Civic Literacy Quiz

[Elephant Lee]

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

What's your score?

[This is wrong.]

0

[goaliechica]

87.88%

I thought the President could declare war all on his own. Whoops!

[This is wrong.]

Some of the questions were phrased poorly, or the answers a little vague. Still, interesting quiz.

[just Trev]

72.3%...shoulda done better, but that's what a JD/MBA is for, right?  i was a theology major after all...

[Miss P]

I got one wrong.   Surprise, surprise, it was one of the ones about the superiority of capitalism.  (96.97%)

[Miss P]

Some of the questions were phrased poorly, or the answers a little vague.

Totally!  I'm surprised I got some of the ones at the end right.  They were really weird.

87.88%

I thought the President could declare war all on his own. Whoops!

You're in the company of some very powerful people, including our Vice President.

ETA: Wait, was that a clever joke that my literal brain missed?  Eesh, I'm such an ass sometimes.

[Jamie Stringer]

81.82%.  Unsurprisingly, the questions I missed were about economics, not government or history.

[Elephant Lee]

I got the "govt for the people" and govt spending/taxation parity one wrong. I think that one almost has 2 correct answers.

[Miss P]

I got the "govt for the people" and govt spending/taxation parity one wrong. I think that one almost has 2 correct answers.

I thought the same.  Or no correct answers.  I also thought there were no correct answers to these:


13)   Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that . . .

27)   Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because . . .

And two nearly correct answers to this:

25)   Free enterprise or capitalism exists insofar as . . . (B & E)