Civics Quiz

[axiomata]

Please take this quiz and report your rounded percentage score. (No googling ;))

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

You can also talk about the questions you missed.

I hope I set up the distribution OK. It is a pretty hard test but I have confidence in Ron Paul people.

[QWE]

I answered this on another forum recently: You answered 53 out of 60 correctly — 88.33 %

The only part I'm not good at is history. My high school history class was pretty bad - I had to correct my teacher on constitutional stuff all the time.

[gornandez@yahoo.com]

You answered 44 out of 60 correctly — 73.33 %
meh..

[axiomata]

You answered 44 out of 60 correctly — 73.33 %
meh..
That's better than the average Harvard graduate. Not a "meh". There's some interesting/sad stats with the results.

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/report/tables.html

[Mordechai Vanunu]

43/60

[USPatriot36]

You answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %

[KingTheoden]

You answered 58 out of 60 correctly — 96.67 %
Average score for this quiz during October: 70.4%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 70.4%

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 freshmen and seniors scored on each question as part of the survey administration.

Where to from here?
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #15 - B. The Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade.
Question #50 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends.

Well, I messed up the abortion question because I hit the wrong radio button (I am quite aware that Roe made restricts on abortion past the first trimester illegal!). #50 was odd, quite difficult.

[10thAmendmentMan]

I got the philosopher king one wrong and I selected the wrong button on one of the economics questions. The college kids that are scoring 20% on this should just be deported.

(If we were to have a Ron Paul version of Fred Thompson Forum, I'd have them sent to Gitmo for re-education).

[axiomata]

bump for more respondents

[Kregener]

Got to questions #3 and stopped.

Test flawed TO THE EXTREME.

Sorry.

[Qiu]

Are the university results accurate? I'm a public high school senior and I got two letter grades above the average Harvard senior? It seems a bit unbelievable since I've got no shot at getting into those colleges.

[paulitics]

75% i can't believe I got social security wrong and put military instead.

[Qiu]

Out of college seniors,

44.39% knew the CENTURY that Jamestown was founded in

47.11% knew about the Gulf of Tonkin

40.12% knew of Saddam's Baath Party

43.76% knew what Federalism was

and no wonder we get into needless wars- 19.34% knew what the just war theory was

[paulitics]

This test was somewhat difficult for anyone not currently studying history, or enjoy reading history or political science. The college test scores are totally believable. The average Ron Paul supporter is probably in the 90th percentile for knowledge in these subjects.

[stevedasbach]

55/60. Missed #1,11,31,58,60.

I hate to think how the students at my high school would score.

[Original_Intent]

You answered 49 out of 60 correctly — 81.67 %
Average score for this quiz during October: 70.4%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 70.4%

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

I agree, question #3 did not have a correct answer listed.

Of the 11 I missed, on 8 of them the correct answer was my strong second guess.

[brandon]

75% i can't believe I got social security wrong and put military instead.

I think they may be considering the projected social security spending, not the amount already spent. The wording of that question was really terrible.

Iagree with whoever said this is a flawed quiz

[inibo]

Civics Quiz

You answered 53 out of 60 correctly — 88.33 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 73.9%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 73.9%

I took this quiz about a week ago when someone mentioned it on Reason's Hit & Run Blog. The entire thread there (http://www.reason.com/blog/show/122746.html) is kind of interesting. You'll see some happy talk about Ron Paul's million dollar week, a guest appearance by Eric "Only Giuliani can defeat the radical jihadists" Dondero and an interesting critique of this quiz.

Worth a read.

[jonahtrainer]

That's better than the average Harvard graduate. Not a "meh". There's some interesting/sad stats with the results.

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/report/tables.html

Gah, I got a doctorate and still only got 81.67% or 49/60. And I consider myself pretty learned on these areas having taking many college and graduate courses on these subjects. Good job most of ya'll. You are pretty educamated.

[llamabread]

75% i can't believe I got social security wrong and put military instead.

Same here.

I got an 80%. Pretty fair for a high school sophomore. But alot of the questions could be debated, and a few were jokes.

[jonahtrainer]

Are the university results accurate? I'm a public high school senior and I got two letter grades above the average Harvard senior? It seems a bit unbelievable since I've got no shot at getting into those colleges.

I wouldn't doubt it. I was talking to Justice Kennedy of the USSC and he was pretty pissed at several Ivy league college graduates who didn't even know what the separation of powers was.

[Patriot]

You answered 39 out of 60 correctly — 65.00 %

I guess thats a C+

[koob]

75% i can't believe I got social security wrong and put military instead.

haha i can believe it. i was thinking social security, but on the news i keep getting it pounded in my head how much the war costs.

[JerryNC]

You answered 51 out of 60 correctly — 85.00 %

[OceanMachine7]

You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %

[Bradley in DC]

You answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #5 - D. Yorktown
Question #14 - C. 1901-1925
Question #21 - A. support ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Question #27 - D. Man trusts his ability to know in order to reject his ability to know.
Question #31 - A. Edmund Burke argued that society consists of a union of past, present, and future generations.
Question #42 - A. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba.
Question #43 - A. A state that seeks to expand its power generates resistance by other states.
Question #60 - B. social security.

[Michael Ingram]

I've only completed primary education, lol

You answered 51 out of 60 correctly — 85.00 %
Average score for this quiz during October: 70.4%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 70.4%

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

[awigo50]

You answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %

Question #1 - D. 1601-1700
Question #7 - B. Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Appomattox
Question #19 - C. philosopher kings.
Question #24 - D. A political system where state and national governments share power.
Question #35 - A. discouraged new colonies in the Western hemisphere.
Question #36 - D. The authority of a legitimate sovereign.
Question #53 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it.
Question #60 - B. social security.

