diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_glue.py b/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_glue.py
index 8afc3d15ae..ef20b5ad62 100644
--- a/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_glue.py
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_glue.py
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ class ORTGlueTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.logging_steps = 10
         self.rtol = 1e-02
 
-
     def test_roberta_with_mrpc(self):
         expected_acc = 0.8676470588235294
         expected_f1 = 0.9035714285714286
diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_multiple_choice.py b/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_multiple_choice.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92bb78bc3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/orttraining_run_multiple_choice.py
@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+# adapted from run_multiple_choice.py of huggingface transformers
+# https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/multiple-choice/run_multiple_choice.py
+
+import dataclasses
+import logging
+import os
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Dict, Optional
+import unittest
+import numpy as np
+from numpy.testing import assert_allclose
+
+from transformers import (
+    AutoConfig,
+    AutoModelForMultipleChoice,
+    AutoTokenizer,
+    EvalPrediction,
+    HfArgumentParser,
+    Trainer,
+    TrainingArguments,
+    set_seed,
+)
+
+import onnxruntime
+from onnxruntime.capi.ort_trainer import ORTTrainer, LossScaler, ModelDescription, IODescription
+
+from orttraining_transformer_trainer import ORTTransformerTrainer
+
+import torch
+
+from utils_multiple_choice import MultipleChoiceDataset, Split, SwagProcessor
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+def simple_accuracy(preds, labels):
+    return (preds == labels).mean()
+
+@dataclass
+class ModelArguments:
+    """
+    Arguments pertaining to which model/config/tokenizer we are going to fine-tune from.
+    """
+
+    model_name_or_path: str = field(
+        metadata={"help": "model identifier from huggingface.co/models"}
+    )
+    config_name: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "Pretrained config name or path if not the same as model_name"}
+    )
+    tokenizer_name: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "Pretrained tokenizer name or path if not the same as model_name"}
+    )
+    cache_dir: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None, metadata={"help": "Where do you want to store the pretrained models downloaded from s3"}
+    )
+
+@dataclass
+class DataTrainingArguments:
+    """
+    Arguments pertaining to what data we are going to input our model for training and eval.
+    """
+
+    task_name: str = field(metadata={"help": "The name of the task to train on."})
+    data_dir: str = field(metadata={"help": "Should contain the data files for the task."})
+    max_seq_length: int = field(
+        default=128,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "The maximum total input sequence length after tokenization. Sequences longer "
+            "than this will be truncated, sequences shorter will be padded."
+        },
+    )
+    overwrite_cache: bool = field(
+        default=False, metadata={"help": "Overwrite the cached training and evaluation sets"}
+    )
+
+class ORTMultipleChoiceTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        # configurations not to be changed accoss tests
+        self.max_seq_length = 80
+        self.train_batch_size = 2
+        self.eval_batch_size = 2
+        self.learning_rate = 2e-5
+        self.num_train_epochs = 3.0
+        self.local_rank = -1
+        self.overwrite_output_dir = True
+        self.gradient_accumulation_steps = 8
+        self.data_dir = "/bert_data/hf_data/swag/swagaf/data"
+        self.output_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), "multiple_choice_test_output/")
+        self.cache_dir = '/tmp/multiple_choice/'
+        self.logging_steps = 10
+
+    def test_bert_with_swag(self):
+        expected_acc = 0.7883135059482156
+        expected_loss = 0.6474186203172139
+
+        results = self.run_multiple_choice(model_name="bert-base-cased", task_name="swag", fp16=False)
+        assert_allclose(results['acc'], expected_acc)
+        assert_allclose(results['loss'], expected_loss)
+
+    def test_bert_fp16_with_swag(self):
+        expected_acc = 0.7882135359392183
+        expected_loss = 0.6469693916158167
+
+        results = self.run_multiple_choice(model_name="bert-base-cased", task_name="swag", fp16=True)
+        assert_allclose(results['acc'], expected_acc)
+        assert_allclose(results['loss'], expected_loss)
+
+    def run_multiple_choice(self, model_name, task_name, fp16):
+        model_args = ModelArguments(model_name_or_path=model_name, cache_dir=self.cache_dir)
