Full Civic Literacy Exam

[hank moon]

http://goo.gl/oeHAi

• Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)
  
  Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.

Hey, be sure to check out the results table, "elected officials" column for a laff

[Pelon1]

I did better than I thought I would 72.73%

[bbennett]

Me too- 75.76%

[ddavis]

I got 93.94%. Wow. Only missed two of the questions.

[ratagonia]

I got 93.94%. Wow. Only missed two of the questions.

Just like you rocket scientists - setting a high standard... T

Me too, 93.94%. Missed the Cuban Missile Crisis (went for Berlin), and the Lincoln-Douglass primary issue (went for the question of morality).

T

[ratagonia]

http://goo.gl/oeHAi

• Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)
  
  Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.

Hey, be sure to check out the results table, "elected officials" column for a laff

et tu, Hankamoo?

[canyonphile]

81.82% for me. I'm a bit spotty on some Bill of Rights and Amendment details, along with the origins of some of the quotes.

Great quiz, though!

[Don]

81% as well. I missed some financial questions. Thanks for posting this.

[trackrunner]

only missed two questions, really only one with a user error mistake.

missed Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas question.

& knew the correct answer for Lincoln Douglas debates but didn't double check that I had accidentally selected the next bubble to the correct answer.

[hank moon]

et tu, Hankamoo?

I took it a couple of times. the first time I missed one...the second time, 3. The misses were (semi) educated guesses - like the Lincoln Douglas question. Interesting how many "elected officials" missed basic questions such as the definition of "profit," eh?

[Cirrus2000]

Late to the game: "You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %"

Lincoln/Douglas, and the source of "Government of the people, by the people, for the people". They don't cover that much in Canadian Social Studies or History classes.

Not bad for a foreigner, huh?

[Dr. Nebz]

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %

Well, I did better than a college educator.

[BlueRoads]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Blew it on:
Taxes, Socrates, International Trade, and Puritans

Not too bad for an old fart with no college.