More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma.

This fall Iowa began giving its version — a multiple-choice test drawn from the same exam immigrants must pass.

Only 60 percent of the more than 100 Burlington students who took it passed on the first try. In surveys, the average American does a lot worse than that.

For years the standard civics test required six correct answers out of 10, drawn from a bank of 100.

In 2020, the Trump administration replaced it with a harder one. It required 12 correct out of 20, from a bank of 128.

The Biden administration tossed that version and went back to the original. Trump brought the harder test back in 2025.

Here are some of the questions from the civics test study guide:

Q: What is the supreme law of the land?

A: The U.S. Constitution.

Our Constitution is the oldest written national constitution still in force.

Because the founders distrusted human nature — after seeing what unchecked government power had done throughout history — they gave the federal government checks and balances.

They........

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