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- Level 2
The Flag, Anthem and Motto
Why the flag has 13 stripes and 50 stars, the national anthem, and the original national motto.
This is the shortest section of the 2025 test — just 10 questions — and the geography questions the 2008 test asked here (rivers, oceans, border states, territories) are gone entirely. What is left is concrete: the capital, the Statue of Liberty, the flag, the anthem, the motto and the federal holidays.
Why the flag has 13 stripes and 50 stars, the national anthem, and the original national motto.