+        data_args = DataTrainingArguments(task_name=task_name, data_dir=self.data_dir,
+            max_seq_length=self.max_seq_length)
+
+        training_args = TrainingArguments(output_dir=os.path.join(self.output_dir, task_name), do_train=True, do_eval=True,
+            per_gpu_train_batch_size=self.train_batch_size,
+            per_gpu_eval_batch_size=self.eval_batch_size,
+            learning_rate=self.learning_rate, num_train_epochs=self.num_train_epochs,local_rank=self.local_rank,
+            overwrite_output_dir=self.overwrite_output_dir, gradient_accumulation_steps=self.gradient_accumulation_steps,
+            fp16=fp16, logging_steps=self.logging_steps)
+
+        # Setup logging
+        logging.basicConfig(
+            format="%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(name)s -   %(message)s",
+            datefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S",
+            level=logging.INFO if training_args.local_rank in [-1, 0] else logging.WARN,
+        )
+        logger.warning(
+            "Process rank: %s, device: %s, n_gpu: %s, distributed training: %s, 16-bits training: %s",
+            training_args.local_rank,
+            training_args.device,
+            training_args.n_gpu,
+            bool(training_args.local_rank != -1),
+            training_args.fp16,
+        )
+        logger.info("Training/evaluation parameters %s", training_args)
+
+        set_seed(training_args.seed)
+        onnxruntime.set_seed(training_args.seed)
+
+        try:
+            processor = SwagProcessor()
+            label_list = processor.get_labels()
+            num_labels = len(label_list)
+        except KeyError:
+            raise ValueError("Task not found: %s" % (data_args.task_name))
+
+        config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
+            model_args.config_name if model_args.config_name else model_args.model_name_or_path,
+            num_labels=num_labels,
+            finetuning_task=data_args.task_name,
+            cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        )
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            model_args.tokenizer_name if model_args.tokenizer_name else model_args.model_name_or_path,
+            cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        )
+
+        model = AutoModelForMultipleChoice.from_pretrained(
+            model_args.model_name_or_path,
+            from_tf=bool(".ckpt" in model_args.model_name_or_path),
+            config=config,
+            cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir,
+        )
+
+        # Get datasets
+        train_dataset = (
+            MultipleChoiceDataset(
+                data_dir=data_args.data_dir,
+                tokenizer=tokenizer,
+                task=data_args.task_name,
+                processor=processor,
+                max_seq_length=data_args.max_seq_length,
+                overwrite_cache=data_args.overwrite_cache,
+                mode=Split.train,
+            )
+            if training_args.do_train
+            else None
+        )
+        eval_dataset = (
+            MultipleChoiceDataset(
+                data_dir=data_args.data_dir,
+                tokenizer=tokenizer,
+                task=data_args.task_name,
+                processor=processor,
+                max_seq_length=data_args.max_seq_length,
+                overwrite_cache=data_args.overwrite_cache,
+                mode=Split.dev,
+            )
+            if training_args.do_eval
+            else None
+        )
+
+        def compute_metrics(p: EvalPrediction) -> Dict:
+            preds = np.argmax(p.predictions, axis=1)
+            return {"acc": simple_accuracy(preds, p.label_ids)}
+
+        if model_name.startswith('bert'):
+            model_desc = ModelDescription([
+                IODescription('input_ids', [self.train_batch_size, num_labels, data_args.max_seq_length], torch.int64, num_classes=model.config.vocab_size),
+                IODescription('attention_mask', [self.train_batch_size, num_labels, data_args.max_seq_length], torch.int64, num_classes=2),
+                IODescription('token_type_ids', [self.train_batch_size, num_labels, data_args.max_seq_length], torch.int64, num_classes=2),
+                IODescription('labels', [self.train_batch_size, num_labels], torch.int64, num_classes=num_labels)], [
+                IODescription('loss', [], torch.float32),
+                IODescription('reshaped_logits', [self.train_batch_size, num_labels], torch.float32)])
+        else:
+            model_desc = ModelDescription([
+                IODescription('input_ids', ['batch', num_labels, 'max_seq_len_in_batch'], torch.int64, num_classes=model.config.vocab_size),
+                IODescription('attention_mask', ['batch', num_labels, 'max_seq_len_in_batch'], torch.int64, num_classes=2),
