Listen, if you;re gonna make a peanut butter floor and not mark where it is, it's your own fault. Also, has the same peanut butter been in there since 1962? That's pretty gross.
Craig: squat toilets are really, really difficult to use if you wear trousers. Which almost all women in the western world do, much of the time. Also, there's even more of a splash effect, especially when you go very quickly...
Your results - as a person /not/ in WV taking this exam in 2011 would be drastically different. Some of the questions are very entrenched in the place and time: for example, the location of important health resorts (akin to asking the US's best hospitals). For some the questions have become irrelevant: tracing a carload of coal, as coal is no longer a major energy supplier and we don't transfer our current energy (oil) by train.
Additionally, would you be answering the questions about production as they were in the 1930s or as they are today? This makes the answers to some questions (like #8) vastly different.
The hygiene section is rather amusing, especially the question about being under-weight! The hygiene movement of the late Victorian era still held sway - thus the questions on bathing and ventilation - and some of the principles stuck around until the post-war era. (Some continue today, like painting hospital walls white, but the question of ventilating classrooms is never considered a "hygienic principle".)
The grammar section seems to be trying to weed out colloquialisms, many of which are acceptable in today's English. The job application question would actually be rather useful today, and the civics and math sections have not changed much; the penmanship section has gone the way of the dodo! The English section is pretty much exactly like tests I took in middle school (10 or so years ago).
Additionally, would you be answering the questions about production as they were in the 1930s or as they are today? This makes the answers to some questions (like #8) vastly different.
The hygiene section is rather amusing, especially the question about being under-weight! The hygiene movement of the late Victorian era still held sway - thus the questions on bathing and ventilation - and some of the principles stuck around until the post-war era. (Some continue today, like painting hospital walls white, but the question of ventilating classrooms is never considered a "hygienic principle".)
The grammar section seems to be trying to weed out colloquialisms, many of which are acceptable in today's English. The job application question would actually be rather useful today, and the civics and math sections have not changed much; the penmanship section has gone the way of the dodo! The English section is pretty much exactly like tests I took in middle school (10 or so years ago).