Posted on 04/15/2012 11:10:29 PM PDT by nikos1121
Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey) 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? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.
http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692
I scored 26 out of 33. I’d like to see if anyone on FR can score a perfect 100%. Read the answers carefully. Have fun.
Bfl
I got 27 out of 33 - 81.82%.
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly 90.91 %
It told me;
You answered 33 out of 33 correctly 100.00 %
uestion: If taxes equal government spending, then:
Your Answer: government debt is zero
Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average
How can this be correct when the government receives money from taxes which are not taxes on individuals? If the government is receiving taxes from corporations, for example, it's expenditures per person far exceeds its revenues from those persons.
I understand the "on average" modification but I do not read it to mean that all taxes from all sources averaged by dividing it by the number of people even though not derived exclusively from people.
In considering my (wrong) answer I understood that it seemed to apply better to "deficit" rather than to "debt" but there was no time limit so one can assume that taxes equal expenditures from the beginning of time and therefore there would be no debt.
I scored 31 out of 33. Darn puritans and freak philosophers got me.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that: Your Answer: all moral and political truth is relative to ones time and place
Correct Answer: certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
heheh I'm need to work on my philosophy studies I guess.
90.01%
But it’s late and I’m tired.
Fun quiz to do - scored 28 of 33 - since I’ve personally lived through some of these, thought I would do better. I was amazed at the wide gap between citizens and politicians on some things. Would appear that citizens know more history than those we elect. Maybe they should have to take a quiz before they can hold office. Thanks for doing this.
“You answered 25 out of 33 correctly 75.76 %”
You answered 25 out of 33 correctly 75.76 %
32 out of 33. I missed the last one. ?????
Seventy-four percent. Jeez, that’s a D! Barely!
29 out of 33. Wood like two no wich wons I mist.
29 out of 33. Wood like two no wich wons I mist.
I stumbled on that question as well...and answered the same.
I also didn’t answer the Plato, Aquinas question correctly.
Oh well, 31 out of 33.
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly 84.85 %
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly 84.85 %
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