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: As his car slid downtown on Tuesday morning the mind of Arnold Thorndike was occupied with such details of daily routine as the purchase of a railroad, the Japanese loan, the new wing to his art gallery, and an attack that morning, in his own newspaper, upon his pet trust.
Sent 2: But his busy mind was not too occupied to return the salutes of the traffic policemen who cleared the way for him.
Sent 3: Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft.
Sent 4: It was a charming morning.
Sent 5: The spring was at full tide, and the air was sweet and clean.
Sent 6: Mr. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence.
Sent 7: He regretted he had not given the probation officer a stronger letter.
Sent 8: He remembered the young man now, and favorably.
Sent 9: A shy, silent youth, deft in work, and at other times conscious and embarrassed.
Sent 10: But that, on the part of a stenographer, in the presence of the Wisest Man in Wall Street, was not unnatural.
Sent 11: On occasions, Mr. Thorndike had put even royalty frayed, impecunious royalty, on the lookout for a loanat its ease.
Sent 12: The hood of the car was down, and the taste of the air, warmed by the sun, was grateful.
Sent 13: It was at this time, a year before, that young Spear picked the spring flowers to take to his mother.
Sent 14: A year from now where would young Spear be?
Sent 15: It was characteristic of the great man to act quickly, so quickly that his friends declared he was a slave to impulse.
Sent 16: It was these same impulses, leading so invariably to success, that made his enemies call him the Wisest Man.
Sent 17: He leaned forward and touched the chauffeur's shoulder.
Sent 18: "Stop at the Court of General Sessions," he commanded.
Sent 19: What he proposed to do would take but a few minutes.
Sent 20: A word, a personal word from him to the district attorney, or the judge, would be enough.
Question: How does Mr. Thorndike act upon his impulse?.

SOLUTION: It depended on the impulse.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c.
Sent 2: , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.
Sent 3: During this period, the indigenous people lived in caves, hunting the mammals that gathered at the shoreline.
Sent 4: The landscape of the valley changed dramatically over the next 200 centuries.
Sent 5: The glaciers feeding the lake melted away and the lake evaporated.
Sent 6: Fossils tell an obscure story of man's slow and sporadic development.
Sent 7: Around 3000 b.c.
Sent 8: , native Archaic Indians began to develop a lasting hunting and gathering culture.
Sent 9: By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exceptionthe presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
Sent 10: These springs fed a network of streams draining through the Las Vegas Wash to the Colorado River.
Sent 11: The areas surrounding the springs were desert oases: sprawling collections of grasses, trees, and wildlife.
Sent 12: Many springs lay in areas that would eventually become the center of the modern Las Vegas metropolis.
Sent 13: For about 4000 years, the Archaics thrived in a culture that included many signs of early civilization.
Sent 14: Signs of even more advancement appeared halfway through the first millennium a.d.
Sent 15: , when the Anasazi Indians inhabited the valley.
Sent 16: Far more progressive than the Archaics, the Anasazi utilized such formal agricultural techniques as irrigation to assist their harvest.
Sent 17: This permitted the Anasazi to achieve a benchmark of advanced societythe ability to live in permanent shelters year-round without need to follow wildlife.
Sent 18: Mysteriously, the Anasazi vanished from the valley around a.d.
Question: What was a difference between the hunting and gathering practices of the Archaics and the Anasazi?.

SOLUTION: Anasazi were not progressive as the Archaics.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Greta ran to the corner with her older brother Tony.
Sent 2: He had money for the ice cream truck in his pocket and she was very happy.
Sent 3: The ice cream truck had been parked at the curb waiting for children for a very long time.
Sent 4: The ice cream truck driver thought that no more children were coming to get ice cream so he started pulling away from the curb when they got to the corner.
Sent 5: They yelled.
Sent 6: They screamed, "Stop!
Sent 7: Stop!"Sent 8: and jumped up and down on the side walk trying to get him to see them.
Sent 9: The driver of the truck saw them, waved at them and smiled, pulled back to the curb and opened his truck up so that they could see everything that he had for sale.
Sent 10: They were so excited.
Sent 11: They saw some new treats.
Sent 12: Tony wanted to try something new.
Sent 13: He got an ice cream sundae with chocolate ice cream and nuts.
Sent 14: He almost got a snow cone.
Sent 15: Greta looked at everything that the ice cream truck had.
Sent 16: She saw candy, ice cream cones, snow cones, and everything else.
Sent 17: It all looked so good.
Sent 18: But after looking at everything, she wanted to get an ice cream sandwich.
Sent 19: She got the ice cream sandwich.
Sent 20: She bit into it and smiled.
Sent 21: It tasted so good.
Sent 22: She felt so happy.
Sent 23: Her brother, Tony, was happy too.
Sent 24: He bit into his ice cream cone sundae and grinned.
Sent 25: They walked home with their ice cream and told their mom about how close they came to not getting their ice cream at all.
Sent 26: Their mom was happy that the truck had stopped for them.
Sent 27: She said that they were very lucky to have gotten to the curb before the ice cream truck left.
Question: What did Greta and Tony do to get the ice cream drivers attention?.

SOLUTION:
Wave at the truck.