New Pilot Naturalization
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Questions and Answers for New Pilot Naturalization Test
Part 1
Not all naturalization applicants can take the pilot naturalization test. Only certain applicants interviewing at a few USCIS locations during the pilot period can take it. USCIS will mail letters to applicants who can take the test pilot several weeks before their interview date. Applicants who do not receive such a letter should prepare to take the current naturalization test. Information on the current naturalization test can be found on pages 56-62 of A Guide to Naturalization. For additional materials you can use to prepare for the current naturalization test, please see the related links to the right.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to pilot 142 U.S. history and government questions in connection with the naturalization test redesign project. USCIS will administer the pilot test to about 6,000 volunteer citizenship applicants in 10 cities beginning in early 2007.
USCIS included new questions that focus on the concepts of democracy and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. In designing the new test, USCIS received assistance and worked with test development contractors, U.S. history and government scholars, and English as a Second Language experts. USCIS also sought input from a variety of stakeholders, including immigrant advocacy groups, citizenship instructors and District Adjudications Officers.
The pilot will allow USCIS to work out any problems and refine the test before it is fully implemented nationwide in the spring of 2008.
During the trial period, volunteer applicants who choose to take the pilot test can immediately take the current test if they incorrectly answer a pilot question. To pass, applicants will have to correctly answer six of 10 selected questions. The 10 pilot test sites are: Albany , NY ; Boston , MA ; Charleston , SC ; Denver , CO ; El Paso , TX ; Kansas City , MO ; Miami , FL ; San Antonio , TX ; Tucson , AZ ; and Yakima , WA .
*If you are 65 years old or older and have been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 20 or more years, you may study just the questions that have been marked with an asterisk.
Pilot Test Questions and Answers
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
A: Principles of American Democracy
1. Name one important idea found in the Declaration of Independence.
A: People are born with natural rights.
A: The power of government comes from the people.
A: The people can change their government if it hurts their natural rights.
A: All people are created equal.
2. What is the supreme law of the land? *
A: The Constitution
3. What does the Constitution do?
A: It sets up the government.
A: It protects basic rights of Americans.
4. What does “We the People” mean in the Constitution?
A: The power of government comes from the people.
5. What do we call changes to the Constitution?
A: Amendments
6. What is an amendment?
A: It is a change to the Constitution.
7. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
A: The Bill of Rights
8. Name one right or freedom from the First Amendment. *
A: Speech
A: Religion
A: Assembly
A: Press
A: Petition the government
9. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
A: Twenty-seven (27)
10. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
A: Announce the independence of the United States from Great Britain
A: Say that the U.S. is free from Great Britain
11. What does freedom of religion mean?
A: You can practice any religion you want, or not practice at all.
12. What type of economic system does the U.S. have?
A: Capitalist economy
A: Free market
A: Market economy
(To be continued in next issue)
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