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Kentuckians flunk test of U.S. history knowledge

By Bill Estep, Lexington Herald Leader

If you know how many amendments there are to the U.S. Constitution, what Susan B. Anthony did and who said "Give me liberty or give me death," you're in a rare group in Kentucky. Only 1 percent of state residents surveyed scored an A on a test of American history knowledge, according to results released Friday.

On the other end, 71 percent of Kentuckians made an F when answering 20 questions taken from the practice U.S. citizenship test, according to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which sponsored the survey.

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