Thread: Take The American Civics Quiz!

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%

You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.8%
Average score: 77.8%

I still know more than my Senators!

Originally Posted by chloe24

What questions did you get wrong? (Just post the numbers)
Mine were:
Question#14
Question #29
Question #31
Question #33

The ones I missed were:

#14
#27
#28
#30

A couple of these I should have gotten right too. On #14 and #28 especially. I did have the right answers at first, but changed them at the last second, I should have kept my original choices.

How can so many politicians get such low scores. To tell the truth, only a few questions are really that hard. They should have a selection for box for Obama voters, I bet they would score in the negative range.

I just quickly skimmed the questions and popped in the answer and I did this well:

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

Imagine if I had taken my time................

So does this make us sharper than the average "intellectual"?

And I didn't even really try!

Originally Posted by chloe24

Originally Posted by tiredofapathy

OMG!

I emailed the link to the test to several of my local government officials...I'm betting I won't be getting a report on how they scored (if they even bother to test)!

That's waay too funny! But the following is not funny at all! This is another reason why Americans are being royally screwed:

In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:

* Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.

* Thirty percent do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessâ€

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

Originally Posted by chloe24

Originally Posted by tiredofapathy

OMG!

I emailed the link to the test to several of my local government officials...I'm betting I won't be getting a report on how they scored (if they even bother to test)!

That's waay too funny! But the following is not funny at all! This is another reason why Americans are being royally screwed:

In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:

* Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.

* Thirty percent do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessâ€

Originally Posted by reptile09

Originally Posted by chloe24

What questions did you get wrong? (Just post the numbers)
Mine were:
Question#14
Question #29
Question #31
Question #33

The ones I missed were:

#14
#27
#28
#30

A couple of these I should have gotten right too. On #14 and #28 especially. I did have the right answers at first, but changed them at the last second, I should have kept my original choices.

That's what happened to me too. I did however, surprise myself with some of the economic questions. I did pretty good in that area. I guess I picked a few things up following Ron Paul!

Thanks for the updated info. The old legal dictionary I had that was dated from around 1902 or something like that had different definitions for each word.

But the history behind it is interesting. I made mention of it from the info I had aquired from history, and the accepted quillpen version I have a reproduction of.

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

I just quickly skimmed the questions and popped in the answer and I did this well:

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

Imagine if I had taken my time................

So does this make us sharper than the average "intellectual"?

And I didn't even really try!

I was playing with my dog and talking with my wife when I took it. I don't think I read half of it.

My results:

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%

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 #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #12 - B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends

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Question #4 I just didn't know, although I did remember that Lincoln and Douglas had debated SOMETHING (just didn't know specifically what)

Question #12 I wanted to pick this one, but then I second-guessed myself because it seemed too obvious, so I picked the next answer about notifying parents and such. Oops!

Question #27 I was torn between picking A and C...I think C might ALSO be correct, in terms of free enterprise rewarding and therefore motivating hard work which arguably could result in more overall revenue, which would then allow for greater tax revenue. *shrug*

Thanks for posting this quiz...it was interesting!