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Arizona Civics Exam Review
This Civics Exam Review will help Arizona high school students prepare for the mandated Civics Exam about U.S. history , U.S. government, Civics. This review can also be used in the classroom as an instructional tool for exam preparation.
IMPORTANT NOTE: On the civics test, some answers may change because of elections or appointments. Students must be aware of the most current answers to these questions.
Civics Exam Review
Question
1
What is the supreme law of the land?
the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
Civics Exam Review
What does the Constitution do?
Question
2
C sets up the government C defines the government C protects basic rights of
Americans
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., seen from the observation area of the Washington Monument, circa 1945.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USW31-058713-C.
The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?
Question
3
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We the People
“We the People,” the first three words of the preamble to the Constitution
of the United States.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
What is an amendment?
Question
4
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C a change (to the Constitution)
C an addition (to the Constitution)
The 20th Amendment to
the Constitution.
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
Question
5
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the Bill of Rights
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?*
Question
6
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C speech
C religion C assembly C press
C petition the government
A newspaper stand in 1941.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USF346-BN-001359-Q-C.
Question
7
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
Civics Exam Review
twenty-seven (27)
Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony, standing, advocates for the rights
of women to vote.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ61-791.
Question
8
What did the Declaration of Independence do?
Civics Exam Review
C announced our independence (from Great Britain)
C declared our independence (from Great Britain)
C said that the United States is free
(from Great Britain)
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson in “Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776,” by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-9904.
Question
9
What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
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C life
C liberty
C pursuit of happiness
Question
10
What is freedom of religion?
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You can practice any religion, or not practice a religion.
A synagogue on Yom Kippur, circa 1900.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress,
LC-DIG-ggbain-02316.
Question
11
What is the economic system in the United States?*
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C capitalist economy
C market economy
Question
12
What is the “rule of law”?
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C Everyone must follow the law.
C Leaders must obey the law.
C Government must obey the law.
C No one is above the law.
The Contemplation of Justice statue outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Question
13
Name one branch or part of the government.*
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C Congress C legislative C President C executive C the courts C judicial
The U.S. Capitol (legislative branch) and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial branch) buildings in Washington, D.C.
Question
14
What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
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C checks and balances
C separation of powers
Question
15
Who is in charge of the executive branch?
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the President
The White House in Washington, D.C.
Question
16
Who makes federal laws?
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C Congress
C Senate and House (of Representatives)
C (U.S. or national) legislature
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Question
17
What are the two parts of the
U.S. Congress?*
Civics Exam Review
the Senate and House (of
Representatives)
Aerial view of the west front of the
U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol.
Question
18
How many U.S. Senators are there?
Civics Exam Review
one hundred (100)
The Senators of the 109th Congress.
Courtesy of the U.S. Senate Photo Studio.
Question
19
We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?
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six (6)
Senate hearing on the confirmation of John G. Roberts, Jr. in 2005.
Courtesy of the U.S. Senate Historical Office.
Question
20
Who is one of your state’s
U.S. Senators now?*
Civics Exam Review
Answers will vary.
[District of Columbia residents and residents of U.S. territories should answer that D.C. (or the territory where the applicant lives) has no U.S. Senators.]
Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American Senator in 1870.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-cwpbh-00554.
Question
21
The House of Representatives has how many voting members?
Civics Exam Review
four hundred thirty-five (435)
President George W. Bush delivering the State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress, January 23, 2007.
Courtesy of the U.S. House of Representatives,
Office of Photography.
Question
22
We elect a U.S. Representative for how many years?
Civics Exam Review
two (2)
Interior view of the Chamber of the
U.S. House of Representatives, circa 1861.
Courtesy of the U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Photography.
Question
23
Name your
U.S. Representative.
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Answers will vary.
[Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide
the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) Representatives in Congress.]
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-66358.
Question
24
Who does a U.S. Senator represent?
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all people of the state
Question
25
Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
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C (because of) the state’s population
C (because) they have more people
C (because) some states have more people
The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
Courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol.
Question
26
We elect a President for how many years?
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four (4)
The inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt on March 4, 1905.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-231.
Question
27
In what month do we vote for President?*
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November
Question
28
What is the name of the President of the
United States now?*
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Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States by Chief Justice of the United States
John G. Roberts, Jr. in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009.
U.S. Department of Defense photo by
U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo.
Question
29
What is the name of the Vice President of the United States now?
