Often students do not realize that the teacher is attempting to teach aspects of the second-language culture. One of the principal reasons for this lack of awareness is that culture is usually not a fundamental component of the class content. The teacher may attend to culture by inserting ideas as they occur to him during the class period and subsequently fail to check student comprehension or recall of these points on the test. If culture is to be an important goal in the second-language class, it must be taught and tested systematically. Currently, the most practical approach to testing culture is to test the facts.