Danish Citizenship Test Values Questions: All 50 Real Ones Analysed

Questions 41–45 of Indfødsretsprøven are about Danish values, and you must get at least four of the five right whatever your total. SIRI names only three examples — freedom of expression, gender equality and the relationship between religion and law — and publishes no study material for this block. What it does publish is every past paper with its answer key. We read all ten papers since the values questions began in November 2021, fifty questions in all, and classified them. This guide is the result: the themes, the repeats, how candidates actually score, and the preparation that follows from it.

Our count of the ten official papers and keys; UIM Integrationsbarometer for June 2026.

The official description is short: five unprepared questions on Danish values, of which four must be answered correctly, with freedom of expression, gender equality and the relationship between religion and legislation named as examples (SIRI’s results news of January and August 2026 says “religion and politics” instead). SIRI says you prepare through “basic knowledge of Danish values” and names no specific study material. The block was introduced by the April 2021 citizenship agreement, which said it was important that an applicant “has adopted a number of Danish values”; the same agreement raised the number of unprepared questions from five to ten.

The values block repeats itself far more than people expect. Almost word-for-word repeats in the ten papers include separate swimming hours by sex (November 2021 and November 2022), ritually slaughtered meat in day care (June 2022, May 2024 and June 2026), women as bishops (June 2022, November 2023 and May 2025), the age of consent (May 2024 and May 2025), trust in the police (May 2024 and November 2025), legal gender change (November 2022 and June 2026) and “re-education trips” abroad (November 2021 and May 2024). Reading all ten papers’ questions 41–45 with their keys is therefore the single most efficient preparation for this block — it takes under an hour.

Two things stand out. Most values questions are answered correctly by well over three-quarters of candidates, so the block is not a trap for someone who reads the past papers. And the hard ones are not abstract: the weakest item in the samples was November 2023’s question on which authority can dissolve an association that uses violence (62% right — it is the courts), followed by May 2024’s age-of-consent question (63%). Both are facts about Danish law that have a single, learnable answer.

The ministry measured it. In May 2023 the values questions actually raised the pass rate by 2.1 percentage points net compared with the old rule, and in November 2023 they lowered it by 2.2 points, with the negative effect falling mainly on people who came to Denmark as adults. In the November 2023 sitting, 3.7% of all participants reached 36 correct and failed only because of the values rule; in May 2023 it was 0.4%. For most candidates the values block is a hurdle to clear with care, not the main risk — that remains the 35 learning-material questions (see our guide on the pass rule).

1. Read questions 41–45 of all ten papers with their keys. The repeats alone cover a large share of what comes up.
2. Learn the handful of hard legal facts: the age of consent, who can dissolve an association, what counts as a crime (forced marriage, bigamy, violence in the family, supporting violence from a pulpit), what schools and day-care institutions must and need not do.
3. Read every ranking and survey question in the past papers with its key — press freedom, corruption, democracy, LGBTI rights, trust in the police. These recur, and the answer options show which index and year the question means.
4. Read the learning material’s theme entries on discrimination, gender equality and family and chapter 2 on the rule of law. The values questions are not taken from the book, but the background there helps (our suggestion).
5. Do not answer by instinct about what sounds “pro-Denmark”. Answer by the law: many correct answers are “no”.