Necessary Roughness

The Wall Street Journal reports on its Washington Wire that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced the questions to the new naturalization test. Applicants will answer 10 questions randomly selected from a bank of 100 (PDF). The test goes into effect October 1, 2008.

Most of the questions are fairly simple. I don’t think this is too much to ask, especially since only six correct answers are required to pass. I could probably pass this test in Spanish.

My only gripe is that for #42, the question reads, “Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states. What is one power of the states?” I would change that to read, “Under our Constitution, nearly all powers belong to the states under the 9^th and 10^th Amendments…”