US naturalization civics test questions and answers
120 of the 128 questions on the official USCIS 2025 civics test list, each with the answers USCIS accepts. In the real test an officer asks up to 20 of them out loud, and you need 12 correct.
The other 8 official questions ask who holds an office now, such as the President or your state's governor. Those answers change, so check them on the USCIS test updates page.
Principles of American government
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and founding ideas. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 1. What is the form of government of the United States?
Answer: A republic (a constitution-based federal republic)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Republic; Constitution-based federal republic; Representative democracy.
Question 2. What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer: The U.S. Constitution
The official answer is: (U.S.) Constitution. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 3. Which of these is one thing the U.S. Constitution does?
Answer: Protects the rights of the people
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Forms the government; Defines powers of government; Defines the parts of government; Protects the rights of the people.
Question 4. The U.S. Constitution starts with the words "We the People." What does "We the People" mean?
Answer: Self-government: the people govern themselves
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Self-government; Popular sovereignty; Consent of the governed; People should govern themselves; (Example of) social contract.
Question 5. How are changes made to the U.S. Constitution?
Answer: By amendments
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Amendments; The amendment process.
Question 6. What does the Bill of Rights protect?
Answer: The basic rights of people living in the United States
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (The basic) rights of Americans; (The basic) rights of people living in the United States.
Question 7. How many amendments does the U.S. Constitution have?
Answer: 27
The official answer is: Twenty-seven (27). This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 8. Why is the Declaration of Independence important?
Answer: It says America is free from British control
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: It says America is free from British control.; It says all people are created equal.; It identifies inherent rights.; It identifies individual freedoms.
Question 9. What founding document said the American colonies were free from Britain?
Answer: The Declaration of Independence
The official answer is: Declaration of Independence.
Question 10. Which of these is an important idea from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution?
Answer: Liberty
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Equality; Liberty; Social contract; Natural rights; Limited government; Self-government.
Question 11. The words "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" are in what founding document?
Answer: The Declaration of Independence
The official answer is: Declaration of Independence.
Question 12. What is the economic system of the United States?
Answer: Capitalism (a free market economy)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Capitalism; Free market economy. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 13. What is the rule of law?
Answer: No one is above the law
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Everyone must follow the law.; Leaders must obey the law.; Government must obey the law.; No one is above the law.
Question 14. Many documents influenced the U.S. Constitution. Which of these is one?
Answer: The Mayflower Compact
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; Federalist Papers; Anti-Federalist Papers; Virginia Declaration of Rights; Fundamental Orders of Connecticut; Mayflower Compact; Iroquois Great Law of Peace.
Question 15. There are three branches of government. Why?
Answer: So one part does not become too powerful
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: So one part does not become too powerful; Checks and balances; Separation of powers.
System of government
Congress, the President, the courts, and federal and state powers. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 16. What are the three branches of government?
Answer: Legislative, executive and judicial
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Legislative, executive, and judicial; Congress, president, and the courts.
Question 17. The President of the United States is in charge of which branch of government?
Answer: The executive branch
The official answer is: Executive branch.
Question 18. What part of the federal government writes laws?
Answer: Congress
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (U.S.) Congress; (U.S. or national) legislature; Legislative branch.
Question 19. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?
Answer: The Senate and the House of Representatives
The official answer is: Senate and House (of Representatives).
Question 20. Which of these is a power of the U.S. Congress?
Answer: Declaring war
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Writes laws; Declares war; Makes the federal budget. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 21. How many U.S. senators are there?
Answer: 100
The official answer is: One hundred (100).
Question 22. How long is a term for a U.S. senator?
Answer: 6 years
The official answer is: Six (6) years.
Question 24. How many voting members are in the House of Representatives?
Answer: 435
The official answer is: Four hundred thirty-five (435).
Question 25. How long is a term for a member of the House of Representatives?
Answer: 2 years
The official answer is: Two (2) years.
