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Canadian Democracy, A Concise Introduction - Chapter 12

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) A francophone who can speak English
b) An anglophone who can speak French
c) A person who can speak Spanish
d) A person who can speak Russian
e) A person whose first language is neither English nor French

Question 2:


a) The region of Quebec that runs along the St Lawrence
b) New Brunswick and Quebec
c) The narrow region running from Moncton, NB to Sault Ste. Marie, ON
d) The narrow region running from Ottawa/Gatineau to Montreal
e) The French-speaking region in Manitoba

Question 3:


a) Political and social changes that took place in Quebec during the 1960s
b) The violent overthrow of the Duplessis Union Nationale government in 1960
c) The non-violent coup of the Duplessis Union Nationale government in 1960
d) Political and social changes that took place in English Canada in the 1960s
e) None of the above

Question 4:


a) The transfer of control over immigration, agriculture, and social policy to the provincial government of Quebec
b) Transformation of the “Canadian symbolic order” and the passage of the Official Languages Act
c) Recognition of Quebec as a distinct society
d) The passage of the Official Languages Act and the transfer of control over immigration, agriculture, and social policy to the provincial government of Quebec
e) None of the above

Question 5:


a) That Quebec is a distinct society
b) That Canada consists of ten equal provinces
c) That Canada is comprised of two founding nations
d) That the Quebecois are a nation within the nation of Canada
e) That Quebec may secede from Canada

Question 6:


a) The unification of the French and English, and the settlement of the West
b) The displacement and marginalization of Aboriginal Canadians, and the settlement and development of what would become Canada by European immigrants
c) The creation of the provinces, and the creation of Aboriginal self-government
d) The integration of Aboriginal peoples into the Canadian state, and the immigration of peoples from the Southern Hemisphere
e) None of the above

Question 7:


a) They tend to be larger.
b) They tend to be smaller.
c) They tend to be about the same size.
d) They are exactly the same size.
e) None of the above

Question 8:


a) 1965
b) 1968
c) 1972
d) 1978
e) 1981

Question 9:


a) 15 per cent
b) 25 per cent
c) 30 per cent
d) 35 per cent
e) 40 per cent

Question 10:


a) Sections 1 and 28
b) Sections 15 and 28
c) Sections 15 and 25
d) Sections 1 and 28
e) Sections 15 and 31

Question 11:


a) Political rights, individual rights, and legal rights
b) Legal rights, working conditions, and social reform
c) Working conditions, social reform, and political rights
d) Political rights, legal rights, and social reform
e) Working conditions, politicsl rights, and legal rights

Question 12:


a) Economics, sexuality, and secularism
b) Leadership, alliances with women’s movements elsewhere, and economics
c) More radical tactics, sexuality, and the heightened receptiveness of men
d) Secularism, more talented leadership, and alliances with women’s movements elsewhere
e) None of the above

Question 13:


a) Resource deposits reserved for Aboriginal peoples
b) Separate segments of large cities designated as areas where only Aboriginal peoples can inhabit
c) Fixed homeland for Aboriginal peoples
d) Positions in the public service designated for Aboriginal peoples
e) None of the above

Question 14:


a) Assimilation
b) Integration
c) Differentiation
d) Segregation
e) Affiliation

Question 15:


a) Native sovereignty would constitute a third order of government, similar in stature to municipalities.
b) Native sovereignty must exist alongside and be in no way inferior to the sovereignty of the federal government and that of the provinces.
c) Native sovereignty would constitute a fourth order of government, with less power than municipal governments.
d) Native sovereignty would constitute a third order of government, similar in stature to that of the provinces.
e) None of the above

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False

Question 22:


a) True
b) False

Question 23:


a) True
b) False

Question 24:


a) True
b) False

Question 25:


a) True
b) False