Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz

ISI civics quiz of sixty multiple-choice questions. You answer, they score. For comparison, scores are also given for seniors at colleges around the U.S. You don't need to register or provide any information to access the test or your score.

Some of the questions are open to interpretation and others are really far out there, in my opinion.

I got 85%.

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...Old Europe, a once-dominant region now reduced to sucking at the geopolitical teat of America... they spent the better part of the last millennium conquering the world and taking the good stuff home with them... And what do they get for their troubles? Ungrateful colonies demanding their independence. And after you taught them how to play cricket!...

-Jon Stewart

Some of those questions are seriously open to debate. A number of them depend on whether or not you agree with the quiz-writer's historical interpretations.

81.7% Thought I did worse.

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No man is an island...
Each man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in Mankind.
And therefore, never send to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
—John Donne

After 3 glasses of wine (in my previous class) I got an 81. something.

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When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

You answered 44 out of 60 correctly — 73.33 %

But then I'm not american, and I mostly failed on american history questions.

(Now I'm expecting some other european to get a 95%)

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Client: In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!
Tailor: But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world, and look at my trousers.
(Beckett)

56 out of 60

You answered 50 out of 60 correctly — 83.33 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 70.9%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 70.9%

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

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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

85. Hrm.

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"Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze."
Gospel of Thomas