Part 1. Definition
In this task, you will be presented with a text, a pronoun from the text, and two candidate names. You should determine what the pronoun refers to and classify the answers into A, B, or Neither. A and B here are referring to option A and option B. Position of the pronoun in the text is showed within two "_"s.
Part 2. Example
He grew up in Evanston, Illinois the second oldest of five children including his brothers, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn. His high school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. MacKenzie studied with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952. _His_ simple, wheel-thrown functional pottery is heavily influenced by the oriental aesthetic of Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. <sep>, Pronoun: His <sep>, A: MacKenzie <sep>, B: Bernard Leach
Answer: A
Explanation: Based on the text, his refers to MacKenzie so option A is correct.
Part 3. Exercise
Alfred Elisha Ames, politician and physician Henry P. H. Bromwell, U.S. Representative from Illinois H. Joel Deckard, U.S. Representative from Indiana Levi Davis, Illinois Auditor and lawyer William Lee D. Ewing, U.S. Senator and fifth Governor of Illinois William M. Farmer, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court Ferris Foreman, politician and Army colonel John W. Heavey, U.S. Army brigadier general, chief of the National Guard Bureau Frederick Remann, Illinois Republican politician Levi Stewart, Mormon pioneer June Squibb, Academy Award-nominated actress In Jules Verne's An Antarctic Mystery (1897), Dirk Peters, AKA Hunt, lived for many years in Vandalia before resuming _his_ quest for his companion Arthur Gordon Pym. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Jules Verne <sep>, B: Dirk Peters
Answer:
B