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Self-Assessment 7.8
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Activity 7.8: Testing Your Creative Bench Strength

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This self-assessment estimates how well you engage in divergent thinking to identify problems and their solutions creatively. To some extent, this is a "teaser" exercise to have fun, but it also requires divergent thinking to get the right answer.
     This self-assessment consists of 12 questions. For each question, type your brief answer in the space provided. After answering all 12 questions, compare what you wrote with the correct answer along with its explanation.

There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
There is a house with four walls Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. How did sloppy die?
How much dirt would be in a hole 2 metres deep and 2 metres wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
Suppose you are in Juneau, Alaska and drop a bowling ball from a height of three feet into a bucket of water at 10 degrees Celsius. Then, you drop a bowling ball of the same weight, mass, and size from the same height into another bucket at negative 10 degree Celsius. Which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket fastest?
What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
 
  





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