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Take this fun civics test
email | July 5, 2011

Posted on 07/05/2011 8:27:07 PM PDT by upchuck

Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?

Take the test. 33 questions. It's not easy. Be sure to check out the table at the end of the quiz that shows the incredible spread between the scores of citizens and politicians.

Post your score below.

Enjoy!

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To: Red6

Also 31/33. Interesting how the questions went from purely fact based to ones that were a little more, how shall I say it, “interpretive,” based on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s ideology.


21 posted on 07/05/2011 8:45:52 PM PDT by drjimmy
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To: upchuck

I scored 96.97% correct 32/33. The questions were fairly easy I thought. I went to hick schools in small town Florida, but I do read Free Republic from time to time.


22 posted on 07/05/2011 8:46:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both have friends that bombed the Pentagon.)
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To: upchuck
Thanks, that was fun!

31/33

Interesting that the 2 questions I missed were related to Lincoln.

23 posted on 07/05/2011 8:47:17 PM PDT by GenerationY
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To: upchuck

84.85%


24 posted on 07/05/2011 8:47:41 PM PDT by constitutiongirl (The Truth is a Person.)
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To: upchuck

I answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85%!!

Woo-Hoo!!!


25 posted on 07/05/2011 8:47:41 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Mom MD
The sad thing is we both blew the educators out of the water!

I agree that's sad. But is that really surprising since most "educators" have RAT leanings?

Bet they all scored 100 on the question about a progressive tax :)

26 posted on 07/05/2011 8:47:57 PM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: upchuck

21 out of 33


27 posted on 07/05/2011 8:48:29 PM PDT by eastforker
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To: upchuck

I scored 32/33. College educators scored 55%? OMG..!!


28 posted on 07/05/2011 8:48:41 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: upchuck

Results

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You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %


29 posted on 07/05/2011 8:49:26 PM PDT by donmeaker (I)
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To: upchuck

“You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %”

I missed:

Question: What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?

and

Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to...


30 posted on 07/05/2011 8:50:23 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: upchuck

93.94%


31 posted on 07/05/2011 8:52:11 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
32 out of 33 - and I’m not convinced I really got the one wrong.

Same here. Mine was the one on decreasing both taxes and government spending in order to stimulate economic activity. A Keynesian would say that increasing government spending would have a multiplier effect; however, it also increases public debt and withdraws that portion of money which would have a similar multiplier effect in private hands without increasing public debt. Harrumph.

32 posted on 07/05/2011 8:52:58 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: upchuck

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %


33 posted on 07/05/2011 8:55:43 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: upchuck

O got 28 of 33 - 84.85%


34 posted on 07/05/2011 8:56:19 PM PDT by unkus
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To: upchuck

33/33. There are potentially two questions that are a bit subjective. Even allowing for that by saying 93% is the best objective grade, if you can’t score 80% on that test you really need to read more — and spend more time on FR. It’s not very difficult.


35 posted on 07/05/2011 8:56:39 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Free minds, free speech, free markets, but no free lunch.)
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To: upchuck

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Two of them I was wrong, the other I would argue about.


36 posted on 07/05/2011 8:57:08 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I have no time to worry about turbot, a parrot is eating my house)
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To: Billthedrill

Yes, that was the one I missed too.


37 posted on 07/05/2011 8:57:34 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
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To: upchuck

Obviously this test has Palin Derangement Syndrome.


38 posted on 07/05/2011 8:58:15 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
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To: Frank_2001

Wonder how Obama would do?;)


He’d get all the Socialist answeres right. And there were a lot of choices that were pure Socialist.


39 posted on 07/05/2011 8:58:16 PM PDT by unkus
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To: upchuck

26 out of 33 correct ... 78.79%


40 posted on 07/05/2011 8:59:09 PM PDT by Babalu ("Tracer rounds work both ways ...")
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