input: Maupassant(*)was born in 1850 in northern France. His early life was not happy. His parents separated when he was 11. Most of his education came informally from Gustave Flaubert--his mother's friend and his godfather, a journalist and novelist. Often Flaubert would let him take a walk and then ask him to write 100 lines about what he saw. This type of training developed in Maupassant a sense of observation, which he later put to use in his writing. Flaubert also allowed Maupassant to attend his Sunday gatherings with others in his literary circle

For a few years, Maupassant was connected with the Ministry of Public Instruction. It is interesting to note that Monsieur Loisel, a poor man character in The Necklace, worked there. He also served in the French army during the Franco-Prussian War. His favorite writing subjects were peasants, servants, in the city, and the Francd-Prussian War.

At an early age, Maupassant started writing short stories. In 1880, some of his works were published and he received a wide reputation for Boule de Suif (Ball of Tallow). With this success, he began to work full-time on writing. During the next ten years, he wrote over 300 stories, including six novels, three travel books, and a book of verse. Through them, he earn a lot of money.

His writing was classical and simple, avoiding social comments and dirty details. His works often showed a real world and an accurate knowledge of the subject. Although Maupassant wrote in many forms, he received widest recognition for his short stories. By 1890, Maupassant was suffering from the latter staged of syphilis . He died in 1893 in Paris. 1. Did MAupassant have a happy life?
2. why?
3. What was his schooling?
4. who was that?
5. What would he have him do?
6. did this help in his learning?
7. how?
8. What did he write at an early age?
9. Did he write a lot?
10. How many novels?
11. Did he write any travel books?
12. how many? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. No
2. His parents separated when he was 11
3. Most of his education came informally from Gustave Flaubert
4. his mother's friend and his godfather, a journalist and novelist
5. Flaubert would let him take a walk and then ask him to write 100 lines about what he saw
6. Yes
7. It helped develop in Maupassant a sense of observation, which he later put to use in his writing.
8. short stories.
9. Yes
10. six novels
11. Yes
12. three

question: (CNN) -- The biological mother of a missing 7-year-old Oregon boy has written an open letter to her son saying, "I am sorry that I was not there to protect you."

"I am so soooooo sorry that this has happened," Desiree Young wrote to Kyron Horman in a letter that was released Monday to NBC News.

"I will never be able to forgive myself for being so many hours away when you needed me the most. I pray that you come back to me because I am afraid that I can't live without you."

The letter comes more than two weeks after the boy disappeared on June 4.

The boy's stepmother, Terri Horman, said she last saw Kyron walking down the hallway towards his classroom at Skyline Elementary School, police said. Cell phone records indicate she may not have been at the school at that time, according to a report in People Magazine. Authorities refused to comment on the report.

In the emotional letter, Young speaks directly to her young son. "When you come home I will show you all of [the] things that everyone did for you, just to find you," she wrote.

"There are literally hundreds of thousands of people that don't know you and yet they pray for you every night. They know how much I miss you and need you and they just want to bring you home to me. There are so many wonderful people working on this case and they are going to find you soon.
1. When did the boy go missing?
2. How many weeks after did the letter come out?
3. Who wrote it?
4. His biological mother?
5. What was her name?
6. How old was her son?
7. Where was he from?
8. What was his name?
9. When was the letter released?
10. Who was it given to?
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answer: 1. June 4
2. More than two weeks
3. His mother
4. Yes
5. Desiree Young
6. Seven
7. Oregon
8. Kyron Horman
9. Monday
10. NBC News

Question: Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo. It is also used as a trading language in the southern Philippines, including the southern parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula, the Sulu Archipelago and the southern predominantly Muslim-inhabited municipalities of Bataraza and Balabac in Palawan.

As the "Bahasa Kebangsaan" or "Bahasa Nasional" (National Language) of several states, Standard Malay has various official names. In Singapore and Brunei it is called "Bahasa Melayu" (Malay language); in Malaysia, "Bahasa Malaysia" (Malaysian language); and in Indonesia, "Bahasa Indonesia" (Indonesian language) and is designated the "Bahasa Persatuan/ Pemersatu" ("unifying language/ "lingua franca""). However, in areas of central to southern Sumatra where the language is indigenous, Indonesians refer to it as "Bahasa Melayu" and consider it one of their regional languages.

Standard Malay, also called Court Malay, was the literary standard of the pre-colonial Malacca and Johor Sultanates, and so the language is sometimes called Malacca, Johor, or Riau Malay (or various combinations of those names) to distinguish it from the various other Malayan languages. According to "Ethnologue" 16, several of the Malayan varieties they currently list as separate languages, including the "Orang Asli" varieties of Peninsular Malay, are so closely related to standard Malay that they may prove to be dialectsthese are listed with question marks in the infobox at right or on top (depending on device). There are also several Malay trade and creole languages which are based on a lingua franca derived from Classical Malay, as well as Macassar Malay, which appears to be a mixed language. 1. What language is this passage talking about?
2. Which family speaks it?
3. Where is it spoken?
4. Does the standard Malay have several official names/
5. What is it called in Malaysia?
6. In Singapore?
7. How about Indonesia?
8. How many people speak it?
9. And where is it a native language?
10. What's the other name for Standard Malay?
11. Is it also used as a trading language?
12. Why is this language sometimes called Malacca, Johor or Riau Malay? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Malay
2. Austronesian family
3. Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
4. yes
5. Bahasa Malaysia
6. Bahasa Melayu
7. Bahasa Indonesia
8. 290 million
9. people across the Strait of Malacca
10. Court Malay
11. yes
12. to distinguish it from the various other Malayan languages