"multiple-choice? that's easy!"

[rone]

flapsy wrote elsewhere:

It is a nonsense-words test on which you are supposed to be able to get 100% by "knowing some of the pitfalls of test construction".

[I have a multiple-times-forwarded copy, which several forwards ago includes mention that "I got this test from Joseph Kruskal (Bell Labs), who got it from Clyde Kruskal (NYU Courant Institute), who got it from Jerome Berkowitz (Courant Institute). Unfortunately, Prof. Berkowitz is currently out of town, so I cannot trace its origin any farther back." And btw that's dated 1981.]

Dubious formatting is not mine.

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Comments

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

"Vost" is also correct because it's the answer that's different from the rest. The same reason that #2 is (b) ("the viskal flans, if the viskal is donwil or zortil".)

Also, if the answer to the last question is (d), then the answer pattern for the whole test is abcdabcd. Remember, it's a quiz about badly-written tests.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

It was not told to me it was a quiz about badly-written tests. The phrase "knowing some of the pitfalls of test construction" can be interpreted several ways.

So another perfectly logical argument is that obviously "vost" is incorrect because it is too different from the rest. E.g. there's a model of test construction where you start with the right answer and generate some alternate answers, and you try to make some answers close to the right answer and some further from it, and this leads to an entirely different set of answers from the model of "the question mentions 'foo', so it must be the answer containing 'foo'". (Which is why if "vost" were in three of the answers, you could eliminate the one without vost.)

I thought ...

[freelikebeer.livejournal.com]

more simply that vost is the answer because it is universal amongst the answers. Must always be true in the consequent.