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You are given a paragraph, a question and some answer options (associated with "A", "B", "C", "D", etc.) You need to list all the correct answer options with their associated letters (e.g. "A" can be a valid answer). Note that sometimes, more than one option can answer the question correctly and completely. In those cases, please generate all such options separated by a comma (e.g. "A, B" is a valid answer). Do not generate anything else apart from one or more of the following characters: 'A', 'B, 'C', 'D', etc.
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Paragraph- Sent 1: To protect its seagoing interests and trade routes, Portugal established strategic garrisons in Goa (India), Malacca (East Indies), and Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
Sent 2: Portuguese explorers then embarked upon Macau (now Macao), the Congo, and various other parts of Africa, including the Sudan.
Sent 3: The Portuguese policy was to avoid armed strife and to develop a trade empire, rather than to conquer nations.
Sent 4: To this end it succeeded with relatively few blood-soaked episodes in its colonial history.
Sent 5: Adventures abroad, however, proved disastrous during the second half of the 16th century.
Sent 6: In 1557 the 14-year-old boy-king Sebastiao ascended the throne, the beginning of a calamitous reign that was to end at the battle of Alcacer-Quiber (Morocco) in pursuit of a vain crusade.
Sent 7: Sebastiao's untimely demise, alongside some 18,000 ill-prepared, badly led followers, set the stage for a crisis of succession.
Sent 8: For many years afterwards, legends and rumors bizarrely insisted that the king was still alive, and imposters turned up from time to time claiming the throne; those who were plausible enough to be deemed a threat were summarily executed.
Sent 9: In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Sent 10: But after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed, he died, heirless.
Sent 11: Surveying the situation and smelling an opportunity, Spain occupied the power vacuum, and Portugal's neighbor and long-time antagonist became its master.
Sent 12: Spanish rule dictated Portugal's inadvertent involvement in Spain's ongoing wars.
Sent 13: In 1587 a squadron of British ships commanded by Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a "legitimate target" as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator.
Sent 14: Nine years later Faro was torched.
Sent 15: The 1386 Treaty of Windsor, by which Britain and Portugal had pledged eternal friendship, seemed a distant memory.
Sent 16: Portugal's empire was gradually eroded, and many of its trading posts (with the notable exception of Brazil) were picked off by the British and Dutch.
Sent 17: Finally, after 60 years of Spanish rule, Portuguese noblemen (aided by the French, then at war with Spain) organized a palace coup and restored independence.
Sent 18: The Great Disaster Portugal's greatest misfortune struck on All Saint's Day, 1 November 1755.
Question: Who died after two years of alternating between the throne and his sickbed? (A) Francis Drake (B) Sebastiao's (C) Prince Henry.
answer:
C.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: I had drunk too much, I confess, though we all had.
Sent 2: Somehow, Tasha and I began to argue the worth of Solevgrad jazz, as inconsequential a topic as I can imagine.
Sent 3: She had studied it in school, so she thought herself as an expert.
Sent 4: I once had a neighbor who played it constantly, loudly, and badly, so I thought I knew it better.
Sent 5: Malaquez tried to mediate, but I saw him as siding with Tasha.
Sent 6: So, I think, did she.
Sent 7: The subject shifted from music to Tasha's obsession with fame, undoubtedly by a leap that I made.
Sent 8: She had no choice but to follow.
Sent 9: (I do not remember any of this well, just now, nor do I care to.
Sent 10: Those who are truly curious may look at the last act of "Captured Moments.") I remember suggesting, with characteristic tact, that she add Emil to her small list of major accomplishments.
Sent 11: Malaquez glanced away, embarrassed.
Sent 12: Tasha looked at me as if to say, "I will."Sent 13: She said, "I feel sorry for you, Nardo.
Sent 14: I'll see Emil home."Sent 15: "Yes," I said, "Do that," and did not care what she did, or why.
Sent 16: Emil asked, "You're all right?"Sent 17: I muttered something he must have interpreted as assent.
Sent 18: They both walked up to Emil's home while I watched the scarlet moonlight ripple on distant waves.
Sent 19: Disgusted with Tasha but more disgusted with myself, I finally realized she would not return that night and went into The Sleeping Flamingo to drink myself to sleep.
Sent 20: She had not come home when I woke in mid-morning.
Question: What did Nardo's neighbour play constantly, loudly, and badly? (A) The drums (B) Solevgrad jazz (C) Country music (D) Soul music.
answer:
B.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: While Nashiri was in Afghanistan, Nibras and Khamri saw their chance.
Sent 2: They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.
Sent 3: Quso did not arrive at the apartment in time to film the attack.
Sent 4: Back in Afghanistan, Bin Laden anticipated U.S. military retaliation.
Sent 5: He ordered the evacuation of al Qaeda's Kandahar airport compound and fled- first to the desert area near Kabul, then to Khowst and Jalalabad, and eventually back to Kandahar.
Sent 6: In Kandahar, he rotated between five to six residences, spending one night at each residence.
Sent 7: In addition, he sent his senior advisor, Mohammed Atef, to a different part of Kandahar and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, to Kabul so that all three could not be killed in one attack.
Sent 8: There was no American strike.
Sent 9: In February 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Laden) complained frequently that the United States had not yet attacked.
Sent 10: According to the source, Bin Laden wanted the United States to attack, and if it did not he would launch something bigger.
Sent 11: The attack on the USS Cole galvanized al Qaeda's recruitment efforts.
Sent 12: Following the attack, Bin Laden instructed the media committee, then headed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to produce a propaganda video that included a reenactment of the attack along with images of the al Qaeda training camps and training methods; it also highlighted Muslim suffering in Palestine, Kashmir, Indonesia, and Chechnya.
Sent 13: Al Qaeda's image was very important to Bin Laden, and the video was widely disseminated.
Sent 14: Portions were aired on Al Jazeera, CNN, and other television outlets.
Sent 15: It was also disseminated among many young men in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and caused many extremists to travel to Afghanistan for training and jihad.
Sent 16: Al Qaeda members considered the video an effective tool in their struggle for preeminence among other Islamist and jihadist movements.
Question: Following which attack did Bin Laden instruct the media committee, to produce a propaganda video? (A) 11 (B) 9 (C) Galvanized (D) USS Cole attack (E) The attack on the USS Cole.
answer:
D, E.