+                IODescription('labels', ['batch', num_labels], torch.int64, num_classes=num_labels)], [
+                IODescription('loss', [], torch.float32),
+                IODescription('reshaped_logits', ['batch', num_labels], torch.float32)])
+
+        # Initialize the ORTTrainer within ORTTransformerTrainer
+        trainer = ORTTransformerTrainer(
+            model=model,
+            model_desc=model_desc,
+            args=training_args,
+            train_dataset=train_dataset,
+            eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
+            compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
+        )
+
+        # Training
+        if training_args.do_train:
+            trainer.train()
+            trainer.save_model()
+
+        # Evaluation
+        results = {}
+        if training_args.do_eval and training_args.local_rank in [-1, 0]:
+            logger.info("*** Evaluate ***")
+
+            result = trainer.evaluate()
+
+            logger.info("***** Eval results {} *****".format(data_args.task_name))
+            for key, value in result.items():
+               logger.info("  %s = %s", key, value)
+
+            results.update(result)
+
+        return results
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/utils_multiple_choice.py b/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/utils_multiple_choice.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..381761998c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/orttraining/orttraining/test/python/utils_multiple_choice.py
@@ -0,0 +1,265 @@
+# adapted from run_multiple_choice.py of huggingface transformers
+# https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/multiple-choice/utils_multiple_choice.py
+
+import csv
+import glob
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from enum import Enum
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import tqdm
+from filelock import FileLock
+
+from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer, is_tf_available, is_torch_available
+
+import torch
+from torch.utils.data.dataset import Dataset
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class InputExample:
+    """
+    A single training/test example for multiple choice
+
+    Args:
+        example_id: Unique id for the example.
+        question: string. The untokenized text of the second sequence (question).
+        contexts: list of str. The untokenized text of the first sequence (context of corresponding question).
+        endings: list of str. multiple choice's options. Its length must be equal to contexts' length.
+        label: (Optional) string. The label of the example. This should be
+        specified for train and dev examples, but not for test examples.
+    """
+
+    example_id: str
+    question: str
+    contexts: List[str]
+    endings: List[str]
+    label: Optional[str]
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class InputFeatures:
+    """
+    A single set of features of data.
+    Property names are the same names as the corresponding inputs to a model.
+    """
+
+    example_id: str
+    input_ids: List[List[int]]
+    attention_mask: Optional[List[List[int]]]
+    token_type_ids: Optional[List[List[int]]]
+    label: Optional[int]
+
+
+class Split(Enum):
+    train = "train"
+    dev = "dev"
+    test = "test"
+
+class DataProcessor:
+    """Base class for data converters for multiple choice data sets."""
+
+    def get_train_examples(self, data_dir):
+        """Gets a collection of `InputExample`s for the train set."""
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def get_dev_examples(self, data_dir):
+        """Gets a collection of `InputExample`s for the dev set."""
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def get_test_examples(self, data_dir):
+        """Gets a collection of `InputExample`s for the test set."""
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def get_labels(self):
+        """Gets the list of labels for this data set."""
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+class MultipleChoiceDataset(Dataset):
+    """
+    This will be superseded by a framework-agnostic approach
+    soon.
+    """
+
+    features: List[InputFeatures]
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        data_dir: str,
+        tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
+        task: str,
+        processor: DataProcessor,
+        max_seq_length: Optional[int] = None,
+        overwrite_cache=False,
+        mode: Split = Split.train,
+    ):
+        processor = processor
+
+        cached_features_file = os.path.join(
+            data_dir,
+            "cached_{}_{}_{}_{}".format(mode.value, tokenizer.__class__.__name__, str(max_seq_length), task,),
+        )
+
+        # Make sure only the first process in distributed training processes the dataset,
+        # and the others will use the cache.
