civics quiz

[TheBrutalTruth]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%
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Question #7
Question #13
Question #14
Question #29

Edited: Though I disagree with their answer to #29

 

[medicineman]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%
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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #7
Question #13
Question #14
Question #29

Edited: Though I disagree with their answer to #29

Uhhh, you sure you didn't use the google,~LOL~.

 

[Keenly]

ou answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

 

[TheBrutalTruth]

Uhhh, you sure you didn't use the google,~LOL~.

Med, if I had used Google, don't you think I would have gone for getting a perfect score?

 

[ViRedd]

You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

 

[mindphuk]

I misread Q#33 so should have gotten that right. I don't understand Q#30 though. Why would an increase in spending help a recession? Wouldn't decreasing the wasteful spending also help along with reducing taxes?



You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%
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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

 

[VTXDave]

You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%
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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #7
Question #13
Question #14
Question #29

Edited: Though I disagree with their answer to #29

I got the same...Different wrong answers though.

 

[mindphuk]

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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #7
Question #13
Question #14
Question #29

Edited: Though I disagree with their answer to #29

How did you answer 29?
The military (national defense), levees and other similar items for the public good merely means that everyone benefits equally regardless of whether they pay taxes or live off welfare. I didn't see any other answer that would fit (answer E. is a red-herring since the government and the people (citizens) are one in the same).

 

[stalebiscuit]

You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.9%
Average score: 77.9%



i missed questions



6,7,8,12,13,27,29,32



and those were the questions that could have been argued against or i had no knowledge of (like old as dirt greek philosophers, who the fuck cares)

 

[hornedfrog2000]

I misread Q#33 so should have gotten that right. I don't understand Q#30 though. Why would an increase in spending help a recession? Wouldn't decreasing the wasteful spending also help along with reducing taxes?



You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

It was asking what would be the best way to stimulate the economy. Of course more spending will get more money in the economy. I figured it could be either one though, because it was kind of an open ended question. It asked what you thought, not what was fact. Like the old saying goes... You gotta spend money to make money.

 

[TheBrutalTruth]

How did you answer 29?
The military (national defense), levees and other similar items for the public good merely means that everyone benefits equally regardless of whether they pay taxes or live off welfare. I didn't see any other answer that would fit (answer E. is a red-herring since the government and the people (citizens) are one in the same).

I think I answered D, and the correct answer was something about people benefitting from it even though they don't pay for it directly, but if you pay taxes then you are paying for it directly. So, I disagreed with it. Of course, I supposed those that don't pay taxes also benefit from it despite not paying taxes, but I really doubt that there is all that many people that don't pay some sort of taxes, and thus pay directly for our government's programs. Whether those taxes be property, sales, or income taxes, or other fees and fines.


Separately... have a "spelling error" coming up on my spelling of benefitting. According to this it's supposed to be benefiting, but that'd be pronounced benefighting not benefitting.

Since when was benefitting an "incorrect" spelling?

That's the way I was taught to spell in school, and also the benefitting spelling is listed as a spelling in the dictionary (as is benefiting, but since when was benefiting a correct spelling?)

Is there some push to make it easier on morons by modifying the rules under which our language operates?

Or is it an effort by the English teachers to make it easier for them to pass students that would otherwise fail on the basis of horrible spelling?

 

[Bartleby Jones]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%
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Answers to Your Missed Questions:

Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #29 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

TBD I agree with you about 29 = D

 

[mindphuk]

Nobody likes q#29

Here's the first paragraph of the wiki article that you need to read to understand what they are referring to:
Public good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In economics, a public good is a good that is non-rivaled and non-excludable. This means, respectively, that consumption of the good by one individual does not reduce availability of the good for consumption by others; and that no one can be effectively excluded from using the good.[1] In the real world, there may be no such thing as an absolutely non-rivaled and non-excludable good; but economists think that some goods approximate the concept closely enough for the analysis to be economically useful.
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The article goes in and explains it a little more in-depth so it might be worth reading (but don't read it while or you it will take you 2 hours to get through it if you don't fall asleep first )

 

[Seamaiden]

I liked #29 just fine and answered correctly. I was completely guessing on the Lincoln question. And, I don't know about anyone else, but for me the first thing I thought of with #29 was eminent domain and the SCOTUS ruling on Kelo vs. New London.

I misread Q#33 so should have gotten that right. I don't understand Q#30 though. Why would an increase in spending help a recession? Wouldn't decreasing the wasteful spending also help along with reducing taxes?

Because they're likely going from what happened with The New Deal. That's my guess, anyway.