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Proof the new Naturalization test is too hard

Last week, one of my tutors was out sick. Happens all the time, sometimes I combine groups and sometimes I can get a sub. This group, though, is studying for the citizenship test, and one of the students has a test date next month so I really wanted her to have all the instructional time she could possibly have. As luck would have it, several of my students weren't able to come and that freed up one of my other tutors. Dan just happens to be a professor of political science. Could you ask for a more perfect tutor for a citizenship group? I think not. Only he didn't know all the answers to the questions. He guessed wrong on more than one. So. . .how many of you could pass the U.S. citizenship test? Here are some questions students have to know: What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment? How many amendments does the Constitution have? What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence? What is the economic system in the United States? What is the rule of law? Who

You might live in Utah if. . .

You go to your company's (or, in my case, my spouse's company's) rather posh Christmas party, held in a venue with a beautiful view, and the open bar runs out of . . . . Sprite.