+        lock_path = cached_features_file + ".lock"
+        with FileLock(lock_path):
+
+            if os.path.exists(cached_features_file) and not overwrite_cache:
+                logger.info(f"Loading features from cached file {cached_features_file}")
+                self.features = torch.load(cached_features_file)
+            else:
+                logger.info(f"Creating features from dataset file at {data_dir}")
+                label_list = processor.get_labels()
+                if mode == Split.dev:
+                    examples = processor.get_dev_examples(data_dir)
+                elif mode == Split.test:
+                    examples = processor.get_test_examples(data_dir)
+                else:
+                    examples = processor.get_train_examples(data_dir)
+                logger.info("Training examples: %s", len(examples))
+                # TODO clean up all this to leverage built-in features of tokenizers
+                self.features = convert_examples_to_features(
+                    examples,
+                    label_list,
+                    max_seq_length,
+                    tokenizer,
+                    pad_on_left=bool(tokenizer.padding_side == "left"),
+                    pad_token=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                    pad_token_segment_id=tokenizer.pad_token_type_id,
+                )
+                logger.info("Saving features into cached file %s", cached_features_file)
+                torch.save(self.features, cached_features_file)
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self.features)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, i) -> InputFeatures:
+        return self.features[i]
+
+class SwagProcessor(DataProcessor):
+    """Processor for the SWAG data set."""
+
+    def get_train_examples(self, data_dir):
+        """See base class."""
+        logger.info("LOOKING AT {} train".format(data_dir))
+        return self._create_examples(self._read_csv(os.path.join(data_dir, "train.csv")), "train")
+
+    def get_dev_examples(self, data_dir):
+        """See base class."""
+        logger.info("LOOKING AT {} dev".format(data_dir))
+        return self._create_examples(self._read_csv(os.path.join(data_dir, "val.csv")), "dev")
+
+    def get_test_examples(self, data_dir):
+        """See base class."""
+        logger.info("LOOKING AT {} dev".format(data_dir))
+        raise ValueError(
+            "For swag testing, the input file does not contain a label column. It can not be tested in current code"
+            "setting!"
+        )
+        return self._create_examples(self._read_csv(os.path.join(data_dir, "test.csv")), "test")
+
+    def get_labels(self):
+        """See base class."""
+        return ["0", "1", "2", "3"]
+
+    def _read_csv(self, input_file):
+        with open(input_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            return list(csv.reader(f))
+
+    def _create_examples(self, lines: List[List[str]], type: str):
+        """Creates examples for the training and dev sets."""
+        if type == "train" and lines[0][-1] != "label":
+            raise ValueError("For training, the input file must contain a label column.")
+
+        examples = [
+            InputExample(
+                example_id=line[2],
+                question=line[5],  # in the swag dataset, the
+                # common beginning of each
+                # choice is stored in "sent2".
+                contexts=[line[4], line[4], line[4], line[4]],
+                endings=[line[7], line[8], line[9], line[10]],
+                label=line[11],
+            )
+            for line in lines[1:]  # we skip the line with the column names
+        ]
+
+        return examples
+
+def convert_examples_to_features(
+    examples: List[InputExample],
+    label_list: List[str],
+    max_length: int,
+    tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
+    pad_token_segment_id=0,
+    pad_on_left=False,
+    pad_token=0,
+    mask_padding_with_zero=True,
+) -> List[InputFeatures]:
+    """
+    Loads a data file into a list of `InputFeatures`
+    """
+
+    label_map = {label: i for i, label in enumerate(label_list)}
+
+    features = []
+    for (ex_index, example) in tqdm.tqdm(enumerate(examples), desc="convert examples to features"):
+        if ex_index % 10000 == 0:
+            logger.info("Writing example %d of %d" % (ex_index, len(examples)))
+        choices_inputs = []
+        for ending_idx, (context, ending) in enumerate(zip(example.contexts, example.endings)):
+            text_a = context
+            if example.question.find("_") != -1:
+                # this is for cloze question
+                text_b = example.question.replace("_", ending)
+            else:
+                text_b = example.question + " " + ending
+
+            inputs = tokenizer.encode_plus(
+                text_a,
+                text_b,
+                add_special_tokens=True,
+                max_length=max_length,
+                pad_to_max_length=True,
+                return_overflowing_tokens=True,
+            )
+            if "num_truncated_tokens" in inputs and inputs["num_truncated_tokens"] > 0:
+                logger.info(
+                    "Attention! you are cropping tokens (swag task is ok). "
+                    "If you are training ARC and RACE and you are poping question + options,"
+                    "you need to try to use a bigger max seq length!"
