[normanpubbie]

Mr. Van Doorn:

no, you are mistaken. It was a trick question and none of the multiple choice answers were correct.

Here is a link to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services citizenship test. All persons applying for citizenship are required to answer 10 questions that the examiner selects from the 100 questions asked on the test sheet.

You will note that the "trick question" you cited in post 131 is question number 70. Who knows -- maybe all of the questions on the test are "trick questions."

Your assignment will be to download a copy of the test I linked and take it so you can determine the total number of "trick questions" there are on it. Then please get back to us with the total number of "trick questions."

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Steve Van Doorn]

My wife did her masters thesis was on the citizenship test. I don’t need to look at the test to know it was asked correctly. I know it is asked correctly.

If you go to the link I gave in post 131 the question isn’t worded the way the US citizen test is given.

[erman]

George Washington was the first president under our current constitution and is considered the "Father" of our country. I think he was probably the greatest head of state we've had.

Under the Articles of Confederation from what I can recall there were several others that were "president" prior to Washington.

If these questions are for general knowledge and culturally trying to unite us... then if everybody agrees that George Washington was the first president that we all culturally accept as our first president, then that's OK by me.

I suspect that maybe "Lincoln", "Jefferson". "Ben Franklin", or, "I don't know" may have been the responses given by the Oklahoma students.