[Daveforliberty]

You answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %

[CMoore]

83%

Questions I missed.

Question #19 - C. philosopher kings.
Question #31 - A. Edmund Burke argued that society consists of a union of past, present, and future generations.
Question #33 - C. To receive ambassadors.
Question #35 - A. discouraged new colonies in the Western hemisphere.
Question #36 - D. The authority of a legitimate sovereign.
Question #50 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends.
Question #53 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it.
Question #55 - E. increased for the lower and middle classes and increased most for the upper class.
Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.
Question #60 - B. social security.

[foofighter20x]

I got 93.33% (56/60)

[quickmike]

I got a 55% LOL................CERTIFIED DUMB ASS

I went about half way through and got sick of it, so I just guessed on the last 50% of the questions.

[goRPaul]

46/60 = 76.67%

Wow. I did better than the average college student, but I didn't beat the curve of Ron Paul supporters. You guys rock!

[Keith]

I have forgotten a lot and feel dumb now.

You answered 48 out of 60 correctly — 80.00 %
Average score for this quiz during October: 70.4%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 70.4%

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #1 - D. 1601-1700
Question #9 - B. was a stalemate.
Question #13 - B. the nature and control of Reconstruction.
Question #19 - C. philosopher kings.
Question #21 - A. support ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Question #35 - A. discouraged new colonies in the Western hemisphere.
Question #36 - D. The authority of a legitimate sovereign.
Question #39 - D. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
Question #50 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends.
Question #55 - E. increased for the lower and middle classes and increased most for the upper class.
Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.
Question #60 - B. social security.

[Rich333]

The first time I took this quiz (a few weeks ago), I got 56/60. I got 60/60 this time.

[DanConway]

59/60. Missed #31. Not bad for a computer science major! (I have a good memory and read a lot, though, so I do well on these things.)

[Kludge]

Oh -- This is the history/economics portion of the MME test (standardized state test for Michigan), BTW

(bump)

[acptulsa]

They must have changed it. I got thirty out of thirty-three. Where did the other twenty-seven go?

[Todd]

87.88 %

[revolutionman]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Average score for this quiz during May: 74.5%
Average score: 74.5%

I hate question thirty. not because the question is faulty because they believe, and propagate the Keynesian myth that you can spend your way out of economic down turn.

[axiomata]

This is an old thread, they must have changed the quiz.

I retook it and got 100%. Most questions I recognized from the first version.

[ChaosControl]

I missed a couple because I was stupid and misread the answer to one question and just didn't use my brain on the other, lol. But meh still over 90%, so I still got an A.

[acptulsa]

I missed a couple because I was stupid and misread the answer to one question and just didn't use my brain on the other, lol. But meh still over 90%, so I still got an A.

I don't feel too bad about the ones I missed. The Lincoln/Douglas debates were about whether or not slavery should spread to territories-turned-new-states, not about the morality of slavery. Officially, perhaps, but the latter subject certainly made it into the actual debates...

[Kludge]

I hate question thirty. not because the question is faulty because they believe, and propagate the Keynesian myth that you can spend your way out of economic down turn.

It doesn't say that the stimulus is good for the economy long-term, but decreasing taxation and increasing spending obviously does stimulate the economy.

I remember thinking of the that question for a while when I took the MMEs again (the State withheld my MME math score for unknown reasons, and, by law, I had to retake both the entire ACT/MME tests over again).

[asimplegirl]

I failed civics, as I hated my teacher (the girls basketball coach, also drivers ed teacher, pe teacher), and slept through the class to not end up shooting myself. The class was in the boys locker room. It stank, was crowded, with no desks, no ac, and a rat problem.

So, yeah.

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during May: 74.5%
Average score: 74.5%

[acptulsa]

I failed civics, as I hated my teacher (the girls basketball coach, also drivers ed teacher, pe teacher), and slept through the class to not end up shooting myself. The class was in the boys locker room. It stank, was crowded, with no desks, no ac, and a rat problem.

This was probably the key to your success. You avoided the bulk of the brainwashing that way.

[UnReconstructed]

I didnt like it... the correct answers were what is supposed to happen and not what really is happening.

[acptulsa]

I didnt like it... the correct answers were what is supposed to happen and not what really is happening.

Yeah, and that's how I missed two of the three I missed. But I've seen worse--far worse.

[asimplegirl]

I didnt like it... the correct answers were what is supposed to happen and not what really is happening.

Yeah, same here..like what does the government do in a secession?

I chose raise taxes and spending...because that is what they do...it was instead lower spending.LOL.

[slothman]

Ignoring the grave-digging I got 29 out of 33.
I missed 2 history, 1 "none of the above", and 1 other.

[Thandurin]

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[nate895]

100%:
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt10/nate895/100.jpg

I did it in about 5 minutes, I swear I didn't look anything up. Cross my heart and hope to die.

[akihabro]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
I have yet to read the book "FDR versus the Constitution"

Question #12 - B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Whatever. I just think its not the Government to decide about abortion.

Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
I'd probably have difficulty selecting a quote by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

Question #17 - D. manmade satellite
I guess I read too fast. Sputnik was a telecommunications system.

Question #29 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it
I never studied how levees are funded.

Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
That's what Obama is doing. Increasing taxes for the rich and spending like a drunk sailor.

[akihabro]

I failed civics, as I hated my teacher (the girls basketball coach, also drivers ed teacher, pe teacher), and slept through the class to not end up shooting myself. The class was in the boys locker room. It stank, was crowded, with no desks, no ac, and a rat problem.

So, yeah.



Apparently this was your public schools plan. We'll tell you the law so you don't need to learn it. I can't remember my civic class. I probably did horribly.