Test 36 — Life in the UK Test Practice
About Test 36 (Official 3rd Edition Handbook)
Test 36 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 36
If a husband forces his wife to have sex, he can be charged with rape.
Correct Answer: True
True. In the UK, a husband can be charged with rape if he forces his wife to have sex without her consent. Marriage does not provide ongoing legal consent to sexual activity.
This was confirmed by a landmark ruling by the House of Lords in 1991 (R v R), which overturned the historic common law assumption that a wife implicitly consented to sex with her husband upon marriage. Consent must be given freely on each occasion — and the absence of consent constitutes rape, regardless of the relationship between the parties.