The Quiz in the Classroom
Join educators everywhere who are using the World’s Smallest Political Quiz in their classrooms!
Increasing numbers of high school and college students are being taught that politics is more than a simplistic Left-Right line. The World’s Smallest Political Quiz pioneered in bringing this insight to America’s classrooms.

This makes the Quiz a great classroom tool. We are happy to supply Quiz cards without charge upon request to all interested teachers and educators. Email us and we’ll send you samples or a full supply for all your students.Teachers love the Quiz because it instantly gives students an accurate picture of the American political spectrum – and immediately stimulates great classroom discussions on politics and today’s major political issues.
Read below what educators have said about the Quiz.
The Quiz has been featured in the supplemental material of some of America’s best-selling college and high school textbooks – including textbooks by prominent publishing companies McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin and more. These textbooks reach thousands of classrooms across America.
We’ve also documented hundreds of colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, elementary
schools and preparatory academies in the United States and around the world that have incorporated the World’s Smallest Political Quiz into their classrooms.
In more than three-quarters of the schools we surveyed, the Quiz is used in political science or American government classes, while the remaining schools utilized the Quiz to teach everything from computer science to sociology.
If you are an educator using the Quiz, please let us know of your experiences using the Quiz in your classroom.
What Educators are saying about the World’s Smallest Political Quiz
I absolutely love your political quiz. I use it to help students understand their own political stances and the political climate of the United States. I have found the quiz to be amazingly accurate and an invaluable tool for my political philosophy courses.
While there are many sites on the Web that profess to tell you your political views, this one actually does a fairly good job and, as claimed, it is incredibly short! This is a fun way to get more information on the different political ideologies…
You should definitely take the World’s Smallest Political Quiz to find out where you fall on the political spectrum – you might be surprised!
This instantly-evaluated questionnaire diagnoses your political position, but instead of using the usual one-dimensional system (along a left-right continuum) to classify political positions, it uses a two-dimensional one.
I have been using the Quiz in my American Government class for about five years. Students usually find it to be an eye-opener.
Answer 10 questions and find out where you are on the spectrum.
Want to know where you stand on the political spectrum? Take the World’s Smallest Political Quiz.
Although this quiz is provided by a Libertarian organization, it does not lead you to answer in any particular way.
My students and I had a lot of fun this week trying to determine where we stood on the political spectrum by taking this Political Quiz.
I teach government…and routinely bookmark your website as a quick way for students to gauge where they fit in along the political continuum. I like it because it’s fast, amazingly accurate, and gives an overview of the different philosophies.
The World’s Smallest Political Quiz can help you find your political identity.
Offers a new perspective on political ideology.
With just a few questions, this site helps you find out your political identity and puts you on a scale with others of similar political persuasions.
The World’s Smallest Political Quiz [can be used] in Political Science classes to develop an understanding of one’s political philosophy and how it compares to the political philosophy of others.
[The] world’s smartest political quiz.
Short and fun.
A useful way of re-thinking the political spectrum.
An alternative approach to categorizing ideology. Try it – it’s fun!
[The] World’s Smallest Political Quiz…is the original Internet political quiz. Take the quiz now and find out where you fit on the political map.
Do you want to find your political identity? Here is your chance to discover if you are an arch conservative or a burning liberal or anything in between!
Left and right aren’t the whole story in political belief: take this short quiz to see where you stand on a 2-D plot of beliefs.
Try the World’s Smallest Political Quiz… [It] will help you determine your philosophy.
Are you a libertarian, authoritarian, centrist… what? Take the Quiz!”
Don’t let the shortness of the quiz fool you into thinking that it can’t provide an accurate impression of your political perspective. A lot of research and thinking went into narrowing the scope down to a set of key questions that would accurately predict a person’s perspective on the relationship between government and society.
In my opinion, [the World's Smallest Political Quiz is] the best formative indicator for one’s political persuasions.
The Advocates for Self-Government have designed the World’s Smallest Political Quiz to help you figure out your position. Just answer the questions, hit the Submit button, and receive an analysis of your political ideologies based on your total score.
Start with the World’s Smallest Political Quiz … to understand how your beliefs and ideas fit with the philosophies of [America's] political parties.
An interesting quiz to help identify your ideology.
The World’s Smallest Political Quiz…is a good way to introduce your students to the political map.
I use your political quiz every year with my students. It works so well! Thanks for keeping this quiz going, it’s so simple and accurate!
We’ll send Quizzes for your classroom — at no cost to you
If you are an educator, we’ll be happy to send you Quizzes for your students, along with a Political Map Poster to go in front of your classroom.