quote:Originally posted by ladyknight: How do you find out which ones are wrong????
7 out of 10.
Yeah, I wanna know which 2 I missed! Those weasels!
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quote:Originally posted by Chimera: Well both my son and I passed. I guess you don't have to know much in order to pass. I got 8 of 10 and he got 7 of 10. I may have scored less than some snopesters but at least I was able to beat a 6 year old (BTW the kid didn't see me take the test). So what are the right answers? (I don't even remember a couple of my answers.) I know at least one of us got the revolutionary war question wrong.
I'm glad that in NC, at least, they are teaching these things. Unfortunatly, civics is a forgotten subject in the schools these days.
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I got 7 out of 10, probably because of "gimme" questions about WW2 which in my opinion, have nothing to do with particular details of US Citizenship.
I'd like to see one of these quizzes for *Canadian* citizenship. Now that would be obscure stuff....
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the thing is, I have no idea what two I got wrong. I guessed on about 4 and obviously I was hitting 50%.
But then again, I am usually a tourist to the US, never anything permanent. Posts: 2064 | From: New Brunswick, Canada | Registered: Aug 2004
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Failed badly. Guess you won't be seeing me over yonder any time soon.
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Eight out of ten, right here! I had a lucky guess on #5 (well...not too lucky -- I had it narrowed down to two), and missed #7 and #9, but the rest I was pretty solid on. Not bad, considering I haven't had a Social Studies type of class for years.
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also failed badly mine was mostly guesswork 5 out of ten at least i did better than some Yanks did
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I now know I got the 13 colonies one wrong, but I don't know what the other was.
Can anyone tell me?
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1) senator is unlimited, right? 2) prez inaugurated in january 3) washington first CinC 4)Constitution intro is the preamble 5) Constitution written in 1787 6) Congress declares war 7) Jefferson was primary author of Declaration, right? 8) America's WWII enemies: Germ, Italy, Japan 9) 13 colonies, got it wrong. 10)revolution against England
So besides #9, what else did I get wrong?
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Wow - 8 / 10! Some lucky guesses there... Now where's my green card?
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8 out of 10 here. Not too surprised given years of watching American TV. Most of it was on one sitcom or other at some stage.
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I got 7 which isn't bad considering i've never studied US history or politics - as a wheeze I took the official online immigration grill (not historical, more personal)and passed with flying colours, as I did with Canada and Australia - gotta keep your options open
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Me, I was manly guessing. I got the month of Inauguration wrong, as well as the year of the Constitution and the 14th State of the Union.
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6/10 - failure. I know practically nothing of USAn history: I was surprised I did so well.
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Callee, all of those are right. You must have just misclicked on one.
Ten out of 10 for me.
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Bah! George Washington as the first commander in chief seemed too obvious so I second guessed myself. And I was one year off on the Constitution, but I didn't fall for 1776.
You can just go back and do trial and error with different questions to see what you got wrong.
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I did a little bit better than I did the first time I took it. I got a 4 our of 10 then.I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who would have failed. Sabrina
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Too bad the actual test isn't as easy. A good friend of mine is very nervous about her test coming up. She even has to sing the national anthem. Good thing my dad was born here- if being able to carry a tune counts he'd be deported. Every song he sings sounds the same.
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quote:Originally posted by Hero_Mike: I'd like to see one of these quizzes for *Canadian* citizenship. Now that would be obscure stuff....
A couple years ago I was looking around the internet and doing some Canadian and US citizenship tests. Almost everytime I did better on the US ones. Posts: 846 | From: Ontario, Canada | Registered: Feb 2004
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I failed too. I only got four out of ten. Good thing I don't plan on staying an American citizen forever (for some reason people think I'm joking when I say I want to be a citizen of Canada...)
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