My score on the Civics Literacy Quiz:
You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Average score for this quiz during February: 71.3%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 71.3%
I swear on Darwin’s Gonads I did not Google the answers, or I wouldn’t have missed the first question, much less the 35th.
This quiz was given to 7000 college seniors, who got an overall score of 54.2%, an “F”. The best school ranked was Harvard, whose seniors got 69.7%–a “D-”.
Oh, I love this: “America’s Most Prestigious Universities Performed the Worst.”
See major findings of the survey here.
Via William the Coroner.
Answers to the ones I missed:
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Question #1 “Jamestown, Virginia, was first settled by Europeans during which period?”
- 1601-1700
[I said: 1501-1600.]
Meh. I have calendar disease.
Question #5 [Which battle brought the American Revolution to an end?]
- Yorktown
[Saratoga.]
I know more about the politics of the Revolution than the military history. Still, this is a pretty basic fact. Yorktown was my second choice, but the others were Gettysburg, New Orleans, and the Alamo–not in the right war, and the last two not even in the original 13 colonies.
Question #35 “The Monroe Doctrine:”
- discouraged new colonies in the Western hemisphere.
[proclaimed America’s Manifest Destiny]
I disappointed myself the most with this answer. Manifest Destiny is a doctrine in its own right.
Question #54 “Keynesian economists conclude that the recession phase of a business cycle:”
- can be reversed by government spending more than it taxes.
[can be reversed with higher interest rates.]
I’m astonished that I got any of the economics questions right.
Question #58 “What is a major effect of a purchase of bonds by the Federal Reserve?”
- An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans.
[An increase in interest rates.]
Economics again.
FYI: I have about two years of college, mostly at community colleges, mostly on technical topics, but I’ve learned almost everything from this quiz on my own, not in school.
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