Citizens

I scored 5 out of 7 on Der Spiegel’s German citizenship quiz (via Sullivan), which is pretty bad since I studied German for six years and probably ought to have known all of the answers.  If these questions are representative of the difficulty level of the test, it’s not clear to me why the citizenship test is at all controversial.  The questions seem to be concerned with basic civics and understanding of German law and politics, which is what you would expect citizens to need to know, and for anyone actually living in Germany they shouldn’t be very challenging at all.  Happily, I am a bit more up on my American civics.