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· 8 min read · Built from the official USCIS question lists
There are two official lists of citizenship test questions, and USCIS publishes both in full.
The 2025 version has 128 questions; the 2008 version has 100. At your interview a USCIS officer asks a
subset out loud — up to 20 from the 128, or up to 10 from the 100 — and you answer out loud in English.
Every question and answer on this page comes straight from the USCIS lists. Nothing is invented and
nothing is a "leaked" question, because there is nothing to leak: the entire bank is public, which means
the test is completely learnable if you work through it.
Three things about grading are worth knowing before you memorise anything.
Most questions accept several answers. "Name one power of the president" has six
listed answers and you only need one. You do not have to produce the whole list — pick the answer you
find easiest to remember and stick with it.
You do not need the words in brackets. Where the official answer reads
"(U.S.) Constitution", saying "the Constitution" is fine. Brackets mark optional detail.
It is oral, so pronunciation matters more than spelling. The officer needs to
understand you. This is the single biggest reason to practise saying answers aloud rather than reading
them.
The questions by category
Both lists are organised into sections, and they are not evenly sized. On the 2025 version:
Section
Questions
Covers
American Government
1–72
Principles, the three branches, rights and responsibilities
American History
73–118
Colonial period, the 1800s, recent history
Symbols and Holidays
119–128
The flag, the anthem, national holidays
American Government is 72 of the 128 questions — more than half. On the 2008 version it is 57 of 100.
If your study time is limited, that section is where it should go.
The questions people miss most
Across both banks, the same clusters cause trouble:
Anything with a number. 27 amendments. 100 senators. 435 voting members of the
House. 9 seats on the Supreme Court. 6-year Senate terms, 2-year House terms, 4-year presidential terms.
These are pure memorisation with no logic to fall back on.
Senate versus House. Who each represents, who elects them, why the terms differ,
why every state gets exactly two senators. The questions are worded to catch people who learned one
fact and assumed the rest.
The "why" questions on the 2025 list. "Why do U.S. representatives serve shorter
terms than U.S. senators?" (to more closely follow public opinion). "Supreme Court justices serve for
life. Why?" (to be independent of politics). These have specific expected answers.
Wars and reasons. Why the US entered World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and
the Persian Gulf War are five separate questions with five different answers.
Study the whole bank on your phone
All 128 questions of the 2025 version and all 100 of the 2008 version, offline, with mastery
tracking per category and study in your own language. Free on iPhone and Android.
The questions with no fixed answer
A handful of questions cannot be answered from any study list, and they are a common cause of an
otherwise well-prepared applicant losing a mark.
Questions about where you live: one of your state's US senators, your US
representative, your governor, and your state capital. You have to look these up for your own address.
Questions about who currently holds office: the President, the Vice President, the
Speaker of the House and the Chief Justice of the United States. USCIS deliberately does not print these
answers, because they change. Check them on the official
USCIS
test updates page shortly before your interview and answer with whoever is serving on the day.
Answer for the day you interview
If an official changes between the day you study and the day you are interviewed, the correct answer is
the person serving at the interview. Re-check these four in the week before you go.
Practise the full list
Reading a list of questions and answers is the least effective way to learn them, because recognition
feels like knowledge until someone asks you cold. Use the free practice test on this site to work through
the bank in scored rounds, then drill whatever you miss.
In the iPhone app the same bank is organised into category quizzes — American Government, American
History, Symbols and Holidays — with a mastery indicator per category, so you can see at a glance which
section is still weak rather than guessing. It also works offline, which makes it useful on a commute.
Frequently asked
How many citizenship test questions are there?
There are 128 questions on the 2025 version of the civics test and 100 questions on the 2008 version. Which list applies to you depends on whether you filed Form N-400 on or after 20 October 2025. At the interview you are asked up to 20 of the 128, or up to 10 of the 100.
Are the citizenship test questions and answers public?
Yes. USCIS publishes the complete question bank and the accepted answers for both versions as free PDFs. There is no secret question list. The entire test is learnable in advance.
Do I have to give every accepted answer?
No. Where a question lists several accepted answers, you need only give the number asked for — usually one. "Name one power of the president" needs exactly one power, not all six.
Which citizenship test questions have no printed answer?
The questions about your own state\u2019s senators, your representative, your governor and your state capital depend on where you live. The questions about the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House and Chief Justice depend on who is serving when you interview. USCIS publishes current answers on its test updates page.
