Bildung der Deutschen: Teil A

Knowledge test in the areas knowledge of German, religion, sports,politics, history, law, science and music. Topics: knowledge ofselected personalities from politics, sport and science; knowledge ofinventors; knowledge of selected terms; legal knowledge about salescontracts with door-to-door purchases; knowledge about the right toasylum; knowledge about the right to refuse to testify; knowledge aboutthe right to vote and freedom of religion; knowledge of the age ofmajority; questions on right of ownership; knowledge of chemicalformulas and the composition of the air; knowledge of the mass unitsfor weight, electric power and volume; knowledge of the speed of light;historical knowledge; knowledge of the significance of historicaldates; spelling knowledge; knowledge of syllabification; biologicalknowledge; knowledge of legal questions on abortion; frequency ofattending sporting events and cultural events; frequency of use ofcalculator, computer, video recorder, CD player, reference works,telephone and bicycle; assignment of soccer clubs to the 1st nationalleague and soccer players to their clubs; knowledge of sports data;knowledge of a foreign language and age at starting to learn French orRussian; knowledge of the seat of the European Parliament; partyaffiliation of selected prime ministers; knowledge of the TenCommandments and the wording of the Lord´s Prayer; knowledge of termsand names from the Bible; assignment of classical works as well asworks of Rock and Pop music to their composers or performers.Religiousness; occupational use of calculators, computers and foreignlanguages; frequency of reading books; interest in politics;self-classification on a left-right continuum; party preference;watching television in hours; specific choice of programs or zapping;possession of durable economic goods including bicycle, musicinstrument, Duden, lexicon, Bible and telephone; frequency of writingpersonal letters; difficulties with filling out forms; estimated numberof books possessed in household; problem-solving ability of science;importance of all-round education.