This test hurts my feelings.
What few people realize here...is that when a kid finished and passed the local school board exam (at whatever age he could passed)...he actually knew something. When you measure the amount of knowledge that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Thomas Edison had at 18....its probably what you’d find in a 22-year old guy who finishes up four years of college.
At some point, up until the 1940s....high school meant something and most everyone in America got by without a degree of any sort. My grandmother had six months of teaching college in the 1910 period...and proceeded to teach kids (with no certificates).
If the public ever came to grasp the significance of school in 1895...they might ask some really stupid questions...which your local school board really doesn’t want to answer.