How much do you know about Civic literacy (Lincoln, workers, taxes)

[tvdxer]

Scored a 28 / 33. Missed the ones about the Gettysburg address, government spending (a little more thinking would have gotten me it), the Lincoln debates, the anti-federalists, and the FDR provisions.

I doubt most people would score above 50-70%. For those with no more than a high school education, lower. Even most of my fellow college students would probably not get over 50% unless they were majoring in History.

[Willsson]

With the assist of my Cato Pocket Edition of The Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the U.S., I scored a 90.91%, missing only one fewer of the same four I missed six months ago.

I took two semesters of Civics in high school, the second being Advanced Civics (not a repeat of the first). We did NOT discuss levees, property rights and contracts, or Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas as principles of government.

[Willsson]

Originally Posted by revrandy

28 out of 33, not bad for a Canadian.

Shall we try a Canadian civic's test and see how well the American's do?

I watch Flashpoint, I should do well...

[Willsson]

Originally Posted by Cav Scout wife

Spoiler

• You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
  If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.
  You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.

The Federal Reserve questions got me.

But this shocked me more than anything else:

Civic Literacy Report - Additional Finding

The chart clearly shows elected officials know LESS about our Government than the average person. Maybe that's why we as a country as so screwed up!

That could be changed easily by replacing Maxine Waters and Barbara Boxer. Maybe a couple of others too vile to mention.

[freightshaker]

Results

• You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 % How embarrassing...

[wutitiz]

I scored 32 of 33 and most of my education comes from listening to Rush Limbaugh. Anyone who listens to Rush would have known the Gettysburg question because it was famously misstated by Bill Clinton, as Rush drilled into my head.

[LML]

93.94%. Would have been 100% but I made the mistake of changing two answers that WERE correct. Darn it. Oh, and by the way, I actually DID hold elective office at one point in my life.

[mmmjv]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.

You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.

The ones I got wrong were
What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858?

If taxes equal government spending, then:

Some of these seemed to be a bit subjective to me

[rbohm]

my score;

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

[helenejen]

Originally Posted by rbohm

my score;

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Me too. I was pleasantly surprised to see the Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas question. But the questions I got wrong I really should have known:

• Question: Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment. Your Answer: Right to bear arms Correct Answer: Religion
• Question: What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”? Your Answer: Declaration of Independence Correct Answer: Gettysburg Address
• Question: What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858? Your Answer: Do Southern states have the constitutional right to leave the union? Correct Answer: Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?

Back to Civics 101 for me on the first two that I got wrong.