Citizenship Test Answers for Alaska
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Alaska.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Alaska
Juneau
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Alaska now
- Dan Sullivan
- Lisa Murkowski
You only need to give one of these names.
Alaska has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Alaska's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Answer for Alaska now
Nicholas J. Begich III
Alaska has a single at-large seat, so everyone in the state has the same representative.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Alaska now
Mike Dunleavy
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Alaska
Juneau has been Alaska's capital since 1906, when the seat of government moved from Sitka, and it is the only American capital you cannot reach by road: it sits against mountains and an icefield, so visitors arrive by boat or plane. Anchorage is far larger. Alaska joined the Union in 1959 as the 49th state, months before Hawaii, and the two of them are why the flag has carried fifty stars since 1960. With a small population spread across the largest area of any state, Alaska has a single at-large congressional district, so everyone here shares one representative and that answer still changes with each election. Its 3 electoral votes are the constitutional minimum, one for the seat and two for the senators.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.