We all take tests. Whether it's the Algebra test you took last Monday, or that history test coming up next week. In the story The "Test"(Theodore Thomas) the main character Robert Proctor was taking his drivers test. While taking the test he was hypnotized and put into a dream that he and his mother got into a car accident and his mother died. After he realized the "dream" wasn't real he wanted to continue taking the driver's test, but the instructor said he was crazy to want to continue the test after watching his own mother die. When we take tests, are we really being tested for something else that's not to our knowledge? When we go to the doctors, are they really testing us for something that we may not be aware of? Maybe teachers are really not testing us on how well we know our A B C's. Robert was sent to a mental institution after taking his driver's test does this usually happen? No, you usually leave in a car.
             Robert wanted to go on with the driver test, because he knew of the things that can happen when you get behind a wheel. He was prepared because he knew the outcomes of driving. Robert didn't need to be hypnotized to learn that car accidents do happen, and that it can kill people. It's common sense. What do you think seatbelts are for? They protect us from accidents incase they do happen. I'm only fifthteen years old and even I know the outcomes of driving the good and bad. I don't need to be hypnotized to know that, because it's common sense to me. For instance drugs, if you need prescription medicine or drug you go to the doctor or pharmacist. Although if someone's selling you drugs on the street that pharmacists and doctors don't carry there's obviously something wrong with that. It's all common sense.
             Every three years in elementary school even into high school I had to take provincial testing called EQAO. This is a provincial test that is used to show how we
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