The citizenship test is an easy exam. Fifth-grade students could ace it at the end of their year of rudimentary history instruction. Now the administration want to toughen the test. They are contemplating an essay requirement that they say will give indications of applicants’ “moral character.”

A memo released last month by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services speaks of an effort to achieve “a holistic assessment of an alien’s behavior, adherence to societal norms, and positive contributions that affirmatively demonstrate good moral character.”

The irony is that the citizenship test is full of questions that are top of mind in the country’s politics in this fraught era. Its prescribed answers are technically true, but only if one doesn’t go any deeper. For example:

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