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Sample questions of the
Naturalization test
1. What are the colors of our flag?
Answer: Red, white and blue.
2. How many stars are there in our flag?
Answer: 50
3. What color are the stars on our flag?
Answer: White
4. What do the stars represent?
Answer: One for each state
5. How many stripes are there on the flag?
Answer: 13
6. What color are the stripes?
Answer: Red and white
7. What do the stripes represent?
Answer: They represent the original 13 states
8. How many states are there in the Union?
Answer: 50
9. What is the 4th of July?
Answer: Independence Day
10. What is the date of Independence Day?
Answer: July 4
11. Independence from whom?
Answer: England
12. What country did we fight during the
revolutionary war?
Answer: England
13. Who was the first president of the
United States?
Answer: George Washington
14. Who is the President of the United
States today?
Answer: George W. Bush
15. Who is the vice president of the United
States today?
Answer: Richard Cheney
16. Who elects the President of the United
States?
Answer: The electoral college
17. Who becomes President if he should
die in office?
Answer: Vice president
18. What is the elected term of office
for the President?
Answer: 4 years
19. What is the Constitution?
Answer: The supreme law of the land
20. Can the Constitution be changed?
Answer: Yes
21. What do we call a change to the Constitution?
Amendments
22. How many changes or amendments are
there to the Constitution?
Answer: 27
23. How many branches are there in our
government?
Answer: 3
24. What are the three branches of government?
Answer: Legislative, executive and judiciary
25. What is the Legislative branch of our
government?
Answer: Congress
26. Who makes the laws in the United States?
Answer: Congress
27. What is Congress?
Answer: The senate and the house of representatives
28. What are the duties of Congress?
Answer: To make laws
29. Who elects Congress?
Answer: The people
30. How many senators are there in Congress?
Answer: 100
31. Can you name the senators from your
state?
Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer
32. What is the elected term of office
for each senator?
Answer: 6 years
33. How many representatives are there
in Congress?
Answer: 435
34. What is the elected term of office
for each representative?
Answer: 2 years
35. What is the executive branch of our
government?
Answer: The president, cabinet and departments under the cabinet
members
36. What is the judiciary branch of our
government?
Answer: The Supreme Court
37. What are the duties of the Supreme
Court?
Answer: To interpret laws
38. What is the supreme law of the United
States?
Answer: The Constitution
39. What is the Bill of Rights?
Answer: The first 10 amendments of the Constitution
40. What is the capital of your state?
Answer: Albany
41. Who is the current governor of your
state?
Answer: George Pataki
42. Who becomes president if the president
and vice president should die?
Answer: Speaker of the house of representatives
43. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court?
Answer: William H. Rehnquist
44. Can you name the thirteen original
states?
Answer: Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Caroline, South Carolina,
Georgia, Rhode Island and Maryland.
45. Who said, “Give me liberty or give
me death?”
Answer: Patrick Henry
46. Which countries were our enemies during
World War II?
Answer: Germany, Italy and Japan
47. What are the 49th and 50th states of
the Union?
Answer: Hawaii and Alaska
48. How many terms can a President serve?
Answer: 2
49. Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Answer: A civil rights leader
50. Who is the head of your local government?
Answer: The mayor (name)
51. According to the Constitution, a person
must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become
President. Name one.
Answer: Must be a natural born citizen of the United States; must
be at least 35 years old by the time he/she will serve; must have
lived in the United States for at least 14 years.
52. Why are there 100 senators in the senate?
Answer: Two from each state
53. Who elects the Supreme Court Justice?
Answer: Appointed by the president.
54. How many Supreme Court Justices are
there?
Answer: Nine
55. Why did the pilgrims come to America?
Answer: For religious freedom.
56. What is the head executive of a state
government called?
Answer: Governor
57. What is the head executive of a city
government called?
Answer: Mayor
58. What holiday was celebrated for the
first time by the American colonists?
Answer: Thanksgiving
59. Who was the main writer of the Declaration
of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
60. When was the Declaration of Independence
adopted?
Answer: July 4, 1776
61. What is the basic belief of the Declaration
of Independence?
Answer: All men are created equal
62. What is the national anthem of the
United States?
Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner
63. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
Answer: Francis Scott Key
64. Where does freedom of speech come from?
Answer: The Bill of Rights
65. What is the minimum voting age in the
United States?
Answer: Eighteen
66. Who signs bills into law?
Answer: The president
67. What is the highest court in the United
States?
Answer: The Supreme Court
68. Who was President during the Civil
War?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
69. What did the Emancipation Proclamation
do?
Answer: Freed many slaves
70. What special group advises the President?
Answer: The cabinet
71. Which President is called the “Father
of our Country?
Answer: George Washington
72. What Immigration & Naturalization
Service form is when applying for U.S. citizenship?
Answer: Form N-400 “Application for Naturalization”
73. Who helped the pilgrims in America?
Answer: The American Indians (Native Americans)
74. What is the name of the ship that brought
the pilgrims to America?
Answer: The Mayflower
75. What were the 13 original states of
the U.S. called?
Answer: Colonies
76. Name three rights or freedoms guaranteed
by the Bill or Rights.
Answer:
1. The right of freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly
and requesting change of government.
2. The right to bear arms (the right to have weapons or own a
gun, though subject to certain regulations.)
3. The government may not quarter, house soldiers in the people’s
homes during peacetime without the people’s consent.
4. The government may not search or take property without a warrant.
5. A person may not be tried twice for the same crime and does
not have to testify against him/herself.
6. A person charged with a crime still has some rights, such as
a right to trial and to have a lawyer.
7. The right to trial by jury in most cases.
8. The people against excessive or unreasonable fines or cruel
and unusual punishment.
9. The people have rights other than those mentioned in the Constitution.
10. Any power not given to the federal government by the Constitution
is power of either the state or the people.
77. Who has the power to declare war?
Answer: The Congress
78. What kind of government does the United
States have?
Answer: Republic
79. Which president freed the slaves?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
80. In what year was the Constitution written?
Answer: 1787
81. What are the first 10 amendments to
the Constitution called?
Answer: The Bill of Rights
82. Name one purpose of the United Nations.
Answer: For countries to discuss and try to resolve world problems,
to provide economic aid to many countries.
83. Where does Congress meet?
Answer: In the Capital: Washington, D.C.
84. Whose rights do the Constitution and
the Bill of Rights guarantee?
Answer: Everyone (citizens and non-citizens living in the U.S.)
85. What is the introduction to the Constitution
called?
Answer: The Preamble
86. Name one benefit of being a citizen
of the United States?
Answer: Obtain federal government jobs; travel with a U.S. passport;
petition for close relatives to live in the U.S.
87. What is the most important right granted
to U.S. citizens?
Answer: The right to vote.
88. What is the capitol of the United States?
Answer: The place where Congress meets
89. What is the White House?
Answer: The president’s official house
90. Where is the White House located?
Answer: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
91. What is the name of the president’s
official home?
Answer: White House
92. Name on right guaranteed by the First
Amendment?
Answer: Freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly and
requesting change of government.
93. Who is the Commander in Chief of the
U.S. military?
Answer: The president
94. Which president was the first Commander
in Chief of the U.S. military?
Answer: George Washington
95. In what month do we vote for the president?
Answer: November
96. In what month is the new president
inaugurated?
Answer: January
97. How many times may a senator be re-elected?
Answer: There is no limit.
98. How many times may a congressman be
re-elected?
Answer: There is no limit
99. What are the two major political parties
in the U.S. today?
Answer: Democratic and Republican
100. How many states are there in the United
States?
Answer: 50.
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