Civics Quiz

[Mill]

Are you like most Americans?

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

 

[theflyingpig]

I am indeed like most Americans.

 

[mugs]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

Average score for this quiz during December: 74.8%
Average score: 74.8%

I struggled with a few of them

 

[theflyingpig]

I googled with a few of them

oh

 

[FoBoT]

some of those were very hard, some very easy

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #11 - A. their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights
Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason

 

[Farang]

Missed 7 and 33

 

[mugs]

oh

Why would I waste my time googling when I could just lie about my score if I wanted to?

I did neither. I'm sorry that you're uneducated.

 

[Train]

I don't know shit about Civics, and I don't really care to either.

Fuck Hondas

 

[SirStev0]

Only missed 3. And they were only in the last few, which were, in my opinion, more opinion questions.

For instance: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:

I destroyed the history type questions.

 

[edro]

72%

 

[n yusef]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

Average score for this quiz during December: 74.8%
Average score: 74.8%

I'm surprised they included the macroeconomics questions 30 and 31; the current political climate should tell us that there isn't consensus on their answers.

 

[thecrecarc]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

Some of them were indeed more opinion type questions. A few questions were quite hard.

Also: Who were our enemies in WW2? Who the hell doesn't know that!

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html That is quite sad.

 

[NesuD]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Answers to Your Missed Questions:


Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #10 - C. Religion
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

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[PepePeru]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

missed:

Question #4
Question #7
Question #8
Question #11
Question #13
Question #25

 

[PepePeru]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

missed:

Question #4
Question #7
Question #8
Question #11
Question #13
Question #25

 

[MotF Bane]

Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #12 - B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #15 - E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending

 

[cpacini]

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity

 

[darkxshade]

Anyone else notice that the question to #8 pretty much gave away the answer to question #2?

 

[SpunkyJones]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %
Average score for this quiz during December: 74.8%
Average score: 74.8%


Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #6 - D. establishing an official religion for the United States
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #10 - C. Religion
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #25 - B. individual citizens create, exchange, and control goods and resources
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

 

[RESmonkey]

way too many questions, but easy. anyone born in the US / anyone who attended US public schools should get most of them.

 

[DrPizza]

I missed #8 and #14
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Having read a few threads in P&N, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people missed #30, which is a pretty basic macroeconomics question.

 

[El Guaraguao]

DNF due to tl;dr.

 

[SSSnail]

In true patriotic American sense, I didn't finish the test due to laziness.

 

[pray4mojo]

In true patriotic American sense, I didn't finish the test due to laziness.

i got to question 13 and stopped after i saw there were 33

 

[datalink7]

27/33 for 81%.

Above the average but still pretty bad (IMO). Still, I should have had 30/33 but I second guessed myself on three of them after I already had the right answer down.