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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)
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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)
Overseas communities (COMs) are governed by Article 74 of the French Constitution. The specific status of each of the overseas collectivities is determined by regional legislation which specifies which French laws and regulations apply
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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
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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
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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
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Question 6: 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 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
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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.
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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
The end of the First World War is marked by a national holiday in France (la Fête de l'Armistice) - marking the armistice signed between the Germans and the Allies.
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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
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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
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Question 12: Name a famous French poet:

  • Paul Verlaine
  • Albert Camus
  • Marcel Proust
  • Jean-Paul Sartre
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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
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Question 14: How many French cities have more than 500,000 inhabitants?

  • 12
  • 6
  • 17
  • 10
The 10 largest French cities by population are Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Lille.
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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
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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)
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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
For the purposes of the French citizenship interview it is important to distinguish between the date of Germany's surrender (and the end of war in Europe), and the date of Japanese surrender which marked the end of the Second World War globally (on 15 August 1945, Japan surrendered, with the surrender documents being signed at Tokyo Bay on the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending the war).
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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
EU citizens can vote in the European Parliament elections every five years. They are free to move, to work, study and settle in other EU countries. In such instances, they can vote in local elections in the country in which they are based
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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)
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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
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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)
The French overseas departments and regions (DROMs) are governed by Article 73 of the French Constitution. Their organisation is the same as that of the departments and regions of mainland France but, since a constitutional revision in 2008, they have legal autonomy in a limited number of areas (excluding national issues).
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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%
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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
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Question 31: Name a famous French novelist:

  • Victor Hugo
  • Paul Cézanne
  • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Edgar Degas
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Question 32: What is the name of the current French Minister of the Interior:

  • Edouard Philippe
  • Christophe Castaner
  • François Bayrou
  • Bruno Le Maire
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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
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Question 34: Who votes on French laws?

  • The President
  • The Prime Minister
  • The Parliament
  • The Prefectures
The French Parliament is composed of two chambers: the National Assembly (directly elected by the citizens) which sits at the Palais Bourbon; and the Senate, which is indirectly elected, based at the Palais du Luxembourg
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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
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on the afternoon of 14 July 1789, a date which was later designated as a National Holiday (la Fête Nationale Française, Bastille Day in English) by the law of 1880.
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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
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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
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Question 38: When was the death penalty banned in France?

  • 1981
  • 1991
  • 2001
  • 1971
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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
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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.
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