Are You In The 3% That Can You Pass This High School Test?

#1 Personification is not the process of making a new person.

According to dictionary.com, Personification is: "the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure."

#2 Two feet plus four feet is six feet. Eight inches plus six inches is 14 inches, or one foot, two inches.

Six feet plus one foot, two inches equals seven feet, two inches, or 7'2".

#3 Feudalism was all the rage in Europe from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.

According to LordsAndLadies.org, "Feudalism in England was established by William the Conqueror and the Normans following the defeat of the English Anglo Saxons at the Battle of Hastings in 1066."

#4 First, find the least common denominator of these three fractions and then re-write the fractions in terms of this common denominator.

7/8 = 35/40, 9/10 = 36/40, 16/20= 32/40, so the correct order is 16/20, 7/8, 9/10.

#5 The four words are: Debate, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Oxymoron.

Debate is the only word here that isn't used to describe figurative language.

#6 The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

The freezing point of water is 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit

#7 This is one of the more active earthquake zones in the world.

The San Andreas fault runs roughly the entire length of California, near the Pacific coast

#8 This question is referring to the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

The two primary chemical elements in the atmosphere are oxygen and nitrogen.

#9 It's estimated that 75-200 million Europeans died of the black plague.

The black plague devastated Europe primarily from 13461353. There are reports of the Black Death hitting eastern Europe as early as 1343, though.

#10 Since we're dealing with an unknown variable "x," multiply the values inside the parentheses by the value outside the parentheses.

The correct answer is -4x +8.

#11 Hint: the answer is the same outside of a scientific experiment.

The word we're looking for is "Constant."

#12 We'll give you partial credit for answering, "A hit Johnny Cash song."

Wikipedia describes the Ring of Fire as "a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. In a 40,000 horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. It has 452 volcanoes (more than 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes)."

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