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1. Who governs Canada on daily basis at the federal level?


Select One:
 Prime Minister
 Premier
 The Queen
 Governor General


2. Who is Canada's Head of State?


Select One:
 A hereditary Sovereign (Queen or King).
 Prime Minister
 Members of parliament
 Governor General of Canada.


3. Jacques Cartier was the first European to explore which great Canadian river?


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 Grand River
 Red River
  St. Lawrence River
 Hillsborough River


4. What are the regions of Canada?


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 West Coast, Central, East, Canadian Shield and South
 Atlantic, North, Central, Prairies and West Coast
 West, North, South, East, Central
 Rockies, Ontario, Quebec, Prairies


5. Who invented the snowmobile?


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 Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward
 Joseph-Armand Bombardier
 Alexander Graham Bell
 Sir Sandford Fleming


6. What does - official language rights and minority language educational rights - mean?


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 French and English have equal status in Parliament and throughout the government.
 French is more important in Quebec and English is more important in other provinces.
 All languages have equal status in Canada's government.
 English is more important than French in Canada.


7. Which group of people was important in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway?


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 French
 Métis
 Chinese
 English


8. Which of the following not a Canadian Invention?


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 Basketball
 Refrigerator
 Insulin
 Telephone


9. Which year is associated by many with Québec's "Quiet Revolution," a period of social, political and cultural change.


Select One:
 1840
 1960
 1980
 1970


10. Which Canadian imagined the idea for the first telephone at his summer house in Canada?


Select One:
 Thomas Edison
  Mathew Evans
 Henry Woodward
  Alexander Graham Bell


11. Nova Scotian and Olympian Marjorie Turner-Bailey is a descendant of a group of escaped slaves and freed men and women of African origin. What is the name of this group who fled to Canada from America in the 1780s?


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 Underground Railroad Conductors
 Black Loyalists
 Young Canadians for Freedom
 None of the above


12. Who do Canadians vote for in a federal election?


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 The best speaker running the election campaign.
 Someone to become the Premier of the province.
 A candidate whom they want to represent them in Parliament
 All candidates in their electoral district.


13. Name the five Great lakes between Canada and United States.


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 Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario and Lake Superior
 Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe
 Lake Erie, Hudson's Bay, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario and Lake Superior
 Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Niagara, Lake Ontario and Lake Superior


14. Name the three levels of government in Canada.


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 Federal, provincial or territorial and state
 Federal, provincial or territorial and municipal
 Federal, state and municipal
 Federal, provincial or territorial and local


15. Nova Scotia was the first British North American colony to practice responsible government.


Select One:
 True
 False
 ..
 ..


16. How can a party in power be defeated in Parliament?


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 If Canadians do not approve of the laws to be passed.
 If a majority of the MPs vote against a major government decision.
 If the Premiers vote against major federal government decisions.
 If Canadians vote against the party in power.


17. Which province is known as the Land of 100,000 Lakes?


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 Quebec
 Manitoba
 Alberta
 Ontario


18. Give an example of how you can participate in Community?


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 Mind your own business. Live and Let Live
 Keep your property tidy
 Have a party
 Join a community group


19. Why is the battle of Vimy Ridge important to Canadians?


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 It was the last battle of the First World War
 It has come to symbolise Canada's coming of age as a nation
 It was an important victory in the Boer War
 Out of it was formed the Canadian Corps


20. What important trade did the Hudson Bay Company control?


Select One:
 Fur
 Gold
 Oil
 Medicine


 Citizenship Test Tips

What was the last update to Discover Canada and Citizenship Test Regulations ..... On September 30, 2010, regulatory amendments came which resulted in an update to "Discover Canada" and the way the "Canadian Citizeship Test" is conducted.

With these new regulations,
- The mandatory question requirement is removed, which means you don't automatically fail by giving wrong answer for certain type of question (that was the case previously);
- You are only required to give 15 correct answers out of 20;

For the contents of the tests, applicants are now supposed to have an adequate knowledge about
- National symbols of Canada
- Canadian Cultural and Social History;
- Canadian Goverment Hierarchy and Monarchy;
- Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges of Citizenship;

Check out Format of Canadian Citizenship Test to get more details.