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American Civics Quiz
« on: March 30, 2009, 11:59:00 AM »
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My fellow Americans ( ;))  Take a look at this website http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx  You may have seen it already.  If not, it's quite an in-depth and challenging quiz on American history, politics, economics and other things we should know.  I majored in American history, and still struggled with some of the questions (mostly the economics ones  :P).  Give it a try! 
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2009, 12:06:36 PM »
I've taken this one before.  The questions got a bit tougher towards the end.  DH was looking over my shoulder for the first half, but I had to ask him to look away.  ;D
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Re: American Civics Quiz
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2009, 12:29:11 PM »
Aargghhh, I hate that search function, it NEVER WORKS!  Sorry for the re-post  >:(
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2009, 01:31:50 PM »
Quote from: historyenne on March 30, 2009, 12:29:11 PM
Aargghhh, I hate that search function, it NEVER WORKS! 

I know!  I KNEW that post existed, and it still took me 3 tries with the search function to find it.  In the meantime, I got a lot of ads about Honda Civics.  >:(
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2009, 09:58:26 PM »
That was fun. Thanks for posting it! :)
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2009, 12:58:12 AM »
29/33.   

Some questions seem to be much harder than others!
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2009, 01:23:17 AM »
25/33

Thanks for that, I learned something today :)
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2009, 03:52:04 AM »
31/33 (and I am kicking myself over the profit question--I just wasn't reading closely enough!)
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Re: American Civics Quiz
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2009, 10:24:35 AM »
Quote from: mungo on March 31, 2009, 03:52:04 AM
I am kicking myself over the profit question--I just wasn't reading closely enough!

I missed 5, 13, 15, and 22, so definitely a couple of very silly mistakes on my part!   :-[

And I have to confess that I only got 8 and 11 plus one of the economics questions by an educated guess after eliminating the known wrong answers.


P.S. Not that I'm complaining because it was an easy question for me, but what does #17 really have to do with American Civics?   
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