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: Ratners Group PLC, a fast-growing, acquisition-minded London-based jeweler, raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield's Inc. to $57.50 a share, or $62.1 million, from $50 a share, or $55 million, after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners's initial offer.
Sent 2: The other concern wasn't identified.
Sent 3: Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of "substantial benefit to Ratners."Sent 4: In London at mid-afternoon yesterday, Ratners's shares were up 2 pence (1.26 cents), at 260 pence ($1.64).
Sent 5: The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield's shareholders, and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10.
Sent 6: The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield's raises Ratners's U.S. presence to 450 stores.
Sent 7: About 30% of Ratners's profit already is derived from the U.S.
Question: How many of Weisfield's stores are to be liquidated and acquired by Ratners by Dec. 10?.

SOLUTION: 450.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: As Philip marched south, his opponents blocked him near Chaeronea, Boeotia.
Sent 2: During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right wing and Alexander the left, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals.
Sent 3: According to the ancient sources, the two sides fought bitterly for some time.
Sent 4: Philip deliberately commanded his troops to retreat, counting on the untested Athenian hoplites to follow, thus breaking their line.
Sent 5: Alexander was the first to break the Theban lines, followed by Philip's generals.
Sent 6: Having damaged the enemy's cohesion, Philip ordered his troops to press forward and quickly routed them.
Sent 7: With the Athenians lost, the Thebans were surrounded.
Sent 8: Left to fight alone, they were defeated.
Sent 9: After the victory at Chaeronea, Philip and Alexander marched unopposed into the Peloponnese, welcomed by all cities; however, when they reached Sparta, they were refused, but did not resort to war.
Sent 10: At Corinth, Philip established a "Hellenic Alliance" (modeled on the old anti-Persian alliance of the Greco-Persian Wars), which included most Greek city-states except Sparta.
Sent 11: Philip was then named Hegemon (often translated as "Supreme Commander") of this league (known by modern scholars as the League of Corinth), and announced his plans to attack the Persian Empire.
Question: Who was left alone to fight and subsequently defeated?.

SOLUTION: Spartans.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Tocqueville asserted that the values that had triumphed in the North and were present in the South had begun to suffocate old-world ethics and social arrangements.
Sent 2: Legislatures abolished primogeniture and entails, resulting in more widely distributed land holdings.
Sent 3: This was a contrast to the general aristocratic pattern in which only the eldest child, usually a man, inherited the estate, which had the effect of keeping large estates intact from generation to generation.
Sent 4: In America, in contrast, landed elites were less likely to pass on fortunes to a single child by the action of primogeniture, which meant that as time went by, large estates became broken up within a few generations which, in turn, made the children more equal overall.
Sent 5: It was not always a negative development, according to Joshua Kaplan's interpretation of Tocqueville, since bonds of affection and shared experience between children often replaced the more formal relation between the eldest child and the siblings, characteristic of the previous aristocratic pattern.
Sent 6: Overall, in the new democracies, hereditary fortunes became exceedingly difficult to secure and more people were forced to struggle for their own living.
Sent 7: This rapidly democratizing society, as Tocqueville understood it, had a population devoted to "middling" values which wanted to amass, through hard work, vast fortunes.
Sent 8: In Tocqueville's mind, this explained why America was so different from Europe.
Sent 9: In Europe, he claimed, nobody cared about making money.
Sent 10: The lower classes had no hope of gaining more than minimal wealth, while the upper classes found it crass, vulgar, and unbecoming of their sort to care about something as unseemly as money; many were virtually guaranteed wealth and took it for granted.
Sent 11: At the same time in America, workers would see people fashioned in exquisite attire and merely proclaim that through hard work they too would soon possess the fortune necessary to enjoy such luxuries.
Sent 12: Despite maintaining with Aristotle, Montesquieu, and others that the balance of property determined the balance of power, Tocqueville argued that, as America showed, equitable property holdings did not ensure the rule of the best men.
Sent 13: In fact, it did quite the opposite.
Sent 14: The widespread, relatively equitable property ownership which distinguished America and determined its mores and values also explained why the American masses held elites in such contempt.
Question: How did Europeans' and Americans' attitudes toward amassing wealth differ?.

SOLUTION:
Americans left their wealth to the eldest, europeans split it up.