Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Civics Quiz
You really should try out this civics quiz by ISI; we were quite impressed with the caliber of the questions. They ask things that are actually worth knowing. I got an embarrassingly high score, but then, it's my subject. Then if you like stressing over the degeneracy of society, you can read about how college students fare on the test. I hope my former class would have done better than average, but I am always plagued with doubt. I certainly tried.
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Injecting some brightness into the scene, I speak as a one-time student of yours & I got a higher score than the college average. Though I did not, like my brilliant instructress, achieve an embarassingly high one...
Well that is heartening, although I'm sure you got much of your information from other sources than me.
Bah! Most of my wrong answers involved the same mistake I used to make on the annual standard testing years ago: I read the answers too quickly, think I spot the right one, and pick it without even giving the others a glance. After all, who could deny that Adam Smith argued that a division of labour increased the wealth of nations?
Ah, you must learn that the secret of multiple choice tests is to look for the wrong answers--and then, as Holmes would say--when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be true.
Well, at least I'm not embarrassed. My score was not too high ;)
My strong points were areas that I've read about w/ the children. After the Civil War, though, I was toast. I knew less about the current era and the fifty years preceding than any other era. Yikes.
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