Algerian War - Quiz
Algerian War
  • 1. What percentage of the Algerian population did the Pieds-noirs and Harkis account for in 1962?
A) 20%
B) 10%
C) 13%
D) 15%
  • 2. What is the literal translation of the term 'Pied-noir'?
A) White foot
B) Foreign settler
C) Exiled citizen
D) Black foot
  • 3. From which region did the majority of European immigrants arrive in Algeria starting in 1830?
A) Northern Europe
B) Western Mediterranean
C) Sub-Saharan Africa
D) Eastern Europe
  • 4. Which decree in 1871 led Algerian Jews to largely embrace French citizenship?
A) Décret Crémieux
B) Décret Alger
C) Décret Napoléon
D) Décret de Gaulle
  • 5. In 1959, what percentage of the Pieds-noirs population was of European Christian descent?
A) 90%
B) 95%
C) 85%
D) 75%
  • 6. What was the FLN message to the Pieds-noirs during their exodus?
A) Leave or die
B) Surrender or leave
C) Pack or perish
D) A suitcase or a coffin
  • 7. How many Pieds-noirs fled Algeria in 1962?
A) 500,000
B) 250,000
C) 900,000
D) 1,000,000
  • 8. How many Pieds-noirs did the French government initially estimate might enter France?
A) 250,000–300,000
B) 100,000–150,000
C) 500,000–600,000
D) 800,000–900,000
  • 9. When did European immigrants first start arriving in Algeria?
A) 1860
B) 1900
C) 1830
D) 1789
  • 10. What happened to the property of the vast majority of departing Pieds-noirs?
A) It was left intact and abandoned
B) It was transferred to family members
C) It was sold to the state
D) It was burned down
  • 11. Why did a minority of departing Pieds-noirs destroy their property?
A) To collect insurance money
B) To prevent looting by the FLN
C) To keep it away from the French government
D) To protest and leave no trace of their presence
  • 12. What happened to the 100,000 Pieds-noirs who chose to remain in Algeria initially?
A) They were granted full citizenship
B) Most left in the 1960s and 1970s
C) They became local political leaders
D) They were protected by the FLN
  • 13. Which city is mentioned as having residual hostility, including the machine-gunning of public places?
A) Algiers
B) Oran
C) Constantine
D) Annaba
  • 14. When did some Jews first arrive in Algeria according to the text?
A) 100 AD
B) 600 BC
C) 1830 AD
D) 1492 AD
  • 15. What happened to the Sephardic Jews in 1492?
A) They were driven out of Spain
B) They arrived in Algeria from the Americas
C) They were invited to move to France
D) They converted to Catholicism
  • 16. When was the first referendum on the self-determination of Algeria held?
A) 8 January 1961
B) 1 July 1962
C) 18 March 1962
D) 22 April 1961
  • 17. Which movement did the FLN object to being included in peace negotiations?
A) OAS
B) The French Army
C) The Provisional Executive
D) MNA
  • 18. Which of these generals did not lead the April 1961 coup attempt against de Gaulle?
A) Raoul Salan
B) Maurice Challe
C) Henry Tanner
D) Edmond Jouhaud
  • 19. What entity became the primary standard bearer for the Pied-Noirs after the generals' putsch?
A) MNA
B) The French Army
C) FLN
D) OAS
  • 20. On what date did the ceasefire officially take effect?
A) 1 July 1962
B) 5 July 1962
C) 18 March 1962
D) 29 June 1961
  • 21. Who ordered the 17 October 1961 attack on Algerian demonstrators in France?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) Raoul Salan
C) André Malraux
D) Maurice Papon
  • 22. Which government official was the target of an OAS assassination attempt on 7 February 1962?
A) Henry Tanner
B) Charles de Gaulle
C) Maurice Papon
D) André Malraux
  • 23. Under the Évian Accords, how long were Pied-Noirs granted equal legal protection?
A) Five years
B) Three years
C) Ten years
D) One year
  • 24. Which French military base was mentioned as one France would retain after independence?
A) Casbah HQ
B) Algiers Port
C) Oran Airfield
D) Mers-el-Kebir
  • 25. How many deputies in the French National Assembly voted against the Évian Accords?
