US Citizenship Test: Mock test 4
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About US Citizenship Test mock test 4
This is mock test 4 of 6 for the US Citizenship Test. It has 20 questions, the same number as the real test, with a 20-minute timer and the real pass mark (12 of 20 correct). Answers and explanations are shown when you submit. Each mock test uses a fixed set of questions, so you can retake this one until you pass it, then move on to the next.
Topics in this mock test: American Government (17) · American History (3)
Last reviewed: October 19, 2026 · Questions are written from the official study material linked on the country page.
The 20 questions in mock test 4
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1. What is one part of the judicial branch?
The Supreme Court
The judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. The Department of Justice is part of the executive branch.
2. What does the judicial branch do?
Reviews and explains laws
The judicial branch reviews and explains laws, resolves disputes about the law, and decides whether a law goes against the Constitution.
3. How many Supreme Court justices are usually needed to decide a case?
Five
The Supreme Court has nine seats, and a simple majority of five justices is usually needed to decide a case.
4. How long do Supreme Court justices serve?
For life
Supreme Court justices receive a lifetime appointment and serve until they retire, resign, or die, unless they are removed through impeachment.
5. Supreme Court justices serve for life. Why?
To be independent of politics
Lifetime appointments let justices be independent of politics and limit outside political influence on their decisions.
6. Which of these is a power that is only for the states?
Give a driver's license
States provide schooling, police and fire protection, driver's licenses, and zoning. Printing money, declaring war, and making treaties are federal powers.
7. What is the purpose of the 10th Amendment?
Powers not given to the federal government belong to the states or the people
The 10th Amendment states that powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or to the people.
8. There are four amendments to the U.S. Constitution about who can vote. Which of these describes one of them?
Citizens eighteen and older can vote
The 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments say that male citizens of any race, women, and citizens 18 and older can vote, and that no poll tax is required to vote.
9. Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
U.S. citizens
Voting in federal elections, running for federal office, and serving on a jury are rights and responsibilities reserved for U.S. citizens.
10. Which of these is a right of everyone living in the United States, not only citizens?
The right to bear arms
Everyone living in the United States has freedom of expression, speech, assembly, religion, and petition, and the right to bear arms. Voting and jury service are for citizens.
11. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
The United States and the flag
The Pledge of Allegiance expresses loyalty to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands.
12. Which of these is a promise new citizens make in the Oath of Allegiance?
Give up loyalty to other countries
In the Oath of Allegiance, new citizens promise to give up loyalty to other countries, defend the Constitution, obey U.S. laws, serve the nation if needed, and be loyal to the United States.
13. How can people become United States citizens?
Naturalize
People become U.S. citizens by being born in the United States under the 14th Amendment, by naturalizing, or by deriving citizenship under conditions set by Congress.
14. Which of these is an example of civic participation in the United States?
Join a political party
Civic participation includes voting, running for office, joining a political party or civic group, helping with a campaign, contacting elected officials, and writing to a newspaper.
15. What is one way Americans can serve their country?
Serve in the military
Americans can serve their country by voting, paying taxes, obeying the law, serving in the military, running for office, or working for local, state, or federal government.
16. Why is it important to pay federal taxes?
It is required by law
Paying federal taxes is required by law and by the 16th Amendment. It is a civic duty, and all people pay to fund the federal government.
17. Why is it important for all men age 18 through 25 to register for the Selective Service?
It is required by law
Registering for the Selective Service is required by law and is a civic duty. It makes the draft fair if a draft is ever needed.
18. The colonists came to America for many reasons. Which of these is one of them?
Religious freedom
Colonists came to America for freedom, political liberty, religious freedom, and economic opportunity, and to escape persecution.
19. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Native Americans
American Indians, also called Native Americans, lived throughout North America for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
20. What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
Africans
Millions of people from Africa were taken from their homes and sold as slaves in the Americas, including in the American colonies and later the United States.
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