http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

No cheating.

11/23/2008 1:20:28 AM

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29/33

11/23/2008 1:22:17 AM

Yes, but this is the soap box version.

11/23/2008 2:19:18 AM

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"You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 % Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6% Average score: 77.6%"

11/23/2008 2:27:06 AM

27/33

Missed 7,12,13,15,30,33

11/23/2008 2:51:08 AM

31/33

Missed #7 and #8

11/23/2008 2:58:23 AM

I was like, "well, they don't change much year to year, and then there's the Civic Hybrid, and I don't understand why this is in the Soap Box."




and then I was like,

11/23/2008 6:14:32 AM

30/33

Missed 7, 13, and 14.

11/23/2008 6:15:33 AM

missed 1.

11/23/2008 6:20:46 AM

31/33

missed 7 and 8

11/23/2008 9:27:00 AM

26, but im no soap box regular. i figure being slightly above average is good for this test because normal citizens would find it too boring to take the entire thing.

[Edited on November 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM. Reason : seems 2 or 3 i was torn between to choices too. oh wellz.]

11/23/2008 11:28:21 AM

I freakin' suck at this. I didn't get the Lincoln slavery one, the FDR/Supreme Court question, or the taxes matching gubment spending, arguably, the easiest ones.

11/23/2008 12:29:42 PM

32/33

Can't believe that, outa all the questions on there, #6 was the one that tripped me up.

11/23/2008 1:21:56 PM

30/33
missed 7, 11 and 29

i personally thought question #33 was poorly worded, even though i got it right.

11/23/2008 1:43:40 PM

Yeah, 33 was worded strangely.

11/23/2008 1:50:14 PM

30

Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #19 - B. teaching evolution in the schools

I missed a couple others. I'm just not going to count them.

11/23/2008 3:00:28 PM

28/33

the economics part was competing too hard with football and the new gnr

not that math makes any sense to me anyhow

11/23/2008 3:18:57 PM

I got all of those but it some of the were a bit sketchy.

#27 Only had one sensible answer but is not a settled question for example.

#33 is trying to see if you know the difference between debt and deficit

11/23/2008 3:43:07 PM

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

11/23/2008 4:13:03 PM

I got a 90.something

11/23/2008 5:09:06 PM

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

bah. fucking economics. i missed #27 and #30




[Edited on November 23, 2008 at 7:43 PM. Reason : ]

11/23/2008 7:42:01 PM

30/33

I missed #12 because of reading fail. Didn't know #7 or #8.

11/23/2008 8:05:11 PM

27/33

I missed the first question because I thought it was a trick question :-P

11/23/2008 8:14:02 PM

why don't they just lock this topic?

11/23/2008 8:25:46 PM

I like how a few of the questions require allegiance to mainstream economic theory.

11/23/2008 10:18:08 PM

27/33

11/23/2008 10:37:48 PM

33/33 - 100%

11/23/2008 11:38:51 PM

I missed number 27 because I misread it (frankly, the wording didn't help). Otherwise, 32/33.

11/23/2008 11:44:01 PM

Quote :

"You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 % Average score for this quiz during November: 78.1% Average score: 78.1%"

11/24/2008 3:23:26 PM

Missed #29 because I wasn't thinking about it correctly.

The politicians vs. regular people part is why I wouldn't necessarily oppose an enlightened, constitutionally-limited monarch.

[Edited on November 24, 2008 at 3:56 PM. Reason : .]

11/24/2008 3:48:54 PM

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"You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %"

wtf kind of question is this:

33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent

I said A. Yes, I realized that it doesn't necessarily mean debt is zero, but it seemed like the best answer, considering how vague D (the correct answer) was. Spending per capita, or literally, spending to each person? The latter is obviously more of a stretch than A.

11/24/2008 4:46:17 PM

The question is talking about the income statement, answer A is talking about the balance sheet.

11/24/2008 5:28:38 PM

^^

The test is poorly written. My guess is that the question is meant to test if you know the difference between debt and deficit.

However, the author didn't want to put both words in the question because he thought it would jog your memory. So he gave a convoluted correct answer. When I have written tests there is a strong urge to do this as writing Multiple Choice questions is harder than it looks. You just have to fight the urge.

11/24/2008 8:19:11 PM

^ yeah, that one tripped me up because I thought that "tax per person" would not include taxes paid by a business

11/24/2008 9:54:32 PM

28/33

I was especially confused by #29.

Quote :

"29) A flood-control levee (or National Defense) is considered a public good because: A. citizens value it as much as bread and medicine B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it C. government construction contracts increase employment D. insurance companies cannot afford to replace all houses after a flood E. government pays for its construction, not citizens"

These two answers seem too similar for one to be correct and not the other. What's the difference?

11/25/2008 1:49:34 AM

A crucial part of the definition of "a public good" is that residents can, in fact, benefit from it. You benefit from national defense without directly paying for it. You do not benefit from, say, rennovations to the Vice President's residence.

I agree that they're very similar answers, but the "resident can benefit from it" is the crucial difference.

11/25/2008 1:54:22 AM

A public good is anything non-rivalrous and non-excludable. However, it doesn't necessary need to be paid for by the government.

An example would be a lighthouse - which frequently would be built by private interests, but were by definition public goods. Some people attempted to charge fees through port fees, but it's hard to exclude anyone who doesn't pay from receiving the benefit, nor does receiving benefits exclude anyone else from doing so.

11/25/2008 1:56:47 AM

Quote :

"wtf kind of question is this: 33) If taxes equal government spending, then: A. government debt is zero B. printing money no longer causes inflation C. government is not helping anybody D. tax per person equals government spending per person E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent I said A. Yes, I realized that it doesn't necessarily mean debt is zero, but it seemed like the best answer, considering how vague D (the correct answer) was. Spending per capita, or literally, spending to each person? The latter is obviously more of a stretch than A."

EXACTLY what happened to me. 32/33.

12/8/2008 11:13:21 PM

30/33

12/9/2008 1:42:29 AM

32/33

Quote :

"29) A flood-control levee (or National Defense) is considered a public good because: A. citizens value it as much as bread and medicine B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it C. government construction contracts increase employment D. insurance companies cannot afford to replace all houses after a flood E. government pays for its construction, not citizens"

I contend that both B and E are correct answers for this one, which was the only one I missed.

12/9/2008 3:37:26 AM

come on, guy.

when gov't pays for something, where do you think the money come from?

12/9/2008 3:50:28 AM