Mock oral civics test — 2025 rules, set 4

A fourth set of twenty civics questions for the 2025 version of the test, asked out loud, one at a time, with twelve correct needed to pass. It shares no question with the other mock oral tests in this section; with all four you will have answered eighty different questions from the list of 128.

How the examiner behaves

It asks, waits, and moves on. You hear no "correct", no "good", no hint and no second chance: every answer is final, even an incomplete one, exactly as at the interview. Unlike the officer, it does not stop early: all twenty questions are asked, and the report reminds you that a real officer stops as soon as you reach twelve correct or can no longer pass. Any question can be repeated word for word if you ask.

What this set covers

What the Constitution does and why there are three branches; the rule of law; who is in charge of the executive branch and who commands the military; how many justices usually decide a case and why they serve for life; who a senator represents and why some states have more representatives; the amendments about who can vote; two promises made in the Oath of Allegiance; the people taken and sold as slaves; Alexander Hamilton; the Louisiana Territory and the leaders of the women's rights movement; why the United States entered World War II, Dwight Eisenhower and the civil rights movement; the national capital and Memorial Day.

The oath question needs two promises from the list; one alone is counted as wrong.

The report at the end

It comes in three parts:

1. The score: correct answers out of twenty, and whether that is a pass under the real rule of twelve out of twenty.
2. Every question you got wrong, with your own reply and the answers USCIS accepts. Many questions accept several, and seeing the whole set often shows that you knew the answer and simply reached for a phrasing that is not on the list.
3. A separate note on your English: whether an officer could have followed you, and which words or constructions caused trouble. There is no separate speaking test at the interview; the officer forms a view of your English from exactly this kind of exchange. The examiner receives your answers as text, so the note covers your wording, not your pronunciation or fluency.

What it leaves out

The eight questions whose answers change with elections or depend on your state are not asked. Look up the current President, Vice President, Speaker and Chief Justice on uscis.gov/citizenship/testupdates, and your own senators, representative, governor and state capital on senate.gov, house.gov and usa.gov, shortly before your interview.

The questions and accepted answers come from the USCIS list of 128 civics questions (2025 version), a work of the United States government. The interview simulation and the assessment are Zestly's own. The report is practice feedback, not a prediction of your result.

• Produce civics answers out loud, from recall, for twenty questions you have not met in the other mock tests
• Sit a full twenty-question 2025 test against the real pass mark of twelve, and know when a real officer would stop
• See every missed question with the full set of answers USCIS accepts
• Get a separate, plain note on whether the English of your answers was clear enough for an officer
• Get used to an examiner who gives no feedback until the end

Practice material written by Zestly, based on the USCIS list of 128 civics questions and answers (2025 version, M-1778, 09/25), with the accepted answers taken verbatim from it — for example "Alexander Hamilton is famous for many things. Name one."; "There are three branches of government. Why?"; "What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?". The format — up to twenty questions, twelve correct to pass, the officer stopping at twelve correct or nine incorrect — is the rule USCIS published for applicants filing Form N-400 on or after October 20, 2025.