TEST TIME: More questions today from that pilot citizenship test
proposed by the immigration service.

As we told you a few weeks ago, the U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services is in the process of revamping its citizenship
test, and has released 140 draft questions.

The questions, part of the exam’s civics portion, are intended
to make the test more “meaningful.”

So let’s see how you do. Answers will be printed tomorrow. (We
don’t want you to be tempted to cheat!)

1. Name one important idea found in the Declaration of
Independence.

2. What is the supreme law of the land?

3. What does the Constitution do?

4. What does “We the People” mean in the Constitution?

5. What do we call changes to the Constitution?

6. What is an amendment?

7. What do we call the first ten amendments to the
Constitution?

8. Name one right or freedom from the First Amendment.

9. How many amendments does the Constitution have?

10. What did the Declaration of Independence do?

11. What does freedom of religion mean?

12. What type of economic system does the U.S. have?

13. What are the three branches or parts of the government?

14. Who is in charge of the executive branch?

15. Who makes federal laws?

16. What are the two parts of the United States Congress?

17. How many United States Senators are there?

18. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

19. Name your state’s U.S. Senators.

20. How many U.S. Senators does each state have?

21. The House of Representatives has how many voting
members?

22. We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?

23. Name your U.S. Representative.

24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent?

25. Who does a U.S. Representative represent?

26. How is each state’s number of Representatives decided?

27. Why do we have three branches of government?

28. Name one example of checks and balances.

The Immigration Service was slated to begin administering the
pilot exam to about 5,000 volunteer citizenship applicants in 10
cities early this year.The pilot will allow the Immigration Service
to work out any problems and refine the exam before it is fully
implemented nationwide in the spring of 2008.

When you’re grading your test tomorrow remember that, to pass,
applicants get 10 selected question and must answer six correctly.
We’ll have more of these civics questions for you throughout
2007.