In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black Republican candidate to office after the Civil War, destroying the ballots of black voters and shooting two Northern carpetbaggers.
I think the answer key didn’t exist. You could argue syntax on each question, no matter how it was answered. “It says draw A line through both numbers, and you did two lines total.” Or “you drew one long squiggle, that’s not a straight line. You should’ve known to draw two”.
Three questions per minute, I can imagine why it was nearly impossible to finish, let alone get a technically perfect score.
And you know this was only administered as a formality to anyone too dark to be “white”.
I think the answer key didn’t exist. You could argue syntax on each question, no matter how it was answered. “It says draw A line through both numbers, and you did two lines total.” Or “you drew one long squiggle, that’s not a straight line. You should’ve known to draw two”.
Three questions per minute, I can imagine why it was nearly impossible to finish, let alone get a technically perfect score.
And you know this was only administered as a formality to anyone too dark to be “white”.