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Britain Quizzing Prospective Citizens

Britain is administering a new citizenship test for immigrants. Experts and callers weigh in on the question: What does it mean to be a citizen? Guests are Sir Bernard Crick, political theorist and author of the book Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship, which forms the basis for the new citizenship test; and Joe Queenan, author of Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.
Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"