Test 40 — Life in the UK Test Practice
About Test 40 (Official 3rd Edition Handbook)
Test 40 is a free 24-question practice test for British citizenship naturalisation and Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR / settlement) applicants in the United Kingdom. Every question is written directly from the official Home Office handbook, Life in the UK: A Guide for New Residents (3rd Edition), covering British values, UK history, society, and government. To pass the official Life in the UK Test (booking fee £50 at gov.uk), candidates must answer at least 18 out of 24 multiple-choice questions correctly (75% pass mark) within 45 minutes.
Life in the UK Test 40

Where did slaves mainly come from during the slave trade?
Correct Answer: West Africa
During the transatlantic slave trade, slaves were mainly captured and transported from West Africa. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as enslaved people.
Britain played a central and profitable role in the slave trade until its abolition. British ships carried enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Caribbean and North America, where they were sold to work on plantations producing sugar, tobacco, and cotton. The campaign to abolish the slave trade was led by figures such as William Wilberforce, and the Slave Trade Act was passed in 1807, finally abolishing the trade in the British Empire. Slavery itself was abolished in 1833.