Algerian History and Politics

History And Politics

266 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

All 266 questions

  1. Complete the sentence about Djamila Bouhired with the correct year: In July ______, she was tried for allegedly bombing a cafe frequented by French settlers, alongside Djamila Bouazza, aged 19.
  2. Complete the sentence about Djamila Bouhired with the correct year: After being spared, Bouhired served a prison sentence in the Reims prison until ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Ali La Pointe with the correct year: On 28 December ______, he was suspected of killing the Mayor of Boufarik, Amédée Froger.
  4. Complete the sentence about Ali La Pointe with the correct year: In ______, French paratroopers led by Colonel Yves Godard systematically isolated and eliminated the FLN leadership in Algiers.
  5. Complete the sentence about Ali La Pointe with the correct year: Ali Ammar was born to a poor family on 14 May ______ in Miliana, Algeria.
  6. Complete the sentence about Algerian provisional government with the correct year: The GPRA was set up in Cairo, Egypt, by the FLN on September 19, ______, four years into the Algerian War of Independ…
  7. Complete the sentence about Algeria in World War II with the correct year: At the time of the armistice of ______, Algeria, colonized by France, was administratively dependent on the Vichy regime.
  8. Complete the sentence about Algeria in World War II with the correct year: In ______, the state of French politics in Algeria proved ineffective, failing to address critical issues.
  9. Complete the sentence about Algeria in World War II with the correct year: As a result, France closed the Algerian People's Party in September ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Algeria in World War II with the correct year: Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the People's Party had already been shuttered, with 28 of its leaders apprehended on O…
  11. Complete the sentence about Algeria in World War II with the correct year: The Algerian Communist Party, akin to the People's Party, was disbanded prior to the war on September 26, ______, largely due…
  12. Complete the sentence about Algeria in World War II with the correct year: On 1 September ______, there were 16 regiments of Algerian tirailleurs. 8 regiments were stationed in North Africa, 8 in the…
  13. Complete the sentence about Operation Torch with the correct year: When the United States entered the Second World War on December 7, ______, British and Americans met at the Arcadia Conference in Was…
  14. Complete the sentence about Operation Torch with the correct year: But with British forces advancing from Egypt, this would allow the Allies to carry out a pincer operation against Axis forces in Nort…
  15. Complete the sentence about Free French with the correct year: Led by General Charles de Gaulle, Free France was established as a government-in-exile in London in June ______ after the Fall of France…
  16. Complete the sentence about French Fourth Republic with the correct year: After a series of crises culminating in the Algerian crisis of ______, the French Fourth Republic collapsed.
  17. Complete the sentence about French Fourth Republic with the correct year: The Fourth Republic was dissolved on 5 October ______ following a public referendum which established the current French Fifth…
  18. Complete the sentence about French Fourth Republic with the correct year: After a new legislative election in June ______, the Christian democrat Georges Bidault assumed leadership of the Cabinet.
  19. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tafna with the correct year: The Treaty of Tafna was signed by both Emir Abdelkader and General Thomas Robert Bugeaud on 30 May ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Tafna with the correct year: The French used the peace with Abdelkader to concentrate forces to fight in the east of Algeria successfully taking Constantine on Oc…
  21. Complete the sentence about Duc d'Aumale with the correct year: Aumale was a medieval fief in the Duchy of Normandy and, after ______, of the King of England.
  22. Complete the sentence about Duc d'Aumale with the correct year: In the Domesday Book of ______, Adelaide is recorded as the Countess of Aumale, with holdings in Suffolk and Essex.
  23. Complete the sentence about Duc d'Aumale with the correct year: In ______ the fief, with Odo's lands in Holderness, passed to their son, Stephen.
  24. Complete the sentence about Duc d'Aumale with the correct year: In ______, Philip II of France captured the castle of Aumale, and granted the title of "Count of Aumale" to Renaud de Dammartin.
  25. Complete the sentence about Duc d'Aumale with the correct year: After several extinctions the title was re-created in ______ for Francis, then styled Count of Aumale by courtesy.
  26. Complete the sentence about Duc d'Aumale with the correct year: As of ______, the titleholder is a grandson of the late Henri, Count of Paris, Orléans heir, and his wife, Princess Isabelle of Orléans…
  27. Complete the sentence about Thomas Robert Bugeaud with the correct year: In ______, he was in the first French corps to enter Spain, and was stationed in Madrid during the revolt of the Dos Mayo.
  28. Complete the sentence about Thomas Robert Bugeaud with the correct year: Early in ______ he put his system of flying columns, a controversial but successful tactic known as "Razzia" into effect.
  29. Complete the sentence about Thomas Robert Bugeaud with the correct year: In ______, he secured the French positions by undertaking the construction of roads.
  30. Complete the sentence about Thomas Robert Bugeaud with the correct year: In ______, Bugeaud was made marshal of France, and in this and the following year he continued his operations with unvarying su…
  31. Complete the sentence about Berbers with the correct year: From about ______ BC, Berber languages spread westward from the Nile Valley across the northern Sahara into the Maghreb.
  32. Complete the sentence about Kabyle people with the correct year: Since the Berber Spring of ______, they have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages in Alg…
  33. Complete the sentence about Crémieux Decree with the correct year: The decree did not grant citizenship to the Berber Mozabite Jews, who only acquired "common law civil status" and French citizenship…