Civics Exam Review
Question
30
If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
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the Vice President
Swearing in of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson as president aboard Air Force One following the death of President John F. Kennedy on
November 22, 1963.
Courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, photo by Cecil Stoughton.
Question
31
If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
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the Speaker of the House
The Rostrum, a place for public speaking, is the location from which the Speaker of the House presides.
Courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol.
Question
32
Who is the Commander in Chief of the military?
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the President
President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviewing American troops
in Casablanca, Morocco during
World War II.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress,
LC-USW33-027834-ZC.
Question
33
Who signs bills to become laws?
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the President
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 on October 3rd of that same year, Liberty Island, NY.
Courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Question
34
Who vetoes bills?
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the President
The White House in Washington, D.C.
Question
35
What does the President’s Cabinet do?
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advises the President
President Ronald Reagan leads a Cabinet meeting at the White House
in September 1986.
Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, C36864-19.
Question
36
What are two Cabinet-level positions?
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C | Secretary of Agriculture | C | Secretary of the Interior |
C | Secretary of Commerce | C | Secretary of Labor |
C | Secretary of Defense | C | Secretary of State |
C | Secretary of Education | C | Secretary of Transportation |
C | Secretary of Energy | C | Secretary of the Treasury |
C | Secretary of Health and Human Services | C | Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
C | Secretary of Homeland | C | Attorney General |
C | Security Secretary of Housing and | C | Vice President |
| Urban Development | | |
Question
37
What does the judicial branch do?
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C reviews laws
C explains laws
C resolves disputes (disagreements)
C decides if a law goes against the Constitution
The Courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court building, where the Court has sat since 1935.
Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Question
38
What is the highest court in the United States?
Civics Exam Review
the Supreme Court
West facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Question
39
How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
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nine (9)
There are nine justices on the Supreme Court: eight associate justices and one
chief justice.
Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Question
40
Who is the Chief Justice of the United States now?
Civics Exam Review
John Roberts (John G. Roberts, Jr.)
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
Courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Question
41
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
Civics Exam Review
C to print money
C to declare war
C to create an army
C to make treaties
President Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany,
April 2, 1917.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-10297.
Question
42
Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?
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C provide schooling and education
C provide protection (police)
C provide safety (fire departments)
C give a driver’s license
C approve zoning and land use
Question
43
Who is the Governor of your state now?
Civics Exam Review
Answers will vary.
[District of Columbia residents should answer that D.C. does not have a Governor.]
Question
44
What is the capital of your state?*
Civics Exam Review
Answers will vary.
[District of Columbia residents should answer that D.C. is not a state and does not have a capital. Residents of U.S. territories should name the capital of the territory.]
Question
45
What are the two major political parties in the United States?*
Civics Exam Review
Democratic and Republican
Democratic (donkey) and Republican (elephant) Party icons from a 1962 political cartoon urging citizens to vote.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-116449.
Question
46
What is the political party of the President now?
Civics Exam Review
Democratic (Party)
Question
47
What is the name of the Speaker of the House of Representatives now?
Civics Exam Review
(John) Boehner
John Boehner, Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives.
Courtesy of the Office of U.S. Representative John Boehner.
Question
48
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them.
Civics Exam Review
C Citizens eighteen (18) and older (can vote).
C You don’t have to pay (a poll tax) to vote.
C Any citizen can vote. (Women and men can vote.)
C A male citizen of any race (can vote).
A young woman casting her ballot in the 1964 presidential election.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress,
LC-DIG-ppmsca-04300.
Question
49
What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens?*
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C serve on a jury
C vote in a federal election
Question
50
Name one right only for United States citizens.
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C vote in a federal election
C run for federal office
Congressman George W. Johnson of West Virginia with a Boy Scout band from his state, June 4, 1924.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-29200.
Question
51
What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
Civics Exam Review
C freedom of expression
C freedom of speech
C freedom of assembly
C freedom to petition the government
C freedom of worship
C the right to bear arms
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking at a racial equality demonstration outside the Justice Department on
June 14, 1963.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-04295.
Question
52
What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance?
Civics Exam Review
C the United States
C the flag
A young boy pledging allegiance at a naturalization ceremony in 1962.
Courtesy of the USCIS Historical Library,
BK9.4, Item 112.
Question
53
What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
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C give up loyalty to other countries
C defend the Constitution and laws of the United States
C obey the laws of the United States
C serve in the U.S. military (if needed)
C serve (do important work for) the nation (if needed)
C be loyal to the United States
Question
54
How old do citizens have to be to vote for President?*
Civics Exam Review
eighteen (18) and older
Question
55
What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?
