My students all want multiple choice for the midterm on Friday. "Then you got a 1 in 4 chance one said. Another told me he had just taken a 50-question multiple choice test for his ethics class. Ethics. Isn't that unethical?

So, they'll do some ids, they'll write some essays for me. They'll hate it and I'll hate grading it and none of us will be any the wiser for it. Maybe next term will be a multiple choice test. I'm thinking I might abandon the text book and only use Wikipedia for our class. I'm thinking they might read that or at least be happy that they haven't had to buy a textbook. Of course I've got several who haven't bought the textbook in any case.