They were about the president of a fictional country, and they came in four versions, of which each student saw but one.

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"Downton Abbey" chronicles the lives of the patrician Crawley family and their servants in a fictional country house in Yorkshire, in northern England.

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The home of the fictional bigot Archie Bunker is now one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the country.

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