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Are You Smarter than an Elected Official?


This is a sad state of affairs for U.S. elected officials:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/od_afp/ushistoryeducationoffbeat;_ylt=Ahrg5V7Fhx6miNIc.fHVYO0azJV4

You can take the quiz yourself here:

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

How'd'ya do? (I missed 3, but I disagree with two of them :) )

-- Edited by MrsCavalluzzi at 21:10, 2008-11-23

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Well I hope most people in this class get better than 44% that is just terrible. It also says less than half of the general public can name the 3 branches of the government. That's disturbing.

I got 81% which I think is OK considering I haven't taken a government class yet.

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i got a 94%! HUZZAH!

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29 out of 33... not to bad lol

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Kody
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28

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hey, what a coincidence... I got a 28 too

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