With so much talk about immigration and paths to citizenship there is little talk about what people actually need to know before becoming a citizen. Today the U.S. Government is going to release 144 new questions that wannabe citizens will be able to try out in 10 cities across the country. Among some of the questions include why there are three branches of government and what were some of the causes of the Civil War.

The questions being released Thursday will be for the civics portion of the test and will be given orally to immigrants who volunteer to take the new draft test.Immigration officials want to narrow the number of questions to 100 and launch the redesigned test in early 2008.n the pilot, volunteers answering the new test questions can at anytime stop and take the current exam so as not to lose the chance to become a citizen.

Via / The New York Post