"multiple-choice? that's easy!"

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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

[loosestrife.livejournal.com]

According to this document on test creation (http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/health/ltu/areas/assessment/mcq/design.html) from Leeds Metropolitan University, the answers are 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d, 5-a, 6-b, 7-c, 8-d.

I'm not happy about the first one. Generally, you'd expect the compound word to refer to the thing-remover, not the thing. You don't pry off a tire iron with a tire.

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[(Anonymous)]

Try thinking more along the lines of tape loops