Do You Dare Take the Civics Literacy Test?

[PoliticalChic]

I'm evidently the dummy of the group.

You answered 23 out of 33 correctly — 69.70 %

No, it just probably means that you are the youngest and better looking than everyone else.

 

[tigerbob]

No, it just probably means that you are the youngest and better looking than everyone else.

How kind, and how I wish it did.

We didn't have Civics at school in Britain. Now, ask me about The Battle of Hastings, Magna Carta or The Spanish Armada and I could go on for hours.

Still, I've learnt a few things tonight.

 

[Dr Grump]

I got 24/33 - 72%. I can live with that being a dern foreigner and all who knows nothing about the US political system....

 

[Mad Scientist]

Mad Scientist -- You did great. Are you sure about #8A?
The question I thought was the trickiest was the last one, on taxes.

I've been doing a bit of reading on the Great Depression, Hoover and FDR lately. It seems that FDR wanted to replace some of the older justices that had decided that a few of his government programs were unconstitutional and replace them with ones more favorable to his view. He also wanted to increase the number of justices in what was probably the first case of Presidential "Court Packing".
FDR participated in power grabs that even shocked his own supporters. A lot of interesting reading there.

 

[tigerbob]

I got 24/33 - 72%. I can live with that being a dern foreigner and all who knows nothing about the US political system....

Dammit - you won the foreigners contest. Unless of course Diuretic makes a late surge for the line.

 

[jillian]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.4%
Average score since November 20, 2008: 77.4%

 

[Dr Grump]

You got four wrong?? ppffttt

 

[jillian]

You got four wrong?? ppffttt

Three of them were economics questions. pffffffft yourself.

Answers to Your Missed Questions:


Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #29 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

 

[NOBama]

You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.2%
Average score since November 20, 2008: 77.2%
You can take the quiz as often as you like, however, your score will only count once toward the monthly average.
If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.
You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.
Where to from here?


Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #6 - D. establishing an official religion for the United States



Coulda swore I clicked D on #6
D. establishing an official religion for the United States
E. the president from vetoing a line item in a spending bill

 

[Care4all]

You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.1%
Average score since November 20, 2008: 77.1%



Answers to Your Missed Questions:


Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity

 

[Annie]

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.7%
Average score since November 20, 2008: 77.7%

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #15 - E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
Question #31 - A. an increase in a nation’s productivity
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

Me too:

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.1%
Average score since November 20, 2008: 77.1%

 

[Annie]

Well don't tell my students I missed three, I teach civics.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I missed 4. 87.8 percent

 

[Diuretic]

I suspect that those who graduated earlier will do better than recent graduates, based on the deterioration of our eduational system.

After you take it, if you wish I'll tell you my score.

Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.1%
Average score since November 20, 2008: 77.1%

Do I get a Green Card?

 

[Diuretic]

Dammit - you won the foreigners contest. Unless of course Diuretic makes a late surge for the line.

You rang?

Nah just kidding....I still remember some stuff from uni (years ago).

 

[Diuretic]

Sorry, I forgot to add my shame file:

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #11 - A. their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights
Question #12 - B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #26 - C. revenue minus expenses
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

 

[tigerbob]

Sorry, I forgot to add my shame file:

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #11 - A. their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights
Question #12 - B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #26 - C. revenue minus expenses
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

So I'm still in last place. Bollocks!

 

[editec]

Some of the questions have correct answers.

Toward the end, many of the questions do not have correct answers, they have different answers depending on what you believe.

My conclusion?

This test was probably written by right wingers

I got an 88%. I actually got one wrong that I should have gotten right...the cuban missle crises.

However Questions 29, 31 and 33 do not have correct answers, they have answers that are debatable.

So debatable that they didn't actually offer an anwer I could honestly say was definitely right.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Well don't tell my students I missed three, I teach civics.

Do you really? I believe they stopped teaching it around me a long time ago. Don't feel bad, a couple of the questions were tricky and I asking some "experts" to check some of the answers.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Some of the questions have correct answers.

Toward the end, many of the questions do not have correct answers, they have different answers depending on what you believe.

My conclusion?

This test was probably written by right wingers

I got an 88%. I actually got one wrong that I should have gotten right...the cuban missle crises.

However Questions 29, 31 and 33 do not have correct answers, they have answers that are debatable.

So debatable that they didn't actually offer an anwer I could honestly say was definitely right.

I agree with you on #33, but #29 & #31 were pretty decisive.