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  • 1. In which French region is the Dijon campus located?
A) Burgundy
B) French Riviera
C) Lorraine
D) Normandy
  • 2. In what year was the Dijon campus created?
A) 2005
B) 2007
C) 2001
D) 2000
  • 3. What type of building houses the Dijon campus?
A) An 18th-century heritage site
B) A 19th-century building
C) A medieval fortress
D) A modern glass building
  • 4. What is the regional specialisation of the Dijon campus?
A) The Euro-Asian Programme
B) French-German relations
C) The European Union, specifically Central and Eastern Europe
D) The Middle Eastern and the Mediterranean
  • 5. In which language is the regional specialisation taught at the Dijon campus?
A) German
B) Russian
C) English
D) French
  • 6. Which of the following is an elective language offered at the Dijon campus?
A) Hungarian
B) Arabic
C) Japanese
D) Chinese
  • 7. Which of these languages is offered as an elective at Dijon?
A) Korean
B) Turkish
C) Swedish
D) Polish
  • 8. Which Central-Eastern European language is an elective option at Dijon?
A) Romanian
B) Italian
C) Hebrew
D) Spanish
  • 9. Is Russian offered as an elective language at the Dijon campus?
A) Yes
B) Only for graduate students
C) Only as a core language
D) No
  • 10. Which Slavic language, other than Russian and Polish, is offered as an elective at Dijon?
A) Slovak
B) Croatian
C) Serbian
D) Czech
  • 11. On the coast of which French region is Le Havre located?
A) Lorraine
B) French Riviera
C) Burgundy
D) Normandy
  • 12. Which undergraduate programme has Le Havre hosted since 2007?
A) French-German relations Programme
B) Central and Eastern European Programme
C) Euro-Asian Programme
D) Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Programme
  • 13. In which language is the Euro-Asian Programme at Le Havre taught?
A) French
B) English
C) Chinese
D) German
  • 14. Which elective languages are offered at the Le Havre campus?
A) Hungarian, Polish and Czech
B) German, Italian and Spanish
C) Arabic, Turkish and Persian
D) Chinese, Japanese and Korean
  • 15. What special language courses are available at Le Havre for students without a B1-equivalent level?
A) English as a Foreign Language
B) Introductory Spanish
C) Basic Chinese
D) French as a Foreign Language
  • 16. Where do students at Le Havre primarily choose to spend their third year abroad?
A) In an Asian country
B) In the Middle East
C) In Central Europe
D) In Germany
  • 17. In which year did Le Havre start hosting the Euro-Asian Programme?
A) 2005
B) 2001
C) 2007
D) 2000
  • 18. In which French Riviera city is a Sciences Po campus established?
A) Menton
B) Cannes
C) Marseille
D) Nice
  • 19. In what year was the Menton campus established?
A) 2000
B) 2005
C) 2001
D) 2007
  • 20. What type of building houses the Menton campus?
A) A medieval castle
B) An entirely renovated 19th-century building overlooking the Mediterranean
C) An 18th-century heritage site
D) A modern coastal skyscraper
  • 21. What is the regional specialisation of the Menton campus?
A) Central and Eastern Europe
B) East Asia
C) The European Union and French-German relations
D) The Middle Eastern and the Mediterranean
  • 22. How many students does the Menton campus welcome each year according to the brochure?
A) 500 students
B) 1000 students
C) 100 students
D) 300 students
  • 23. Through how many language tracks is the undergraduate programme at Menton taught?
A) Two language tracks (French or English)
B) Four language tracks including Asian languages
C) Three language tracks (French, English and German)
D) A single track taught only in French
  • 24. Which of the following is an elective language offered at Menton?
A) Swedish
B) Arabic
C) Hungarian
D) Chinese
  • 25. Which Middle Eastern language besides Arabic is offered as an elective at Menton?
A) Turkish
B) Korean
C) Japanese
D) Czech
  • 26. Which European elective languages are available at the Menton campus?
A) German and Swedish
B) Polish and Romanian
C) Italian and Spanish
D) Russian and Czech
  • 27. Which language elective at Menton is written in the Perso-Arabic script and is spoken in Iran?
