History Exam Answers


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This is a compilation of actual student answers from exams given
to 16 year olds:

1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in
hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by
Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live
elsewhere.

2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book
of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.
One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"

3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they
made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses
went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever
reached Canada.

4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we
wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female
moth.

6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of
that name.

7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.

8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the
biscuits, and threw the java.

9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people
Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.

10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.
The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be
made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."

11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing
the fiddle to them.

12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard
Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice
for the same offense.

13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writerof
the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also
wrote literature.

14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple
while standing on his son's head.

15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a
success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted
"hurrah."

16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.
Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible.
Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir
Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes And
started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100
foot
clipper.

17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.
He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made
much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,
comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and
Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be
laid by Juliet.

18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes.
He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton
wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was
a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the
Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.

20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called
Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the
settlers.
Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was
responsible for all this.

21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put
tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists wouldsend their parcels through the
post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to
pay for taxis. Delegates
from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress.
Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of
the Declaration of Independence.Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing
two cats backwards and
declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand.". Franklin died in
1790 and is still dead.

22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to
secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the
right to keep bare arms.

23. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's
mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built
with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the
Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14 1865, Lincoln went to
the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving
picture show. The believed assinator was John ilkes Booth, a supposedly
insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable
time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy.

25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable
in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.

26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a
large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which
he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was
the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel.. Handel was
half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.

27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf
he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone
was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened
and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his
power,but since Josephine was baroness, she couldn't have any children.

29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British
Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.

30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for
63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the
final event which ended her reign.

31. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts
and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started
reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of
rivers
to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did
the work of a hundred men.

32. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was
a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie
discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.

33. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by
an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.