That's true -- there are tests of brute strength, for instance, and there are also vocabulary tests. But the kinds of tests life throws at you aren't often so

That's true -- there are tests of brute strength, for instance, and there are also vocabulary tests. But the kinds of tests life throws at you aren't often so narrow -- they're more general tests. Once in a while you'll be faced with an immediate test of whether you can lift a heavy car off a human being in the next five minutes because there has been an accident and someone is pinned under a car, but the generalized form is "can you move a heavy object", for which the answer is something along the lines of "invent a crane".