stupid test questions

Ok, you can't just do something like that. I took a test today for my history class and one of the questions was "To which area was nomadic people important" and then it lists some areas. But for one area they were important because they were the only people living in that area. To another they were important because they caused that area to be destroyed. To another they were important cause they did trade with them, and to the last one they generally just fought them occasionally thus putting hiccups in their history. So my question is, important in what way. You can't just same important cause everything is important to everything else (like the loss of the shoe story where for the loss of the horse shoe, the war was lost). BAH! I hate tests like that, and this entire test was like that. a bunch of really vague answers and questions. What's even worse was that that question was on there twice, word for word. BAH!

I know that teachers look over their tests before they give them to us, and sometimes they even have the TA's look over them, but still, they typically put in things that make perfect sense to them cause they have been teaching it and the TA's have taken the class before so they have heard it all before, not just the part on the test and they have taken the teacher's tests so they have a sense of what the teacher is wanting. Teacher's need to realize this and somehow we need to find a way where they can tell if questions are ambiguous or not. Maybe give out extra credit to people who take it a day early and tell you how fair it is, just SOMETHING. Anyways, I need to go get the rest of my homework done.