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: I had drunk too much, I confess, though we all had.
Sent 2: Somehow, Tasha and I began to argue the worth of Solevgrad jazz, as inconsequential a topic as I can imagine.
Sent 3: She had studied it in school, so she thought herself as an expert.
Sent 4: I once had a neighbor who played it constantly, loudly, and badly, so I thought I knew it better.
Sent 5: Malaquez tried to mediate, but I saw him as siding with Tasha.
Sent 6: So, I think, did she.
Sent 7: The subject shifted from music to Tasha's obsession with fame, undoubtedly by a leap that I made.
Sent 8: She had no choice but to follow.
Sent 9: (I do not remember any of this well, just now, nor do I care to.
Sent 10: Those who are truly curious may look at the last act of "Captured Moments.") I remember suggesting, with characteristic tact, that she add Emil to her small list of major accomplishments.
Sent 11: Malaquez glanced away, embarrassed.
Sent 12: Tasha looked at me as if to say, "I will."Sent 13: She said, "I feel sorry for you, Nardo.
Sent 14: I'll see Emil home."Sent 15: "Yes," I said, "Do that," and did not care what she did, or why.
Sent 16: Emil asked, "You're all right?"Sent 17: I muttered something he must have interpreted as assent.
Sent 18: They both walked up to Emil's home while I watched the scarlet moonlight ripple on distant waves.
Sent 19: Disgusted with Tasha but more disgusted with myself, I finally realized she would not return that night and went into The Sleeping Flamingo to drink myself to sleep.
Sent 20: She had not come home when I woke in mid-morning.
Question: On which topic did Tasha think of herself as an expert because she studied it in school?.

SOLUTION: The play "Captured Moments".

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander the Great's accomplishments and legacy have been depicted in many cultures.
Sent 2: Alexander has figured in both high and popular culture beginning in his own era to the present day.
Sent 3: The Alexander Romance, in particular, has had a significant impact on portrayals of Alexander in later cultures, from Persian to medieval European to modern Greek.
Sent 4: Alexander may already have considered himself as the "King of Asia" after his victory at Issos, a conception strengthened by his subsequent successes.
Sent 5: The conception might have inspired the title given to Alexander in Babylonian documents, "king of the world (since "king of Asia" had no meaning in Babylonian geography).
Sent 6: It might also be alluded in the sarcastic comments by Anaxarchus, trying to rouse Alexander after the murder of Cleitus.
Sent 7: or in the orator Demades' comments that if Alexander were dead, "The whole world would stink of his corpse".
Sent 8: Alexander is called "kosmokrator", ruler of the world, in the later Alexander Romance.
Sent 9: Alexander features prominently in modern Greek folklore, more so than any other ancient figure.
Sent 10: The colloquial form of his name in modern Greek ("O Megalexandros") is a household name, and he is the only ancient hero to appear in the Karagiozis shadow play.
Sent 11: One well-known fable among Greek seamen involves a solitary mermaid who would grasp a ship's prow during a storm and ask the captain "Is King Alexander alive?".
Sent 12: The correct answer is "He is alive and well and rules the world!", causing the mermaid to vanish and the sea to calm.
Sent 13: Any other answer would cause the mermaid to turn into a raging Gorgon who would drag the ship to the bottom of the sea, all hands aboard.
Question: What were the orator Demades' comments referring to Alexanders death?.

SOLUTION: No one would notice.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The judge leaned back in his chair and beckoned to Mr. Andrews.
Sent 2: It was finished.
Sent 3: Spear was free, and from different parts of the courtroom people were moving toward the door.
Sent 4: Their numbers showed that the friends of the young man had been many.
Sent 5: Mr. Thorndike felt a certain twinge of disappointment.
Sent 6: Even though the result relieved and pleased him, he wished, in bringing it about, he had had some part.
Sent 7: He begrudged to Isaacs & Sons the credit of having given Spear his liberty.
Sent 8: His morning had been wasted.
Sent 9: He had neglected his own interests, and in no way assisted those of Spear.
Sent 10: He was moving out of the railed enclosure when Andrews called him by name.
Sent 11: "His honor," he said impressively, "wishes to speak to you." The judge leaned over his desk and shook Mr. Thorndike by the hand.
Sent 12: Then he made a speech.
Sent 13: The speech was about public-spirited citizens who, to the neglect of their own interests, came to assist the ends of justice, and fellow-creatures in misfortune.
Sent 14: He purposely spoke in a loud voice, and every one stopped to listen.
Sent 15: "The law, Mr. Thorndike, is not vindictive," he said.
Sent 16: "It wishes only to be just.
Sent 17: Nor can it be swayed by wealth or political or social influences.
Sent 18: But when there is good in a man, I, personally, want to know it, and when gentlemen like yourself, of your standing in this city, come here to speak a good word for a man, we would stultify the purpose of justice if we did not listen.
Sent 19: I thank you for coming, and I wish more of our citizens were as unselfish and public-spirited." It was all quite absurd and most embarrassing, but inwardly Mr. Thorndike glowed with pleasure.
Sent 20: It was a long time since any one had had the audacity to tell him he had done well.
Question: Who did Mr. Thorndike credit with getting Spear his liberty?.

SOLUTION:
The judge.