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A recently naturalized U.S. citizen, Dafna Linzer, writes about the litany of poorly worded questions and answer choices on the U.S. naturalization test. Some of the answer choices are flat-out incorrect:

Question 1: What is the supreme law of the land?

The official answer: “the Constitution.” A friend and legal scholar was aghast. That answer, he said, is “no more than one-third correct.” He’s right.

Article VI, clause 2 in the Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause, explicitly says that three things—the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties—together “shall be the supreme law of the land.”

Question 96 asks: Why does the flag have 13 stripes? The official answer: “because there were 13 original colonies.” In fact, the flag has 13 stripes for the 13 original states.

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