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Seems most Americans can only answer 49% of the questions - an 'F' grade, in my book.

I would not be surprised if Canadians could do as well or perhaps even better.

Here's the link if you'd like to give it a go: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/re ... /quiz.aspx

For me my results were:

   

You answered 23 out of 33 correctly — 69.70 %


Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #6 - D. establishing an official religion for the United States
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #10 - C. Religion
Question #11 - A. their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #26 - C. revenue minus expenses
Question #29 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

Not bad for a non-American.

   

88%. But if that passes for American civics, it has a lot of indoctrination in it. I got those answers right because I know what they were looking for, but some of those are open to debate. Oh, well, gotta indoctrinate them young, same as the Soviets did.

   

26 out of 33

   

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %

I missed 4, 8, 15, and 29. 4 and 15 were due to my unfamiliarity with the history, in 8 I didn't know the President could appoint aditional justices, and 29 was just a brain fart.

   

29 out of 33.

The Bill of Rights guarantees that there is no official religion in the US? Doesn't do a very good job, does it?

   

I got 70% too.

   

76% - boo-urns!

   

Booyah! Missed the Puritan question.

Some of the later questions are more tangentially related to American Civics than I would like for this kind of quiz.

   

An entity that has been worshiped for some time, making an appearance on this plane of existence and saying "Hi! It's Me!".

   

You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %

   

I've got 31/33, but I have an inside edge being American.

   

Good score you know more about being an American than a lot of Americans.

The point of the separtaion of religion is that no faith has any more rights than any other faith and the Government can't say My faith trumps your faith.

   

In Western nations that used to mean that one specific denomination of Christianity was legally the 'official' church. The social impact of that was especially keen in England where non-Anglicans were second-class citizens whose rights were frequently trampled upon.

In the modern context you can see the social impact of even a defacto national faith as you see in Egypt where religious minorities are currently having a hard time and the government does almost nothing to help them.

   

28 of 33, 84.blah-blah%. Some of the questions, especially the economic ones, seemed more from the Chamber of Commerce guidebook than from any sort of objective and factual textbook.

   

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