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Could you pass a US citizenship test?

BTW this is NOT the official written exam for US Citizenship. It was set up a private foundation for research purposes.
That explains why it is so heavy on history and light on civics.
I can't help but note that foundation names after Woodrow Wilson has a question involving Woodrow Wilson...
 
dudalb said:
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....
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As I was going through the test I wondered what was the purpose of the 'unsure' option. Is it not just the same as incorrect in the final result? Or do you get a partial score for it. I figured that a person might get it right if the guess but will definitely get no score if they select "unsure".
 
Thermal said:
American, 14/19 so technically passed. Didn't recognize Publius, off by one amendment and year of Constitution writing, and entered Wilson when I damn sure should have known better.
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The Publius bit was a trick answer. Publius was the pen name used by Hamilton, Madison and Jay when they published the "Federalist Papers" during the debate on ratifying the US COnstituion.
 
Steve said:
As I was going through the test I wondered what was the purpose of the 'unsure' option. Is it not just the same as incorrect in the final result? Or do you get a partial score for it. I figured that a person might get it right if the guess but will definitely get no score if they select "unsure".
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This is not an official US Citizen ship test, but a test for research purposes on the effectiveness of the teaching of US History and Civics. So the unsure might serve a research purpose.
 
That was easy, 19/19. However several of the answers are arguable, if not actually wrong.
 
baron said:
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.
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Please keep your ego supernova out of a simple discussion, just once? Eh?
 
catsmate said:
That was easy, 19/19. However several of the answers are arguable, if not actually wrong.
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Yeah, they tried to be clever and put in a few trick answers.The causes of the Amereican Revolution question is an example.
 
42%, non-US, no preparation. As for constitution, amendments, who said what, I know exactly nothing. World wars and the presidents is about the extent of what I know.
Seems simple, not many trick questions. Wouldn't worry with some crash course.
 
Didn't do it since I have done the real thing in 2010.

The real test is pretty easy. They give you a booklet to read which is short. Just read it the night before the test and you are guaranteed 100%.

The writing is also quite easy if you can write any English at all. You are asked to write some very simple words or maybe even a sentence. That's it.

In essence it is a pretty small reading comprehension and writing test.

I'm pretty sure I can get my 7 year old son to ace it.
 
I could not even answer the first question so I gave up.

Would not be as bad as the test they gave people wanting to get to Australia. It was called the "dictation test." All you had to do was write down a paragraph as dictated by an immigration official. This had to be in some European language. This was used to keep Asians out. It was very simple to ensure a person failed. They just gave them the test in some language the person did not understand. This test was used between 1901 and 1958.

Ref: http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/a-z/immigration-restriction-act.aspx
 
e-european fail.
to me, there is one point in time when you have all your different benjamins, wilsons, franklins and abrahams all over the place. maybe I should memorise only last names.
 
dudalb said:
Hey, arguing with the Baron is a clear case of shooting fish in a barrel...
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Hell, I'm not even arguing with him. I'm just enjoying the emotional roller coaster ride he's installed in this thread:

baron said:
Nope, there's nothing there.
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baron said:
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.
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baron said:
I disabled my AV and got 9/19. I shouldn't have bothered.
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Got the year of the Constitution wrong, otherwise everything was easy. I did not know Publius, but I knew that Jefferson did not write the Federalist papers.
 
dudalb said:
Yeah, they tried to be clever and put in a few trick answers.The causes of the Amereican Revolution question is an example.
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nah, pretty straight forward.

"For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:"

straight out of the declaration of independence.

and yes I scored 100%

Though I would rather the number of amendments as 26 rather then 27 as one of them has been repealed.
 
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