Could you be an American?
 

Do you have what it takes to become an American citizen? Try the quiz:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/

(and apologies in advance if somebody has already posted this link)

Just barely, 80% correct

I'm embarrassed, I only scored 75%!

Me, too - 80%.

90% w/out thinking too hard...I guess I'm legit. The Amendment questions are tough...who knows all the Amendments ?

Yeh, I score 85%

75% - I think thats ok.
Who cares what the name of the form is to become a naturalized citizen anyway.

I was 90%. Didn't know which form to fill out or the three freedoms guar.by the BoR.

Fun test. Thanks BTilke.

Wow, I did much better than I thought, 90%. Unfortunately, I did a lot of guessing.

85% for me. Not too shabby.

I even shocked myself because I got 95%, and didn't think I would do so well. I didn't know the naturalization process form # and guessed wrong.

One of things that amazes me is that I went to a Catholic grammar school with 65 kids in my class, circa 1960. The teacher was a 22 year old nun with 2 years of college and no certification.

And yet I still know my Civics. In fact, I know the Preamble by rote and know all the amendments. I also know the Gettsyburg Address word for word.
And I know how a bill gets passed.

My top pet peeve of all time in Education (USA) is that the people leaving college today don't have any understanding of the political system or what the ramifications of a two party system are. Nor what it takes to write a Constitution that lasts 20 years, yet alone over 200.

I see the College kids right now, and please someone bring back the basic knowledge- even if it takes cartoons like "Little Bill".

http://tinyurl.com/r3jma

This link gives the entire list of 100 possible questions (which can be studied prior to the oral exam). Many of these questions are (i.e. what color is the American flag) ridiculously simple.

85% but I'm petioning the Professor because the headline windows kept opening when my cursor went over too far and it distracted me. :`(

I missed 3, so my score was 80%. I second guessed myself on the right to declar war, I had it right the first time! I need to forward this to my mom as she is studying for her test right now.

I scored 95%, missed the last question (I went for Life, Liberty & Happiness instead of freedom of press, etc.). My husband IS a naturalized citizen; he passed his real test with flying colors (helps that he's Canadian and went to high school in California). As far as the other applicants we saw on the swearing-in day were concerned, however, THE most important question was: how soon can I bring over my relatives (and how many can I bring at one time)? Seriously, we heard that asked over and over.

I shocked myself also with a 90%; there were a few educated guesses in there though :). I missed the naturalization form and the number of amendments; I think the former is meant to be a gimme for prospective citizens who have filled out the form.

Not too shabby for a US citizen who's lived outside the country half his life.

I scored 100%. Please feel free to applaud.

Hurrah for Schoolhouse Rock and 7th grade Civics in 1989. :)

=D>=D>=D>=D>

Oh man, I got a 60%. History was always my worst subject...thank goodness I was born here! :)

Yes, but you get extra points for being honest.

95% I also missed the naturalization form. "Petition" just sounded more governmental than "application."

I am a product of small town public school and state university-MANY years ago!

I only got a 75%. That is pathetic. My kids have spent the last two years studying american history and I have quizzed them on most of the ones that I got wrong....Back to 7th grade for me!!!

95%. I missed the number of the form.

The great thing about America is that (if you were born a citizen) you can get 0% right and still be a citizen. The terrible thing about America is that you can get 0% right and still be a citizen. There's no quality control.

FYI, vegasnative, you cheated yourself. You got 85%, not bad for history. But perhaps a math class might help!

100% here as well. I probably would have missed the question regarding naturalization, but I've been working with my manicurist on her civics test for citizenship, so this question stuck.

For once history being my favorite subject pays off....

Got a 90%...
I bet the people taking the test for their citizenship are a lot more nervous that I am sitting here in my PJ's. I second guessed myself and ending up changing from right to wrong on one of the questions!

I also got 90%. I thought most of the questions were pretty easy, especially as multiple guess. Then I read the paragraph before the quiz, which says that the exam is given orally, and not as multiple choice. I figure if I'd taken it that way, I'd have scored about 60%.

Go ahead, deport me.... As long as it's to somewhere like Tahiti. :-)

95% for me, only missed the one about the form. I teach US history in fifth grade and most of the questions could be answered by my students.

On a side note, a friend just became naturalized recently after living in the US since she was 4 months old [50+ now]. Her stories about going through the process are fascinating. She thought she was doing something wrong when she arrived for a meeting without the lawyer/interpreter everyone else had. Wasn't a problem for her, just that all the others needed them.

Got a 85%. The amendment questions were difficult for me. I haven reviewed them in a long long time.

90%! I also missed the name of the form.

The people who know all the amendments are lawyers, of course! ;=)

Beachbum, good point about the quiz not being multiple choice for real applicants. I think my score probably would have taken a nosedive. I'd like to hope it wouldn't, but I suspect it would.

I had this exam, and knew answers to all 100 questions 10 years ago. Now I don't even want to open this quiz (sorry, Btilke) and happy to forget all I was trying to memorize.

95% - I missed the one about which ammendment doesn't address voting. I guessed on the naturalization application form - just picked the answer that had both the words application and naturalization in it - LOL.

The only question I missed was number 19, regarding what form was used to apply for citizenship. Not a valid question, really, as it is a bureaucratic process question and has nothing to do with the actual concept of being an American citizen. Few Americans born here in the USA would know it.

Managed to squeak out an 85%. I blew one question because I read it wrong so answered incorrectly. Lesson learned: don't rush, read questions thoroughly before answering! My thought for the day.

85% - pretty good for someone who is not an American Citizen

Well I got 85%, and since it has been a long time since I have been in school guess that is pretty good. I would sure hate to have to take this test orally though. Thanks for this thread BTilke.

95% - and one is a trick question - when you're already a citizen you don;t know the name of the form required for naturalization.

And for anyone who didn;t get 95% - shame on you. These are absolute basics any citizen should know - no matter how long it;s been since you were in 7th grade.

How can you make reasonable political decisions, how can you vote - if you understand so little about the basics on which our society is built?

(This remindsme of a corworke who though Clinton should bre impeached for cheating on his wife. but that what Nixon did was fine - since he was protecting the office of the President. He somehow couldn;t understand that the Presidental oath of office requires he swears to protect, uphold and defend the Constitution - not be true to his wife.)

nytraveler, only fools and spin meisters would have you believe Clinton was impeached for sex and/or cheating on his wife. The truth is he was impeached (like it or not) for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Nixon resigned before impeachment hearings for obstruction of justice.

Why didn't Clinton take a lesson from Nixon -- It's the cover up, stupid, not the crime itself. :-)

Enough about history -- now back to travel. Is this a travel question? ((b))

80%... not bad for not being an American citizen!

Well I got 75%. I was interested in the 100 study questions that are in the manual so I followed the link given by seetheworld (tinyurl.com/r3jma) and was bemused that two of the questions were written exactly like this--yes, before you ask, it does say "strips" and not "stripes" and the horrid grammar is also word-for-word:

"How many strips are there on the flag?"
"What do the strips mean on the flag represent?"

Other punctuation errors abound.

Um. I might have gotten a 75% on my civics exam but I was an English major and I take offense to those poorly worded (and spelled) questions! What a country...