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A neat little (American) Civic Literacy Quiz.
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Dopefish
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Old Sep 20, 2007, 09:56 PM #1 of 22
A neat little (American) Civic Literacy Quiz.

(reposted from my journal, with responses from others)

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Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz

It's 60 multiple choice questions concerning American civics, which includes American history, government, political thought, and international affairs and market economy. I got a score of 70% (42/60) which, I'm proud to say, outranks the groups given here, from the article in Tuesday's USA Today:

Harvard freshmen (63.59%) and seniors (69.56%)
Yale freshman (68.94%) and seniors (65.85%)
All combined Ivy League universities, freshmen (64%) and seniors (64.1%)

Those 6 groups were the top ranked in the charts given, which included state "flagship" universities (55% for seniors), private, secular, non-Ivy universities (60.1% for seniors) and Catholic (48.3% for seniors) and Protestant (56.6% for seniors) universities.

In fairness, I really didn't learn a lot of this in school, and some more I even guessed on. The ones I missed were 2, 9, 18, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 33, 35, 36, 39, 43, 50, 52, 53, 57 and 58.
The Dopefish: 42/60 (70%) - 2, 9, 18, 19, 21, 24, 26, 29, 33, 35, 36, 39, 43, 50, 52, 53, 57, 58
Avalokiteshvara: 50/60 (83.33%) - 9, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24 26, 46, 54, 58
coeccias: 47/60 (78.33%) - 7, 8, 9, 19, 23, 24, 25, 33, 34, 36, 55, 58, 60
TheKnightOfNee: 43/60 (71.67%) - 1, 2, 8, 9, 19, 21, 23, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 51, 55, 60
nuttyturnip: 48/60 (80%)
Dullenplain: 51/60 (85%) - 9, 10, 24, 31, 33, 36, 42, 58, 60
Brent: 33/60 (55%)
russ: 45/60 (75%)
NightPhoenix: 54/60 (90%) - 19, 39, 50, 55, 58, 60
Dark Nation: 46/60 (76.67%) - 10, 19, 26, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 44, 50, 54, 58, 60

Keeping score, that's a combined average (of 8 GFF respondents) of 75% (360/480).

Jam it back in, in the dark.


Last edited by Dopefish; Sep 20, 2007 at 11:13 PM.
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Old Sep 20, 2007, 10:02 PM #2 of 22
I'm fearing that taking this quiz would throw off the good score you guys are getting. I'll pass for now

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Old Sep 20, 2007, 10:09 PM Local time: Sep 20, 2007, 09:09 PM #3 of 22
I have taken it and commented in your journal, so I guess I bring up the average a bit, so take it anyway, sprout.

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Old Sep 20, 2007, 10:45 PM Local time: Sep 20, 2007, 09:45 PM #4 of 22
You answered 45 out of 60 correctly — 75.00 %

Sweet, I know more about American civic history than the average Ivy Leaguer. I still feel retarded though.

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Old Sep 20, 2007, 10:52 PM Local time: Sep 20, 2007, 10:52 PM #5 of 22
You answered 54 out of 60 correctly — 90.00 %
I missed:
Question #19
Question #39
Question #50
Question #55
Question #58 -
Question #60

I was speaking idiomatically.
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Old Sep 20, 2007, 11:42 PM Local time: Sep 20, 2007, 11:42 PM #6 of 22
You answered 13 out of 60 correctly — 21.67 % Lol. I don't know much about American history or government. Need to find a quiz about the Canadian government.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 12:04 AM #7 of 22
You answered 51 out of 60 correctly — 85.00 %
Missed: 19, 31, 36, 38, 53, 54, 55, 58, 60

We just GOT to Plato in Ancient Greek Philosophy, too. 2 months from now I could have gotten 55 out of 60 right.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 12:08 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 12:08 AM #8 of 22
Aha!

Thus far, I have the highest score, fuck boys!

