"My father got married, so I have a stepmother."

Translation: Mon père s'est marié, alors j'ai une belle-mère.

[eivinwil]

So....belle-mère is both step-mother and mother-in-law?

[Jeanne448353]

Pull down menu errors: Does NO ONE at Duo do a quality-control check to assure that the information in the pull down menus is relevant to the current exercise? An ongoing frustration; for example, incorrect verb forms in this set.

[envacance]

That's correct. They are hints about the words, not answers to the specific problem, so they don't always match up.

[chienallemand]

is "dont" not a suitable substitute for "alors", here?

[LenReed]

Not dont, but donc might be.