While walking to Sainsbury’s in search of dinner tonight, Mr. Tea and I got to talking about my citizenship test.   He said he took one online once for fun and flunked it.  Ha.

So, for fun, here are some questions from the official site, intended as an example of what is on the test:

1. Where have migrants come from in the past and why? What sort of work have they done?
2. When do children take tests at school? How many go on to higher education?
3. What is the census and how is census data collected and used?
4. Where are Geordie, Cockney and Scouse dialects spoken?
5. What languages other than English are spoken in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales?
6. Do people tend to live in the cities or in the country?  (I’m not even making this one up, you guys.  It seems a bit ridiculous to me!)
7. What are the powers of the devolved administrations? Which areas of policy remain under the control of the UK government?
8. Who can stand for public office? How can you contact an elected member? How can you visit Parliament?
9. How is the process of buying a house different in Scotland?
10. What are the ages of compulsory education? How does this differ in Northern Ireland?
11. What services are offered by vets?
12. What is the film classification system? What are the classifications?
13. What are the laws covering seat belts, crash helmets and holding mobile phones whilst driving? What are the speed limits for cars and motorcycles?

And of course, lots of other ones about MPs, the role of the queen and how the government works generally.    It’s kind of odd to me that I’d need to know driving rules for citizenship, rather than at the point I go for a driver’s license.  We don’t have a car and I’m not ready to take on driving here, anyway, so I thought I’d escaped that one, ha.