I saw an article about this quiz in the USA Today. It was a basic overview of American Civics and sent to Ivy league schools and several other random schools (including my alma mater Mississippi State). It showed how poor our students are on civic literacy. When I saw the numbers, Harvard scored the best at just under 70%, I assumed I would do poorly myself. Instead, I got 90% right, missing just 6 of the 60 questions. I guess this lets me sound old and grouchy and say "What wrong with kids these days?"
Your turn. Let me know how well you do.
I have to confess that I only scored 70%. However, I did feel some of the questions were more historical than civics and some were sort of opinions, like the one about George Washington. However, it was thought provoking and good to go back and review some of my civics knowledge, since it has been close to 45 years since I worried much about it. Also glad to see I raised such an erudite and knowledgeable son!! Good job!
ReplyDeleteI scored 80%. I definitely prefer the history and government questions to the economy questions.
ReplyDeleteI really like the quizzes you post on here. Keep 'em coming.
The quiz was given to groups of freshmen and seniors in the selected colleges. The USA Today article said only one individual, a senior at Harvard, got 60 correct. Here are the questions I missed. I want to see Marcia "The US President Expert" Meadors do the test.
ReplyDeleteQuestion #9 - B. was a stalemate.
Question #18 - D. The Declaration of Independence.
Question #19 - C. philosopher kings.
Question #21 - A. support ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
Question #26 - D. John Locke.
Question #54 - D. can be reversed by government spending more than it taxes.
Marcia "The US President Expert" Meadors scored 71% on the test. This was before her first cup of morning coffee, which significantly impacted her performance.
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