Q 01/05

Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with which other country?

A) Dominican Republic

B) Trinidad and Tobago

C) Jamaica

D) Cuba

Answer · why

A) Dominican Republic

Haiti takes up the western third of the island; the two countries are divided by a 390-kilometre land border.

Q 02/05

What is the capital and largest city of Haiti?

A) Saint-Marc

B) Port-au-Prince

C) Port-de-Paix

D) Cap-Haïtien

Answer · why

B) Port-au-Prince

In Haitian Creole the city is written Pòtoprens, and it sits on the Gulf of Gonâve on the country's west coast.

Q 03/05

The name Haiti comes from the Taíno language and means what?

A) Island of the sun

B) Pearl of the Antilles

C) Place of many rivers

D) Land of high mountains

Answer · why

D) Land of high mountains

The Taíno used the name for the whole island, and Haiti's revolutionaries revived it in 1804 in place of the colonial name.

Q 04/05

What are the two official languages of Haiti?

A) French and Spanish

B) French and Haitian Creole

C) English and Haitian Creole

D) Spanish and Haitian Creole

Answer · why

B) French and Haitian Creole

Almost every Haitian speaks Creole, while only a minority are fluent in French, which long dominated schools and government.

Q 05/05

In which year did Haiti become the only country established by a successful slave revolt?

A) 1804

B) 1810

C) 1821

D) 1844

Answer · why

A) 1804

It was also the first country in the Americas to abolish slavery outright and the second republic in the hemisphere after the United States.