[Petronski]

Took it this afternoon on the earlier thread. Scored 57.

[jdm]

Wow. That’s excellent. I looked at the first five questions and got scared! I’m not sure how to retain information I learned 20+ years ago. The ability to remember this stuff is - in and of itself - a commendable skill, IMHO.

[eyedigress]

I don’t necessarily believe you because my score was 76.8 but you got me to admit it. I thought I would do better.

[DuncanWaring]

Misread two questions. 56

[jimfree]

I scored 57 also. Might have gotten the three questions correct if I slowed down. I certainly understood why those answers were correct. Oh - 55 y/o with MS degree.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Took it this afternoon on the earlier thread. Scored 57.

73%

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Nice - I got 56, so you beat me by one. :-) OTOH, I don’t agree with the ‘correct’ answers of the three of the questions I missed (the fourth, well, I just didn’t know the answer). Frightening that students at top universities have done so poorly; I wonder if they graduate knowing much more than how to Google.

[Larry Lucido]

You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 75.0%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.0%

How did I get “Yorktown” wrong?

[Recovering Hermit]

You Passed 8th Grade US History

Congratulations, you got 6/8 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade History?

[Myrddin]

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

[aruanan]

I just took it. The first question I missed because I misread one of the answers. The second question I just didn't know the answer to at all. I couldn't even weed out a couple of probables.

You answered 58 out of 60 correctly — 96.67 %

Average score for this quiz during September: 75.0%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.0%

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

If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.You can consult the following table to see how freshmen and seniors scored on each question as part of the survey administration.

Where to from here?

Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #35 - A. discouraged new colonies in the Western hemisphere.
Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I just took it now and scored a 72%. I thought I'd done better than that.

Time to read up on Plato I guess.

[Philistone]

57 - 95%

Can’t say the wording of the questions was always clear or that all of the choices were mutually exclusive.

[Amityschild]

I took it too. I scored 72%. I didn’t attend college, don’t have a degree and can’t get interviewed for decent jobs.

[RobbyS]

I am sure that many students scored high. But it is still scary that the average was so low for the eleite schools. This means that history is a subject that is been deliberately dumbed down for some the brightest people in the country.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

It seems clear that if the students at some of the nation’s most elite liberal schools were enrolled at Freeper U, they would definitely be “riding the short bus.”

Too bad we can’t field a football team whose excellence reflects our academic superiority.

[SE Mom]

Waaahhhh...I got 55/60.

My knowledge of economics is limited, in the extreme:) Those were the ones I got wrong. I’m trying to care- really- but economics is waaaay over my head.

[Riverman94610]

I scored 56.

[Poser]

Only 56 for me. A few of those were pretty obscure.