I’m taking this Civics Quiz (via tracey), and question 32 reads:
Which of the following is a policy tool of the Federal Reserve?
Before I read any of the answers, the response that popped into my head was Ben Bernanke.
I’m taking this Civics Quiz (via tracey), and question 32 reads:
Which of the following is a policy tool of the Federal Reserve?
Before I read any of the answers, the response that popped into my head was Ben Bernanke.
84.84%
I missed some of the historical questions and that stupid one about those gay philosophers. Why was that one even there?!
Missed 1 out of 33. Damn.
missed one. @$&# puritans.
30/33. 2 of them were toss ups between the one I chose and the correct one. apparently I know too much to be a college educator.
The response that should have popped into your head?
“I’m tool”
oops
“I’m a tool”
I mean to say – you are a tool…
[You’re retarded. -Ed.]
100% first time, though they miss define “public good”. There’s a better answer than the one they gave, but I picked the best one.
Excellent teaching tool.
I have printed out the results with score so I can use it in discussions with liberals.
No, liberals won’t look at the test, much less take it.
But it does let me demonstrate publicly their disdain for facts and anything smacking of objective truth.
84.85%, not bad for a guy who slept through civics in high school, with a relatively recent brain injury. As a proud member of the United States Military, as well as a member of the vast right wing conspiracy, I’d be interested in seeing a research study involving that test, along with things like political affiliation conducted on a cross section of this country aged 18 – 40.
9) Under Our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
A. Make treaties
B. Levy income taxes
C. Maintain prisons
D. Natural Disaster Aid
>My comments: Both A and B are correct here. See the 16th amendment.
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?
A. increasing both taxes and spending
B. increasing taxes and decreasing spending
C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
D. decreasing both taxes and spending
>My comments: the policy a government is *most likely* to follow depends on the political make-up of the government in question. This is a poorly worded question.
ditto to #9 I got it “wrong” by saying B grrrrrrrrrrrr
I demand a recount!
I should have erased the right answer since we all know that when you erase something it really means that’s what you meant
RayH – I agree about #30 that this question is poorly worded. The ‘most likely’ action of government often has nothing to do with what will work or what is the morally correct action.
I scored 87%. I guess I’m Still a B student.
Even a blind hog finds an acorn sometimes.
32 of 33…. not bad for a poor redneck enlisted guy.
Sgt D, I too would like to see a breakdown by political affiliation.
Hey Jim, in my haste, I posted before thoroughly checking out the site. They have done this survey that I wanted to and, in fact, included political affiliations. Oddly enough Republicans did slightly better than Democrats, but Liberals did slightly better than Conservatives. I find this somewhat confusing, but no matter. My real point of confusion is the fact that normal people outscore the people that get elected to run this country by a fair margin. What does that say about ‘We the People’?
I missed 5 out of 33. (hangs head in shame) wanted 100%. But at least a little better off then the rest of the heard and damn better then elected officials.
Dang, I scored 75.76%…which is nothing to be proud of, but it’s still better than college professors.
RayH…the answer for question 9 is correct. The word missing in the sentence, although implied by the question, is “exclusively.” Taxation (both direct and indirect) are concurrent powers. Of the choices listed, only the power to make treaties is an exclusive power of the Federal government.
Question 30 is what we called in the Navy the “4.0 buster” question. The (poor) wording is intentional to make you choose what you believe is the best course of action, rather than what you think government is likely to do. Unless you read the question carefully, which I did not either.
30 out of 33. Not even American.
30 right out of 33. Not so bad. Staying on top of current affairs is zapping the time which should be spent recalling history – and that’s dangerous!
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
I missed the last one. Didn’t read all the answers and picked gov’t debt = 0. duh.
100%
I notice that the readers here have all score very highly. This same outfit had a 50 question test about two years ago. They tested college freshman and seniors, and found the freshman dis better (although still terrible). They concluded that college teaches nothing about this type of material.
I learned a number of these items from surfing the internet and reading interesting articles in the past 10 years. The “wall of seperation” question is an example of this
Better at Civiks than speling or tieping
I missed three. Not too shabby, especially when considering that our
liberal overlordsglorious leaders averaged about 44%.Is that comforting or what!?
got 75% but I think it is because the questions were not written to my race or religion I think I would have done better that way.