1. QUIZ: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Note: Use your mouse to click on the correct answer for each question. Start Updated May 2015

2. Question 1 A refugee is A) Someone who chooses to leave their country for a better life B) Someone who is forced to leave their country from fear of persecution C) Anyone who is asking for asylum in another country

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4. Correct! B) Someone who is forced to leave their country from fear of persecution. This persecution may occur because of their race, religion, nationality, the social group they belong to or the political opinions they hold. Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis

5. Question 2 How many refugees are in the world? A) 7.8 million B) 26.2 million C) 16.7 million

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7. Correct! C) 16.7 million. However there is an additional 33.3 million internally displaced persons and 1.2 million asylum seekers. Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis

8. Question 3 Which country hosts the most refugees? A) Pakistan C) India B) France

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10. Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services Correct! A) Pakistan hosts the most with 1.6 million refugees compared to France with 232,487 refugees and India with 198,665 refugees.

11. Question 4 What percentage of refugees are under the age of 18? A) 23% B) 50% C) 39%

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13. Photo credit: Oliver White/ Caritas Australia Correct! B) 50%. Children below 18 years constituted 50 per cent of the refugee population in 2013, the highest figure in a decade.

14. Question 5 Approximately how many people applied for asylum or refugee status worldwide in 2013? A) 1.1 million B) 2.6 million C) 650,000

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16. Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis Correct! A) Close to 1.1 million individuals submitted applications for asylum or refugee status in 2013.

17. Question 6 Which developed country received the most claims for asylum in 2013? A) South Africa B) U.S.A. C) Germany

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19. Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis/ CLMC J. Khoury Correct! C) Germany received 109,600 asylum claims, followed by the United States of America with 84,400 claims and then South Africa with 70,000 claims.

20. QUESTION 7 Most asylum seekers arrive in Australia by boat. True or False? True False

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22. Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services Correct! FALSE: In 2013-14, 51.5% of asylum seekers arrived by plane.

23. Question 8 What is the average time a displaced person will live in a camp before being resettled? A) 6.5 years B) 17 yearsC) 3 years

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25. Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services Correct! B) 17 years. For the many children born in a refugee camp, this is all they have ever known.

26. Question 9 What percentage of the 1.1 million new global asylum seeker claims in 2013 were lodged in Australia? A) 1.7%A) 0.8% A) 2.8%

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28. Photo credit: Oliver White/ Caritas Australia Correct! A) 1.7%. In 2013-2014 only 18,718 claims were lodged in Australia compared to nearly 1.1 million claims worldwide.

29. Question 10 Of the 13,768 people Australia accepted under the Humanitarian program (2013-14), which country did the highest number of people come from? A) Myanmar B) Iraq C) Afghanistan

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31. Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services Correct! C) 2,754 people resettled in Australia through the humanitarian program were born in Afghanistan.

32. LEARN MORE! TAKE ACTION! Use our education resources to explore the issue of refugees and displacement further and take action! Syria Middle East Crisis Climate-related displacement Secondary Refugee lesson activities Refugee PowerPoint and prayer www.caritas.org.au/schools