Do you have what it takes?

Slate magazine always offers interesting stories by writers with a playful intelligence. Like Richard Cohen's piece Is James Bond responsible for the Iraq war? about the nature and authority of British intelligence reports. They also have an always interesting Explainer department that explores the answers to interesting civics guided questions. A recent explainer article is about the US Naturalization test, and how often it is updated.

So, I downloaded the test and took it myself (the explainer article's link also has a list of answers, thankfully). I passed.

The test is 10 or 12 random general knowledge civics and lite American history questions selected from a list of 100. What are the colors of the flag? What is the introduction to the Constitution called? Who is the current vice president? And so on...

These will also prove interesting for discussion in my English classes.

Take the test and see how you do!