pop quiz
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3.4
A short surprise test that checks what students learned recently
- noun
- /pɑp kwɪz/
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- I expect you all completed your summer course work and you're prepared for a pop quiz?
This is the pop quiz that's going to be given orally.
- This is the pop quiz that's going to be given orally.
- Now, we know from the literature that students don't like pop quizzes.
- If you take the history tour, you have to take a pop quiz and if you don't get an A you can't leave the museum.
- Without midterms or papers or pop quizzes.
- Because it is pop quiz time, baby, and we are doing Tesla trivia.
- So I I jumped up and down for a pop quiz the other day and I I might have piddled a little bit.
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Examples
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Do you check their reading with pop quizzes?
Blog text (21) -
I had a pop quiz in history today.
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We're going to make this pop quiz real easy.
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I got a really big pop quiz tomorrow.
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Gonna be a pop quiz on Wednesday.
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This is a tough pop quiz.
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- Okay, people, pop quiz.
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Here is a quick pop quiz:
Blog text (19) -
I do this by giving pop quizzes or writing assignments.
Academic text (2005) -
I had a pop quiz in history today to test what we learned last week.
Synonyms
quiz
vspop quiz
128
1.3
A short test with a few questions that students take in class
is given suddenly without warning to check recent lessons
Antonyms
How Unexpected
Surface Forms
pop quiz singular
pop quizzes plural
Morphology
Etymology
The noun pop quiz comes from the image of a small test that suddenly pops up in class — a quick, unexpected quiz. That's why it means 'a short test given without warning'.