Question 1

How did the native people live when the first European arrived in Canada?

  • Off the land, by hunting and gathering
  • Off the land, by raising crops
  • By trading fur with other native in North America
  • Off the land, some by hunting and gathering, others by raising cropsCorrect

Question 2

Which natives were farmers and hunters?

  • The Cree and Dene of the Northwest
  • Huron-Wendat of the Great Lakes region and the IroquoisCorrect
  • The Sioux
  • The Inuit

Question 3

Which natives preserved fish by drying and smoking?

Question 4

When did European exploration begin in Canada?

Question 5

Who was the first European to see present-day Quebec City and Montreal?

  • Pierre de Monts
  • Samuel de Champlain
  • Jean Talon
  • Jacques CartierCorrect

Question 6

When did the name of "Canada" begin appearing on maps?

  • By the 1650s
  • By the 1550sCorrect
  • By the 1580s
  • By the 1750s

Question 7

Who established the first European settlement north of Florida in 1604?

  • Jean Talon
  • Jacques Cartier
  • John Cabot
  • Pierre de Monts and Samuel de ChamplainCorrect

Question 8

Who battled with the French settlements for a century?

  • A confederation of five (later six) First NationsCorrect
  • A confederation of four (later five) First Nations
  • A confederation of three (later four) First Nations
  • The English

Question 9

When did the French and the Iroquois make peace?

Question 10

Who granted the Hudson's Bay Company exclusive trading rights?

  • King George II
  • King Charles I of England
  • King James
  • King Charles II of EnglandCorrect

Question 11

Who were the "voyageurs" and "coureurs des bois"?

  • The skilled and courageous men who travelled by canoe and formed strong alliances with First NationsCorrect
  • The people who lived in the forest
  • The French settlers
  • The French who lived with the Natives

Question 12

When did English colonies appear along the Atlantic seaboard?

  • The early 1600sCorrect
  • The mid 1600s
  • The late 1600s
  • The early 1700s

Question 13

Who battled for control of North America in the 1700s?

  • France and the United States
  • Great Britain and the United States
  • France and Great BritainCorrect
  • France and Ireland

Question 14

When did France and Great Britain battle for control of North America?

  • In the 1600s
  • In the 1700sCorrect
  • In the 1800s
  • Never

Question 15

Who gained control over North America in the 1700s?

  • The EnglishCorrect
  • The Irish
  • The French
  • The Spanish

Question 16

What marked the end of France's empire in America in the 1700s?

  • English colonies became more populated than French colonies
  • The French defeated the English in warfare
  • The British invaded Quebec City
  • the British defeated the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec City Correct

Question 17

What did Great Britain rename the French colony of the 1700s?

  • Acadia
  • The "Province of Quebec"Correct
  • Quebec City
  • Ontario

Question 18

Who were known as "habitants" or "Canadiens"?

  • The French-speaking Catholic peopleCorrect
  • The Acadians
  • The British settlers who spoke French
  • The Métis

Question 19

Who passed the Quebec Act of 1774?

  • The Canadian Parliament
  • The British ParliamentCorrect
  • The Quebec Parliament
  • The French majority

Question 20

What is the significance of the Quebec Act of 1774?

  • It united the Province of Quebec with the rest of Canada
  • It provided peace, order and good government
  • It allowed religious freedom for Catholics and permitted them to hold public officeCorrect
  • It enacted the birth of Canada

Question 21

How were the laws impacted by the Quebec Act of 1774?

  • The Act restored French civil law while maintaining British criminal lawCorrect
  • The Act cancelled French civil law while maintaining British criminal law
  • The Act restored British civil law while maintaining French criminal law
  • The Act cancelled all British Laws in Quebec

Question 22

Who declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States?

  • All the French colonies
  • All British Colonies in Canada
  • The ten British colonies to the south of Quebec
  • The thirteen British colonies to the south of QuebecCorrect

Question 23

Who were the Loyalists?

  • French settlers
  • French and British settlers
  • British settlers
  • Settlers from the United States who were loyal to the CrownCorrect

Question 24

Who led thousands of Loyalist Mohawk Indians into Canada in 1776?

  • Robert Baldwin
  • Joseph BrantCorrect
  • Joseph Howe
  • Sir John A. Macdonald

Question 25

Where was the new British colony for freed slaves?

  • Sierra Leone (West Africa)Correct
  • Abidjan (West Africa)
  • Nairobi (East Africa)
  • Cape Town (South Africa)

Question 26

When was the first representative assembly in Canada elected?

Question 27

Where was the first representative assembly elected?

  • Nova ScotiaCorrect
  • Quebec
  • Ontario
  • British Columbia

Question 28

Which Act granted to the Canadas, for the first time, legislative assemblies elected by the people?

