@Finn dAbuzz,
I think he is suggesting that the quiz asks questions that promote a conservative viewpoint.
like this one which has nothing to do with US history other than the founders would have read all of those listed.
Quote:13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:
A. all moral and political truth is relative to one’s time and place
B. moral ideas are best explained as material accidents or byproducts of evolution
C. values originating in one’s conscience cannot be judged by others
D. Christianity is the only true religion and should rule the state
E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
How is that question really related to US history and our institutions? Answer, it isn't other than to promote a point of view about ethics that the authors of the quiz believe.
Why is the only question concerning Supreme Court rulings about Roe?
Certainly there are other cases that are more important, like Dred Scott, Brown vs the Board of Education, Miranda, or Marbury vs Madison.
I got 32 out of 33 correct but the thrust of the questions was pretty obvious so I was picking the most obvious conservative answer instead of thinking about the questions by the end. (I assumed conservatives don't know the difference between debt and deficit.)
Quote:15) The phrase that in America there should be a “wall of separation” between church and state appears in:
A. George Washington’s Farewell Address
B. the Mayflower Compact
C. the Constitution
D. the Declaration of Independence
E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
While it is accurate that the phrase comes from a letter by Jefferson, it is usually brought up to argue that there is no wall in the constitution itself. It is a fact, but one wielded by conservatives to try to support their point of view.
Not only can we tell the authors are conservative but we can tell they are probably religious conservatives based on the number of questions about religion, 8 of the 32.