Question 26. Why do U.S. representatives serve shorter terms than U.S. senators?
Answer: To more closely follow public opinion
The official answer is: To more closely follow public opinion.
Question 27. How many senators does each state have?
Answer: Two
The official answer is: Two (2).
Question 28. Why does each state have two senators?
Answer: Equal representation for small states (the Great Compromise)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Equal representation (for small states); The Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise).
Question 31. Who does a U.S. senator represent?
Answer: The people of their state
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Citizens of their state; People of their state.
Question 32. Who elects U.S. senators?
Answer: Citizens from their state
The official answer is: Citizens from their state.
Question 33. Who does a member of the House of Representatives represent?
Answer: The people in their congressional district
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Citizens in their (congressional) district; Citizens in their district; People from their (congressional) district; People in their district.
Question 34. Who elects members of the House of Representatives?
Answer: Citizens from their congressional district
The official answer is: Citizens from their (congressional) district.
Question 35. Some states have more representatives than other states. Why?
Answer: Because of the state's population
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Because of) the state's population; (Because) they have more people; (Because) some states have more people.
Question 36. The President of the United States is elected for how many years?
Answer: 4 years
The official answer is: Four (4) years. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 37. The President of the United States can serve only two terms. Why?
Answer: Because of the 22nd Amendment
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Because of) the 22nd Amendment; To keep the president from becoming too powerful.
Question 40. If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
Answer: The Vice President
The official answer is: The Vice President (of the United States).
Question 41. Which of these is a power of the President?
Answer: Vetoing bills
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Signs bills into law; Vetoes bills; Enforces laws; Commander in Chief (of the military); Chief diplomat; Appoints federal judges.
Question 42. Who is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?
Answer: The President
The official answer is: The President (of the United States).
Question 43. Who signs bills to become laws?
Answer: The President
The official answer is: The President (of the United States).
Question 44. Who vetoes bills?
Answer: The President
The official answer is: The President (of the United States). This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 45. Who appoints federal judges?
Answer: The President
The official answer is: The President (of the United States).
Question 46. The executive branch has many parts. Which of these is one?
Answer: The Cabinet
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: President (of the United States); Cabinet; Federal departments and agencies.
Question 47. What does the President's Cabinet do?
Answer: Advises the President
The official answer is: Advises the President (of the United States).
Question 48. Which of these is a Cabinet-level position?
Answer: Secretary of State
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Attorney General; Secretary of State; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of War (Defense); Secretary of Homeland Security; Vice-President; and other Cabinet-level posts on the official list.
Question 49. Why is the Electoral College important?
Answer: It decides who is elected President
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: It decides who is elected president.; It provides a compromise between the popular election of the president and congressional selection.
Question 50. Which of these is part of the judicial branch?
Answer: The Supreme Court
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Supreme Court; Federal Courts.
Question 51. What does the judicial branch do?
Answer: Decides if a law goes against the Constitution
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Reviews laws; Explains laws; Resolves disputes (disagreements) about the law; Decides if a law goes against the (U.S.) Constitution.
Question 52. What is the highest court in the United States?
Answer: The Supreme Court
The official answer is: Supreme Court. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 53. How many seats are on the Supreme Court?
Answer: 9
The official answer is: Nine (9).
Question 54. How many Supreme Court justices are usually needed to decide a case?
Answer: 5
The official answer is: Five (5).
Question 55. How long do Supreme Court justices serve?
Answer: For life
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (For) life; Lifetime appointment; (Until) retirement.
Question 56. Supreme Court justices serve for life. Why?
Answer: To be independent of politics
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: To be independent (of politics); To limit outside (political) influence.
Question 58. Which of these is a power that is only for the federal government?
Answer: Printing paper money
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Print paper money; Mint coins; Declare war; Create an army; Make treaties; Set foreign policy.
Question 59. Which of these is a power that is only for the states?
