They weren’t just wrong, they were so far off that I was wondering if they were actually answering the wrong question.
Because if they were actually answering the right question then… wow.
I know that Ohio has 88 counties, but only because it’s the same as the number of piano keys. Still, even if I hadn’t known, I think I’d at least get the right order of magnitude.
I don’t know how big either chamber of the Ohio legislature is, but I’m sure it’s closer to 100 than to 8.
What is “wow” is that it doesn’t look like you corrected them, instead just silently making excuses for them.
Does anyone have a link to the U.S. citizenship test so we can all take it and be too embarrassed to post our scores?
Perhaps it was an off-off election year, like 2017 or 2023. Here in WA we still have elections those years for municipal offices and the occasional referendum.
10 out of 10. 
The questions I got were;
- Name the group of people that were brought to America and sold as slaves
- What countries did the US fight in WWII?
- Name one Indian tribe
- Name one of the causes of the Civil War
- Name one responsibility of US citizens (the real test isn’t multiple choice, but here the answer they’re looking for is jury duty)
- Why did the colonists fight the British?
- When is the deadline to send in tax forms?
- Who was the first president?
- Who makes federal laws?
- What are the first ten amendments called?
I got them all right except for 6. The options they gave were “Voting age”, “States’ rights”, “the Constitution”, and “because the British Army stayed in their houses”. I chose B, but they were looking for D, which I’d object to because that was a fairly minor concern of the colonists and “states’ rights” seems like it would be more correct.
10/10, mostly served up trivia that has nothing to do with citizenship (e.g., the title of the national anthem).
10/10. I expected to do really bad but these were all $100 level Kid’s Jeopardy questions. Is this really what is asked on the citizenship test? 
Especially with giving a choice of four answers. Even if you weren’t sure the correct answers were obvious.
“What is the Capitol of the US?”
“What are the two major political parties in the US?”
“What is Freedom of Religion?”
I had another set of questions entirely, including who signs a law, who vetoes a law, and what are the two parts of Congress. I wonder if there’s some collection of all the questions for a real (if still easy) test.
And yet!
You are waaaaaay ahead of yourself, there. First, I’m going to need you to fill out a 20 page application, with 5 years of work history, plus tell me every time you’ve been arrested, even if no charges resulted or charges were dropped, then present certified copies of all the arrest records and court records (even if juvenile, even if sealed, even if acquitted or dismissed), then get me the marriage certificate for every marriage, and the divorce record for every divorce, and if you’ve ever been late on your taxes I’m going to need you to get a letter from the IRS explaining you’re all caught up.
Now, as far as traffic citations… the good news is, I won’t ask you to provide records of those, but I will insist you tell me every single citation you’ve ever gotten, and if you forget one just pray that I don’t find out and deport you to a country you have no memory of because you’ve been living in the US for as long as you can remember.
THEN you can take the citizenship test.
I have heard- House Senate and President. I mean, it is not that wrong.
We had to take- and pass- that test in 7th grade.
Well, Blacks is obvious, but there were a few others
2- Quite a few- sure Japan, Germany, Italy, but there was also Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and a few others. IMHO if you get the first three right, you’d be okay. I do not think I could list all of them.
5 Voting?
And every immigrant who has received their citizenship has passed that test. Makes you wonder.
I doubt that.
…and so I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, with full orchestration and four-part harmony…
Well, there weren’t states at that point, and the Fifth Amendment specifically addresses the quartering of soldiers in private homes. So I’d have said that was pretty cut and dried.
Third. And it’s not as if they weren’t being referred to as “states” at the time; the Declaration of Independence refers to them as states repeatedly throughout.
That being said, if this was the actual test and I was expected to answer aloud instead of multiple choice, I probably would’ve said “taxation without representation”.
He was up for re-election (albeit against some no-name Democrat who didn’t even campaign). As I wrote, my grandmother pulled out a copy of the Constitution on the spot and showed me where it says Representatives are elected for two year terms.
Florida. I don’t remember our state’s counties being taught in K-12.
It was 2014, the year I turned 18, I just didn’t know. We had covered it in class but for whatever reason, at the time, I thought it was 4 years.
~Max
Technically, you don’t have to pass 7th grade to vote in the United States.
~Max
Test was too simple to almost be confusing. How do immigrants even get that?
Of course we all learned this in school. And we find it easy to pass. I did get confused alittle a war fought in the 18th century. But that was misreading.