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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's a new, longer U.S. citizenship test with more history questions. Can you answer some?
NBC News TestI didn't do as well as I had hoped, but I passed (17/20), I kinda zipped though it and didn't think enough about some of the answers.

doc03
(38,410 posts)Cold War. Veitnam War I said it was to get control of its minerals. I guess that was the unwritten history.
Mosby
(19,047 posts)And the questions about different people. I wish NBC had included data about the individual questions.
Ms. Toad
(37,707 posts)Things that happened when I was alive generally stick.
But I got a bunch of the people wrong. In high school I had history taught by people who were hired to coach. The teaching assignment was an afterthought. Literally. So for 5 decades after high school, I avoided history like the plague.
I'm now taking history, but it's art history - so it doesn't give me much insight as to early American history.
Mosby
(19,047 posts)Something I should probably have known.
phylny
(8,778 posts)ms liberty
(10,601 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(18,767 posts)* Charlie Kirk
* Charlie Pride
* Charlie Rich
* Charlie the Tuna
Okay, so I missed that one. I still managed 16/20, even with a Friday afternoon snootful. Good thing I was born here.
LeftInTX
(34,006 posts)proud patriot
(102,263 posts)dag nabbit
but I wasn't in love with the answer for when did all men get the right to vote given that we had Jim Crow and all. I do wonder what Trump thinks of some of these questions.
Then again, I may teach actually just science because that was my first certification and science teachers aren't always easy to come by, but a year after being hired I got certified to teach social studies. Mostly because the district would pay me $500, about $400 more than the cost of the certification exam, and I wanted the $. (Easy test, scored above 90% on that just like the science certification exam, didn't remember it so I didn't study for it.)
Wounded Bear
(63,008 posts)
I got 18/20
Would you pass the citizenship test?
My score:
✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅❌✅✅✅✅✅❌✅
karynnj
(60,555 posts)I selected the light bulb as American innovation, but I did not know some of the others were not.
Mosby
(19,047 posts)Not a question one would see on an American history or goverment test.
Jack Valentino
(3,305 posts)of the United States..... I had reasoned that by that time (1789), he would have been too old....
Also mis-answered that Monroe was 5th President of the United States,
which was sort of a 'trick wrong answer'...
Jspur
(749 posts)which is not bad but I got tripped up by the questions that dealt with the Pursuit of Happiness, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and the E Pluribus Unum..
usedtobedemgurl
(1,840 posts)I had a brain injury and the soctors gave me a set of tests to test my cognitive abilities. Some of the questions were about US history. They really did not grade me on those questions, knowing that I did not live or go to school down here until college. I had no clue. Even on recent history questions. I could not remember if one answer would have been Clinton or Bush. It was really frustrating for me, considering how rabid I am politically. My mind and memory have not worked well since, even with therapy.