I would expect an eighth grader to ace a test of this variety.
We expect too little of people. The bar is too low.
We expect too little of people. The bar is too low.
Disuse is not incompetence.
Now, they could make every history/language/music teacher try to relearn all these things in order to pass the test and forget it all again, but it's hard to believe it's not a big waste of everyone's time and energy.
Perhaps we expect too little of people, but there's nothing wrong with specialization.