She handed each student a test and returned to the teacher’s desk. From underneath she lifted out a black cube just over a foot wide.

  “When you finish a test you will walk up to the test grader, put in yours, and then your next test will be given to you.” She explained, pointing to where the tests went in and out, “Any questions?”

  “Yeah, why?” Kevin nearly yelled over the class, “This seems really weird. Even for demihuman standards of weirdness.”

  “Excellent. You may begin.” The older girl instructed, ignoring Kevin’s question completely.

  Although Kevin wasn’t satisfied with that, “Hey! Didn’t you hear me?”

  “No more questions, young man.”

  “You didn’t answer my first question!”

  “Young man, if you do not stop talking, I will call the disciplinary officer.”

  “You…” Kevin started to rebuttal but sat down muttering swears and curses as he started on the test.

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  Gwen looked over the questions. They weren’t very hard for her. It was a multiple-choice test on relatively common subjects. The makeup of the atmosphere. Basic vocabulary. Commonly known history. Even simple math. The class didn’t seem to have any difficulty with the test. Everyone circled their answers in silence. Until Kevin spoke again, “Hey, this stupid test has a mistake on it!”

  “No talking during the test.” was all the older girl said.

  “The last question doesn’t even have the right answer as a choice!” Kevin stood up and waved his paper. “It’s asking when the American Revolution happened, but the revolution was from seventeen seventy-six to eighty-something, but none of these are even in that range.”

  Gwen skipped down to the last question which was the same for her: What year did the American Revolution take place? For the answers, it listed: a. 1619 b. 1688 c. 1728 d. 1770 e. 1792 f. 1821. Kevin was right. The test didn’t have the right answer for an option.

  The older girl did not acknowledge the complaint. Simply telling Kevin, “There is to be no talking during the test. Mark an answer, or don’t. If you burst out again I will not hesitate to call the disciplinary officer.”

  Kevin sat again with another wave of rude muttering. Gwen looked over the question and tried to think. If the correct answer wasn’t available, then what was she supposed to put? How could the school make such a simple mistake? Gwen sighed and chose option d since it was the closest and turned in her first test. The next four had the same multiple-choice setup with harder and trickier questions, and with one always being without the right answer for an option, but the sixth and final was the worst. It had ten written answer questions about different subjects and at the top the instructions said, Answer with as many or as few words as you see fit.