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Could he 0ass the test? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Seeing as the quoted post is from Matt Walsh, I'm a little concerned about what would end up in his definition of an 8th grade civics exam.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (15 children)

(That's page 1 of 3, BTW, just in case anybody thought the 10-minute time limit sounded easy.)

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I mean... I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe that's why I'm having a hard time here? But there's just too many things that throw me off completely.

"Draw a line around"... How would anything I draw "around" something still be a line? Shouldn't a line be straight?
"Draw a line around the number or letter of this sentence."... There's no number in that sentence but lots of letters. I'm literally lost in the first question. Or does that refer to the number that comes before that sentence?
"write the last letter of the first word beginning with 'L'"... For some reason, this in particular doesn't limit it to "this line", so I was utterly unsure if I was supposed to find the first word on the line, the page, or get a dictionary and find the first L-word there.
"Cross out the number necessary, when making the number below one million"... Wat? Like, is this referring to the number being below the written line on the paper and it should be exactly one million or is this just saying the number should be anything below one million? Also, there's just one number there, so crossing that out leaves me with nothing, so I'll just assume I should cross out a digit? Then again, I can't cross out a single digit for the number to become exactly one million, so this is something I really don't get.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's tricky for native English speakers too, and that's the point. It's a literacy test that was given to black people in Louisiana in order to justify taking away their right to vote

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