A) Zero
B) Fifty
C) One hundred
D) Eighty
  • 26. Which district of Algiers was occupied by 20,000 French troops following an OAS ambush?
A) Oran
B) Bab El Oued
C) The Casbah
D) Regghane
  • 27. What percentage of the French electorate approved the Évian Accords in April 1962?
A) 91 percent
B) 82 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 69 percent
  • 28. On what date did France officially declare Algeria an independent country?
A) 3 July 1962
B) 18 March 1962
C) 5 July 1962
D) 1 July 1962
  • 29. What building in Algiers was burned by the OAS on 7 June 1962?
A) University library
B) Government house
C) The Opera House
D) The Casbah mosque
  • 30. In what year did the last French forces leave the naval base of Mers El Kébir?
A) 1965
B) 1970
C) 1967
D) 1962
  • 31. Who made the decision to capture Algiers in January 1830?
A) Napoleon Bonaparte
B) Marshall Bugeaud
C) Louis-Philippe I
D) Charles X
  • 32. What was a primary motive for the French invasion of Algiers in 1830?
A) Establishing a trade union
B) Acquiring industrial machinery
C) Distracting French opinion from an authoritarian king
D) Spreading Christianity
  • 33. Who was the first Governor-General of Algeria?
A) Charles X
B) Marshall Bugeaud
C) Lamine Guèye
D) Adolphe Crémieux
  • 34. What policy did Marshall Bugeaud use to reduce the power of Abdelkader?
A) Democratic elections
B) Diplomatic negotiation
C) Scorched earth policy
D) Free trade agreement
  • 35. In what year did Algeria become a French military colony?
A) 1834
B) 1830
C) 1848
D) 1852
  • 36. How many French soldiers died in hospitals between 1830 and 1851?
A) 92,329
B) 500,000
C) 15,000
D) 3,336
  • 37. What is another name for the Algerian War?
A) The Sahara Conflict
B) The Mediterranean War
C) Algerian Revolution
D) The Great Rebellion
  • 38. Which organization fought against France during the Algerian War?
A) The Harki Front
B) OAS
C) FLN
D) The French Fourth Republic
  • 39. What was the name of the event that marked the start of the conflict on 1 November 1954?
A) The Fifth Republic Day
B) The Paris Declaration
C) Toussaint Rouge
D) The Algiers Uprising
  • 40. Which French political system fell as a result of the Algerian War?
A) Fourth Republic
B) The Monarchy
C) Third Republic
D) The Second Empire
  • 41. What was the name of the agreement signed in March 1962?
A) Algiers Protocol
B) Paris Treaty
C) Évian Accords
D) Mediterranean Pact
  • 42. What were the European-Algerians who fled to France called?
A) Pieds-noirs
B) Colons
C) Harkis
D) Expatriates
  • 43. Approximately how many Algerian Muslims were relocated to concentration camps by the French?
A) Over 2 million
B) 500,000
C) 5 million
D) 100,000
  • 44. Which specific regiments were created for Algerian Muslims as early as 1842?
A) Tirailleurs
B) Spahis
C) Zouaves
D) Chasseurs d'Afrique
  • 45. What title was given to Algerian intellectuals who began to nurture a desire for independence?
A) Spahis
B) Tirailleurs
C) Pieds-noirs
D) Oulémas
  • 46. Who was the grandson of Abd el-Kadir that spearheaded resistance in the early 20th century?
A) Khalid ibn Hashim
B) Ferhat Abbas
C) Messali Hadj
D) Blum-Viollette
  • 47. In what year was the Étoile Nord-Africaine (North African Star) founded?
A) 1945
B) 1926
C) 1936
D) 1939
  • 48. What was the name of the proposal introduced by the Popular Front in 1936?
A) Algerian People's Manifesto
B) Blum-Viollette proposal
C) Crémieux Decree
D) Indigenous Code
  • 49. What party did Messali Hadj found in 1937 after the dissolution of his previous party?
A) Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto
B) National Liberation Front
C) Union populaire algérienne
D) Parti du peuple algérien
  • 50. Who wrote the Algerian People's Manifesto in 1943?
A) Khalid ibn Hashim
B) Ferhat Abbas
C) Messali Hadj
D) Abdelkadir
  • 51. What organization founded in 1954 engaged in armed struggle against French authority?
