French civic exam PDF: 40 free questions with the answers
One complete mock exam per procedure, to print or to read on your phone: 40 questions, as on exam day, then the answer key with the explanation and the official source of each answer. Free, no sign-up. The PDFs are in French, like the exam.
Download the mock exam in PDF
- Civic exam, multi-year residence card: 40 questions and answers (in French) (PDF, 375 KB)
- Civic exam, resident card: 40 questions and answers (in French) (PDF, 362 KB)
- Civic exam, citizenship (naturalisation): 40 questions and answers (in French) (PDF, 366 KB)
Independent course, not affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior. The real-life situations are written by this course: the exam's situations are not published.
What each PDF contains
- The 40 questions of the procedure's free mock exam: knowledge questions and real-life situations, in the order of the exam.
- The answer grid, to count your points: you need 32 to pass.
- The answer key for each question: the correct answer, the explanation, and the official source, with its date.
Do it first without looking at the answers, in 45 minutes. The same mock exam exists online, timed and marked automatically, with explanations in English: the free mock exam (or start with the free diagnostic above).
And the official lists of questions?
The Ministry of the Interior publishes the knowledge questions of each procedure, without the choices or the answers. They are here word for word (in French), with the answers explained:
- The 191 questions: multi-year residence card
- The 209 questions: resident card
- The 244 questions: citizenship (naturalisation)
- Questions explained in English
Be wary of documents that promise the “official answers”: the ministry does not publish any. Every answer in these PDFs points to its source.
Sources (in French)
- Carte de séjour pluriannuelle et carte de résident : comment passer l'examen civique ? — Service Public (DILA), vérifiée le 10 février 2026
- Naturalisation française : comment passer l'examen civique ? — Service Public (DILA), vérifiée le 16 juillet 2026
- Listes officielles des questions de connaissance (carte pluriannuelle, carte de résident) et questions de connaissance pour la naturalisation (édition du 12 décembre 2025) — Ministère de l'Intérieur (DIAN, DGEF), relevées le 20 octobre 2026
Independent course, not affiliated with the French Ministry of the Interior.The exam itself is only in French. This page is an AI translation of our French guides, checked against the French text by a separate AI review; no human translator has reviewed it yet. For your own case, ask your prefecture or the naturalisation office handling your application.
Page updated on 29 octobre 2026 (date in French format). All questions explained in English