U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed adding 80 new questions to the test immigrants take to become citizens. The pilot exam will be administered in 2007 with the goal of using a redesigned test the following year with 100 questions. Some are controversial because they are ambiguous or seem irrelevant to the issue of someone’s fitness for citizenship.
By clicking here, you can go to a site where you will be shown a random selection of 10 questions taken from the new questions. After you have finished entering your answers, click on the “Show the answers!” link for the government-approved answers.
What’s even more entertaining (or depressing) is the percentage of life-long U.S. citizens that would (not) be able to answer the questions correctly. I’m always a bit frightened when I hear those statistics, aren’t you? Anyway, make sure to try out some of these questions yourself and see if you’re worthy of American citizenship.
I also heard that some of the answers are actually wrong (although the 10 on my sample test were ok).
I knew 8 of the 10 sample questions I was shown, but I bet I’d still have a hard time passing (along with a big chunk of my fellow Americans). We are so apathetic about these things (hey…â€no apathy!â€). :)
I’m relieved that required knowledge for citizenship is knowing the longest river in the US (Missouri, by the way, not the Mississippi as I had guessed). Also, did you know that acceptable answers for where the Statue of Liberty is do NOT include “New York†but do include “New Jersey