This is one tough quiz on taxes and presidential tax policies

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Many of the political quizzes that are found online and often shared on Facebook tend to be fairly simple exercises of basic knowledge – with the kicker at the end coming in the form of a pat on the back for the number of questions you got right. Often, the quiz gives you a chance to feel a bit superior as you’re informed that the average person scored 40 percent or 30 percent or whatever.

But the Christian Science Monitor has a really tough quiz on taxes – from a historic and a bit of a global perspective – that is almost certain to humble you, if not humiliate you.

Here is a sample question:

Presidential quote check: Which of the nation's chief executives said, "It is a paradoxical truth, that tax rates are too high, and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the tax rates"?

William McKinley
Calvin Coolidge
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan

To take the full quiz, click here.

Full disclosure: I got 14 right, or 56 percent.