The Civic Literacy Test

[Verily]

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

Go for it.

I got 32/33 (96.97%).

[Meeker]

32/33 (96.97%)

I had no idea on the Greek question.

[Keystone Phil]

27/33  82%

I made about three or four very silly mistakes. 

[Four49]

30/33.  I missed 27,29 & 30.  Which isn't a surprise, I don't know a lot about economics.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Got all of them right except the last one and only because I didn't read it fully. Ah well.

Ridiculous Test however.

[Meeker]

Oh my God:

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*facepalm*

[Alcon]

Some of these answers are pretty hilarious.

21)   Name two countries that were our enemies during World War II.
A. Canada and Mexico

"ah, yes, that World War."

I got 31/33.  Missed #27 because I didn't really understand what it was talking about, and #33 because I read "decrease" in B as "increase."

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

Missed 7, 27, 32 and 33.

[MaxQue]

Oh my God:

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*facepalm*

That is not an Civic Literacy test. That is a ''Do you know neoliberalism?'' test.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Oh my God:

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*facepalm*

That is not an Civic Literacy test. That is a ''Do you know neoliberalism?'' test.

Yeah, that annoyed me. The economic questions are ridiculously biased, and have nothing really to do with American heritage or whatnot which this is supposed to measure knowledge of supposedly.

[AkSaber]

You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

I missed 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 27, 30, and 31.

[MK]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
 
I actually did pretty good on the biased economic questions.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

Ugh - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas!!!!


ps... the economic questions were horrific, lol. Once I knew where their head was... that was easy.

[Platypus]

30/33, only missed on economic questions (27, 28 and 33). The last one was very frustrating, because i answered with logic and got it wrong I figured tax income only from taxpayers, whereas spending per peson includes non-taxpayers, so it couldn't be that. I knew the first answer was questionable also, but I figured it was the closest to being correct

[Verily]

30/33, only missed on economic questions (27, 28 and 33). The last one was very frustrating, because i answered with logic and got it wrong I figured tax income only from taxpayers, whereas spending per peson includes non-taxpayers, so it couldn't be that. I knew the first answer was questionable also, but I figured it was the closest to being correct

It is a semantical question as much as anything else. But "debt" doesn't mean "deficit"--if the United States suddenly started running a balanced budget, like the question suggests, then the US would still be deeply in debt. We merely wouldn't be spending in a deficit. "Tax per person" of course doesn't mean "income tax per person" but rather all taxation combined, although the assumption that it only means taxes paid by the individual (so maybe including property taxes, but probably not including sales tax and almost certainly not including corporate taxes) is an intuitive one.