Patent Document ID: 5407357
Application ID: 08085414

Base Claim:
1. An electronic testing device for use in conjunction with a plurality of different educational books, each book consisting of only a front cover, a back cover, and a plurality of bound pages having at least one quiz with a plurality of questions for testing the reading comprehension of a user, the device comprising: a housing; means on the housing for removable attachment to a back cover of any one of the books; and means for designating a..specific book, the housing including an output section comprising a display means for designating a particular book out of the plurality of books, a particular quiz out of a plurality of quizzes and questions of the particular quiz to be answered by the user and an audible means for producing audible tones indicating the correctness of answers selected by the user in response to the designated questions; an input section comprising a key pad having a plurality of alphabetic and numeric keys for entry of the selected answers to the testing device; and a logic section comprising a microprocessor, a first memory means and a second memory means, the microprocessor comprising at least a first programming mode of operation for storing in the first memory means a plurality of book designators identifying each of the plurality of educational books, a plurality of quiz codes identifying each of the plurality of quizzes and a plurality of correct answers corresponding to questions of the plurality of quizzes and a second testing mode of operation for storing in the second memory means the selected answers input by the user in response to the questions of the particular quiz and for comparing the selected answers with the correct answers of the particular quiz stored in the first memory means wherein the display means for the output section comprises a plurality of LED lights disposed vertically on a front panel of the housing corresponding to the designated questions similarly disposed on a page of the particular book comprising the particular quiz.

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Claim 12:
12. The testing device of claim 1 further including a code printed in the book corresponding to the quiz and means for converting the key pad to initially enter the code prior to the enabling of the key pad to enter the user's selected answers.