Civil Service Reading Comprehension Practice Test Results

Question 1
73% answer correctly

The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance; helping people outside the United States to understand American culture; and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries.


Which of the following activities would NOT fit the stated goals of the Peace Corps?

Organizing a foreign exchange program for an American high school.
Teaching English to local business owners in Croatia.
Setting up a computer network for an elementary school in Taiwan.
Organizing a protest against unfair labor laws in Bangladesh.
Question 2
56% answer correctly

The Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for `Grand Old Party`), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854, it dominated politics nationally for most of the period from 1860 to 1932.

There have been 18 Republican presidents, the first being Abraham Lincoln, serving from 1861 to 1865, and the most recent (as of 2013) being George W. Bush, serving from 2001 to 2009.


Based on this passage, which of the following statements is not true?

The Republican Party lost national political influence after the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president.
The Democratic Party is a major political party in the United States.
The Republican Party was formed by people opposed to slavery.
Question 3
84% answer correctly

A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members. Profits are either reinvested for infrastructure or distributed to members in the form of `patronage` or `capital credits`, which are essentially dividends paid on a member`s investment into the cooperative.

Each customer is a member and owner of the business with an equal say as every other member of the cooperative, unlike investor-owned utilities where the amount of say is governed by the number of shares held.


A utility cooperative is most similar to which of the following types of organizations?

A dictatorship.
A monarchy.
A partnership.
A military organization.