How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself

[JBeukema]

Take Question 36. It asks applicants to name two members of the president's Cabinet. Among the correct answers is "Vice President." The vice president is a cabinet-level officer but he's not a Cabinet member. Cabinet members are unelected heads of executive departments [4], such as the Defense Department, or the State Department.
The official naturalization test booklet even hints as much: "The president may appoint other government officials to the cabinet but no elected official may serve on the cabinet while in office." Note to Homeland Security: The vice president is elected.

How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself - ProPublica


That's right, to become an America, you have to not know about the way the government is supposed to work.