Can't say openly what "the" answer was as it's a test question. (sorry)
I mean-- honestly?? Does that even HAVE a "right" answer? I know that I posted that one in the ultimate bad question thread at one point, where someone, I think either Val or Ultramarina, pointed out that the answer is clearly "False" because Byron was more than capable of writing his own overwrought literature, and felt no need to plagiarize anyone.
Seriously-- as an essay question, this would have been a zinger, and-- I think-- a really unexpected and fresh thing to ask.
DD would have really liked that mythical exam. Too bad that isn't the kind of school this is.
Okay...that is so funny because I didn't read the question like that at all. I read it as Lord Byron, the soon to be husband of Mary (they weren't married) and someone else were all sitting around because the weather was bad and at Lord Byron's request...Mary wrote a story because they were all supposed to write a horror story as part of a contest. So T/F Mary wrote the story for Lord Byron('s contest). I think the question was missing what is in parentheses. And the answer would be T.
But now that you expanded...I can totally see "for" Lord Byron...like she ghost wrote the story "for" him. But it was first published anonymously and then under her name, right? So that interpretation would be F. Was it ever under Lord Byron's name?
Edited to add: I have been known to pass the professor (obviously in a traditional setting not online class) a note during the exam that would ask..."I am confused about question number 7. Am I to interpret it as T/F Mary wrote the story for Lord Byron
's contest or T/F Mary wrote the story
for Lord Byron
and he took the credit for writing it?"
I have had professors at the college level throw out questions when I informed them of the poor choice of wording or they might get the other students' attention and clarify the question after I ask. I don't think most students over think questions as much as I do.
