I read this material in a local book which gives too little information so I
need help to confirm.

The book said that we can use と to compare, and we cannot omit the last と.

> いちご と すいかと、どちらがいいですか  
>  _Between strawberry and watermelon, which one do you like?_

I cannot find confirmation if I could use it to compare more than two things.
As in:

> いちごとすいかとみかんと、どれがいいですか

And as it seems to be the same exhaustive と, can we really not omit the last と
when it's used like this? If so, why is that?
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grammar particles particle-と
Regarding と exhaustive list for comparison
This usage appears to be variant of "exhaustive と". We build an exhaustive
list, which then behaves as any other plural noun would, and from which we
then prompt for a choice. (Also, looking through GOO's and A Dictionary of
Basic Japanese Grammar, it doesn't appear that any other と usage fits this
example).

If we assume that it is indeed an exhaustive と usage, (and that no special
exceptions are occurring), then **listing more than two items or
dropping/replacing the last と should both be okay.**

Various example sentences suggest that no special exceptions are occurring
here and that we **can safely use "exhaustive と"s full range**. For example,
chocolate posted:

> いちごとすいかとみかんのどれがいいですか？

Here we have a 3-item と list where the final と was replaced with the overall
marker の. The rest of the sentence no longer "cares" about と and just sees a
plural noun: LISTのどれがいいですか

On a final note, **dropping a と** in an exhaustive と list might have been
**less grammatical in the past**. For example, see the third major entry
(black-boxed-3) of the following link (note: is in Japanese), which says
roughly that despite older usage rules, in modern usage it is acceptable to
abbreviate the final と. (From this we might reasonably infer that explicitly
adding every と might make a sentence sound more formal or old-fashioned):

<http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/154670/meaning/m0u/%E3%81%A8/>

**For reference** According to the "exhaustive と" entry in Tae Kim's Guide to
Japanese Grammar
(<http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/nounparticles>), you can
definitely list more than two nouns in an exhaustive list joined with と, and
the last noun usually takes a different particle marking the list's overall
function.

So for example:

> ピザ **と** スイカ **と** イチゴ **を** 食べました。

is grammatical.

[Edit: removed discussion of と vs か, was not relevant]
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