Literacy Test

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This is what every person should know after graduating high school.

For every wrong answer deduct 5 points from 100.



1. What is the adjective? The boy has a red ball.


2. What were the main characters of Aesop's Fables?


3. Where did the archer have to shoot Achilles's to kill him ?


4. When did abstract art orginate?


5. What was the punishment at the Tower of Babel?


6. What religion's god is called Allah?


7. When did Christopher Columbus discover America?


8. Who invented the telephone?


9. What are the 10 amendments to the constitution called?


10. Who originally inhabited England?


11. What is Bastille?


12. Where is Teton mountian?


13. Where is Acapulco?


14. How many degrees in a right angle?


15. What is the opposite of an acid?


16. What does an aquifer hold?


17. Where does algae grow?


18. What is the main cause of anorexia?


19. What does an amplifier do?


20. What does it mean to go back to the drawing board?









I got a 55 out of 100 and I just graduated LOL


















































Answers:
1. red
2. animals
3. heel
4. early 1900's (early 21st century)
5. spoke different languages
6. islam
7. 1492
8. Alexander Graham Bell
9. The bill of rights
10. romans or normans
11. french castle
12. yellowstone national park or Wyoming.
13. mexico
14. 90
15. base
16. water
17. water
18. mental or depression
19. makes sound louder
20. start over
 
Eighty.
I didn't get 4, 9, 12 and 18
 
LOL it's a test of literacy, not of intelligence. They're supposed to be random, it's not like you learn one thing in high school. I don't know about you but I learned about a lot of different things.
 
That's not really a literacy test. The first question is the only one with anything to do with reading or writing.

I got most of those except the American ones.
 
Literacy doesn't have to do with just writing and reading.
It's cultural, what you acquire about the culture and world you live in.
 
70/100. Guessed on one and got lucky though.
 
1:red
2:the argonauts?
3:his heel
4: prehistory
5:that people whould lose the ability to communicate with each other, ie, different languages were created
6:Islam
7:A long time after a lot of other people. During the renaissance
8:Alexander Graham Bell
9:I have no idea what the amendments to the USA's constitution are called other than one is the bill of rights
10: Dinosaurs. Then I suppose it was the celts
11:A prison in Paris
12:No clue
13:Guess: The Caribbean
14:90
15:a base
16:Never heard of it. Water?
17:in water
18:not eatting
19:amplifies waves/sound
20:to destart a plan from the design stages

This is in no way a literacy test.
 
Tests must fundamentally be concerned with a certain narrowness of perception, with straight rules and regulations, and in this context, without the ammendation of 'cultural' or some other prefix, people will take 'literacy test' in its narrow sense: how well you can read. This is in fact a test of American-centric general knowledge.

As Toaster said, although the practice of understanding culture, geography and the world around you is certainly a kind of reading, a kind of 'literacy', this test only asks for a very superficial and very shallow reading. Additionally, much of the information is spurious: for example, the question of who invented the telephone is still hotly debated.

For assessing the basic level at which people are paying attention and able to regurgitate what they hear, then yes, I suppose it's useful.


85.

1. Red
2. Tortoise, hare, other allegorical animals?
3. Heel
4. Rejection of art tradition via cubists, surrealists and vorticists (I misread as 'where', but these dudes were around about 1900-1930 so I am correct yah)
5. Language scatter; break the tower
6. Islam
7. 1492
8. Alexander Graham Bell
9. **** your constitution
10. Animals, then the britons, then anglo-saxons, then normans
11. french prison CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING
12. what the **** is a mountian
13. your anus mexico
14. 90
15. alkalai
16. water
17. water
18. what?
19. amplify, dick
20. it's what you should do with your quiz

As it happens, college tryouts for University Challenge happened yesterday. A bunch of my friends were sitting around about to start so I tore the top off a discarded student meeting agenda and on that narrow strip answered what questions I could. I got 8/20, which doesn't sound like much, but it's the second highest score (the top one was 10) - so I was quite gratified. Woo.
 
Sulk, what's with all the Les Mis references recently?
 
I'm not interested in knowing the opposite of an acid, as I won't work in that field.
 
Was just gonna mention that Eejit :P

I mean, number 8 is a pretty common misconception. But to say that Romans/Normans were the first inhabitant of England is stoooopid! :rolling:
 
This test sucks, lol. I think I got a total of 3 or 4 answers right.
 
Why doesn't #11 have a definite article, who the **** gives a shit where Acapulco is, or Teton Mountain for that matter, Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone and the 3rd question is stupid- "The archer"- he had a name and a quite significant back story, thank you.
 
The Monkey said:
I'm not interested in knowing the opposite of an acid, as I won't work in that field.
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understanding the basic acid/base relationship is still important sometimes in daily life. if you're growing plants, for example, or trying to do any sort of chemical extraction :farmer:

I got all 20 of them right, kind of random/stupid "test" though, there sure are a lot of grammatical errors for a so-called literacy test
 
Lol the original poster must be a ****ing retard.

The Normans/Romans were the first people to inhabit England? Why the slash? Those two people were pretty much several centuries apart. Also, there were people here long before the city of Rome was even built. What a stupid ****ing test lol.
 
She missed out the part where if you don't repost this, a girl will come and haunt you OOoooOOoooOOOoO
 
Ennui said:
understanding the basic acid/base relationship is still important sometimes in daily life. if you're growing plants, for example, or trying to do any sort of chemical extraction :farmer:

I got all 20 of them right, kind of random/stupid "test" though, there sure are a lot of grammatical errors for a so-called literacy test
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I agree that basic knowledge in all fields, including natural science, is good, but I wouldn't include that question in that basic knowledge. (Mainly because I didn't know the answer :P)
 
That's not a literacy test, it's a test to see if you're literate.
 
