TASK DEFINITION: Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears.
Sent 2: I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company.
Sent 3: Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.
Sent 4: They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits.
Sent 5: Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give.
Sent 6: Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake.
Question: What did the narrator consider doing when first approached by the Indians and how did he feel?.

SOLUTION: Suppressed his fear.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Romans: Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.
Sent 2: Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c.
Sent 3: are just about right.
Sent 4: Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c.
Sent 5: established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.
Sent 6: In contrast to other Italian cities weakened by internal rivalries and unstable government, Rome drew strength from a solid aristocracy of consuls and senate ruling over plebeians proud of their Roman citizenship and only rarely rebellious.
Sent 7: Recovering quickly from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c.
Sent 8: , the Romans took effective control of the peninsula by a military conquest reinforced by a network of roads with names that exist to this day: Via Appia, Flaminia, Aurelia.
Sent 9: All roads did indeed lead toand fromRome.
Sent 10: By 250 b.c.
Sent 11: , the city's population had grown to an impressive 100,000.
Sent 12: Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France.
Sent 13: The rest of Italy participated only by tax contributions to the war effort and minor involvement in commerce and colonization.
Sent 14: Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal's invasion in 218 b.c.
Sent 15: Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters.
Sent 16: The Third and final Punic War ended in 149 b.c.
Sent 17: , though national solidarity was still a long way off.
Sent 18: Under Julius Caesar, elected in 59 b.c.
Question: When did Rome turn into a patrician republic?.

SOLUTION: 510 B.C.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: In 1863, Alexander II re-convened the Diet of Finland and initiated several reforms increasing Finland's autonomy from Russia including establishment of its own currency, the markka.
Sent 2: Liberation of business led to increased foreign investment and industrial development.
Sent 3: Finland also got its first railways, separately established under Finnish administration.
Sent 4: Finally, the elevation of Finnish from a language of the common people to a national language equal to Swedish opened opportunities for a larger proportion of the society.
Sent 5: Alexander II is still regarded as "The Good Tsar" in Finland.
Sent 6: These reforms could be seen as results of a genuine belief that reforms were easier to test in an underpopulated, homogeneous country, than in the whole of Russia.
Sent 7: They may also be seen as a reward for the loyalty of its relatively western-oriented population during the Crimean War and during the Polish uprising.
Sent 8: Encouraging Finnish nationalism and language can also be seen as an attempt to dilute ties with Sweden.
Question: What are the reforms seen as?.

SOLUTION:
These reforms could be seen as results of a genuine belief that reforms were easier to test in an underpopulated, homogeneous country, than in the whole of Russia.