How much do you know about the Tea Party? A quiz.

The tea party movement was a major player in the 2010 election, and will likely play a major role in the 2012 presidential race. Depending on who you ask, the Tea Party is the ultimate grassroots movement, patriotically focused on fiscal responsibility and reduction of the deficit – or it's a re-branding of conservative Republican Party candidates and policies, funded by the same old big money. How much do you know about the Tea Party?

8. What was the original purpose of Gadsden's flag (seen here), which is now widely used as a symbol of the tea party?

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A flag used by Boston patriots before the Revolutionary War

An early US flag, used before the Stars and Stripes

A flag used by the earliest US Marines

A flag used by Vermont's Green Mountain Boys in the Revolutionary War

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