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 (", ").

Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Dick was enraged to see how contentedly the men bore the irksome confinement, the meager food, and harsh peremptoriness of the beardless boys set over them as guards.
Sent 2: Most of the prisoners passed the time in cards, playing for buttons, trinkets, or what not that formed their scanty possessions.
Sent 3: Dick learned that all the commissioned officers of the company with Wesley Boone had been wounded or killed in the charge near the stone bridge.
Sent 4: Wesley had been with the prisoners at first.
Sent 5: He had been struck on the head, and was in a raging fever when his father and sister came to the prison to take him away.
Sent 6: No one could tell where he was now, but Dick knew that he must be in the city, since there were no exchanges, the Confederates allowing no one to leave the lines except women with the dead, or those who came from the North on special permits.
Sent 7: Then he visited the provost headquarters, and was shown the complete list of names recorded in the books there; but Barney's was not among them.
Sent 8: At the Spottswood Hotel, the day after his coming, he met Elisha Boone, haggard, depressed, almost despairing.
Sent 9: Dick had no love for the hard-headed plutocrat, but he couldn't resist making himself known.
Question: Who did the confederates let leave?.

A: 5, 6.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Golden Heian Era: The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.
Sent 2: It was indeeduntil 1869.
Sent 3: Grants of tax-free land over the years had been made to Buddhist temples and members of the court aristocracy.
Sent 4: The most powerful families thus carved out for themselves whole regions that were to become the fiefdoms of Japanese feudalism.
Sent 5: By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.
Sent 6: The aristocrat or court patron lent his prestige to a powerful provincial proprietor, who employed a competent estate-manager to oversee smallholders, who in turn worked their farms with dependent laborers.
Sent 7: This elaborate structure of interdependent rights and obligations was to serve Japanese society right into the 20th century.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, Heian court life blossomed in an effusion of aesthetic expression.
Sent 9: Princes and princesses judged the merits of birds, insects, flowers, roots, or seashells.
Sent 10: Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.
Sent 11: Expeditions were organized to the best viewing points for the first spring cherry blossoms, and special pavilions were built to watch the rising of the full moon.
Sent 12: Every gesture, from the most banal opening of an umbrella to the sublimest act of lovemaking, had its appropriate ceremonial.
Sent 13: Conversation often took the form of elegant exchanges of improvised verse.
Sent 14: The changing role of Chinese culture in Japanese life was epitomized in the language itself.
Sent 15: In the absence of an indigenous alphabet, Japanese scholars had with the greatest difficulty tried to adapt the complex ideograms of monosyllabic Chinese to the essentially polysyllabic Japanese.
Sent 16: Thus developed the katakana system used as a vehicle for writing Buddhist names and concepts.
Sent 17: After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
Sent 18: The Taira, controlling the region along the Inland Sea, defeated the Minamoto armies based in the Kanto province east of the capital.
Question: Why were the most powerful families able to obtain whole regions for themselves?.

A: 3, 4.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: Teams from the FBI, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the CIA were immediately sent to Yemen to investigate the attack.
Sent 2: With difficulty, Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, tried to persuade the Yemeni government to accept these visitors and allow them to carry arms, though the Yemenis balked at letting Americans openly carry long guns (rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons).
Sent 3: Meanwhile, Bodine and the leader of the FBI team, John O'Neill, clashed repeatedly-to the point that after O'Neill had been rotated out of Yemen but wanted to return, Bodine refused the request.
Sent 4: Despite the initial tension, the Yemeni and American investigations proceeded.
Sent 5: Within a few weeks, the outline of the story began to emerge.
Sent 6: On the day of the Cole attack, a list of suspects was assembled that included al Qaeda's affiliate Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
Sent 7: U.S. counterterrorism officials told us they immediately assumed that al Qaeda was responsible.
Sent 8: But as Deputy DCI John McLaughlin explained to us, it was not enough for the attack to smell, look, and taste like an al Qaeda operation.
Sent 9: To make a case, the CIA needed not just a guess but a link to someone known to be an al Qaeda operative.
Sent 10: Within the first weeks after the attack, the Yemenis found and arrested both Badawi and Quso, but did not let the FBI team participate in the interrogations.
Sent 11: The CIA described initial Yemeni support after the Cole as "slow and inadequate."Sent 12: President Clinton, Secretary Albright, and DCI Tenet all intervened to help.
Sent 13: Because the information was secondhand, the U.S. team could not make its own assessment of its reliability.
Sent 14: On November 11, the Yemenis provided the FBI with new information from the interrogations of Badawi and Quso, including descriptions of individuals from whom the detainees had received operational direction.
Sent 15: One of them was Khallad, who was described as having lost his leg.
Sent 16: The detainees said that Khallad helped direct the Cole operation from Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Sent 17: The Yemenis (correctly) judged that the man described as Khallad was Tawfiq bin Attash.
Sent 18: An FBI special agent recognized the name Khallad and connected this news with information from an important al Qaeda source who had been meeting regularly with CIA and FBI officers.
Question: On the day of the Cole attack, who said al Qaeda was responsible?.

A:
6, 7.
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