Answer: Giving a driver's license
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Provide schooling and education; Provide protection (police); Provide safety (fire departments); Give a driver's license; Approve zoning and land use.
Question 60. What is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?
Answer: Powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people
The official answer is: (It states that the) powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or to the people.
Rights and responsibilities
Voting, freedoms, the Oath of Allegiance and civic duties. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 63. There are four amendments about who can vote. Which of these describes one of them?
Answer: Citizens 18 and older can vote
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote).; You don't have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.; Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.); A male citizen of any race (can vote).
Question 64. Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office and serve on a jury in the United States?
Answer: U.S. citizens
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Citizens; Citizens of the United States; U.S. citizens.
Question 65. Which of these is a right of everyone living in the United States?
Answer: Freedom of religion
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Freedom of expression; Freedom of speech; Freedom of assembly; Freedom to petition the government; Freedom of religion; The right to bear arms.
Question 66. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Answer: The United States and the flag
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: The United States; The flag. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 67. Which of these is a promise new citizens make in the Oath of Allegiance?
Answer: To give up loyalty to other countries
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Give up loyalty to other countries; Defend the (U.S.) Constitution; Obey the laws of the United States; Serve in the military (if needed); Serve (help, do important work for) the nation (if needed); Be loyal to the United States.
Question 68. How can people become United States citizens?
Answer: By naturalizing
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Be born in the United States, under the conditions set by the 14th Amendment; Naturalize; Derive citizenship (under conditions set by Congress).
Question 69. Which of these is an example of civic participation in the United States?
Answer: Contacting elected officials
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Vote; Run for office; Join a political party; Help with a campaign; Join a civic group; Join a community group; Give an elected official your opinion (on an issue); Contact elected officials; Support or oppose an issue or policy; Write to a newspaper.
Question 70. Which of these is a way Americans can serve their country?
Answer: Serving in the military
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Vote; Pay taxes; Obey the law; Serve in the military; Run for office; Work for local, state, or federal government.
Question 71. Why is it important to pay federal taxes?
Answer: It is required by law and funds the federal government
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Required by law; All people pay to fund the federal government; Required by the (U.S.) Constitution (16th Amendment); Civic duty.
Question 72. It is important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service. Why?
Answer: It is required by law and makes the draft fair, if needed
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Required by law; Civic duty; Makes the draft fair, if needed.
Colonial period and independence
The colonies, the Revolution and the founders. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 73. The colonists came to America for many reasons. Which of these is one?
Answer: Religious freedom
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Freedom; Political liberty; Religious freedom; Economic opportunity; Escape persecution.
Question 74. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Answer: American Indians (Native Americans)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: American Indians; Native Americans. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 75. What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
Answer: Africans (people from Africa)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Africans; People from Africa.
Question 76. What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?
Answer: The American Revolution
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: American Revolution; The (American) Revolutionary War; War for (American) Independence.
Question 77. Which of these is a reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain?
Answer: Taxation without representation
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: High taxes; Taxation without representation; British soldiers stayed in Americans' houses (boarding, quartering); They did not have self-government; Boston Massacre; Boston Tea Party (Tea Act); Stamp Act; Sugar Act; Townshend Acts; Intolerable (Coercive) Acts.
Question 78. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
The official answer is: (Thomas) Jefferson. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 79. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Answer: July 4, 1776
The official answer is: July 4, 1776.
Question 80. Which of these was an important event of the American Revolution?
Answer: The Battle of Yorktown
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Battle of) Bunker Hill; Declaration of Independence; Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton); (Battle of) Saratoga; Valley Forge (Encampment); (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown).
Question 81. Which of these was one of the 13 original states?
Answer: Virginia
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia.
Question 82. What founding document was written in 1787?
Answer: The U.S. Constitution
The official answer is: (U.S.) Constitution.
Question 83. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Who was one of the writers?
