Posted on 05/06/2011 9:11:01 AM PDT by engrpat
This test is not an easy one. It is a test of your civics knowledge. It is one of the better ones that I have seen. The website reports that college professors average about 55%. I find that odd. See the chart following the quiz that shows how our elected officials did.
I will fess up to a 93.94% score missing 2 out of the 33. This test is by the same group that did one in '08, '09 and '10. Enjoy.
Ten out of ten correct. I thought there were supposed to be more questions, and that it was supposed to be hard.
Thanks, Sir!
Missed the Puritan question and we disagree on what happens to a nation which specializes (in the long run). From what I have seen, your trade partner reverse engineers or knocks off your stuff and you go broke.
81.82% on the long test. I got the Puritan question right and (as I nearly always do) questioned myself and changed it. The other 5 I missed were the monetary ones. I’m not very up on financial questions.
Yeah, I agree with you Joe. I think trading eventually leads to no good om today’s world.
Not that I think trade is bad--it isn't unless you lose your capability to provide for yourself.
Any organism which becomes too specialized eventually becomes extinct. If you only produce a few things and are incapable of producing all or most of what you need, or even some in relatively small quantity, as a country you are vulnerable to your trade partners or anyone who could sieze or destroy them.
This is the inherent danger in exporting jobs.
It isn't just facillities, but skill sets. If you can't extract your own energy and at least a significant fraction of the raw materials you need, you're in trouble.
33/33 here. I almost made the mistake you made on #33. I knew it was technically wrong to answer the way you did, but thought the testers had erred in the distinction between d___ and d______. Just to be sure, I read the other choices carefully and selected the correct (and tautological) answer.
This is not a hard test. It is a test of basic civic literacy.
Mmmkay...I’ll confess...only got 25 out of 33, and want to smack my forehead for some of the answers I picked! Doh! But at least it was better than the 55% for the ‘professors’!
Obviously we have the wrong people in government.
8 of 10 here....
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