The student thinks that he can where's waldo their way to the answer
Now, does it mean it's gonna be a cinch or a sisyphean task?
Again, if I add a little detail,
The student thinks that he can where's waldo their way to the answer by using the words in the passage.
The situation is that a student has to answer a question after reading a passage, trying to figure out whether the options match verbatim with some sentence in the passage.