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You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
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Paragraph- Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindusand Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning "pure"), and adding "stan," the Persian suffix for the word "country.
Sent 9: " The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a "Quit India" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it wassix months after his arrivalbut not smooth.
Question: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India. This proposal began the birth of what country?.
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7, 8.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- In November 2009, Norwegian freelance journalist Paul Refsdal is riding in a pick-up truck on a dusty track of Afghan road.
Sent 2: The Taliban have kidnapped him.
Sent 3: If the truck turns right, he knows he's being sold to another militant group.
Sent 4: A left turn means his kidnappers have decided to let him go.
Sent 5: His journey started when Refsdal, who wanted to document the daily lives of the Taliban, accepted the invitation of a Taliban commander to film him and his fighters.
Sent 6: Refsdal later accompanied another Taliban commander, Omar, to his hideout on a second embed.
Sent 7: As part of CNN's "Taliban" documentary, Refsdal talked with CNN's Anderson Cooper about going from invited guest to kidnap victim -- a harrowing experience that began the way it later ended, with Refsdal in a truck.
Sent 8: Here is an edited excerpt: REFSDAL: We rent a pickup truck and we drive into this valley that doesn't really have a road.
Sent 9: I'm told it is not possible to drive anymore.
Sent 10: We will have to walk for several hours up the hillside to one village, and we have to sneak a little bit.
Sent 11: Omar is very particular about I should cover my face.
Sent 12: I assume this is because they don't want informers to see that there's a foreigner coming.
Sent 13: And we sleep in a house, and everything seems OK. Then, the next day we are asked to go to another house, just 100 meters down the hillside.
Sent 14: We have to wait there, because they're going to have a meeting.
Sent 15: After a couple hours, one of the fighters comes and says he's from al Qaeda.
Sent 16: And he says that he has information that I was spying for the coalition, so both my translator and I will be executed tonight.
Sent 17: And he goes on, saying that we're going to be killed with a knife.
Sent 18: ... He explains how much he hates foreigners and he wants to eat the flesh of foreigners.
Question: What happened to Paul Refsdal in November 2009.
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1, 2.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: Some plants do not get enough water.
Sent 2: They live in places that are very dry.
Sent 3: How can they get and keep water?
Sent 4: Plants that are adapted to these dry places are called xerophytes.
Sent 5: Their traits help them survive.
Sent 6: They need to have a large water intake.
Sent 7: They also need to be able to conserve water.
Sent 8: They also need to be able to store water between rains.
Sent 9: The saguaro cactus in Figure 3.10 has adapted in all three ways.
Sent 10: This cactus has a huge root system.
Sent 11: It allows the cactus to gather a lot of water during the rare rainfalls.
Sent 12: The saguaro doesnt have any leaves.
Sent 13: Leaves are where water can be lost.
Sent 14: Not in this plant!
Sent 15: It also has a large, barrel-shaped stem.
Sent 16: It is here the plant can store a lot of water.
Sent 17: Thorns protect the stem from thirsty animals.
Sent 18: The animals might try to eat parts of the plant to get at the water inside the plant.
Question: How do the roots of a saguaro cactus aid it in surviving in a very dry location?.
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10, 11.