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WorksheetsTest review Paris Monuments
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is this?
Place de la Concorde
Grande Arche de la Défense
Arc de Triomphe
Quartier Latin
What is this?
Musée du Louvre
Centre Pompidou/Beaubourg
Musée d'Orsay
Montmartre
What is this?
Place de la Concorde
Sacré Coeur
Place de la Bastille
Louvre
What is this?
Louvre
Nôtre Dame
Sacre Coeur
Place de la Concorde
What is this?
Metro
Seine
Ile de la Cite
Sacre Coeur
What is this?
Hotel de Ville
Musee d'Orsay
Centre Pompidou/Beaubourg
Notre Dame
What is this?
Musee du Louvre
Musee d'Orsay
Sacre Couer
Hotel de Ville
What is this?
les Invalides
Notre Dame
Quartier Latin
Place de la Bastille
What is this?
Montmartre
Quartier Latin
Ile de la Cite
Sacre Coeur
What is this?
Arc de Triomphe
Eiffel Tower
La Grande Arche de la Defense
la Seine
la place de la Concorde
la place de la Bastille
la place de Charles de Gaulle
l'opéra Garnier
le musée d'Orsay
le palais du Bourbon
Which of the following monuments is NOT in France?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Eiffel Tower
The Arc de Triomphe
The Louvre
The French Revolution began with angry French citizens storming the _____________ prison
Eiffel
Corsican
Triomphe
Bastille
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.
les arrondissements
les rives
les Buttes-Chaumont
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.
les rives
les Invalides
les Bateaux Mouches
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.
les Champs Élysées
les Buttes-Chaumont
le Zénith
It is the smallest of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris.
l'Île Saint-Louis
l'île de la Cité
l'île Saint-Martin
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.
Lutèce
Paris
Versailles
It is a Roman Catholic church designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army.
Notre-Dame
le Sacré-Cœur
la Madeleine
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.
la Colonne Vendôme
le Zénith
l'Obélisque
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.
le Panthéon
le Louvre
le Zénith
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.
les Français
les Gaulois
les Parisii
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.
la Place du Tertre
la place de la Concorde
la Place des Vosges
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.
le Panthéon
le Pont-Neuf
le Pont des Arts
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.
Notre-Dame
le Sacré-Cœur
la Sainte-Chapelle
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.
le Panthéon
la Sorbonne
la Marianne
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.
le stade Roland Garros
le Stade de France
le Zénith
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.
le Stade Roland Garros
le Stade de France
le Zénith
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.
la Colonne Vendôme
l'Obélisque
la Tour Eiffel
