Canadian Citizenship Test
Who we are: practice questions
Our Canadian Citizenship bank has 9 questions on this topic. Here are 3 of them with answers; the full mock exam draws from every topic, like the real one.
Question 1
Who are the Québécois?
- Inuit of northern Quebec only
- Descendants of Loyalists in Nova Scotia
- The people of Quebec, the majority of whom are French-speaking
- English settlers in Montreal
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C. The people of Quebec, the majority of whom are French-speaking — In 2006 the House of Commons recognised that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada.
Question 2
What are 'residential schools'?
- Government-funded, church-run schools that separated Aboriginal children from their families and banned their languages and cultures
- Universities for northern students
- Schools for the children of soldiers
- Private schools for immigrants
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A. Government-funded, church-run schools that separated Aboriginal children from their families and banned their languages and cultures — In 2008 Ottawa formally apologised to the former students.
Question 3
Where did most early English-speaking settlers who came after the American Revolution come from?
- They came from New France
- They were Loyalists from the United States
- They came from Australia
- They came directly from Spain
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B. They were Loyalists from the United States — More than 40,000 Loyalists resettled in Nova Scotia and Quebec.