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Quiz: Test your U.S. history knowledge

Editor's Note: Education Overtime is an seven-week series that focuses on the conversations surrounding education issues that affect students, teachers, parents and the community.

Test results released in June showed that fewer than one-quarter of all students are proficient in American history. The results, released in "The Nation's Report Card: U.S. History 2010," by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, reflected test responses of 7,000 fourth-graders, 11,000 eighth-graders and 12,000 12th-graders.