+                )
+
+            choices_inputs.append(inputs)
+
+        label = label_map[example.label]
+
+        input_ids = [x["input_ids"] for x in choices_inputs]
+        attention_mask = (
+            [x["attention_mask"] for x in choices_inputs] if "attention_mask" in choices_inputs[0] else None
+        )
+        token_type_ids = (
+            [x["token_type_ids"] for x in choices_inputs] if "token_type_ids" in choices_inputs[0] else None
+        )
+
+        features.append(
+            InputFeatures(
+                example_id=example.example_id,
+                input_ids=input_ids,
+                attention_mask=attention_mask,
+                token_type_ids=token_type_ids,
+                label=label,
+            )
+        )
+
+    for f in features[:2]:
+        logger.info("*** Example ***")
+        logger.info("feature: %s" % f)
+
+    return features
diff --git a/tools/ci_build/build.py b/tools/ci_build/build.py
index a1f8962c66..9462795096 100755
--- a/tools/ci_build/build.py
+++ b/tools/ci_build/build.py
@@ -1137,6 +1137,10 @@ def run_training_python_frontend_e2e_tests(cwd):
         [sys.executable, 'orttraining_run_glue.py', 'ORTGlueTest.test_roberta_fp16_with_mrpc', '-v'],
         cwd=cwd, env={'CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES': '0'})
 
+    run_subprocess(
+        [sys.executable, 'orttraining_run_multiple_choice.py', 'ORTMultipleChoiceTest.test_bert_fp16_with_swag', '-v'],
+        cwd=cwd, env={'CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES': '0'})
+
     run_subprocess([sys.executable, 'onnxruntime_test_ort_trainer_with_mixed_precision.py'], cwd=cwd)
 
     run_subprocess([
diff --git a/tools/ci_build/github/azure-pipelines/orttraining-linux-gpu-frontend-test-ci-pipeline.yml b/tools/ci_build/github/azure-pipelines/orttraining-linux-gpu-frontend-test-ci-pipeline.yml
index 37562df5d8..827a930699 100644
--- a/tools/ci_build/github/azure-pipelines/orttraining-linux-gpu-frontend-test-ci-pipeline.yml
+++ b/tools/ci_build/github/azure-pipelines/orttraining-linux-gpu-frontend-test-ci-pipeline.yml
@@ -6,14 +6,25 @@ trigger: none
 jobs:
 - job: Onnxruntime_Linux_GPU_Training_FrontEnd
 
-  timeoutInMinutes: 120
+  timeoutInMinutes: 240
   
   steps:
   - checkout: self
     clean: true
     submodules: recursive
   
-  - template: templates/linux-set-variables-and-download.yml
+  - template: templates/set-test-data-variables-step.yml
+
+  - task: CmdLine@2
+    displayName: 'Clean untagged docker images'
+    inputs:
+      script: |
+        docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep Exited | awk '{print $1;}') || true
+        docker container prune -f
+        docker image prune -f
+      workingDirectory: $(Build.BinariesDirectory)
+    continueOnError: true
+    condition: always()
 
   # insert a python frontend test data preparation step here