Could You Pass the USA Citizenship Test?

[Sanslines]

Try taking the sample test and see if you could pass this sample USA Citizenship Test:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/?GT1=8211

I took this test and my result was 90 percent.

[Sanslines]

Try taking the sample test and see if you could pass this sample USA Citizenship Test:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/?GT1=8211

I took this test and my result was 90 percent.

[DenitaLC]

Well, I passed but a "C" isn't a very good grade IMO. I seconded guessed myself too much! Thanks for the fun test!

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Dee

[Ren]

I got a 95% and the one I got wrong isn't too fair since it's #19, the only question a non-citizen should know more than a citizen since I'll never need to apply for naturalization.

[pahjo2]

i scored 90%. i guess i could pass the test if i didn't freeze up. thanks for the fun.
stay nude and stay happy--i'm always happier when i'm nude--pahjo

[justnude]

100% here! Do you thinkl the fact that I used to teach civics helped? http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif

[Nu]

Impressive pass rates above.
Don't know if I could do as well on a similar test for my country.

[sxmtan]

Great test!!! At home, I'm the go to guy for history and facts, can't wait to test everyone else. I missed 4. But, I took the test while nude, to I get a bonus or extra credit??

[Nude in the North]

Darn. I guess I should have taken my time on some of the answers. I only got %80

But I did pass the only real question that matters for me. I was born here. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/laugh.gif

Steve

[NakedTao]

I scored a 90%. The question about "What do the stripes represent" threw me off.

[Sanslines]

One question that might throw off many people if it was included in this test would be to ask: What system or kind of goverment do we have? Many, if not most, might say a democracy but we do not have a true democracy. Our system of government is referred to as a federal constitutional republic.

"The United States government is a federal republic set up by a Constitution adopted in 1787 by a Constitutional Convention; The federal government consists of three branches--executive, legislative, and judicial--which operate according to a system of checks and balances against each other and checks on their power set forth in the Constitution to protect the individual."

[nacktman]

100%. I quess that means I pass?

[nudeM]

60% here. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/blush.gif There were some I had right at first, then changed my answer. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/smoking.gif

95% here .... messed up on the 13 original states to the union. You would think I would have known this being from one of those 13
Allie

[bosvensk]

Well only 90% here. Guess I need to know which ammendments are which!

[fred950]

95%. Question 14 threw me ( Who selects supreme court justices?)

Yes, I knew the president nominates and the Senate confirms. To my logic, that means the Senate rejects or selects (confirms) the president's choice.

[Boreas]

I got 55%.....not too bad for a Canuck. I did know, but answered wrong, that there are 13 stripes on the flag, one for each original state......it is 50 stars right?

Oh well, I have no plans to become a US citizen any time soon anyway.

"45-60%: Not too bad, but you really need to break out the civics books again -- word is, the INS is looking for an 80 percent score."

[james423]

Scored 95%. Missed an amendment question.

[Bob S.]

I should have scored a 100, but I changed my answer for the INS form question. Of course, not needing to know the form, I wouldn't know that question.

Yes Boreas, the US flag does have 50 stars, one for each current state.

Bob S.

[jon71]

I got 95% with one lucky guess and missing one I knew (I misread the question).

[Rabid_Clam]

I got 65%. Thought I would do better but is now it is!

[JRH]

I got 90%. I answered the questions about the number of Justices on Supreme Court and the INS form question wrong.

[missouriboy]

95%. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/sad3.gif

[Lilwilly]

I got 70% and I am not an American nor do I live in the USA.

[naturalmanwa]

I got 80%, and I could have done a little better. I am a citizen and trace my relatives back to well before the revolution and one was an officer in William Washington's(George's brother) cavalry.

[Conor B]

100 %.

I can trace my genes in America back to Aug of 1959, when at the age of 18 months I arrived in this country, courtesy of Catholic Charities.

Liberals know their country! that's why we are so crazy about what's being allowed to happen to it. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/cool4.gif

[Ren]

OK, for those who got #19 right, did you know it or was it a guess? All I could think of was, "Who cares?" That one's not meant for citizens anyway. The others were basic history class stuff.

[Bob S.]

My roots go back to the Revolutionary War era. My ancestor was Dr. Bodo Otto, a senior surgeon in the Continental Army.

Bob S.

