Citizenship Test Practice Test 20

All 20 questions in this test

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1. About how many Ukrainians settled in the West before 1914?

   1. 1,000,000
   2. 17,000
   3. 115,000
   4. 170,000

2. Approximately how many Canadian deaths in the First World War does Discover Canada report?

   1. 10,000
   2. 60,000
   3. 44,000
   4. 110,000

3. What is Canada's official summer sport?

   1. Soccer
   2. Baseball
   3. Lacrosse
   4. Canadian football

4. Who became the first woman Member of Parliament, in 1921?

   1. Thérèse Casgrain
   2. Emily Stowe
   3. Mary Ann Shadd Cary
   4. Agnes Macphail

5. Why was the Bank of Canada created in 1934?

   1. To print stamps for the post office
   2. To lend money only to farmers in the drought-hit West
   3. To collect income tax
   4. To manage the money supply and stabilize finance

6. Which of these is one of the three main objectives of the Official Languages Act?

   1. Make French mandatory in all schools
   2. Require bilingualism for all citizens
   3. Maintain official language minority communities
   4. Limit English to federal offices

7. What wartime wrong did the Government of Canada apologize for in 1988?

   1. The residential schools
   2. The Chinese Head Tax
   3. The internment of Ukrainians in the First World War
   4. The forced relocation of Japanese Canadians

8. Who introduced curling to Canada?

   1. American Loyalists
   2. French explorers
   3. Aboriginal peoples
   4. Scottish pioneers

9. In what year did Quebec grant women the right to vote?

   1. 1916
   2. 1960
   3. 1940
   4. 1918

10. What is the capital of Saskatchewan?

    1. Prince Albert
    2. Saskatoon
    3. Moose Jaw
    4. Regina

11. Who was the first head of a responsible government in the Canadas, similar to a prime minister?

    1. Joseph Howe
    2. Robert Baldwin
    3. Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
    4. Sir John A. Macdonald

12. What is the capital of Yukon?

    1. Yellowknife
    2. Dawson City
    3. Whitehorse
    4. Iqaluit

13. From 1914 to 1920, whom did Ottawa intern as "enemy aliens"?

    1. Former Austro-Hungarian subjects, mainly Ukrainians
    2. Italian immigrants in Montreal
    3. Japanese Canadians living along the British Columbia coast
    4. German-speaking Mennonites

14. For centuries, what was Canada's economy mainly based on?

    1. Manufacturing cars and machinery
    2. Farming and exporting natural resources
    3. Banking and insurance
    4. Tourism and services

15. Which province was once known as the breadbasket of the world?

    1. Manitoba
    2. Saskatchewan
    3. Alberta
    4. Ontario

16. Who was Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor and the founder of the City of York, now Toronto?

    1. Sir Guy Carleton
    2. Lord Durham
    3. John Graves Simcoe
    4. Sir Isaac Brock

17. Of the Great Lakes treated individually, which is the largest freshwater lake by surface area?

    1. Lake Superior
    2. Lake Erie
    3. Lake Ontario
    4. Lake Huron

18. Who were the first Europeans to reach Labrador and Newfoundland?

    1. The English
    2. The Portuguese
    3. The Vikings
    4. The Spanish

19. Ontario's Niagara region is known for what?

    1. Oil sands development
    2. The world's highest tides
    3. Vineyards, wines and fruit crops
    4. Potash and uranium mines

20. Why is the North called the Land of the Midnight Sun?

    1. The sun never sets in winter
    2. Summer daylight can last up to 24 hours
    3. The northern lights shine all day
    4. It has the warmest nights in Canada