A) Persian
B) Turkish
C) Hebrew
D) Arabic
  • 28. Which Semitic language is offered as an elective at Menton?
A) Romanian
B) Persian
C) Turkish
D) Hebrew
  • 29. Where is the third mandatory year abroad spent for students from Menton?
A) In the Middle East or elsewhere
B) Strictly in Eastern Europe
C) Exclusively in Germany
D) Only in Asia
  • 30. In which French region is the Nancy campus established?
A) Normandy
B) French Riviera
C) Lorraine
D) Burgundy
  • 31. In what year was the Nancy campus established?
A) 2001
B) 2005
C) 2000
D) 2007
  • 32. What is the name of the 18th-century heritage site where the Nancy campus is located?
A) Hôtel des Missions Royales
B) Château de Nancy
C) Hôtel de Ville
D) Palais Bourbon
  • 33. In which languages is the curriculum at the Nancy campus taught?
A) English and Chinese
B) French, English and German
C) French and Arabic
D) Only in French
  • 34. What does the regional specialisation at the Nancy campus focus on?
A) The Euro-Asian Programme
B) The Middle Eastern and the Mediterranean
C) The European Union and French-German relations
D) Central and Eastern Europe
  • 35. Which of the following is listed as an elective language at Nancy?
A) German
B) Chinese
C) Arabic
D) Hungarian
  • 36. Besides German, English, and French as a foreign language, which Nordic language is offered as an elective at Nancy?
A) Finnish
B) Danish
C) Swedish
D) Norwegian
  • 37. Which campus is located in a 19th-century building in Burgundy?
A) Dijon
B) Menton
C) Nancy
D) Le Havre
  • 38. Which campus hosts the Euro-Asian Programme?
A) Menton
B) Le Havre
C) Nancy
D) Dijon
  • 39. Which campus is housed in the Hôtel des Missions Royales?
A) Nancy
B) Le Havre
C) Dijon
D) Menton
  • 40. What is the formal name of Sciences Po?
A) École libre des sciences politiques
B) French Institute of Political Science
C) National University of Paris
D) Paris Institute of Political Studies
  • 41. In which city is the main public research university of Sciences Po located?
A) Marseille
B) Paris
C) Nice
D) Lyon
  • 42. What legal status does Sciences Po hold?
A) Private academy
B) Foreign institution
C) Lyceum
D) Grand établissement
  • 43. What is the academic focus of each decentralized campus of Sciences Po?
A) Specific medical technologies
B) Pure mathematics and logic
C) Agricultural sciences
D) A geopolitical part of the world
  • 44. Who established the school in 1872?
A) Napoleon III
B) Hippolyte Taine
C) Ernest Renan
D) Émile Boutmy
  • 45. In the aftermath of which conflict was the school founded?
A) Napoleonic Wars
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) Franco-Prussian War
  • 46. What percentage of Sciences Po graduates were employed in the private sector as of 2021?
A) 20%
B) 80%
C) 92.5%
D) 50%
  • 47. When was the school nationalized and re-established as a public institution?
A) Following World War II
B) During World War I
C) In 1872
D) Following the Franco-Prussian War
  • 48. How must other Institutes of Political Studies in France refer to themselves?
A) By using the title 'Paris Institute'
B) Using only the epithet 'Sciences Po'
C) By adopting a completely unrelated name
D) Followed by the names of the cities where they are located
  • 49. Which association is Sciences Po a member of?
A) Global Alliance of Medical Schools
B) International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
C) Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs
D) World Engineering Association
  • 50. In what month and year was the school established as the ELSP?
A) November 1945
B) January 1872
C) December 1871
D) July 1870
  • 51. Which of the following figures was part of the group that founded the ELSP?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) Maximilien Robespierre
C) Napoleon III
D) Hippolyte Taine
  • 52. Which crisis contributed to the fears regarding the education of the French political elite?
A) The July Revolution
B) The French Revolution
C) The Paris Commune
D) The Hundred Years' War
  • 53. What innovative intellectual axis did the founders introduce?
