American Civic Literacy Test

[Wolfwood]

A nifty 60 question multiple choice test. I only got 54 out of 60(90%), I bet most people here can beat that! I need to read more

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

From the site:

The overall average score for the approximately 7,000 seniors who took the American civic literacy exam was 54.2%, an "F." That is consistent with the overall average of 53.2% posted by seniors last year. Not one college surveyed can boast that its seniors scored, on average, even a "C" in American civic knowledge.

Harvard seniors scored highest, but their overall average was 69.6%, a "D+."

  I is udjumacated!

[toowm]

58/60
Missed the "man cannot know things," which I had never heard of, and disagreed with the #58 Fed question so much that I missed the answer they wanted.

Overall an OK test, but I disagreed with the "correct" answer quite a bit - like calling the US a limited democracy instead of a republic.

[Pat K]

53/60, But I might want to argue some answers.

[Rosie the Riveter]

 only 40 right.... 

[toowm]

My son J is ready for college six years early - he got 32 right! Go homeschool!

[KBCraig]

52/60, and ditto what Pat said.

[Zambra]

So you don't feel too bad Kate -
My score was 39/60    I am going to right now!

[Russell Kanning]

I guess I would fail a civics test

[Lloyd Danforth]

You answered 50 out of 60 correctly — 83.33 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 74.9%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 74.9%

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


I didn't review the explanation of the answers.

[SnowDog]

Missed 9. Got 51/60 or 85%.

[ThePug]

Woo-hoo! 58/60. 

I agree some of the questions were poorly worded, though. Particular the one where the correct answer to "What form of government was established by the Constitution?" is "indirect democracy".  Federal Republic!

[toowm]

KBCraig - how did you raise such a smart kid in Texas?

/kidding

[KBCraig]

KBCraig - how did you raise such a smart kid in Texas?

/kidding

To make it even more impressive, he lives in Arkansas and goes to public school there. 

[Braddogg]

The method for enacting that federal republic is indirect democracy.

[jsorens]

58/60. The answer to the fed question that they have is wrong. A purchase of bonds by the Federal Reserve does not necessarily increase the volume of commercial bank loans. However, that is the least wrong answer, I guess - none of the others make any sense, even though I picked one of them. The other one I missed was about the Cuban missile crisis.