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German Citizenship Test
Can you answer these questions that might appear on the citizenship test required to become a German citizen?
- Questions from bamf.de, translated by me
- Inspired by this quiz
- The actual test consists of 33 questions, 3 of which pertain to the federated state you apply in. I selected 30 out of the 300 official questions that are normally chosen largely at random (within certain categories) for each test.
- To pass the actual test, you have to answer a minimum of 17 questions correctly.
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1. Which of the following is not a federated state within the Federal Republic of Germany?
Question #
Alsace-Lorraine
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Saxony-Anhalt
North Rhine-Westphalia
2. Which animal is shown on the coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany?
Question #29
Lion
Bear
Horse
Eagle
3. What are the heads of government of most of the federated states in Germany called?
Question #37
Prime Minister
Senator
First Minister
Minister President
4. The Bundestag election in Germany is the election of the...
Question #124
parliament of Germany
parliaments of the federated states
president
chancellor
5. What does "popular sovereignty" mean? All state power rests with the...
Question #52
King of Prussia
Federal Constitutional Court
Bundestag
people
6. Today, the Federal Republic of Germany is divided into...
Question #64
federal, state and local governments
four occupation zones
16 cantons
one eastern state and one western state
7. Who wrote the lyrics to the German national anthem?
Question #66
Friedrich von Schiller
Clemens Brentano
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
8. In Germany, what is primarily a task of the federated states?
Question #67
Economic policy
School policy
Defense policy
Foreign policy
9. What is one of the duties of the president of Germany?
Question #70
Proposing the chancellor for election
Regulating the governing party
Selecting the ministers
Conducting the affairs of government
10. The two largest parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag are currently...
Question #73
Democratic socialists (The Left) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Free democrats (FDP) and social democrats (SPD)
Christian conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Democratic socialists (The Left) and the Green Party
11. Who elects the chancellor in Germany?
Question #81
The Federal Assembly
The people
The Bundestag
The Bundesrat
12. Who is the head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany?
Question #87
The president of Germany
The president of the Bundesrat
The president of the Bundestag
The German chancellor
13. The more second votes a party gets in a federal election, the...
Question #93
more seats the party gets in parliament.
more candidates of the party enter parliament via direct mandate from the electorate.
fewer first votes it can have.
greater the risk of having to form a coalition.
14. What can a person be honored with in Germany if they have made a special contribution in the political, economic, cultural, intellectual or social spheres?
Question #102
Honorary title "Hero of the German Democratic Republic"
Federal Eagle
Federal Cross of Merit
Order of Merit of the Fatherland
15. A woman in Germany loses her job. What cannot be a legally valid reason for her dismissal?
Question #104
The woman will be having a baby and her boss knows it.
The woman conducts private affairs during working hours.
The woman has been ill for a long time and is unable to work.
The woman was often late for work.
16. Why is there an electoral threshold of 5% in the electoral law of the Federal Republic of Germany?
Question #127
Citizens can lose track of so many small parties.
Having many small parties makes it difficult to form a government.
The party programs of many small parties have many similarities.
The small parties do not have as much money to pay politicians.
17. Who is directly elected by the people in Germany?
Question #129
The president
The minister president of a federated state
The Bundestag
The chancellor
18. The "Third Reich" was a...
Question #158
Soviet republic
democracy
dictatorship
monarchy
19. What did not take place in Germany during the time of National Socialism?
Question #159
Censorship of the press
Arbitrary arrests
Persecution of Jews
Free elections
20. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg is known for...
Question #162
establishing the Wehrmacht.
the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944.
the construction of the Reichstag building.
winning a gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games.
21. What happened in Germany on November 9, 1938?
Question #164
Jewish stores and synagogues were destroyed by Nazis and their supporters.
The National Socialists lost an election and dissolved the Reichstag.
Hitler became president and had all parties banned.
The Second World War began with the attack on Poland.
22. After World War II, which countries were called the "Allied Occupation Powers" in Germany?
Question #167
Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden
USA, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France
USA, Soviet Union, Spain, Portugal
France, Soviet Union, Italy, Japan
23. The Federal Republic of Germany is a founding member of the...
Question #173
European Union (EU)
Warsaw Pact
United Nations (UN)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
24. From June 1948 to May 1949, the citizens of West Berlin were supplied by an airlift. Why?
Question #178
The Soviet Union interrupted all land transport.
The American servicemen were afraid of raids during land transport.
For Great Britain, supply by airlift was faster.
For France, supplying the population of West Berlin by air was more cost-effective.
25. What did chancellor Willy Brandt want to express with his genuflection in 1970 in the former Jewish ghetto in Warsaw?
Question #181
He submitted to the former Allies.
He said a prayer at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
He showed his humility before the Warsaw Pact.
He asked Poland and the Polish Jews for forgiveness.
26. What happened in the German Democratic Republic on June 17, 1953?
Question #210
Celebration of accession to the Warsaw Pact
Fidel Castro's first visit
Nationwide strikes and popular uprising
The 1st party congress of the Socialist Unity Party
27. Who is not allowed to live together as a couple in Germany?
Question #245
Anne (13 years) and Tim (25 years)
Hans (20 years) and Marie (19 years)
Sofie (35 years) and Lisa (40 years)
Tom (20 years) and Klaus (45 years)
28. At which festival do people in Germany wear colourful costumes and masks?
Question #264
Whitsun
Shrove Monday
Oktoberfest
May Day
29. A young woman in Germany, 22 years old, lives with her boyfriend. The woman's parents don't approve because they don't like the boyfriend. What can the parents do?
Question #267
They have to respect the decision of the adult daughter.
They can go to the police and report the daughter.
They can find another man for the daughter.
They have the right to take the daughter back to the parental home.
30. People in Germany live by the principle of religious tolerance. What does that mean?
Question #292
Everyone can believe what they want.
All people believe in God.
The state decides which God the people believe in.
No mosques are allowed to be built.
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Personally, I'd rather have them ask more questions about a person's world view than about history trivia - people can go to JetPunk for that. Of course I appreciate it if people are interested in the history and culture of my country, but tolerance for others and acceptance of universal basic human rights are much more important to keep the place (or any place) functioning.
(Which is great, BTW! I appreciate that Germany will only accept citizens who reject extremist ideologies).
in german it would be harder :D