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Can You Correctly Answer All Of These Questions From The First-Ever SATs?

Which one of the six statements below tells the meaning of the following proverb:  
“The burnt child dreads the fire.”

Choose which three words are most closely related.

If a package containing 20 cigarettes costs 15 cents, how many cigarettes can be bought for 90 cents?

If a man's salary is $20 a week, and he spends $14 a week, how long will it take him to save $300?

If hospital is to sick, then asylum is to:

If alcohol is to drunkenness, then indolence is to:

Pick which two words are opposites or close to opposites.

A dealer bought a lot of three horses and some mules for $600 and sold the lot for $820. If he gained $40 on each horse, and $50 on each mule, how many mules were there?

If the first two statements are true, then is the third true, false, or not certain?  
1\. Some of Brown’s friends are Baptists. 2. Some of Brown’s friends are dentists. 3. Some of Brown’s friends are Baptist dentists.

Tbh, good job even getting any of these right. 1926 was a weird time.

SAT newbie!

Honestly, you might not have gotten them all right, but I'm not even judging you for a second because some of these questions are straight-up weird.

SAT expert!

Hey, quick question: Are you a time traveler from 1926? K, cool, that's what I thought.

SAT genius!

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Can You Correctly Answer All Of These Questions From The First-Ever SATs?

Recently, we had teens answer questions from the 1926 Scholastic Aptitude Test — aka the first-ever SATs — and things got weird.

View this video on YouTube

Like, real weird.

So now's your chance to see how you would have done on a test from 91 freakin' years ago. Without further ado, here are 10 questions from the 1926 SATs:

Can You Correctly Answer All Of These Questions From The First-Ever SATs?

Recently, we had teens answer questions from the 1926 Scholastic Aptitude Test — aka the first-ever SATs — and things got weird.

View this video on YouTube

Like, real weird.

So now's your chance to see how you would have done on a test from 91 freakin' years ago. Without further ado, here are 10 questions from the 1926 SATs:

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