Ever-popular: US Citizenship Test

Found a recent version of it at the Christian Science Monitor.

Out of 96 questions, I got 96 right, for a score of 100%.

Average score is apparently 83%, with a 60% score needed to pass the test for a citizenship application.

100%. I can see how it may be difficult for people whose native language isn’t English.

100%, though one was a lucky guess.

Speak for yourself dude.

96% Not bad for a foreigner.

soooo, kids still have to register for Selective Service? I thought that was discontinued years ago.

I’m only up to #38: **Who does a US Senator represent?

**Even though the questions have been updated to account for the current 2-week-old administration, I feel this one was overlooked.The new answer is either *“only the people in the state who voted for the Senator” *or “all people of the state who belong to the Senator’s political party”. I can’t decide which is correct. Can anyone help?

No kids don’t have to register, only adult males do.

The draft isn’t a thing these days but you still have to register just in case we’re invaded by China. Or need to invade China.

I got a 99% – missed the number of Amendments and brought shame to my nation. Knew it was one of the 20s and picked the wrong one.

All things considered, I don’t really care whether or not new citizens know the name of the body of water the Statue of Liberty is located in.

The CSM version of the test isn’t working on my computer, but the USCIS also hosts a practice test. I blew two (out of twenty) questions, one of them because I didn’t read carefully. (I scored 100% on a second practice test.)

When my wife became a citizen several years ago, I put her through practice drills until she could answer every practice question correctly. Don’t know how much of it she has retained at this point, but I bet it’s more than the average natural-born American.

Question 40 is factually off cuz it says how many justices are on the Supreme Court. There have been only 8 for almost a year now but it says the correct answer is 9, which is wrong unless you count the ghost of Scalia.

I got the first ten correct, got bored, and assumed I would get the rest correct.
Like a true American.

Not only that, the Constitution doesn’t specify the number, nine is just the custom. FDR famously considered expanding the number to avoid unfavorable rulings.

Some of those answers are may be alternative facts. Type of economy, why did the settlers come to America. Also party of the current President may be on more shaky ground that they think.

I missed the draft question too. Honestly had no idea that was still a thing.

It’s not just custom - it’s set in federal law. I assume that’s what the question was referring to, not the current state of Scalia’s ghost.

Poifect. But then again I move in the civic/political environment every day.

That’s the only one I missed although I should have known better; too many younger folks among the cousins who have gone through it.

93% here.

Shhh - it’s a test for potential citizens. They have to assimilate the US foundation myths! :wink:

I got bored after 51 questions; I was 100% up to that point.

The only one I was scored wrong on was “What is the economic system in the United States?” I’m right and they’re wrong: we don’t have a pure capitalist economy, it’s a mixed economy. So I selected “none of these answers.”

So I’d mark them down for that question and the number of Justices on the Supreme Court - while it may normally be 9, that still isn’t what they asked. Plus the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in those areas of the Confederacy that had not already returned to federal control by January 1, 1863.