Posted on 11/16/2009 5:19:46 AM PST by wmileo
Okay you red-blooded Americans...let's see how you do on this test... 24 out of 30 is considered a passing grade.
Supposedly 96% of all high school Seniors FAILED this test. AND if that's not bad enough, 50% + of all individuals over 50 did too!!
Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know.
http://games.toast.net/independence
I found a fun QUIZ on introductory level United States History. Don't take it too seriously. It contains 30 multiple choice questions with 4 choices for each one. If you are as old as I am (Born in 1948)or older , went to school back when they taught U.S. History, and still have possesion of most of your faculties, you will do well.
I got a 25....I thought the impeachment question meant actually removed from office....
However in my defense, I study the original with the original 10 Amendments, plus I usually concentrate on the enumerated powers and the Amendments.
Oh well time to expand my studies.
28 . . . am I still allowed to post on Freerepublic? missed the importation of alcohol and the no. of passed. but nonratified amends.
I’m amazed at how well the Canadians did. I’m sure that I would totally fail a test on their government.
I got two wrong; the number of unratified amendments and which president was born in Texas!
Me too!
Got that and an amendment question wrong. (How many passed by Congress by not ratified; I guessed 12; correct answer was 6).
Yes, I’m over 50. Do they really not teach this stuff any more in schools?
I saw a history channel program last year on IKE"s BIO. He was raised in Kansas, but born in Texas.
I got all but one; couldn’t get myself to recognize the current imposter as the “current President”.....in my book, we don’t have a legal one right now!
26. Had to guess on some.
Teens would get creamed on this. They don’t teach US history in schools anymore. The communist infiltration of government schools is pretty deep.
I’ll second that as I did the same.
27. Eisenhower and Johnson Kept me from 29.
I got (guessed) the Eisenhower/Texas question correctly. I also, correctly (guessed), got the question on how many amendments (6)are unratified.
The average Public School Teacher who belongs to the Union can barely spell amendment, let alone use it in a grammatically correct(as opposed to politically correct) sentence.
Definition of a politically correct sentence: For murder of 13 and wounding of 30+ American Soldiers on a U.S. Military Base.
Suspended sentence and a year of visits to the DR.PHIL TV SHOW.
27 of 30.
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That was a guess on my part but I knew it was not 12.
ditto
27/30
24. Something basic like this should be required to register to vote, IMO.
Doesn't matter though, we got the point regardless, so that means that we are SMART!!
now the last part of that would violate the Geneva conventions on cruel and unusual punishment - he'd probably prefer waterboarding.
29
D’oh - how could a FReeper miss the Patrick Henry one? Not enough coffee yet is my excuse and I’m sticking with it.
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