literacy test

noun

an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.

First recorded in 1865–70

It would seem that the literacy test has been applied to ghosts in recent fiction.

But for this, she would have grown up too ignorant to pass the very simplest literacy test.

That the literacy test be not applied to the wives of immigrants.

Many scientific endeavors of our time would not have started if potential success were to be put to a literacy test.

The literacy test was inserted by the House but was rejected by the Senate.

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