U.S. Citizenship Test Quiz

If you filed Form N-400 on or after October 20, 2025, you take the 2025 version of the civics test at your naturalization interview. It works like this:

• USCIS publishes the full list: 128 civics questions with every accepted answer.
• The officer asks up to 20 of them, out loud. You answer out loud. There are no answer choices.
• You need 12 correct to pass. The officer stops as soon as you reach 12 right or 9 wrong.
• Applicants 65 or older with 20+ years as a permanent resident (the 65/20 exemption) get 10 questions from a special list of 20 and need 6 correct.

Fail the civics test and you get one retest, scheduled 60 to 90 days later. Fail that too and the application is denied, so the first try matters.

This quiz is multiple choice: one accepted answer mixed with three wrong ones. That's the fastest way to get through the list, but it's easier than the interview, where nobody hands you options and you have to come up with the answer yourself.

• The 4 questions whose answers depend on where you live (one of your U.S. senators, your U.S. representative, your governor and your state capital) are left out, because there's no single right answer.
• Questions about current officeholders use the names as of September 29, 2026. Those change after elections, so check uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates before an interview.
• The pass mark matches the real test: 12 out of 20.

Once you're passing comfortably here, switch to Interview Mode. It asks questions the way the officer does, has you answer out loud, and stops at 12 right or 9 wrong.

You may have seen the claim that most Americans would fail the citizenship test. The best-known source is a 2018 national survey of 1,000 U.S. citizens by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (conducted by Lincoln Park Strategies): only 36% passed a multiple-choice test built from questions on the citizenship test in use at the time.

Two caveats. That survey used the older question list and a 60% pass mark, not the 2025 test. And it was multiple choice, like this quiz, not the oral interview that applicants actually face. Treat it as a conversation starter, not a score for the current test.

Source: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, October 3, 2018.

• Preparing for your interview? Practice out loud in Interview Mode, then drill the ones you miss.
• Study the whole list: all 128 questions and answers, with flashcards and a printable PDF.
• 65 or older with 20+ years as a green card holder? Study the 20 questions for 65/20 applicants.
• Don't skip the English test: reading and writing practice with the official word lists.
• ¿Prefiere español? Las 128 preguntas en español.
• Just curious? Send the quiz to a friend and compare scores.

For everything else about the test, start with our citizenship test guide.