| You Passed the US Citizenship Test |
 Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct! |
As I’m an American citizen, I guess I should pass. However, I can envision American citizens who wouldn’t pass the test.
| You Passed the US Citizenship Test |
Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct! |
As I’m an American citizen, I guess I should pass. However, I can envision American citizens who wouldn’t pass the test.
I work with immigrants and know how difficult this test can be for them. Then again, the English are like half-siblings to Americans.
I also got 10 out of 10, but it could just as easily have been 9 — my answer to #5 was a 50-50 guess.
Alas, I got 9 out of 10. I thought Vermont was one of the original 13, because I remember the Vermont militia played an important role. So I said New Hampshire wasn’t. I guess Vermont belonged to one of the other colonies back then — I don’t recall anymore.
Oops! I’m a native-born American, from Marblehead, Massachusetts (the birthplace of the American Navy and the Yachting Capital of the World). I lived in the US for about 41 years, and then moved to the United Kingdom in 1994, becoming a permanent resident in 1998 and a British citizen in May 2000. So if I didn’t know the answers to most of the questions I’d be very ashamed of myself. The story of my journey to British citizenship is on my website: http://www.hansenhome.demon.co.uk/UK-man.html . So now being a dual citizen, I can vote the bastards out in both countries.
Christian,
Maybe it’s just cause I am having a rotten day, or because my generation is just dumber, or maybe we focus on other types of knowledge, I have no idea. All I know si the first time through I only got 6, the second time I got 10.
The answers I blew were also Vermont, just cause I distinctly remember the stories about Ethan Allen but that could very well have been the war of 1812, I personally can admit to not knowing.
Then I blew the constitution, I knew it wasn’t 1776 cause that was declaration of independance, but I didn’t get the exact date.
Then the actual combattants of World War 2 I got wrong as well, mainly cause I read too many Tom Clancy novels where everyone is the enemy. I know where we fought battles, but the actual Axis of Evil eluded me, for some reason I thought it was Germany, Russia, Japan; but then I got to thinking about Mussolini in Italy and all hell broke lose in my brain.
And finally, I went with the president being able to declare war (for 90 days?), but then I knew the right answer they were looking for was Congress.
The one good thing about my generation is that at least #1 I can admit I didn’t cheat, and #2 I learned a little something and I am most likely going to do some studying up on this stuff. I’ve been working international for 5 years and basic American history is losing ground in my brain to international law, safety standards aboard foreign flag vessels, and of course the right ingredients to a perfect cosmo (the trick is in the Cranberry juice).
My mother was descended from members of the Green Mountain Boys, and her father’s roots in Vermont were in the Northeast Kingdom, a really interesting part of Vermont which I’ve only visited once. Here’s an online potted Vermont history: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/centralvermont/vhistory1.htm . It seems that there was some quarrel as to whether New Hampshire or New York owned Vermont. Then, they decided that they owned themselves.
Well, bravo! The first step to being a good American is to know American history. It was taught quite rigourously when I was a lad (Mr O’Neill at St. John’s was my American history teacher; I’m sure he’s still around) but I suppose that it’s slipping away as successive Presidents fill the airwaves with fluff and bloviation (a term coined about which American President of the first quarter of the 20th Century, for $100!) Good luck in your research…may it make the days at sea less boring.
See the one advantage to the internet is that a properly googled word is easily found: H.L. Menken used the word to describe Warren Harding. It’s amazing how much the term is used to describe presidents and politicians, especially for some reason in relation to Uncle Teddy Kennedy.
I like this game though, so here is one for you, a little local trivia, there was at one time a Main Street in Salem, MA, but it was renamed for which US President and why?
Did a quick Google but didn’t have a clue. My guess is Washington Street, probably renamed in honour of Washington when he was in the area. He hit Marblehead too, and Washington Street there was named for him, since he slept in the Lee Mansion on that street.