In high school, we had a literature class where there was a list of a couple hundred books we could choose from to read each month. At the end of the month, the teacher had a canned test she had purchased somewhere for each book, that we would take to prove our comprehension. For those of you who haven't read Martian Chronicles, it's a series of around 30 stories with mostly independent characters and story lines.
The test I was given was a "match the character to their description" test. Not only am I normally bad with names, but with 30 stories featuring unique charters, I had no idea on a majority of the names.
So, I flipped over the multiple choice test, and wrote an essay about how I read, comprehended, and loved the book,but this was an outrageous assessment, and a poor way to judge my aptitude.
Although I scored less than 30/100 on the multiple choice, the teacher gave me an A on the test.
I learned to think outside the box, and the power of reasoning and discussion. All the credit in the world to my teacher for having an open mind.
...Anyways, totally off topic, but it's something that will always stick with me. Bradbury was a great author who will be sorely missed.