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The Exam

He wanted it to be different. He wanted his students to not be able to make excuses about the type of exam. It should have been a bit of everything: multiple choice questions, essays, math problems… It took him hours to think up, design and write. Ten thousand feet over the Atlantic he thought he had created the best economics exam ever to be. Then, the plane started to lose altitude. The soon to be dead thought about their loved ones, about their past life and unfulfilled dreams. But he, in his last moments, only lamented not being able to give out that wonderful exam.

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