Name:   Culturescope: The Princeton Review Guide to an Informed Mind
Author(s)
 
 
Kensler, C.
Topics
 
 
Workbook, Games & Puzzles
Source
 
 
Random House ISBN: 0679753672
Copyright
 
 
1995
Description
 
 

This book contains an overview of some basic high school level information with quizzes for each of many topics, as well as an overall test with scores broken out similar to the SAT. In the margins are recommendations of various books and movies related to the topic being covered.

From Amazon: "The book covers a range of subjects, and is filled with challenging quizzes, surprising statistics, and cross-references. Includes multimedia sources, reading lists, TV/movie/video recommendations, and software information. 16-page 4-color insert; 2-color illustrations."
Average Rating
 
 
Last Updated
 
 
6/7/2005
 
Comments

Contributed by: Parent of Young Scholar  
Rating:
I used this book at first because it just seemed like fun. I was shocked, however, when without having read any of the chapters yet, our son took "The Culturescope Quiz" at age 7 (93 questions) and scored better than most high school seniors (and he hasn't had exposure to many of the movies and books mentioned in the test, as compared to someone years older, and so should have been at a disadvantage taking this quiz). This book can be a wake-up call for parents of some PG kids. It's also just fun as you can just do a few questions a day and skip around as you please.
 
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