Quiz Results
Apr 17, 2010
OK, now all you Hellmouth lurkers…shame on you. Several thousand of you out there knew about the End of Semester Pop Quiz and declined to take it. I know you’re out there (I have my ways…). Everyone bailed except a hardy half dozen. “TL” did well, and he caught a typo by the teacher, so he gets extra credit.
“AS” was not totally dead wrong. He gets a passing grade, as does “Hugo.”
“AndyG” is too smart for his own good.
“RYAN” asked to go the bathroom too many times during the exam, so we suspect he had the answers posted behind the paper towel dispenser.
For everyone else, there will be a make-up test (much more difficult), tomorrow morning at dawn. Meet in the parking lot of Surf Supermarket in Gualala. Please bring your own pencils. Anyone failing to show up gets three dinners with The Ayatolla.
For those who took the exam, the answers are:
1. c
2. d
3. d
4. d
5. a & b
6. b
7. a
8. a
9. a
10. b
11. b
12. a,b,c,d
13. a,b,c,d
14. d
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Comments (4)
April 17, 2010
Stop portraying yourself as a victim, John. It's not really proper. We all know that Hellmouth visitors were within their rights to not take your quiz, especially if it spared them the hurt feelings or the actual grief of failing the quiz. Quizzes ought not to be exempt of political or social critique.
April 17, 2010
Oh, man. Wasn't Taruskin the one who bashed 'Klinghoffer'?
April 18, 2010
Damn! I can't come to the make-up test occasion because I'm stuck in Finland due to the ash cloud. Damn! Iceland - the country of ashholes!
April 18, 2010
Having shopped at the Surf Supermarket, I don't think the parking lot is gonna be big enough.