Don't know much about history

Here are the answers to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Civic Literacy Test. I sent you the questions by email. Let me know if you didn’t get it (and want to).

The Capital Times
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Graduates Know Even Less About History

The University of Wisconsin-Madison did relatively well in a 50-college test of how much students learned about history and economics during four years of college, but students in Wisconsin and nationally knew little when they came in and not much more when they left.

No college did better than a D-plus on the Civic Literacy Test released Tuesday by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonpartisan conservative educational organization that stresses the values of a free society. The national average was F.

Overall, 14,000 randomly selected freshmen and seniors scored slightly more than 50 percent on the 60-question exam. That’s 30 correct answers. A kindergartner could have gotten 20 right just by random guessing.

Check your answers. Email me your results and I will post the winner here.

1. D
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. D
6. E
7. B
8. E
9. B
10. E
11. C
12. C
13. B
14. C
15. B
16. D
17. E
18. D
19. C
20. E
21. A
22. A
23. B
24. D
25. B
26. D
27. D
28. D
29. E
30. D
31. A
32. B
33. C
34. B
35. A
36. D
37. C
38. A
39. D
40. B
41. D
42. A
43. A
44. B
45. E
46. B
47. D
48. C
49. B
50. A
51. A
52. C
53. B
54. D
55. E
56. C
57. A
58. B
59. C
60. B