  34. Complete the sentence about Crémieux Decree with the correct year: The Muslim revolt of ______ created distrust of the indigenous non-Jews, as it established that they would not respect French authori…
  35. Complete the sentence about Algerian National Movement with the correct year: Messali Hadj was a co-founder and President of the three earlier organizations leading the movement for independence begin…
  36. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The MNA condemned the armed insurrection of November 1, ______ that was led by the FLN.
  37. Complete the sentence about Algerian Communist Party with the correct year: The PCA re-obtained legal status following independence in ______, but was banned and dissolved later that year by the Natio…
  38. Complete the sentence about Rally for Culture and Democracy with the correct year: The Rally for Culture and Democracy was founded by Saïd Sadi in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Saïd Sadi was a candidate again in the ______ presidential election and won 1.9 percent of the vote.
  40. Complete the sentence about National Democratic Rally with the correct year: In the Algerian Parliamentary elections held on 5 June ______ the RND received more votes than any other party 156 out of 3…
  41. Complete the sentence about National Democratic Rally with the correct year: RND Secretary-General Ahmed Ouyahia was appointed as prime minister on 23 June ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Movement of Society for Peace with the correct year: The second round of elections were cancelled by a military coup in January ______, and the FIS was banned.
  43. Complete the sentence about Movement of Society for Peace with the correct year: In ______, Sheikh Nahnah participated in the presidential elections as main contender against the military-backed winni…
  44. Complete the sentence about Algeria at the Olympics with the correct year: Algeria withdrew from the ______ Summer Olympics due to the refusal of the IOC to ban countries who had competed in South Afr…
  45. Complete the sentence about Algeria at the Olympics with the correct year: South Africa itself had been banned from the Olympics since ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Algeria at the Olympics with the correct year: In the ______ Summer Olympics Algeria participated for the first time in a team sport, competing in both football and handbal…
  47. Complete the sentence about Algeria national football team with the correct year: Algeria joined FIFA on 1 January ______, a year and a half after gaining independence.
  48. Complete the sentence about Algeria national football team with the correct year: The team was approved by the FLN in May ______ and was managed by Salah Saidou, with Abdelkader Zerrar as captain.
  49. Complete the sentence about Algeria national football team with the correct year: The first game was played on 1 June ______ against Tunisia in the Stade Chedly Zouiten.
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In April ______, the team was dissolved and was replaced by the FLN team.
  51. Complete the sentence about Algeria national football team with the correct year: The Algerian football team was established in ______ after gaining independence from France, as the successor of the F…
  52. Complete the sentence about Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: Since ______, the league has been officially known as Ligue Professionnelle 1 Mobilis as it is sponsored by Algerian…
  53. Complete the sentence about Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: The league was created in ______, when Algeria became an independent nation.
  54. Complete the sentence about Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: On 21 August ______, the FAF announced that the name of the league would change to Ligue Professionnelle 1 to reflec…
  55. Complete the sentence about Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: Then it came to an end in the year ______, when Algeria became the last territory in North Africa to abandon French…
  56. Which place completes this sentence about Zayyanid dynasty? On the collapse of the Almohad Caliphate's rule around 1236, the Kingdom of ______ became independent under the rule of the Zayyanids, and Y…
  57. Which place completes this sentence about Zayyanid dynasty? There were occasional Marinid attempts to retake ______ up to 1370, but they found that they were unable to hold the region against local re…
  58. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of Isly? The Sultan of Morocco Abd al-Rahman attempted seizing ______ from the French in October 1830.
  59. Which place completes this sentence about Ferhat Abbas? After graduating, Abbas worked as a pharmacist in ______, where he became involved in politics.
  60. Which place completes this sentence about National Liberation Army? On the morning of 5 July 1962 seven companies of ALN soldiers entering the city of ______ were fired on by some Pied-Noirs, white Eu…
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Larbi Ben M'hidi? Ben M'hidi was arrested the day after the ______ uprising against the occupying French forces in May 1945.
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Flag of Algeria? In the twentieth century, it was again taken up by the Algerians who demonstrated in the city of ______ in 1910.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hammadid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, Hammad declared his independence from Zirid suzerainty and switched his spiritual allegiance from the Shi'a Fatimid calip…
  64. Complete the sentence about Hammadid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, Qaid ibn Hammad was attacked by Hammama, the ruler of Fes, but Hammama soon returned to Fez, requested peace, and declare…
  65. Complete the sentence about Hafsid dynasty with the correct year: When Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid died in ______, the Almohad chiefs in Ifriqiya initially elected his son, Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman, as th…
  66. Complete the sentence about Oruç Reis with the correct year: In ______, Aruj managed to seize three more ships and made the island of Djerba his new base, thus moving his operations to the Western Med…
  67. Complete the sentence about Oruç Reis with the correct year: In ______, they raided the coasts of Liguria, particularly Diano Marina.
  68. Complete the sentence about Code de l'indigénat with the correct year: A royal ordinance of ______ created three types of administration in Algeria.
