Could YOU pass the test?

For a foreigner to become a citizen they must answer six of ten civics questions correctly. In a Goldwater Institute poll of some Arizona public high school students, only 3.5 percent would have qualified for citizenship - and half of them only got one question right!

Here are the 10 questions randomly selected (answers below):

1.What is the supreme law of the land?

2. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
4. How many Justices are on the Supreme Court?
5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
7. What are the two major political parties in the United States?
8. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

9 . Who was the first President of the United States?
10. Who is in charge of the Executive Branch?

From J.P. Greene's blog:

Recently, the USCIS had 6,000 citizenship applicants pilot a newer version of this test. The agency reported a 92.4 percent passing rate for the test among citizenship applicants on the first try. I did not expect Arizona high school students to do that well of course, given that those seeking citizenship have had the opportunity to prepare for the test. On the other hand, Arizona high school students have some advantages of their own: multiple courses in American history and social studies, hopefully exposure to American history outside of school, etc.

Here are all 100 of the current citizenship test questions from the NIS.

Answers:

1. The Constitution

2. The Bill of Rights

3. Senate and House

4. Nine

5. Thomas Jefferson

6. Atlantic

7. Democratic and Republican

8. Six years

9. George Washington

10. The President

Maybe the Arizona students need to take advantage of these free civics study materials?

(H/T Joanne Jacobs)