Citizenship Test Answers for Massachusetts
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Massachusetts.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Massachusetts
Boston
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 Massachusetts now
- Edward J. Markey
- Elizabeth Warren
You only need to give one of these names.
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts'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 Massachusetts's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Richard E. Neal |
| 2 | James P. McGovern |
| 3 | Lori Trahan |
| 4 | Jake Auchincloss |
| 5 | Katherine M. Clark |
| 6 | Seth Moulton |
| 7 | Ayanna Pressley |
| 8 | Stephen F. Lynch |
| 9 | William R. Keating |
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 Massachusetts now
Maura Healey
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 Massachusetts
Boston is Massachusetts's capital and its largest city, one of the few places where those are the same answer, and it has held the seat since the colonial government sat there in the 1630s. Massachusetts is one of the thirteen original states and became the 6th state in 1788 by ratifying the Constitution. It has 9 congressional districts and 11 electoral votes. No state appears more often in the history questions: the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party are both accepted reasons the colonists declared independence, Bunker Hill is an accepted Revolutionary War event, and the Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay are the clearest example of colonists who came for religious freedom.
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.