A test that only people with innate literacy pass successfully

The ability to write and speak competently in their native language is an indicator of culture and the ability to beautifully express their thoughts. Keeping it high requires constant effort, and today’s literacy test will show where to direct it.



According to the results of a sociological survey by VTSIOM (2018), only 12% of respondents appreciate their knowledge of the Russian language. And if you correctly answer at least 10 of the 12 questions, you can safely consider yourself in their society.

Literacy test
  1. According to what or according to what?
    (a) According to what.
    (b) According to what.


  2. Treaties or treaties?


  3. Ultrasound ... to improve diagnostic capabilities.
    (a) Used.
    (b) Used.
    c) Used.


  4. Socks or socks, stockings or stockings?
    a) Socks and stockings
    (b) Sock and stockings


  5. Shoes, slippers, sneakers, sneakers are the plural. What about the one? Choose the correct option (according to the materials of the channel “Literacy (Russian)”)
    (a) Shoe, slipper, sneaker, sneaker
    (b) Shoe, slipper, sneaker, sneaker
    c) Shoe, slipper, sneaker, sneaker
    d) Shoe, slipper, sneaker, sneaker


  6. In the pool should ... swim cap.
    (a) Dress
    (b) Put on


  7. It requires your... under the document.
    (a) Signed
    (b) Painting


  8. In the preparation of a popular salad of boiled vegetables has its difficulties. But there is even more difficulty in writing its name. How is that right?
    (a) venigret
    (b) venegret
    (c) Vinaigrette
    (g) Winigret


  9. Fireman or fireman?


  10. Wednesdays or Wednesdays?
  11. There are no more than... rubles left.
    (a) Five
    (b) Five hundred


  12. ... Sochi is waiting for tourists.
    (a) solar
    (b) sunny




Correct answers
  1. I agree. why.
  2. Treatyyou.
  3. Ultrasound - ultrasound (it), so "used".
  4. Socks and stockings will be correct. Remember the spelling will help mnemonic rule: “Socks are short, and the ending has a long one.”socks). The stockings are long and the ending is short.stocking)
  5. We all remember the famous saying, “Whose shoe?” - Mine? It sounds strange, but we write and say this: shoe, slipper, sneaker, sneaker.
  6. The words “dress” and “wear” are cognate, but differ in their lexical meaning. To remember the differences in use will help mnemonic rule: "Dress Hope, put on clothes." Therefore, the hat, of course, should put on.
  7. According to the norms of the Russian language, you need to write signature. Although the Labor Code for some reason it is proposed to acquaint employees with documents under the painting.
  8. vinaigrette (from French vinaigre, vinegar).
  9. "Firefighter“This is a neutral version, fixed in dictionaries.” The word “firefighter” in the dictionary of D. N. Ushakov has the meaning “member of voluntary fire brigades”.
  10. WednesdayAndm.
  11. In the genitive case, numerals from 200 to 900 end in "-hundred". Therefore, onlyfive?
  12. The definition of the kind of non-declining nouns causes certain difficulties. Most of them are of medium kind: coat, subway. But there are also those who fall out of the common. For example, the designation of geographical objects. Here the genus depends on what object the word calls. Sochi is a city, it means a male race.



We hope you have had no trouble taking our literacy test. And if you have difficulties in writing some words, then you need to remember them so that you never blush, making an elementary mistake.