What is your civic literacy?

[Expat]

You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

 

[bigus_D]

Question 33 - No answer is correct. Taxes can equal government spending but we can still have a debt, printing money is a non sequitur, government helping is irrelevant to the question, tax per person doesn't necessarily equal government spending, and the question doesn't address tax loopholes and special spending. The correct answer would be that the budget is balanced and there is no deficit.

No. If tax income = spending, then tax income per person = spending per person. This is (i believe) the transitive property in math.

Not that this would ever happen, but IF tax income DOES equal spending, then the per person equivalents would also be equal... and that IS the correct answer.

Question 30 - 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?

They said "most likely" and then gave the answer as correct that would be most effective. In my experience it is extremely unlikely in a recession that the government would lower spending and taxes.

the correct answer is lower taxes and increase spending. We've just experienced this exact action.

Fair enough... This is an abstraction and "most likely" and "most effective" are not the same thing (though, in this case, I believe any economist will tell you they are).

I still fail to see the political slant you are inferring earlier.

 

[SavageEagle]

Shadowbeach, I think there's some truth in this. But JBusch8899 mentioned "College professors don't teach the facts, and the people are buying the crap that politicians are spewing. Ya think that this is the reason why the country is in the shape that it is?" I've always believed that education is a continuing effort that doesn't end when you graduate high school, college, etc. So even if some professors don't teach facts, I'd hope that anyone who went to the trouble to go to school would continue to make the effort to learn and educate themselves.

I was thinking about all that last night. Look what the test says about average Americans and College Professors, then look at the average score for us as gun owners.

The results clearly show that all Americans should become Gun Owners and should Join INGO....

 

[JBusch8899]

I was thinking about all that last night. Look what the test says about average Americans and College Professors, then look at the average score for us as gun owners.

The results clearly show that all Americans should become Gun Owners and should Join INGO....

Imagine how much worse your score would of been, if you hadn't joined INGO.

 

[kingnereli]

29 of 33.

 

[irishfan]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82

The Jefferson papers answer seemed to obvious to be right.

 

[kcw12]

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %
Average score for this quiz during May: 76.5%
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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #11 - A. their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights
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 #26 - C. revenue minus expenses
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #31 - A. an increase in a nation’s productivity
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[SavageEagle]

I know what you mean. Every time I log on here, I just feel, I don't know, smarter.

That's because EVERYTHING you read here is the truth. The rest of the interwebs are BS.

 

[tuoder]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %


The test isn't difficult if you try to answer it from the perspective of a high school textbook.

 

[JBusch8899]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

The test isn't difficult if you try to answer it from the perspective of a high school textbook.

That must explain why I did so poorly in high school.

However, I did somehow manage to graduate from college with a B.S.B.A., Magna *** Laude.

 

[Boilers]

I've posted this before, but I'll put it in my sig.
I have a civics lesson everyday.
I subscribe to audio podcast

Podcast 60 seconds civics

Highly recommended.

 

[TheLoneRaider]

You answered 12 out of 33 correctly — 36.36 %

 

[bigus_D]

You answered 12 out of 33 correctly — 36.36 %

OUCH!

 

[TheLoneRaider]

You answered 12 out of 33 correctly — 36.36 %

I have a bad case of cant remember

 

[Loco179]

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %


Not bad but still I think I need to bush up on some things.

 

[dross]

No. If tax income = spending, then tax income per person = spending per person. This is (i believe) the transitive property in math.

Not that this would ever happen, but IF tax income DOES equal spending, then the per person equivalents would also be equal... and that IS the correct answer.



I still fail to see the political slant you are inferring earlier.

You're right on both of these. I went through it quickly, and I think my thoughts of bias were based on the distractors rather than the answers.

 

[tuoder]

That must explain why I did so poorly in high school.

However, I did somehow manage to graduate from college with a B.S.B.A., Magna *** Laude.

In High School, you're not being tested over the truth, you're being tested over the whitewashed state-sanctioned version of the truth. Scoring 100% on such a test is not necessarily a good thing in high school.

 

[Libertarian01]

To All,

93.94%.

To be honest a few of those were guesses. It helps that I just finished and Economics class and a Managerial Accounting class this semester.

Some of the questions need to be better phrased and some of the answers need to be better articulated but otherwise an interesting questionnaire.

I don't believe I had to guess at any of the historical questions, but one about a "wall of separation" was a good guess.

The two (2) I missed were:

Question #29 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

I am not going to argue about their reasoning. I suppose if we were to discuss their logic they would be able to explain it away.

Anyway, neat link.

Regards,

Doug

 

[pudly]

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %
Average score for this quiz during May: 76.5%

Missed one due to misreading. Can't complain.