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Essential or nonessential? Take the government shutdown quiz.

鈥業鈥檓 non-essential?鈥� That鈥檚 the question many federal workers are asking this week. The shutdown has forced 40 percent of such workers to stay home until a bill is passed to fund the federal government, and only workers considered vital to national security and operations remain on the job . Test your knowledge of which employees the federal government considers 鈥榚ssential鈥� and 鈥榥onessential鈥� with this 12-question quiz.

9. I鈥檓 eloping this week! Where can I get married?

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The U.S. Capitol looms in the background of a sign on the National Mall reminding visitors of the closures to all national parks due to the federal government shutdown in Washington October 3, 2013.

Yosemite National Park

The National Zoo

Boston Public Garden

Smithsonian Museum of National History
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