> > I've been looking at that junk food question on the reader poll and it reminded me and a good question:
> > How often do you read junk mail?
> > a. never
> > b. never
> > c. never
> > d. never
> > How"spam, anyone?"ard
>
> We had a TV show here a few years ago that had always the same last option. It was
> d. Canada
> I'd vote for that.
> That one was also always the right one, no matter how stupid. (It was a stupid show.) Except for one question: Who's going to be the next World champion in ice-hockey? Right answer: Finland. And the answer was supposed to be shouted so loudly that it could be heard in Canada.
>
> Juho

Multiple choice tests are the worst kind. They don't measure anything important. But when I was teaching, I used them almost exclusively because they were fast and easy to check. We had to do it all by hand in those days.
Shouting an answer on a multiple choice question isn't easy.
Howard