Are You Smart Enough to Be a Citizen? Take Our Quiz

[KamaAina]

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-had-to-earn-american-citizenship/309398/

To become a citizen of the United States, naturalizing immigrants must take a test. Many native-born Americans would fail this test. Indeed, most of us have never really thought about what it means to be a citizen. One radical idea from the immigration debate is the repeal of birthright citizenship—guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment—to prevent so-called anchor babies. Odious and constitutionally dubious as this proposal may be, it does prompt a thought experiment: What if citizenship were not, in fact, guaranteed by birth? What if everyone had to earn it upon turning 18, and renew it every 10 years, by taking an exam? What might that exam look like?

[loli phabay]

1. interesting proposition, doubt it would ever come into being though.

[KamaAina]

3. Let's hope not.

For one thing, it makes my head hurt to think how all the pictorial questions could be made accessible to would-be citizens who are blind.

For another, does the phrase "literacy test" ring a bell?

[CTyankee]

4. Hey, I got citizernship with distinction!

This wasn't so bad, tho. I've taken harder ones...

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Yes! I am! 59!

[K.O. Stradivarius]

6. I took a couple of educated guess' on the Supreme court Justices

Your Citizenship Score:
61

Citizenship attained, with distinction

[Warpy]

7. Citizenship attained, with distinction!

Those damnable photos of the USSC justices threw me off a bit. I know the names but not the faces. I must have guessed correctly.

[Ms. Toad]

16. I only guessed on two.

Kennedy looks very different than I recalled, but when I got to the last two I was able to exclude one of them.

[RebelOne]

8. I am afraid to take it.

My former Russian neighbor showed me the test she had to take for her citizenship and I would not have passed.

[In_The_Wind]

9. Citizenship attained

[madokie]

10. Barely, I got a 48

[TBF]

13. lol - I was there too -

kind of embarrassing! But at least over 40!

[Scuba]

11. 65

[Th1onein]

12. 58

[nyquil_man]

14. 56.

I need to up my civic participation.

[2naSalit]

23. Ha! Me too.

I would have had a much higher score otherwise.

[Ms. Toad]

15. 70 points.

And I'm embarrassed by the famous addresses/documents I missed!

[oldhippie]

17. Your Citizenship Score:58 Citizenship attained, with distinction. nt

[LiberalElite]

18. 59

[Raffi Ella]

19. Woo! Yes, I am.

I got a 56.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. There are some bugs in the software

I clicked "Grade my test" and the damn thing deleted all my answers.

[KamaAina]

32. Bugs in the software??

BUGS IN THE SOFTWARE??!! So NO ONE can become a citizen because of BUGS IN THE SOFTWARE???//!!111?/! Impeach the Kenyan impostor RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!11!!11!!

[Art_from_Ark]

33. ???

[KamaAina]

34. The repukes are in a worse-than-usual tizzy because of bugs in healthcare.gov

they're using it as an excuse to try and kill Obamacare for the 49th or 50th time.

[Art_from_Ark]

38. My reply had nothing at all to do with Obamacare

It was about the software that The Atlantic, a privately published magazine, was using for the citizenship quiz, which deleted my answers when I clicked the "Score" button.

[MADem]

43. The poster was making a joke with you....

Conflating the Atlantic software with the ACA software, and expressing faux umbrage at "the Kenyan imposter" for purposes of ironic amusement and sarcasm.

It wasn't a serious post.

I thought it was funny, in a wry way.

[Art_from_Ark]

44. OK

The joke wasn't apparent to me, obviously. Perhaps I am just in too serious of a mood right now.

[KamaAina]

51. And my reply was a shot at the repukes

and their Obama Derangement Syndrome.

[devils chaplain]

21. 63 -- "Citizenship attained, with distinction." n/t

[Demo_Chris]

22. 59

[angstlessk]

24. Attained citizenship by the skin of my teeth..36

ashamed to say!

[Kaleva]

25. Scored a 54. Mixed up 4 of the Supreme Court Justices.

Had Kagan and Sotomayer mixed up along with Breyer and Kennedy

[Luminous Animal]

26. Whee! 59! Citizenship attained, with distinction

[hrmjustin]

27. 77

[Aristus]

37. Hmm. How did you get 77? I got 66.

I answered every question correctly, and included my military service, which earned me 10 points.

[hrmjustin]

39. I thought it was a glitch. I answered all the questions right.

[Lifelong Protester]

28. Citizenship with distinction!!

Yay! I can stay!

[NuclearDem]

29. 60

Piece of cake.

[WillyT]

30. Citizenship attained, with distinction !!!

[stage left]

31. Yes.

47

[Pholus]

35. My simulation of GWB got 31!

Filled in the participation parts from his bio, then deliberately answered every fact wrong.

I guess it proves that just showing up is 90% of the battle!

[KamaAina]

36. Thread win!!!

[ancianita]

40. Fun. 58

[prairierose]

41. Citizenship with distinction....n/t

[DebJ]

42. 54 Citizenship with distinction. But then my passion is US history and politics. n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

45. 64

missed the stupid flag one... didn't bother to count the stars correctly... so, either MATH or LAZINESS cost me (or a combo of both).

sP

[Liberal_in_LA]

46. what would be the consequence of failing said "every two year" citizenship exam?

[sakabatou]

47. 52

[Egalitarian Thug]

48. I thought 60 was perfect. I must have messed up Breyer-Kennedy

and Kagan-Sotomayor. Why don't they tell you which questions you missed?

[A HERETIC I AM]

49. Look through it again. There's a "see the answers" button. n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

50. Thanks. It was Breyer-Kennedy and military service.

(I suppose I could have said I'd voted more than every other year as well)