QUIZ: US Constitution 26 May 2009
Submitted by Jack Pelham on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 09:13
Here's this week's quiz. Sorry it's late. Quizzes take Memorial Day off, too!
http://www.ruleoflawrevolution.com/quizzes/
Please let me know if there are any problematic questions. I think this one's fairly straightforward. There is one question that requires some historical knowledge, however---the answer to which won't be found in the document.
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8 of 10
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That one was pretty tough. I only got 8/10.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.--Thomas Paine
"Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions." Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
I don't know what I would have scored.
I'm pretty sure I would have missed some. When I make the quizzes, I have the text open in front of me.
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6 out of 10, time to go back to school....
:)
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
-Alexis de Tocqueville
I keep thinking that these should be open-book quizzes.
Maybe I'll rig it where the text of the Constitution is right there on the page with the quiz.
It's fun to see what you can get from memory, but I think the GREATER purpose is served if it gets people plowing through the text. Maybe that's too much like WORK!
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Is there a
way to keep track of our scores?
Pearl, that's a good idea.
I've thought about either having the whole text on the page beside the quiz box WHILE you're taking the quiz--so it's an open-book quiz. Or I could have just the section in question pop up AFTER you've answered the question, with the pertinent part highlighted.
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Not yet.
Right now, since I"m unfunded, I'm using all "free" software to run quizzes and polls. In the future, I hope to be able to have my own quiz software written so that I can track user data. This will not only make a user's data available to him, but I'll be able to see overall scores. This will help me to see which questions people tend to do the worst on.
Actually, I'm working on a Constitution Course, and these quizzes are prototypical quizzes for that coursework. It's very valuable to be able to have them run through the ringer here. Along with that course, I'm working on a way to get millions of people just to READ the Constitution. It's the quintessential non-partisan endeavor---so it may be boring to the partisan newshounds. But I think it could have a large and positive effect on the nation if we simply come up with a way to influence a few million people to read the thing.
If nothing else, it would certainly spawn a lot of new conversation.
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I got
7 out of 10. Great quizzes!
Do you remember which ones you missed?
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Thanks. I haven't had...
...anybody object to the questions on this one yet.
I'm working on a huge project that involves quizzes, so this is really helpful to me as I toy with how to write good questions.
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In your opinion,
Do the later quizzes lose anything by not having the graphics included in each question, as did the earlier ones?
The graphics take extra time, of course, and I've been busy lately.
Thoughts?
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IMO
I don't think the graphics matter - but if the answer were cited, it might get people to look it up. Then, once they start reading, they might read more and learn something!