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No, it was specifically about the guts to put your own safety on the line to finish the mission. The smart thing would be to retreat to fight another day, but that isn't the way of the Shinobi. The test was split in two, the first was to test each person's ability to spy and gather intel without...

That is irrelevant in the context of the test. The test wasn't one of intellect, but one of comrade and guts. A shinobi shouldn't put their own life ahead of others and the mission. That was the purpose of the test and those that didn't put themselves ahead of the mission and had the guts to...

As did several others, in-fact everyone who didn't leave during Phase 1 passed the written exam. I think you should take it within context of the story. It was less that Sasuke is smarter than Orochimaru and more so that Orochimaru thought Sasuke was just a dumb kid like everyone else. He...