Although I understand that they simplify the process of marking tests and correlating results, I have never been fond of multiple-choice-style questions: all too often there are ambiguities that force you to second guess what the examiners want you to answer.
This shouldn’t be a problem when the question is just asking you to rate how you feel about something, but the following question from a recent YouGov survey had me confused:
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Although I am in Spain, I will not be attending the controversial running of the bulls in Pamplona. Instead, to mark the San Fermín festival, which started yesterday, I offer this splendid statue from Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre. 
On a walk the other night, I came across this sign:
I rather like the idea of a “permissive bridleway”, but I like it even more knowing that it has kissing gates installed along its route.
As the seond photo shows, the path also has way markers that hang out on the verge [sic] dressed in their glad rags.
I think perhaps I should be writing a poem entitled In summer, the permissive bridleway puts on its finery, but I fear that would be the high point of the piece and I would be unable to do it justice.
The poem still isn’t where I want it to be, but I think at least some of it is salvageable.
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don't confuse the narrator 