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

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

A) False

B) True

2 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes was nomadic?

A) Iroquois

B) Cree

C) Inuit

D) Sioux

3 / 50

Who is the greatest Canadian hockey player?

A) Terry Fox

B) Mark Tewksbury

C) Wayne Gretzky

D) Donovan Bailey

4 / 50

Canadians can live and work anywhere they choose in Canada.

A) True

B) False

5 / 50

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

A) Québec city

B) Ottawa

C) Toronto

D) Montréal

6 / 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.

7 / 50

Who are the Acadians?

A) French-speaking Catholics who live in Ontario

B) Aboriginal people of the arctic

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

D) English speaking refugees who settled in Ontario

8 / 50

Canada is often referred as ____ ?

A) The land of immigrants

B) The land of lakes

C) The land of opportunities

D) The land of freedom

9 / 50

How is a Cabinet Minister chosen?

A) By the senators

B) By the voters

C) By the Queen

D) By the Prime Minister

10 / 50

What is Canada's system of government called?

A) Dictatorship

B) Communism

C) Parliamentary government

D) Military Rule

11 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

12 / 50

What is a major river in Quebec?

A) Fraser River

B) St. Lawrence River

C) Hudson's Bay

D) Niagara

13 / 50

What are the parties that are not in power called?

A) Rival parties

B) Opponents parties

C) Opposition parties

D) Tea parties

14 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

15 / 50

Canada has compulsory military service.

A) True

B) False

16 / 50

What are the colors of the Canadian Flag?

A) Red and white

B) Blue and white

C) Green and white

D) Red and blue

17 / 50

The first European who explore the St Lawrence River?

A) Christopher Columbus

B) John Cabot

C) William Cormack

D) Jacques Cartier

18 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

19 / 50

What happens when the federal government loses a confidence vote?

A) The Prime Minister loses his job.

B) The official opposition party takes power.

C) An election is called.

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

20 / 50

Which of the following is not the coast of Canada

A) The Arctic

B) The Gulf of Mexico

C) The Atlantic Ocean

D) The Pacific Ocean

21 / 50

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

A) Ontario

B) Manitoba

C) New Brunswick

D) Québec

22 / 50

What do the initials MP stand for in Canadian politics?

A) Master of the Province

B) Minister of Parliament

C) Member of Parliament

D) Member of the Patriots

23 / 50

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

A) War, Order, and Good Government

B) Multiculturalism, Peace, and Order

C) Mobility Rights, Order, and Good Government

D) Peace, Order and Good government

24 / 50

Canada first start appearing on maps?

A) 1750s

B) 1650s

C) 1550s

D) 1450s

25 / 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

26 / 50

Which was the last province to join Canada?

A) Prince Edward Island

B) Newfoundland

C) Yukon

D) Manitoba

27 / 50

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

A) Dutch

B) Scottish

C) Ukrainian

D) Polish

28 / 50

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

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

B) Call your local municipality.

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

D) Contact Election Canada.

29 / 50

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

A) Alberta

B) Newfoundland and Labrador

C) Ontario

D) Quebec

30 / 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

31 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

32 / 50

What does M.N.A. stand for?

A) Member of the National Airline

B) Member of the National Association

C) Member of the National Aid

D) Member of the National Assembly

33 / 50

Who proclaimed the amended Constitution of Canada in 1982?

A) Queen Elizabeth II

B) The Prime Minister

C) The people of Canada

D) The Senate

34 / 50

Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home.

A) False

B) True

35 / 50

Which province in Canada is the smallest in land size?

A) Prince Edward Island

B) Alberta

C) British Columbia

D) New Brunswick

36 / 50

Who discovered insulin?

A) Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward

B) Dr. John A. Hopps

C) Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

D) Dr. Wilder Penfield

37 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes lived by farming and hunting?

A) Dene

B) Iroquois

C) Cree

D) Sioux

38 / 50

When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?

A) Early 1600s

B) Late 1700s

C) Late 1600s

D) Early 1700s

39 / 50

Canada is the only constitutional monarchy in North America.

A) True

B) False

40 / 50

Majority of Canadian Christians are affiliated to ______?

A) Catholic

B) Baptist

C) Orthodox

D) Methodist

41 / 50

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

A) Sir John A. Macdonald

B) Louis Riel

C) Sir William Riel

D) Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

42 / 50

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

A) Gerhard Herzberg

B) Reginald Fessenden

C) Terry Fox

D) Rick Hansen

43 / 50

What level of government passes 'by-laws'?

A) Municipal or local government

B) Senators

C) Provincial

D) Federal

44 / 50

Modern Canadian society is largely derived from which ethnic origin?

A) English and German

B) English and French

C) French and Danish

D) French and German

45 / 50

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

A) Quebec

B) Maritime provinces

C) Prairie provinces

D) Central Canada

46 / 50

The great majority of Canadians identify as Christians.

A) False

B) True

47 / 50

Who was Sir George-Étienne Cartier?

A) The first head of a responsible government

B) Canada's first Prime minister

C) The first French-Canadian Prime Minister

D) A railway lawyer and Montrealer

48 / 50

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

A) John Cabot

B) Jean Talon

C) Georges Cartier

D) Jacques Cartier

49 / 50

European explorers called the native people "Indians" because?

A) Native people's introduced themselves as Indian

B) They believed that native people migrated from Asia

C) They thought they reached the East Indies

D) They thought they looked like Indians

50 / 50

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

A) Quebec

B) Ontario

C) British Columbia

D) Saskatchewan

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The average score is 73%

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