Politics & Government

Immigrants Take A Similar Citizenship Test; See If You Can Pass It

To obtain citizenship, immigrants must correctly answer six of 10 questions randomly selected from a pool of 100. Can you pass the test?

ACROSS AMERICA— Constitution Day on Friday commemorates newly naturalized U.S. citizens. Oath of citizenship and naturalization ceremonies typically are held in federal courthouses every year on Constitution Day, but the coronavirus pandemic has moved some of them online.

Constitution Day on Friday commemorates the day in 1787 when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the nation’s founding document in Philadelphia.

To become naturalized citizens, immigrants must correctly answer six of 10 questions drawn from a pool of 100 citizenship test questions. We randomly picked 10 numbers to come up with our own citizenship test, matching them to these questions on the actual test.

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Without peeking at the answers at the bottom, could you pass the test?

1. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?

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2. What is freedom of religion?

3. What is the “rule of law”?

4. We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?

5. The U.S. House of Representatives has how many voting members?

6. Who vetoes bills?

7. Name one right only for United States citizens.

8. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

9. Before he was president, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

10. Name one U.S. territory.

ANSWERS: 1. Speech, religion, assembly, press, petition the government. 2. You can practice, or not practice, any religion. 3. Everyone must follow the law; leaders must obey the law; government must obey the law; no one is above the law, neither leaders nor governments. 4. Six. 5. Four hundred and thirty-five (435). 6. The president. 7. Vote in a federal election; run for federal office. 8. Freed the slaves; freed slaves in the Confederacy; freed slaves in the Confederacy; freed slaves in the Confederate states; freed slaves in most Southern States. 9. World War II; the Cold War. 10. Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands; American Samoa; Northern Mariana Islands; Guam.

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