A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

I’m curious if anyone has the solutions to these.

The point is that the questions are phrased ambiguously such that a reviewer can credibly claim that a "correct" solution is wrong.

Take question 20:

> Spell backwards, forwards

Is "backwards" the object, with "forwards" describing how to spell it — as in, "Spell the word 'backwards', forwards"?

Or is it being used as an adverb, telling you how to spell the word "forwards" — as in, "Spell backwards the word 'forwards'"?

Wow, I hadn't even thought of that for that question. Disgustingly genius. The person administering the test can simply tell the person who took the test the opposite interpretation of however they answered, and that's it for their ability to vote.

A prime example of why "unionization" is good: You only need two people to do this differently and be told the opposite by the administrator (preferably the same one but not necessarily) and you've proved that it's BS.

That's all theory of course and in practice I bet people did talk about this afterwards and figured out it's BS and it didn't help either way. But it's easy to "find out" (and then try to do something about it) if you stick together. But if nobody sticks together on it and tries to do better for themselves by themselves, everyone does worse for themselves in the end.

> But it's easy to "find out" (and then try to do something about it) if you stick together.

You're kind of describing the civil rights movement.