input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- The Syrian government has told the parents of a missing American journalist that it doesn't know where their son is, the man's father said Monday at a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon. 

Austin Tice last contacted his family on August 13 while in Syria reporting on the uprising there against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. He was reportedly preparing to leave Syria for Lebanon when he went missing, according to his family. 

Read more: Family working for journalist's release plans visit to Lebanon 

In October, a shaky video surfaced on YouTube showing a man believed to be Tice surrounded by armed men walking him up a hill. 

Tice's father, Marc Tice, said that family members have been in touch, "directly and indirectly," with Syrian government officials, but they have learned nothing about his son's location despite traveling to Beirut to seek his release. 

"We're reaching out to everyone that we can get in touch with," he said. 

Tice's parents say they are willing to go to Syria if that what it will take to get their son back. 

"We have no idea what will be required, and we would like to know from whoever is holding him what it is that we need to do," Marc Tice said. 

Austin is the oldest of the couple's seven children. 

"We are a big, close family. We have all felt the void [of] his absence," said his mother, Debra Tice. 

With the holiday season approaching, they are "dismayed by the empty chair at our family table," she said. "We miss Austin. Knowing his smile, big laugh, great storytelling."  1. Who is missing?
2. Who is looking for him?
3. When did he last communicate with his family?
4. Where was he?
5. What was he doing there?
6. Where was he going to be heading after he left Syria?
7. Does he have any siblings?
8. Is he the youngest of them?
9. Will the family go to Syria to look for him?
10. Has there been video evidence that he is still alive?
11. What did it show?
12. When was this?
13. Where could the video be found?
numbered_answers: 1. Austin Tice
2. The Syrian government
3. August 13
4. in Syria
5. Reporting
6. Lebanon
7. Yes
8. No
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Tice surrounded by armed men walking him up a hill
12. October
13. YouTube

input: Boston (CNN)It was 9:35 on a slow Thursday night in April 2013 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Chief John DiFava was about to call it quits. On his way out, he saw one of his rookie swing-shift officers, Sean Collier, sitting in his cruiser. He stopped to say goodnight. 

"I chatted with him for a few minutes. I told him to be safe and I left," the chief told a crowded courtroom on Wednesday. He estimated the conversation lasted three, maybe four minutes. 

"Did you ever see Sean Collier alive again after that?" Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb asked. 

"I did not." 

Less than an hour later, Collier lay bleeding in his patrol car after being ambushed and shot in the head. His car door was open, and his foot was lodged between the gas and brake pedals. 

DiFava and other officers, assisted by surveillance videos, 911 callers and a lone bicyclist who happened to be passing by, recounted Collier's last moments in the death penalty trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. 

The bicyclist, MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate Nathan Harman, pointed to Tsarnaev in court and identified him as the man with "a big nose," who he saw leaning into Collier's squad car. He said Tsarnaev appeared to be alone. 

Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time, does not dispute that he was present when Collier was killed on the evening of April 18, nor does he deny that he participated in the bombings three days earlier that killed three people and hurt more than 240 others.  1. What time was it?
2. What day of the week?
3. Night or day?
4. Who is Assistant U.S. Attorney
5. Who did he talk about
6. What month was it?
7. What year?
8. What city?
9. Was John DiFava a Police Chief
10. Where?
11. Who is Sean Collier
12. Is he dead?
13. Who is Nathan Harman
14. Does he bicycle?
15. Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
16. How many people did he injure?
17. How many people did he kill?
18. What was the date of that?
19. How old was the bomber?
20. What was the date when Collier died? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. 9:35
2. Thursday
3. night
4. William Weinreb
5. Sean Collier
6. April
7. 2013
8. Boston
9. yes
10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11. a police office
12. yes
13. an MIT mathematics Ph.D. candidate
14. yes
15. the Boston Marathon bomber
16. more than 240
17. three
18. April 15
19. 19
20. April 2013

Q: Jamey really wanted a pet dog, so he went to ask his parents. 

"Mom, Dad, can I we get a dog?" 

Jamey's mom and dad thought about this, and then answered him. 

"Having a pet can be a lot of work, Jamey. When you own a dog, you have to feed him, and take him for walks, and clean up after him. You even have to do those things when you would rather be playing or watching TV. If you promise to help take care of him, we'll get a dog." 

Jamey was very happy to hear this! The next weekend, his mom and dad took him to a big building where puppies and kittens without homes were kept. It was very noisy inside! Jamey looked at a big yellow dog first. 

"This dog is pretty big, Jamey," his father said. "He might need a bigger yard to run around in than we have." 

Jamey thought that Dad was right about that. The next dog Jamey looked at was a very small white dog. It barked over and over again as Jamey and his mother looked at it. 

"This dog is very noisy Jamey. He might need a lot of attention from you. Do you think you want to give this puppy that much attention?" 

Jamey wasn't sure he could give the little white dog all the time it needed to be happy. Finally Jamey looked at a third dog, a brown dog that was bigger than the white dog, but smaller than the yellow one. The dog came over to Jamey right away and seemed to love to be petted and fussed over. 

"Do you like the brown dog?" asked Jamey's dad. 

"Yes!" said Jamey. "Can we get him?" 

"Will you feed him and walk him every afternoon when you get home from school?" asked Jamey's mom. 

"I promise," said Jamey. 

"In that case, I guess we have a dog!" 

This made Jamey very happy.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who wanted a dog?
2. Are they a boy or a girl?
3. Who took him to get a dog?
4. When did they go to get the dog?
5. Was it a quiet place?
6. What dog did he pick out first?
7. And second?
8. Why did he decide against the second dog?
9. What dog did he pick?
10. Was he smaller than the second dog?
A:
1. Jamey
2. boy
3. his mom and dad
4. next weekend
5. no
6. big yellow dog
7. small white dog
8. He might need a lot of attention
9. brown dog
10. yes