This test is the final hurdle in a years-long, fairly expensive, complicated process. It better be easy to pass.
Having taken it, I’ve found that they’ll even nudge you in the right direction if your answer’s close.
“Um… white with a brown stripe?”
I got two wrong. I assumed that since Madison was a Democratic-Republican while Adams was a Federalist, that it was Adams who contributed to federalist papers. I always thought that Hamilton was the main writer of them anyway.
And there were plenty of reasons that people came to the US and for freedom is probably well down on that list. My ancestors came to have better lives. That is really a tendentious question.
Worst question of the bunch but I gave them the patriotic answer they were fishing for.
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Only 90 correct. Partially because of my mouse clicking selecting the first answer after clicking too many times on the arrow for the next question! Otherwise, because of not knowing enough names from the founding myth series.
94/96, 98%.
Missed number of amendments and year the Constitution was written.
95/96. Been a long time since I had to register for the draft - still should have figured better.
And no, they weren’t going for the nuances on that test.
Got bored and didn’t carefully read one question. And missed the date of the Constitution.
I quit before I got to the bonus round. Which is fortunate, because the bonus question is “Are you a Muslim” and if you say Yes you fail automatically.
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Shodan
100%. At least I was able to put my degree in Government to good use.
Embarrassed to say I only scored 91% because I didn’t take the advice I always give the kids in school, read all of the choices! There were several I knew but I didn’t bother to read it through. That’ll teach me!
On a couple of them I clicked the wrong thing, but a few I wasn’t sure, guessed between a couple and chose poorly. But since the average score is 83%, I feel fine with my results.
Five wrong for 95%.
I forgot Nancy Pelosi had been replaced by Paul Ryan.
I didn’t read the question carefully and chose Speaker of the House to pinch hit for the President.
I forgot how many Supreme Court Justices there were.
I don’t remember the others.
Some of the questions seemed strange for a citizenship test. Is geography really that important? I got those questions right, because I like geography, but still.
Basically they want to see that you have a very basic notion of the country. It would be a bit embarassing to swear allegiance to the USA while not even knowing where it is or who was involved in coming up with it.
And yes, the answers sometimes are simplified to the National Narrative. Like Apu’s immigration officer said, “just say slavery”.
I’d be fascinated to know what the average score would be for the mass of the US-born-and-raised citizens…
75% with a couple of silly mistakes. I’m British and owe some of my right answers (like who succeeds if both the President and Vice president are out if commission) to SDMB threads. PS I don’t want to emigrate.
Loving #62:
Name one right only for United States citizens.
[ul]
[li]freedom of religion[/li][li]attend to public school[/li][li]run for federal office[/li][li]freedom of speech[/li][/ul]
So I missed 3. Well, and I intentionally got one wrong out of principle.
From what I remember, I mixed up who was president in WW2 and WW1, mixed up when the Constitution was written with when it became effective, but can’t remember the other one.
The one out of principle I will avoid to avoid political potshots. That should make it pretty obvious, though.
I never saw the movie Splash, and when the name “Madison” became popular, I stupidly thought it had something to do with people making a statement against the electoral college, which James Madison had not supported.
At any rate, someone, at some point, drilled “Madison, Hamilton & Jay = Federalist Papers” into my head when I was young. I didn’t read them until college, but I could spit out “Madison = Federalist Papers” long before that.
I got 100%, but there was a lot of reading between the lines. Like the freedom one. It’s definitely 4th grade type civics.
“62. Name one right only for United States citizens.”
I’m a native English speaker, and I still parsed that one wrong on the first try.