I actually thank Kindergarten Cop for my getting the correct answer to the "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" question. the "boys have a penis, girls have a vagina" kid says it in the movie when they do a reenaction of the gettysburg address.

so I can thank detective john kimball for that morsel of my civics education

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Only missed one actual civics question. The other was an economic question written to compel a certain answer.

What a surprise that the ISI is resentful of modern education, yet can't write a civic quiz without 1/4 questions being subjective and off-topic.

Mike Chewbacca: So I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't understand why history is important. Not because you don't know why knowing the number of deaths in the Viet Nam war is important, but because you think history is knowing the number of deaths in Viet Nam.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you didn't actually read my post or it completely flew over your head. Let's try one more time:

Mike Chewbacca: What's your point? That my understanding of American history isn't as good as just Googling the answer?

No actually it is as good. That's kinda my point - your understanding of American history can be matched by googling. A six year old can perform just as well as you on a history test. What a six year old cannot do is apply that knowledge to a complex situation such as "Should we attack Iran." A six year old would google "should we attack Iran." You probably would too and hope someone wrote an article for you to regurgitate and memorize. I'm attempting for something higher, I'm hoping people learn how to formulate those sorts of conclusions on their own and base that conclusion on solid, merited, factual arguments. But you can just google the farking facts, collect them and take notes and then formulate an opinion, you don't have to actually memorize them.

The weird thing about the economics questions that others seemed to miss was that the USA does have an "official line" about how economics works. Now, that official line is often wrong or weird or even silly, but none of the economics questions stray from it. They are the same messages you hear from the fed, or the department of the treasury, etc.

They are as much a repeated message as anything from the Declaration of Independence is. The questions were not asking for what anyone agreed with, just what the official state teaching is. (Even though we'd never call it an official state teaching, of course.)

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