Can You Pass A U.S. Citizenship Test? Try it and find out!

[BlueCaliDem]

In light of my husband's goal to become a U.S. Citizen this year after having been a Permanent Resident Alien for twenty-nine and a half years (he didn't want to before, but now he believes it's time AND he wants to vote!), I've been looking into the test questions that might be posed to those who wish to become American citizens these days.

I found this one that was pretty fun to do:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0104/Could-you-pass-a-US-citizenship-test/Who-signs-bills

It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be! I did score 93% when the average is 86%, I believe.

Anyway, try your hand and see if your knowledge of our history, our government, and our country are up to par.

Good luck!

[Tireman]

1. 99%

Could you pass a US citizenship test?


Quiz results

Your score Average reader score Expert score


95
Correct

1
Wrong

99%

You answered 95 of 96 questions correctly for a total score of 99%.

[SheilaT]

2. I got 97%.

Shouldn't have missed the three I did.

On the other hand, at my age (65) I really ought to know just about everything on the test.

[NuclearDem]

3. 99%.

Picked none instead of capitalist.

Also wanted to fulfill my wishful thinking that we held Canadians as slaves.

[Shrike47]

4. I got one wrong. A lot of the questions are pretty basic.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. Dang! You guys are GOOOOOD. And here I was proud with 93%. LOL

Oh well, I passed.

I wonder how Teabaggers would do if they took the test?

[Orrex]

6. It's not a citizenship test.

It's a test to see how many people they can fool into giving them a whole bunch of page-clicks.

To that end, I scored a big fat zero for them.

[NuclearDem]

9. ...

[BeeBee]

7. Missed two. n/t

[panader0]

8. 96%

Federalist Papers author and a coupla dumb ones.

[Jenoch]

10. I vot them all correct, however many of

the questions were poorly worded. I hope a real citizenship test has questions that are more precise.

[LeftofObama]

11. 96%

The 4 that I missed were really dumb mistakes on my part.

[laundry_queen]

12. This Canadian got 91%

Most of the ones I missed were history ones...I've never taken any American history courses or anything so that was where I had issues, especially anything with the constitution and declaration of independence and the history of those things. Anything current I had no problems with.

[Shandris]

13. 96%, although I take issue with that British question.

*grumble*

[MadrasT]

14. 100%

But I really, really wanted to argue with some of the answers. I knew what they wanted but I wanted to split hairs and point out how it was more complex than their tidy one word answer.

[gaspee]

15. I missed 1

Darn, I thought I'd get 100 since my degrees are in history

[gaspee]

16. I think DU'ers are upping the average (N/T)