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 is a major river in Quebec?

A) Niagara

B) Fraser River

C) Hudson's Bay

D) St. Lawrence River

2 / 50

Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home.

A) False

B) True

3 / 50

Who is the Queen's representative in Canada?

A) The Prime Minister's spouse

B) The Governor General of Canada

C) The Premier

D) The Prime Minister

4 / 50

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

A) Manitoba

B) Ontario

C) New Brunswick

D) Québec

5 / 50

Canada has compulsory military service.

A) True

B) False

6 / 50

How is a Cabinet Minister chosen?

A) By the voters

B) By the Queen

C) By the Prime Minister

D) By the senators

7 / 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

8 / 50

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

A) Dutch

B) Ukrainian

C) Polish

D) Scottish

9 / 50

What is Canada's system of government called?

A) Parliamentary government

B) Dictatorship

C) Military Rule

D) Communism

10 / 50

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

A) Call your local municipality.

B) Contact Election Canada.

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

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

11 / 50

Canadians can live and work anywhere they choose in Canada.

A) False

B) True

12 / 50

What are the parties that are not in power called?

A) Opposition parties

B) Opponents parties

C) Rival parties

D) Tea parties

13 / 50

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

A) Prairie provinces

B) Maritime provinces

C) Central Canada

D) Quebec

14 / 50

What happens when the federal government loses a confidence vote?

A) An election is called.

B) The official opposition party takes power.

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

D) The Prime Minister loses his job.

15 / 50

Canada is often referred as ____ ?

A) The land of immigrants

B) The land of freedom

C) The land of opportunities

D) The land of lakes

16 / 50

Who is the greatest Canadian hockey player?

A) Mark Tewksbury

B) Donovan Bailey

C) Terry Fox

D) Wayne Gretzky

17 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

18 / 50

Majority of Canadian Christians are affiliated to ______?

A) Orthodox

B) Methodist

C) Catholic

D) Baptist

19 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

20 / 50

What do the initials MP stand for in Canadian politics?

A) Member of Parliament

B) Master of the Province

C) Minister of Parliament

D) Member of the Patriots

21 / 50

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

A) Jacques Cartier

B) Georges Cartier

C) John Cabot

D) Jean Talon

22 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

23 / 50

What level of government passes 'by-laws'?

A) Federal

B) Senators

C) Municipal or local government

D) Provincial

24 / 50

The great majority of Canadians identify as Christians.

A) False

B) True

25 / 50

When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?

A) Early 1700s

B) Late 1600s

C) Early 1600s

D) Late 1700s

26 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes lived by farming and hunting?

A) Sioux

B) Cree

C) Iroquois

D) Dene

27 / 50

Who are the Acadians?

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

B) English speaking refugees who settled in Ontario

C) Aboriginal people of the arctic

D) French-speaking Catholics who live in Ontario

28 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes was nomadic?

A) Sioux

B) Inuit

C) Iroquois

D) Cree

29 / 50

Who discovered insulin?

A) Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

B) Dr. John A. Hopps

C) Dr. Wilder Penfield

D) Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward

30 / 50

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

A) Louis Riel

B) Sir John A. Macdonald

C) Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

D) Sir William Riel

31 / 50

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

A) Toronto

B) Ottawa

C) Montréal

D) Québec city

32 / 50

Who proclaimed the amended Constitution of Canada in 1982?

A) The Prime Minister

B) Queen Elizabeth II

C) The people of Canada

D) The Senate

33 / 50

Which of the following is not the coast of Canada

A) The Gulf of Mexico

B) The Arctic

C) The Atlantic Ocean

D) The Pacific Ocean

34 / 50

How is the Prime Minister chosen?

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

B) The Queen appoints the Prime Minister

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

D) The MPs' vote on the Prime Minister

35 / 50

Canada is the only constitutional monarchy in North America.

A) False

B) True

36 / 50

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

A) Peace, Order and Good government

B) Multiculturalism, Peace, and Order

C) Mobility Rights, Order, and Good Government

D) War, Order, and Good Government

37 / 50

Who was Sir George-Étienne Cartier?

A) A railway lawyer and Montrealer

B) The first head of a responsible government

C) Canada's first Prime minister

D) The first French-Canadian Prime Minister

38 / 50

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

A) Terry Fox

B) Rick Hansen

C) Reginald Fessenden

D) Gerhard Herzberg

39 / 50

Which was the last province to join Canada?

A) Prince Edward Island

B) Newfoundland

C) Yukon

D) Manitoba

40 / 50

What are the colors of the Canadian Flag?

A) Red and blue

B) Red and white

C) Blue and white

D) Green and white

41 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

42 / 50

The first European who explore the St Lawrence River?

A) Jacques Cartier

B) Christopher Columbus

C) John Cabot

D) William Cormack

43 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

44 / 50

Canada first start appearing on maps?

A) 1550s

B) 1450s

C) 1750s

D) 1650s

45 / 50

What does M.N.A. stand for?

A) Member of the National Association

B) Member of the National Aid

C) Member of the National Assembly

D) Member of the National Airline

46 / 50

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

A) Quebec

B) British Columbia

C) Ontario

D) Saskatchewan

47 / 50

Which province in Canada is the smallest in land size?

A) New Brunswick

B) Prince Edward Island

C) British Columbia

D) Alberta

48 / 50

European explorers called the native people "Indians" because?

A) They thought they looked like Indians

B) Native people's introduced themselves as Indian

C) They believed that native people migrated from Asia

D) They thought they reached the East Indies

49 / 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) It is night most of the time.

D) The Northern lights appear at midnight.

50 / 50

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

A) Quebec

B) Ontario

C) Newfoundland and Labrador

D) Alberta

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The average score is 74%

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