One of your group's tasks is to create multiple choice questions to test your audience's understanding of your topic.
It is challenging to make a really good multiple choice quiz. Here are some DOs and DON'Ts.
DOs
Try to find main ideas from the reading to develop into multiple choice questions.
Look for important keywords or names of important people that the reader should remember and create questions around those.
Try to develop at least one or two questions that require the quiz-taker to answer a WHY question.
Maybe even include a "humorous" answer as an option to one (or maybe two) of your questions.
DONTs
Avoid questions with a super-obvious answers. There is no need to test something that even blind Freddy can see!
Make at least two answer options seem plausible (i.e. like they could be the correct answer) and at least one answer option fairly obviously wrong.
In other words don't make the answer completely obvious!
Don't test insignificant details from the reading.
FORMAT and QUESTION TYPES
You should have four answer options to each of the five questions.
You can create a "fill-in-the-missing-word" question.
You can create a "complete-the-phrase" question.
You can create a question with multiple correct answers.
Which is NOT one of the reasons Washington decided to attack the Hessians at Trenton?
Be careful that one multiple choice question doesn't provide the answer to another.
Make sure the correct answer isn't always A!