Test Your Civics

Historian · Sep 28, 2006

Test Your Civics
America's top students struggled to answer these questions. Can you do better?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15013517/site/newsweek/from/ET/

wildthing · Sep 28, 2006

Well ok I got 100%.

wiggsfly · Sep 28, 2006

Only 50%....

....so much for my american history

SH89 · Sep 30, 2006

5/8

I had no idea what a pregessive tax is.

Dale · Oct 29, 2006

My High School civics teacher slept through the class.

Pogue · Oct 30, 2006

I got 50% but seeing as it's the morning and I'm not American I think that's not bad.

Maxwell511 · Nov 10, 2006

63%. Not bad.

5stringJeff · Nov 22, 2006

100%. Woo-hoo!

Crusading_Ostrich · Nov 28, 2006

75% - didn't know junta or where the wall of separation came from. I haven't read Thomas Jefferson's letters!! Please forgive me!!!

SiobhanClancy · Nov 29, 2006

7/8.....missed the one about the progressive tax

OhhJim · Dec 28, 2006

I didn't struggle to answer any of them. I did get one wrong, though.

The Lone Gunmen · Dec 30, 2006

I missed #1 and #8.

Battles named after aircraft carriers confuse me.

OhhJim · Dec 30, 2006

I'm not sure how Saddam Hussein's political party is part of American Civics, though.

The Lone Gunmen · Dec 30, 2006

OhhJim said:
I'm not sure how Saddam Hussein's political party is part of American Civics, though.

I dunno either.

EmbracingHim · Jan 1, 2007

Historian,

Thanks for this thread. My college education was not wasted afterall! lol.

In college I learned that immigrants knew more about civics than others (probably the testing required for citizenship).

A progressive tax is one that is applied equally amongst the income table (to the poor, middleclassed and wealthy). There are few of these in the U.S. **Sandi ducks. lol. (sorry but the middleclass seems to carry more than it's share).

For 100 blessings who can tell me the regressive tax in the United States that has a suggested religious underpinning? (tee, hee).

OhhJim · Jan 1, 2007

That's pretty vague. I guess I'll have to go get me an immigrant!

The Julikenz · Jan 5, 2007

I'm not American, and I've never studied US history - the only questions I got right were:
- Wall of Separation between church and state
- The phrase We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .
- And progressive tax.

38%

MercuryAndy · Jan 5, 2007

Thanks for taking our quiz. You answered 38% of the questions correctly.

oopsies.

I got the progressive tax one right though...

YamiB · Jan 7, 2007

I got 100%. It is suprising how few people got some of those correct.

OnTheWay · Jan 8, 2007

Have to say if you're an American and those are difficult questions it's not a good thing. Even worse if you look at the percentage of high school seniors that answered them correctly.

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