southern province is one of Europe's premier beach destinations.
Sent 9: The occasionally chilly ocean is the Atlantic, but the Algarve has a sultry Mediterranean feel.
Sent 10: Its consistent climate is the best in Portugal, and one of the kindest in the world: more than 250 days of sunshine a yearmore than almost any other international resort area.
Sent 11: The moderating effect of the Gulf Stream produces a fresh springtime breeze throughout winter, and in late January and February, white almond blossoms blanket the fields.
Sent 12: In summer the heat is intense but rarely unbearable, and regardless, beautiful beaches and innumerable pools are always just a dive away.
Sent 13: Magnificent year-round weather has made the Algarve a huge destination for sporting vacations.
Sent 14: Superb golf facilities aboundseveral with tees dramatically clinging to cliffs and fairways just skirting the edge of the oceanand horseback riding, tennis, big-game fishing, sailing, and windsurfing are immensely popular.
Sent 15: Sports, beaches and hospitable weathernot to mention easily organized package vacationsare surely the reasons the Algarve receives as many visitors as the rest of Portugal in its entirety.
Sent 16: But it's not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
Sent 17: The coast is neatly divided into the rugged Barlavento to the west and the flat beauty of Sotavento to the east.
Sent 18: West is where you'll find the famous orange cliffs and surreal eroded rock stacks.
Question: Which region of Portugal gets the most sunshine on an average year? (A) Northern (B) Paris (C) Barlavento (D) Porto (E) South Africa (F) North Africa (G) Lisbon (H) Algarve.

SOLUTION: H.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: He continued to lie in place, still breathing heavily.
Sent 2: I tried to keep myself calm.
Sent 3: Then, with a sigh, he said, "I have need of a certain stone that I once possessed.
Sent 4: It would allow me to leave this bed, despite my current illness.
Sent 5: My problem is that it was not made in this realm, but by a human, and only a human may handle it.
Sent 6: The herb vendor will tell you where you can find it.
Sent 7: If you would fetch me this stone, I would tell you what I can." "Of course we will fetch you the stone," Nepthys assured him.
Sent 8: "You have our thanks." Outside, the thing at the herb cart nodded when we mentioned the stone.
Sent 9: He told Nepthys the name of a woman who lived on a certain street, and we set off.
Sent 10: When we reached the street, I expected some sort of temple, or a row of antiquaries, or at least a sleazy, black-market relics merchant.
Sent 11: Instead, it looked like we were in the red-light district: women who probably wanted more than our money eyed us from the alleys.
Sent 12: Nepthys didn't need to warn me not to speak to them.
Sent 13: He took us to the door of a building like a short pagoda that had a sign hanging over it showing a face with hands uplifted, like a saint under G d's light, and handcuffed.
Sent 14: Inside, the entrance room was hung with bright silks and scattered with velvet cushions.
Sent 15: Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
Sent 16: A large woman, similarly decorated, quickly drifted up to us.
Sent 17: "Good evening, gentlemen," she said.
Sent 18: "May I invite you to have a cup of tea?" "No, thank you," said Nepthys, "we regret that we cannot take up your kind offer.
Sent 19: Are you the proprietor of this shop?" "Yes," answered the woman.
Sent 20: "I am Madame Entera, at your service.
Question: What can only a human handle? (A) The stone (B) The Herb Cart Vender (C) Celebrates (D) The large woman proprietor.

SOLUTION:
A.