http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspxNo cheating.
11/23/2008 1:20:28 AM
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11/23/2008 1:22:17 AM
Yes, but this is the soap box version.
11/23/2008 2:19:18 AM
11/23/2008 2:27:06 AM
27/33Missed 7,12,13,15,30,33
11/23/2008 2:51:08 AM
31/33Missed #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
30/33Missed 7, 13, and 14.
11/23/2008 6:15:33 AM
missed 1.
11/23/2008 6:20:46 AM
31/33missed 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
32/33Can't believe that, outa all the questions on there, #6 was the one that tripped me up.
11/23/2008 1:21:56 PM
30/33missed 7, 11 and 29i 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
30Question #7 - D. Gettysburg AddressQuestion #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanityQuestion #19 - B. teaching evolution in the schoolsI missed a couple others. I'm just not going to count them.
11/23/2008 3:00:28 PM
28/33the 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
30/33I missed #12 because of reading fail. Didn't know #7 or #8.
11/23/2008 8:05:11 PM
27/33I 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
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
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
28/33I was especially confused by #29.
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
12/8/2008 11:13:21 PM
30/33
12/9/2008 1:42:29 AM
32/33
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