How we write and check the questions

US civics test

Official wording, our explanations

Questions and accepted answers are the official USCIS list, 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version). The answer choices and explanations are written for this app.

Answers that change, such as the names of people in office now, are checked against USCIS's test updates page before every release. Questions whose answer depends on where you live, such as your state's governor, are practised as interview questions, never as multiple choice with one made-up answer.

Source: 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version).

A work of the U.S. government, in the public domain.

Life in the UK test

Written for Civic Mosaic from the handbook

Practice questions written for this app around the five study topics in Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents (3rd edition). Reviewed using third-edition study text, published amendments and primary sources. They are not official test questions.

Source: Life in the United Kingdom: A Guide for New Residents; publisher amendments and primary sources, 3rd edition (2013), reconciled with published amendments through impression 28; no claim of an authenticated publisher imprint.

The official handbook is Crown copyright. The practice questions and explanations are authored for this app.

The questions are original: written from the facts in the handbook, not copied from it or from any official practice material. They are not official test questions and have no publisher approval, and no practice app can cover the unpublished live test completely.

Canada and Australia

Both banks are written and reviewed, and are planned for later, with no release date yet. Canadian questions are in English only.

Canadian citizenship test

Practice questions written for this app from Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, the official study guide from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. They are not official test questions.

Source: Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, Online edition (page dated 2025-01-06).

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2012. Any wording taken from the guide comes from the online version linked below.

Australian citizenship test

Practice questions written for this app from Australian Citizenship: Our Common Bond (Department of Home Affairs, 2020). They are not official test questions.

Source: Australian Citizenship: Our Common Bond, 2020, current online version (mentions King Charles III).

© Commonwealth of Australia 2020. Our Common Bond is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, except the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, which this app does not use. The questions and explanations adapt its content. Licence

Corrections

If you find a mistake, tell us. We check it against the official source. A small fix, such as clearer wording, changes the question in place. If a correction changes what a question tests, the old question is retired and a new one takes its place, so progress you made on the old question is never counted for a different one.

Every change to a question bank gives it a new version number, shown below and in the app.

Question banks and checked dates

What we never claim

• That Civic Mosaic is official, or approved by USCIS, the Home Office, a publisher or any government.
• That practising with it guarantees a pass.
• That the UK, Canadian or Australian questions are the questions in the real test.

Civic Mosaic is an independent study app.