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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: His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.
Sent 2: He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.
Sent 3: The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Durer and his assistants c.
Sent 4: Around 1503-1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.
Sent 5: Neither these, nor the Great Passion, were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.
Sent 6: During the same period Durer trained himself in the difficult art of using the burin to make engravings.
Sent 7: It is possible he had begun learning this skill during his early training with his father, as it was also an essential skill of the goldsmith.
Sent 8: In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.
Sent 9: He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis (1502), The Sea Monster (1498), and Saint Eustace (c.
Sent 10: 1501), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.
Sent 11: His landscapes of this period, such as Pond in the Woods and Willow Mill, are quite different from his earlier watercolours.
Sent 12: There is a much greater emphasis on capturing atmosphere, rather than depicting topography.
Sent 13: He made a number of Madonnas, single religious figures, and small scenes with comic peasant figures.
Sent 14: Prints are highly portable and these works made Durer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.
Question: When did Durer first produce a set of seventeen prints illustrating the Life of the Virgin that was sold individually for several years? (A) 1505 - 1505 (B) 1503 - 1505 (C) 1504 (D) 1496 - 1498 (E) 1499 (F) 1505 - 1507.
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B.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the regiontaken from Al-Gharb, which means "country of the west" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.
Question: Who built towns, roads and industries of Europe's southwestern extremity? (A) Iberians (B) Romans (C) Sicilians (D) Greeks.
answer:
B.

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Paragraph- Sent 1: Jenny was a 13 year old girl with blond hair and blue eyes.
Sent 2: She had gotten out of her last day of school and was free for the summer.
Sent 3: Two of her friends were going to the nearby beach to do some swimming and enjoy the sun.
Sent 4: Jenny went with them and when they got there the beach was very full and there were people everywhere.
Sent 5: They changed into their bathing suits and went to the water.
Sent 6: The water was very cold.
Sent 7: They chose not swim and walked to the sand.
Sent 8: Then they laid down on some towels and enjoyed the sun.
Sent 9: After several hours Jenny and her friends fell asleep.
Sent 10: They woke up and the sun was beginning to set.
Sent 11: When Jenny sat up she found that it was painful to touch her skin.
Sent 12: When she looked down she saw that she had a very bad sunburn.
Sent 13: Her friends were also very badly sunburned so they went home.
Sent 14: Jenny's mother gave her a cream to put on the sunburn.
Sent 15: Afterwards she felt a lot better and went to sleep.
Question: Why did Jenny go the beach? (A) Officials (B) Jenny was free from school on summer break and 2 of her friends were going to the beach (C) Swimming (D) Sleep.
answer:
B, C.