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Talk:World History Final Exam (view source)
Revision as of 19:21, December 17, 2011
, 19:21, December 17, 2011Badly Phrased Questions
:You make good points, but the "best answer" is still the same. The other three answers are clearly wrong.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:32, 17 December 2011 (EST)
:You make good points, but the "best answer" is still the same. The other three answers are clearly wrong.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 13:32, 17 December 2011 (EST)
== Badly Phrased Questions ==
I think this exam needed a little copy-editing before it was released. A few of these points may seem picky, but there's nothing more unfair to students than a badly worded question.
Question 1: No one 'discovered' gravity; it's always been known about. The person in question devised a theory to predict the force of gravity between any two objects and to explain the movements of the planets through gravity.
Question 6: I think the idea of the 'original' name may cause some sniggers, as if if before the great powers went to war in 1914, they had to pick a name for it. A better phrase would be 'and earlier name'.
Question 15: The wording of this one is both uncomfortable and confusing. Just to take option a: how can 'throwing two people off of a lifeboat in order to save the remaining ten' be either true or false. Even if we allow for bad phrasing, it's not clear whether we are being asked whether we are being asked whether utilitarians believe that 'throwing two people off of a lifeboat in order to save the remaining ten' is a good thing or that it is a bad thing. The question might better read 'Utilitarianism asserts that all of the following are morally acceptable EXCEPT:'
Question 18: Queen Elizabeth needs a regnal number here. Strictly speaking, so does Queen Mary, though she has been disambiguated, albeit in a rather ugly way.
Question 35: Should really be 'Who ''first'' broke the German’s Enigma?' It was broken again and again as the Germans continued to refine the system.
Question 40: I can name 19 national leaders with the surname Romanov (and I may well have missed a few). Admittedly the whole dynasty does not overlap with any of the other answers, but I'd have thought 'The House of Romanov' would have been clear for option IV.