Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Citizenship Test

Today I gave my kids 50 of the 100 questions that are part of the citizenship test to become a US citizen.  These questions were from the test that was used before October 1, 2008.  There's a new test now.  We'll do the other 50 questions next week and then check out the new test.  I have to say I was pretty impressed with how many of the answers that my 8 and 9 year old knew.  Here's the test and you can test your own citizenship knowledge. I believe that they randomly select 10 questions from this list to be on the actual test for potential citizens to take.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/blinstst.htm

We've been doing Constitution Tuesday the past two weeks, I just have been too tired to blog about it because there's been illness.  We went over more of the Preamble and the started the First Article of the Constitution that talks about the Legislative Branch.

Last week we talked about how you had to be a citizen of the United States for seven years in order to be a member of the House of Representatives. That sparked my son to ask how someone becomes a citizen who wasn't born here.  I told him that they have to take a test, which led us to look it up and see what kinds of questions are on the test.

The new test is here:

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Office%20of%20Citizenship/Citizenship%20Resource%20Center%20Site/Publications/100q.pdf

But that is material for another week.