Canadian Citizenship Practice Test 2025 [UPDATED]

Canadian Citizenship Practice Test 2025 [UPDATED]: There are a total of 50 multiple choice and true-false questions answers. Our Canadian Citizenship Practice Test 2025 will help you prepare to become a Canadian citizen.

You can check your score at the end of this quiz. This practice test is designed to help you prepare for and pass your Canadian Citizenship Test in 2025.

Canadian Citizenship Practice Test 2025

The citizenship test is usually a written test, but it could be an interview. You will be tested on two basic requirements for citizenship: 1) knowledge of Canada and of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and 2) adequate knowledge of English or French.

Name of the Test	Canadian Citizenship Test
Total Number of Questions	50 sample questions
Questions Format	True/False and MCQs
Minimum Passing Score	75 %
Test Language	English

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Canadian Citizenship Test Questions Answers

1 / 50

What happens when the federal government loses a confidence vote?

A) The Prime Minister is no longer the leader of his party.

B) The Prime Minister loses his job.

C) The official opposition party takes power.

D) An election is called.

2 / 50

Who discovered insulin?

A) Dr. John A. Hopps

B) Dr. Wilder Penfield

C) Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward

D) Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

3 / 50

The three founding peoples are Aboriginal, Americans, and British.

A) True

B) False

4 / 50

Who is the father of Manitoba and defender of métis right?

A) Louis Riel

B) Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

C) Sir William Riel

D) Sir John A. Macdonald

5 / 50

Canadians can live and work anywhere they choose in Canada.

A) True

B) False

6 / 50

What is Canada's system of government called?

A) Dictatorship

B) Communism

C) Military Rule

D) Parliamentary government

7 / 50

What level of government passes 'by-laws'?

A) Senators

B) Federal

C) Municipal or local government

D) Provincial

8 / 50

Who is the greatest Canadian hockey player?

A) Donovan Bailey

B) Wayne Gretzky

C) Mark Tewksbury

D) Terry Fox

9 / 50

Which province is Canada's main producer of pulp and paper?

A) Saskatchewan

B) British Columbia

C) Quebec

D) Ontario

10 / 50

What are the colors of the Canadian Flag?

A) Blue and white

B) Red and blue

C) Red and white

D) Green and white

11 / 50

Canada first start appearing on maps?

A) 1650s

B) 1750s

C) 1450s

D) 1550s

12 / 50

What are the parties that are not in power called?

A) Tea parties

B) Opponents parties

C) Opposition parties

D) Rival parties

13 / 50

What is a major river in Quebec?

A) Fraser River

B) Niagara

C) Hudson's Bay

D) St. Lawrence River

14 / 50

Which of the following is not one of the 13 largest ethnic groups in Canada?

A) Polish

B) Scottish

C) Ukrainian

D) Dutch

15 / 50

The first European who explore the St Lawrence River?

A) Jacques Cartier

B) Christopher Columbus

C) John Cabot

D) William Cormack

16 / 50

When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?

A) Late 1700s

B) Early 1600s

C) Early 1700s

D) Late 1600s

17 / 50

Who was Sir George-Étienne Cartier?

A) Canada's first Prime minister

B) The first French-Canadian Prime Minister

C) A railway lawyer and Montrealer

D) The first head of a responsible government

18 / 50

Why is the North sometimes called the 'Land of the idnight Sun'?

A) Summer daylight can last up to 24 hours.

B) It is night most of the time.

C) The Northern lights appear at midnight.

D) It is closer to the Sun.

19 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes was nomadic?

A) Cree

B) Sioux

C) Inuit

D) Iroquois

20 / 50

Who circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for spinal cord research?

A) Rick Hansen

B) Terry Fox

C) Gerhard Herzberg

D) Reginald Fessenden

21 / 50

How is a Cabinet Minister chosen?

A) By the senators

B) By the Queen

C) By the voters

D) By the Prime Minister

22 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes lived by farming and hunting?

A) Sioux

B) Iroquois

C) Dene

D) Cree

23 / 50

Who are the Acadians?

