What Do YOU Know About The Separation of State and Church? (Test)

[Lorien]

Are you a First Amendment Scholar? Take the test:

http://ffrf.org/quiz/ffrfquiz.php

[InsultComicDog]

1. 20/21

[Lorien]

3. You did better than me: 18/21 n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I passed

[moobu2]

4. 18 - 21

[moobu2]

5. I bet most rightwingers would'nt get 3 right

[kevinbgoode]

8. They'd call the questions liberal-biased. . .

they are too ingrained in the idea of the mythical American theocracy.

[Lorien]

14. I'm contemplating sending it to one or two

:evilgrin:

[kevinbgoode]

6. whoa....19.....:-)

Ain't I just the constitutional scholar dude?

[cynatnite]

7. Got 13 right...it's passing...

but I need to read more :)

Thanks!

[Lorien]

11. Still better than the average, which is 12! n/t

[sakabatou]

9. 21/21

Already took the test before.

[SmokingJacket]

42. 18/21... learned about the Puritans today!

I also missed the one about the Roman Catholic family and the bible reading...

[AndyTiedye]

10. Didn't Get The Treaty With John Adams

that one's obscure. The others were easy.

[TheWraith]

29. I got that one. Scored 18/21.

I missed the Providence colony, student-initiated prayer, and the Lemon test.

I distinctly recalled the treaty with Adams because that's the Treaty with Tripoli, the oldest US government document other than the Constitution to explicitly say that the government was secular. It was ratified 98 to 0 as I recall, and remains to this day one of the best hard-proof retorts when the flying monkey right starts changing history and claiming that the US is a Christian nation.

(Unfortunately, it didn't work out so well, and we ended up going to war against Tripoli about 15 years later. But that's not the fault of the treaty.)

One cool thing I did not know was the information about the practicing presidents. Four Unitarians, two Deists, and four non-affiliated. Nice.

[Why Syzygy]

12. I'm not going to give my score

at least I passed. But very interesting. Thank you.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. I've taken this test before and did pretty well

It's amazing some people believe it's a myth. :eyes:

[Peter Frank]

15. 17 of 21 here...

...good quiz.

[TimeChaser]

16. 21/21

[Lorien]

18. Ah, a First Amendment Quizmaster!

:toast:

[EFerrari]

17. I got 17, more than I expected. Good quiz. n/t

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

19. great test, thanks Lorien....21 for me.

:yourock:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. 16 of 21...

damnit. I shouldn't drink during a test there were a couple of trick questions, I swear!

[AverageJoe]

21. 19/21

Good quiz.

[Initech]

22. All right, got 15 out of 21!

[politicat]

23. 20/21.

Missed the one about the 2000 Texas football prayer case. (I confused that case with the one where the Jewish family sued to prevent Christian prayers at graduation.)

[Random_Australian]

24. Well, it was news to me that seperation of church and state

was in the first amendment. Still scored 12/21. Think that's a bad score? Well, I always was at best an indifferent geography student...

(In case you didn't read who this is by I'm one of the few Aussies on your forum. Got any Poms?)

[Lorien]

26. U.S. Constitution Bill of rights

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.


The scary part is that 12 out of 21 is the average score, and one assumes that the vast majority taking the quiz are U.S. Citizens! What does that say about OUR educational system? ;-)

Welcome to DU Random_Australian. Have you run into rooboy yet? He usually provides us with all the latest news tidbits from Down Under. :hi:

[AllegroRondo]

46. I doubt most Americans could score half that well

an a quiz about Australian government.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

25. 18 of 21... That's a pretty good quiz

I'm going to send it out to my email list. It could be a nice tool to help educate people.

[NuttyFluffers]

27. i am a first amendment constitutional scholar, apparently. :)

Yoshi!
:patriot: :bounce: :party:

[0007]

28. 17/21

[PeachyDem88]

30. 16/21

Not too shabby...

[lakeguy]

31. 17/21

the early settlement questions took me down:(

[sandnsea]

32. Missed the currency one

I didn't pay enough attention to the "Act of Congress" part. Fun quiz.

[Jamastiene]

33. 20 out of 21.

I missed the one
Which early colonies practiced freedom of religion?

Trick question! Roger Williams' Providence settlement founded in 1656 expressly guaranteed religious freedom. However, the Pilgrims originally were a tolerant people, when they founded Plymouth in 1620. By 1691, the Pilgrims had adopted the theocratic, intolerant Calvinism of the Puritans, who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628. The Puritans came to this land expressly to establish a bible commonwealth, and banished "heretics" and dissenters. In Virginia, heresy was a capital offense punishable by death by burning. Quakers were particularly persecuted. People who were not orthodox Christians were not legally protected, could be denied civil rights and jailed. The founders of the new nation of the United States of America, conversant with extreme religious intolerance and violence in the several colonies, were determined to put an end to it. That is why they established state/church separation.....
<snip>

Oh well. Not bad though.

[NMMNG]

34. 18/21

:shrug:

[LWolf]

35. 17/21 n/t

[FearofFutility]

36. Ug. 14/21 n/t

[hang a left]

37. I am not gonna tell.

[Lorien]

38. Kick for the lunch crowd

:kick:

[ComerPerro]

39. Damn! Did you see the Average score???

[Lorien]

52. Shocking, isn't it?

more evidence that the GOP spin machine continues to have an effect.

*sigh*

[LostinVA]

40. 21/21!!! I wasn't sure about one, but I got it right

[Lorien]

53. It looks like DUers are scoring well above average

(no real surprise there) ;-)

A :toast: to another Quizmaster!

[DrGonzoLives]

41. Uh, they do mention God in the Declaration

Granted that's a minor quibble, but still, that's not technically wrong if you answered "1" on that question.

[SmokingJacket]

44. Yeah, but that wasn't the question...

They mention God in the Declaration, but not Christianity ("Nature's God," actually).

[DrGonzoLives]

50. It's debatable

God is a part of Christianity, so that argument can be made. At any rate, the Declaration is not a legally binding document.

[FlaGranny]

43. I got 17, but I got all the most important

ones right. :-)

[Lochloosa]

45. 17/21 Not bad for an atheist

:D

[BlooInBloo]

48. Especially since there were 21 questions.. lol

I got 17 too tho :)

[Lochloosa]

49. Edited Smart ***

and welcome to DU:toast:

[BlooInBloo]

51. {grin} thanks!

[greendog]

47. 19/21 n/t