A) Algerian People's Party
B) National Liberation Front
C) North African Star
D) Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto
  • 52. What was the armed wing of the FLN called?
A) Confédération générale du travail unitaire
B) Armée de Libération Nationale
C) Chasseurs d'Afrique
D) Tirailleurs
  • 53. Algerian soldiers drew on their experiences from which conflict to support the ALN?
A) The Sétif and Guelma uprising
B) First Indochina War
C) World War II
D) World War I
  • 54. Who wrote the declaration of 1 November 1954?
A) Ahmed Ben Bella
B) Mohamed Aïchaoui
C) Messali Hadj
D) Ferhat Abbas
  • 55. What was the primary focus of Ferhat Abbas before he formally joined the FLN?
A) Guerrilla warfare and armed uprising
B) Total communist revolution
C) Working closely with French colonial officials
D) A moderate, electoral strategy
  • 56. Which leader formed the Mouvement National Algérien (MNA) to compete with the FLN?
A) Ferhat Abbas
B) Mohamed Aïchaoui
C) Messali Hadj
D) Ahmed Ben Bella
  • 57. Who was the psychiatrist from Martinique who became the FLN's leading political theorist?
A) Jacques Soustelle
B) Pierre Mendès France
C) Vo Nguyen Giap
D) Frantz Fanon
  • 58. What town is Philippeville now known as?
A) Skikda
B) Algiers
C) Tunis
D) Constantine
  • 59. In what year did the FLN move into urban areas?
A) 1958
B) 1956
C) 1955
D) 1957
  • 60. How many people were killed by the FLN near Philippeville in August 1955?
A) 123
B) 12,000
C) 1,273
D) 34
  • 61. Who was the governor general who succeeded Jacques Soustelle?
A) Albert Camus
B) Hubert Beuve-Méry
C) Robert Lacoste
D) Pierre Vidal-Naquet
  • 62. How many members were in the National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA)?
A) 1,273
B) 123
C) 34
D) 5
  • 63. Which aircraft carrying FLN leaders was intercepted by the French Air Force in 1956?
A) Tunisian cargo plane
B) Egyptian military jet
C) Moroccan DC-3
D) French Airbus
  • 64. Which Egyptian leader provided assistance to the FLN?
A) Gamal Abdel Nasser
B) Ahmed Ben Bella
C) Hocine Aït Ahmed
D) Mohammed Boudiaf
  • 65. Which event in 1956 was influenced by France's desire to stop aid to the FLN?
A) Suez Crisis
B) The arrest of Maurice Audin
C) The Nobel Prize award ceremony
D) Philippeville massacre
  • 66. Who edited Le Monde during the period when torture by the French Army was reported?
A) Maurice Audin
B) Hubert Beuve-Méry
C) Albert Camus
D) Pierre Vidal-Naquet
  • 67. What was the profession of Maurice Audin?
A) Journalist
B) Military commander
C) Mathematics professor
D) Politician
  • 68. Who helped Maurice Audin's widow seek prosecution for her husband's death?
A) Albert Camus
B) Jacques Soustelle
C) Robert Lacoste
D) Pierre Vidal-Naquet
  • 69. How many districts was Algeria to be divided into under Lacoste's proposed administrative structure?
A) Three
B) Ten
C) Five
D) Thirty-four
  • 70. When did the Battle of Algiers begin?
A) January 1, 1956
B) September 30, 1956
C) May 1, 1957
D) December 12, 1957
  • 71. Which general was instructed to restore order in Algiers?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) Philippe Pétain
C) Jacques Massu
D) Louis-Hubert Lyautey
  • 72. What was the term used for the military control system involving movement restrictions and curfews?
A) Pacification
B) Blitzkrieg
C) Quadrillage
D) Colonialism
  • 73. Whose theories did the FLN guerrillas follow when merging with the countryside population?
A) Napoleon
B) Marx
C) Lenin
D) Mao
  • 74. Where did the FLN establish military administrations to collect taxes and food?
A) Central Algiers
B) Mountainous areas like the Kabylie
C) French military bases
D) The coastal ports
  • 75. What were the Muslim irregulars recruited by SAS officers known as?
A) Képis bleus
B) Kit Carson Scouts
C) Harkis
D) Force K
  • 76. Which French organization was the principal employer of covert agents in Algiers?
