Answer Array Clash
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 3 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Contracts1
- CRIMINAL1
- Evidence1
Example wrong choices
14719_festival_lockbox · CRIMINAL · Choice AObtaining property by false pretenses.
Why it's attractive
The answer follows the lie but misses that the surrender came from fear.
Why it's wrong
The answer follows the lie but misses that the surrender came from fear.
14719_festival_lockbox · CRIMINAL · Choice CEmbezzlement.
Why it's attractive
The stem never gives Lydia lawful possession before she converts the cash.
Why it's wrong
The stem never gives Lydia lawful possession before she converts the cash.
14719_festival_lockbox · CRIMINAL · Choice DRobbery and larceny.
Why it's attractive
It sees both elements but stacks convictions for one taking.
Why it's wrong
It sees both elements but stacks convictions for one taking.
14867_scripture_market_cart · EVIDENCE · Choice AProper, because Hannah first introduced opinion evidence about the cart's speed.
Why it's attractive
It treats Hannah's earlier opinion as the reason Daniel may testify.
Why it's wrong
It treats Hannah's earlier opinion as the reason Daniel may testify.
14867_scripture_market_cart · EVIDENCE · Choice CImproper, because lay and expert opinion testimony cannot both be offered on the same issue.
Why it's attractive
The answer uses an absolute no-both rule that the stem does not support.
Why it's wrong
The answer uses an absolute no-both rule that the stem does not support.
14867_scripture_market_cart · EVIDENCE · Choice DImproper, because Daniel cannot establish the cart's speed with a sufficient degree of scientific certainty.
Why it's attractive
It demands a special certainty label instead of checking the Rule 702 foundation.
Why it's wrong
It demands a special certainty label instead of checking the Rule 702 foundation.
17113_pottery-studio · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because the agreement between Hannah and Paul prohibited assignment.
Why it's attractive
The choice identifies a real breach but answers a different remedial question than the one asked
Why it's wrong
The choice identifies a real breach but answers a different remedial question than the one asked
17113_pottery-studio · CONTRACTS · Choice BYes, because the design work that remained to be completed at the time of Paul's assignment involved personal services.
Why it's attractive
Correctly spots the personal-services fact but reverses its legal consequence
Why it's wrong
Correctly spots the personal-services fact but reverses its legal consequence
17113_pottery-studio · CONTRACTS · Choice DNo, because an agreement not to assign destroys the power but not the right to make a valid assignment.
Why it's attractive
The choice states the anti-assignment rule backwards — it destroys the right, not the power
Why it's wrong
The choice states the anti-assignment rule backwards — it destroys the right, not the power
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