Test Your Memory

Welcome to the short term memory test! Read the short story below. When you're done, click 'Start Test'. The test which follows consists of questions about the story you've read.



Doug promised he'd do Sally's shopping this weekend. She knew it was a risk (Doug is pretty forgetful), but she made sure to tell him about the teeth-whitening toothpaste he needed to buy, as well as all the standard groceries and other stuff. Two bags of oranges - they're "buy one get one free", so a real bargain - and a bag of apples; but pick them by hand. Don't get the pre-packaged ones. Broccoli too; make sure it's loose - the wrapped-up florets are four times as expensive. It's crazy.

Not to mention the bread. Well okay, let's mention the bread. Not very exciting; pretty hard to get wrong, you'd have thought. And yet Doug did, three times. Quite a skill, Sally thought. Last week, he'd got the thick stuff, not the thin, and the week before that it had been white, not brown - just not the same. And no French bread at all; what was that all about? Apparently a ciabatta looked just as good. But it's not, is it? One's long and pointy; the other one, well, just isn't.

Three cases of milk, four bottles each, and two orange juices and an apple juice; one-liter cartons for those. Plus don't forget the newspaper on the way in - they didn't have any left at the corner store this morning - and if the coffee is still fifty percent off, then make sure you get two or three of those; no, make it four, I think. And tea. Can't go without tea. Get the little teabags with the strings to pull all the drips out; they're my favourite. They're in packs of eighty, so get two or three of them to last a month.

That should do. Oh yes - and some shampoo (not the green stuff; I didn't like that), some conditioner (as long as it claims to be natural) and the spray deodorant I like with the letter H on the blue bottle. Not the purple. Although the green might do. One of those two, anyway. And that's it!. Well, except for the two C batteries and the forty-watt light bulbs.