Blast From the Past circa 1998

Havener Family Quick Quiz*

1. There are seven days in each week. Your mother instructs you to make your bed every day. This means you do not need to do it on Tuesday.

T or F

2. You borrow your mother's hairbrush. When you are done with it you should leave it in your bedroom where she will eventually find it when she goes to see whether or not you made your bed.

T or F

3. Your mother helps you with a school assignment. You manage to get out the iron, ironing board, stapler, and encyclopedias. It is your mother's job to put these things away. After all, she offered to help.

T or F

4. You eat supper and use 1 plate, 1 glass, 1 fork and a spoon. When you are done you should leave the table as quickly as possible so the elves can come in undisturbed to clear the table.

T or F

5. Dirty clothing and towels are best left on your bedroom floor until you mother tells you to clean your room three days in a row. Mother's like to hear their own voices.

T or F

6. Clean clothes should be left in small piles on the living room floor until you are ready to wear them because clothes are more comfortable on the floor.

T or F

7. Socks are not really clothing, so no laundry rules apply to them.

T or F

8. It is 40 degrees outside and 70 degrees inside. When you go out the door in the morning you should leave the door open so it warms up outside by the time you get home.

T or F

9. If you didn't get the toys out, or if you were not the last one to play with them, then you should not pick them up, even if your mother asks you to. She is just testing you to see if you know whose responsibility it really is.

T or F

10. Clean teeth are not important if you plan to keep your mouth shut most of the day.

T or F

BONUS: Where do cotton balls go after you use them to remove nail polish?


*I first published this test 10 years ago and distributed it with number 2 pencils at the supper table.
(Dave says instead of Blast from the Past this could be called Back to the Future. PSSA testing is nothing new to our family. I've been teaching to the test for 20 years. Fortunately, you don't have to get 100% to graduate. No Child Left Behind--I can get behind that.)