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mathetes
User ID: 281281 United States 09/20/2007 02:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only got 80%, hey its a passing grade! Not an easy test For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 226992 United States 09/20/2007 02:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 3) The Constitution of the United States established what form of government? A. Direct democracy B. Populism C. Indirect democracy D. Oligarchy E. Aristocracy This is why I made the statement I made. Article 4, Section 4 of the USConstituion. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." All answers avaliable are wrong. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 226992 United States 09/20/2007 02:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ----------------------------------------- 30) The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits: A. prayer in public school. B. discrimination based on race, sex, or religion. C. the ownership of guns by private individuals. D. establishing an official religion for the United States. E. the President from vetoing a line item in a spending bill. NONE OF THE ABOVE - 'Establishment' is not used as a verb in the bill of rights. Its telling government not to make a law redarding the establishment of religion... its already there... and government can't touch it.. As if government can establish a religion other than the worship of itself |
mathetes
User ID: 281281 United States 09/20/2007 02:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 3) The Constitution of the United States established what form of government? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 226992A. Direct democracy B. Populism C. Indirect democracy D. Oligarchy E. Aristocracy This is why I made the statement I made. Article 4, Section 4 of the USConstituion. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." All answers avaliable are wrong. Hey genius, an Indirect Democracy is also known as a Republic! So instead of trying to tell us what is wrong with the test what was your score? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
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NSMystic88
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mathetes
User ID: 281281 United States 09/20/2007 03:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey I admit it was not an easy test but look at the top 10 scores. 1. Harvard University 69.56% 2. Grove City College (PA) 67.26 3. Washington & Lee University (VA) 66.98 4. Yale University 65.85 5. Brown University 65.64 6. University of Virginia 65.28 7. Wheaton College (IL) 64.98 8. University of Pennsylvania 63.49 9. Duke University 63.41 10. Bowdoin College (ME) 62.86 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. |
jonk
User ID: 300678 Australia 09/20/2007 03:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm an Aussie who did American History, still I only got: You answered 37 out of 60 correctly — 61.67 % Average score for this quiz during September: 75.1% Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.1% You can take the quiz as often as you like, however, your score will only count once toward the monthly average. If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email [email protected]. You can consult the following table to see how freshmen and seniors scored on each question as part of the survey administration. Where to from here? Answers to Your Missed Questions: Question #2 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity. Question #3 - C. Indirect democracy Question #5 - D. Yorktown Question #6 - E. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Question #7 - B. Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Appomattox Question #10 - E. slavery and its expansion. Question #13 - B. the nature and control of Reconstruction. Question #14 - C. 1901-1925 Question #18 - D. The Declaration of Independence. Question #19 - C. philosopher kings. Question #21 - A. support ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Question #23 - B. Marbury v. Madison. Question #24 - D. A political system where state and national governments share power. Question #26 - D. John Locke. Question #33 - C. To receive ambassadors. Question #34 - B. President Washington's Farewell Address. Question #35 - A. discouraged new colonies in the Western hemisphere. Question #37 - C. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Question #39 - D. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Question #44 - B. gave President Johnson the authority to expand the scope of the Vietnam War. Question #54 - D. can be reversed by government spending more than it taxes. Question #58 - B. An increase in the volume of commercial bank loans. Question #60 - B. social security. |
Crock O Dundee User ID: 208226 Australia 09/20/2007 04:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm an Aussie who did American History, still I only got: Quoting: jonkYou answered 37 out of 60 correctly — 61.67 % Also an Aussie, never been to the US. I got 78% right. Does this mean Aussies have become more Americanised-or that Americans have become.. er.. more ignorant? |
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Isaac Brock died for us
User ID: 284531 Canada 09/20/2007 05:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I got 88% and I'm not American. But the question about the United Nations was fucked-up. The allies in World War II were officially known as the United Nations. The leading allied war powers Britain, France, the USSR, the USA, and China became the Security Council. The alliance didn't begin till 1939, but an anti-axis coalition was taking when Italy invaded Ethiopia. owner of an extensive collection of curios from the exotic orient |
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jonk
User ID: 302110 Australia 09/23/2007 01:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm an Aussie who did American History, still I only got: Quoting: Crock O Dundee 208226You answered 37 out of 60 correctly — 61.67 % Also an Aussie, never been to the US. I got 78% right. Does this mean Aussies have become more Americanised-or that Americans have become.. er.. more ignorant? Definately Americanised for sure. But US history was real boring btw, it was this act or that act blah blah, never got to do 'modern' american history, which is what we thought we'd do anyway. Yet, Aussie history was aboriginals and bushrangers, that's it. Everyone who did only Oz history was saying how dull it was. Convicts, one rebellion... aboriginals, bushrangers. More bushrangers, then some about the aboriginals. The convicts became 'bushrangers, the ab's would spear the bushrangers, and someone had a rebellion, Ballarat, or thereabouts. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 302187 United Kingdom 09/23/2007 07:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 3) The Constitution of the United States established what form of government? Quoting: mathetesA. Direct democracy B. Populism C. Indirect democracy D. Oligarchy E. Aristocracy This is why I made the statement I made. Article 4, Section 4 of the USConstituion. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." All answers avaliable are wrong. Hey genius, an Indirect Democracy is also known as a Republic! So instead of trying to tell us what is wrong with the test what was your score? Hey jewboygenius, why didn't they just use the word Republic then? Why did they have to substitute a meaningless Jewspeak word, when they had the original article to use instead? |