Good point. Yup there are book tests and hands on tests. Let me clarify a bit. I was intending to establish a baseline of knowledge with a book test. Yes "how to build a fire" could be tested with a hands on demonstration. Need a place, resources, and time. Not to say also a "teacher or monitor". I am thinking something someone could spend a bit of time taking, maybe even just printing off from this forum and end up realizing "hey I have a good bit of knowledge, or heck I'm gonna die" at the end. If I was gonna take several survival classes and spend hundreds of dollars on training I would skip this idea. So keep it simple would be my guiding principle. A range of low level questions (who, what, where, when)and some higher level ones would be ok also (analysis, why, best approach). From my old teaching days here is a good order of questions for testing...

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