21st November 2008

ISI's civic literacy quiz

I'm taking it now; it gets more difficult as it goes along...

Submitting my answers...

31 of 33 correct! Here's how politicians did, compared to normal people, and here is ISI's homepage. Wasn't Russell Kirk affiliated with them back in the 80s?

I was wrong on questions 31 and 33:

31) International trade and specialization most often lead to which of the following?
A. an increase in a nation’s productivity
B. a decrease in a nation’s economic growth in the long term
C. an increase in a nation’s import tariffs
D. a decrease in a nation’s standard of living

33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos

And in these days of Lent they shall each receive a book from the library, which they shall read straight through from the beginning.—St Benedict of Nursia