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: Even after Bin Laden's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up.
Sent 2: The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity.
Sent 3: On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and Bin Laden.
Sent 4: Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA.
Sent 5: When the former Bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance.
Sent 6: Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted.
Sent 7: CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate."Sent 8: Mike" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting Bin Laden.
Sent 9: The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem.
Sent 10: From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan.
Sent 11: These efforts achieved little before 9/11.
Sent 12: In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over Bin Laden.
Sent 13: The Taliban did not take him seriously, however.
Sent 14: Bin Zayid later told an American diplomat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States.
Question: Why were CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt angry?.

SOLUTION: Pavitt and the CIA was upset because the UAE would not break ties and enforce sanctions against the Taliban.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Abrasion is another type of weathering.
Sent 2: Like ice wedging, it is a form of mechanical weathering.
Sent 3: Like ice wedging, abrasion does not change the rock into another type of rock.
Sent 4: With abrasion, one rock or piece of sediment bumps against another rock.
Sent 5: Rocks dont normally roll around on their own, so why do they move?
Sent 6: There are a couple of reasons a rock may move.
Sent 7: Gravity can cause rocks to move.
Sent 8: They may roll downhill or fall off a cliff.
Sent 9: As they roll down a hill, they bump into each other.
Sent 10: Maybe a moving rock hits a rock that is not moving at the bottom of the hill.
Sent 11: Moving water causes rocks and sediment to move.
Sent 12: Rocks are bounced along the bottom and bump against one another.
Sent 13: As they collide, they begin to chip away at each other.
Sent 14: Angular rocks become more rounded with each collision.
Sent 15: Strong winds cause abrasion.
Sent 16: The wind carries sediment.
Sent 17: This sediment is thrown against other rocky surfaces by the wind.
Sent 18: It is like sand-blasting a rock.
Question: How does strong wind cause abrasion?.

SOLUTION: Blowing over the surface.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The highest point of a wave is the crest.
Sent 2: The lowest point is the trough.
Sent 3: The vertical distance between a crest and a trough is the height of the wave.
Sent 4: Wave height is also called amplitude.
Sent 5: The horizontal distance between two crests is the wavelength.
Sent 6: Both amplitude and wavelength are measures of wave size.
Sent 7: The size of an ocean wave depends on how fast, over how great a distance, and how long the wind blows.
Sent 8: The greater each of these factors is, the bigger a wave will be.
Sent 9: Some of the biggest waves occur with hurricanes.
Sent 10: A hurricane is a storm that forms over the ocean.
Sent 11: Its winds may blow more than 150 miles per hour!
Sent 12: The winds also travel over long distances and may last for many days.
Question: What are a hurricane's winds like?.

SOLUTION:
Less than 100 miles per hour.