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.

Q: 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 had Rome's population grown to 100,000? (A) 390 b.c (B) 250 B.C (C) 260 B.C (D) By 250 b.c (E) Before 250 b.c.

A: B, D.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer."Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, "The Cut."Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite "Western" feel to "The Cut."Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, "Treme."Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series "The Wire" and the miniseries "The Pacific."Sent 16: Read an excerpt from "The Cut" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.
Question: Who is a poet, a producer and a crime writer? (A) George Pelecanos (B) Stephen King (C) Maya Angelou (D) Pelecanos (E) Meyers Briggs.

A: A, D.
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Q: Paragraph- Sent 1: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by "slash-and-burn" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica "Xaymaca" ("land of wood and water").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.
Question: What did the Arawak excel at prior to the coming of the Europeans? (A) Laborers (B) They excelled at thatching, weaving, and farming, and they left some paintings (C) Sugar cane farming (D) Weaving (E) Thatching.

A:
B, D, E.
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