Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...weekly quiz sections are intolerable. A five minute test is given, not to determine the amount of knowledge gleaned from the week's reading, but to ascertain merely if the student has done the assignment. Beyond the fact that this procedure is contrary to all pedagogical theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number...
...thoroughly covered, by the lectures and class room experiments, and the retentive ability of the class for this knowledge is as throughly tested in quizzes at frequent intervals. As in much Chemistry, a sufficient knowledge may be obtained by a little intensive study on the ever of such a quiz or hour exam. Chem 2 is a pleasant course, and will waste no one's time...
...tourists who returned through the Port of New York in the last two years, the Treasury Department last week sent a questionnaire. Promised immunity, each was asked whether he had given the customs inspectors at the pier a gratuity, whether any had been asked. Purpose of the quiz: to break up petty customs graft, to smash a ring of narcotic smugglers...