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:

Which of the following is NOT a general value within Aboriginal worldviews?
a) Non-interference
b) Defence
c) Humility
d) Permissiveness

Question 2:

What was one of the ways in which residential schooling affected Aboriginal communities?
a) It slowed down population growth in Aboriginal communities.
b) It turned the communities’ interest from traditional healing toward western medicine.
c) It led to increased population growth in Aboriginal communities.
d) It led to the decline of traditional parenting in Aboriginal communities.

Question 3:

Which of the following statements does NOT accurately describe the “Sixties Scoop”?
a) Of the Aboriginal children who were adopted between 1960 and 1990, 10 per cent were adopted into non-Aboriginal homes.
b) A substantial number of adoptees face cultural and identity challenges as the result of having been socialized and assimilated into a Euro-Canadian society.
c) Some adoptees had positive adoption experiences.
d) Adoptive/foster youth will inevitably repatriate to their birth families and cultures.

Question 4:

Which of the following is NOT true about intergenerational trauma?
a) It is trauma inflicted by older generations in Aboriginal communities on younger people.
b) It is often used to describe social problems in Aboriginal communities.
c) It often manifests itself as unhealthy family relationships.
d) It occurred as a result of the treatment of Aboriginal children in the residential schools.

Question 5:

Which of the following is NOT an effective healing principle as cited by Aboriginal Peoples who have participated in healing programs?
a) The helper’s personal experience is important.
b) Traditional ceremonies and teachings help families heal.
c) Create a fixed timetable for making changes.
d) Allow for flexible and diverse healing modalities.

Question 6:

Each direction of the Medicine Wheel holds a gift that guides us in the work that we do. These gifts are vision, relationships, insight, and which of the following?
a) Action
b) Cleansing
c) Respect
d) Self-importance

Question 7:

Which Aboriginal Peoples are denied access to programs and services available to all other Aboriginal Peoples?
a) First Nations
b) Inuit
c) Métis
d) Cree

Question 8:

Which social work theory is best described by the belief that reality is made up of multiple stories and is fluid and historically specific?
a) Conflict theory
b) Postmodern theory
c) Structural theory
d) Anti-oppression theory

Question 9:

Which of the following is an example of how Aboriginal Peoples have resisted colonization?
a) Going underground with their ceremonies during the nineteenth century
b) Publishing their versions of colonization and its impacts
c) Joining educational institutions as professors and researchers
d) All of the above

Question 10:

When did the Idle No More movement begin?
a) 1999
b) 2003
c) 2012
d) 2014

Question 11:

Despite the diversity among the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, there is a foundation of worldviews, values, and beliefs that are common to all.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

In the Aboriginal Peoples’ view of life, emphasis is on the individual rather than on the collective.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Aboriginal Peoples’ traditional tribal structures were clan oriented, patriarchal, and communal.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

The Aboriginal survivors of residential schools and the child welfare system continue to have poor overall health status, commonly referred to as intergenerational trauma.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

The Medicine Wheel can be used in healing and helping, but it has not been adopted by the social work profession.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Restorative justice methods include sentencing circles and family group conferences.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The Supreme Court recently decided that Inuit would now be recognized as “Indians” as referred to in the Constitution Act.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Some social work theories, such as anti-oppression, structural, and anti-colonial, do not fit with Aboriginal worldviews.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Allies to Aboriginal Peoples can end the use of master narratives of “manifest destiny,” reject constructions of “otherness,” and question what is presented as “universal truths.”
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Bill C-45 brings forward changes to the Indian Act that lessen community consent in the buying and selling of reserve lands by resource companies, further violates treaties, and aims to make changes to environmental legislation that will take away protection of the majority of our lakes.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Introduction to Social Work: Chapter 8