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 Canada's system of government called?

A) Dictatorship

B) Military Rule

C) Parliamentary government

D) Communism

2 / 50

When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?

A) Late 1600s

B) Early 1700s

C) Early 1600s

D) Late 1700s

3 / 50

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

A) Louis Riel

B) Sir William Riel

C) Sir John A. Macdonald

D) Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine

4 / 50

Canada is the only constitutional monarchy in North America.

A) True

B) False

5 / 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

6 / 50

What is a major river in Quebec?

A) St. Lawrence River

B) Hudson's Bay

C) Niagara

D) Fraser River

7 / 50

Canada has compulsory military service.

A) True

B) False

8 / 50

Canadians can live and work anywhere they choose in Canada.

A) True

B) False

9 / 50

What level of government passes 'by-laws'?

A) Municipal or local government

B) Provincial

C) Federal

D) Senators

10 / 50

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

A) War, Order, and Good Government

B) Peace, Order and Good government

C) Mobility Rights, Order, and Good Government

D) Multiculturalism, Peace, and Order

11 / 50

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

A) Québec city

B) Montréal

C) Ottawa

D) Toronto

12 / 50

How is a Cabinet Minister chosen?

A) By the Prime Minister

B) By the Queen

C) By the voters

D) By the senators

13 / 50

What are the parties that are not in power called?

A) Opponents parties

B) Opposition parties

C) Rival parties

D) Tea parties

14 / 50

Which was the last province to join Canada?

A) Yukon

B) Newfoundland

C) Prince Edward Island

D) Manitoba

15 / 50

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

A) Central Canada

B) Quebec

C) Maritime provinces

D) Prairie provinces

16 / 50

Who is the Queen's representative in Canada?

A) The Governor General of Canada

B) The Prime Minister's spouse

C) The Prime Minister

D) The Premier

17 / 50

Canada first start appearing on maps?

A) 1650s

B) 1550s

C) 1750s

D) 1450s

18 / 50

Who discovered insulin?

A) Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

B) Dr. John A. Hopps

C) Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward

D) Dr. Wilder Penfield

19 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

20 / 50

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

A) New Brunswick

B) Manitoba

C) Ontario

D) Québec

21 / 50

Which of the following is not the coast of Canada

A) The Pacific Ocean

B) The Atlantic Ocean

C) The Arctic

D) The Gulf of Mexico

22 / 50

The first European who explore the St Lawrence River?

A) Jacques Cartier

B) Christopher Columbus

C) John Cabot

D) William Cormack

23 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

24 / 50

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

A) Jean Talon

B) John Cabot

C) Georges Cartier

D) Jacques Cartier

25 / 50

Who proclaimed the amended Constitution of Canada in 1982?

A) Queen Elizabeth II

B) The Senate

C) The Prime Minister

D) The people of Canada

26 / 50

Modern Canadian society is largely derived from which ethnic origin?

A) French and Danish

B) French and German

C) English and French

D) English and German

27 / 50

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

A) True

B) False

28 / 50

The great majority of Canadians identify as Christians.

A) False

B) True

29 / 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 looked like Indians

D) They thought they reached the East Indies

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

D) An election is called.

31 / 50

Which province in Canada is the smallest in land size?

A) Alberta

B) New Brunswick

C) Prince Edward Island

D) British Columbia

32 / 50

Majority of Canadian Christians are affiliated to ______?

A) Orthodox

B) Methodist

C) Catholic

D) Baptist

33 / 50

Who is the greatest Canadian hockey player?

A) Mark Tewksbury

B) Terry Fox

C) Donovan Bailey

D) Wayne Gretzky

34 / 50

What does M.N.A. stand for?

A) Member of the National Association

B) Member of the National Airline

C) Member of the National Assembly

D) Member of the National Aid

35 / 50

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

A) It is closer to the Sun.

B) The Northern lights appear at midnight.

C) Summer daylight can last up to 24 hours.

D) It is night most of the time.

36 / 50

What are the colors of the Canadian Flag?

A) Red and blue

B) Red and white

C) Green and white

D) Blue and white

37 / 50

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

A) Ukrainian

B) Polish

C) Scottish

D) Dutch

38 / 50

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

A) Ontario

B) Newfoundland and Labrador

C) Alberta

D) Quebec

39 / 50

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

A) Quebec

B) Ontario

C) British Columbia

D) Saskatchewan

40 / 50

Chinese languages are the second most-spoken at home.

A) False

B) True

41 / 50

Canada is often referred as ____ ?

A) The land of opportunities

B) The land of lakes

C) The land of freedom

D) The land of immigrants

42 / 50

Who are the Acadians?

A) French-speaking Catholics who live in Ontario

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

C) English speaking refugees who settled in Ontario

D) Aboriginal people of the arctic

43 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

44 / 50

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

A) Terry Fox

B) Reginald Fessenden

C) Gerhard Herzberg

D) Rick Hansen

45 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes was nomadic?

A) Iroquois

B) Inuit

C) Sioux

D) Cree

46 / 50

Which of these Canadian tribes lived by farming and hunting?

A) Cree

B) Dene

C) Sioux

D) Iroquois

47 / 50

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

A) False

B) True

48 / 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

49 / 50

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

A) Call your local municipality.

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

C) Contact Election Canada.

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

50 / 50

Who was Sir George-Étienne Cartier?

A) Canada's first Prime minister

B) A railway lawyer and Montrealer

C) The first head of a responsible government

D) The first French-Canadian Prime Minister

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The average score is 73%

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