The teacher then said, "Now fold the paper in half, and in half again, then in quarters, and throw it in the wastepaper basket." Tom could not believe her words. Why did she trick them into believing that they were going to have a test? The she said, "Now you know what stress is!" Realizing what had happened and relieved as he threw the paper away, Tom sank into his seat, exhausted!

This line really got me laughing out loud. 😂
It reminds me of those days back in school when a stubborn teach wants to put up a general punishment, will ask everyone to tear out a sheet of paper for test, which gets us all into reading, cracking our brains and getting set for a test but in the later end will ask everyone to fold and throw the papers into trash cans, that it was just to make us read our notes.