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Citizenship test practice: the civics questions, one at a time
At the U.S. citizenship interview, an officer asks civics questions out loud and you answer out loud. This page has every question and answer from both of USCIS’s lists, word for word: the 100 questions of the 2008 test and the 128 questions of the 2025 test. Practice one question at a time, sit a practice interview that stops where an officer stops, or read the whole list. No sign-up, no clock, and nothing you do here is sent anywhere.
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Good to know
Which test is yours
- Form N-400 filed before October 20, 2025: the 2008 test. The officer asks up to 10 questions from a list of 100. 6 right answers pass. USCIS says officers stop asking when a person has answered 6 correctly or 5 incorrectly.
- Form N-400 filed on or after October 20, 2025: the 2025 test. It has 20 questions from a list of 128. 12 right answers pass, and 9 wrong answers fail. USCIS says officers stop asking at 12 correct or 9 incorrect.
- It is an oral test. Nothing is written down for the civics part: the officer asks, and you say the answer.
- This is what USCIS’s “Study for the Test” page said when it was read for this page on October 13, 2026. If you are not sure which test applies to you, USCIS or an accredited representative can say.
65 or older, with 20 years as a permanent resident
- USCIS says that a person who is 65 years old or older and has been living in the United States as a lawful permanent resident for 20 or more years may study just the 20 questions marked with an asterisk, on either list.
- The officer asks 10 of those 20, and 6 right answers pass.
- USCIS says such a person may also take the test in the language of their choice.
- Tick “Only the 20 questions USCIS marks with a star” above to practice just those.
Answers that change
- Some answers are names: the President, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, the Chief Justice, your state’s governor, senators and representative. USCIS says to answer with the name of the official serving at the time of your interview.
- This page prints no names of people in office. For those questions USCIS’s lists say to visit its Civics Test Updates page, and so does this page: Check for Test Updates on uscis.gov.
- “Answers will vary” is what the lists say where the answer depends on where you live (your state’s capital, your governor). Those are yours to look up.
- Other answers may be right too. USCIS says it is aware that there may be additional correct answers, and that applicants are encouraged to respond using the answers on its lists.
- Some questions ask for more than one thing (“Name two…”, “Name three…”). The question says how many.
The English part, and who can test in another language
- The civics questions are one part. USCIS also tests English: speaking during the interview, reading 1 of 3 sentences out loud, and writing 1 of 3 sentences. This page does not practice those; Citizenship reading and writing practice has USCIS’s word lists for them.
- USCIS’s Exceptions and Accommodations page says a person is exempt from the English requirement, and still takes the civics test, if they are 50 or older when they file and have lived in the United States as a permanent resident for 20 years, or 55 or older with 15 years.
- It says such a person may take the civics test in their native language, and must bring an interpreter who is fluent in both languages.
- That page also describes exceptions for some disabilities, and accommodations. Exceptions and Accommodations on uscis.gov.
Where every word comes from
- 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), USCIS form M-1778, dated 09/25. A PDF on uscis.gov.
- Civics Questions and Answers (2008 version), revised 08/21. A PDF on uscis.gov.
- Study for the Test on uscis.gov, which also has USCIS’s own study guides, free.
- Both lists were fetched on October 13, 2026. A program took the questions and answers out of them and checks, each time this page is built, that every question, answer and note on this page is in USCIS’s file, that each list has all its questions (100 and 128), and that 20 on each are starred. No question or answer was typed or reworded by us.
- USCIS can change its lists. If this page and uscis.gov ever differ, uscis.gov is right, and we would like to know.
What this page can’t do
- It cannot hear you, and it cannot tell whether an officer would accept what you said. You mark your own answers, and only your marking is counted.
- It is not the test, and not USCIS. Scarlet Beast is not part of the government and has no tie to USCIS. Doing well here promises nothing about an interview.
- It is not legal advice. It says nothing about whether you can apply, when to apply, or what to put on a form.
- “Hear the question” uses your device’s own voice, in English. It will not sound like a person, some devices have no voice, and the AI that wrote this page cannot hear, so nobody has listened to it yet.
- It keeps nothing. Close the page and the count is gone. It does not remember which questions you knew.
- It was tried by a program in one browser, with a mouse and a keyboard. It has not been tried on a touch screen or with a screen reader.
Pages that go with this
- Immigration help: how to find real, low-cost legal help, and how to spot someone who is not allowed to give it.
- Flash cards: make your own cards, for the answers that are yours alone (your governor, your senators, your state’s capital).
- Read it my way: paste any text and have it shown larger or read aloud.
- Legal help: free and low-cost legal help of other kinds.
- Voting: for after the oath.
- All the free tools, and how to save them on your phone.
Practice, and nothing more. This page shows USCIS’s public questions and answers and counts what you mark. It is not legal advice and it is not from the government. For advice about your own case, an attorney or a representative accredited by the Department of Justice is the person to ask; Immigration help says how to find one. If things are so heavy that you are thinking about ending your life, call or text 988 (in the U.S.), or open Get help now. If anyone is in danger, call 911.
The tool and the wording around the questions were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). There is no AI inside this tool. The questions, answers and notes are USCIS’s own words, a work of the U.S. government, taken by a program from the two files named above on October 13, 2026; what this page says about how the test is given was read the same day on USCIS’s “Study for the Test”, “2025 Civics Test”, “Check for Test Updates” and “Exceptions and Accommodations” pages. It has been checked by a program, with a mouse and a keyboard in one browser; no person has read it through yet, and the Spanish of the page has not been read by a native speaker. It keeps nothing, so it has no line on My data on this device. Also in Spanish: Práctica del examen de ciudadanía. Found a mistake, or a line that differs from USCIS? Email [email protected].