Garden State Patriot

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) recently administered a 33 question civics exam to 2500 Americans, including a large number of elected officials. The results? “US elected officials scored abysmally…with an average grade of just 44 percent.” And “ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct.”

This kind of information makes one wonder if citizens ought to pass civics examinations before running for office or voting!

So, of course, I had to take the quiz myself. Most of the questions were very relevant to our history and government. A few seemed a bit more specific to things like economics, so I couldn’t fault people for getting some wrong. Nonetheless, here are my results. I’m shocked myself as to how well I did!!

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Now, I want to see how my readers do! Take the quiz here and post your result in the comments section. No cheating, though!!

Here’s the story link – again, look at this when you’re done with the quiz because it reveals some of the answers.