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Question 1: Romain Gary (1914 - 1980) was a naturalised French citizen of Russian origin. What is he best known for?

  • The only writer to receive the Goncourt prize twice: the first time in 1956 under his real name for The Roots of Heaven, the second in 1975 under the pseudonym Emile Ajar for Life Ahead.
  • Reporter and novelist, elected a member of the Académie Française in 1962.
  • A painter - one of the founders of abstract art
  • Athlete and veteran of World War II, won the marathon at the 1956 Olympic Games
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Question 2: Valérie Benguigui (1961 - 2013) was a naturalised French citizen of Algerian origin. For what is she best known?

  • The first recognised black singer/dancer. She distinguished herself in the Resistance during the Second World War
  • A French poet and writer.
  • A singer known for numerous popular successes including "Bambino", "Il venait d’avoir 18 ans" and Laissez-moi danser" ("just turned 18" and "let me dance")
  • An actress in numerous films including "Le prénom" and TV series such as "Avocats et associés"
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Question 3: Name a famous French poet:

  • Paul Verlaine
  • Albert Camus
  • Marcel Proust
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
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Question 4: When did France give up the French Franc for the Euro?

  • In 1992 via the Maastricht Treaty (the Treaty on European Union)
  • In 1957 via the Treaty of Rome
  • 1 January 2002
  • 1 December 2009 when the Lisbon Treaty, signed 13 December 2007, came into force
The Euro came into existence on 1 January 1999. Until 1 January 2002 the Euro was the official currency in France but only existed as 'book money'. 17 other EU countries use the Euro.
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Question 5: What were the principal events of the French decolonisation period of 1950 - 1962?

  • The Indochina War (1945 - 1954) and Algerian War (1954 - 1962)
  • The Malagasy Uprising (1947 - 1948)
  • The Bamileke War (1955 - 1960)
  • The Biafran War (1967 - 1970)
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Question 6: Which of the following relates to the 15th Century AD?

  • The Lascaux Cave paintings (prehistoric period)
  • The arrival of the Romans and Latin culture (period of antiquity)
  • Joanne of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) - the young peasant who liberated a part of the French territory occupied by the English during the 100 years war
  • Clovis: the King who unified the kingdoms of France and adopted Christianity
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Question 7: When was the first flight of the Airbus A380 - the world's largest passenger airliner?

  • 2012
  • 2000
  • 2018
  • 2005
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Question 8: What does the date of the 1st of May represent?

  • The start of the First World War in 1914
  • The end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945
  • The opening of the Estates General in 1789 marking the start of the French Revolution
  • The annual Labour Day celebration (la Fête du Travail)
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Question 9: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) was a naturalised French citizen born to a Russian mother and Swiss father. For what is he best known?

  • Famous French poet, notably writing "Alcools et Calligrammes"
  • Painter of Russian origin responsible for the painting of the ceiling of the Paris Opera
  • Nobel Prize winning physicist, pioneer of biomedical imaging and the detection of particles.
  • Grandson of an Italian merchant and fervent republican who helped France to recover after the defeat of The Franco-Prussian War. He was one of the fathers of the Third Republic
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Question 10: Who was Maximilien de Robespierre?

  • A high-ranking French civil servant and resistance fighter who died in 1943
  • A French politician, guillotined in 1794, and one of the main figures of the French Revolution
  • A military general, resistance fighter, first president of the 5th Republic and French writer, died 1970
  • President of the Republic 1981 - 1995 (voted to abolish the death penalty), died 1996
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Question 11: What are some of the responsibilities of the elected officials of local French communities (les Communes)?

  • Management of nursery and primary schools, sports and cultural activities, street maintenance and the registration of births, marriages and deaths
  • Management of colleges, child protection, assistance to the elderly
  • Management of public transport, vocational training, the construction and maintenance of high schools (les lycées)
  • Determination of national policy
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Question 12: Alain Mimoun (1921- 2013) was a naturalised French citizen of Algerian origin. What is he best known for?

  • The only writer to receive the Goncourt prize twice: the first time in 1956 under his real name for The Roots of Heaven, the second in 1975 under the pseudonym Emile Ajar for Life Ahead.
  • Reporter and novelist, elected a member of the Académie Française in 1962.
  • A painter - one of the founders of abstract art
  • Athlete and veteran of World War II, won the marathon at the 1956 Olympic Games
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Question 13: What are the time intervals of local elections in France?