1. What is the adjective? The boy has a red ball.
Red
2. What were the main characters of Aesop's Fables?
Never heard of it but i guess bunnies or fish
3. Where did the archer have to shoot Achilles's to kill him ?
The heel
4. When did abstract art orginate?
Donno. Piccaso?
5. What was the punishment at the Tower of Babel?
God made them speak different languishes
6. What religion's god is called Allah?
Islam
7. When did Christopher Columbus discover America?
1492 I remember this by always remembering 1942
8. Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Bell
9. What are the 10 amendments to the constitution called?
The bill of rights
10. Who originally inhabited England?
Those blue guys from King arthur. Britains? Normans?
11. What is Bastille?
A Castle
12. Where is Teton mountian?
Dont know
13. Where is Acapulco?
Mehhhico ARIBA!
14. How many degrees in a right angle?
Don?t get it.. Maybe 90 ask me in swedish
15. What is the opposite of an acid?
Don?t know
16. What does an aquifer hold?
Aqua water!
17. Where does algae grow?
Under the sea
18. What is the main cause of anorexia?
Donnu about the cause but the cure is MAH DICK
19. What does an amplifier do?
Makes shit louder.
20. What does it mean to go back to the drawing board?
You go back to the drawing board. Start over. What kind of a question that???

Correct me please!
 
Jintor said:
That's not a literacy test, it's a test to spot space stations and small moons.
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I still don't understand how people got all of them right, when not all of the given answers are correct. This is something of a trick, of course. You might have your facts straight, but then you'd fail the test. Then again, you might pass the test, and not know the truth.
 
I read the questions. **** you, I'm literate.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
I still don't understand how people got all of them right, when not all of the given answers are correct. This is something of a trick, of course. You might have your facts straight, but then you'd fail the test. Then again, you might pass the test, and not know the truth.
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Then it's a crappy test of whether or not you are literate.
 
cleverendeavouR said:
LOL it's a test of literacy, not of intelligence. They're supposed to be random, it's not like you learn one thing in high school. I don't know about you but I learned about a lot of different things.
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More then half of these questions have nothing to do with literacy, they're just random facts.

What does literacy have to do with who invented the telephone? How does literacy factor in with what an amplifier does? The first one is history, the second is electronics/music. Those are just 2 of the 20 you've got.
 
That's a really good point actually, Kinetic. Were we supposed to write our answers between the lines of the first post?
 
I was under the impression that Bell did invent the phone...

If he didn't,
Then who was phone?

Edit: I wrote them betwen the lines on my screen with magic marker. I then copied them in my post.
 
This literacy test isn't very literate.

cleverendeavouR said:
1. What is the adjective? The boy has a red ball.
This isn't a proper question.


2. What were the main characters of Aesop's Fables?


3. Where did the archer have to shoot Achilles's to kill him ?
"The archer" was Paris.


4. When did abstract art originate?


5. What was the punishment at the Tower of Babel?


6. What religion's god is called Allah?


7. When did Christopher Columbus discover America?


8. Who invented the telephone?


9. What are the 10 amendments to the constitution called?


10. Who originally inhabited England?
Actually the Celts were there before the Romans.


11. What is Bastille?
Lacks an article. It is referred to as the Bastille.


12. Where is Teton mountian?


13. Where is Acapulco?


What is the verb?
14. How many degrees in a right angle?


15. What is the opposite of an acid?


16. What does an aquifer hold?


17. Where does algae grow?


18. What is the main cause of anorexia?


19. What does an amplifier do?
Increases the power of electrical signals, not only for speakers.


20. What does it mean to go back to the drawing board?
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How the **** is this a literacy test? Only question one applies, therefore I have 100%.
 
I missed #4 and #10. #12 is wrong -- there's actually a park called Grand Teton National Park, so most of the Tetons are not in Yellowstone unless there is some random peak named the Teton mountain there.

In any case, these questions are pretty arbitrary and useless. I wouldn't have known anything about #12 if I hadn't actually gone to the place.

Although for acids and bases, I think that should have been taught to anyone who had to do any level of chemistry, even if it was just part of a general science class. Maybe not remembered by everybody, but at least taught.....
 
IF you have a problem with the test, you'll have to take it up with this guy.


http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Literacy-Every-American-Needs/dp/0394758439


This book was a huge deal in the education field and even sparked Regan into investigating the education system and why it's not working.

These questions aren't random, to answer those questions requires understanding the things you've been taught. To understand involves reading, writing, and understanding the language and meaning of words. Literacy encompass all subjects, since all these subjects require reading, writing, and comprehension they're all relevant.
 
cleverendeavouR said:
IF you have a problem with the test, you'll have to take it up with this guy.


http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Literacy-Every-American-Needs/dp/0394758439


This book was a huge deal in the education field and even sparked Regan into investigating the education system and why it's not working.

These questions aren't random, to answer those questions requires understanding the things you've been taught. To understand involves reading, writing, and understanding the language and meaning of words. Literacy encompass all subjects, since all these subjects require reading, writing, and comprehension they're all relevant.
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I would accept that the factual errors are from the book. But did you write up the questions in your own words, or did the original test actually include all of the grammatical errors, and spelling errors pointed out?
 
It was how our teacher gave it to us.



I really wasn't concerned with discussion on this test. I just wanted to know everyone's scores.
 
Rename the thread 'Random General Knowledge Quiz With Some Wrong Answers' and then maybe I won't get pissed off after half a dozen questions and stop bothering.

Also lurl@Romans/Normans.

Be disillusioned with your teacher.
 
i got the telephone one wrong...i always imagined it was bill telephone.
 
I got a 70, but I like tests like these. I really need to go back to school
 
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