65/20: every answer the officer accepts

If you are 65 or older and have been a permanent resident for 20 years or more, the officer asks you 10 questions from a short list of 20, and you need 6 correct. You may also take the test in the language of your choice. Most of the 20 questions accept more than one answer, and that is good news: you only have to give one of them, so it pays to know which answers count and to pick the one that is easiest for you to say.

The quiz takes the questions on the short list that accept several answers and shows them as select-all questions. For each one you see the question in the officer's words and a short list of options, and you pick every answer USCIS accepts. The economic system (capitalism or free market economy), the three powers of Congress, what the Pledge of Allegiance is loyal to, who lived in America first, the four answers for George Washington, four of the five for Abraham Lincoln, the three for Martin Luther King, Jr., the four descriptions of September 11, 2001, the 13 stripes, and the national holidays in two sets. The wrong options are clearly wrong but close to the topic, for example a power of the president mixed in with the powers of Congress. Each explanation says which answers are accepted and why the others are not.

The twelve cards do something different from the cards in the other material in this category, which list every answer for each of the 20 questions. These cards each put two facts side by side that are easy to swap: the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence, 27 amendments or 10, Congress or the president, four years or six, Washington or Lincoln, the 13 stripes or the 50 stars, September 11, 2001 or December 7, 1941. Read the front, say the answer aloud, then turn the card.

The four short-list questions about who holds an office now (the president, the vice president, the Speaker of the House and your governor) are not in this material, because their answers change; the other material in this category shows where to check them.

A tip for the test: for each question, choose one short answer you are sure of, for example "Father of Our Country" for Washington or "Fought for civil rights" for Dr. King, and practice saying exactly that. On test day nothing is multiple choice: the officer asks the question aloud and you answer in your own words. This is independent practice; it is not produced or endorsed by USCIS, and no practice material can promise a result.

• Recognize every answer USCIS accepts for the short-list questions that have several
• Choose one short, easy answer for each question and use it every time
• Tell apart pairs of facts that are easy to swap, such as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
• Know that the officer asks 10 of the 20 questions and 6 correct answers are needed
• Say each answer aloud, as on the spoken test

Practice material written by Zestly, based on the 20 questions marked with an asterisk in the USCIS 2025 civics question list "128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version)", M-1778 (09/25).