  • Municipalities (Mayor and Municipal Councillors - every 5 years), Departmental Councillors (every 6 years), Regional Councillors (every 6 years)
  • Municipalities (Mayor and Municipal Councillors - every 6 years), Departmental Councillors (every 5 years), Regional Councillors (every 5 years)
  • Municipalities (Mayor and Municipal Councillors - every 5 years), Departmental Councillors (every 5 years), Regional Councillors (every 5 years)
  • Municipalities (Mayor and Municipal Councillors - every 6 years), Departmental Councillors (every 6 years), Regional Councillors (every 6 years)
The Senate is the representative of metropolitan and overseas authorities, and of French citizens living outside France. The 348 senators are elected by indirect universal suffrage by approximately 162,000 electors. In each department, senators are elected by an electoral college of electors made up of elected representatives from that constituency: deputies and senators, regional councillors, departmental councillors and municipal councillors, elected to their positions by universal suffrage. A senator is elected for a 6-year term.
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Question 14: When was the third republic formed?

  • 1830
  • 1848
  • 1875
  • 1885
Jules Ferry, Minister of Public Education for the third republic in the early 1880s, established free, secular public teaching.
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Question 15: Who initiated the civil unrest and French general strikes of May 1968 which affected French society for decades afterwards?

  • The National Student Union
  • Workers at the South Aviation plant near the city of Nantes
  • Students at the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris
  • Workers at the Renault manufacturing complexes in the Seine Valley
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Question 16: Which of the following relates to the 5th Century AD?

  • The Lascaux Cave paintings (prehistoric period)
  • The arrival of the Romans and Latin culture (period of antiquity)
  • Joanne of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) - the young peasant who liberated a part of the French territory occupied by the English during the 100 years war
  • Clovis: the King who unified the kingdoms of France and adopted Christianity
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Question 17: Name a fourth principal of the French Republic?

  • Charity (la Charité) - assisting those who are ill, disabled, or very poor
  • Military Defence - that the principals of the French Revolution should, if necessary, be defended by force
  • Secularism (la laïcité - the principle of separation of civil society and religious society.)
  • Religion - all citizens must declare their religious beliefs in a regular census
The law of the 9th of December 1905, separating the Church and the State, guaranteed religious liberty for all and ensured that the state is neutral towards all religions. The law of the 15th March 2004 prohibited the wearing of religious symbols in public institutions such as schools.
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Question 18: Name a famous French painter:

  • Marcel Proust
  • Albert Camus
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Auguste Renoir
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Question 19: Andrée Chedid (1920 - 2011) was a naturalised French citizen born in Egypt, Cairo, to a Syrian mother and a Lebanese father. For what is she best known?

  • The first recognised black singer/dancer. She distinguished herself in the Resistance during the Second World War
  • A French poet and writer.
  • A singer known for numerous popular successes including "Bambino", "Il venait d’avoir 18 ans" and Laissez-moi danser" ("just turned 18" and "let me dance")
  • An actress in numerous films including "Le Prénom" and TV series such as "Avocats et Associés"
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Question 20: What are some of the responsibilities of the elected officials of French Regions (les Régions)?

  • Management of nursery and primary schools, sports and cultural activities, street maintenance and the registration of births, marriages and deaths
  • Management of colleges, child protection, assistance to the elderly
  • Management of public transport, vocational training, the construction and maintenance of high schools (les lycées)
  • Determination of national policy
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Question 21: What were the estimated numbers of deaths in the First and Second World War respectively?

  • 50 million, 9 million
  • 8 millinon, 50 million
  • 9 million, 50 million
  • 8 million, 30 million
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Question 22: How many French Departments are there?

  • 96
  • 101
  • 111
  • 98
French Departments comprise 18 Regions (12 in Metropolitan France, Corisca and 5 over-seas (d'outre mer)
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Question 23: Approximately how many French communes are there?

  • 101
  • 36,000
  • 18
  • 12
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Question 24: How many French Regions are there?

  • 18
  • 12
  • 13
  • 5
French Regions are comprised of 101 Departments.
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Question 25: Which of the following relates to the end of 18th Century AD?

  • The life of Napoleon I who ruled for 15 years and established the 1st Empire. He was responsible for the Civil Code
  • Constitution of a vast colonial empire through wars of conquest in the West Indies, Africa and Asia
  • Abolition of slavery
  • Victor Hugo - one of the greatest French writers. His works argued against social inequalities and the death penalty. He wrote Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris
Note that France abolished slavery in 1848
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Question 26: Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) was a naturalised French citizen of Russian origin. For what is he best known?

