Citizenship Test Practice Official USCIS civics questions

Citizenship Test Answers for Indiana

Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Indiana.

62. What is the capital of your state?

Answer for Indiana

Indianapolis

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 Indiana now

  • Jim Banks
  • Todd Young

You only need to give one of these names.

Indiana 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 Indiana's senators at senate.gov

29. Name your U.S. representative.

Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.

All 9 of Indiana's representatives, by district
DistrictRepresentative
1Frank J. Mrvan
2Rudy Yakym III
3Marlin A. Stutzman
4James R. Baird
5Victoria Spartz
6Jefferson Shreve
7André Carson
8Mark B. Messmer
9Erin Houchin

If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.

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 Indiana now

Mike Braun

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 Indiana

Indianapolis is Indiana's capital and its largest city, and unusually it was designed to be the capital: commissioners picked an almost exactly central site in 1820 and laid out a new town there, with the seat of government moving from Corydon in 1825. Indiana became the 19th state in 1816. It has 9 congressional districts and 11 electoral votes. The central location was chosen so that no citizen would be more than a few days' travel from the statehouse, an idea about access to government that also shows up in the test's questions about who a representative answers to — a district, not a whole state, which is why your representative depends on your address.

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.