The Continuing Crisis

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Mother's Day
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Underground America Day

 

Called home because it’s The Rules that you do that today.  Talked to Mom, and also talked to 妹。妹 is busy taking standardized tests, from which she paraphrased her favorite exerpt from the directions:

 

 

Read the following poem, then answer the questions.

 

[The Following Poem, which she did not identify]

 

Question 1:

 

What form is the passage written in?

A. Short Story

B. Essay

C. Poem

D. Speech

E. None of the above

 

 

We agree that anybody who could not figure this out not only should never be allowed to graduate, but should also be immediately sterilized.

Comments

[tiryn.livejournal.com]

We agree that anybody who could not figure this out not only should never be allowed to graduate, but should also be immediately sterilized.

Heh heh heh...with you on that one. But then, just who writes questions like that?

[enigmania.livejournal.com]

It strikes me as rather odd to contemplate something written in speech. (Ok, form of a, but still!)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I believe it means a speech like the Gettysburg Address or something.

[enigmania.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would make sense. I wonder how one might reliably differentiate a speech from an essay?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I often wondered that myself in debate class.

Though in these tests the difference would probably be that a speech has "Ladies and Gentlemen" at the beginning.

I admit, she couldn't remember all the choices, so that might not have been on there. But I recall getting a speech-format on one of those tests once, made memorable only because it was dull even for a standardized test passage.