Test your civic knowledge

18 thoughts on “Test your civic knowledge”

1. Tough quiz, particularly when the economic questions came up, but I still managed to get 27 right. Clearly, though, I managed to do just fine despite the average politician or educator.

2. “You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %”

3. 93.94%

   #33 was phrased so badly I suspect that accounts for a lot of randomness in the results.

   But if elected officials are scoring anything less than 90%, that explains a lot.

4. If the average score was indeed 49%, we’re getting painfully close to losing one of the (essential, I believe) pillars of democracy – an informed populace.

5. 31/33. 93.94%.

   The economics questions should be worded more clearly.

6. I got only 29 out of 33 correct, 87.88%.

   I will admit I got lucky on a couple of answers with educated (uneducated?) guesses. For example I was surprised I didn’t get the Lincoln/Douglas debate issue wrong.

   I agree #33 was a bad, or at least a trick, question. I answered “Government debt is zero” on that one. OK, OK, debt could refer to prior years’ spending and that answer would have been correct only if the word “deficit” was used instead of “debt”. But I bet that question is amongst the most missed.

7. Dang. Got 30/33. Also got fooled by #33, as well as the question on Puritans and and on Plato, et al.

   Apparently, I’m over qualified to be both an elected official or a college professor, which is just as well since neither of those careers is a realistic option for me anyhow. 🙂

8. 33 is classic LSAT question. The ratio answer was the only one that could have been true, given the info provided.

9. MB,

   I am unfamiliar with the LSAT. Is the LSAT full of trick questions?

   Can you be honest with us and tell us just how many you (you LSAT defender) got right?

   Be truthful now. We’re not going to believe 100% unless you have the LSAT scores to back it up.

10. You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

    Missed #31 – ugh.

11. You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

    Average score for this quiz during November: 77.8%
    Average score: 77.8%

    Evidently people taking the test online aren’t getting the same results as “average people”.

12. It’s not a trick question, David. It’s a question of logic. Just because A *may* be true, it doesn’t mean it *is* true. The ratio is the only answer that must be true, given the information presented.

    LSAT, trick questions? I wouldn’t say so. But neither would I call myself an LSAT defender. It is what it is.

    I – out of sloppiness – missed the Gettysburg Address question. Eh. I don’t think it was a particularly challenging exam, but I do understand some objections to a couple of the economics questions.

    And I’ve got the LSAT (and ACT, and SAT) scores to back it up. You can’t be as lazy as I am and get into decent schools without a talent for silly multiple choice standardized tests 🙂

13. got ’em all…. :o)

14. The only really clear result from the test is that the people who should be running the country are blogging instead.

15. Something tells me that we primed the pump by telling all of these high recent result owners which questions to pay particular attention to.

    As for the higher online results, if you notice every month you can retake the test and then have your improved result (after experience) added to the average. Better confidence could be given to results from tests that were honestly administered in the blind.

    As for me? I’ll put my AFQT (I never took the LSAT, ACT or SAT) results against any of you. I’ll only say that my scores were so high when I took the test before I completed high school the military suspected cheating. They made me retake the test once I got into boot camp. Under perfect conditions (plenty of exercise, three squares a day and adequate rest) I then scored even higher.

    Pehaps it is wrong for me to toot my own horn. But I feel I am just joining others in the concert.

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