Citizenship Test Answers for Vermont
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Vermont.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Vermont
Montpelier
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 Vermont now
- Bernard Sanders
- Peter Welch
You only need to give one of these names.
Vermont 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 Vermont's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Answer for Vermont now
Becca Balint
Vermont 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 Vermont now
Phil Scott
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 Vermont
Montpelier is Vermont's capital and the smallest state capital in the country by population, with fewer than eight thousand residents, while Burlington is the largest city. Vermont became the 14th state in 1791, the first admitted after the original thirteen, having governed itself as an independent republic for fourteen years before that. It has a single at-large congressional district, so everyone in the state shares one representative, and 3 electoral votes. Vermont was also the earliest to abolish adult slavery, in its 1777 constitution while still independent, which is worth holding next to the test's questions about which war ended slavery and what the Thirteenth Amendment did. The capital is the fixed answer here.
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.