Testing — One Two Three

1. History: When Was The Louisiana Purchase?

Good God, you don’t know, do you. You’re within a few years, but you’re not quite sure.

2. Language: Please pronounce the following two phrases —  “Trumpeter Swan” and “Schumpeter Fan.”

Now explain the differences in sound, in every one of the four syllables, of these two phrases?

3. Literature: Can a play written in iambic pentameter admit of a line of five trochees?

You know the answer: Never, never, never, never, never.

That’s all for now.