Answer: James Madison
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (James) Madison; (Alexander) Hamilton; (John) Jay; Publius.
Question 84. Why were the Federalist Papers important?
Answer: They helped people understand and supported passing the Constitution
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: They helped people understand the (U.S.) Constitution.; They supported passing the (U.S.) Constitution.
Question 85. Benjamin Franklin is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He was the first Postmaster General of the United States
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Founded the first free public libraries; First Postmaster General of the United States; Helped write the Declaration of Independence; Inventor; U.S. diplomat.
Question 86. George Washington is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He was General of the Continental Army
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: "Father of Our Country"; First president of the United States; General of the Continental Army; President of the Constitutional Convention. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 87. Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He doubled the size of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Writer of the Declaration of Independence; Third president of the United States; Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase); First Secretary of State; Founded the University of Virginia; Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom.
Question 88. James Madison is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He is called the 'Father of the Constitution'
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: "Father of the Constitution"; Fourth president of the United States; President during the War of 1812; One of the writers of the Federalist Papers.
Question 89. Alexander Hamilton is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He was the first Secretary of the Treasury
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: First Secretary of the Treasury; One of the writers of the Federalist Papers; Helped establish the First Bank of the United States; Aide to General George Washington; Member of the Continental Congress.
The 1800s
Expansion, the Civil War, emancipation and voting rights. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 90. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Answer: Louisiana
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Louisiana Territory; Louisiana.
Question 91. Which of these wars did the United States fight in the 1800s?
Answer: The Mexican-American War
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: War of 1812; Mexican-American War; Civil War; Spanish-American War.
Question 92. What was the name of the U.S. war between the North and the South?
Answer: The Civil War
The official answer is: The Civil War.
Question 93. Which of these was an important event of the Civil War?
Answer: The Battle of Gettysburg
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Battle of) Fort Sumter; Emancipation Proclamation; (Battle of) Vicksburg; (Battle of) Gettysburg; Sherman's March; (Surrender at) Appomattox; (Battle of) Antietam/Sharpsburg; Lincoln was assassinated.
Question 94. Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He delivered the Gettysburg Address
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation); Saved (or preserved) the Union; Led the United States during the Civil War; 16th president of the United States; Delivered the Gettysburg Address. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 95. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Answer: It freed the slaves in the Confederate states
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Freed the slaves; Freed slaves in the Confederacy; Freed slaves in the Confederate states; Freed slaves in most Southern states.
Question 96. What U.S. war ended slavery?
Answer: The Civil War
The official answer is: The Civil War.
Question 97. What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?
Answer: The 14th Amendment
The official answer is: 14th Amendment.
Question 98. When did all men get the right to vote?
Answer: After the Civil War, with the 15th Amendment (1870)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: After the Civil War; During Reconstruction; (With the) 15th Amendment; 1870.
Question 99. Who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the 1800s?
Answer: Susan B. Anthony
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Sojourner Truth; Harriet Tubman; Lucretia Mott; Lucy Stone.
Recent American history
The World Wars, the Cold War, civil rights and modern events. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 100. Which of these wars did the United States fight in the 1900s?
Answer: The Korean War
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: World War I; World War II; Korean War; Vietnam War; (Persian) Gulf War.
Question 101. Why did the United States enter World War I?
Answer: Because Germany attacked U.S. civilian ships
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Because Germany attacked U.S. (civilian) ships; To support the Allied Powers (England, France, Italy, and Russia); To oppose the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria).
Question 102. When did all women get the right to vote?
Answer: 1920, with the 19th Amendment
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: 1920; After World War I; (With the) 19th Amendment.
Question 103. What was the Great Depression?
Answer: The longest economic recession in modern history
The official answer is: Longest economic recession in modern history.
Question 104. When did the Great Depression start?
Answer: With the stock market crash of 1929
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: The Great Crash (1929); Stock market crash of 1929.
