Some of the questions really felt like chest-thumping on the part of test makers, but the test was fair overall.
Question: In the area of United States foreign policy, Congress shares power with the:
Your Answer: United Nations
Correct Answer: president
Question: What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858?
Your Answer: Do Southern states have the constitutional right to leave the union?
Correct Answer: Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories?
Question: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
Your Answer: all moral and political truth is relative to one’s time and place
Correct Answer: certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to:
Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of Congress
Correct Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
#1 I guess actually fighting the war is part of foreign policy, but that question didn't make it clear what aspect of foreign policy it was.
#2 They were still arguing about it in 1858? Oh... right, the Missouri Compromise never worked. No excuse there, we JUST studied that.
#3, and I call myself a student of philosophy...
I guess I have a lot more studying to do!
#4, Well, I don't know what to say. I haven't studied it yet.
87%. That's 5% higher than my grade in AP US History I so far. I don't know whether to feel ashamed or pround.
-Penguin
