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ISRP Assignment 2

This is the second assignment for ISRP.  It is due October 1.

Introduction:  Your second homework assignment in this course is to take an online quiz; this serves two purposes.  It both gives you, the student, and me, the teacher, some idea of how much background information you already have; it also requires you to demonstrate basic technology skills.  Answer the quiz questions to the best of your ability, but realize that your score will not affect your grade - it is just to let me know from where we are starting, as a class.

If you have any problems with the computer skills that are required for this assignment, please ask a parent.  If they can't help, ask a friend.  Then try a google search.  If none of these help, feel free to email me with your question.

Warning:  Do not look up answers to the questions.  If you don't know an answer, the best thing to do is get it wrong.  This test is a diagnostic, and if you cheat on it, I won't be able to diagnose the class' ability.

Instructions:  Please take a short survey and send me the results, following the procedure described below:

1) Go to this site:  http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/index.php .


2) Click this button. ^ 





3) Answer all 15 questions to the best of your ability.  Remember, this is to find out what you know; getting very few questions right isn't a bad thing - most people who took this quiz finished high school, and many finished college.  YOUR SCORE WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR GRADE.

4) Once you finish, you will see a page that looks like this:

                                                                             






















Please highlight from "You answered __ out of __ questions correctly..." all the way down to the 15th question, where it says "Jonathan Edwards       11."

5) Copy this (by clicking on the top bar 'Edit' and then 'Copy').

6) Compose an email to samhavens@gmail.com with the title "ISRP Assignment 2."  Write your name in the body of the email, then paste (by clicking 'Edit,' then 'Paste').  It should look something like:


7) Send this email.


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