TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you need to write an incorrect answer to the given question. Along with the question, you are also given the correct answer(s) and the associated paragraph. An incorrect answer should be closely related to the content of the paragraph and/or the question but will not truthfully answer the question. Your incorrect answers should be similar to the given correct answer such that it will pose a challenge for students to distinguish the two. A good incorrect answer should prevent those who skip the paragraph from answering the question. The incorrect answer should not be trivial, in the sense that they should not be easily eliminated without reading the paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Do not look for the Danteum in the Eternal City.
Sent 2: In true Dantean form, politics stood in the way of its construction in 1938.
Sent 3: Ironically this literature-inspired building can itself most easily be found in book form.
Sent 4: Reading this book I remembered Goethe's quote about frozen music.
Sent 5: Did Terragni try to freeze Dante's medieval miracle of song?
Sent 6: Certainly a cold-poem seems artistically repulsive.
Sent 7: Unflattering comparisons to the lake of Cocytus spring to mind too.
Sent 8: While I cannot read Italian, I can read some German.
Sent 9: After locating the original quotation I discovered that 'frozen' is a problematic (though common) translation of Goethe's original 'erstarrte.'Sent 10: The verb 'erstarren' more properly means 'to solidify' or 'to stiffen.'Sent 11: This suggests a chemical reaction in which the art does not necessarily chill in the transformation.
Sent 12: Nor can simple thawing yield the original work.
Sent 13: Like a chemical reaction it requires an artistic catalyst, a muse.
Sent 14: Indeed the Danteum is not a physical translation of the Poem.
Sent 15: Terragni thought it inappropriate to translate the Comedy literally into a non-literary work.
Sent 16: The Danteum would not be a stage set, rather Terragni generated his design from the Comedy's structure, not its finishes.
Question: Which word suggests chemical reaction through solidifying of stiffening?.

SOLUTION: Cocytus.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Little is known of the earliest Stone Age inhabitants of Europe's southwestern extremity.
Sent 2: The ancient Greeks called them the Cynetes (or Cunetes).
Sent 3: Whatever their origins, their culture evolved under the pressure and influence of foreign forces.
Sent 4: Among the many invading armies that settled here and contributed to nascent Portuguese culture were Phoenicians, who settled in the area around 1,000 b.c., followed by the Celts, Iberians, Greeks, and Carthaginians.
Sent 5: But it was the Romans, who arrived late in the third century b.c., who most greatly influenced all of Iberia.
Sent 6: They built towns, industries, roads, and bridges, developed agriculture, and bequeathed the Latin language, of which Portuguese is a direct descendant.
Sent 7: The Romans named the southwestern province of the peninsula Lusitania, oddly enough for one of the Celtiberian tribes they defeated, and by the third century a.d.
Sent 8: had introduced Christianity.
Sent 9: By the beginning of the fourth century the Algarve had a bishop in place, based in Faro.
Sent 10: But Rome had already fallen into decay, and soon hordes of northern tribesmen took over the empire.
Sent 11: The Algarve fell to the Visigoths in the mid-fifth century.
Sent 12: Under Moorish Rule In a.d.
Sent 13: 711, the Moors brought powerful armies from North Africa and launched a devastating attack on the Iberian peninsula, conquering much of what would become Spain and Portugal.
Sent 14: They imposed Islam and left an indelible influence on the countryside and the population of the Algarve.
Sent 15: The Moorish legacy can still be seen in the form of wells and waterwheels, squat white houses, the dark complexions of the people, and in the very name given the regiontaken from Al-Gharb, which means "country of the west" (when the Moors conquered the territory, it was the most westerly in the known world).
Sent 16: The Moors governed their Iberian kingdoms from across the border in Seville, but the Algarve had its own regional capital and huge, invulnerable fortress.
Sent 17: The capital was Chelb (or Xelb), and it was bigger and better defended than Lisbon.
Sent 18: Today the town, known as Silves, is a provincial outpost whose only besiegers are busloads of tourists who climb the narrow streets up to the old Moorish ramparts.
Question: Who settled in Iberia around 1000 B.C.? Name two armies.

SOLUTION: The amirites, the Greeks.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Michigan will lose $2 million in federal funding and $600,000 in state funding to provide legal aid to the poor in 2003, according to Deierdre L. Weir, executive director of the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc., the state's largest provider of legal services to the poor.
Sent 2: Current federal funds of nearly $10.7 million from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) will drop to $8.7 million for next year, according to Weir.
Sent 3: She said that the reductions reflect a decline in the number of persons in the state who are living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census.
Sent 4: LSC uses census data to determine funding across the nation, and according to the census, the state's poverty population fell from an estimated 1.2 million in 1990 to an estimated 968,000 in 2000.
Sent 5: The state's legal aid agencies are also bracing for yet another cut in 2003 of some $600,000 of state funding.
Sent 6: A portion of filing fees paid by litigants in the state's circuit courts, and a portion of interest on lawyers trust accounts (IOLTA) are earmarked for Michigan legal aid programs.
Sent 7: These funds are expected to drop from currently $7.5 million in 2002 to $6.9 million when the Michigan State Bar Foundation makes distributions next year.
Sent 8: Most of the decrease is attributed to the past year's low interest rates.
Sent 9: "The irony of these funding cuts is that while there may be fewer poor people in Michigan today, the demand for service will not change because the poverty population remains so large and the legal aid funding so little that local providers will never able to serve all who need our service," said Weir.
Sent 10: "It's as if the poor will be victimized twice-once for being poor and again as victims of these funding cuts."Sent 11: The U.S. Census Bureau, in spite of its best efforts, cannot locate every poor person living in a census tract, therefore the poor are also undercounted, added Weir.
Sent 12: The brunt of these cuts will be felt most in Wayne County where according to the census some 333,000 poor people live, the largest concentration of poverty in the state.
Sent 13: LAD will lose more than $870,000 for legal aid in Wayne County, nearly half of the state's total loss, said Weir.
Sent 14: While difficult to measure, the loss of funds will mean that several thousand of Michigan's poor in need of legal service will not receive it, or they will receive significantly limited service.
Sent 15: Cutbacks will include service in such civil legal matters as landlord-tenant, bankruptcy, consumer, child custody, predatory lending, mortgage foreclosure, utility shutoffs, social security, wills, and probate.
Sent 16: "Local providers will have to work harder and smarter and use more technology instead of staff to provide as much service as we can with fewer dollars," said Weir.
Sent 17: "We will be providing more selfhelp training to clients enabling them to navigate the legal system on their own in routine matters, more assistance on the telephone, and less direct representation by attorneys in specific, high impact matters.
Sent 18: Currently, Michigan has 13 legal aid agencies covering the state's 83 counties.
Question: How did the Michigan's poverty population change in 2003 and how did it affect the federal funding?.

SOLUTION:
Federal funding remain the same.