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...presentation concluded with a pop quiz for administrators...
...Does lighting come from the sky or the ground?" I quiz a physicist hurrying home in the rain. "Are people more like monkeys or apes?" I ask a biologist finishing off a banana. "How do you get stuff to explode?" I query a chemist shooting-'em-up on a Super Nintendo. This is great fun--and occasionally even educational when I stay awake long enough for the answers ("Both," "Apes" and "Shut up! I'm at the end of the %#@$! level," respectively...
Quizzes. Should our president be able to name the leader of Pakistan? The pop quiz craze, prompted by a Boston political reporter's questions for George W. Bush about world leaders, seems to have passed. Apparently, it only served to remind voters how little they know about world news...
...ROTC student begins at 5:30 a.m. at least twice a week. On one dreary, wet Monday morning at 7, eight members of the Navy ROTC program climb on the shuttle that whisks them to MIT. The damp day is scheduled to start with a bang: a thermodynamics quiz. So as the bus rattles down the road, Raymond L. Andrews '03 frantically tries to cram half of the book into his brain while the other ROTC students are huddled in the back, trying to stay warm while quizzing each other on the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Finally...
...technology allows Mazur to quiz students immediately to see if they "get it," and allows students to help teach their neighbor--a culmination in Mazur's teaching philosophy of peer instruction...