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Sometimes test makers assume that the answer is obvious--to themselves at least
When my middle child went for his pre-kindergarten screening the tester asked "What's wet?" and got the answer "Water."
Next was "What burns?" - A. "Fire."
Finally - "What bounces?" Gleefully: Tigger!"
Examiner looks inquiringly at my wife, chaperoning, who nods affirmatively (as anyone who knows Disney's Pooh should). Makes no difference, the book says the right answer is "a ball," and to this day the record shows INCORRECT for that item.
Didn't keep him out of kindergarten somehow, and he even survived the rest of his schooling. Or maybe it's that they survived him.
Makes me want to go back and re-read John Holt's How Children Fail again.
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