Cheap Science Quiz

In a personal effort to promote science literacy, I took the very short# online quiz called "Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?" I'm sure you'll be relieved to know that I passed by answering every answer correctly.

But perhaps this is really a quiz for the quiz-writer, a test that we might call "Could You Pass 8th Grade English?" Unfortunately, one of the words in one of the questions is misspelled,* and one can only get the correct answer by correctly guessing what word was intended by the author. Neither could I find a way to leave a comment for the author suggesting a less embarrassing–and correct–spelling.
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#Therefore, it's not very likely to test one's actual knowledge of science as known to an eighth-grader.

*I don't want to spoil all your fun, but the problem is in question #6.

Posted on May 1, 2008 at 19.39 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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