Take the quiz, Post your score - New Basic American Civics Survey (a random 71% faile

[thehighwaymanq]

79%.

 

[garyallen59]

78.79

what can i say? i'm a consistent "c" student.

 

[James Madison]

29 out of 33. Missed #13, 30, 31, and 32. Some of the questions were a little skewered towards a certain answer but overall a decent test.

 

[dude58677]

So it isn't government corruption that is the problem but just dumbness.

 

[RSLudlum]

82%

What's up with question #30's 'correct answer'? WTF?? Decrease Taxes, Increase Spending???

 

[nate895]

82%

What's up with question #30's 'correct answer'? WTF?? Decrease Taxes, Increase Spending???

It asked what it is most likely to do, not what it should do.

I got 32/33. I totally guessed on 13 and wound up being wrong.

 

[AJ Antimony]

Nice find, 87.88%

 

[ShannonOBrien]

79%

 

[Original_Intent]

I bet 30 is the most missed question. Keynsian economics is flat-out counter-intuitive. I think we are pulling the average up by taking it, when I took it this morning the average for the month was around 70%, by the end of the day the average had risen several percentage points.

 

[axiomata]

94%

Missed these two:

Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

For #8 I let my distrust of FDR cloud my judgment. I figured he'd be audacious enough to unconstitutionally remove them from office. Shoulda thought that one through.

For #33 it's on of those things I thought too hard about. It's been a while since I've taken a MC test and I forgot the don't over think it rule. I was going to go with D but I reasoned that one person may get more loot from the government and not pay as much as the another instead of just looking at it mathematically. And I assumed they meant deficit instead of debt.

The key with #30 is that it says what policies would government likely follow not what should they follow.

 

[yongrel]

100%

 

[forsmant]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #15 - E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

I answered number 30 and 33 correctly but the quiz answered them wrong. I did not read this thread.

 

[axiomata]

I linked to a different civics quiz a while back. It was put out by the same group.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=23181&highlight=civics+quiz

I am happy to say I've done better since then. No small part to the Revolution, I am sure. I know I haven't taken a US History/Government or Civics class in that time.

Here's the results from then:

>94  	   	8  	9.52%
88-93 		17 	20.24%
82-87 		20 	23.81%
76-81 		14 	16.67%
70-75 		12 	14.29%
64-69 		7 	8.33%
58-63 		2 	2.38%
52-57 		1 	1.19%
46-51 		0 	0%
<46 		3 	3.57%

Much better than the average if I recall.

 

[Number19]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly - 100%

 

[Kludge]

Doesn't the president have the power to veto a declaration of war, thus technically giving him the power to declare war by signing the bill into law?

 

[Kludge]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %


Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person


4 & 7 were trivial facts I forgot, 27 was a bit ambiguous IMO but my fault, and I answered 33 like a jackass C. government is not helping anybody

 

[Conza88]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #10 - C. Religion
Question #19 - B. teaching evolution in the schools
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

FAIL test. FAIL.

 

[nodope0695]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

 

[georgiaboy]

bump

 

[Ron Paul Vermont]

Oooh! I know, I know! The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria!!

Who were they?