Yes but those have fallen out of fashion because students don't like high-stakes objective hard-to-cheat tests. (And there is some argument against a brief time

Yes but those have fallen out of fashion because students don't like high-stakes objective hard-to-cheat tests. (And there is some argument against a brief timed written test as an assessment for a whole semester. A friendly but rigorous oral exam would be better. Also, you can cheat a blue book test by hiring a stand-in. There's a story about Ted Kennedy being caught at a pub by his TA, at a time when he was supposedly taking a final exam at Harvard.