Question 1: Which fundamental freedoms are guaranteed by the principal of "Liberty" in the French Republic?

• Freedom of thought, belief, expression and assembly (liberté de pensée, de croyance, de s’exprimer, de se réunir)
• The freedom of expression - even to spread insults, defamation, hate-speak or deny crimes against humanity (such as the Second World War Holocaust)
• The freedom of the press and the right to a free education (guaranteed by laws in the 1880's)
• The right to a free eduction separated from religious beliefs (l'école laïque)

Question 2: Correctly identify 5 overseas French collectivities (empowered to make their own laws, except in certain areas reserved to the French national government)?

• Martinique (972), Guyane (973), La Réunion (974), Mayotte (975) and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (976)
• Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (976), Saint-Barthélemy (977), Saint-Martin (978), Wallis-et-Futuna (986) and Polynésie française (987)
• Guadeloupe (971), Martinique (972), Guyane (973), La Réunion (974) and Mayotte (975)
• La Réunion (974), Mayotte (975), Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (976), Saint-Barthélemy (977) and Saint-Martin (978)

Question 3: What does the date of the 14th July represent?

• The annual French National Holiday (la Fête Nationale Française)
• The taking of the Bastille on the 14th July 1789
• The Holiday of the Federation (la Fête de la Fédération) of the 14th July 1790, celebrating the Constitution of 1789
• All of the above

Question 4: What are the responsibilities of the French Government?

• 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

Question 5: 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

Question 6: How many French Departments are there?

• 96
• 101
• 111
• 98

Question 7: Georges Charpak (1924 - 2010) was a naturalised French citizen of Polish 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
• Physicist, pioneer of biomedical imaging and the detection of particles and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1992.
• 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

Question 8: What are the visual characteristics of Marianne, symbol of the French Republic?

• A woman wearing a tricolour cockade (knot of ribbons) and a Phrygian cap (a conical cap with the top bent forwards, identified with the Roman cap of liberty).
• A woman bearing arms and carrying the French tricolour (red, white and blue) flag.
• A seated woman reading the scroll of reason representing French republican law
• A woman wearing a crown and the regalia of state.

Question 9: When did the First World War begin and end?

• 28th July 1914 to the 11th of November 1918
• 28th July 1914 to the 9th of November 1918
• 14th July 1914 to the 11th of November 1918
• 14th July 1914 to the 9th of November 1918

Question 10: 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

Question 11: Which of the following relates to the 17th 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 French Revolution

Question 12: Name a famous French poet:

• Paul Verlaine
• Albert Camus
• Marcel Proust
• Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 13: Joseph Kessel (1898 - 1979) was a naturalised French citizen of Argentinian 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

Question 14: How many French cities have more than 500,000 inhabitants?

• 12
• 6
• 17
• 10

Question 15: Which text defines the organisation of the French state?

• The Constitution of the 4th Republic adopted 27th October 1946
• The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen establishing France as a secular and democratic country, deriving its sovereignty from the people (government of the people, by the people and for the people)
• The Constitution of the 21st July 2008 championed by President Nicolas Sarkozy
• The Constitution of the 5th Republic adopted 4th October 1958

Question 16: Place these French personages in their correct historical order:

• Jeanne d'Arc, Clovis, Henri IV, The Sun King (Louis XIV)
• Clovis, Jeanne d'Arc, Henri IV, The Sun King (Louis XIV)
• Clovis, Jeanne d'Arc, The Sun King (Louis XIV), Henri IV
• Clovis, Henri IV, Jeanne d'Arc, The Sun King (Louis XIV)

Question 17: When did the Second World War begin and end in Europe?

• 1st September 1939 to the 2nd of September 1945
• 1st September 1939 to the 8th May 1945
• 1st September 1939 to the 1st May 1945
• 1st September 1939 to the 5th May 1945

Question 18: When did the French also become European citizens?

• In 1992 via the Maastricht Treaty (the Treaty on European Union)
• In 1957 via the Treaty of Rome
• 1 January 2002 after the introduction of the Euro currency
• 1 December 2009 when the Lisbon Treaty, signed 13 December 2007, came into force

Question 19: What does the date of the 8th 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)

Question 20: Place these French writters in their correct historical order:

• Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, a.k.a. Molière, François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo
• Victor Hugo, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, a.k.a. Molière, François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire, Denis Diderot
• Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, a.k.a. Molière, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire
• Victor Hugo, François-Marie Arouet, a.k.a. Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot

Question 21: Correctly identify the 5 overseas departments and regions of France (with exactly the same status as France's mainland regions)?

• Martinique (972), Guyane (973), La Réunion (974), Mayotte (975) and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (976)
• Saint-Barthélemy (977), Saint-Martin (978), Wallis-et-Futuna (986), Polynésie française (987) and Nouvelle-Calédonie (988)
• Guadeloupe (971), Martinique (972), Guyane (973), La Réunion (974) and Mayotte (975)
• La Réunion (974), Mayotte (975), Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (976), Saint-Barthélemy (977) and Saint-Martin (978)

Question 22: Who was Jean Moulin?

• 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 li5th Republic and a French writer, died 1970
• President of the Republic 1981 - 1995 (voted to abolish the death penalty), died 1996

Question 23: 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.

Question 24: Who was Charles de Gaulle?

• 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

Question 25: 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

Question 26: 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

Question 27: What are some of the responsibilities of the elected officials of French Departments (les Départements)?

• 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

Question 28: Who has the legal right to vote in French presidential and parliamentary elections?

• No taxation, no representation - only those paying annual income tax can vote
• Everyone can vote who is fiscally domiciled in France
• Only the designated head of the household can vote. They cast votes on behalf of their family
• Universal suffrage - all French citizens older than the legal limit of 18 years old

Question 29: How many people speak the French language in the world, in how many countries, and what percentage of the world's population is this?

• 200 million, 70, 1%
• 150 million, 65, 0.75%
• 250 million, 75, 2%
• 150 million, 75, 2%

Question 30: 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

Question 31: Name a famous French novelist:

• Victor Hugo
• Paul Cézanne
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
• Edgar Degas

Question 32: What is the name of the current French Minister of the Interior:

• Edouard Philippe
• Christophe Castaner
• François Bayrou
• Bruno Le Maire

Question 33: 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

Question 34: Who votes on French laws?

• The President
• The Prime Minister
• The Parliament
• The Prefectures

Question 35: What did the taking of the Bastille symbolise?

• The true start of the French Revolution
• The end of "absolute" monarchy and the acceleration of the revolutionary popular process
• The reconstitution of the "Third Estate" (with its representatives drawn from the commoners), into the National Assembly
• The end of the financial problems caused by Louis XVI's intervention in the American Revolution

Question 36: Which of the following relates to the time period 50 BC?

• 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

Question 37: 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

Question 38: When was the death penalty banned in France?

• 1981
• 1991
• 2001
• 1971

Question 39: What do the colours of the French flag symbolise?

• The three principles of the French Republic - freedom, equality and fraternity
• The three estates of France prior to the revolution comprising the clergy (the First Estate), nobles (the Second Estate), and peasants and bourgeoisie (the Third Estate)
• The uniform colours of the Bourgeois Militia of Paris (later to become Revolutionary France's National Guard)
• The red and blue cockade of Paris and the white cockade of the king

Question 40: Who is Marianne?

• The French Queen at the time of the first French Revolution.
• An official Government symbol, introduced after the Second World War, marking the liberation of France
• A symbol of the French monarchy supplanted by the French Revolution
• A national symbol of the French Republic, a personification of liberty and reason, and a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.