MBJ,
I do understand that one might like to ID the beacon he is flying at! It is always a good idea, so good that all the charts I use have the dots and dashes cleverly written next to the frequency.
I could spend 20 hours memorizing Morse, but I stand by the observation that it is a WASTE OF TIME and OF NO USE, but otherwise a very piloty thing to do.
Perhaps the fellows who invented the test could have found one or two more important things we need to know, because that's what you taxes go to do - pay them to keep things tidy and proper. The operative thought here is that those pesky examiners work for you.
This is a uniquely American outlook, I admit, made even more bizarre by the belief that we get a say in what they do to us.