Bar Leader Toolkit #3: Quizzes

When your bar association is asked to participate in a community activity — a pancake breakfast, a street festival or a school fair — do you wonder how or what to communicate about the law?

A series of interactive quizzes on the Constitution will let you help your neighbors test their knowledge. The series has five interactive tests. The first four look at the Supreme Court, Constitution facts, the rights of young people under the Constitution and what the three branches of government do. The fifth test lets people compare their results through a poll by Harris Interactive with others who answered these same questions in July 2005.

Setting up the quiz is simple - you need only a laptop with an internet connection. Go to www.abanet.org/publiced/conversations/constitution/
test_intro.html and you are ready to begin letting members of your community test their knowledge.

You have something to offer that is informative and unique. And, the quizzes can encourage discussions on the Constitution. For more information on supporting discussions, please visit www.abanet.org/publiced/conversations/constitution/about.html.

The following is a news release to use announcing your bar's participation in a community event.

Interactive Test Compares Results Your Community's Knowledge of the Constitution with National Average

At the (name of community) annual fall (name of event) on (day), (date), the _________ Bar Association will offer a chance for residents to test their knowledge of the U.S. Constitution.

"The Constitution is the cornerstone of our government. We believe taking this opportunity to help remind people about its principles is important," said (Name), president of the ________ Bar Association.

Members of the _________ Bar Association will offer a series of interactive quizzes from (time) to (time). Four of the quizzes cover the Supreme Court, facts on the Constitution, young people and the Constitution, and what the different branches of government do.

A fifth test lets people compare their results through a poll by Harris Interactive with others who answered these same questions in July 2005.

For more information on the interactive quizzes is available by contacting the _________ Bar Association at XXX-XXX-XXXX.