[rudedogii]

I think its sad that Americans are more hip to pop culture, the stats of the NFL, or NASCAR, than the state of the nation!
We Americans have had it to good for to long and dont realize what a mess where in! I hope we wake up and take back this country before its to late!
And no I did not take the test! But I do beleive in America first, or should I say Americans first!
I will take this test after this post!

[rudedogii]

Well I only got 60%. But I do vote! Even though there is no one good to for vote for!

[missouriboy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">But I do beleive in America first, or should I say Americans first! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>It's fine to say "America first," as opposed to "United States first." United States of America is the corporate name of the federal government, while America is the name of the country. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif For this reason, people may call themselves "patriots" of their country, while not necessarily respecting the federal government at times, or even all the time.

[Tampanude]

I tested 90%. I guess I can stay?

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[Tampanude]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">My roots go back to the Revolutionary War era. My ancestor was Dr. Bodo Otto, a senior surgeon in the Continental Army. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

From what I know of any conflict of that error, a surgeon was both feared and revered, Bob. Must've been an admirable man to deal with all that carnage and stick to his hypocratic oath.


My roots in America go back to 1910. Right "off the boat" Irish immigrants in Boston.

---The U.S melting pot, with all it's opportunities and obstacles---

[luvnaturism]

90% here - 95% if I'd known how to apply for naturalization, but this is the first time I've needed to know that bit of trivia.

I'm not entirely satisfied with a couple of the "right" answers provided.

It's misleading to teach that the Pilgrims came for religious freedom, because they didn't believe in it. They wanted freedom to practice their own religious beliefs, and once they had that ability they persecuted others as they had once been persecuted themselves. That's not at all the same as seeking religious freedom.

And wasn't the Declaration of Independence actually adopted before July 4? The way I remember it the declaration was adopted a few days earlier, but they needed time to prepare a clean copy suitable for signing. But that's really getting picky isn't it? Sigh.

[NudistGuy47]

I took the test and scored 95%. My one question I missed was the INS form question. I did have to think a bit about some of the questions as I have not studied the Constitution in some years. Mybe we all should go back and review the Constitution and see what is a right and protected by law! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/beam.gif

[Bob S.]

luv, you are right that the phrase "religious freedom" would not apply to the Pilgrims, however they did seek freedom to practice their own religion. However, they did not seek religious tolerance.

And yes, the Dec. of Ind. was completed before July 4, but realize that only John Hancock (and Jefferson(?)) signed it then. Most of the signers did so over a month later on August 9.

Bob S.

[jon71]

To the puritans religious freedom meant that they had the "right" to force everyone to hold puritan beliefs or else. Quakers were their most frequent target. It's a shame so many follow their mistake today.

[fred950]

Thanks, Jon, for pointing out the title 'puritan'. About the only thing the Pilgrims had in common with the Puritans was they settled the same piece of real estate. And keep in mind the pilgrims were supposed to have settled in Virginia!

The more things change, department: The puritans were so-called because their goal was to 'Purify' the Church of England. Today the USA has the religous right trying to do the same to all religions.

[Min]

I only had one wrong, No. 19.

[luvnaturism]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by fred950:
About the only thing the Pilgrims had in common with the Puritans was they settled the same piece of real estate. And keep in mind the pilgrims were supposed to have settled in Virginia!
</div></BLOCKQUOTE>

It's easy historically to track the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims while they were in England, but it's hard to differentiate the two in this country because they arrived in the same ship (according to Wikipedia about 40% of the Pilgrims were English Separatists, one branch of the Puritan movement).

But let's not take this thread too far astray from it's beginnings. It is nearly universally taught in the US that the Pilgrims came for religious freedom, a myth that is reflected in the citizenship test. The Pilgrim band sought a place where they could be free to make the rules, and those rules did not include tolerance of religious ideas contrary to their own. Once they had their own place, they persecuted others as they themselves had been persecuted.

Roger Williams, for instance, had the novel religious belief that the land belonged to the Indians, and the English settlers should buy it from them. For that and other erroneous religious convictions he was driven out of Plymouth Colony into the wilderness during winter, an act that was intended to be a death sentence. The Indians took care of him, and later Rhode Island was founded as the first place on the continent where genuine religious liberty (including the freedom to practice no religion at all) prevailed.

In later years when there was a movement to guarantee religious freedom throughout the land the descendents of the Pilgrims/Puritans were among those who fought mightily against it.