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US civics test practice

Civic Mosaic helps you prepare for the 2025 US civics test with short daily practice. It covers all 128 questions on the official USCIS list, and every answer is explained.

Coming soon to iPhone and Android.

Civic Mosaic covers the 2025 civics test, for applications (Form N-400) filed on or after 20 October 2025. If you filed before then, you will take the 2008 test. Check which test you will take on USCIS.gov.

The civics test

The civics test is part of your naturalization interview, the interview for becoming a US citizen. An officer asks you up to 20 questions from the official list of 128, aloud, and you answer aloud. You need 12 right answers to pass.

If you are 65 or older and have been a permanent resident for 20 years or more, you are asked 10 of 20 specially marked questions, and you need 6 right answers.

Some answers change, such as the names of people in office now. Check them on USCIS's test updates page before your interview.

Rules from USCIS: the 2025 civics test, checked .

What the app covers

124 of the 128 official questions are practised as multiple choice, in 8 topics. The other 4 depend on where you live, so you practise them as interview questions:

  • Who is one of your state’s U.S. senators now?
  • Name your U.S. representative.
  • Who is the governor of your state now?
  • What is the capital of your state?

Interview practice uses all 128 questions. The app can read each question aloud, as an officer would, and you check your own answer against the official answers.

The 20 questions for the 65/20 option are marked, so you can practise them on their own.

Questions and accepted answers use the official USCIS wording. The answer choices and explanations are written for Civic Mosaic.

Topics

The multiple-choice questions by topic, as the app's map groups them.

  • Principles of American Government15 questions
  • System of Government43 questions
  • Rights and Responsibilities10 questions
  • Colonial Period and Independence17 questions
  • 1800s10 questions
  • Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information19 questions
  • Symbols6 questions
  • Holidays4 questions

Sample questions

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Principles

What is the supreme law of the land?

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Answer C. The U.S. Constitution

Accepted answers (U.S.) Constitution

The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. No federal or state law may go against it.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 2

System of government

The President of the United States is elected for how many years?

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Answer A. 4 years

Accepted answers Four (4) years

The President is elected for a four-year term.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 36

Rights and duties

Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?

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Answer A. U.S. citizens

Accepted answers Citizens; Citizens of the United States; U.S. citizens

Only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, run for federal office and serve on a jury.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 64

Colonial era

What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?

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Answer A. The American Revolution

Accepted answers American Revolution; The (American) Revolutionary War; War for (American) Independence

Americans won independence from Britain in the American Revolution (1775 to 1783), also called the Revolutionary War.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 76

1800s

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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Answer B. Freed slaves in the Confederate states

Accepted answers Freed the slaves; Freed slaves in the Confederacy; Freed slaves in the Confederate states; Freed slaves in most Southern states

The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) freed enslaved people in the Confederate states. The 13th Amendment (1865) ended slavery everywhere in the United States.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 95

Recent history

Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?

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Answer D. Franklin Roosevelt

Accepted answers (Franklin) Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was President from 1933 to 1945, through the Great Depression and most of World War II.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 105

Symbols

Why does the flag have 13 stripes?

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Answer D. Because there were 13 original colonies

Accepted answers (Because there were) 13 original colonies; (Because the stripes) represent the original colonies

The 13 stripes stand for the 13 original colonies.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 121

Holidays

What is Memorial Day?

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Answer B. A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service

Accepted answers A holiday to honor soldiers who died in military service

Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, honors soldiers who died in military service. Veterans Day honors everyone who has served.

Source: USCIS 2025 civics test, question 127

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