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This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 2 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

  • CRIMINAL2

Example wrong choices

  • 14676_church_youth_accusation · CRIMINAL · Choice Adid not intend to cause Peter's death.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 14676_church_youth_accusation · CRIMINAL · Choice Bdid not act with malice.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 14676_church_youth_accusation · CRIMINAL · Choice Dacted under extreme emotional distress.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 18171_chapel_offering_box · CRIMINAL · Choice ANo, because the guard, not Daniel or a co-felon, fired the fatal shot.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer contradicts the jurisdiction sentence.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer contradicts the jurisdiction sentence.

  • 18171_chapel_offering_box · CRIMINAL · Choice BYes, but only because Daniel personally fired a gun.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer says only because Daniel personally fired, but he did not.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer says only because Daniel personally fired, but he did not.

  • 18171_chapel_offering_box · CRIMINAL · Choice CNo, because the choir director was not the intended victim of the robbery.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer adds an intended-victim requirement not in the call.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer adds an intended-victim requirement not in the call.

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