It was the second day of final exams. The first period students were coming into the room. I was passing out the answer forms — half-sheets of paper with a box for each multiple choice answer.<\/p>\n
This class never gets multiple choice tests. They didn’t know what to make of it.<\/p>\n
“Is that all!?” one of them asked before he had even looked at the paper.<\/p>\n
“No, it’s the answer sheet,” I said.<\/p>\n
“How many problems?” he asked, evidently still not having looked at the paper which consisted of little more than 17 numbered boxes.<\/p>\n
“Seventeen,” I said.<\/p>\n
“Is that all?” someone else said in a tone of sincere surprise.<\/p>\n
“Wait,” I said, turning toward them. “You mean you want me to put more<\/strong><\/em> problems on the test?”<\/p>\n “No, no, no!”<\/p>\n I looked down at my desk to take attendance.<\/p>\n “Very suspicious,” one of them mumbled. “Mr. Hasan giving a multiple choice test. Very suspicious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was the second day of final exams. The first period students were coming into the room. I was passing out the answer forms — half-sheets of paper with a box for each multiple choice answer. This class never gets multiple choice tests. They didn’t know what to make of it. “Is that all!?” one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}