A) The Fifth Bureau
B) The DST
C) The Troupes coloniales
D) The Foreign Legion
  • 77. What was the nickname for SAS officers?
A) Képis bleus
B) Legionnaires
C) Pioneers
D) Paras
  • 78. What was a major cause of the Fourth Republic's instability?
A) Recurrent cabinet crises
B) Frequent changes in the monarchy
C) Economic depression
D) A lack of a constitution
  • 79. Who organized the coup d'état in early 1958 to bring de Gaulle to power?
A) Massu
B) Soustelle
C) Abbas
D) Salan
  • 80. Which French island was taken by paratroopers in a bloodless action on May 24, 1958?
A) Martinique
B) Réunion
C) Guadeloupe
D) Corsica
  • 81. What phrase did de Gaulle use in Mostaganem to cheer on the crowds?
A) Je vous ai compris
B) Vive l'Algérie française
C) Algérie libre
D) Liberté, égalité, fraternité
  • 82. Which country did NOT recognize the GPRA?
A) Morocco
B) Tunisia
C) The Soviet Union
D) China
  • 83. What term did de Gaulle use in his 16 September 1959 statement as his preferred solution?
A) Self-determination
B) Integration
C) Immediate independence
D) Colonial expansion
  • 84. Which group was known as the 'ultras' in Algeria?
A) The French military
B) The supporters of the Fourth Republic
C) The FLN leadership
D) Colon extremists
  • 85. Which officer gave the insurrection order for the Week of Barricades?
A) Colonel Jean Garde
B) General Maurice Challe
C) General de Castries
D) Colonel Marcel Bigeard
  • 86. How many rioters were killed during the shooting on Boulevard Laferrière?
A) Twenty-four
B) Twelve
C) Six
D) None
  • 87. Who joined Pierre Lagaillarde and Jean-Jacques Susini to found the OAS?
A) Jacques Soustelle
B) Joseph Ortiz
C) Jean-Baptiste Biaggi
D) Raoul Salan
  • 88. Who directed the Centre d'entraînement à la guerre subversive Jeanne-d'Arc?
A) Colonel Marcel Bigeard
B) Pierre Lagaillarde
C) Roger Trinquier
D) Lionel-Max Chassin
  • 89. What document was published against the use of torture and the war in Algeria?
A) Manifeste de la classe 60
B) The Week of Barricades Proclamation
C) Manifeste des 121
D) The OAS Manifesto
  • 90. How many states were in the United Nations in 1945?
A) 10
B) 51
C) 3,000
D) 117
  • 91. Which conference in 1955 internationally recognized the FLN as representing Algeria?
A) Yalta conference
B) Geneva conference
C) Evian conference
D) Bandung conference
  • 92. After the Battle of Algiers, which country provided financial and military support to help rebuild the ALN?
A) China
B) Switzerland
C) The United Kingdom
D) Germany
  • 93. Which agreements eventually ended the conflict through French concessions?
A) Bandung agreements
B) Evian agreements
C) Algiers accords
D) Paris protocols
  • 94. According to Matthew Connelly, what did the FLN's strategy of internationalization become for other groups?
A) A failed experiment
B) A model for revolutionary groups
C) A strictly regional phenomenon
D) A cautionary tale of diplomacy
  • 95. Who was a notable contributor to the Revolution by distributing pamphlets for the FLN's underground newspaper?
A) Raymonde Peschard
B) Zohra Drif
C) Yacef Saâdi
D) Eveline Safir Lavalette
  • 96. In which city did the Milk Bar Café bombing take place?
A) Oran
B) Constantine
C) Algiers
D) Annaba
  • 97. Which individual was initially accused of being an accomplice to the Milk Bar Café bombing?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) Raymonde Peschard
C) Eveline Safir Lavalette
D) Zohra Drif
  • 98. Were female combatants in the majority or the minority during the Algerian War?
A) Equal to non-combatants
B) Non-existent
C) Minority
D) Majority
  • 99. In what year were Zohra Drif and Yacef Saâdi arrested?
A) 1954
B) 1956
C) 1957
D) 1962
  • 100. Which of the following was a role played by women during the Algerian War?
A) Mercenary leader
B) French governor
C) Foreign diplomat
D) Nurse
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