Any Opening Means Freedom
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
19996_root-cellar-naomi · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, but only if Naomi was aware of her confinement throughout the entire five-hour period.
Why it's attractive
The 'throughout the entire period' clause invents a qualifier no rule imposes. Students cut it as Too Much — an extra condition with no legal source.
Why it's wrong
The 'throughout the entire period' clause invents a qualifier no rule imposes. Students cut it as Too Much — an extra condition with no legal source.
19996_root-cellar-naomi · CRIMINAL · Choice CNo, because the ventilation hatch provided Naomi with a means of egress, so she was not completely confined.
Why it's attractive
Says 'provided … a means of egress' — but the rule requires reasonable means of egress, not any means. Gold Key: a theoretical opening this victim cannot safely reach is not a reasonable exit.
Why it's wrong
Says 'provided … a means of egress' — but the rule requires reasonable means of egress, not any means. Gold Key: a theoretical opening this victim cannot safely reach is not a reasonable exit.
19996_root-cellar-naomi · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because Barnabas did not know Naomi was inside and therefore lacked the intent to confine her.
Why it's attractive
Barnabas intentionally locked the door. That voluntary act is the confining act. The choice conflates 'intent to confine this person' with 'intent to perform the confining act.' The stem resolves it.
Why it's wrong
Barnabas intentionally locked the door. That voluntary act is the confining act. The choice conflates 'intent to confine this person' with 'intent to perform the confining act.' The stem resolves it.
Practice the questions that use this trap as a distractor and get full Wrong Answer Forensics on submit.
Practice questions using this trap →