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What is being tested and therefore learned?
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When only one of the options in a multiple-choice test starts with a capital letter, it is a non-linguistic clue as to which word goes first -- or, when only one word is required, which one is to be selected. This is consequently testing problem-solving ability, not language proficiency.
A similar mistake occurs when the correct answer is a verb, and the given alternatives are one verb and three nouns; or when the test of the understanding of different pronouns, and only one pronoun is included in the response alternatives.
A good multiple-choice test would have all response alternatives in the same format, and of the same type.
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Agreed. I often find myself going to the capitalized word first without even thinking about what is being asked, because I know it's first.