Sorry, I wasn't clear - I wasn't asking what the purpose of the first part was (I omitted details that would have made that clear!). The interesting thing was that the content questions (several of them) were asked an hour later, at the very end of the whole test, after lots of unrelated things in between.

(I probably misled you by using the word "item" which was a poor choice - "section", perhaps.)

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