Could you pass the citizenship test?

[TreasonousBastard]

Once you've gone through the paperwork for naturalization, you have to have your Big Interview before you can take the oath.

Here's the study page for the big day:

https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learners/study-test

And here are the 100 questions they can ask (they will ask 10 of them, and you have to get 6 right):

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Publications/100q.pdf

This could be a bar game, or party fun. Print them out and pass them around-- see how many of us can pass the test.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Betcha Cheeto Benito couldn't get this one right

12. What is the “rule of law”?
▪ Everyone must follow the law.
▪ Leaders must obey the law.
▪ Government must obey the law.
▪ No one is above the law.

[pangaia]

2. I would be willing to bet less than half of natural born Americans

could pass that test, much less answer any given 10 questions.

[Shell_Seas]

3. I bet all Republicans would fail.

[jberryhill]

4. 58 is sort of odd....

58. What is one reason colonists came to America?

▪ freedom
▪ political liberty
▪ religious freedom
▪ economic opportunity
▪ practice their religion
▪ escape persecution

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That may work for certain colonies in New England. But since the question is about "America" more broadly, then "conquest", "convicted of a crime and sentenced", and a few others might be appropriate.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. A lot of the questions have more than one answer. Or if just one "best" answer...

it gets tricky.

Makes sense you have to pass the reading test before you take this one.

[jberryhill]

7. I'm guessing that these are "correct" answers which are presented in a multiple choice format?

Because getting some of them as unprompted answers could be difficult.

I passed the Canadian one too, just in case.... http://www.citizenshipsupport.ca/free-simulation-test/

[ProudLib72]

11. Well, I failed that test miserably

Shows just how little I know about our neighbors to the north.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. I got 50%-- no idea who those people were

[LanternWaste]

9. Hence, the qualifier "one reason..." rather than "the reason."

But I get it... we often want to add our own editorials to tests.

[FSogol]

5. Years ago, Jay Leno (who I don't like much) did this all the time

[FakeNoose]

10. Yep I remember those JayWalking clips

...I used to think they coached people to give wrong answers on purpose. Or else they looked for eternally dumb people who had no chance of giving the right answers. Most viewers (like me) found it annoying! I used to yell the right answers at my TV, and I'll bet I wasn't the only one.

[FSogol]

12. In my office, 1 engineer has a US map of all the states and passes it out to the interns and tells

them to add the state names without using their phone. Almost no one can label all 50 states correctly. Some can barely label more than 5 or 6.

[ShazzieB]

23. I can do that!

But then I'm a map junky, and I take geographical quizzes for fun. I'm weird that way.

[TreasonousBastard]

14. We have a local newswoman who hangs out in malls and streetcorners asking...

similar questions.

She has more fun with it, though, and manages to find some people who actually have the answers.

[LonePirate]

8. The typical deplorable citizen would be lucky to get more than 2-3 right.

[demtenjeep]

13. I begin my class school year giving my students this test all 100 questions

and I end the school year giving the same test.

Hopefully at the end, my students will be able to answer all 100 of them correctly

I teach 8th grade Civics

[TreasonousBastard]

15. How do they do?

[demtenjeep]

16. they don't know much at the beginning

but I would bet 85% could answer all 100 questions at the end

[TreasonousBastard]

19. Good job!

[FSogol]

17. It probably tells you which kids are in Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.

Both of those groups teach civics also.

[Dr Vegas]

20. in 7th grade my Social Studies Teacher

Gave the class an Citizenship test , of a class of 30 only 2 passed. I even failed (I didn't know who our congressman and senators were)

[DavidDvorkin]

21. I did

But that was long ago, in 1962, and I was still fresh from taking lots of civics courses in high school. I doubt if I could now.