Political Smarts
So, apparently, most elected officials score a 44% or lower on this Civic Literacy Report .
Me? Glad you asked! 78%. Yes, I’m smarter than most elected officials. I say that with great humility and a little incredulity towards my elected officials.
You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #4 – B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 – D. Gettysburg Address
Question #12 – B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #13 – E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Question #14 – B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #31 – A. an increase in a nation’s productivity
Question #33 – D. tax per person equals government spending per person
Of those, yes, it’s ridiculous that I missed #7 and #33.
Your score? Post it in the comments!
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Not having read your answers, I got the exact same score, and some of the same questions wrong. Clearly I know very little about taxation (and #33 is a trick question). Also, as a feminist, I am ashamed to have missed 12, but whatever.
Becca
here’s what I missed:
Question #4 – B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #8 – C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #12 – B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #15 – E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
Question #27 – A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #30 – C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
Question #33 – D. tax per person equals government spending per person
I’m in the same boat with you and Becca – same score, many overlapping wrong answers!
I definitely thought #12 was a trick question because it seemed so obvious…silly me.
~ Sarah
Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #4 – B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 – D. Gettysburg Address
Question #12 – B. the Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
Question #14 – B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #21 – B. Germany and Japan
Question #27 – A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #33 – D. tax per person equals government spending per person
I rule! Y’all drool!!!
90.91% (30 out of 33)
got some of the same questions wrong (Didn’t look at your answers…
Question #7 – D. Gettysburg Address
Question #31 – A. an increase in a nation’s productivity
Question #33 – D. tax per person equals government spending per person
87.88%. I missed the Gettysburg address question too, for some reason. I guess I always assumed Lincoln was quoting something else.
#33 still seems wrong to me.
Yeah, we all missed #33. I reread it and it just doesn’t work for me. Is it just the best answer outta all the worse ones?
Woo hoo! 87.88%
96.97…but I’m a grad student in Social Science. I missed #26: Business profit is? I was thinking about assets and liabilities because that’s whats been discussed in the business world recently due to the financial crisis. However, I think that this question, as well as a few of the others, shouldn’t be on a civics test. This one, at least, was factual. Asking why “free markets” work better than “centrally planned economies” is a loaded, biased question with many possible answers, including “I reject the framing of the question. This test overall has deep biases that make it nearly useless for the determination of a citizen’s “civic literacy.” Grr. Not that it makes me mad or anything. :p
Well done Anonymous! I’m totally with you regarding the framing of some of the questions.
…and tell us how you really feel.