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Good Motive Defeats Larceny

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

  • 16047_cat_sitter_fireworks_crate · CRIMINAL · Choice ALarceny and burglary.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer keeps larceny but adds burglary without proving breaking.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer keeps larceny but adds burglary without proving breaking.

  • 16047_cat_sitter_fireworks_crate · CRIMINAL · Choice BNeither larceny nor burglary.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer is right only about no burglary; it ignores the completed taking.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer is right only about no burglary; it ignores the completed taking.

  • 16047_cat_sitter_fireworks_crate · CRIMINAL · Choice DBurglary only.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer treats the key reentry as burglary while denying the actual taking.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer treats the key reentry as burglary while denying the actual taking.

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