Civics Exam Review
C vote
C join a political party C help with a campaign C join a civic group
C join a community group
C give an elected official your opinion on an issue
C call Senators and Representatives
C publicly support or oppose an issue or policy
C run for office
C write to a newspaper
Question
56
When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?*
Civics Exam Review
April 15
Question
57
When must all men register for the Selective Service?
Civics Exam Review
C at age eighteen (18)
C between eighteen
(18) and twenty-six (26)
World War I draft registration card of Irving Berlin, an American composer who became a naturalized citizen in 1918.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
Question
58
What is one reason colonists came to America?
Civics Exam Review
C freedom
C political liberty
C religious freedom
C economic opportunity C practice their religion C escape persecution
“Mayflower Approaching Land,” an engraving of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to Plymouth, MA in 1620.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-3046.
Question
59
Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
Civics Exam Review
C American Indians
C Native Americans
American Indian woman and her baby in 1899.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-94927.
Question
60
What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?
Civics Exam Review
C Africans
C people from Africa
Slaves on a Southern plantation in May 1862.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-04324.
Question
61
Why did the colonists fight the British?
Civics Exam Review
C because of high taxes (taxation
without representation)
C because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering)
C because they didn’t have self-government
Molly Pitcher firing a cannon at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778 during the American Revolutionary War by Percy Moran.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-4969.
Question
62
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Civics Exam Review
(Thomas) Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson. Copy of painting by Rembrandt Peale.
Courtesy of the National Archives, NARA File # 208-PU-104HH-4.
Question
63
When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
Civics Exam Review
July 4, 1776
In “Declaration of Independence,” a painting by John Trumbull, Thomas Jefferson and his committee present the formal statement of independence from Great Britain.
Courtesy of the National Archives, NARA File # 148-GW-662.
Question
64
There were 13 original states. Name three.
Civics Exam Review
C New Hampshire C Massachusetts C Rhode Island
C Connecticut
C New York
C New Jersey C Pennsylvania C Delaware
C Maryland
C Virginia
C North Carolina C South Carolina C Georgia
Massachusetts
Rhode Island Connecticut
New Jersey
Delaware Maryland
New Hampshire
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Question
65
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
Civics Exam Review
C The Constitution was written.
C The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.
“Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States,” by Howard Chandler Christy. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USA7-34630.
Question
66
When was the Constitution written?
Civics Exam Review
1787
Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA, where the Constitution was signed in 1787.
Question
67
The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution.
Name one of the writers.
Civics Exam Review
C (James) Madison
C (Alexander) Hamilton
C (John) Jay
C Publius
Title page of The Federalist, vol. 1, 1799.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-70508.
Question
68
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
Civics Exam Review
C U.S. diplomat
C oldest member of the Constitutional Convention
C first Postmaster General of the United States
“Franklin’s Return to Philadelphia, 1785,”
by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-9906.
C writer of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”
C started the first free libraries
Question
69
Who is the “Father of Our Country”?
Civics Exam Review
(George) Washington
“George Washington at Princeton,” by Charles Willson Peale.
Courtesy of the U.S. Senate, Catalog # 31.00002.000.
Question
70
Who was the first President?*
Civics Exam Review
(George) Washington
“Washington Crossing the Delaware,”
by Emanuel Leutze.
Courtesy of the National Archives, NARA File # 066-G-15D-25.
Question
71
What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
Civics Exam Review
C the Louisiana Territory
C
Louisiana
Map of the Louisiana Purchase Territory.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
Question
72
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
Civics Exam Review
C War of 1812
C Mexican-American War
C Civil War
C Spanish-American War
“Battle of Lake Erie,” by Percy Moran, depicts a battle from the War of 1812.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-6893.
Question
73
Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
Civics Exam Review
C the Civil War
C the War between the States
Civil War soldiers with cannon and caisson, Fort C.F. Smith, Co. L, 2d New York Artillery.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-115177.
Question
74
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
Civics Exam Review
C slavery
C economic reasons
C states’ rights
Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-B8172-0001.
Question
75
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*
Civics Exam Review
C freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
C saved (or preserved) the Union
C led the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-13016.
Question
76
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Civics Exam Review
C freed the slaves
C freed slaves in the Confederacy
C freed slaves in the Confederate states
“The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet,” painted by Francis Bicknell Carpenter and engraved by A.H. Ritchie.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-02502.
