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[janetlin]

You paid attention during 95% of high school!

 

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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And apparently the 5% of the time I wasn't paying attention, I was making life harder for myself by double-guessing the semantics of test questions...

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[xpolmex.livejournal.com]

I took that and got the same score, and in trying to figure out which one I got wrong, I realized that (I think) there's a wrong answer on there - the Immaculate Conception one. Unless I'm completely wrong on the whole religion thing there, which I might very well be. But they have the right answer down as Mary.

[moon-very-thin.livejournal.com]

Mary *is* the right answer. The Immacualte Conception is the teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin.

I got 95 too, and couldn't work out how to get the hundred.

[moon-very-thin.livejournal.com]

Er, that was an *is* of emphasis because I had to double check their answers as well, not an *is* of snotty 'you are wrong'-ness. Ambiguous internet tone is ambiguous. Sorry about that :)

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is Mary. The idea is that she was conceived without original sin or something, that's why she was able to have Jesus. Immaculate Conception =/= Virgin Birth.

To be fair, what with the separation of church and state, I'm not sure how the testmaker can really expect anyone other than a Catholic to get that one right.

[xpolmex.livejournal.com]

That kind of amuses me. :D Yay for separation of church and state, seriously. I'm pretty proud of not knowing that one, and I agree - anyone who didn't go to a Catholic school wouldn't have learned that in high school. I did, however, learn about Taoism and Buddhism though. Does that count?

The Archaeogoddess speaks...

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It's the Columbus question. He didn't land in North America until 1502, and that's only if you count Central America as part of North America. In 1492 he was chillin' in Cuba and associated islands. It's a bit of a tricky question because it depends on the definition of North America.

For the record, Wikipedia thinks the islands are North America and thus the "correct" answer is incorrect.

Re: The Archaeogoddess speaks...

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

The one I got wrong was the one about the "Soviet Union" being an enemy in WWII. I didn't think it was yet a Union at that point but Wiki tells me I am wrong. Thus the making it more difficult for myself; if I hadn't been such a smartass and thought about it so much I would have just clicked yes and got it right. Bah.