A) Strictly technical engineering courses
B) Mandatory military service training
C) Teaching contemporary history
D) Focusing solely on ancient humanities
  • 54. Between 1901 and 1935, what percentage of entrants to the Grands corps de l'État had studied at the school?
A) 50%
B) 100%
C) 92.5%
D) 80%
  • 55. Which Italian school was created in 1875 following the model of the ELSP?
A) Scuola Normale Superiore
B) Istituto Cesare Alfieri
C) Politecnico di Milano
D) Bocconi University
  • 56. Which United States school created a School of Foreign Service after WWI, inspired by similar institutions?
A) Columbia University
B) Princeton University
C) Harvard University
D) Georgetown University
  • 57. In what year did the university establish a colonial studies program?
A) 1872
B) 1886
C) 1945
D) 1901
  • 58. When did the colonial branch of the ELSP close?
A) 1875
B) 1905
C) 1935
D) 1893
  • 59. What state-sponsored school was created in 1889, leading to the closure of the ELSP's colonial branch?
A) National School of Administration
B) Colonial School
C) School of Foreign Service
D) Institute of Political Studies
  • 60. Which decentralized campus is located in the Grand Est region alongside Nancy?
A) Reims
B) Paris
C) Menton
D) Le Havre
  • 61. Which decentralized campus is located in western-central France?
A) Menton
B) Poitiers
C) Le Havre
D) Dijon
  • 62. What was the name of the regime whose demise was counted among France's crises in 1870?
A) The Bourbon Restoration
B) Napoleon III's regime
C) The First French Empire
D) The Vichy Regime
  • 63. Who was among the founders of the ELSP alongside Émile Boutmy?
A) Maximilian I
B) Ernest Renan
C) Emile Zola
D) Georges Clemenceau
  • 64. What kind of institution was the ELSP originally created as?
A) A public research university
B) A municipal secondary school
C) A private institution
D) A state-owned military academy
  • 65. Who held the chair in colonial affairs at the ELSP?
A) Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
B) Ernest Renan
C) Hippolyte Taine
D) Émile Boutmy
  • 66. Which British institution was founded around the turn of the century, similar to the ELSP?
A) University of Oxford
B) University of Cambridge
C) London School of Economics
D) Edinburgh University
  • 67. Which Swiss graduate institute was created after World War I along the lines of political/foreign service schools?
A) Geneva Graduate Institute
B) University of Lausanne
C) ETH Zurich
D) University of Bern
  • 68. Which German school was created in the wave of similar political schools?
A) University of Heidelberg
B) Humboldt University of Berlin
C) Deutsche Hochschule für Politik
D) University of Munich
  • 69. Which US school's political science program originated from this global movement of political schools?
A) Columbia School of Political Science
B) Yale Law School
C) MIT Department of Economics
D) Stanford University
  • 70. In what year did Sciences Po undergo significant reforms?
A) 1950
B) 1945
C) 1944
D) 1939
  • 71. Which communist politician accused the school of being the "home of collaboration"?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) Roger Seydoux
C) Georges Cogniot
D) Michel Debré
  • 72. Who was the director of the school during the 1945 reforms?
A) Jacques Chapsal
B) Roger Seydoux
C) André Siegfried
D) Michel Debré
  • 73. Who was Roger Seydoux's aid?
A) Georges Cogniot
B) Roger Grégoire
C) Jacques Chapsal
D) Jules Jeanneney
  • 74. Who was described as the school's most famous professor?
A) Roger Seydoux
B) Charles de Gaulle
C) André Siegfried
D) Michel Debré
  • 75. Who led France's Provisional Government that made the choice regarding the school's future?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) André Siegfried
C) Georges Cogniot
D) Roger Seydoux
  • 76. How many campuses of Sciences Po are there in France?
A) Seven
B) Nine
C) Ten
D) Eight
  • 77. From 1945, where were the Grands Corps de l'Etat obliged to recruit new entrants from?
