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A test of your knowledge of US history and government:

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You answered 21 out of 33 correctly — 63.64 %

Where I got it wrong:-

Question: In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a series of government programs that became known as:
Your Answer: the Square Deal

Question: The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits:
Your Answer: discrimination based on race, sex, or religion
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Question: What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?
Your Answer: their influence ensured that the federal government would have the power to tax
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Question: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:
Your Answer: property rights and contracts are best enforced by the market system
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Question: The United States Electoral College:
Your Answer: is otherwise known as the U.S. Congress
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Question: What part of the government has the power to declare war?
Your Answer: the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Question: What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858?
Your Answer: Do Southern states have the constitutional right to leave the union?
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Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to:
Your Answer: impeach several Supreme Court justices
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Question: What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?
Your Answer: U.S. Constitution
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Question: Which of the following are the unalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence?
Your Answer: life, liberty, and property
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Question: The phrase that in America there should be a “wall of separation” between church and state appears in:
Your Answer: the Constitution
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Question: A flood-control levee (or National Defense) is considered a public good because:
Your Answer: government pays for its construction, not citizens


I don't think I did to bad, as an outsider

24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %


but then again, I only went to highschool in the states for a year...college didn't teach any of that and the citizenship test was just an exercise in test taking. predefined test questions, only a small portion actually required to be tested and the actual test given at the whim of the INS official. She told me to stop after listing seven of the first 13 states, "good enough".

29 out of the 33 answered correct
I thought I would do better

75 %, lucky guesses on some. glennnn

Oops, the only one I missed was the one about the first amendment! How embarrassing, as it was one of the most important.

However, I don't agree with the answer about free markets vis a vis centrally controlled economies. I got it right, as the others were more wrong, but that is not the answer an economist would give. So, it had me scratching my head for awhile. Also, the question on Plato, Socrates and Aquinus is rather odd in a civics test--good citizens do not need to know the entire history of political thought to be good citizens.

I got 4 questions wrong. I suspended the website.

I was exactly with Nicholas.63.64%.I'd love to retake it,when not drinking. that was not a knock on NIck...I'd say,good show brother.

81.80% here ... thats 6 wrong. I had hoped to do better 'cause I found that stuff interesting in school ... mostly 8th grade Social Studies class. I got Plato and Lincoln/Douglas wrong among others.

razorbuc wrote:I was exactly with Nicholas.63.64%.I'd love to retake it,when not drinking. that was not a knock on NIck...I'd say,good show brother.

I would say the score reflects badly on you mate are you a Johnny foriengner also ?

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72.73

Got them all correct, but on 3 of them I had to go into the "Stupid test Writer" mental mode.

BTW betcha didn't know that Vanguard was the first man-made satellite. But Sputnik was the first one orbited because the idiots in power decided that NRL would use a completely new, not possibly military launch system that was difficult to develop.

75.76%

You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

Did it too quickly and made stupid mistakes. I found it disheartning that the average scores for the test were not a lot higher. So much for mandatory public education.

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the movement to
Your Answer: guarantee former slaves the right to vote
Correct Answer: guarantee women the right to vote in national elections

Question: What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?
Your Answer: Declaration of Independence
Correct Answer: Gettysburg Address

Question: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:
Your Answer: property rights and contracts are best enforced by the market system
Correct Answer: the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends

First one's not that important.

Shouldn't have gotten the other two wrong, though.

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %