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punkdavid
 Post subject: Take a civics test
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http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/re ... /quiz.aspx

And post your score!

I got 90%.

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You answered 37 out of 60 correctly — 61.67 %

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The Argonaut
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I answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %

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85%. That was pretty difficult.

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88.33% One of the questions was anwsered by someone other than myself, and they got it wrong.
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You answered 49 out of 60 correctly — 81.67 %

I suck...although that's sadly better than the average of around 75%.
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I answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %

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Just about average at 73.3%. I sucked pretty bad on the ones about philosophers.

And g_v, I bet you guessed C on number 49, right? :P

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You answered 54 out of 60 correctly — 90.00 %

Pretty tough quiz, I thought.

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40/60

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18) The line “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .” is from:

D. The Communist Manifesto

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50/60. :?

I got slaughtered on the philosopher questions.

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I guess I'm leading right now with 91.67%?

Some of those, like #27, I didn't see why it was a part of the test.
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I answered 52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %


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I guess I'm leading right now with 91.67%?

Some of those, like #27, I didn't see why it was a part of the test.


Yeah I didn't get why that one was on there either.
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punkdavid
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Green Habit wrote:
I guess I'm leading right now with 91.67%?

Some of those, like #27, I didn't see why it was a part of the test.


Yeah I didn't get why that one was on there either.

Pretty much all of the economics questions near the end seemed out of place, IMO. I think I got 24 out of the first 25 right, and then 5 wrong in teh second half.

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I scored a 53 out of 60 -- with 6 out of the 7 that I missed coming in the last 12 questions. I also missed the one about what Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and Acquinas would all agree on. I basically suck at economic-policy questions.
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I missed most of mine in the last part too. Tough stuff.

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43 out of 60 correctly — 71.67 %

I'm an Australian living in the US for a bit over 2 years - so not too surprised that most of my incorrect answers were in the first 30 questions.

I actually find the comments that the economic ones weren't really applicable to a civics test interesting. Not because I completely disagree, but because I think that many are still as relevant as some of the questions from other areas (historical, philosphical) that seemed to only have a tenuous connection as well. It seems people were probably inclined to feel bias towards the relevance of those areas they were most strong in answering. I guess if you know a topic well, you can see how it may still be relevant to one's broader civics knowledge. I'm clearly guilty of this myself, as the economic stuff was stronger for me.
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48 out of 60

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