12 sample questions from a bank of 100.
1. What is the supreme law of the land?
Answer: the Constitution
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q1
2. What does the Constitution do?
Answer: sets up the government / defines the government / protects basic rights of Americans
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q2
3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
Answer: We the People
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q3
4. What is an amendment?
Answer: a change (to the Constitution) / an addition (to the Constitution)
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q4
5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Answer: the Bill of Rights
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q5
6. What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Answer: speech / religion / assembly / press / petition the government
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q6
7. How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Answer: twenty-seven (27)
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q7
8. What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Answer: announced our independence (from Great Britain) / declared our independence (from Great Britain) / said that the United States is free (from Great Britain)
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q8
9. What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: life / liberty / pursuit of happiness
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q9
10. What is freedom of religion?
Answer: You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q10
11. What is the economic system in the United States?
Answer: capitalist economy / market economy
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q11
12. What is the “rule of law”?
Answer: Everyone must follow the law. / Leaders must obey the law. / Government must obey the law. / No one is above the law.
Source: USCIS 2008 civics test Q12