Could You Pass the Naturalization Test?
 

The Christian Science Monitor has the Naturalization test online.
96 questions, and you must answer 58 correctly to pass. 92% of them thar ferriners do, can you?
I got 90, one I misread the question, one I knew but had a clicking finger fart, and one I'll argue to my dieing day I'm right and they're wrong. :p:

I'm right with you Bruce, everyone knows the Celts were a native American tribe.

92 of 96

87/96 I got hammered on the questions about the structure of the gov't- always been weak on that.
The question about the colonists fighting the British was a shitty question. I highly doubt that the british garrisoning troops in people's houses was the reason we went to war. I really think it was much more about lack of self governance. But then, that was a long time ago and my memory may be a bit fuzzy.

84, but I misread a couple questions. should have got an 86 i guess. can I stay?

No, selective service. There is no selective service so nobody must sign up.
They screwed me on one of those all are correct ones too.:o

It depends on what you mean by "must". You are still supposed to, by law, but I imagine that enforcement is a bit more lax now than it was during Vietnam.

[edit]I think that one enforcement method is a passport application.

I got 91/96, one wrong answer was a mouse slip.

When I turned eighteen I had to register...1986 though.

Oh hell no. The site is slow as shit for me right now. No way I'm spending that much time on this. Maybe tonight.

It's taken a minute to navigate through answering 3 questions. I'll stop there. I got them all right though.

I did too... 2000.

I'll have to take this soon.....

89. (93%)

Oh that's way too slow. Hebe's persevering and has none wrong so far. She's up to 22....

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s...is_yb_2009.pdf

naturalization stats. in case anyone care. I didn't see any whiteys in the image but found it odd that we would be so much in the minority. So I looked up the stats.

Yeah, I paused on that one and figured they must have reinstated it at some point.

Hebe got bored too. But she was all right when she quit around 50. Her teacher would be proud

Wikipedia on Selective Service. Apparently there was a five-year period when it wasn't in effect.

Only one wrong, and I was close on that one.

94 of 96 ... I'm actually suprised. I was never much for history or civics on a large scale, although I know quite a bit about local history. My Mother's father was a local Selectman (think head of a town council) in the 1930s and his father fought with the 21st Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War. Guess the educational system was good for something.

Ah, I was wrong, I didn't realize selective service covered so much beyond the draft.

This is interesting.

Yep, a ferner who entered the country before the age of 26 must have registered for Selective Service or no Federal Financial Aid For YOU.

I got my 58.
Took me until 67 to get there though - it was too slow for me to bother carrying on.

I got hammered by a slew of questions with numbers in them - I have a reasonably good grasp of American history, and a middling understanding of politics (for a furriner) but don't be asking me questions about how many Senators and how long they serve for. Numbers. Urgh.

96 out of 96. (luckily the back button works.)

oops! Did I say that out loud?

Hah!

Mine: (I surprised myself, really)

Why 96 questions? Couldn't they come up with just four more?

Because the test was created by a committee.

80%. name one war of 1900's....(or something of that effect).....and the war of 1812 was an option? really?

oh damn! now i read this! :p:

78 Correct
18 Wrong

Mostly because I'm French and don't know things such as mandate duration, etc...

OK, I guess I'll have to do it.

Could You Pass the Naturalization Test?

I guess if I can swallow it, I can pass it.

The very words I live by.


;)

Could you pass the pepper?

That's in the things you can't do thread.

Can you pass the Peppard?

Could you pass the Aboult Peppar?

*snort*

I liked the one offering up that Abraham Lincoln might've created the United Nations...

I only missed one...I couldn't remember who the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is. My bad.

shame on you! bad driver bad driver! extra 100 miles for you!

lmao luv ya brother!

I get $23 an hour. 100 miles = about an hour and a half. Profit!