Inspirational quote: Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.

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Dr Kozak must have overused the word easy because as soon as Kieran saw the first page of the test when the test began, it really wasn't.

Well, it wasn't really the first page. It was mainly some predominant facts about the test. Kieran read it thoroughly and carefully.

This test has been written by me, aka Doctor Demetrius Kozahkistan aka Dr Kozak in the year 2001, so as you can tell, it's been going on for generations and generations now.

This test does not stay the same. It changes every year. Like you would expect, it gets harder every year as well.

Calculators are not to be used whatsoever. I don't care how hard the questions are, you cannot freaking use a calculator!

Plus I've located CCTV cameras everywhere so you couldn't even cheat even if you really wanted to.

Then somewhere in very tiny handwriting were the words:

200 questions.
360 marks.
3 hours to complete the test (3.75 hours for those with dyslexia and therefore need some extra time... if they want it).

Then after that..

Good luck!
Hope you do well.
Really hope you ace this test I wrote myself.

Then underneath that...
Usually I'm a very sarcastic person but I genuinely mean this.

-Dr Kozak.
PS: after you've finished reading this, which you should have read by now because this is important, you may start the test.

And because Kieran had finished reading the first page, he immediately began the test.

First four questions, first page.

1.) Why did Natalie throw butter out of the window?

2.) What did the pirate say on his eightieth birthday?

3.) What does a nosy pepper do?

4.) What is the longest word in the English language? (This is not a trick question. Honestly. Read the top of the section first).

Oh and please write in full sentences.

Kieran wanted to pass out.

Seriously?

Riddles?

What kind of test was this?

Then Kieran noticed the section at the top of the page.

Section 1: Jokes And Riddles.

Riddles didn't seem so bad after a while, at least when Kieran later found out what the other sixteen sections included.

Quietly, he flicked through his test, through each and every section, wanting to kill himself more and more every time.

Section 2: English.

Section 3: Geography.

Section 4: History.

Section 5: Maths.

Section 6: Further Maths.

Section 7: Even Further Maths.

Section 8: Even More Further Maths Than Last Time.

Section 9: Further Maths So Far, That If It Was A Person And It Was Running, You Still Wouldn't Be Able To Catch Up With It.

Kieran couldn't go beyond section nine.
It was by far too much.

"You've got to be kidding me," he muttered to himself again, going back to the first section.

All of a sudden, the answers to the first four questions of the test came flooding back to him, so as neatly as he could, which wasn't very difficult anyway as he had super neat handwriting, Kieran answered three out of four of the questions in full sentences.

1) Natalie threw butter out of the window because she wanted to see a butter... fly.

2.) On the Pirate's 80th birthday, the pirate said "aye matey".

3.) A nosy pepper gets jalapeño business.

And well... Kieran was extremely stuck on number four.

What is the longest word in the English Language?

Longest word...

English language....

Apparently, the longest word in the English language was over 100,000 words. Kieran knew what it was, and how to spell it (not fully of course) but he didn't write anything just yet.

He then looked at the phrase in parenthesis after the question.

This is not a trick question. Honestly. Read the top of the section first.

And so Kieran did, Section 1: Jokes And Riddles.

He kept thinking about the longest word in the English language for a long time, when the answer was really right under his nose.

4) The longest word in the English language is smiles, because there is a mile between the first and last letter of the word.

Why it took Kieran almost twenty minutes to answer that, Kieran didn't really know, and would probably never find out either.

Section two and section three were effortless for Kieran, after all, geography and history were his strong points.

So was English. And he didn't even guess any of the answers, he genuinely knew all of them.

Maths was simple too, Kieran was in the smartest set at school, set one out of seven, so he kind of whizzed through maths as well.

And further maths, Kieran dealt with further maths every single day, when his step father used to help him with finance questions and all that.

Well... before he died anyway.

Although the trouble came at section seven: Even Further Maths.

Why?
Because Kieran came across this random and freaky question.