  69. Complete the sentence about Code de l'indigénat with the correct year: By ______, fewer than 200 requests had been registered by Muslims and 152 by Jewish Algerians.
  70. Complete the sentence about Code de l'indigénat with the correct year: Moreover, it was at Algeria's request for an ______ Act restoring the droit du sol, French citizenship being awarded to anyone bo…
  71. Complete the sentence about Hocine Aït Ahmed with the correct year: Aït Ahmed died at the age of 89 in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 23rd December ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Algerian independence referendum, 1962 with the correct year: An independence referendum was held in French Algeria on 1 July ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Algerian independence referendum, 1962 with the correct year: Conflicts proliferated in France, including the May ______ Algerian crisis that led to the fall of the Fourth…
  74. Complete the sentence about Algerian independence referendum, 1962 with the correct year: In ______, French President Charles de Gaulle agreed to negotiations with the FLN after major demonstrations i…
  75. Complete the sentence about Algerian independence referendum, 1962 with the correct year: Negotiations concluded with the signing of the Évian Accords in March ______, which were approved by 91% of vo…
  76. Complete the sentence about Liamine Zéroual with the correct year: After disagreeing with President Chadli Bendjedid about proposals for army reorganisation, he left the ANP in ______, and briefly bec…
  77. Complete the sentence about Liamine Zéroual with the correct year: In November ______, he was elected President, a post which he retained until the next elections.
  78. Complete the sentence about 2019 Algerian protests with the correct year: With Bouteflika's accession to power in ______, he began a diplomatic mission to rehabilitate Algeria's image abroad.
  79. Complete the sentence about People's National Assembly with the correct year: The first election for the People's National Assembly was held on 20 September ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about People's National Assembly with the correct year: The APN was reestablished in ______ with the passage of Algeria's new constitution, at the time only a unicameral legislat…
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The first APN election with multiple parties was held in December ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about People's National Assembly with the correct year: In ______, the legislature split into two chambers forming the Algerian Parliament with the ratification of a new constitu…
  83. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Algeria with the correct year: Since its independence from France in ______, Algeria has pursued an activist foreign policy.
  84. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Algeria with the correct year: Following its independence in ______, Algeria developed deep ties with many foreign countries with a heavy presence in t…
  85. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Algeria with the correct year: Under Ben Bella, diplomatic relations with France were normalized, the negotiations concerning oil and gas leading to an…
  86. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Algeria with the correct year: Moreover, as the autogestion model proved to be widely inefficient, Algeria started to move towards a more centralized a…
  87. Complete the sentence about Administrative divisions of Algeria with the correct year: In ______, the Regency of Algiers was established, gradually emerging as a largely autonomous state owing nominal…
  88. Complete the sentence about Oran massacre of 1962 with the correct year: The Évian Accords of 18 March ______ brought an end to the conflict.
  89. Complete the sentence about Oran massacre of 1962 with the correct year: In May ______, the OAS engaged in a bombing campaign that killed an estimated 10 to 50 Algerians in Oran daily.
  90. Complete the sentence about Mostefa Ben Boulaïd with the correct year: Mostefa Ben Boulaïd was born on 5 February ______ in Inerkeb, a village in Arris, Batna Province, Algeria.
  91. Complete the sentence about Mostefa Ben Boulaïd with the correct year: In ______, he underwent mandatory military service and was mobilized into the French Army to fight for the Allies during World Wa…
  92. Complete the sentence about Mostefa Ben Boulaïd with the correct year: Distinguishing himself during the Italian campaign in ______, he exhibited great courage, which earned him the Médaille militaire…
  93. Complete the sentence about Mostefa Ben Boulaïd with the correct year: In ______, he contested the Assembly of Algeria elections and won his seat decisively, but the colonial administration annulled t…
  94. Complete the sentence about Mostefa Ben Boulaïd with the correct year: In early ______, Ben Boulaïd traveled to Libya to procure arms for the revolution.
  95. Complete the sentence about Mostefa Ben Boulaïd with the correct year: On 22 March ______, Ben Boulaïd was killed in action when a booby-trapped tactical radio device, airdropped by French intelligenc…
  96. Complete the sentence about Algerian Revolution with the correct year: A referendum took place on 8 April ______ and the French electorate approved the Évian Accords.
  97. Complete the sentence about Algerian Revolution with the correct year: The decision to capture Algiers was made by Charles X and his ministers in January ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Algerian Revolution with the correct year: By early ______ however, the real motive was to distract and assuage with a foreign conquest French opinion hostile to the increa…
  99. Complete the sentence about Algerian Revolution with the correct year: On the pretext of a slight to their consul, the French attacked and captured Algiers in June ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Mozabites with the correct year: After being defeated at Tiaret by the Fatimid Caliphate in 911, they were banished to Ouargla in the Sahara and founded an independent stat…

Keep practising

More general knowledge topics

All general knowledge →

History And Politics in other exams

Ready for more general knowledge?

Play the GK ChallengeGeneral knowledge hub
History And Politics quiz questions (page 2) | GetMyMockTest