Could you pass the US Citizenship test?

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2008-07-02 09:17am

Find out!

18/20. I screwed u the number of representatives, and clicked the wrong button for the order of succession.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-07-02 09:24am

16/20. Not bad for a foreigner, although they look like a bunch of trivia questions to me. I don't see what they have to do with being a good citizen.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2008-07-02 09:29am

19/20 I had no idea what Susan B Anthony did.
Yeah, this is a damn useless test, how about some good question about laws rather than simply history?

Stuart · Post by **Stuart** » 2008-07-02 09:33am

20/20.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2008-07-02 09:38am

16/20, like Wong said, not too bad.

Most of those were simply trivia questions, though it did have a few that made sense to ask.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2008-07-02 09:45am

45% - I didnt do American history, heh.

The British one is fairly insane, from what I understand, I doubt I would pass it.

Post by **Edi** » 2008-07-02 09:45am

17/20 and one of those was a stupid booboo on my part. But if that's the official test, it's just fucking Trivial Pursuit instead of anything useful.

Eframepilot · Post by **Eframepilot** » 2008-07-02 10:05am

100%, though the number of Representatives was an educated guess on my part.

Teebs · Post by **Teebs** » 2008-07-02 10:10am

19/20, not bad for a foreigner, but having studied American politics at school helped.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2008-07-02 10:13am

20/20

And to be honest, it was a history lesson mixed with a couple number questions. I don't get how it's a citizenship test, honestly.

Sad that thing notes that if you got above 85%, you were more knowledgeable about history then most Americans...

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2008-07-02 10:34am

20/20

Is this stuff really on the citizenship test? Some of the questions make sense, as ideally, you would want citizens to know how their government works. But others just seem like trivia, better suited for Jeopardy! or the like.

SVPD · Post by **SVPD** » 2008-07-02 10:36am

20/20.

Damn, I knew it was going to be a handwash, but that wa almost insulting.

CJvR · Post by **CJvR** » 2008-07-02 10:56am

16/20

Should have been 17/20 if I had thought a second longer on where Maine is.

Actually reading about this stuff would have helped naturally.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2008-07-02 11:14am

13/20 damn need to go back over and study some history.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2008-07-02 11:15am

From a couple of my co-workers who are working towards getting their US Citizenship I've been told that there is also a oral part to the test. IIRC they ask one question similar to those on the test and then the person must provide a verbal answer in English.

It sounds like this last bit, and especially it being in English, is something that trips a lot of people up and they end up taking the test multiple times. I don't know if they have to pay the whole fee each time because that seems rather cruel considering the application is pretty expensive. I have heard that they sometimes waive this portion for people who are older non-English speakers. I don't know if it's an official waiver or whether the people administering the tests let some people pass because they feel sorry for them. The Vietnamese mother-in-law of one of my co-workers was eventually passed even though she still doesn't really speak English well enough to answer the verbal part of the test.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2008-07-02 11:17am

From what I understand the American citizenship is a paper pushing thing. By the time you jumped all the hurdles presented in federal bureaucracy the actual test is merely a formality.

Darmalus · Post by **Darmalus** » 2008-07-02 11:18am

Hmmm, this looks different from the test we took in high school. I remember that one (almost a decade ago) because it was part of our final, only worth 5% of our grade in US History, but anyone who failed the test failed the class, even if they got perfect on everything else.

Post by **Coyote** » 2008-07-02 11:21am

It recently got Nerfed. It replaced a harder, more exacting test. Maybe to make up for the fact that we're hammering the immigrants with increased fees, so we have to make it easier somewhere else?

Flameblade · Post by **Flameblade** » 2008-07-02 11:24am

18/20. Missed the succession question and spaced out on the Chief Justice.

and yeah, it pretty much just a formality. A stupid one, but there none the less.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-07-02 11:27am

I failed. Goddamn.

Kodiak · Post by **Kodiak** » 2008-07-02 11:27am

20/20

And almost all of it I learned by the time I was 16.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2008-07-02 11:32am

13/20, but mostly because half the questions are trivial shit I don't give a flying fuck about.

Odin · Post by **Odin** » 2008-07-02 11:40am

70%
Did good on the questions that would actually make sense for a citizenship test, stuff about the government and the constitution.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2008-07-02 11:45am

15/20, although it would have been 16 if I had read the WWI question correctly instead of seeing WWII and clicking FDR.

Pollux · Post by **Pollux** » 2008-07-02 11:51am

19/20

Completely blanked on the Amendment count. Worse yet, my original guess was right too!