Posted on 07/02/2008 5:03:52 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
In October 2008 a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will be taken by all applicants. Could you pass it? The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 samples that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview. Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones.
NOTES: Candidates are not given multiple choices in the naturalization interview. The following questions have been adapted from the immigration service’s sample questions.
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18 of 20 and I’ve never lived in the USA. Where do I get my passport?
Piece of cake! It’s been 41 years since high school Civics class, too.
My wife has her test on July 10 and will receive her citizenship that day. She is studying. And for those who go to the Immigration web site you can study for the test in English, Spanish and Chinese. Not sure if they give you the test only in English.
95% right.
I got 95%. I’m kicking myself for not getting 100% — I knew the answer, got cold feet, and decided to over think it.
I passed!
Yes, as it turns out. Could Hussein?
I got 95%, too. Missed the # of amendments to the Constitution.
Well... the fact that it is NOT a multiple choice test makes it a little harder at least.
That’s the same one I missed...could’ve sworn it was 23.
Got only 85% but, hey, it’s early in the morning!
Not fair....you’re a FReeper. LOL!
100% Oh, yeah. JimRob will let me keep my FReep account!
100% !!
17 out of 20.....not sure i want to be a citizen though. will get more bennys if not one. lol.....
I don't have to pass it.
I was born here.
I didn't swim a river to get here, I didn't apply for an "oil family/kingdom member" visa, I didn't stow away on a container ship, I didn't marry a "stupid GI", just so I could get to the land of the "big PX".
And for those that don't care for my rhetoric...go to the country of those that are "applying", and see if you can pass their citizenship test.
Odds are that you'll find someone just like me, a natural born citizen, that feels the same way I do.
Stuff your "diversity", too.
We got enough of that, already.
Made a 100! Very basic... Wish there was something similar when it comes to voting.
I got 19 out of 20.
Me too.
I missed the ‘senate election’ question...everything else OK.
20 out of 20... and I’m a stupid artist!
19 out of 20 — not bad for a Kiwi.
100% BABY!
BTTT!
“The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 samples that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview.”
The key part of this is that they can look at it ahead of time. If you have the questions to a test and still can’t pass it then you are an idiot or lazy or both.
95%. I wonder how many of today’s high school graduates could pass?
Careful. Next thing you know the PC police will consider that phrase racist. After all, the expressions "Red-blooded American" and "All American" are already considered racist code words for "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant."
got a 90...misread one of the questions ( i need to start wearing my glasses )
And, truth be told, you know more about this great land than most Americans.)
Just rubbed me the wrong way
They just had to end it with a reference to women’s rights.
I wonder how that happened.
18 out of 20 and last civics class I had was in 1969 ...
> And for those that don’t care for my rhetoric...
I like it!
> go to the country of those that are “applying”, and see if you can pass their citizenship test.
I think it’s good that the US has citizenship tests for people who weren’t born there. It would make an immigrant feel like he had to have some skin in the game in order to belong.
New Zealand doesn’t have a Citizenship Test. I don’t think Canada does either (didn’t when I lived there). I think that’s a shame.
Freedom of the press
Right to trial by jury
Right to bear arms
Right to happiness
The freedom of the press is guarenteed by the 1st amendment, the right to trial by jury is covered by the 6th amendment, the right to bear arms by the 2nd and the right to happiness is not covered by any amendment.
It's pretty piss poor when the citizenship test doesn't even know the facts to questions it asks.
I got all the other correct.
Me too!
100%...all the answers can be found on FReeRepublic during a days worth of reading threads.
I missed that one too! Pesky amendments...I think there are too many and the Constitution was just fine the way it was originally written.
Cheers!
I regarded this as a rather simple test. If you know the American Revolution and its documents with any degree of certainty, you got most of these question.
I wonder what would be the scores for tenured academics, current candidates, current graduates etc? I predict that Jay Leno will have several of his skits already written for him here.
And I was thrilled to see that "providing education" was NOT a job of the Federal government...now only if Washington, D.C. knew that...
20 of 20 and I haven’t even had coffee, yet.
You should have to score above an 80% on this test at the polling place BEFORE they let you in a voting booth.
100%
Me, too.
Danged succession question...and I KNEW better.
The Declaration of Independence is not generally said to have a "preamble." The Constitution has a preamble. The stripes on the flag represent the original 13 States. The notion of 13 "original" colonies is laughable. The Constitution does not give the Federal Government the power to print money. (I assume they believe only the "education" choice to be correct.) They are supposed to "coin" money. There is a difference, apparently lost on the government "worker" who created this absurdity. (I'm also not crazy about a test for simpletons where the "right to bear arms" is twice a wrong answer.)
ML/NJ
I’m pretty sure Obama couldn’t pass this test...he doesn’t even know how many states we have.
Cheers...
Yes
That was the one.
why should I take the test?
I will just wait for McCain of Obama to grant me amnesty
I'm just glad it's in English...
Well, note that the preface to the test indicates that there are no multiple choice answers on the real test, so I would assume that the "answers" were all written by MSNBC.
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