What have I fallen for? These are simple questions! It took me about two minutes to click through the quiz. Elsewhere it has breakdowns of correct answers to various questions. It would be one thing if people got the tricky ones wrong, but they get the extremely easy ones wrong, too.
Judging by certain tonal elements, I'd expect that some conservative group or another is ultimately behind a site like this. And yet, those really are terrible scores.
1. I'll give you that one. 2. I hate myths. 3. It's a very, very short speech. One of the best and most important pieces of oratory in American history. 4. Blah. 5. E is the only really plausible answer, but sure. Definitely falls into "unimportant trivia" territory. 6. Court packing! Politics is not unimportant. But I wouldn't be too sad if people missed this one. 7. I grant you word salad. Certainly a trap question, because the correct answer is pointless. 8. Maybe I just key on words with abnormal ease? "Explicitly", in this case. 10. Check. 11. Also a little bit of a judgement call. Crazy republican administration? You never know! 12. Possibly, although it's in one of those areas of history that classes dither on about for a long time, for some reason.
And from there on, yeah, more people get answers right. But the numbers are still pretty terrible.
So, before I read through the comments, I went ahead and did your Right Wing Crank Site Survey. I missed three, one of which I knew the answer to, but apparently can't click a radial button properly.
The ostensibly correct answer to #33 is wrong. A balanced budget does not guarantee that all citizens will receive an equal portion of all federal funds spent.
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Basically knowing that three of them were pagans and one was a serious Christian gives you the answer.
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Judging by certain tonal elements, I'd expect that some conservative group or another is ultimately behind a site like this. And yet, those really are terrible scores.
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2. I hate myths.
3. It's a very, very short speech. One of the best and most important pieces of oratory in American history.
4. Blah.
5. E is the only really plausible answer, but sure. Definitely falls into "unimportant trivia" territory.
6. Court packing! Politics is not unimportant. But I wouldn't be too sad if people missed this one.
7. I grant you word salad. Certainly a trap question, because the correct answer is pointless.
8. Maybe I just key on words with abnormal ease? "Explicitly", in this case.
10. Check.
11. Also a little bit of a judgement call. Crazy republican administration? You never know!
12. Possibly, although it's in one of those areas of history that classes dither on about for a long time, for some reason.
And from there on, yeah, more people get answers right. But the numbers are still pretty terrible.
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The ostensibly correct answer to #33 is wrong. A balanced budget does not guarantee that all citizens will receive an equal portion of all federal funds spent.
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