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: The earliest signs of people on Jamaica are the remains of the Arawak, an AmerIndian society that originated on the north coast of South America.
Sent 2: Arawak peoples migrated to various Caribbean islands, arriving in Jamaica by the beginning of the eighth century.
Sent 3: They were peaceful and lived by "slash-and-burn" farming.
Sent 4: For meat, they bred pigs and ate iguana, both native to the island.
Sent 5: They were highly skilled in such manual activities as thatching and weaving.
Sent 6: In fact, the hammock was an AmerIndian invention that remains with us today; it is an object which, more than any other, evokes an image of a warm sunny day on a tropical isle.
Sent 7: The Arawak left a legacy of paintings in places such as Runaway Caves near Discovery Bay, and shards of pottery found at their settlements near Nueva Sevilla and Spanish Town have added a little to our knowledge about them.
Sent 8: Over 200 Arawak sites have been identified, and it is said that when the Spanish arrived in Jamaica there were approximately 100,000 Arawak living on the island.
Sent 9: They called Jamaica "Xaymaca" ("land of wood and water").
Sent 10: Columbus and the Arrival of Europeans Columbus first arrived in Jamaica on 5 May 1494 at Discovery Bay, where there is now a small park in his honor.
Sent 11: He stayed for only a few days but returned in 1502, landing here when the ships of his fleet became unserviceable; he waited at St. Ann's Bay for help to arrive from Cuba.
Sent 12: After the death of Columbus in 1505, Jamaica became the property of his son Diego, who dispatched Don Juan de Esquivel to the island as Governor.
Sent 13: Esquivel arrived in 1510 and created a base called Nueva Sevilla near St. Ann's Bay, from which he hoped to colonize the rest of the island.
Sent 14: The Spanish immediately began subjugating the Arawak population, many of whom died under the yoke of oppression and of diseases carried by the Europeans.
Sent 15: A number of them committed suicide rather than live the life created for them by the Spanish.
Sent 16: The site of Nueva Sevilla proved to be unhealthy and mosquito-ridden, and in 1534 the Spanish founded Villa de la Vega, today known as Spanish Town.
Sent 17: Pig breeding was the main occupation of these early settlers, but they also planted sugar cane and other crops that required large numbers of laborers.
Sent 18: The number of Arawak had already fallen dramatically, so the Spanish began to import slaves from Africa to work the land; the first Africans arrived in 1517.
Question: What labor intensive crop did the Spanish import slaves to grow?.

SOLUTION: Slash-and-burn.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: According to the radar reconstruction, American 77 reemerged as a primary target on Indianapolis Center radar scopes at 9:05, east of its last known position.
Sent 2: The target remained in Indianapolis Center's airspace for another six minutes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center's airspace at 9:10.
Sent 3: As Indianapolis Center continued searching for the aircraft, two managers and the controller responsible for American 77 looked to the west and southwest along the flight's projected path, not east-where the aircraft was now heading.
Sent 4: Managers did not instruct other controllers at Indianapolis Center to turn on their primary radar coverage to join in the search for American 77.
Sent 5: In sum, Indianapolis Center never saw Flight 77 turn around.
Sent 6: By the time it reappeared in primary radar coverage, controllers had either stopped looking for the aircraft because they thought it had crashed or were looking toward the west.
Sent 7: Although the Command Center learned Flight 77 was missing, neither it nor FAA headquarters issued an all points bulletin to surrounding centers to search for primary radar targets.
Sent 8: American 77 traveled undetected for 36 minutes on a course heading due east for Washington, D.C. By 9:25, FAA's Herndon Command Center and FAA headquarters knew two aircraft had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Sent 9: They knew American 77 was lost.
Sent 10: At least some FAA officials in Boston Center and the New England Region knew that a hijacker on board American 11 had said "we have some planes."Sent 11: Concerns over the safety of other aircraft began to mount.
Sent 12: A manager at the Herndon Command Center asked FAA headquarters if they wanted to order a "nationwide ground stop."Sent 13: While this was being discussed by executives at FAA headquarters, the Command Center ordered one at 9:25.
Sent 14: The Command Center kept looking for American 77.
Sent 15: At 9:21, it advised the Dulles terminal control facility, and Dulles urged its controllers to look for primary targets.
Sent 16: At 9:32, they found one.
Sent 17: Several of the Dulles controllers "observed a primary radar target tracking eastbound at a high rate of speed" and notified Reagan National Airport.
Sent 18: FAA personnel at both Reagan National and Dulles airports notified the Secret Service.
Question: Why didn't the Indianapolis Center notice Flight 77 turn around?.

SOLUTION: They could not find Flight 77.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The bar was manned by an expensive humanoid robot.
Sent 2: It turned toward Sarah's wave and acknowledged her with a nod, moments later setting a fluted glass of sparkling liquid in front of her.
Sent 3: I marveled at the robot's smoothness and coordination.
Sent 4: Clearly, it was a high-end model.
Sent 5: Sarah transferred the glass to my free hand and pulled me away from the bar for more introductions, with Alexis trailing after us.
Sent 6: I spent the evening listening, mostly.
Sent 7: Listening and stuffing my face with all the bits of fine food provided.
Sent 8: No one minded; Sarah's inner circle was content to fill our circle of couches with plenty of chatter.
Sent 9: Ray, a plump man who was grey where he wasn't bald.
Sent 10: Zheng, short and dark and lean, with a very intense gaze.
Sent 11: He made me a little uncomfortable.
Sent 12: Kishori, petite, her hair strung out in a series of braids that reached nearly to her waist.
Sent 13: I categorized them based on their appearances, hoping I'd be able to pick them out of the crowd again later.
Sent 14: Most of their chatter was meaningless to mestories of day-to-day activities, how so-and-so had been seen in so-and-so's table at lunch and my wasn't that a surprise, and why hadn't the chef concocted this delectable a selection of appetizers for the dance the other night, but of course those rolled meat pastries reminded one of the pastries back on Earth, didn't they, and this was somehow an interesting fact.
Sent 15: After the first half-hour, I stopped expending effort to keep names and stories and gossip straight.
Sent 16: I wasn't learning anything useful.
Sent 17: I could have started asking questions, but I wanted to get my bearings first.
Sent 18: Tonight was for observation.
Sent 19: I didn't bother trying to seek out a different group of potentially more interesting people, though.
Sent 20: They all looked the same: clusters of social butterflies surrounded by the less apt, the hangers-on, the circle with whom the gossip was shared.
Question: What clues are we given that this is a social gathering that doesn't take place in our world?.

SOLUTION:
Sarah's clothes.