88) Draw me a rhombicosidodecahedron. (Real shape! I'm not making this up! Honestly!)

Kieran's smile fell at that.

Like, what the hell was a rhombicosidodecahedron?

Then he read the hint underneath it that Dr Kozak had "written" (typed), in a very small font again.

Suppose this hint wasn't here... You'd probably be stuck on this question right now, which you probably are anyway since I know you're reading this.

A rhombicosidodecahedron is an Archimedean solid.

That hint didn't really help Kieran at all.

Like, what the hell was an Archimedean solid?

Kieran had to skip that question, although the next one wasn't any better.

The next question was all to do with trigonometry. In fact not just trigonometry, some weird surds question, algebra, fractions, and other numbers that probably weren't ever going to exist for about two decades or twenty years.

And the worst part about it?

Kieran couldn't freaking use a calculator!

How was this even possible? Kieran ended up skipping most questions in the test and coming back to them later.

In the end, he just ended up having to guess all of them because he never knew, he could have gotten a mark out of an estimated guess.

It was a bit ironic really, the test was called the test of justice and there was absolutely nothing in the test that was reasonable or fair in any way possible whatsoever.

The easiest question overall in the test was what's the square root of 676, which Kieran had forgotten after a while, then remembered that it was 26.

He was on question 197 with about twenty minutes to spare (including his extra time as well) but he didn't know the last three answers to the last three questions.

He then went back to question number 88, the dreadful 'draw me a rhombicosidodecahedron' question, and Kieran just had to guess that one.

He was halfway through drawing a three dimensional football, because he really didn't know what the flip a rhombicosidodecahedron was, where he dropped his pencil.

He was about to pick it up behind him but unfortunately for Kieran, the person behind him beat him to it and picked up his pencil first.

"Hey, I'm really sorry, but that's my pencil, and besides, you-" Kieran was about to finish his sentence until he turned around fully, and when he saw and realised who he was talking to, he froze.

"Adam?"

What was Kieran's cousin doing here? In all seriousness, Kieran thought that he was going to be the only person here from his school that Dr Kozak knew.

Even if the doctor did mention that he knew a lot of people from Kieran's school. Which Kieran forgot about.

"Kieran?" Adam whispered, continuously blinking at him, chewing on Kieran's pencil.

Kieran just watched him chew it malevolently. Neither of them were even bothered on asking each other what the heck both of them were currently doing here.

"Oh, I'm sorry, was this your pencil?" Adam sneered, chewing on it even more.

".... Yeah, but you can have it now," Kieran said, gagging and turning back.

He then sighed in frustration, looking at his half drawn "rhombicosidodecahedron", whatever the heck that was, then got out another pencil.

Within seconds, it became blunt.
Kieran said something rude in Swahili to himself before looking for his sharpener in his clear plastic pencil case.

That broke very quickly.

Kieran was even more worked up than before because he technically had no drawing supplies next, he couldn't have possibly drawn in purple pen could he?

Plus what if he had made a mistake? Kieran didn't even bother taking a trip down that road.

Before even really noticing it, Kieran fell asleep. He had been sitting here for almost four hours, dying of dehydration, hallucinating about the test, all the questions coming right at him.

Soon after, Kieran was back in the nineteen fifties and the song Uptown Funk came up.

Kieran didn't even know if he was dreaming or not, but it was like that musical Grease, because now he was wearing different clothes and doing some sort of crazy dance.

Okay.
This was a dream.

The lyrics of Uptown Funk kept on playing continuously in Kieran's head up until the point where he became so fully agitated over it.

Kieran's dream got even crazier after that, because for some reason, there was a gigantic elephant in the classroom, and within a second, Kieran was back to his past playing Spider Mania 2 again.

He was dreaming unorthodox hallucinations like this for a very long time, that was until someone woke him up...

Someone starting with Demetrius.
And ending in Kozahkistan.

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Moral of chapter: The Test Of Justice sucks XD