I have a friend, relatively computer literate, but definately not a “geek”, who was taking a low level computer course at a community college recently. After taking his first exam, he came to me, asking about some of the questions.

Well, I thought, ok, I’ll take a look, and explain to him why some of the answers he gave were wrong - until I saw the questions.

after the break are the worst of the questions on the test, and you can get the whole test here. The “correct” answers are designated by an asterisk

For reference, the community college in question is Portland Community College, the course was BA 131, and the instructor’s name was Bill Bruno.

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