Question 105. Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt
The official answer is: (Franklin) Roosevelt.
Question 106. Why did the United States enter World War II?
Answer: Because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Bombing of) Pearl Harbor; Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; To support the Allied Powers (England, France, and Russia); To oppose the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan).
Question 107. Dwight Eisenhower is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He was a general during World War II
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: General during World War II; President at the end of (during) the Korean War; 34th president of the United States; Signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (Created the Interstate System).
Question 108. Who was the United States' main rival during the Cold War?
Answer: The Soviet Union
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Soviet Union; USSR; Russia.
Question 109. During the Cold War, what was one main concern of the United States?
Answer: Communism
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Communism; Nuclear war.
Question 110. Why did the United States enter the Korean War?
Answer: To stop the spread of communism
The official answer is: To stop the spread of communism.
Question 111. Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?
Answer: To stop the spread of communism
The official answer is: To stop the spread of communism.
Question 112. What did the civil rights movement do?
Answer: It fought to end racial discrimination
The official answer is: Fought to end racial discrimination.
Question 113. Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Which of these is one?
Answer: He fought for civil rights and equality for all Americans
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Fought for civil rights; Worked for equality for all Americans; Worked to ensure that people would "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 114. Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?
Answer: To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait
The official answer is: To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait.
Question 115. What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?
Answer: Terrorists attacked the United States
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Terrorists attacked the United States; Terrorists took over two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York City; Terrorists took over a plane and crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; Terrorists took over a plane originally aimed at Washington, D.C., and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 116. Which of these was a U.S. military conflict after the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Answer: The War in Afghanistan
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Global) War on Terror; War in Afghanistan; War in Iraq.
Question 117. Which of these is an American Indian tribe in the United States?
Answer: The Cherokee
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Apache; Blackfeet; Cherokee; Cheyenne; Navajo; Sioux; and other tribes on the official list.
Question 118. Which of these is an example of an American innovation?
Answer: The airplane
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Light bulb; Automobile (cars, internal combustion engine); Skyscrapers; Airplane; Assembly line; Landing on the moon; Integrated circuit (IC).
Symbols and holidays
The flag, the anthem, the Statue of Liberty and national holidays. Practise this topic as a quiz
Question 119. What is the capital of the United States?
Answer: Washington, D.C.
The official answer is: Washington, D.C.
Question 120. Where is the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: New York Harbor (Liberty Island)
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: New York (Harbor); Liberty Island; Also acceptable: New Jersey, near New York City, and on the Hudson (River).
Question 121. Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
Answer: Because there were 13 original colonies
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Because there were) 13 original colonies; (Because the stripes) represent the original colonies. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 122. Why does the flag have 50 stars?
Answer: One star for each state
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: (Because there is) one star for each state; (Because) each star represents a state; (Because there are) 50 states.
Question 123. What is the name of the national anthem?
Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner
The official answer is: The Star-Spangled Banner.
Question 124. The Nation's first motto was "E Pluribus Unum." What does that mean?
Answer: Out of many, one
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: Out of many, one; We all become one.
Question 125. What is Independence Day?
Answer: A holiday to celebrate U.S. independence from Britain
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: A holiday to celebrate U.S. independence (from Britain); The country's birthday.
Question 126. Which of these is a national U.S. holiday?
Answer: Juneteenth
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: New Year's Day; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Presidents Day (Washington's Birthday); Memorial Day; Juneteenth; Independence Day; Labor Day; Columbus Day; Veterans Day; Thanksgiving Day; Christmas Day. This is one of the 20 questions for applicants who qualify for the 65/20 special consideration.
Question 127. What is Memorial Day?
Answer: A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service
The official answer is: A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service.
Question 128. What is Veterans Day?
Answer: A holiday to honor people who have served in the U.S. military
In the real test, any of these official answers is accepted: A holiday to honor people in the (U.S.) military; A holiday to honor people who have served (in the U.S. military).
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