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Chinese Students Face Loyalty Quiz--Millions of Communist Chinese students spent the few weeks cramming for a series of new and stricter tests of their "political reliability" before they can qualify for places in the country's overcrowded universities. The text they are studying is published by Peking's Ministry of Education and its title is, "Regulations for Entry into Institutions of Higher Learning," a formidable document which calls for a thorough examination of the political thinking of all university aspirants...
...thousands of Jews sat listening by their radios, many with Bible in hand. Jerusalem's big Convention Hall was jammed to its 3,000-seat capacity and, said an official, "We could have sold out the hall five times over." It was time for the third International Bible Quiz, a triennial event that has become an international institution in the land of Benjamin and Ben-Gurion...
...When I hear of an employee of the Senate boasting that he has ten members of this body in his hand," said Case, citing a statement attributed to Baker, "I do a slow burn." Delaware Republican John J. Williams followed with a resolution that would authorize the committee to quiz Senators and to look into "any illegal, immoral or improper activities" including the misuse of campaign funds...
When public schools ban the Bible to duck religious controversy, they recklessly cut off a sturdy taproot of secular culture. To measure the cost, English Teacher Thayer S. Warshaw of crack Newton (Mass.) High School devised a 112-question quiz on simple Biblical allusions, sprang it on five classes of bright, college-bound juniors and seniors. In The English Journal, he reports the result: a sobering case of "cultural deprivation...
...flunked "Many are called, but few are chosen," 84% flunked "The truth shall make you free," 84% flunked "A soft answer turneth away wrath," 88% flunked "Pride goeth before a fall," and a full 93% flunked "The love of money is the root of all evil." Going beyond quiz questions, Warshaw found students missing the whole Biblical point of secular literature-for example, the implication of the final scene in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, when the old man collapses with his wounded hands outstretched, as in crucifixion...