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: What if you could drain all of Earths oceans?
Sent 2: What would it look like?
Sent 3: You might be really surprised.
Sent 4: You see that the surface has two main features.
Sent 5: It has continents and ocean basins.
Sent 6: Continents are large land areas.
Sent 7: These are the areas that are mostly above sea level.
Sent 8: Ocean basins extend from the edges of continents.
Sent 9: They include the ocean floor and Earths deep ocean trenches.
Sent 10: You will also notice the ocean floor is not flat.
Sent 11: It too has many Continents are much older than ocean basins.
Sent 12: Some rocks on the continents are billions of years old.
Sent 13: Ocean basins may only be millions of years old.
Sent 14: Because the continents are so old, a lot has happened to them!
Sent 15: As we view the land around us, we see landforms.
Sent 16: Landforms are physical features on Earths surface.
Sent 17: These features change over time, but how?
Sent 18: There are actually two types of forces at work.
Question: What does the Earth's surface consist of?.

SOLUTION: There are basins and continents.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Paris, France (CNN) -- Hundreds of French workers, angry about proposed layoffs at a Caterpillar factory, were holding executives of the company hostage Tuesday, a spokesman for the workers said.
Sent 2: Caterpillar's French staff say they are angry about a lack of negotiations over layoffs.
Sent 3: It is at least the third time this month that French workers threatened with cutbacks have blockaded managers in their offices to demand negotiations.
Sent 4: Executives were released unharmed in both previous situations.
Sent 5: The latest incident started Tuesday morning at the office of the construction equipment company in the southeastern city of Grenoble.
Sent 6: The workers were angry that Caterpillar had proposed cutting more than 700 jobs and would not negotiate, said Nicolas Benoit, a spokesman for the workers' union.
Sent 7: They did not want to harm the Caterpillar executives, Benoit told CNN.
Sent 8: One hostage was released Tuesday evening leaving workers with four captives inside the Caterpillar building.
Sent 9: The released man was a human resources director identified only as Mr. Petit, because he has heart problems, union representative Bernard Patrick told CNN.
Sent 10: Petit had a heart attack a few weeks ago, Patrick said.
Sent 11: The four others still being held are Nicolas Polutnik, the head of operations; two other executives; and Petit's personal assistant, he said.
Sent 12: About 500 employees were also outside the building protesting.
Question: Provide the full name of one of the hostages.

SOLUTION: Bernard Patrick.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Soon after the conclusion of peace, important changes were made in legislation concerning industry and commerce, and the new freedom thus afforded produced a large number of limited liability companies.
Sent 2: Plans were formed for building a great network of railways, partly for the purpose of developing the natural resources of the country, and partly for the purpose of increasing its power for defense and attack.
Sent 3: The existence of serfdom was tackled boldly, taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces and, hoping that their relations with the serfs might be regulated in a more satisfactory way (meaning in a way more satisfactory for the proprietors), he authorized the formation of committees "for ameliorating the condition of the peasants," and laid down the principles on which the amelioration was to be effected.
Sent 4: This step had been followed by one even more significant.
Sent 5: Without consulting his ordinary advisers, Alexander ordered the Minister of the Interior to send a circular to the provincial governors of European Russia (serfdom was rare in other parts), containing a copy of the instructions forwarded to the Governor-General of Lithuania, praising the supposed generous, patriotic intentions of the Lithuanian landed proprietors, and suggesting that perhaps the landed proprietors of other provinces might express a similar desire.
Sent 6: The hint was taken: in all provinces where serfdom existed, emancipation committees were formed.
Sent 7: The emancipation was not merely a humanitarian question capable of being solved instantaneously by imperial ukase.
Sent 8: It contained very complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation.
Sent 9: Alexander had to choose between the different measures recommended to him and decide if the serfs would become agricultural laborers dependent economically and administratively on the landlords or if the serfs would be transformed into a class of independent communal proprietors.
Sent 10: The emperor gave his support to the latter project, and the Russian peasantry became one of the last groups of peasants in Europe to shake off serfdom.
Sent 11: The architects of the emancipation manifesto were Alexander's brother Konstantin, Yakov Rostovtsev, and Nikolay Milyutin.
Sent 12: On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published.
Question: Who authorized the formation of committees "for ameliorating the condition of the peasants"?.

SOLUTION:
The Governor-General of Lithuania.