O Canada was first sung in:

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence about the national anthem. The guide writes: O Canada was proclaimed as the national anthem in 1980. It was first sung in Québec City in 1880. The city the test wants is therefore Québec City.

Two precise commitments. Discover Canada commits the first singing of O Canada to TWO specific facts: (1) the city is Québec City, and (2) the year is 1880. So both the place and date of the anthem's first performance are unambiguous. Québec City is the historic capital of New France and the modern provincial capital of Quebec.

The anthem began as a French-Canadian creation. Discover Canada writes that "French and English Canadians sing different words to the national anthem." So O Canada is bilingual at its core — French and English versions have different lyrics, not just translations of one another. The 1880 first performance was in French, in a French-speaking city, by a French-Canadian community. Québec City was therefore the historical birthplace of what would become Canada's national anthem.

Québec City carries deep historical significance. Discover Canada commits Québec City to a central role in Canadian history, going back to its founding as the capital of New France. The 1880 first performance of O Canada took place in this historic city — and exactly one century later, in 1980, the song was proclaimed Canada's national anthem. So the anthem's birth city is also a city that has shaped Canada's identity in many other ways. The proclamation a hundred years later in 1980 made O Canada the official national anthem of all Canada — both English- and French-speaking. The anthem's bilingual nature reflects Canada's broader bilingual heritage. The Royal Anthem, God Save the Queen (or King), plays a separate role for honouring the Sovereign. So when the test asks where O Canada was first sung, the source-precise answer is Québec City — the historic French-speaking provincial capital that gave Canada its eventual national anthem.

The question is testing whether new citizens know where O Canada was first sung. Discover Canada commits to one city: Québec City. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each substitute a different Canadian city. The first choice is the federal capital — but the source places the first singing in Québec City, not the federal capital. The second choice is Canada's largest city — but never named in the source as the anthem's birthplace. The fourth choice is Canada's largest French-speaking city — but the source names Québec City, not this fourth-option city. Only Québec City — the source's exact named birthplace — matches.