Could you pass a US citizenship test?

[dudalb]

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Though I would rather the number of amendments as 26 rather then 27 as one of them has been repealed.

It's the clearest one, yes.
But the Finiacial Crisis answer might fool some people since that would include the whole feud over taxes, and that was a much bigger cause of the revolution then the Quartering Acts. I suspect more people remember "No Taxation Without Representation " from their high school history then the Quartering acts, which were a minor cause. In the declaration, Jefferson was pretty much throwing everything he could think of at the British to justify the Declaration.

 

[Hans]

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[fromdownunder]

12/19 here. So I got a pass. just.


Norm

 

[arthwollipot]

I got 57.9% - 11/19. Looking back, I'm surprised that I got the number of Supreme Court justices wrong. Must have been just a brain fart.

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

Here's a practice test for Australian citizenship, if anybody is interested. I got 19/20 for this one. The one I got wrong relates to a conversation I am having in another thread.

 

[BillC]

Not an American: 15/19

 

[angrysoba]

I got 17/19 though there were twenty questions, no? Is that part of the test as well?

I got the first one wrong. Also, I vacillated on the Federalist papers between the right answer and the one I thought might be an obvious red herring.

 

[Damien Evans]

14/19 for me

 

[Thermal]

I got 57.9% - 11/19. Looking back, I'm surprised that I got the number of Supreme Court justices wrong. Must have been just a brain fart.

Here's a practice test for Australian citizenship, if anybody is interested. I got 19/20 for this one. The one I got wrong relates to a conversation I am having in another thread.

American taking Australian test, 13/20. Didn't make the cut. And some questions were pretty intuitive (another name for the Senate is logically Upper House). Better than I thought I would do, anyway.

 

[Childlike Empress]

American taking Australian test, 13/20. Didn't make the cut. And some questions were pretty intuitive (another name for the Senate is logically Upper House). Better than I thought I would do, anyway.

This test is profoundly retarded. I stopped it here:

 

[arthwollipot]

What's wrong with that? It has a definite answer.

 

[Thermal]

This test is profoundly retarded. I stopped it here:

[qimg]https://i.imgur.com/PduElDc.png[/qimg]

The test has revolving questions, and I saw one or two silly ones, but nothing quite as ridiculous as that

 

[arthwollipot]

Again, exactly what is wrong with it?

 

[Thermal]

Again, exactly what is wrong with it?

No option for 'Convicts can't vote'

 

[Puppycow]

This test is profoundly retarded. I stopped it here:

[qimg]https://i.imgur.com/PduElDc.png[/qimg]

Here's the very first question I encountered:

Australians are free to follow any belief of their choosing:

1. Unconditionally
2. Only if their belief is approved by the police
3. Only if they do not break the law
4. Only if their belief is accepted by the Queen

I mean, I'm not an Australian, but only one answer is remotely reasonable.

 

[Puppycow]

Another one from the Australian citizenship test:

Question 12 of 20

Violence towards another person is:

1. Legal
2. Illegal
3. Legal in some states
4. Acceptable

 

[Puppycow]

Question 18 of 20

It is _________ to bribe a police officer.

1. Illegal
2. Legal
3. Sometimes legal
4. Acceptable

Results

20 of 20 questions answered correctly

Your time: 00:14:06

You have reached 20 of 20 point(s), (100%)

Congratulations, you’ve passed the Australian Citizenship Test!

So I got 100%, but with questions like that, it's kind of hard to fail.

 

[Thermal]

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

Nope, there's nothing there.

Odd. I found it looking into me

That's what happens with the abyss.

I thought theprestige said Nietzschean test. Being stupid is much less fun than I anticipated

 

[arthwollipot]

So I got 100%, but with questions like that, it's kind of hard to fail.

Remember that most applicants for Australian citizenship currently are from Asia and Africa - and the answers some of these questions wouldn't necessarily be so obvious to someone who has lived all their life in Somalia, with no understanding of the standards of modern developed democracies.

 

[Puppycow]

Remember that most applicants for Australian citizenship currently are from Asia and Africa - and the answers some of these questions wouldn't necessarily be so obvious to someone who has lived all their life in Somalia, with no understanding of the standards of modern developed democracies.

I suppose you have a point. In some countries bribing a police officer is a common occurrence, but I assume that all concerned understand that it is illegal.

ETA: at the same time, as I noted in the OP, more than half of Americans cannot pass a US citizenship examination (at least the one used by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation). The questions seem to be harder and require some knowledge of trivia, not just common sense or common knowledge.

 

[arthwollipot]

I suppose you have a point. In some countries bribing a police officer is a common occurrence, but I assume that all concerned understand that it is illegal.

ETA: at the same time, as I noted in the OP, more than half of Americans cannot pass a US citizenship examination (at least the one used by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation). The questions seem to be harder and require some knowledge of trivia, not just common sense or common knowledge.

Yours seemed to have a bunch more history than anything else.