The sample test was better than some I've seen, but the that just means it is 'bad' rather than 'remarkably bad'.

Personally, I would have taken my sock off, drawn eyes on it and then made the 'sock puppet' take the test. Then whenever somebody commented on my performance I'd loudly explain that it was the sock puppets performance, not mine.

If programming perl involved clicking checkboxes then the test might be a good indicator of perl ability. Since perl involves more than just checkboxes, the test is obviously pathetic and is to be ignored.

Sidenote: while I get by alright on multi-choice tests, they never test what I consider to be my best skills - research and debugging. No multiple choice test will ever be able to test things like that.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.