C freed slaves in most Southern states
Question
77
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
Civics Exam Review
C fought for women’s rights
C fought for civil rights
Susan B. Anthony.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ggbain-30125.
Question
78
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.*
Civics Exam Review
C World War I C World War II C Korean War C Vietnam War
C (Persian) Gulf War
“Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” photographed by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press, 1945.
Courtesy of the National Archives, 80-G-413988.
Question
79
Who was President during World War I?
Civics Exam Review
(Woodrow) Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-107577.
Question
80
Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?
Civics Exam Review
(Franklin) Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of War against Japan on December 8, 1941.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
Question
81
Who did the United States fight in World War II?
Civics Exam Review
Japan, Germany, and Italy
Surrender of Japan, September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies
aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
Question
82
Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
Civics Exam Review
World War II
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945.
Courtesy of the National Archives.
Question
83
During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
Civics Exam Review
Communism
Germans from East and West stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in this November 10, 1989 photo, one day after the wall opened. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the tyranny that restrained freedom throughout the Communist bloc of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
AP Images/STF.
Question
84
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
Civics Exam Review
civil rights (movement)
Demonstrators at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-03128.
Question
85
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?*
Civics Exam Review
C fought for civil rights
C worked for equality for all Americans
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Question
86
What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?
Civics Exam Review
Terrorists attacked the United States.
Firefighters unfurl a large American flag over the scarred stone of the Pentagon on September 12, 2001.
White House photo by Paul Morse.
Question
87
Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
Civics Exam Review
C Choctaw
C Pueblo
C Oneida
C Lakota
C Seminole
C Cheyenne
C | Cherokee | C | Apache | C | Arawak | C | Crow |
C | Navajo | C | Iroquois | C | Shawnee | C | Teton |
C | Sioux | C | Creek | C | Mohegan | C | Hopi |
C | Chippewa | C | Blackfeet | C | Huron | C | Inuit |
Four Pueblo women.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-54421.
Question
88
Name one of the two longest rivers in the United States.
Civics Exam Review
C Missouri (River)
C Mississippi (River)
The Mississippi River near
Minneapolis, MN.
Question
89
What ocean is on the West Coast of the United States?
Civics Exam Review
Pacific (Ocean)
View of the Pacific Ocean from Big Sur, CA, near Bixby Creek Bridge.
Question
90
What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?
Civics Exam Review
Atlantic (Ocean)
Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth, ME.
Question
91
Name one U.S. territory.
Civics Exam Review
C Puerto Rico
C U.S. Virgin Islands C American Samoa C Northern Mariana
Islands
C Guam
Old Spanish Bridge in Umatac, Guam.
Courtesy of the Office of U.S. Representative
Madeleine Z. Bordallo.
Question
92
Name one state that borders Canada.
Civics Exam Review
Vermont New York Pennsylvania
C Maine C C New Hampshire C C
C C
Ohio Michigan
C Minnesota
C North Dakota
C Montana
C Idaho
C Washington
C Alaska
Question
93
Name one state that borders Mexico.
Civics Exam Review
C California
C Arizona
C New Mexico
C Texas
Question
94
What is the capital of the United States?*
Civics Exam Review
Washington, D.C.
A view of Washington, D.C., from Virginia, across the Potomac River. The view shows the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, and
the U.S. Capitol.
Question
95
Where is the Statue of Liberty?*
Civics Exam Review
C New York (Harbor)
C Liberty Island
[Also acceptable are New Jersey, near New York City, and on the Hudson (River).]
Question
96
Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
Civics Exam Review
C because there were 13 original colonies
C because the stripes represent the original colonies
Question
97
Why does the flag have 50 stars?*
Civics Exam Review
C because there is one star for each state
C because each star represents a state
C because there are 50 states
Question
98
What is the name of the national anthem?
Civics Exam Review
The Star- Spangled Banner
In “The Star-Spangled Banner,” by Percy Moran, Francis Scott Key reaches toward the flag flying over
Fort McHenry.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-6200.
Question
99
When do we celebrate Independence Day?*
Civics Exam Review
July 4
Patriotic celebration at the
U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Question
100
Name two national U.S. holidays.
Civics Exam Review
C New Year’s Day
C Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
C Presidents’ Day
C Memorial Day
C Independence Day
C Labor Day
C Columbus Day C Veterans Day C Thanksgiving C Christmas
Atlantic Pavilion at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
© Richard Latoff.