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Information: - Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Russian: ) is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 18311832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in today's Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty-two. He put his early impressions and memories of childhood into these pictures of peasant life. In a series of letters to his mother, he asked her to write down descriptions of village customs, dress, superstitions, and old stories. These were also used as primary sources. - Ukrainian culture and customs of Ukraine and ethnic Ukrainians. Ukraine has a shared culture and history with neighboring nations, dating back to the 9th century and the Land of Rus. Mutual customs are shared among the cultures of Ukraine, Belarus, Ukrainian Cossacks and Turkic peoples of Central Asia. Ukrainian customs are heavily influenced by the Eastern Orthodox Church and traditions from Slavic mythology. The Soviet era unified the cultures of many unrelated nations with a common language. - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( ) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer whose work was strongly influenced by Ukrainian culture. - A Bewitched Place is the last story in the second volume of Nikolai Gogol 's first collection of short stories , Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka ( 1832 ) . Like the concluding tale of the first volume , The Lost Letter : A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N. . . Church , it is told by an exuberant Cossack narrator , the old sexton Foma , who says that the tale is about his grandfather . - Ukraine (tr. ) is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland and Slovakia to the west, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Ukraine is currently in territorial dispute with Russia over the Crimean Peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014 but which Ukraine and most of the international community recognise as Ukrainian. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world. It has a population of about 44.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'a bewitched place' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - age - area - century - church - collection - country - culture - customs - eastern orthodox church - farm - hungary - language - mythology - peasant - population - sea - short story - sovereign state - state - territorial dispute - village - work
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work

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Information: - Publius Decius Mus was a Roman politician and general . He was the son of Publius Decius Mus who was consul in 312 BC. As consul in 279 BC , he and his fellow consul , Publius Sulpicius Saverrio , combined their armies against Pyrrhus of Epirus at the Battle of Asculum . Pyrrhus was victorious , but at such a high cost that the security of Asculum was guaranteed . ( Hence the term '' Pyrrhic victory '' . ) According to one tradition , Decius died in the field ; according to another , he survived . - Pyrrhus ("Pyrrhos"; 319/318272 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from c. 297 BC), and later he became king of Epirus (r. 306302, 297272 BC) and Macedon (r. 288284, 273272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, caused him heavy losses, from which the term "Pyrrhic victory" was coined. He is the subject of one of Plutarch's "Parallel Lives". - The Molossians were an ancient Greek tribal state and kingdom that inhabited the region of Epirus since the Mycenaean era. On their north frontier, they had the Chaonians and on their southern frontier the kingdom of the Thesprotians. The Molossians were part of the League of Epirus until they sided against Rome in the Third Macedonian War (171168 BC). The result was disastrous, and the vengeful Romans enslaved 150,000 of its inhabitants and annexed the region into the Roman Republic. - The Hellenistic period covers the period of ancient Greek (Hellenic) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year. At this time, Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe, Africa and Asia, experiencing prosperity and progress in the arts, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, and science. It is often considered a period of transition, sometimes even of decadence or degeneration, compared to the enlightenment of the Greek Classical era. The Hellenistic period saw the rise of New Comedy, Alexandrian poetry, the Septuagint and the philosophies of Stoicism and Epicureanism. Greek Science was advanced by the works of the mathematician Euclid and the polymath Archimedes. The religious sphere expanded to include new gods such as the Greco-Egyptian Serapis, eastern deities such as Attis and Cybele and the Greek adoption of Buddhism. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'publius decius mus ' exhibits the relationship of 'period'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - roman empire - roman republic
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roman republic