jen22201: washingtonpoststyle: Could you pass the U.S. Citizenship test? I got 10 out of 10. Sweet. Take a practice test here: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship/ Hey, I got 10 out of 10 too!  But I think this online test is nothing like the real deal.  Most of us (citizens), just walking in off the street, would fail the real test.  My dad came to the US at 18 and when I was 16— some twenty years later— he became a citizen.   The real path to citizenship is time consuming, costs money, and is really hard.  There is no multiple choice.  You have to sit in front an immigration officer and answer these questions correctly, the first time, and in English.  When the officer asks you who the Chief Justice is, or how many representatives there are in Congress, or the actual name of the national anthem?  You don’t get to use deductive reasoning to make a logical choice.  So that is 3 questions you have blown.  You can get one more wrong.  If you want to know what it is like to try and become a citizen in the USA, take a look at this handy flowchart http://reason.org/files/a87d1550853898a9b306ef458f116079.pdf
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Could you pass the U.S. Citizenship test?

I got 10 out of 10. Sweet. Take a practice test here: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship/

Hey, I got 10 out of 10 too!  But I think this online test is nothing like the real deal.  Most of us (citizens), just walking in off the street, would fail the real test. 

My dad came to the US at 18 and when I was 16— some twenty years later— he became a citizen.  

The real path to citizenship is time consuming, costs money, and is really hard.  There is no multiple choice.  You have to sit in front an immigration officer and answer these questions correctly, the first time, and in English.  When the officer asks you who the Chief Justice is, or how many representatives there are in Congress, or the actual name of the national anthem?  You don’t get to use deductive reasoning to make a logical choice.  So that is 3 questions you have blown.  You can get one more wrong. 

If you want to know what it is like to try and become a citizen in the USA, take a look at this handy flowchart

http://reason.org/files/a87d1550853898a9b306ef458f116079.pdf

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  3. mfred reblogged this from jen22201 and added:
    Hey, I got 10 out of 10 too! But I think this online test is nothing like the real deal. Most of us (citizens), just...
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  5. ananonymousbob reblogged this from jen22201 and added:
    9 out of 10. For a Civics dork like myself, it bugs me to not know that non-citizens can join the army, or that you had...
  6. jen22201 reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    I got 10 out of 10. Sweet. Take a practice test here: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship/
  7. turntablefuneral reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    Chief Justice John Roberts, bitches! By that I mean John Roberts is a bitch. Also, this is one of
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  9. jhermann reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    I’m actually surprised that I knew this.
  10. paintedepiphany reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    Um, no.
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  14. violettre reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND TAKE THIS TEST BEFORE YOU SPEAK OUT NEGATIVELY TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS.
  15. dicooper said: Wow… who the hell is John Roberts? I must have been asleep again.
  16. sydneylkethectyy reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    Don’t agree with some of these answers : / But got everything pretty correct minus tax day since I’m dumb and said April...
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  20. simplyscott reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    Could you pass the U.S. Citizenship test?
  21. herearetwothings said: Those are some of the easier questions on the list of possible questions to be asked. There’s one that asks you to name the senators of your state.
  22. theloniousbird said: RAYMOND MABUS
  23. morethanonepage reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    Honestly these feel easier than...ones I helped my mother study with, especially if...
  24. myheartismysundaybest reblogged this from washingtonpoststyle and added:
    I sure can… I gave this to kids as as a US Government TA and I was always surprised how few of them passed. How would
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