Having been honked at by more than one driver for coming to a complete stop at a stop sign,

Ahhh, Massachusetts, where red lights and stop signs are suggestions, rather than laws.

and flipped off by someone going the wrong way down a one way street, I hold no fondness for MA drivers whatsoever.

A not-so-rare sighting of the MA state bird.

I can't remember if I ever had a European history class, much less what was taught in it.

Sophomore year! Sister Timothy! I remember it well.

I may have learned about Luther in European history, but I remember more from reading the play Luther in a high school English lit class.

Gah, Jesse, that's a total ew. I somehow completely blocked that part out from my memory of the series. Actually, I can't remember much of any of the plots, just the characters: Mona and Ms. Madrigal and Mouse and Mary Ann (I don't think I can ever re-read the last novel because of her).

Damn, but that's a lot of M's.

It was weird to read through it and think about exactly how I came to know the various items.

The quiz punked out for me after question #5, but I was thinking how everything I know about Judaism I learned from the All of a Kind Family books I read as a kid. I knew much more about Purim and the Sabbath than I did about what being Presbyterian was supposed to mean, in fact.

I knew about the Reformation in high school, also about transubstantiation, but mostly through my voracious reading of historical fiction.

In college, I definitely had classes that went into the Ref in depth (studying the Reformation introduced me to the concept of defenestration, a word and concept that tickles me to no end, that we have a specific word that refers to death by tossing one out a window) and then studying medieval lit and history...

Well, I know an awful lot about Catholicism, but my views are pretty damned...uh, medieval. I know tons from Roman times to the 19th century, and then it's all "many nuns took off their habits and no one uses Latin anymore, dammit."

I can thank fiction for my broad general knowledge of world religions, for the most part.

I somehow completely blocked that part out from my memory of the series.

What's funny about that is that it's an amnesia storyline! Good times.

Hrm. Most of what I know of Judaism goes from the OT to the Rennaissance, too, actually.

Are the words "tear" in "I'm gonna tear him a new one" and "A tear slid down his face" pronounced differently?

Yes - the first is "tare" and the second is "teer".

eta: Unless the second sentence is from a horror novel, in which case it may in fact be a "tare" tear.