{"id":13659,"date":"2014-02-17T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2014-02-17T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:38:04","slug":"can-you-pass-the-citizenship-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/13659","title":{"rendered":"Can you pass the citizenship test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Monday February 17, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/holidays\/presidents-day\" title=\"President's Day at History Channel\" target=\"_blank\">President&#8217;s Day<\/a>. Did you know that it was moved from February 22 (George Washington&#8217;s birthday) to the 3rd Monday of February as part of an effort to make more 3-day weekends for workers? Hmmm. Since I&#8217;m working today, that didn&#8217;t help me!<\/p>\n<p>But we can honor our Presidents (and our government) today anyway. How many of you could pass the citizenship test, which asks basic questions about our government and history? Prospective citizens are asked 10 questions from a pool of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/citizenship\/learners\/study-test\/study-materials-civics-test\/100-civics-questions-and-answers-mp3-audio-english-version\" title=\"100 Civics Questions and Answers\" target=\"_blank\">100 questions<\/a>, and they must get six correct. Try the sample multiple choice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/citizenship\/quiz\/learners\/study-test\/study-materials-civics-test\/naturalization-self-test-1\" title=\"Naturalization self-test\" target=\"_blank\">self-test<\/a>! (The real test is not multiple choice, however.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/laus.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Learn About the United States\" class=\"alignright\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/citizenship\/learners\/study-test\" title=\"Study for the Test web page of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services<\/a> web site offers study materials for the English, Reading, Writing, and Civics tests, including the 29-page <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.fdlp.gov\/GPO\/gpo36665\" title=\"link to Learn About the United States text online\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Learn about the United States: Quick civics lessons for the naturalization test<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/federaldepository.jpg\" alt=\"FDLP logo\" \/> <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out <em>your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Monday February 17, is President&#8217;s Day. Did you know that it was moved from February 22 (George Washington&#8217;s birthday) to the 3rd Monday of February as part of an effort to make more 3-day weekends for workers? Hmmm. Since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/13659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[875,52363,807,335,220,783,231,348,14],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-infogov","tag-anniversaries","tag-citizenship","tag-civics","tag-federal-government","tag-fun-stuff","tag-government-info","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13659"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13669,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions\/13669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}