Question: (CNN) -- Two children died Saturday in the suburbs of the Syrian capital -- not because of guns, bombs or other weapons, but because of malnutrition, activists and an opposition group said.

The two boys suffered from marasmus, a type of acute malnutrition that can very quickly lead to death if not treated, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Ibrahim Khalil was 4; Ammar Arafa was even younger, but his exact age wasn't known, opposition activist Ahmed Al-Muadami said from the town, Moadamiyet al-Sham, in the Damascus suburbs.

Moadamiyet al-Sham was one of the areas affected by the alleged chemical weapons attack August 21. It was the first town United Nations inspectors visited this week to gather evidence about the attack and speak to the wounded.

Al-Muadami said the town has been under siege by Syrian troops since last November and that the situation there is "disastrous."

"We ran out of food supplies and we cannot get anything into the town," he said.

Doctors lacked the medicine and necessary nutrients to treat the children because of the siege, the Syrian Observatory said.

"We haven't seen a piece of bread for six months now," said another resident, Abu Alnour. "We went through our food supplies, local produce and cattle."

He said government checkpoints and snipers are blocking all the roads leading into the town and are not allowing anything in or out. The Syrian government typically calls rebels "armed terrorists."

"The Red Crescent tried to send an aid shipment into the town in early July but the government forces denied them access, and that was the last aid shipment we heard about," Al-Muadami said. 1. What did the children die of?
2. What was the specific name of the disease?
3. What were the names of the boys?
4. What country were they in?
5. What did that town run out of?
6. Who tried to send in aid?
7. What happened to it?
8. What is blocking the roads?
9. How long has it been since they've seen bread?
10. What did doctors need to treat the children?
11. What agency sent inspectors this week?
12. To do what?
13. About what?
14. Who were they going to speak to?
15. How long has the town been under seige>
16. What does the Syrian government call rebels?
17. What is the name of one resident? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. malnutrition
2. marasmus
3. Ibrahim Khalil and Ammar Arafa
4. Damascus
5. food supplies
6. The Red Crescent
7. government forces denied them access
8. checkpoints and snipers are blocking all the roads
9. for six months
10. lacked the medicine and necessary nutrients
11. United Nations
12. to gather evidence
13. about the attack (Chemical)
14. to the wounded.
15. since last November
16. "armed terrorists."
17. Abu Alnour

Q: Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as "Washington", "the District", or simply "D.C.", is the capital of the United States.

The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. Named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.

Washington had an estimated population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to more than onemillion during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is the principal city, has a population of over 6million, the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.

1. Washington, D.C.
2. Yes
3. onemillion
4. Maryland and Virginia
5. No
6. The signing of the Residence Act
7. Georgetown and Alexandria.
8. Yes
9. George Washington
10. Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia
11. 681,170 as of July 2016
12. the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area

Numbered questions:
1. what city is being talked about here?
2. is it the capital of the US?
3. how many people are there during a work week?
4. what states do they commute from?
5. is D.C. on the west coast?
6. what happened in 1790?
7. what settlements that was already there?
8. Was D.C. named after a president?
9. which one?
10. who returned the land and why?
11. what's the current population?
12. what's the rank in the US?

input: CHAPTER IV

THE WAY INTO PRINT

Sam Cotting's General Store at Millville divided importance with Bob West's hardware store but was a more popular loafing place for the sparse population of the tiny town. The post office was located in one corner and the telephone booth in another, and this latter institution was regarded with much awe by the simple natives. Once in awhile some one would telephone over to the Junction on some trivial business, but the long-distance call was never employed except by the "nabobs"--the local name for John Merrick and his nieces--or by the manager of the new mill at Royal, who had extended the line to his own office in the heart of the pine forest.

So, when Uncle John and the girls entered Cotting's store and the little gentleman shut himself up in the telephone booth, a ripple of excitement spread throughout the neighborhood. Skim Clark, the youthful hope of the Widow Clark, who "run the Emporium," happened to be in the store and he rushed out to spread the news that "the nabob's talkin' to New Yoruk!"

This information demanded immediate attention. Marshall McMahon McNutt, familiarly known as "Peggy" McNutt--because he had once lost a foot in a mowing machine--and who was alleged to be a real estate agent, horse doctor, fancy poultry breeder and palmist, and who also dabbled in the sale of subscription books, life insurance, liniment and watermelons, quickly slid off his front porch across the way and sauntered into Cotting's to participate in the excitement. Seth Davis, the blacksmith, dropped his tools and hurried to the store, and the druggist three doors away--a dapper gentleman known as Nib Corkins--hurriedly locked his door and attended the meeting. Presently the curious group was enlarged by the addition of Nick Thome the liveryman, Lon Taft, a carpenter and general man-of-all-work, and Silas Caldwell the miller, the latter a serious individual who had "jest happened to come acrost from the mill in the nick o' time." 1. who used long-distance calls?
2. what was the name of the town?
3. what was nabob the local name for?
4. whose store was more popular, Sam's or Bob's?
5. was it a specific store or a general store?
6. what did people like to do there?
7. who went in the telephone booth?
8. did it cause excitement?
9. whose nickname was Peggy?
10. who was Widow Clark related to?
11. were they the one who talked about the phone call?
12. how many professions was Peggy alleged to have?
13. what chopped off his foot?
14. what was Nick Thome's job?
15. was Peggy excited?
16. where did he go to participate?
17. did Seth Davis also go?
18. what were they doing? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. the "nabobs"
2. Millville
3. John Merrick and his nieces
4. Sam's
5. General
6. loaf
7. Uncle John
8. yes
9. Marshall McMahon McNutt
10. Skim Clark
11. Yes
12. Five
13. a mowing machine-
14. a liveryman
15. Yes
16. into Cotting's
17. Yes
18. watching the nabob's use the phone