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is the VOA Special English Education Report. What does Constitution do? What are the first ten amendments to Constitution called? What did Susan B. Anthony do? These three of the one hundred history and government questions the newly redesigned test for American citizenship. People will taking the new test in October of two thousand as part of the naturalization process. The government will study materials beginning early next year. United States Citizenship Immigration Services announced the new civics questions and answers week. The reading and writing parts of the naturalization have also been redone. Government officials began a project two thousand to redesign the test. Studies had found in how it was being given and scored around country. There were concerns about fairness. Also, officials say for the new test will do a better job helping people understand the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. for those three questions, the Constitution sets up and the government and protects basic rights of Americans. The ten amendments are called the Bill of Rights. And B. Anthony fought for women's rights. Some questions have changes from the current version. For example, "Who is President of the United States today?" is replaced by " is the name of the President of the United now?" And some questions no longer appear, such as " is the name of the ship that brought the to America?" and "What group has the power to war?" There are new questions like: "What is freedom religion?" "Name one American Indian tribe in the United ." "What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in United States?" And "What are two ways that Americans participate in their democracy?" Among the answers to that are vote, join a political party, run for office write to a newspaper. Another new question is "What two rights only for United States citizens?" The answers apply for a federal job, vote, run for office carry a United States passport. All of the new and answers are available free on the Citizenship and Services Web site. It also has vocabulary lists for reading and writing parts of the new test. For link to the site, go to voaspecialenglishcom.. And that's VOA Special English Education Report, written by Jill Moss. Bob Doughty.

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