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: (CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer."Sent 2: His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists.
Sent 3: Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges.
Sent 4: His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side.
Sent 5: The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, "The Cut."Sent 6: It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas.
Sent 7: When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut.
Sent 8: Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end.
Sent 9: While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite "Western" feel to "The Cut."Sent 10: The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world.
Sent 11: It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail.
Sent 12: In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal.
Sent 13: Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast.
Sent 14: In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, "Treme."Sent 15: He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series "The Wire" and the miniseries "The Pacific."Sent 16: Read an excerpt from "The Cut" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel.
Sent 17: The following is an edited transcript.
Sent 18: CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.
Question: Which novel takes place in a morally and violent world, and is said to capture the sights, sounds, and taste of Washington in great detail?.

SOLUTION: The Jungle.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The first rule is parental.
Sent 2: The primitive monarchy is in the home.
Sent 3: A young baby cries.
Sent 4: The trained nurse turns on the light, lifts the baby, hushes it, sings to it, rocks it, and stills its weeping by caresses and song.
Sent 5: When next the baby is put down to sleep, more cries, more soothing and disturbance, and the setting of a tiny instinct which shall some day be will--the power of control.
Sent 6: The grandmother arrives on the scene.
Sent 7: When baby cries, she plants the little one firmly in its crib, turns down the light, pats and soothes the tiny restless hands that fight the air, watches, waits.
Sent 8: From the crib come whimpers, angry cries, yells, sobs, baby snarls and sniffles that die away in a sleepy infant growl.
Sent 9: Silence, sleep, repose, and the building of life and nerve and muscle in the quiet and the darkness.
Sent 10: The baby has been put in harmony with the laws of nature--the invigoration of fresh air, sleep, stillness--and the little one wakens and grows like a fresh, sweet rose.
Sent 11: The mother, looking on, learns of the ways of God with men.
Question: What characters soothe the baby's weeping?.

SOLUTION: The mother.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (/'pUSkIn/; Russian: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, tr.
Sent 2: Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin; IPA: [aljI'ksandr sjI'rgjejIvjItc 'puskjIn]; 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 - 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.
Sent 3: Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow.
Sent 4: His matrilineal great grandfather was Abram Gannibal, who was brought over as a slave from what is now Cameroon.
Sent 5: Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
Sent 6: While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov.
Sent 7: His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Sent 8: Notoriously touchy about his honour, Pushkin fought as many as twenty-nine duels, and was fatally wounded in such an encounter with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthes.
Sent 9: Pushkin had accused D'Anthes, a French officer serving with the Chevalier Guard Regiment of attempting to seduce the poet's wife, Natalya Pushkina.
Question: Where did Pushkin live when he wrote his most famous play?.

SOLUTION:
Officials.