grrr

[yendi]

So, I actually considered taking my one quarterly quiz, after seeing a few folks post links to the "how much of a literary geek are you?" quiz.

Then I saw the first question:

Who wrote the sequal to Little Women?

Sorry, but anyone who writes that question has no right to judge my literary geekiness.

Oh, another question from the quiz: Approxamately how many books (excluding novellas and young adult books) do you finish in a week?

And we later get the word "losely."

I wonder if the quizmaker copyedits for Laurell K. Hamilton.

Comments

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

... or copy edits for White Wolf Game Systems.
Their writing deserves better, it really does.

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

A literature quiz maker that doesn't use a friggen spell checker is a fool in my book.

I spotted two misspellings right off the bat - "alegory" and "approxamately"

Idiots.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

A literature quiz maker who needs a spell checker that much is a sorry sight in my eyes.

[alecto23.livejournal.com]

My favourite was this one:
When a writer makes a comment that refers to something else (i.e. speaking of how a woman is as hard to get as Aurthur's sword was to pull from the stone), it is...

Two of the optional answers are allusion and illusion. I mean, how would the author of the quiz have known the difference?

Besides, I still think it's a metaphor.

[yendi]

The author did use something that was both an allusion and a metaphor. Which is why I'm surprised that both weren't listed as answers. :-)

[alecto23.livejournal.com]

You're surprised that both weren't listed as answers, given the overall quality of the test? I'm just surprised that any answer was even partially right... :P