  • Famous French poet, notably writing "Alcools et Calligrammes"
  • Painter responsible for the painting of the ceiling of the Paris Opera
  • Nobel Prize winning physicist, pioneer of biomedical imaging and the detection of particles.
  • Grandson of an Italian merchant and fervent republican who helped France to recover after the defeat of The Franco-Prussian War. He was one of the fathers of the Third Republic
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Question 27: France has 43 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Which is the most visited such site in Normandy?

  • Mont-Saint-Michel
  • Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
  • The Allied landing beaches
  • Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
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Question 28: When was the French Civil Code, which defines the legal rights and duties of French citizens, established?

  • The 21st March 1804 by the emperor Napoleon who prepared the code with a commission of four eminent jurists including Louis-Joseph Faure
  • The 1st October 2016 when contract case law was codified into the Civil Code
  • The 1st of March 1994
  • The 3rd of June 1810
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Question 29: When was the social security system, financed by French businesses and workers, established?

  • 1958
  • 1875
  • 1789
  • 1945
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Question 30: Françoise Giroud (1916 - 2003) was a naturalised French citizen of Swiss origin. What is she best known for?

  • Discovered the atom at the start of the 20th century. Entombed at the Panthéon in Paris
  • Engaged in the struggle against apartheid and the first South African singer (Pata, Pata) to win a Grammy Award
  • A journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician, co-founder of the Express, and two times Secretary of State
  • A French poet and writer
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Question 31: Which document banned the wearing of religious symbols in schools and by state workers?

  • Declaration of the rights of man (1789)
  • The Constitution of the 5th Republic 1958
  • The Treaty of Rome 1957
  • The law of 15 March 2004
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Question 32: Which of the following relates to the end of the 18th Century AD?

  • Henri IV who gave protestants leave to practice their religion via the Edict of Nantes
  • Molière the most famous French playwright who lived at the time of Louis XIV (author of the Miser, l’Avare) (the modern epoch)
  • The philosophers of the Enlightenment: Rousseau, Voltaire and Diderot whose works promoted tolerance and the freedom of thought
  • The first French Revolution
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Question 33: What was the date of the first French Revolution?

  • 5 May 1789 (the date of the opening of the Estates General)
  • 9 November 1799 (The coup of the 18th Brumaire orchestrated by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte)
  • The period between 5 May 1789 and 9 November 1799
  • 25 February 1848
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Question 34: Who was François Mitterand?

  • A high-ranking French civil servant and resistance fighter who died in 1943
  • A French politician, guillotined in 1794, and one of the main figures of the French Revolution
  • A military general, resistance fighter, first president of the 5th Republic and French writer, died 1970
  • President of the Republic 1981 - 1995 (voted to abolish the death penalty), died 1996
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Question 35: Who founded the current French institutions of the 5th Republic in 1958?

  • Henri Giraud (1879 - 1949)
  • Marshal Pétain (1856 – 1951)
  • Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902 – 1947)
  • Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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Question 36: Who led the French resistance against the German army in World War II?

  • Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
  • Marshal Pétain (1856 – 1951)
  • Henri Giraud (1879 - 1949)
  • Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902 – 1947)
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Question 37: Name a famous French sculptor:

  • Édith Piaf
  • Albert Camus
  • Auguste Rodin
  • Simone de Beauvoir
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Question 38: Léon Gambetta (1838 - 1882) was the son of an Italian merchant. For what is he best known?

  • Famous French poet, notably writing "Alcools et Calligrammes"
  • Painter responsible for the painting of the ceiling of the Paris Opera
  • Nobel Prize winning physicist, pioneer of biomedical imaging and the detection of particles.
  • Fervent republican who helped France to recover after the defeat of The Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He was one of the fathers of the Third Republic
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Question 39: How many French citizens were there in 2014?

  • 90 million
  • 85 million
  • 50 million
  • 66 million
French territories extend over 675 000 km² including mainland france (métropole) and overseas territories (outre-mer).
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Question 40: Which legal document defines citizens' rights in France?

  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man (La Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen) dating from the French Revolution in 1789
  • The Law of the 17th of May 2013 allowing same-sex marriage (Le mariage pour tous)
  • The French law on secularity banning conspicuous religious symbols in schools, signed into law the 15th of March 2004 by Jacques Chirac
  • The law of the 9th of December 1905 separating the Church and the State.
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