Well obviously these tests are written to split hairs. This was just one of those questions where I had a thought and was trying to look up the correct rule and couldn't find information on why we would stop the clock on a dead-ball foul. I mean the rules book didn't have anything in it up until now about what a penalty was. So what's to say that other things may be missing. If the test is going to be so specific that you must be concerned with every word in the question then it better have a reason for every word and not just a thought behind it that this description matches (along with others). You only have to come up with one situation to make any question false.
If it is not written that a dead-ball foul stops the clock then why is it written that the clock stops at the end of a down in which there was a live-ball foul?
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