A) ENA
B) IEP de Paris
C) FNSP
D) ELSP
  • 78. Which historic crisis occurred during Jacques Chapsal's directorship?
A) The French Revolution
B) The 2012 Financial crisis
C) May 68 crisis
D) The Equal Opportunity crisis
  • 79. In what year was the Presses de Sciences Po created?
A) 1956
B) 2001
C) 1976
D) 1960
  • 80. When did Sciences Po create its first PhD program?
A) 1960
B) 1976
C) 1947
D) 1956
  • 81. What center for political research was created in 1960?
A) FNSP
B) Presses de Sciences Po
C) CEVIPOF
D) The Equal Opportunity Program
  • 82. Which foundation provided significant donations to the FNSP?
A) Ford Foundation
B) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
C) Rockefeller Foundation
D) Carnegie Foundation
  • 83. Who led Sciences Po between 1987 and 1997?
A) Roger Seydoux
B) Alain Lancelot
C) Jacques Chapsal
D) Richard Descoings
  • 84. What new requirement was introduced for all undergraduate students under Descoings?
A) Spend a year abroad
B) Pass the ENA entrance exam
C) Complete a mandatory PhD program
D) Work at the CEVIPOF
  • 85. What type of curriculum was introduced by Richard Descoings?
A) A multilingual curriculum
B) A strictly French-only curriculum
C) A purely scientific curriculum
D) An exam-free curriculum
  • 86. What was the proportion of scholarship students at Sciences Po in 2001?
A) 6 percent
B) 77.5 percent
C) 27 percent
D) 30 percent
  • 87. What was the proportion of scholarship students at Sciences Po by 2011?
A) 50 percent
B) 6 percent
C) 27 percent
D) 10 percent
  • 88. Who was appointed director of Sciences Po on March 1, 2013?
A) Richard Descoings
B) Luis Vassy
C) Frédéric Mion
D) Mathias Vicherat
  • 89. In what year was the School of Management and Innovation created?
A) 2021
B) 2015
C) 2016
D) 2013
  • 90. In late 2016, Sciences Po acquired the Hôtel de l'Artillerie located in which arrondissement of Paris?
A) 8th arrondissement
B) 7th arrondissement
C) 5th arrondissement
D) 6th arrondissement
  • 91. Which scandal hit Sciences Po in 2021?
A) The Duhamel scandal
B) The Boutmy crisis
C) The Vicherat affair
D) The Gaza war protests
  • 92. Which book mainly put forward the 2021 sexual violence scandal at Sciences Po?
A) La Familia Grande
B) Sciences Po 2022
C) Le Monde
D) Nouvel Obs
  • 93. Who was accused of raping his son, leading to his resignation as director of the National Foundation of Sciences Po?
A) Frédéric Mion
B) Olivier Duhamel
C) Luis Vassy
D) Mathias Vicherat
  • 94. When did Mathias Vicherat assume office as the new director of Sciences Po?
A) 13 March 2024
B) 1 March 2013
C) 22 November 2021
D) 28 September 2024
  • 95. Who was named interim director of Sciences Po on March 26, 2024?
A) Mathias Vicherat
B) Luis Vassy
C) Jean Bassères
D) Frédéric Mion
  • 96. When did Luis Vassy assume office as the new director of Sciences Po?
A) 28 September 2024
B) 26 March 2024
C) 13 March 2024
D) 22 November 2021
  • 97. What is the inter-campus tournament held at the end of the academic year also known as?
A) The Saint-Guillaume Games
B) The Collégiades
C) The Boutmy Tournament
D) The MiniCrit
  • 98. Around which boulevard are the buildings of the Paris campus concentrated?
A) Boulevard de Sébastopol
B) Boulevard Saint-Michel
C) Boulevard Saint-Germain
D) Boulevard Haussmann
  • 99. Since what year has the central library been housed at 27 rue Saint-Guillaume?
A) 2022
B) 1879
C) 2016
D) 2013
  • 100. Approximately how many undergraduate students does the Paris campus enroll?
A) 10,000
B) 1,000
C) 5,000
D) 3,000
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