[Cash-and-caring] My 5 easy Questions for the WA Seminar pop quiz - 5 so far; and some names for the quiz

Fri Dec 7 00:06:14 UTC 2012

Lorraine, we are sending quiz questions to Mark Turley at blindsquid at yahoo.com.  Some of yours should work. Thank you.  
Ramona 
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  From: Rovig, Lorraine 
  To: CASH & CARING COMM listserv 
  Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:32 PM
  Subject: [Cash-and-caring] My 5 easy Questions for the WA Seminar pop quiz - 5 so far; and some names for the quiz

  The Committee task:  Design a 10-question quiz about blindness to be answered by the general public and useful to teach them about blindness. This quiz may be useful to include in a packet used as a handout for a fundraiser by our affiliates, chapter, or other groups. 

  Date assigned: During the Cash & Caring Committee telephone meeting on Sunday, November 18, 2012.

  Deadline to post our questions on the Cash & Caring listserv is "mid-December."

  3 Rules: --This quiz needs a name. -- Ramona wants "easy" questions about blindness and the NFB.-- Questions must be True/False or multiple choice.

  My suggestions for naming the quiz:

  -       "A Senses and Sensibility" Quiz

  -        "Blind Sense and Nonsense" a Quiz in 10 parts

  -       What would you do if you were blind and.

  -       The Blind Guy Quiz

  -       The Think-Like-a-Blind-Guy Quiz

  Quiz Questions from Lorraine Rovig:

  1.     Blind Americans who travel independently may use either a long white cane or a guide dog. What percentage of blind Americans use a guide dog?

  a.    10 percent?

  b.    50 percent?

  c.    95 percent?

  2.    If you were blind and asked to pass the pepper shaker during lunch, which of these tests would let you identify pepper from salt without looking at it?

  a.    Pour a little of one in your hand and taste it. 

  b.    Lifting both the salt and the pepper shaker because pepper is always lighter than salt.

  c.    Smelling both the salt and the pepper.

  d.    All of the above.

  3.    If you were a blind mother, how would you read "Where the Wild Things Are" to your little son?

  a.    Turn on a CD recording.

  b.    Hire someone to read for you.

  c.    Read a Braille copy of the children's book.

  4.    If you were making a birthday cake for your husband, how do you get one teaspoon out of the very narrow neck of a bottle of vanilla and not make a mess trying to pour into a teaspoon if you can't see or feel when it's full of that light-weight spice?

  a.    You can't make a cake by yourself. You go to the store and buy one.

  b.    You pour a bowl full of vanilla and dip out one teaspoon. Then you use a funnel and pour the unused vanilla back in the bottle.

  c.    You empty the vanilla bottle into a clean babyfood jar or other small wide-mouthed jar; bend the handle of one teaspoon to turn it into a dipper; and dip out one full teaspoon anytime you like.

  5.    You are at the grocery for a gallon of milk and a new clerk just gave you two bills in change. One of those bills better be a five or  the new clerk cheated you. How can you do a fast check on his honesty when you can't see the numbers on the bills?

  a.    Open your wallet on the city bus and ask the person sitting next to you.

  b.    Use the iPhone app that scans U.S. bills and announces the denomination out aloud.

  c.    Ask the clerk about one bill, "Is this the five?" while you hold it up so the person in line behind you can see what is on the bill. 

  d.    Ask your spouse or children later that night.

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