TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence and question which can be answered using the sentence. Your task is to answer the question using the information from the sentence. The answer to the question is unique and it is a continuous text span from the sentence.
PROBLEM: Sentence: Following the report , Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials involved in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys broke the law . 
 Question: why might something have been broken?

SOLUTION: former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials involved in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys

PROBLEM: Sentence: As ex-slaves risked beatings for failing to meet the continuing duties , their freedom was limited . 
 Question: what was  continuing?

SOLUTION: duties

PROBLEM: Sentence: Still not eighteen , he briefly attended the University of Idaho in Moscow in north Idaho , then entered the Army Air Forces in 1945 and was in basic training during V-J Day in August . 
 Question: who   attended   somewhere?

SOLUTION:
he

