How to Use multiple-choice in a Sentence

multiple-choice

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  • Blast is a multiple-choice quiz in the form of a game.
    — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • In the first phase, researchers asked the same multiple-choice questions to models.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 19 June 2025
  • To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct answer will be revealed.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In turn, this technology has ushered in an epoch of multiple-choice testing.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • To demand a fix for grade inflation is to put multiple-choice answers on an essay question.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But there’s so much going on between Lucy's multiple-choice dude test and work dramas, the message gets lost.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • Begin with multiple-choice questions to assess my task types and urgency.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And when taught, most courses are tested with machine-readable multiple-choice exams.
    — Mary Dagold, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Hartley also took time to answer a multiple-choice question related to the scene.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • These exams rely on multiple-choice questions that assess book learning.
    — Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Students must answer free-response questions rather than just mark the correct multiple-choice answers.
    — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • Each phase has at least one round, where spellers either spell a word or answer multiple-choice vocabulary questions.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2024
  • There are tools to make highlights and annotations, and to cross out multiple-choice responses students think are wrong.
    — Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Some tests offer multiple-choice answers, while others ask models to generate their own answers based on prompts.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Let’s face it—on the multiple-choice test, the Cormac McCarthy question is easy to get right.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The chatbot will read the information on the website and generate a multiple-choice test.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The hearing explored problems with the exam’s multiple-choice questions.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
  • The vocabulary on the state test was beyond his reach, and multiple-choice questions that asked for the best answer also confused him.
    — Justin Wm. Moyer, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Some states established a holiday that mimicked a multiple-choice exam.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The free, online course includes a 10-minute video followed by 20 multiple-choice questions.
    — Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Test mixes up the answer types, offering multiple-choice questions and text entry (typing).
    — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
  • Not quite satisfied, the credit agency fed me a series of multiple-choice identity questions about mortgages and car loans.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024
  • Oral exams won’t be fully embraced because most of us lean toward the less-confrontational route of multiple-choice exams.
    — WSJ, 13 June 2023
  • This is despite the fact that the same class of models routinely aces multiple-choice medical licensing exams.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • The team must work together to face a multiple-choice quiz where each answer is allocated to a spot with a giant ball positioned up behind it.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 4 May 2026
  • Creativity doesn’t emerge from multiple-choice questions.
    — Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The multiple-choice answers don’t reflect the real-world scenarios social workers face, Love said.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • These aren’t factual or rote memorization questions — these are a kind of multiple-choice brain teasers that tell you a whole bunch of different facts and then asks you to sort them out.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Spellers get 90 seconds for each of their turns for spelling and 30 seconds for multiple-choice vocab questions.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2024
  • To pass, applicants must correctly answer at least 17 multiple-choice questions within an hour.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024

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