How about a civics quiz?

[Rick Lee]

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

Be honest with your score. Here's mine on the first try.

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1%
Average score: 78.1%

[sammyg2]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1%
Average score: 78.1%

[on2wheels52]

29/87%. Four guesses = four wrong.
Jim

[Amail]

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1%
Average score: 78.1%

Answers to Your Missed Questions:


Question #6 - D. establishing an official religion for the United States
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #10 - C. Religion
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
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 #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
Question #31 - A. an increase in a nation’s productivity

[SLO-BOB]

The test is bull ****. I stopped once I got to this question -

13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
A. all moral and political truth is relative to one’s time and place
B. moral ideas are best explained as material accidents or byproducts of evolution
C. values originating in one’s conscience cannot be judged by others
D. Christianity is the only true religion and should rule the state
E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason

Whether one knows the answer or not is totally irrelevant to a test entitled - "Civics Quiz". It's a very poor attempt at "proving" that Joe average doesn't know jack about being an American. Joe Average may know a whole lot about American history but nothing at all about Greek philosophy.

[SLO-BOB]

Originally Posted by Amail

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

The other one that made go "Hmmmmmm - wtf does that have to do with this?"

[fxeditor]

32 out of 33. I missed the Plato question!

[TheMentat]

ou answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1%
Average score: 78.1%

I suspect that is a lot higher than my national average...

[RWebb]

tied ya Rick

they have others for past years -- use the tabs

[Shaun @ Tru6]

100% but I totally guessed on 3 of them.

[RPKESQ]

100%.

The questions concerning Plato and the Puritans are very important. Without understanding those two areas of interest, one cannot understand the reasoning behind many of the Founding Fathers tenets and decisions.

[Rick Lee]

The Plato question I first learned about in college political theory class.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1%
Average score: 78.1%

You can take the quiz as often as you like, however, your score will only count once toward the monthly average.

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Hmm. Not as good as I thought, but okay I guess.

[Rick Lee]

Sure would be nice if politicians had to get a passing score on such a test in order to file candidacy papers.

[Dottore]

I wonder how W would do on this quiz?

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Dottore

I wonder how W would do on this quiz?

Well, he got better grades than John Kerry at Yale. I did ok and didn't go to nearly as good a school.

[Icemaster]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %



Remembered more than I thought I would.

[David]

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1%
Average score: 78.1%

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #1 - E. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #10 - C. Religion
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #15 - E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
Question #18 - A. guarantee women the right to vote in national elections

I guess I shouldn't have slept through class (I really feel bad about the 1st question since it's a gimme.)

Seems like a good test since they have some good wrong answers.

[SLO-BOB]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

The Plato question I first learned about in college political theory class.

Great. And I could recite the periodic table of elements as a high school senior - just as relevant. Philosophy as prescribed by Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates can apply to civics just as mathematical theory can, but it isn't necessarily a part of it, nor is it indicitive of an individuals civic knowledge. Don't even get me started on Aquinas. I just don't see the relevance, nor do I see having a knowledge of Puritan tenets as applicable.

Maybe I'm just mad because I was on my way to a 50%.

[Icemaster]

So we're all just good a regurgitating facts. And this applies how?