Could you pass the latest citizenship test?

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From MSNBC:

In October 2008 a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will be taken by all applicants. Could you pass it? The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 samples that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview. Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones.

NOTES: Candidates are not given multiple choices in the naturalization interview. The following questions have been adapted from the immigration service?s sample questions.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25461301/

My observation: These questions should be on the TV show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th-Grader?"

[OLD fashioned preacher]

The problem has never been those seeking to become citizens, it is the concept of "you can not deny free education, free food assistance, free housing assistance, free health care to someone JUST because there snuck (good southern word) in illegally-and how dast you want them to leave".

[Kayla]

The irony of the citizenship test are not the people trying to gain citizenship, nor illegal aliens. It is the stupid idiotic public school system. Most American college and high school students couldn't score higher than a 20% on that test. I know I tutored some in High school. One girl was 5th in our class and she didn't know hardly anything about our American Government. I think all American students should have to take a US Knowledge test before they can go to College. It is a requirement in other countries such as Japan. Everyone wonders why Asian people seem intelligent it is because diligence is taught to the students. American students are a bunch of slackers. That is why Americans vote for people like Barak Obama especially the younger generation, they don't know what principles their country was founded on. They just see a younger candidate and decide he is the best choice. Anyway...moving off my hobby horse. I scored a 95%.

[John81]

It's a sad fact that most Americans would have to study in order to pass that test. Most recent high school and college graduates, who one might expect should pass with ease, would flunk the test.

I've tutored high school, college and adult students and found all three groups to be profoundly uneducated. When it comes to knowing American history or facts about the government and such, they know even less. :sad

[OLD fashioned preacher]

I listened to the most amazing conversation last month (maybe May - I lose track of time) between 3 teachers. One was saying "I don't understand why we have to bother teaching math functions when kids will always have a computer, calculator, or cell phone with them.", another said when she writes things on the board in cursive that over 1/3 of her 8th grade class can't read it AND THEN stated "but they should only have to learn print anyways since it's"(cursive) "never used anymore". This was in a state that is well ranked in it's public school system - Kansas.

[John81]

I read some "educational" material from time to time and I've read many articles and reports which claim cursive should no longer be taught and that learning the multiplication tables and other math basics (what used to be basics anyway!) are not good for students and most don't do this anymore anyway.

With regards to history, those who write and promote the history books claim there just isn't enough room to include "everything" and that's the only reason so much is left out. What they don't mention is how they are the ones who determine what is worth putting in the books (that which agrees with and promotes their liberal agenda) and how they decide what isn't necessary for students to learn (that which shows the true Christian and conservative heritage of America).

[Guest Guest]

Yay... 100% I guess I can be a citizen. :Green

[Danny Carlton]

I got 100%, too.

[Anon]

I've always stunk at history. I got a 70% but I think I made some harder than they were.

For instance I knew the D of I was signed in 1776 but I put 1774 because I thought it was a trick question, I thought they had written it a couple years before they actually signed it into the Constitution. Oops.

Then I put "Right to Happiness" as a wrong one, because we don't have the right to happiness, we have the right of the PURSUIT of happiness. There's a difference, right?

Missed the amendments...I was thinking the original ones...House of Reps oops...Senator years...oops...And I forgot if it was Woodrow Wilson or FDR during WWI...I should know better though as I am reading about the Dust Bowl and FDR was President then. Duh.

So kick me to Cuba...

[Kayla]

I read some "educational" material from time to time and I've read many articles and reports which claim cursive should no longer be taught and that learning the multiplication tables and other math basics (what used to be basics anyway!) are not good for students and most don't do this anymore anyway.

With regards to history, those who write and promote the history books claim there just isn't enough room to include "everything" and that's the only reason so much is left out. What they don't mention is how they are the ones who determine what is worth putting in the books (that which agrees with and promotes their liberal agenda) and how they decide what isn't necessary for students to learn (that which shows the true Christian and conservative heritage of America).

Ignorance blinds. If a person is ignorant of their heritage, past then that will cripple their future. History books have their own agenda these days. I was taught in public school that the Civil War was about slavery...That surely isn't correct. The Civil war was about States' rights. All my friends call me old fashioned. I simply tell them that I know the past so I can lead a more stable future. If you separate a people from their past you can control their future, the humanist future.

[John81]

Ignorance blinds. If a person is ignorant of their heritage, past then that will cripple their future. History books have their own agenda these days. I was taught in public school that the Civil War was about slavery...That surely isn't correct. The Civil war was about States' rights. All my friends call me old fashioned. I simply tell them that I know the past so I can lead a more stable future. If you separate a people from their past you can control their future, the humanist future.

Actually, an EXCELLENT post! :thumb

Words of wisdom:
"...I know the past so I can lead a more stable future. If you separate a people from their past you can control their future..." :thumb and :amen:

[tired]

65% I guesss I have to cut my body into 4 parts and send each part to Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Austria :lol

[LAF]

I got 80%