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Test review Paris Monuments

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this?

a)

Place de la Concorde

b)

Grande Arche de la Défense

c)

Arc de Triomphe

d)

Quartier Latin

2.

What is this?

a)

Musée du Louvre

b)

Centre Pompidou/Beaubourg

c)

Musée d'Orsay

d)

Montmartre

3.

What is this?

a)

Place de la Concorde

b)

Sacré Coeur

c)

Place de la Bastille

d)

Louvre

4.

What is this?

a)

Louvre

b)

Nôtre Dame

c)

Sacre Coeur

d)

Place de la Concorde

5.

What is this?

a)

Metro

b)

Seine

c)

Ile de la Cite

d)

Sacre Coeur

6.

What is this?

a)

Hotel de Ville

b)

Musee d'Orsay

c)

Centre Pompidou/Beaubourg

d)

Notre Dame

7.

What is this?

a)

Musee du Louvre

b)

Musee d'Orsay

c)

Sacre Couer

d)

Hotel de Ville

8.

What is this?

a)

les Invalides

b)

Notre Dame

c)

Quartier Latin

d)

Place de la Bastille

9.

What is this?

a)

Montmartre

b)

Quartier Latin

c)

Ile de la Cite

d)

Sacre Coeur

10.

What is this?

a)

Arc de Triomphe

b)

Eiffel Tower

c)

La Grande Arche de la Defense

d)

la Seine

11.
a)

la place de la Concorde

b)

la place de la Bastille

c)

la place de Charles de Gaulle

12.
a)

l'opéra Garnier

b)

le musée d'Orsay

c)

le palais du Bourbon

13.
Identifiez:
a)
Le Musée d'Orsay
b)
Le Musée du Louvre
c)
Le Centre Georges Pompidou
d)
Le Musée Picasso
14.

Which of the following monuments is NOT in France?

a)

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

b)

The Eiffel Tower

c)

The Arc de Triomphe

d)

The Louvre

15.

The French Revolution began with angry French citizens storming the _____________ prison

a)

Eiffel

b)

Corsican

c)

Triomphe

d)

Bastille

16.
a)
l'Opéra
b)
la Bastille
c)
le musée d'Orsay
d)
le Moulin Rouge
17.
a)
le musée de petit Palais
b)
le musée Picasso
c)
le Palais de Justice
d)
le Palais Royal
18.

The name given to the twenty administrative districts that divide the city of Paris. The twenty districts are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral (often likened to a snail shell), starting from the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank (north bank) of the Seine.

a)

les arrondissements

b)

les rives

c)

les Buttes-Chaumont

19.

These are excursion boats on the Seine.

Passengers can see, among other sites, the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Pont Neuf, the Orsay Museum, the Louvre Museum, and Les Invalides. On busy days in high season, boats constantly move up and down the river.

a)

les rives

b)

les Invalides

c)

les Bateaux Mouches

20.

It is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, 1.9 kilometers (1.2 mi) long and 70 meters (230 ft) wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theaters, cafés, and luxury shops, for the annual Bastille Day military parade, and as the finish of the Tour de France cycle race.

a)

les Champs Élysées

b)

les Buttes-Chaumont

c)

le Zénith

21.

It is the smallest of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris.

a)

l'Île Saint-Louis

b)

l'île de la Cité

c)

l'île Saint-Martin

22.

This Roman city was the predecessor of present-day Paris. Remains of the ancient city visible include: a theater that could once seat 15,000 people and was used also as an amphitheater to show gladiatorial combats; public thermal baths, an aqueduct, wall of the forum, and a crypt.

a)

Lutèce

b)

Paris

c)

Versailles

23.

It is a Roman Catholic church designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army.

a)

Notre-Dame

b)

le Sacré-Cœur

c)

la Madeleine

24.

It is a 75 ft high Ancient Egyptian column standing at the centre of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It was originally located at the entrance to Luxor Temple, in Egypt in 1290 BC. It was given to France by Muhammad Ali Pasha, Ruler of Ottoman Egypt and it arrived in France in 1833.

a)

la Colonne Vendôme

b)

le Zénith

c)

l'Obélisque

25.

Its construction started in 1758 and it was originally built as a church but, after many changes, it now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Louis Braille, Simone Weil.

a)

le Panthéon

b)

le Louvre

c)

le Zénith

26.

They were Celtic people who lived on the banks of the river Seine Gaul from the middle of the 3rd century BCE until the Roman era. Their main city was Lutèce (Lutecia), which by the 5th century had become Paris.

a)

les Français

b)

les Gaulois

c)

les Parisii

27.

It is a square only a few streets away from the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur. From the end of the 18th century until World War One, the whole Montmartre Boheme could been seen here: painters, songwriters and poets. With its many artists setting up their easels each day for the tourists, the square is a reminder of the time when Montmartre was the mecca of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century, many painters including Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani lived and painted there.

a)

la Place du Tertre

b)

la place de la Concorde

c)

la Place des Vosges

28.

Despite its name (neuf means new), is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, dating back to the 16th century. The name was given to distinguish it from older bridges that were lined on both sides with houses. It has remained after all of those were replaced.

a)

le Panthéon

b)

le Pont-Neuf

c)

le Pont des Arts

29.

It is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France. The construction began after 1238 and the chapel was consecrated in 1248. It has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained glass collections anywhere in the world.

a)

Notre-Dame

b)

le Sacré-Cœur

c)

la Sainte-Chapelle

30.

It was a university in Paris that emerged around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of Notre Dame de Paris; it is among the 10 oldest universities in Europe.

a)

le Panthéon

b)

la Sorbonne

c)

la Marianne

31.

It is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris. Its seating capacity of 80,698 makes it the eighth-largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is used by the France national football team and French rugby union team for international competition.

a)

le stade Roland Garros

b)

le Stade de France

c)

le Zénith

32.

It is a complex of tennis courts located in Paris, that hosts the French Open—a tennis tournament also known as Roland Garros. It is a Grand Slam championship tournament played annually around the end of May and the beginning of June. The facility was constructed in 1928 and was named for Roland Garros, a pioneering French aviator.

a)

le Stade Roland Garros

b)

le Stade de France

c)

le Zénith

33.

It is a 1,063-ft tall wrought-iron tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It is named after the engineer, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889 for the 1889 World's Fair. It is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015.

a)

la Colonne Vendôme

b)

l'Obélisque

c)

la Tour Eiffel