QUESTION: While up in the mountains the locals taught him all the tricks of the fingerboard, he learned the basics of playing the what?
Options:
- violin
- banjo
- mandolin
- guitar
- lute
ANSWER: Banjo has a fingerboard and people in mountains play it. One can play a banjo.
The answer is banjo


q: Loss of someone you love can cause what kind of feeling in your heart?
Options:
- painful
- happy
- blind
- contagious
- bring joy
a: When people leave, connection is broken which causes pain. Pain is a negative emotion that happen in negative situation. Losing someone you love is negative situation.
The answer is painful


QUESTION: Dance can be elegant and specific, or you can just have fun and what?
Options:
- falling down
- trip
- fall down
- move around
- celebrate
ANSWER: To just move around is not a dance. Dance can be elegant and specific or you can just have fun and move around.
The answer is move around


q: Even though they were never told or forced to obey, the people still fashionably claimed they what?
Options:
- resist
- respect
- violate
- defy
- rebel
a: When one is forced to obey, they usually go against it which means resist. One can claim that they obey.
The answer is resist


QUESTION: She had a busy schedule, she had to run errands and pick up the kids the second she did what?
Options:
- make time for
- take money
- go outdoors
- leave work
- field
ANSWER: When she leaves work, then only she can collect kids. One can run errands only after leaving from work.
The answer is leave work


QUESTION: She could watch people coming and going to all the different shops while at the beauty salon because it was located where?
Options:
- picking clothes
- clerk
- strip mall
- beautifying hair
- neighborhood
ANSWER:

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A strip mall is a open-air shopping center. The stores in a strip mall are arranged in a row with a sidewalk in front. People generally come and go to different shops by walking on the sidewalk. She was in a beauty salon in one of the stores beside the sidewalk.
The answer is strip mall