Question

According to the passage citizens of the early Republic learned about practical political matters in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

• A. Reading newspapers
• B. Attending town meetings
• C. Conversing about political matters
• D. Reading textbooks

Answer 1

The correct option is D

Reading textbooks

According to the passage, civic education in the schools made little attempt to develop participatory political skills. The political skills were developed when the students attended political parties’ meetings, town meetings, in churches and the coffee or ale houses where men gathered for conversation (Look at the lines “In the first half of the Republic…. of government than the schools).