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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Question: 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 Sebastião 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: Sebastião'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: What action by Francis Drake, made the 1386 Treaty of Windsor a distant memory? (A) Francis Drake slaughtered a whole village with his men (B) When SebastiÃ£o ascended the throne (C) Drake lead a peace keeping meeting that ended in fighting (D) Francis Drake led British ships in attacking Algarve and sacking Sagres (E) When  Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (F) Francis Drake attacked the Algarve (now a âlegitimate targetâ as Spanish territory) and sacked Sagres, thus depriving the world of the relics of Henry the Navigator (G) Drake broke the treaty (H) When the British refused to destroy Faro (I) When Faro was torched.

Answer: D, F, I.


Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Cuba will pardon more than 2,900 prisoners, the government said Friday, though U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is not among those who will be freed.
Sent 2: The decision to release the prisoners follows "numerous requests" from their family members and religious institutions, and is a humanitarian gesture, said Cuban President Raul Castro.
Sent 3: Among those who might be freed are prisoners over the age of 60, along with those who are sick, female or young with no previous criminal record.
Sent 4: With some exceptions, prisoners convicted of spying, terrorism, murder and drug trafficking will not be released.
Sent 5: Those who will be freed have already served a "important" part of their sentences and exhibited good behavior, according to an official statement published on the state-run website Cubadebate.
Sent 6: The jailed American, Gross, will not be among those pardoned, the Cuban Interests Section in Washington said.
Sent 7: Gross was jailed in December 2009, when he was working as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project aimed at spreading democracy.
Sent 8: Castro has accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet, and this year Cuba's highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on Gross for committing crimes against the security of the state.
Sent 9: He has maintained his innocence and said he was trying to help connect the Jewish community to the Internet.
Sent 10: Castro, speaking to the National Assembly, said that 86 prisoners from 25 countries would be among those released in coming days.
Sent 11: He cited the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI as one of the motivations behind the move, which he said showed the "generosity and strength of the revolution."Sent 12: The pope has said he plans to visit Mexico and Cuba before Easter. 
Question: Why was Alan Gross sentence to jail? (A) He was accused of drug trafficking (B) Castro accused him of importing satellite equipment to connect dissidents to the Internet (C) He was accused of  committing crimes against the security of the state.

Answer: B, C.


Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: During this time, Alexander adopted some elements of Persian dress and customs at his court, notably the custom of proskynesis, either a symbolic kissing of the hand, or prostration on the ground, that Persians showed to their social superiors.
Sent 2: The Greeks regarded the gesture as the province of deities and believed that Alexander meant to deify himself by requiring it.
Sent 3: This cost him the sympathies of many of his countrymen, and he eventually abandoned it.
Sent 4: A plot against his life was revealed, and one of his officers, Philotas, was executed for failing to alert Alexander.
Sent 5: The death of the son necessitated the death of the father, and thus Parmenion, who had been charged with guarding the treasury at Ecbatana, was assassinated at Alexander's command, to prevent attempts at vengeance.
Sent 6: Most infamously, Alexander personally killed the man who had saved his life at Granicus, Cleitus the Black, during a violent drunken altercation at Maracanda (modern day Samarkand in Uzbekistan), in which Cleitus accused Alexander of several judgemental mistakes and most especially, of having forgotten the Macedonian ways in favour of a corrupt oriental lifestyle.
Sent 7: Later, in the Central Asian campaign, a second plot against his life was revealed, this one instigated by his own royal pages.
Sent 8: His official historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, was implicated in the plot; however, historians have yet to reach a consensus regarding this involvement.
Sent 9: Callisthenes had fallen out of favor by leading the opposition to the attempt to introduce proskynesis. 
Question: What cost Alexander the sympathies of Alexander's countrymen? (A) Usurping the province of deities (B) For becoming Persian (C) For revenging himself (D) Because he thought himself a god (E) His adopting of elements Persian dress and customs (F) Attempting to introduce proskynesis.

Answer:
A, E, F.


