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

Canada first start appearing on maps?

A) 1550s

B) 1750s

C) 1650s

D) 1450s

2 / 50

Who are the Acadians?

A) French-speaking Catholics who live in Ontario

B) English speaking refugees who settled in Ontario

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

D) Aboriginal people of the arctic

3 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

4 / 50

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

A) Mobility Rights, Order, and Good Government

B) Peace, Order and Good government

C) Multiculturalism, Peace, and Order

D) War, Order, and Good Government

5 / 50

Canadians can live and work anywhere they choose in Canada.

A) False

B) True

6 / 50

How is a Cabinet Minister chosen?

A) By the senators

B) By the Prime Minister

C) By the voters

D) By the Queen

7 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

8 / 50

What level of government passes 'by-laws'?

A) Senators

B) Municipal or local government

C) Federal

D) Provincial

9 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

10 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

11 / 50

Who is the Queen's representative in Canada?

A) The Prime Minister's spouse

B) The Prime Minister

C) The Premier

D) The Governor General of Canada

12 / 50

Majority of Canadian Christians are affiliated to ______?

A) Catholic

B) Methodist

C) Orthodox

D) Baptist

13 / 50

What are the parties that are not in power called?

A) Rival parties

B) Opposition parties

C) Tea parties

D) Opponents parties

14 / 50

Canada is the only constitutional monarchy in North America.

A) True

B) False

15 / 50

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

A) Québec

B) New Brunswick

C) Ontario

D) Manitoba

16 / 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

17 / 50

What does M.N.A. stand for?

A) Member of the National Aid

B) Member of the National Association

C) Member of the National Airline

D) Member of the National Assembly

18 / 50

When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?

A) Late 1600s

B) Late 1700s

C) Early 1700s

D) Early 1600s

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

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

20 / 50

The great majority of Canadians identify as Christians.

A) False

B) True

21 / 50

Modern Canadian society is largely derived from which ethnic origin?

A) English and German

B) French and German

C) French and Danish

D) English and French

22 / 50

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

A) Alberta

B) Ontario

C) Newfoundland and Labrador

D) Quebec

23 / 50

The first European who explore the St Lawrence River?

A) John Cabot

B) Jacques Cartier

C) William Cormack

D) Christopher Columbus

24 / 50

Which province in Canada is the smallest in land size?

A) Prince Edward Island

B) New Brunswick

C) Alberta

D) British Columbia

25 / 50

Which of the following is not the coast of Canada

A) The Gulf of Mexico

B) The Atlantic Ocean

C) The Arctic

D) The Pacific Ocean

26 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes lived by farming and hunting?

A) Cree

B) Dene

C) Sioux

D) Iroquois

27 / 50

Which was the last province to join Canada?

A) Manitoba

B) Newfoundland

C) Yukon

D) Prince Edward Island

28 / 50

What is Canada's system of government called?

A) Dictatorship

B) Communism

C) Parliamentary government

D) Military Rule

29 / 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) An election is called.

D) The official opposition party takes power.

30 / 50

What are the colors of the Canadian Flag?

A) Green and white

B) Blue and white

C) Red and blue

D) Red and white

31 / 50

Who was Sir George-Étienne Cartier?

A) A railway lawyer and Montrealer

B) Canada's first Prime minister

C) The first head of a responsible government

D) The first French-Canadian Prime Minister

32 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

33 / 50

European explorers called the native people "Indians" because?

A) They believed that native people migrated from Asia

B) Native people's introduced themselves as Indian

C) They thought they looked like Indians

D) They thought they reached the East Indies

34 / 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 closer to the Sun.

C) The Northern lights appear at midnight.

D) It is night most of the time.

35 / 50

Canada is often referred as ____ ?

A) The land of immigrants

B) The land of opportunities

C) The land of lakes

D) The land of freedom

36 / 50

Who proclaimed the amended Constitution of Canada in 1982?

A) The Prime Minister

B) Queen Elizabeth II

C) The Senate

D) The people of Canada

37 / 50

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

A) Montréal

B) Ottawa

C) Toronto

D) Québec city

38 / 50

What is a major river in Quebec?

A) Fraser River

B) Niagara

C) St. Lawrence River

D) Hudson's Bay

39 / 50

Who is the greatest Canadian hockey player?

A) Donovan Bailey

B) Terry Fox

C) Wayne Gretzky

D) Mark Tewksbury

40 / 50

Canada has compulsory military service.

A) False

B) True

41 / 50

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

A) Dutch

B) Scottish

C) Polish

D) Ukrainian

42 / 50

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

A) Rick Hansen

B) Reginald Fessenden

C) Terry Fox

D) Gerhard Herzberg

43 / 50

Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home.

A) True

B) False

44 / 50

Who discovered insulin?

A) Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward

B) Dr. Wilder Penfield

C) Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

D) Dr. John A. Hopps

45 / 50

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

A) Prairie provinces

B) Quebec

C) Maritime provinces

D) Central Canada

46 / 50

How is the Prime Minister chosen?

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

B) The Queen appoints the Prime Minister

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

D) The MPs' vote on the Prime Minister

47 / 50

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

A) Quebec

B) Ontario

C) Saskatchewan

D) British Columbia

48 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes was nomadic?

A) Inuit

B) Cree

C) Iroquois

D) Sioux

49 / 50

What do the initials MP stand for in Canadian politics?

A) Minister of Parliament

B) Master of the Province

C) Member of the Patriots

D) Member of Parliament

50 / 50

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

A) Sir John A. Macdonald

B) Sir William Riel

C) Louis Riel

D) Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

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The average score is 73%

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