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Civics Quiz

Posted by Nate on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:24:13 PM

For some reason, the html throws my quiz way down on the screen so if you want to see it, please scroll down until it comes into view.

This quiz can be taken if you follow this link.

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

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%

You can take the quiz as often as you like, however, your score will only count once toward the monthly average.

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.

Where to from here?

Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person
1)   Which of the following are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence?

2)   In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a series of government programs that became known as:

3)   What are the three branches of government?

4)   What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858?

5)   The United States Electoral College:

6)   The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits:

7)   What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, for the people, by the people”?

8)   In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to:

9)   Under Our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?

10)   Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment.

11)   What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?

12)   Which of the following statements is true about abortion?

13)   Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:

14)   The Puritans:

15)   The phrase that in America there should be a “wall of separation” between church and state appears in:

16)   In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

17)   Sputnik was the name given to the first:

18)   Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the movement to

19)   The Scopes “Monkey Trial” was about:

20)   Who is the commander in chief of the U.S. military?

21)   Name two countries that were our enemies during World War II.

22)   What part of the government has the power to declare war?

23)   In October 1962 the United States and the Soviet Union came close to war over the issue of Soviet:

24)   In the area of United States foreign policy, Congress shares power with the:

25)   Free enterprise or capitalism exists insofar as:

26)   Business profit is:

27)   Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:

28)   A progressive tax:

29)   A flood-control levee (or National Defense) is considered a public good because:

30)   Which of the following fiscal policy combinations would a government most likely follow to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe recession?

31)   International trade and specialization most often lead to which of the following?

32)   Which of the following is a policy tool of the Federal Reserve?

33)   If taxes equal government spending, then:
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