Civic Literacy?

[DJJ]

Missed 27 and 30. 30 because it's poorly worded, and 27 because I'm not Louis Rukyser.

[Viking]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %.
Missed on questions 4, 7, 13, 30 & 33.
Not bad I suppose.

[Perd Hapley]

I missed #33 largely because D. does not read "average tax per...average spending per..."  Perhaps I am too literal.  (I admit to often being too littoral. )

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Same here.  But I won't cop to being too literal.  You have to be very literal for this kind of quiz. 

And I'm never littoral, though I am sometimes riverine.   

[BReilley]

Same here.  But I won't cop to being too literal.  You have to be very literal for this kind of quiz.

I, too, missed 33, and 33 only.  I answered A - "government debt is zero" or some such.  I answered too quickly, and should've considered that they said "debt", not "deficit".  I deny, however, that their "right" answer is any better.

[Chuck Dye]

And I'm never littoral, though I am sometimes riverine.

Ahhh, I empathize.  Although I am rarely riverine, I am often riparian.

[Werewolf]

You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

I missed question 33 - the one about taxes equals spending. Don't agree with the answer the site says is correct but I can understand their reasoning.

[Werewolf]

Yep, I got 33 wrong also (the only one I missed).  Simply because I viewed it as basic accounting.

If Revenues (Taxes) = Expenses (Spending) then Profit/Loss (Debt/Surplus) = 0

That was my take on it too. #33 is the only one I missed.

[Nightfall]

87.88%, also missed the infamous 30 & 33, as well as 4 and (duh moment here) 7.

[Perd Hapley]

Did anyone else find the question on Aristotelean epistemology to be a little out of place? 

[Rudy Kohn]

Did anyone else find the question on Aristotelean epistemology to be a little out of place? 

I thought it was an interesting background question, in the sense that the philosophical forerunners of the founding fathers are important for understanding their motivations in organizing the new state they were building.  I'll bet anyone remotely involved in politics in 1776 would have known the answer.

I took this a while ago and ended up with two wrong--one was the foreign policy question, which I thought was a trick and answered "Supreme Court," and #30, which, if I remember correctly, I answered "decrease taxes and spending."