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Mosby

(19,047 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 04:51 PM Friday

There's a new, longer U.S. citizenship test with more history questions. Can you answer some?

NBC News Test

I 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.
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There's a new, longer U.S. citizenship test with more history questions. Can you answer some? (Original Post) Mosby Friday OP
I passed but only got 12. I read one as who we fought in (WWII) but it was the doc03 Friday #1
I bet a lot of people miss the persian gulf war question Mosby Friday #6
I got the persian gulf war right - Ms. Toad Friday #13
I missed the Hamilton question. Mosby Friday #14
I got 17/20 as well. phylny Friday #2
19/20. Interesting quiz. ms liberty Friday #3
Who has had the bigliest impact on your life? Buns_of_Fire Friday #4
+1 dalton99a Friday #8
18/20 I missed the James Madison and American invention question. LeftInTX Friday #5
ahh the Hamilton question got me proud patriot Friday #7
I got all 20 dsc Friday #9
20/20. Igel Friday #10
19/20...Madison tripped me up... Wounded Bear Friday #11
Missed 2 WENSTJDON Friday #12
I got all of them, but a few were strange karynnj Friday #15
That seemed like a trivia question to me. Mosby Friday #16
I got 18 out of 20. I didn't know that Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster-general Jack Valentino Friday #17
I passed and got 16/20 Jspur Friday #18
I was raised in Canada. usedtobedemgurl Friday #19

doc03

(38,410 posts)
1. I passed but only got 12. I read one as who we fought in (WWII) but it was the
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 05:27 PM
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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)
6. I bet a lot of people miss the persian gulf war question
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 06:33 PM
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And the questions about different people. I wish NBC had included data about the individual questions.

Ms. Toad

(37,707 posts)
13. I got the persian gulf war right -
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:30 PM
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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.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,767 posts)
4. Who has had the bigliest impact on your life?
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 06:05 PM
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* 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.

dsc

(53,143 posts)
9. I got all 20
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:13 PM
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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.

Igel

(37,108 posts)
10. 20/20.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 08:53 PM
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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.)

WENSTJDON

(151 posts)
12. Missed 2
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:20 PM
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I got 18/20

Would you pass the citizenship test?
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karynnj

(60,555 posts)
15. I got all of them, but a few were strange
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 09:59 PM
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I selected the light bulb as American innovation, but I did not know some of the others were not.

Mosby

(19,047 posts)
16. That seemed like a trivia question to me.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:20 PM
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Not a question one would see on an American history or goverment test.

Jack Valentino

(3,305 posts)
17. I got 18 out of 20. I didn't know that Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster-general
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:32 PM
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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)
18. I passed and got 16/20
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:43 PM
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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)
19. I was raised in Canada.
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 10:44 PM
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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.

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