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 12:16 AM #9 of 22
You answered 54 out of 60 correctly — 90.00 %
Missed: 19, 23, 29, 33, 36, 58

Cool, I tied Night Phoenix.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 01:47 AM Local time: Sep 20, 2007, 11:47 PM #10 of 22
You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Missed: 1, 8, 36, 50, 60

One up'ed some people here, but not statistically different from NP or SS.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 02:22 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 12:22 AM #11 of 22
You answered 51 out of 60 correctly — 85.00 %

It seems I'm pretty average. Interestingly, I missed a lot of stupid questions, though.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 06:46 AM #12 of 22
Aha!

Thus far, I have the highest score, fuck boys!
And yet you still act like a retard every time someone tries to discuss politics, so it's all for naught.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 07:28 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 04:28 AM #13 of 22
Originally Posted by Avalokiteshvara (from Dope's journal)
Why is it that we are individually scoring higher? I'm beginning to wonder what the average score at GFF would be. Dope, can you post a thread?
The test's attracting the attention of political and history buffs, it seems only natural. I'm also guessing mainly those with impressive scores are bothering to speak up.

I've always been abysmal with history and government study. I got 34 out of 60. 56 percent.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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Old Sep 21, 2007, 07:42 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 05:42 AM #14 of 22
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You answered 41 out of 60 correctly — 68.33 %
Bah...

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 08:17 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 08:17 AM 1 #15 of 22
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And yet you still act like a retard every time someone tries to discuss politics, so it's all for naught.
Just because I'm not an Anti-American liberal doesn't mean I'm a retard, it just means you hate America and love socialism.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 08:48 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 03:48 PM #16 of 22
'You answered 34 out of 60 correctly — 56.67 %'

HELL YA I TOTALLY SMOKED BRENT


Edit: oh hey Doc Uzuki, 56% buddy

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 09:19 AM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 04:19 PM #17 of 22
You answered 36 out of 60 correctly — 60.00 %

The first half of the questions was horrible since I basically don't know anything specific about US history, but the latter half, mostly the economy related questions upped my score a bit.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 07:58 PM Local time: Sep 21, 2007, 06:58 PM #18 of 22
You answered 43 out of 60 correctly — 71.67 %

Looking over the missed answers, some were quite obvious. I should have thought them over a bit more to be honest.

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Old Sep 21, 2007, 08:18 PM #19 of 22
54/60.

Had to think back for a lot of them. Not too difficult. Some of the economic ones were a bit tricky.

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Old Sep 22, 2007, 04:10 PM Local time: Sep 22, 2007, 03:10 PM #20 of 22
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 %
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Spoiler:

Question #33 - C. To receive ambassadors.
Question #34 - B. President Washington's Farewell Address.
Question #46 - B. Baath Party
Question #60 - B. social security.

Better than I expected. ^_^\

I don't know how I missed 34. =\ I SWEAR I put B. ;_;


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Last edited by Fluffykitten McGrundlepuss; Sep 23, 2007 at 04:42 PM. Reason: Spoilered out answers
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Old Sep 22, 2007, 08:02 PM Local time: Sep 22, 2007, 09:02 PM #21 of 22
You answered 42 out of 60 correctly — 70.00 %

As a Canadian, I'd say that's a pretty good score.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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Old Sep 23, 2007, 09:42 AM Local time: Sep 23, 2007, 07:42 AM #22 of 22
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 %
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Spoiler:

Question #33 - C. To receive ambassadors.
Question #34 - B. President Washington's Farewell Address.
Question #46 - B. Baath Party
Question #60 - B. social security.

Better than I expected. ^_^\

I don't know how I missed 34. =\ I SWEAR I put B. ;_;

I don't know how you missed 46.

47 out of 60. I missed 7, 9, 13, 19, 24, 25, 31, 34, 35, 50, 52, 55, and 58. 58 is particularly embarrassing for me because I took economics last quarter and we spent at least 2-3 weeks on the Fed.

Overall though, not bad, especially considering that I pretty much never did anything approaching American history (except for self-study), and haven't paid much attention to the news for about a year now.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Last edited by Fluffykitten McGrundlepuss; Sep 23, 2007 at 04:43 PM.
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