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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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Paragraph- Sent 1: Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation.
Sent 2: By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity.
Sent 3: Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers.
Sent 4: Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed.
Sent 5: Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
Sent 6: Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed.
Sent 7: Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates — a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking.
Sent 8: These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures.
Sent 9: Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals.
Sent 10: They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.
Sent 11: After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances.
Sent 12: In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria.
Sent 13: And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists.
Sent 14: By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton.
Sent 15: Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West.
Sent 16: Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France.
Sent 17: The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies.
Sent 18: The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war. 
Question: Why did japan occupy Manchuria in 1931? (A) To build ships (B) Japan believed it needed the territory to buffer against Russian advances (C) As a buffer against Russian advances (D) To build a defensive area against the Russians (E) To buffer against Chinese advances (F) To spread Japanese culture (G) To protect japan from Russian invasion.
answer:
B, C, D, G.


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Paragraph- Sent 1: You approach the door of your friends house.
Sent 2: What is the first thing you do before entering?
Sent 3: Of course, you wipe your feet.
Sent 4: You are a thoughtful visitor.
Sent 5: Fortunately, there is a nice piece of carpet by the door to wipe your shoes.
Sent 6: Too bad your caring comes at a price.
Sent 7: After wiping your feet on the mat you reach out to touch the brass knocker on the door.
Sent 8: A spark suddenly jumps between your hand and the metal.
Sent 9: You feel an electric shock.
Sent 10: Why do you think an electric shock occurs?
Sent 11: An electric shock occurs when there is a sudden discharge of static electricity.
Sent 12: Has this ever happened to you?
Sent 13: You reached out to touch a metal doorknob and received an unpleasant electric shock?
Sent 14: The reason you get a shock is because of moving electric charges.
Sent 15: Moving electric charges also create lightning bolts.
Sent 16: It is also the same reason electric current flows through cables and wires. 
Question: You get shocked because of moving electric charges and moving electric charges also creates what? (A) Lightning bolts (B) Lightening bolts (C) Lightning (D) Irritation (E) Pain (F) Water to rise (G) Earthquake (H) Fire (I) Short circuit (J) Bolts.
answer:
A, B, C, J.


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Paragraph- Sent 1: A group of researchers at a remote jungle island outpost discover the natives are practicing voodoo and black magic .
Sent 2: After killing the local priest , a voodoo curse begins to raise the dead to feed on the living in retribution .
Sent 3: The researchers on the island are killed by the newly risen zombies , except for Jenny , the daughter of a scientist couple .
Sent 4: She escapes , protected by an enchanted necklace charm given to her by her mother shortly before her death .
Sent 5: She returns years later as an adult with a group of mercenaries to attempt to uncover what happened to her parents .
Sent 6: Shortly after arriving at the island their boat 's engine dies , stranding them .
Sent 7: Meanwhile elsewhere on the island a trio of hikers discover a cave , the same cave leading to the underground temple where the original curse was created .
Sent 8: After accidentally reviving the curse , the dead once again return to kill any who trespass on their island .
Sent 9: The mercenaries encounter their first zombie , who injures a member of the team .
Sent 10: Taking shelter in the remains of the old research facilities medical quarters they are soon joined by Chuck , the only surviving hiker .
Sent 11: Arming themselves with weapons left behind by the long dead research team , they make their stand as the dead once again rise .
Sent 12: One by one they are injured or killed , one of whom sacrifices himself to blow up the medical facility and his newly undead team members .
Sent 13: Jenny and Chuck flee , the only survivors remaining .
Sent 14: They stumble upon the cave once again , where the zombies appear and attack . 
Question: Who arms themselves against the zombies? (A) Jenny, the mercenaries, and Chuck (B) Chuck, Jenny and mercenaries (C) Defense (D) The hikers.
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Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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A, B, C.