A) The descendants of French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime provinces in 1604

B) Aboriginal people of the arctic

C) French-speaking Catholics who live in Ontario

D) English speaking refugees who settled in Ontario

24 / 50

How is the Prime Minister chosen?

A) The MPs' vote on the Prime Minister

B) The leader of the party with the most elected Member of Parliament

C) The Governor General with the Senators appoint the Prime Minister

D) The Queen appoints the Prime Minister

25 / 50

Which region of Canada is known for its fertile agricultural land and energy resources?

A) Central Canada

B) Quebec

C) Prairie provinces

D) Maritime provinces

26 / 50

What do the initials MP stand for in Canadian politics?

A) Member of the Patriots

B) Minister of Parliament

C) Master of the Province

D) Member of Parliament

27 / 50

Modern Canadian society is largely derived from which ethnic origin?

A) English and French

B) French and Danish

C) French and German

D) English and German

28 / 50

What should you do if you do not receive a voter information card before an election?

A) Contact Election Canada.

B) Call your local municipality.

C) You should assume you were not chosen to vote.

D) Turn up at your nearest polling station on election day.

29 / 50

Which was the last province to join Canada?

A) Newfoundland

B) Manitoba

C) Yukon

D) Prince Edward Island

30 / 50

Who is the Queen's representative in Canada?

A) The Governor General of Canada

B) The Prime Minister

C) The Premier

D) The Prime Minister's spouse

31 / 50

What principles out of the following is Canada's constitution based on?

A) Peace, Order and Good government

B) Mobility Rights, Order, and Good Government

C) Multiculturalism, Peace, and Order

D) War, Order, and Good Government

32 / 50

Canada is often referred as ____ ?

A) The land of immigrants

B) The land of lakes

C) The land of freedom

D) The land of opportunities

33 / 50

Majority of Canadian Christians are affiliated to ______?

A) Baptist

B) Orthodox

C) Catholic

D) Methodist

34 / 50

The great majority of Canadians identify as Christians.

A) True

B) False

35 / 50

Canada is a constitutional monarchy, a parliamentary democracy and a federal state.

A) False

B) True

36 / 50

Who was the first person to draw a map of Canada's east coast?

A) Jean Talon

B) John Cabot

C) Jacques Cartier

D) Georges Cartier

37 / 50

European explorers called the native people "Indians" because?

A) They believed that native people migrated from Asia

B) They thought they looked like Indians

C) Native people's introduced themselves as Indian

D) They thought they reached the East Indies

38 / 50

Which of the following is not the coast of Canada

A) The Arctic

B) The Gulf of Mexico

C) The Pacific Ocean

D) The Atlantic Ocean

39 / 50

’Anse aux Meadows' is a World Heritage site as well as National Historic Site of Canada.

A) True

B) False

40 / 50

Canada is the only constitutional monarchy in North America.

A) False

B) True

41 / 50

The "Inuit", means “human” in the Inuktitut language.

A) False

B) True

42 / 50

Who proclaimed the amended Constitution of Canada in 1982?

A) The Prime Minister

B) The Senate

C) Queen Elizabeth II

D) The people of Canada

43 / 50

Which province in Canada is the smallest in land size?

A) Prince Edward Island

B) New Brunswick

C) Alberta

D) British Columbia

44 / 50

What does M.N.A. stand for?

A) Member of the National Assembly

B) Member of the National Aid

C) Member of the National Airline

D) Member of the National Association

45 / 50

Which of the following is the oldest colony of British Empire in Canada?

A) Newfoundland and Labrador

B) Ontario

C) Quebec

D) Alberta

46 / 50

Canada has compulsory military service.

A) False

B) True

47 / 50

In 1608 Samuel de Champlain built a fortress in an area which is now called ___?

A) Ottawa

B) Toronto

C) Montréal

D) Québec city

48 / 50

Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home.

A) False

B) True

49 / 50

Which of the following is Canada's only officially bilingual province?

A) Ontario

B) Manitoba

C) New Brunswick

D) Québec

50 / 50

Magna Carta is also known as the "Great Charter of Canadians".

A) True

B) False

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The average score is 74%

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