{"id":5361,"date":"2011-07-11T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2011-07-11T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:51:12","slug":"test-your-knowledge-civic-literacy-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/test-your-knowledge-civic-literacy-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Your Knowledge: Civic Literacy Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since yesterday was a slow day for news I decided to share this online test from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) with you.&#160; It is quite challenging.&#160; If you score 50% you\u2019re slightly above average for US citizens, and well above the average of US politicians.&#160; Although they are \u201cnon-partisan\u201d, their outlook and most of their leadership appear quite conservative, lest any accuse that the test is liberally biased.&#160; Enjoy giving it a try.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"11isi_logo\" alt=\"11isi_logo\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/11isi_logo.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey) <\/h3>\n<p>    <\/p>\n<p>Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.org\/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">ISI<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isi.org\/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to take the test<\/a>. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How did you do?&#160; Here are my results.<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">You answered <\/font><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><strong>33<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: \"> out of <\/span><span style=\"font-family: \"><strong>33<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: \"> correctly \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: \"><strong>100.00 %<\/strong>             <br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: \">If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:americancivicliteracy@isi.org\" target=\"_blank\">americancivicliteracy@isi.org<\/a><span style=\"font-family: \"><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: \">.            <br \/>You can consult the following <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancivicliteracy.org\/2008\/additional_finding.html\" target=\"_blank\">table<\/a><span style=\"font-family: \"><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font><\/span><\/font><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I guess all those hours of research paid off.&#160; The table is particularly interesting.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since yesterday was a slow day for news I decided to share this online test from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) with you.&#160; It is quite challenging.&#160; If you score 50% you\u2019re slightly above average for US citizens, and well above the average of US politicians.&#160; Although they are \u201cnon-partisan\u201d, their outlook and most of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/test-your-knowledge-civic-literacy-exam\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-politics","category-141-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}