17: One of Nancy's professors requires her to write an essay favoring
  additional tuition increases for the spring.  Despite his education and
  the fact the he required her to write the essay, research on the
  fundamental attribution error suggests that the professor is likely to
  infer

   A: that Nancy actually does favor the tuition increase

    Correct.
The fundamental attribution error is overestimating dispositional causes for a behavior, and underestimating situational causes.  In this situation, the professor is underestimating the situational cause for the behavior (she was assigned to write on this topic) and overestimating the dispositional causes (she really favors tuition increases).  In this example, the professor commits this error even though he was the one who assigned her the topic (he was probably not a social psychology professor though).  This illustrates how pervasive the fundamental attribution error is (surely even social psychologists have committed it).