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Overview of Multiple Choice Questions

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Published on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:45
Vernellia Randall
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The entire section i s basedon Michael Josepheson, Evaluation and Grading in Law School, AALSSection on Teaching (1984).

 Questions or items many form

Three Distinct Parts

  • Root
  • Stem
  • Options

Root

  • Underlying facts
  • Written in either present or past tense
  • Can be short or very long
  • Can have one set of options or several
  • All the facts can be significant or many can be irrelevant

Stem

  • Call of the options or the task to be done
  • Form of a question or a call for the completion of a sentence
  • Can add facts to the root
  • May require assumptions to be made
  • May specify what cause of action or theory to advance; may not

 

Options

  • Choices given as answer
  • May state conclusions only
  • May link conclusion with a reason to support it
  • Options may seem related
  • Options may be totally independent

Philip was a 10-year-old boy. Maccowas a company that sold new and used machinery. Macco stored discardedmachinery, pending sale for scrap, on a large vacant area it owned. Thisarea was unfenced and was one-quarter mile from the housing developmentwhere Philip lived. Macco knew that children frequently played in the areaand on the machinery. Philip's parents had directed him not to play onthe machinery because it was dangerous.

 

One day Philip was playing on a press in Macco's storage area. The presshad several wheels, each geared to the other. Philip climbed on the largestwheel, which was about five feet in diameter. Philip's weight caused thewheel to rotate, his foot was caught between two wheels that were set intomotion, and he was severely injured.

 

A claim for relief was asserted by Philip through a duly appointed guardian.Macco denied liability and pleaded Philip's contributory fault as a defense.

ROOT

In determining whether Macco breached a duty to Philip,which of the following is the most significant?

STEM

(A) Whether the press on which Philip was injured was visiblefrom a public way

 

(B) Whether the maintenance of the area for the storage of discardedmachinery was a private nuisance

 

(C) Whether the maintenance of the area for the storage of discardedmachinery was a public nuisance

 

(D) Whether Macco could have eliminated the risk of harm without undulyinterfering with Macco's normal operations.

Options

 

 
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