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 city of Edinburgh grew up around the steep, ragged cliff of the Castle Rock and its easily defended summit.
Sent 2: Archaeological excavations have revealed evidence of habitation here as long ago as 900 b.c.
Sent 3: Very little, however, is known about the Rock and its inhabitants in the centuries between its first occupation and the time of the MacAlpin kings.
Sent 4: A few shadowy details have been left to us by the Romans and by an epic poem from the seventh century.
Sent 5: Romans and Britons The Romans invaded Scotland in a.d.
Sent 6: 7884, where they met a fierce group called the Picts, whom they drove north.
Sent 7: They consolidated their gains by building Antonine's Wall across the waist of Scotland between the Firth of Forth and the River Clyde in about a.d.
Sent 8: Roman legions encountered the strongholds of the Castle Rock and Arthur's Seat, held by a tribe of ancient Britons known as the Votadini.
Sent 9: Little is recorded about this group, but they were probably the ancestors of the Gododdin, whose feats are told in a seventh-century Old Welsh manuscript.
Sent 10: The capital of the Gododdin was Din Eidyn (the "Fort of Eidyn," almost certainly the Castle Rock), whose name lives on in the Edin- of Edinburgh.
Sent 11: Din Eidyn fell to the Angles in 638 and became part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
Sent 12: It was the first of many times that the Fort of Eidyn would change hands between the kingdoms of the north and the south.
Sent 13: The MacAlpin Kings Four distinct peoples once inhabited the land now known as Scotland: the Picts in the north, the Britons in the southwest, the invading Angles in the southeast, and the Scots in the west.
Sent 14: The Scots were Gaelic-speaking immigrants from the north of Ireland.
Sent 15: Kenneth MacAlpin, who ruled as king of Scots at Dunadd, acquired the Pictish throne in 843, uniting Scotland north of the River Forth into a single kingdom.
Sent 16: He moved his capitalalong with the Stone of Destiny (on which Scottish kings were crowned)to the sacred Pict site of Scone, close to Perth.
Sent 17: His great-great-great-grandson, Malcolm II (10051034), defeated the Angles at the Battle of Carham in 1018 and extended Scottish territory as far south as the River Tweed.
Question: Who did the Romans first meet when they invaded Scotland?.

SOLUTION: The Votadini.

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: Nine families displaced by a fire at Alamo Hills Apartments in March filed lawsuits Wednesday against the apartment complex.
Sent 2: They allege that the complex could have done more to protect belongings they were forced to abandon in the aftermath of the blaze.
Sent 3: Bernard Dempsey Jr., an attorney with Western Michigan Legal Services, the group that represents the tenants, said Alamo Hills gave the displaced families very limited opportunity to remove belongings.
Sent 4: "They were given three days to get their stuff out, and if they couldn't get moved out in three days, their stuff was discarded," Dempsey said.
Sent 5: "Alamo Hills just threw it out."Sent 6: Others, he said, lost possessions to looters after the March 23 blaze, which left 78 people temporarily homeless.
Sent 7: According to the lawsuit, the tenants were prohibited from entering their apartments to retrieve possessions and were promised that the complex would provide security.
Sent 8: A spokesperson for PM One, the company that manages Alamo Hills, could not be reached for comment.
Sent 9: Nine separate suits were filed in 8th District Court, which handles civil claims of less than $25,000.
Sent 10: "We're asking for the reimbursement of the value of their property and a small amount for stress -- $3,000 on top of their out-of-pocket expenses for their lost stuff," Dempsey said.
Sent 11: "They're not looking to get rich off this.
Sent 12: A lot of this is simply because they were treated so badly."Sent 13: Dempsey said most of the tenants who filed suits still live at the apartment complex, although many are trying to find homes elsewhere.
Sent 14: "The new apartments (they were provided) were not in very good shape.
Sent 15: That's actually one of the claims," he said.
Question: The new apartments provided for the tenants turned out to not be in very good shape. Was this fact part of the legal claims of the tenants?.

SOLUTION:
No.