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Title: Try this quiz and see how you do
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URL Source: http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692
Published: Dec 1, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-12-01 12:16:56 by James Deffenbach
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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.

You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 % (I missed one question)

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not so good here -

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Lod  posted on  2013-12-01   13:28:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

How many gave this question some thought?

Name two countries that were our enemies during World War II.

Canada and Mexico Germany and Japan England and Spain China and Russia

Cynicom  posted on  2013-12-01   13:56:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Japan and Germany.

I did not fare well on this quiz as I had anticipated because many of those questions were about government public policy. Much of what those government employees do in Washington D.C. are work related to policy generating laws. And most of them are clueless about the Constitution. So it does not surprise me a bit when I read that many of them fared below the 50 percentile range. They got hired not because of their educational background but because of their lack of understanding of the Constitution.

Government policies and custom laws are public laws and regulations that are separate from the Constitution and were never intended to supercede the Constitution. A great example of this are from some questions I reference from that quiz:

International trade and specialization most often lead to which of the following?

Which of the following fiscal policy combinations has the federal government most often followed to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe iecession?

If taxes equal government spending, then:

purplerose  posted on  2013-12-01   16:16:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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