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...Nerdy quiz-show writer impulsively swipes a Chagall during a party at a museum. Why? The answer takes us back to the life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. The grandfather of municipal pandering, Hot Springs renamed itself in 1950 on a promise the quiz show would broadcast there...
...played for up to 15 hours on four AA batteries. But it's no lightweight. The Hand Roll comes with a set of 128 tones (from acoustic piano to bird tweet), 100 rhythms, 20 prerecorded demo songs and a speaker jack, and it connects to a computer. Next: Inventions Quiz...
...participation grade to encourage improved listening, for example, by valuing responses to classmates’ comments over disconnected, individual contributions. I also (with inspiration from insightful student essay of Paul Davis ’07) propose that half our participation grade should be derived from a short, straightforward reading quiz given at the beginning of each section. Not only will a quiz keep well-intending procrastinators such as myself from falling behind on the syllabus, but it will improve the quality of discussions since everyone will be fairly well-versed with the material and not under as much pressure...
...mostly secular tools employed by seminary screeners may be familiar to anyone who has experienced a basic psychological test at a large company. Plante uses the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test, geared to screening for psychopathologies; a Myers-Briggs-like self-image quiz for characteristics such as introversion or dominance; and a sentence-completion exercise featuring such opening statements as "If I had all the money in the world, I would ..." or "After they had sex, he felt ..." Armed with the results, Plante later sits down for 60 to 90 minutes with the candidate, "specifically looking," he says...