A quarter of the people who took the British citizenship test in Merseyside failed last year. But could you pass it? Here are some examples of typical questions: (answers below) 1) What created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland? 2) Which of these is an Anglo-Saxon poem? a) Beowulf, b) Mr Hyde, c) Jude the Obscure, d) Pride and Prejudice 3) How many member states does the Commonwealth have? 4) What did the Chartists campaign for? 5) What Palace was a cast-iron and plate-glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851? Scroll down to the take the test Exclusive figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws show a total of 1,917 tests were taken in Merseyside in the financial year 2018/19. People failed on 471 occasions, around 25% of the time. However, the rate of people failing the test has actually gone down compared to 2017/18, when people failed on 33% of all tries. Liverpool saw the highest proportion of people failing the test in the area, with a failure rate of 26% down from 34% in the previous year. Wirral and Sefton saw the second highest rate locally with 24% of people failing the test, down from 31% in Wirral and 30% in Sefton. St Helens followed with the third highest failure rate at 18% – down from 29%. The correct answers to the questions posed above are: 1) The Acts of Union 1800; 2) Beowulf; 3) 53; 4)… [Read full story]
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