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Geography test
Jun. 7th, 2005 03:25 pmI had a test to make up. Someone walked me to a room (the whole time I felt very much like a little kid, but also very much like myself; dreams are like that sometimes) where a lady, the teacher (at a university? of a fourth-grade class? I couldn't say), was waiting for me. She handed me the paper and told me not to worry too much about it, because the class as a whole had struggled with the test. I sat down, inwardly smirking because I was sure I'd do really well on this test.
The directions for the first part were to name the capital of the designated state. I was a bit worried at this, knowing that I knew them all in fifth grade but that was a long time ago, but I felt better after I looked at the first one:
VERMONT.
Oh, that's easy! I thought, confidently writing "Montpelier" ... until I got to the L and stopped to wonder if there should be another there. I forged on, even stopping to reflect on the fact that the name was the same as the place![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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After VERMONT, though, came
BURRITO.
That one mystified me. I left it blank for the moment and went on to the next part.
The directions for the next part told me to name 2 states that border the state in question. Easy, I told myself again, satisfied with my lot in life. The first was
CONNECTICUT.
I don't even think I bothered to write down anything this time, being so confident in myself. Sure, there's Massechusetts and Rhode Island and all that, I remember thinking.
The next one, though, proved a bit trickier:
NORTHERN IOWA.
Northern Iowa?! I slowly wrote "Minnesota," wondering all the way through it what my other answer would be when I got done with this first one. Part of my mind was sure this had been some kind of mistake, as obviously only that one state shares Iowa's northern border. Yet another part wondered about that little right-hand corner. I, hoping to catch that northeast corner, quickly wrote "Illinois" before I could talk myself out of it.
And then I woke up, so I don't know how I did on the test (though I did have time to regret my last answer, thinking Wisconsin would've been a better guess).
I can see what that teacher meant about people not doing well, though. Sheesh.
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The directions for the first part were to name the capital of the designated state. I was a bit worried at this, knowing that I knew them all in fifth grade but that was a long time ago, but I felt better after I looked at the first one:
VERMONT.
Oh, that's easy! I thought, confidently writing "Montpelier" ... until I got to the L and stopped to wonder if there should be another there. I forged on, even stopping to reflect on the fact that the name was the same as the place
mllesarah was the last time she went to France.After VERMONT, though, came
BURRITO.
That one mystified me. I left it blank for the moment and went on to the next part.
The directions for the next part told me to name 2 states that border the state in question. Easy, I told myself again, satisfied with my lot in life. The first was
CONNECTICUT.
I don't even think I bothered to write down anything this time, being so confident in myself. Sure, there's Massechusetts and Rhode Island and all that, I remember thinking.
The next one, though, proved a bit trickier:
NORTHERN IOWA.
Northern Iowa?! I slowly wrote "Minnesota," wondering all the way through it what my other answer would be when I got done with this first one. Part of my mind was sure this had been some kind of mistake, as obviously only that one state shares Iowa's northern border. Yet another part wondered about that little right-hand corner. I, hoping to catch that northeast corner, quickly wrote "Illinois" before I could talk myself out of it.
And then I woke up, so I don't know how I did on the test (though I did have time to regret my last answer, thinking Wisconsin would've been a better guess).
I can see what that teacher meant about people not doing well, though. Sheesh.
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