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Two Yes Answer Array

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

  • Civil Procedure1
  • Contracts1

Example wrong choices

  • 17006_barnabas-boatworks · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice ANo, because the company moved to dismiss before the close of discovery and thus raised the jurisdictional challenge at the earliest practicable opportunity.

    Why it's attractive

    Hangs the result on 'before discovery closed' — a milestone the call never tied to jurisdiction.

    Why it's wrong

    Hangs the result on 'before discovery closed' — a milestone the call never tied to jurisdiction.

  • 17006_barnabas-boatworks · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BNo, because the answer's reservation of 'all defenses, including any defenses relating to jurisdiction' preserved the personal-jurisdiction objection for as long as the case remained pending.

    Why it's attractive

    'For as long as the case remained pending' rests the whole outcome on one talismanic phrase and ignores later conduct.

    Why it's wrong

    'For as long as the case remained pending' rests the whole outcome on one talismanic phrase and ignores later conduct.

  • 17006_barnabas-boatworks · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice CYes, because by producing documents and taking depositions the company made a general appearance, which waives any personal-jurisdiction defense.

    Why it's attractive

    Reaches the correct 'Yes' but via a per-se rule; between two 'Yes' choices the automatic one is the trap.

    Why it's wrong

    Reaches the correct 'Yes' but via a per-se rule; between two 'Yes' choices the automatic one is the trap.

  • 19123_stephen-stone-wall · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because Stephen was entitled to be paid for the part of the work he performed.

    Why it's attractive

    States the strong 'he did work, pay him' instinct as a flat entitlement and mirrors the worker's own request.

    Why it's wrong

    States the strong 'he did work, pay him' instinct as a flat entitlement and mirrors the worker's own request.

  • 19123_stephen-stone-wall · CONTRACTS · Choice BYes, because Martha received the benefit of Stephen's stonework.

    Why it's attractive

    'Received the benefit' is the fairness/common-sense rationale, not the legal test.

    Why it's wrong

    'Received the benefit' is the fairness/common-sense rationale, not the legal test.

  • 19123_stephen-stone-wall · CONTRACTS · Choice CNo, because Stephen was the one who asked to end the agreement.

    Why it's attractive

    Hangs the result on which party proposed the cancellation — a fact the call never made relevant.

    Why it's wrong

    Hangs the result on which party proposed the cancellation — a fact the call never made relevant.

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