AP Government Quiz

These three rather dismal quizzes come from an AP Government & Politics course offered to seniors. I have no idea what the first question was, because every one of the respondents was so off the mark I can't cobble together what they must have been responding to. It probably had something to do with the abolition of some federal program. The second question, I believe, was "What program was passed along with Medicare in 1965?" and the third was "What program replaced AFDC in 1996?".

That most-represented star of the Archives, Travis, appears here again. (I should note that Travis and I were not the closest of friends in school. It's not that he was constantly feeding me his daily doings as best-chums; it's that he kept making an ass of himself on paper, over and over, and subsequently generating such laughs among his peers that I would inevitably be handed the work for safekeeping.) He only got the third question right; he was simply off the mark on the second question, and to the first question, he responds tersely, "FDR, because he no likey".

Erika had a lot of trouble recalling the acronym of the government program which superseded Aid to Families with Dependent Children in 1996; the real acronym is TANF (for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Erika scribbles out NABF at the top of the page, tests out NAFR again at the top, then tries out simply NAF before settling on NARF, a catch-all interjection from the TV show Pinky and the Brain (and one that we used locally as a synonym for "barf" or "snarf"). She also did a humorous two-step over the time when aid recipients in NARF must obtain jobs. Her answer for #3 is transcribed below.

3. NAF NARF (not neccesarily [sic] in that order), it allowed for aid to poor families. It would only last for five years. Those recieving [sic] aid must get a job after before after between the time they start aid and the second year and must keep it. After those 5 years no more aid is given unless thier [sic] are extenuating circumstances.


Ollie (of Catcher in the Rye fame) also had trouble with the acronym, coming up with TEDF and TADF, but his real contribution was in his answer for question 1, which is transcribed below the image.

1. Bert and Ernie halted Medicare because Big Bird was not given enough benefits. Myguess is George Bush because he felt costs would be too high