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U.S. Immigration Quiz Answers & Explanations


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Answer 1. C – Naturalization is conferring the rights and privileges of a citizen upon a foreign-born person.

Answer 2. A – Legal residence along with social and political memberships and rights in a country define citizenship.

Answer 3. D – A citizen who maintains all rights in more than one country has dual citizenship

Answer 4. C – According to The Prevention Researcher, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2007, Item #144, one in 10 children enrolled in schools today is foreign-born.

Answer 5. B – Between 1996 and 2000 about 28.4 million foreign-born people lived in the United States, representing 10.4 percent of the population.

Answer 6. A – Prior to the mid-20th century, immigrants mainly came from Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia, France (Northwestern Europe) and Canada.

Answer 7. D – California, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts and Arizona housed about three-fourths of the foreign-born population.

Answer 8. A – About 32 million speakers of foreign languages from other continents resided in the U.S., according to the 1990 census.

Answer 9. D – The privileges of citizenship include the right to vote, protection against deportation, the right to collect full Social Security benefits if retiring in a foreign country, entitlement to more public benefits, the right to hold an elected office (except president of the United States) and more tax benefits.