Part 1. 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.
Part 2. Example
Paragraph- Sent 1: It was hot that day.
Sent 2: The temperature on the wall of the backyard was showing something well over 100 F.
Sent 3: Meanwhile Tom, at home, was trying finish the remainder of carrots from last night, and packing for his trip to Chicago tomorrow.
Sent 4: As employees of the Art Museum, Tom and his older cousin often had to travel to Chicago. Question: What was the temperature outside, when Tom was eating carrots? Correct Answer: well over 100 F.
Answer: Not very hot.
Explanation: This is a good incorrect answer, as most of the the words of this answer appear in the the paragraph. They are also related to the content of the question (temperature), yet do not answer the question correctly. Consequently, one has to carefully read the paragraph understand that "not very hot" does not answer the question.
Part 3. Exercise
Paragraph- Sent 1: The cute red ball rolled over to the blue ball and said hello.
Sent 2: The blue ball was scared and went to cry to the green ball.
Sent 3: The green ball laughed at the blue ball.
Sent 4: Then the green ball told the orange ball that blue ball was stupid.
Sent 5: Most felt this was not good to do and so they punished the green ball by taking away all his air.
Sent 6: From that day on everyone saw the air-less green ball and knew that they could not do or say any bad things.
Sent 7: This is how the trouble started.
Sent 8: The purple ball used the fear of everyone to become the leader that they all feared.
Sent 9: The purple ball was mean to everyone.
Sent 10: Until one day the red ball spoke up and got all the other colored balls together and they took the air from the purple ball and put it in the green ball.
Sent 11: Sadly, the green ball had been without air for too long and was dead.
Question: Why did they take the air from the purple ball?.
Answer:
Because the green ball asked them to.