FIGURE 67 APL - Test Items ITEM 42: Examiner says, as respondents reads along: "Two Ton Tony" stopped in at the Palace Bar and Grill after work. He drank six 8-ounce glasses of beer and three 1 1/2-ounce shots of 100 proof whiskey. He also ate a box of pretzels (50 sticks). How many calories did Tony take in at the Palace?" (Correct response: 1,175) Number of Calories Pancakes (griddle cakes): Wheat (home recipe) 1 cake, 4 in. in diameter Buckwheat (with buckwheat pancake mix) 1 cake, 4 in. in diameter 55 Pizza (cheese) 5 1/2 inch sector, 1/3 of a 14 - inch pie 185 Pretzels 5 small sticks 20 Rye wafers 2 wafers, 1 7/8 by 3 1/2 45 Carbonated beverages: Ginger ale Cola-type 8 ounce glass 8 ounce glass 70 95 Alcoholic beverages: Beer, 3.6 percent alcohol by weight Whiskey, gin, rum: 100 -proof 90 - proof 86 - proof 8 ounce glass 1 jigger( 1 1/2 ounces) 1 jigger( 1 1/2 ounces) 1 jigger( 1 1/2 ounces) 100 125 110 105 Years of Education National 8 years less than High School Some College Average or less 12 years Graduate College Graduate Percent Correct: 56 25 44 59 72 79 Source: "The Adult Performance Level Study: A report submitted to the Office of Education Dissemination Review Panel." Undated but labelled in handwriting "O.K. 3/25/75."

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