Multiple Choice questions

Multiple Choice questions ask you to choose the correct answer from a list of three or four choices. We will look at three examples of multiple choice questions:

Standard Multiple Choice
Modified Multiple Choice - two answers for one question
Modified Multiple Choice - one question for two answers

Standard Multiple Choice questions

Standard Multiple Choice questions are the most typical form of Multiple Choice questions used in the IELTS test with one question and four possible answers.

Example 1 - Standard Multiple Choice questions

Question 4

Choose the correct letter A, B, C, or D.

4 Which description best describes Esperanto?

A a language which is similar to Chinese
B an old Latin language
C a language which was created as an international language
D a language which is used for radio broadcasts

Now let’s look at the part of the passage Esperanto that this question refers to. Try answering Question 4. When you have finished, click on the Check button to check your answer.

A	Esperanto is an artificial language designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages. Esperanto, the creation of Ludwig Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, was first presented in 1887. An international movement to promote its use has continued to flourish and has members in more than 80 countries.

Esperanto is an artificial language designed to serve internationally as an auxiliary means of communication among speakers of different languages. Esperanto, the creation of Ludwig Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist, was first presented in 1887. An international movement to promote its use has continued to flourish and has members in more than 80 countries.

When you write your Multiple Choice answer on your Reading test Answer Sheet, you do not need to write both C and a language which was created as an international language. The instructions are Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D, so you should write only the letter for the answer, in this case C.

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