Literacy Test

[garbon]

Question 1 is too confusing. What number or letter do they want to draw a line around?

The number 1.  But they don't want to give away that it's a number, I guess.

No. That's what's so confusing. The first line reads something like:

1. Draw a line around the number or letter in this sentence.

The "1." is not in that sentence.

I think the answer is "a"

Another possible answer is to observe that "the number" has the definite article and "letter" has the indefinite article. So any letter will do since 1. is no in the sentence.

Where do you see an indefinite article for letter? I see nothing for it at all.  If you removed "the number or", you'd just have broken English - so that inclines me to think that "the" applies to both.

[Josephus]

Yeah, I think DPS has it right.

[Syt]

That's because you apparantly can't read.  It doens't say "in this sentence", it says "of this sentence".  "1" is clearly the number of the sentence.  FAIL.

You're right. That said, I change my answer to drawing a line around "the number or letter of this sentence."

[CountDeMoney]

I sincerely doubt the 1964 models of 11HeyBoy and derweiß running the poll station were all too worried about definite and indefinite articles.

[jimmy olsen]

Maybe I should give this test to my summer class students? 

[11B4V]

I sincerely doubt the 1964 models of 11HeyBoy and derweiß running the poll station were all too worried about definite and indefinite articles.

 

[CountDeMoney]

Count dees here jella beans, boy.

[Siege]

Who can pass this test in Ten (10) minutes???!