I hope so...I was a 9th grader in 1954.
You would have to add a section for all the Czars in addition to the Cabinet members.
All the correct answers about the Constitution in 1954 would be wrong today.
Your damn right, I got straight A’s in the 8th grade in 1949.
These tests are given to our immigrants when they want to become citizens. I often think that at least Americans should have to take this test just to see how they do. You never want to have a test to vote. That would be horrible for everyone.
As much as I read, I’d flunk this test.
I carry a copy of the Constitution in my purse and refer to it frequently.
We were in DC for the 8/28 event, I was quietly embarrassed when I couldn’t come up with the number of amendments, let alone what each is and its number.
I was less that one year old.
God, how I yearn for the good ol' days when people were instructed on the basic tenets of our American rights...
So today, would we be required to know all 15 Cabinet positions and 41 czars?
80. The President must be a_______________ citizen.
I have often thought there should be a test in order to register to vote. For example:
1.) What is your name? (Maybe 95% would get this right)
2.) What is your sex? (Again, maybe 95% get this right)
3.) What is the number for 9-1-1? (This is the clincher)
You have to score 100%.
If these were questions for the 8th grader, what did they ask in college-level political science course at that time?
Nothing on the test about how to properly put a condom on a cucumber??? No extra credit for “feeling good about yourself?” Yep...todays’ kids would be doomed.
How many of them could program a DVR?
Was that font available in 1954?
I would say that my 8th grade in 1977 was at a comparable level. Rather than knowing all the cabinet posts, however, we had to know the presidents. All of them. In order. Today, there are many more cabinet posts. We certainly went over the Bill of Rights in similar detail. Keep in mind that kids have a general idea of what will be on the test, study, take, and forget in a few months some of what they crammed for the test. That was true in 1954.
My 9th grade civics teacher had similar expectations for his class. He drilled the Bill of Rights and Amendments into us until everyone had memorized them. (He was ex military and acted like a drill sargeant in class.)
Let’s see I would have been in 9th grade in 1968. So at that point they were still teaching the info contained in that test.
We all have NO problem understanding No. 80.....but, that’s our common sense, which is forbidden in today’s court system. Otherwise, Tort-lotto would not be in existence as it is today. It’s ALWAYS somebody else’s fault, as long as they have $$$$ to grab.
It’s hard to tell.
The answers are all written in some bizarre loopy all-connected-up style.
Who the hell can read that?
I dare say the average 2010 College graduate could not pass this test.
Liberals must have the populous stupid and needy to retain power and they have succeeded through dumbing down the U.S. Education system.