Deductions & credits

The verbiage on all of these questions are very poor and I'd hope that it can be either simplified or clarified in the future for situations such as mine and others.  I very much appreciate you answering my questions.  I still need a bit of clarification on two points. 

After I've entered all my 1098 information and click done, then it proceeds to ask me when did you buy the home with the loan from bank A.  When did you buy the home with the loan from bank B.  When did you buy the home with the loan from bank C.  You get the idea, so here I've entered the original purchase date on each of these questions and not the mortgage origination date for each. When I input the first 1098 and the others, it had the mortgage origination date listed and I also answered the question that this was the  original loan. Having provided all of this in the 1098s entered I feel as though it shouldn't be asking me for this information again. This is why it's confusing for me and feels like something is wrong. I'm sure it's just my misunderstanding, but this is where the form should better explain what is necessary.  There are no help boxes for my scenario that I can refer to as there is in other areas.  So should the date the home was purchased for each of these banks be the origination date of each bank that was already entered on the 1098?

Also need clarification on the picture attached section.  This is all in the 1098 as well so I don't get why I have to answer these again.  If I'm understanding correctly, bank A, B, and C in the first column would be the outstanding balance in box 2 of my 1099? Box D, in the first column I'd enter the amount on my loan statement from Dec that I've found? As for Column 2 are these loans considered paid off and left blank or do I actually put the last payment I made for each bank A, B, C?