In order to determine what my students already knew about the American Civil War, I gave a pretest on Monday. These are the questions and the answers I got:

Who fought in the war?
John F. Kennedy
Pilgrims
George Washington

What were they fighting about?
Independence from British

When was the Civil War?
2005-2009
1400s

Where did the fighting take place?
Asia
Europe

Tomorrow is the post-test. I'm looking forward to some less entertaining answers.