Are You Smarter Than a Recent Immigrant?
- Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
- on September 17, 2009 at 10:05 am
Not if you go to high school in Oklahoma, apparently. Oklahoma high school students were administered a test consisting of questions taken from the U.S. citizenship exam (passing rate: 92 percent). Only 3 percent of the students passed. A full 75 percent of the students could not name our first president. Only one in 10 knew how many justices were on the Supreme Court. The question most got right: What ocean is on the east coast of the United States. The full list of questions below. How do you do?
What is the supreme law of the land?
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
How many justices are there on the Supreme Court?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
What ocean is on the east coast of the United States?
What are the two major political parities in the United States?
We elect a U.S. senator for how many years?
Who was the first President of the United States?
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
Answers here.
DISCUSSION: 1 Comment
I’m sure Oklahoma’s thinking, “Why didn’t they pick West Virginia?!?”FYI… I got 100%… but I probably would not have done that well in high school… I didn’t get interested in politics and government until my late 20’s.