Now that our year in United States history is over and we have learned about this great nation from its inception, we now know a whole lot about the entire history of the United States. As a means to test our knowledge in a somewhat practical way, You can try taking the United States Citizenship test that millions of new immigrants have to take before they can become citizens. Will you be able to pass? The short answer is probably, but it's still a cool means to see how much you know, and how much new citizens have to know.
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I'm a citizen!! I thought it was super interesting that they had a question about Native Americans, because many of the interactions we had with them early on in history were not very positive. We place patriotism so highly in American culture, and sometimes choose to ignore the negatives of our history, so it is refreshing to see the test acknowledge all parts of our country's history.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I would be a citizen had I taken this test: I got 23/25, I am a little more troubled by the fact that I missed two questions considering I have been studying history in depth this entire year. I think some of the questions on this test are too easy/don't have anything to do with American history. For example some of the questions asked "which ocean borders the west coast."
ReplyDeleteThe citizenship test isn't meant to be just US history. Knowing basic geography is important as well, so it makes sense that it would be on this kind of a test.
DeleteCool find! This post reminds me of Andreas' post from last semester where he gave some example questions of the citizenship test his parents had to take. Congrats to them for passing, but I think I remember his example questions being a little harder than the ones we just saw here. By the way, does anybody know what a president pro tempore is? I saw it on the quiz and I had never heard of it before.
ReplyDeleteThe president pro tempore is an official in the US Senate. "Pro tempore" basically just means something along the lines of "for the time being", so basically the president pro tempore is the placeholder in case the President of the Senate is missing. (The President of the Senate is actually just the US Vice President, so if there's a Senate meeting and Joe Biden isn't there, the president pro tempore can preside over the Senate meetings until he gets back.) The president pro tempore is also the third in line for the presidency! It goes: Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and then the president pro tem. There's also "Pro tempore" positions in other areas, too! Los Altos, for example, has a mayor and then a mayor pro tempore.
DeleteThe President Pro Tempore is a senator that serves as the president of the Senate in case the Vice President, the President of the Senate, resigns.
DeleteThe test wasn't too hard, just a couple I didn't know. Though I am not sure why the test is required for citizenship? I guess it is just to make sure that the people coming in care about American culture.
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ReplyDeleteYay, I'm allowed to be a citizen!! I think that this test is almost too easy. Many of these questions were things that we all learned in 4th grade when we were first exposed to US history. Also the ocean question seemed very unnecessary. I could understand why someone would need to know who the president was during a crucial time in US history but questions of geography seem too easy to be one of the deciding questions about whether to be let into the country or not.
ReplyDeleteNice find with this test. However, I don't really understand why somebody who wanted to become a citizen would need to know some of these answers. A lot of them seemed irrelevant, especially the ones that asked specific questions about the branches of government.
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