Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Exam Day

Here’s a multiple choice quiz for you. Please do your own work. Cheaters will be forced to read Middlemarch

Instructions. Please select the best answer for each question. Be prepared to defend your selections.

New cycling shoes + New pedals = ______________________

a. more speed
b. more power
c. more happiness
d. sore knees

What is the likely result of a long weekend sailing in the sun with no zinc for your lips?

a. a nice even tan to impress the ladies
b. that smooth kissable feeling
c. a strengthened immunity to sunburn
d. burned and blistering lips

What do you do when your home builder wants $9,000 for granite countertops in your new house?

a. realize that over the length of a 30 year mortgage that will only cost $8.00 a month and do the upgrade
b. ask if there is a more expensive option
c. rationalize that you will get that $9,000 back in resale
d. say “fuck right off” and design a tile kitchen instead.

It’s 9:30 p.m. and you have just finished grading a set of the worst student papers in history. You:

a. curve the scores up to account for the fact that you overestimated the ability of the class
b. plan an extensive lesson designed to fix the errors you noticed in grading
c. adjust the next assignment to be more reasonable
d. make a Hendrick’s martini and watch American Idol on TiVO

At 8:00 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, where are you most likely to run into all of the following: The Colleague, The Math Dude, RPD, and The Outgoing Dean?

a. Faculty offices on campus
b. At a meeting on institutional effectiveness
c. In the mailroom
d. At the Aloha.

How did GVB spend his lunch hour on Tuesday after writing a massive check to the Home Builder?

a. eating lunch with Mrs. GVB
b. transferring money to keep the massive check from bouncing
c. lounging in the sun
d. test driving an Audi A3 through the streets of Bellevue

Answers and Grades will be Posted on Thursday.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OK, I'm game. Here are my answers:

1) D
2) D
3) A (but this would be too rational)
4) D (can we add "E" bitch about the decline of standards as we do all of the above?)
5) D (but then again I wasn't there)
6) D (You shoulda been doing A and B and have had too much of C--spare your lips)

Put it all together and it spells "DDADDD" which is what children are supposed to say in mid-June.

Anonymous said...

I was going to say cheating from this distance would be hard, but then RPD posted answers first, so can I just read Middlemarch again anyway?

My answers are:

d (but I'm looking for "e" all of the above)
d
b (I can imagine you doing this with a perfectly straight face, but I'd guess the real answer is something more like d, but truly, a is the right answer...)
d - but you didn't include the option to make the next assignment harder, so....
d
d