Graduates Know Even Less About History (Take The Quiz!)

Madison.com ^ | September 19, 2007 | Anita Weier

[mamelukesabre]

Mine is a BS in civil and an MS in structural. I got a 73. Thought for sure I was a better guesser than that. The first part of the test was tough for me. I never took history in college. In fact, I never had history as a senior in highschool. I had to remember all the way back to the 11th grade for that stuff.

9th grade was civics, 10th grade was world history, 11th grade was US history.

That’s all the history I’ve had in my entire life.

[eyedigress]

You still beat UC Berkely, Feel any better?

[HangnJudge]

Statistics holding steady

# responses 68
Average 86% (51.3)
Std Dev. 9% (5.1)

Looking good

[Old Seadog]

I got 85%. Not too bad from an old man with a high school GED fron the Navy back in the 50s

[bubman]

Got 50 out of 60 right. Not bad for a Canuck hey??

[mamelukesabre]

just what I have heard by hanging around on street corners.

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Gosh, you’ve been hanging around a real tough part of town haven’t you? :)

[6323cd]

I scored 78.33% - that would have only earned me a “C” in my high school history class!

[Yudan]

I made an 87. Y’all give this a try. About in-line with my undergrad GPA.

[6323cd]

Got 7 of 8 in the 8th Grade Test

[HangnJudge]

Now up to 72 replies

Average 85% (51.2)
Std Dev. 8% (5.0)

Doing great, good evidentiary data regarding
the superiority of freepers

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

53/60 and I'm not going to make excuses, say the questions were bad, claim to be tired, argue with the teacher to have a question eliminated, get mad at anyone who did better than I did, claim racism....

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[Myrddin]

I scored 48/60 (80%). I haven't looked at most of that stuff since the summer of 1971.

[rightwingcrazy]

57/60. That’s still an A, isn’t it?

[LukeL]

In college right now 50/60. Didn’t do so well on the philosphers and some of the economic questions because of political differences.

[chopperman]

Interesting info from the press release:

1. Most of the Ivy League schools had better scores from their freshmen than their seniors.

2. Only Harvard seniors did better than Grove City College seniors.

WooHoo!!!

[eyedigress]

This is to all. All of you seem to be giving you’re correct score based on the honor system. Mine is one of the lowest (no surprise to me) but it seems everyone here knows that there is a difference between knowing the answer and cheating. Kudos FReepers! :^)

[Shooter 2.5]

This was more about political science and economics than history.
Even so:
You answered 47 out of 60 correctly — 78.33 %

[NYFreeper]

78.33%

Can't believe I missed the Jamestown one, I got my centuries mixed up.

I disagree on the War of 1812 answer, anybody else?

[Plutarch]

Dang, missed three (no Googling):

You answered 57 out of 60 correctly — 95.00 %Average score for this quiz during September: 75.0%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.0%
Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #31 - A. Edmund Burke argued that society consists of a union of past, present, and future generations.
Question #36 - D. The authority of a legitimate sovereign.
Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.

[Windcatcher]

I got numbers 19, 23, 58, and 60 wrong. Not bad for a hard science major who had Western Civilization (instead of American History) in college. I went to Catholic school, though...