Unbelievable Saudi Textbooks

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Because they are so clearly designed for the convenience of large testing companies, I had always assumed that multiple choice tests, the bane of any fourth-grader’s existence, were a quintessentially American phenomenon. But apparently I was wrong. According to a report put out by the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom last week, it seems that the Saudi Arabians find them useful too. Here, for example, is a multiple-choice question which appears in a recent edition of a Saudi fourth-grade textbook, “Monotheism and Jurisprudence,” in a section which attempts to teach children to distinguish “true” from “false” belief in God:

Q. Is belief true in the following instances:

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