WorksheetsNotre monde francophone
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
A person who speaks French, typically as their primary or first language, is called…
Francophile
French
Francophone
Français
French is referred to as a “Romance” language because..
French people are so romantic
French is such a musical language
French is derived from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
Many romance novels are written in French.
“La francophonie” refers to…
the French influence in the fashion industry
the back streets of Paris
a wanna-be French person
the community of French speaking nations of the world
Which of the following countries does NOT border France?
Luxembourg
Austria
Germany
Switzerland
Find the French flag:
Which of the following is NOT a Francophone country of Europe:
The Netherlands
Switzerland
Belgium
Luxembourg
In Luxembourg, the educational system is trilingual. Children learn Luxembourgish first in primary school, then switch to __________, and finally to French in secondary school.
Italian
Norwegian
Swedish
German
The Francophone country with the most lakes and mountains per square kilometer would most likely be_________________.
Sénégal
Haiti
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Many people in Canada speak French because…
We lost the French and Indian War.
There were many trappers and fur traders from France.
The French explored and colonized “New France” in the 18th Century.
The British weren’t interested in Canada.
“New France” or Canada was divided into 3 districts. Which of the following was NOT one of those districts?
New Orléans
Québec
Montréal
Trois-Rivières
Though Canada is bilingual, French is the sole official language in ____________________.
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Newfoundland
British Columbia
These 2 tiny islands off the coast of Canada are overseas departments of France.
Vancouver and Victoria
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Cape Breton
Maui and Oahu
The largest population of French speakers in the world today live on which continent?
Europe
North America
Asia
Africa
Besides the French and the British and the Spanish, the____________ were also early explorers & colonizers of the continent of Africa.
the Americans
the Portuguese
the Chinese
the Japanese
Most of the French speaking nations of Africa are in the…
south
west
east
north and west
The capital city, Dakar, of which French speaking country is located on the west coast of Africa?
Mali
Morocco
Sénégal
Ivory Coast
The __________ are the largest ethnic group of Senegal.
Wolofs
Fulanis
Toucouleurs
Diolas
This is the only French speaking nation on the eastern edge of the African continent.
Tunisia
Gabon
Chad
Djibouti
In the North African countries of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, French is one of the official languages. The other language is:
Hebrew
Afrikaans
Arabic
Wolof
The city of Timbuktu is located in which Francophone country?
French Guyana
Burkina Faso
Belgium
Mali
The Democratic Republic of Congo was previously known as…
Ethiopia
Ivory Coast
Zaire
Niger
Though the Ivory Coast’s largest city and economic center is Abidjan, it’s official capital is_________________.
Bangui
Yamoussoukro
Dakar
Casablanca
This African country is roughly twice the size of Oregon.
Mauritania
Morocco
Zimbabwe
Cameroon
The island of Réunion, an overseas department of France, is:
in the Caribbean
near Africa
near north America
uninhabited
The city of Casablanca was made famous in an old black and white film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, but it is not the capital of this African country. Rabat is its capital.
Algeria
Madagascar
Morocco
Mali
The following French speaking islands are found in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa:
Seychelles, Madagascar and Reunion
Corsica and the Channel Islands
Martinique and Guadeloupe
Tahiti and Bora Bora
This French-speaking nation is located in…
North America
North Africa
South Africa
South America
This is the flag of _______________.
Monaco
Algeria
Switzerland
South Africa
The capital of this French-speaking country is Nouakchott, which means "place of the winds".
Benin
Tunisia
Chad
Mauritania
The countries of French Indochina did not win their independence from France until the mid 1950s after several wars. Which of these countries was NOT a part of these old French colonies?
Cambodia
Vietnam
Japan
Laos
“La Guyane Française” is located_____________________.
on the west coast of Africa
on the coast of South America
in the Indian Ocean
in Europe
The two official languages of Haiti are__________.
English and French
French and Spanish
French and Cajun
French and Creole
Which of these is a French speaking island that used to be called the "island of flowers"?
Barbados
Martinique
Trinidad
Tobago
French is one of the official languages of this island nation in the South Pacific.
Fiji
New Caledonia
Solomon Islands
Malaysia
Marie Curie, the first female winner of a Nobel Prize, was born in _________and studied in Paris at the Sorbonne.
England
France
Italy
Poland
« Laissez les bons temps rouler » - a cajun French expression - has become the slogan for this Mardi Gras city.
St. Louis
Bâton Rouge
Detroit
New Orleans
