Instead of thinking about how to generate the lexicographically smallest valid answer key, let's check to see if any valid answer key exists. To do this, we can use 2-SAT. Because every student can only have at most one correct answer, we know that for every pair of answers that the student has submitted, at least one of those must be incorrect. The conjunction of all of these pairs of conditions is equivalent to saying that at most one of the answers is correct. Therefore, if the initial 2-SAT instance is solvable, then there exists some valid answer key. We can check to see if the first answer must be true by assuming it is false and solving the resulting 2-SAT instance. We repeat this process of locking in an answer and seeing if the instance is solvable, greedily selecting answers in increasing order.