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THE YOUTH CHALLENGE QUIZ: PARTICIPATING IN DEMOCRACY

If you're between the ages of 15 and 24, Carnegie Corporation of New York invites you to take the nonscientific quiz below. Once you're through, click the hyperlink at the end of the quiz and you can see an up-to-the minute tally of results. You might also like to read a recent Carnegie Corporation Challenge Paper, The Youth Challenge: Participating in Democracy, written by the former chief strategist for Rock the Vote, or a report on the need to enrich civic education in schools, The Civic Mission of Schools, by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

To see the results of the quiz without taking it, click here.

1. What's the best thing you could do to make America a better place?
Volunteer with a local community group
Participate in boycotts or protests
Work on a political campaign
Vote in elections
Treat other people decently and with respect
Nothing really makes a difference
2. In what areas does government need to do more?
Improving schools
Helping students pay for college
Protecting the environment
Creating more and better jobs
Protecting human and civil rights
Fighting diseases and improving health
3. Why don't more young people vote or get involved in politics?
We don't have enough information about issues and candidates
No one asks us to
It's too boring
Politics and campaigns are too negative
We will when we're older
There aren't good candidates
It makes no difference
4. If you spent an hour with the president, what would you want to discuss?
Iraq
Terrorism
Education
The economy/jobs
Civil/human rights
I have no interest in talking with the president
5. What worries you the most?
The war with Iraq
Another terrorist attack
Nuclear weapons in North Korea
US relations with Europe and the UN
The global environment
The U.S. economy
My future job opportunities
Please tell us a little about yourself:
1. Age:

2. Male Female

3. I am currently:
attending high school
attending college or other postsecondary institution
I am not presently attending school
employed

 


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