His first months in office will be a test of him, of mayoral government and, indeed, of London itself.
On seeing the play, film producer David O. Selznick offered Kelly a Hollywood contract, and Kelly accepted, doing so because Selznick did not require a screen test of him.
It is a test of herself as much as a test of him.
His arms also looked flimsy when they did a test of him waving.
"And with his blood pressure up, they ran all kinds of tests on him, but he's fine.
Somehow, they will need to get three Tests out of him.
In the past Morgan and Bopara have been bought up by the Indian Premier League (though in 2011 Bopara confusingly declined the IPL yet Morgan, who did not, was picked for the Tests instead of him); in 2014 Buttler is surely attracting interest in India with the speed and power of his striking.
As he prepares for his biggest moment in football, Shaw reveals he will return home later in the summer with two of life's toughest tests ahead of him - learning to drive and living on his own for the first time.
Hewitt will have a test ahead of him, though not the expected one.
But even without a test ahead of him, his wife, Susan, said, his idea of pleasure reading was an abstruse volume about confined rescue or some other technical aspect of firefighting.
