How to Use multiple-choice in a Sentence

multiple-choice

adjective
Definition of multiple-choicenext
  • 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
  • The format of the CMA exam includes a blend of multiple-choice questions and essay sections.
    — Bryce Welker, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Users must be 18 years old and in the US to participate in the multiple-choice trivia rounds, which will be livestreamed on the official @TikTok account.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 16 Feb. 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
  • 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 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
  • According to the plaintiffs, more than 90% of White applicants passed the multiple-choice and essay test while Black applicants only passed 53% of the time.
    — Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 16 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • In turn, this technology has ushered in an epoch of multiple-choice testing.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • To move the plot forward, the (human) player, first asked to read the libretto and memorize it, has to fill in the gaps of the lyrics as Celes/Maria gets onstage using a multiple-choice interface.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Begin with multiple-choice questions to assess my task types and urgency.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And together, the trio represents a kind of multiple-choice question for how mankind’s scientific hubris has worked out in Marvel comics.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 26 July 2024
  • And when taught, most courses are tested with machine-readable multiple-choice exams.
    — Mary Dagold, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Students must answer free-response questions rather than just mark the correct multiple-choice answers.
    — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • The multiple-choice answers don’t reflect the real-world scenarios social workers face, Love said.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Landy visited the Academy’s Web site looking for an answer, and found that none of the multiple-choice options listed on the test matched the explanation the Academy gave.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Each session in the spelling bee consists of two spelling rounds and one round in which contestants answer multiple-choice questions about the definition of words.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the end, those who answer all the multiple-choice questions on allyship, bias, and privilege correctly are rewarded with a handy discount voucher.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 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
  • With four multiple-choice responses per case, that meant there were 600 possible answers in total, with only one correct answer per case.
    — New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Test your knowledge and memory of this week’s stories with 10 California-leaning multiple-choice questions about the week in news — straight from our quizmaster.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
  • These exams rely on multiple-choice questions that assess book learning.
    — Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Some states established a holiday that mimicked a multiple-choice exam.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The movie’s multiple-choice ending only underscores just how little the mystery matters in this madcap comedy.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Feb. 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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