William Reardon’s Blog

My mom passed her naturalization test/interview yesterday! For the test, they ask you ten questions of which you have to get six. She started off strong, answering the first five correct. She missed the new two (“What year was the Constitution written?” & “Who wrote the national anthem?”) and I started to get nervous. She knew number eight off the bat (“How many terms are members of Congress allowed to serve?”), so with that, the test was done. *Whew*

After that, they basically walk through the form with you. Have you ever been arrested, do you support the Constitution, etc. There was confusion on the location of prior citizenship, as technically my mom is only a British Subject, having been born in Tanzania when they where still a colony. When she came to the States some forty years ago, she came in with a British passport, so that more or less solved the question.

For the most part, she’s done! The swearing in should be sometimes in May. On the trip back from Chicago, she started to complain again about Bush and the War in Iraq. Damnit, I didn’t go through all this just so she could cancel out my vote. Now I’m wondering if I should have fed her some wrong answers when prepping her over lunch.

BTW, if you’re wondering how well you would have done on the test, you can review the set of sample questions.

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