janetlin: (Teh sm4rt)
sira_underhill ([personal profile] janetlin) wrote2008-12-14 06:12 am
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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...

[identity profile] xpolmex.livejournal.com 2008-12-14 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] moon-very-thin.livejournal.com 2008-12-14 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] moon-very-thin.livejournal.com 2008-12-14 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :)

[identity profile] janetlin.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
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.
Edited 2008-12-16 00:22 (UTC)

[identity profile] xpolmex.livejournal.com 2008-12-16 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
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?