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