Tunisian History and Politics

Independence and the Republic

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  1. On which date in 1956 did Tunisia gain independence from France?
  2. What did the National Constituent Assembly proclaim on 25 July 1957?
  3. Who became the first president of the Tunisian Republic?
  4. Which Neo-Destour leader, a rival of Bourguiba, was assassinated in Frankfurt in 1961?
  5. Which 1956 law banned polygamy and gave women a right to ask for divorce in court?
  6. Which national holiday on 13 August commemorates the Personal Status Code?
  7. Which holiday on 9 April commemorates demonstrations repressed by the French in 1938?
  8. Which clash of July 1961 followed Tunisia's demand that France leave its naval base?
  9. In which year was the first constitution of the independent republic adopted?
  10. Which president took office in November 1987 after declaring Bourguiba medically unfit?
  11. Which street vendor's act in Sidi Bouzid in December 2010 sparked the uprising of 2011?
  12. Which national day on 14 January celebrates the 2011 revolution?
  13. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 for building democracy after the revolution?
  14. What does the flag of Tunisia show?
  15. Which poet's line 'If one day a people desires to live' appears in the national anthem Humat al-Hima?
  16. Which regional organisation moved its headquarters to Tunis in 1979 after Egypt's peace treaty with Israel?
  17. Which reformer published Our Women in the Sharia and Society in 1930?
  18. Which statesman, grand vizier from 1873 to 1877, pushed reforms and wrote The Surest Path?
  19. Which scholar founded the Destour party in 1920 and wrote The Martyred Tunisia?
  20. Who was the last bey of Tunis, deposed in 1957?
  21. Which 1883 convention let France control the administration and finances of the bey's state?
  22. In which coastal town was the first president born and buried?
  23. In which year was the constitution adopted after the 2011 revolution?
  24. Which union leader was assassinated in December 1952, sparking riots across Tunisia?
  25. Which agreements of June 1955 gave Tunisia internal autonomy under the protectorate?

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