Multiple choice questions --- with weekly quizzes were, it is my personal submission sometimes wrongly phrased. For example, posing a question like "what does international law say about situations where diplomats are held hostage?" requires one to answer basing oneself on the provisions of the international instruments, but if they are silent then one would say that they are either silent or unclear. But when the question says "based on states practice", it means that the answer is no longer going to be objective but rather subjective and as thus one would have give common and/or reasonably accepted practice.

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