[subego]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0104/Could-you-pass-a-US-citizenship-test

87 out of 96.



This test apparently uses MacNN's old ad server, so it can be a little brutal waiting for ads to load 96 times in a row.

[Demonhood]

96 out of 96
Guess I remembered my US History. Yay.
My favorite question was the one asking which war took place in the 1900s. Where one of the choices was "the war of 1812"

[Ω]

You must get 58 or more of these test questions correct in order to pass.

You answered <span class="total-correct-value" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">63</span> of 96 questions correctly for a total score of <span class="total-per-cent" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">66</span>%

Welcome to Amerika!

[andi*pandi]

88 out of 96, elementary school civics apparently stayed with me. Damned if I remembered what the Federalist Papers were or who wrote them though! Some of them were tricky in the wording.

[Waragainstsleep]

Even I passed. I must be spending too much time listening to you lot...

[ort888]

When my wife took this test she didn't have to answer any of it. The woman on the other side of the desk said...

"Look, I need to go to lunch, so let's just do this thing..."

Then again, my wife had lived here since she was 2. (Became a citizen in her early 20s)

[The Final Dakar]

You married a foreign agent?

[andi*pandi]

I thought if you were brought over as a child <16 you didn't have to take the test. Assumption being you'd learn about it in school like the other kids your age?

Will consult and double check though.

[abbaZaba]

80 out of 96

[SVass]

Originally Posted by Demonhood 

96 out of 96
Guess I remembered my US History. Yay.
My favorite question was the one asking which war took place in the 1900s. Where one of the choices was "the war of 1812"

You answered 95 of 96 questions correctly for a total score of 99%.
I missed the draft age question even though I was drafted in 1961 and served. They must have changed the registration age requirement since then. I no longer care.
sam

[subego]

I missed the draft question too. Seems like cheating you can wait 6 years before getting around to it.

My granola grade school teacher was 16 when the Draft was winding down, but he said that didn't stop him from registering a couple hundred times as "Al Haig".

[Demonhood]

Also, that was the most annoying quiz system ever. If I wasn't waiting for the iPhone preorder page to load properly, I never would have gone thru the whole thing.

[OAW]

94 out of 96.

Blew the Selective Service question because as I recall I had to register once as a teenager in late high school. So the "18-26" part threw me off because I didn't think you could wait that long. Also missed the Benjamin Franklin question about him being a diplomat.

OAW

[andi*pandi]

I got ben franklin because none of the other things applied, but missed selective service because I thought we no longer had that. (never had to register, myself... another thread.)

[subego]

Though it's relevant here as an example of test bias. There's no reason for you to know that, and you were penalized for it.

[OAW]

Did some more research on the Selective Service thing. It's true you have to register within 30 days of turning 18. Which I did. But apparently there's this little tidbit ....

Until their 26th birthday, registered males must notify Selective Service within 10 days of any changes to information regarding his status, such as name, current mailing address, permanent residence address, and "all information concerning his status … which the classifying authority mails him a request therefor".

... which I certainly did NOT do. Not because I was blowing it off. I just didn't realize that I had to. Oh well ....

OAW

[Athens]

86, the ones I got wrong

Susan B. Anthony

Amendments

When must all men register for the Selective Service? (WTF between eighteen (18) and twenty-six (26)) I didn't know all men had to register for Selective Service?

How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

How many U.S. Senators are there?

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

Who was President during World War I?

Why did the colonists fight the British? (I didn't pick all because of this one "because the British army stayed in their houses")

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

[subego]

Originally Posted by Athens 

What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?

The answer which comes to me is "banging".

Sadly unlisted.

[Ω]

What actually is selective service? Yes I know I could google it...

[OAW]

^^^^^^

Basically registering for the military draft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System

OAW

[Ω]

Interesting. I like that illegal immigrants have to register and that noncompliance it a nice big fine or jail time.

Seems to me to a redundant outdated law that should be amended to something more relevant.

[OAW]

Originally Posted by o 

Interesting. I like that illegal immigrants have to register and that noncompliance it a nice big fine or jail time.
Seems to me to a redundant outdated law that should be amended to something more relevant.

Kind of like requiring criminals to report their illegally obtained earnings to the IRS.

OAW

[Athens]

I'm just surprised this is even a requirement

[Shaddim]

94 of 96. I'll take it.

[OldManMac]

Originally Posted by andi*pandi 

I thought if you were brought over as a child <16 you didn't have to take the test. Assumption being you'd learn about it in school like the other kids your age?
Will consult and double check though.

That's what it was when we came from Germany, in 1953. My parents took the test in 1958, and were awarded citizenship, and the three of us who were born in Germany became Naturalized Citizens automatically.

[OldManMac]

90 out of 96