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Civics Test
Apparently, our elected officials only scored about 45%-50% on this test. Here's the quiz if you want to take it yourself:
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
Re: Civics Test
29 out of 33 as well.
I can't believe (or sadly, I actually can) that elected officals get around 50%. Thats really sad.
96.97%
I missed the last one.?
26 out of 33 or 78.79%
I thought I would have done better but it says I did beat the average.
Deductive reasoning isn't a conservative or liberal attribute. ~epphd
Damn, Katie. ?Good job.
Overall, I'd say it's safe to say that we on this board kick ass. ?If politicians are scoring 50%, what's the average population scoring? ?I'd hope that politicians are at least a little better than average.?
84.something%
I missed the Gettysburg Address question. Gah I feel stupid.
I was just the opposite! I got all the historical questions right, and the theoretical ones stumped me. I shouldn't be proud of 72%, but for somoene who HATED civics and current events classes in HS, that's not too bad.
I scored a 91% (missed 3,) but I feel like I have an advantage since it was only a year ago that I was in a U.S. Government class, although it was the economics questions that got me too and I just had that class in the Spring!
ETA: Obviously it's been a while since I've had an English class! Please pardon the run-on.
One more thing: I have an issue with one of the economics questions. ?
The one that asks about government spending equalling tax revenue has no correct answer. ?The one they say is correct is that the government debt is zero. ?This is not true. ?There is no government deficit in such a case, but you cannot answer a question as to national debt without knowing about previous years.
?OK, I'm getting off my soapbox now.?
I am laughing at this question:
30) Which of the following fiscal policy combinations would a government most likely follow to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe recession?
I wonder if that one tripped up many of our leaders.
No, the answer they say is correct is:
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person
Not sure if that helps or not
. I only missed 2 (the last one and the Lincoln one for I was between 2 and went with the wrong one).
It was his brilliant court-packing scheme. ?When you disagree with SCOUS, just add justices until you have the majority!?
Somewhere in the back of my mind, there was a political cartoon about court packing from a history book that triggered the right answer to that question.
I got 87.88%, I thought I wasn't doing well on the fiscal questions, but I only got the tax/spending one wrong. I thought a lot of them were kind of subjective though, based on your ideology.