### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
Where questions did not permit different levels to be specified then requirements were considered to be at the threshold level

### Assistant:

KEYWORD: then
VARIABLE: requirements
NEGATION: did not
CONDITION: were considered to be at the threshold level
CAUSE_1: questions did not permit different levels to be specified
EFFECT_1: requirements were considered to be at the threshold level

