Could you pass a US citizenship test?

[theprestige]

Yeah, nothing shows up on that page, aside from the text, a press release link and a mailing option.

Sounds like a good thread topic: "Could you pass a Netizen test?"

 

[Childlike Empress]

I'm German and I failed. I thought Jefferson invented the light bulb (kidding, but I got that question wrong as well picking something-something-constitution while he was just "a US diplomat" according to the correct answer).

 

[deadrose]

Heh, I did better on the first Canadian citizenship test than I did on the US one. Shame I would have had to stay married to a sociopath to become a Canadian citizen.

 

[baron]

Sounds like a good thread topic: "Could you pass a Netizen test?"

Nope, there's nothing there.

 

[Thermal]

Nope, there's nothing there.

Odd. I found it looking into me

 

[baron]

Odd. I found it looking into me

That's what happens with the abyss.

 

[GlennB]

Nope, there's nothing there.

Nope, there is something there, otherwise the rest of us couldn't have tried it.

Try a different browser, check your settings. Whatever. I did't even have to enable scripting or ads to see it.

 

[theprestige]

Nope, there's nothing there.

There's definitely something there. Between now and this morning, it's changed a bit, but there's definitely something there. If you're not seeing it, you've got a browser problem, or an end-user problem, or both.

Either that, or the rest of us in this thread are paid shills of the Wilson foundation, and you're the victim of a weird-ass prank.

 

[Thermal]

That's what happens with the abyss.

Try looking at the screen through the scope of the nearest semi automatic high-powered rifle handy. Grab one from a neighborhood kid in a pinch

 

[carlitos]

Maybe it's just because I clicked it already, but the survey might be behaving badly.


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Fun comparison would be how many Americans could pass an equivalent trivia test for any other country. Absolutely any.

Here are 10 practice tests for Canadian Citizenship and the most recent study guide.

Funny, I got 23/25 on the first one. I was torn between Nova Scotia and New Brunny in the first 4 provinces, and I didn't realize what the Quebec act was all aboot.

 

[baron]

Maybe it's just because I clicked it already, but the survey might be behaving badly.


[imgw=350]https://i.imgur.com/R2fSPc3.jpg[/imgw]

Where that appears for you I just get

"Create your own user feedback survey" and a link to the top level page of some monkey site.

I suspect the survey is implemented using an insecure method and my AV has blocked it. Actually I know that's what's happened. No worries, though, I'm not desperate to try it.

 

[Thermal]

Maybe it's just because I clicked it already, but the survey might be behaving badly.


[imgw=350]https://i.imgur.com/R2fSPc3.jpg[/imgw]



Funny, I got 23/25 on the first one. I was torn between Nova Scotia and New Brunny in the first 4 provinces, and I didn't realize what the Quebec act was all aboot.

I stopped and couldn't get back in either. The questions, as far as I got, were far more appropriate to the ideal of citizenship though. Understanding societal concerns and economic realities.

 

[Puppycow]

Here are 10 practice tests for Canadian Citizenship and the most recent study guide.

For those wondering - ours is a mix of Canadian History, principles of Canadian government, symbols and geography.

(and in case anyone's wondering of I did Tests 1 and 2 and scored 25/25 for both)

Took the first one and got 24/25. Not bad for an American.

Several of the questions are not Canada-specific, like the question about insulin. Anyone with basic medical knowledge could derive the answer. The one I got wrong was Canada-specific.

Several of them can be figured out by process of elimination too. I didn't really know the right answer but was able to identify wrong answers.

 

[p0lka]

I got 23.gubbins percent and answered 5 out of 19 correct. So that is a fail.

I don't live in the US though, i'm in the UK and I have learned something, maybe I should brush up on american history

 

[theprestige]

I suspect the survey is implemented using an insecure method and my AV has blocked it. Actually I know that's what's happened.

So much for "Nope, there's nothing there."

 

[Childlike Empress]

I got 23.gubbins percent and answered 5 out of 19 correct. So that is a fail.

I don't live in the US though, i'm in the UK and I have learned something, maybe I should brush up on american history

I learned who said "give me liberty or give me death", but I forgot it already again.

 

[baron]

So much for "Nope, there's nothing there."

There's nothing there for me. I know you're desperate to win an argument against me, just once, but that's a really weak showing.

 

[dudalb]

94.7. BUt then I have a BA in History, with a heavy emphasis on US History/
One I marked unsure was how many Amednements the US constitution had. Just plain forgot.
A couple of the questions were tricky;the one on the causes of the American Revolution. You could interpret Finiancial Crisis as including the whole fight over taxation which was, a course a major cause of the Revolution;but I went with the Quartering act (forced housing for British Troops) as being unambigious. I think the writers of this question were setting a trap here....

 

[dudalb]

Fun comparison would be how many Americans could pass an equivalent trivia test for any other country. Absolutely any.

I think I would do pretty well on a British Citizen ship test.

 

[dudalb]

I agree. I thought the test had more questions about law and our political organization.

There were 3 I didn't know the answer to.

Same here. I think it should sort of cover both American History and American Government.
I remember James Michiner in his novel "Hawaii";writing about the immigrants from CHina and Japan, who were more or less forbiggen from becoming citizens until the early 1950's memorizing "Legislative, Executive and Judicial" to pass the citizenship exam.