Could you pass the Canadian Citizenship test?

16/20. I can read French, I am not likely to become a public charge, I know not to say aboot, and Clamato doesn’t make me vomit. May I go to the head of the line?

85%. I got 2, 3 and 16 wrong. Did the same thing drm did, actually.

11/20, but I guessed on a few of the ones I got right. I feel like a dunce. :frowning:

85%. I missed #3, 4 &18.

Missed the electoral district question. Pshaw, all I know is that it’s boring watching election coverage and waiting for them to get to constituencies I actually know.

95%. Only one I missed was #18. But. . .my mom’s side of the family is Canadian, and we used to go up to Ottawa a lot. I think I went on, like, six tours of the Parliament buildings, and sat through the light show outside a few times. And, like, five tours of the Royal Canadian Mint. And I’m applying for dual citizenship. So. . .I don’t think that I count :-D.

17 out of 21 for you. It’s “landed immigrant.” :smiley: I got 20 out of 20. That test should be absurdly easy for a Canadian, although I’d understand not knowing the number of ridings there are at the federal level.

This was a stupidly written test. Canada does not have electoral “districts,” it has “ridings.” Wayne Gretzky’s name does not have an S in it. The “Two freedoms” question was a convoluted mess. It’s stupid to have two consecutive questions with the same answer. The “Correct” answer to Question 2 is preposterous - to suggest the Canadian Pacific railway was built primarily to make immigration easier is ludicrous. Question 10 could be quite reasonably argued to have two correct answers. Question 19 does not actually have any correct answer - the five year limit can be ignored in wartime, and in fact it has happened. Question 7 tells you the answer to Question 6.

And as was pointed out, there’s a lot of trivia in it, as opposed to important facts about Canadian civics. “Who is Canada’s biggest trading partner” is interesting if you like international trade but not really a matter of civics.

Well, isn’t trivia a requirement to enter any in-group?

I got 18 out of 20, largely thanks to matt_mcl’s history lesson some years back.

When do I get my lifetime supply of maple syrup and autographed photo of Alanis Morrissette? You can keep Stephen Harper, though.

Robin

55% here. Had they asked anything about Danny’s strip joint, the casinos or the legal drinking age, I coulda been a contender. :wink:

I got 12/20 for a 60% grade, which I think means I passed by the skin of my teeth.

In my defense, just for kicks I took it in French, a language I studied for 3 years in school 20 years ago, and without having first read the section Regard sur le Canada… So I’m still pretty proud of myself :slight_smile:

Last year, I got 12/20 for a 60% grade on this practice Canadian citizenship test, which I think means I passed by the skin of my teeth.

In my defense, just for kicks I took it in French, a language I studied for 3 years in school 20 years ago, and without having first read the section Regard sur le Canada… So I’m still pretty proud of myself :slight_smile:

  1. Labatt 50
  2. Eight ender
  3. Younge Street
  4. YYZ = Toronto’s airport code
  5. Poutaine
  6. Three periods
  7. Don Cherry
  8. 44 pounds, granite
  9. Stubbies
  10. Roughriders vs. Rough Rivers

100%. (Whew!)

70% on the American one.

“Ridings” methinks, not “electoral districts.”

Aw, I missed the freedoms one.

80%!! (minus 1, 2, 7, 10)

Not bad, not bad at all, if I may say so myself…

Yes indeed - I’m just using the wording on the test.

55% a.k.a. 11/20. I freely admit to quite a few wild-assed guesses.

Got everything but the “electoral districts” question. So I can keep my citizenship, right? :slight_smile: