by David Safier
If you think taking tests is fun (when your future doesn't depend on it), here's a good one: a Civics Quiz. Thirty-three questions about our government and to some extent our history.
Like all these things, it puts more stock in pure memory than I would like, and I found a few of the economics-based questions to be ambiguous, if not biased — but maybe that's because I got some of them wrong. But I think most readers of this site will be pleased with their scores compared to the average of a random sample of test takers: 49% for the entire group and 55% for college "educators" [That's what it says on the site. I wonder if it means college "educated."] According to an AFP article,
US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent.
Let's hear it for our elected officials! (Thanks to Daily Kos)
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