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 judge leaned back in his chair and beckoned to Mr. Andrews.
Sent 2: It was finished.
Sent 3: Spear was free, and from different parts of the courtroom people were moving toward the door.
Sent 4: Their numbers showed that the friends of the young man had been many.
Sent 5: Mr. Thorndike felt a certain twinge of disappointment.
Sent 6: Even though the result relieved and pleased him, he wished, in bringing it about, he had had some part.
Sent 7: He begrudged to Isaacs & Sons the credit of having given Spear his liberty.
Sent 8: His morning had been wasted.
Sent 9: He had neglected his own interests, and in no way assisted those of Spear.
Sent 10: He was moving out of the railed enclosure when Andrews called him by name.
Sent 11: "His honor," he said impressively, "wishes to speak to you." The judge leaned over his desk and shook Mr. Thorndike by the hand.
Sent 12: Then he made a speech.
Sent 13: The speech was about public-spirited citizens who, to the neglect of their own interests, came to assist the ends of justice, and fellow-creatures in misfortune.
Sent 14: He purposely spoke in a loud voice, and every one stopped to listen.
Sent 15: "The law, Mr. Thorndike, is not vindictive," he said.
Sent 16: "It wishes only to be just.
Sent 17: Nor can it be swayed by wealth or political or social influences.
Sent 18: But when there is good in a man, I, personally, want to know it, and when gentlemen like yourself, of your standing in this city, come here to speak a good word for a man, we would stultify the purpose of justice if we did not listen.
Sent 19: I thank you for coming, and I wish more of our citizens were as unselfish and public-spirited." It was all quite absurd and most embarrassing, but inwardly Mr. Thorndike glowed with pleasure.
Sent 20: It was a long time since any one had had the audacity to tell him he had done well.
Question: Who did Mr. Thorndike credit with getting Spear his liberty?.

SOLUTION: The judge.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Spain's Golden Age: Under Ferdinand and Isabella, Spain underwent a dramatic transformation.
Sent 2: In 1492 the royal pair presided over the final conquest over the Moors and discovery of the New World, including the great wealth that feat brought to Spain.
Sent 3: Spain flourished during a Golden Age, a century of Spanish economic and political supremacy in international affairs, accompanied by marvels of art and literature.
Sent 4: Ferdinand and Isabella were consummate Spaniards, committed to the expansion of the crown.
Sent 5: By contrast, their grandson, who assumed the throne in 1516, was born in Flanders in 1500, and Charles I could barely express himself in Spanish.
Sent 6: The first of the Habsburgs, he packed his retinue with Burgundian and Flemish nobles.
Sent 7: Soon after his arrival in Spain, the young man inherited the title of Holy Roman Emperor, as Charles V. The responsibilities of the crown kept him busy away from the royal residences of Toledo, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid.
Sent 8: While the monarch was away on one of his many business trips, his increasingly dissatisfied subjects protested violently.
Sent 9: A revolt of the comuneros, or townsmen, broke out in a number of Spanish cities, including Madrid.
Sent 10: The rebels occupied the alcazar, which had by then been converted to a royal palace.
Sent 11: The insurrection was quashed and its leaders executed, but the king got the message.
Sent 12: He tried thereafter to pay more attention to his Spanish constituency.
Question: A revolt of the comuneros in Madrid happened under whose reign?.

SOLUTION: Ferdinand.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: We drove about a great deal--the country at the back of Deauville, going away from the sea, is lovely--very like England--charming narrow roads with high banks and hedges on each side--big trees with spreading branches meeting overhead--stretches of green fields with cows grazing placidly and horses and colts gambolling about.
Sent 2: It is a great grazing and breeding country.
Sent 3: There are many haras (breeding stables) in the neighbourhood, and the big Norman posters are much in demand.
Sent 4: I have friends who never take their horses to the country.
Sent 5: They hire for the season a pair of strong Norman horses that go all day up and down hill at the same regular pace and who get over a vast amount of country.
Sent 6: We stopped once or twice when we were a large party, two or three carriages, and had tea at one of the numerous farmhouses that were scattered about.
Sent 7: Boiling water was a difficulty--milk, cider, good bread and butter, cheese we could always find--sometimes a galette, but a kettle and boiling water were entirely out of their habits.
Sent 8: They used to boil the water in a large black pot, and take it out with a big spoon.
Sent 9: However, it amused us, and the water really did boil.
Question: Where did they stop that made boiling water difficult?.

SOLUTION:
We were a large party.