Citizenship Test Answers for Kansas
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Kansas.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Kansas
Topeka
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 Kansas now
- Jerry Moran
- Roger Marshall
You only need to give one of these names.
Kansas 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 Kansas'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 4 of Kansas's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tracey Mann |
| 2 | Derek Schmidt |
| 3 | Sharice Davids |
| 4 | Ron Estes |
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 Kansas now
Laura Kelly
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 Kansas
Topeka is Kansas's capital, though Wichita and the Kansas City suburbs are larger. Kansas became the 34th state in January 1861, admitted as a free state weeks before the Civil War began, after years of violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers that earned the territory the name Bleeding Kansas. It has 4 congressional districts and 6 electoral votes. Topeka carries one of the most important cases in American law: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, decided in 1954, held that segregated public schools violate the Constitution, and it is the ruling behind the test's question about what the civil rights movement did. The capital answer is fixed; the other three are not.
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.