Don't feel bad, Drew -- apparently so were some of those college kids.drew wrote:oh goodness...I had to give up after about twenty...I was guessing on most of them.
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Got the same as HLT -- 49/60.
That quiz is one of the most assininely, anally worded things I have ever seen, and I've seen some pretty insanely worded things in the Computer Science field. About half of the questions I missed were on dates or events, and the other half were due to wording. I knew the correct answer, but could not find it among the ones given. I guess the textbooks I read from in school were not the ones that that group is pushing.
That quiz is one of the most assininely, anally worded things I have ever seen, and I've seen some pretty insanely worded things in the Computer Science field. About half of the questions I missed were on dates or events, and the other half were due to wording. I knew the correct answer, but could not find it among the ones given. I guess the textbooks I read from in school were not the ones that that group is pushing.
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50/60, but I agree, the wording was maddening.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Drew shouldn't feel bad at all... he's Canadian.aliantha wrote:Don't feel bad, Drew -- apparently so were some of those college kids.drew wrote:oh goodness...I had to give up after about twenty...I was guessing on most of them.
"52 out of 60 correctly — 86.67 %"
I have to say, the one about Plato and The Republic threw me for a loop... because Plato also pointed to the desirability of tyranny over democracy. Apparently this referred to the Cliff's Notes version of The Republic. I am ashamed to say that I missed the other major question about the philosophers... never was too interested in the political thought of anyone after the classical period.
This quiz really drove home just how money-centered America is. What does the definition of profit have to do with civics??
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"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
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Heh, honestly I only remember him saying that democracies lead to tyrannies, not that tyrannies were necessarily better XD But I could definitely be wrong. I would say it doesn't matter too much, since we're not exactly a democracy as plato described it in any case.I have to say, the one about Plato and The Republic threw me for a loop... because Plato also pointed to the desirability of tyranny over democracy. Apparently this referred to the Cliff's Notes version of The Republic. I am ashamed to say that I missed the other major question about the philosophers... never was too interested in the political thought of anyone after the classical period.
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Yup, I know. I was just giving him another excuse.Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:Drew shouldn't feel bad at all... he's Canadian.aliantha wrote:Don't feel bad, Drew -- apparently so were some of those college kids.drew wrote:oh goodness...I had to give up after about twenty...I was guessing on most of them.
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Yeah, democracies led (back) to tyrannies if I remember correctly. I may be mixing in a bit of Machiavelli or somebody else, too, but one or the other of them said that tyranny/dictatorship/monarchy are basically all the same, and it's just a matter of what kind of leader the tyrant/dictator/monarch is. I seem to recall a story about a fellow and his lover killing a tyrant or dictator who turned out to have been benevolent to pretty much everybody but them... all a matter of perspective, but Plato's idea (building up to the Philosopher King bit) was that a single ruler was more beneficial than mass rule, because mass rule led to anarchy and the bad kind of tyranny.Holsety wrote:Heh, honestly I only remember him saying that democracies lead to tyrannies, not that tyrannies were necessarily better XD But I could definitely be wrong. I would say it doesn't matter too much, since we're not exactly a democracy as plato described it in any case.
Still wanna know what profit has to do with civics.
"We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were too damned lazy to try very hard... and too damn cheap." - Kurt Vonnegut
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
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