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It's not awkward in any variety of English I've ever encountered, but I think we might be getting away from the point a wee bit.

When a school teacher provides a question in class for homework, we don't say that he "asked a question", we say he "set a question". The former would imply that he expected an answer straight away,...

It means to set; give; assign; designate; specify, which is just what you do with questions in Russian.

You can say "to set/ specify a question" in English too, so it's not that difficult a...

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