Citizenship Test Answers for American Samoa
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in American Samoa.
American Samoa has no U.S. senators. The territory's representative in Congress is a nonvoting Delegate.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for American Samoa
Pago Pago
The capital answer does not change. 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 American Samoa
American Samoa has no U.S. senators. Saying so is the correct answer.
29. Name your U.S. representative.
American Samoa's Delegate now
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
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 American Samoa now
Pula Nikolao Pula
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 American Samoa
Pago Pago is the capital of American Samoa, on the island of Tutuila, set on one of the deepest natural harbors in the Pacific. The territory has no U.S. senators and is represented in the House by a nonvoting delegate, so answering that it has no voting representatives is correct; it elects its own governor. American Samoa differs from the other territories in one notable way: people born there are U.S. nationals rather than citizens by birth, a distinction that exists nowhere else under the flag. The territory casts no electoral votes for president. Its capital is the answer on this page that stays fixed, while the officeholder answers change with each election.
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.