  • The Freedom Act
  • The Constitutional ActCorrect
  • The Legislative Act
  • The Confederation Act

Question 29

When was the Constitutional Act passed?

Question 30

Which current provinces came out from the Constitutional Act?

  • Ontario and New Brunswick
  • Prince Edward Island and Quebec
  • Ontario and QuebecCorrect
  • Ontario and Prince Edward Island

Question 31

When did the name "Canada" become official?

Question 32

What was known as "British North America" in 1791?

  • The Atlantic colonies and the two Canadas (upper and lower)Correct
  • Ontario and upper Canada
  • Ontario and lower Canada
  • The two Canadas (upper and lower)

Question 33

What were the Atlantic colonies and the two Canadas known collectively as in 1791?

  • Upper Canada
  • British North AmericaCorrect
  • Lower Canada
  • Ontario

Question 34

Who was Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe?

  • Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the City of TorontoCorrect
  • Lower Canada's first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the City of Toronto
  • Lower Canada's first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the City of Ottawa
  • The leader of the loyalists

Question 35

Who made Upper Canada the first province in the British Empire to abolish slavery?

  • Joseph Brant
  • Joseph Howe
  • Lieutenant Colonel John Graves SimcoeCorrect
  • Sir John A. Macdonald

Question 36

Which British Empire province was the first to abolish slavery?

  • Upper CanadaCorrect
  • Lower Canada
  • Quebec
  • Ontario

Question 37

Who was Mary Ann (Shadd) Carey?

  • The first woman fur trader
  • An anti-slavery activist and the first woman publisher in CanadaCorrect
  • The founder of the women's suffrage movement
  • The founder of the Canadian feminist movement

Question 38

When did the British Parliament abolish slavery throughout the Empire?

Question 39

When were the first companies in Canada formed?

  • During the French regime
  • During the British regime
  • After the Second World War
  • During the French and British regimesCorrect

Question 40

For what did the first companies in Canada compete?

Question 41

Who dominated the fur trade in the North West during the French and British regimes?

  • The Hudson's Bay CompanyCorrect
  • The North Star company
  • The Sears company
  • The Trading Post company

Question 42

When did the first financial institutions open in Canada?

  • Late 17th century
  • Early 18th century
  • Late 18th and early 19th centuriesCorrect
  • Mid 19th century

Question 43

For centuries, on what was Canada's economy based?

  • Farming
  • Farming and exporting natural resourcesCorrect
  • Exporting natural resources
  • Trading with the First Nations

Question 44

What did the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) represent?

  • The defeat of the British fleet
  • The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's fleetCorrect
  • The defeat of the American fleet
  • The defeat of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock's fleet

Question 45

When did the United States launch an invasion on Canada?

Question 46

Which countries fought in the War of 1812?

  • United Kingdom and United States of AmericaCorrect
  • France and Canada
  • United States of America, France and United Kingdom
  • France and United Kingdom

Question 47

Why was the war of 1812 important to Canada?

  • More than half of the Acadians were deported from their homeland
  • Canada remained independent from the United StatesCorrect
  • Quebec became part of Canada
  • Canada became British

Question 48

In which year did the American attempt to conquer Canada fail?

Question 49

Who defeated Napoleon in 1815?

  • Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe
  • Sir John A. Macdonald
  • The Duke of WellingtonCorrect
  • Major-General Sir Isaac Brock

Question 50

For what is Laura Secord known?

  • She was an anti-slavery activist and the first woman publisher in Canada
  • She made a dangerous thirty km journey on foot to warn of a planned American attack during the war of 1812Correct
  • She was the founder of the women's suffrage movement
  • She was the founder of the Canadian feminist movement
  • Test Result for : Chapter 3 - Canada's History

    Your score: 74% -- 23 correct answers out of 31

    Question 1

    Which British North American colony was the first to attain full responsible government?

    • Ontario
    • New Brunswick
    • Nova ScotiaCorrect
    • Upper Canada
  • Question 2

    Who became the first leader of a responsible government in the Canadas?

    • La FontaineCorrect
    • Robert Baldwin
    • Joseph Howe
    • Sir John A. Macdonald
  • Question 3

    Who was the key architect of Confederation from Quebec?

    • Sir George-Étienne CartierCorrect
    • Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
    • Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
    • Sir John Alexander Macdonald
  • Question 4

    When was the RCMP created?

  • Question 5

    Who became the first French-Canadian prime minister since Confederation?

    • Sir Wilfrid LaurierCorrect
    • Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
    • Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
    • Sir George-Étienne Cartier
  • Question 6

    Whose portrait is on the $5 bill?

    • Sir George-Étienne Cartier
    • Sir Wilfrid LaurierCorrect
    • Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
    • Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
  • Question 7

    When were most Canadian female citizens, aged 21 and over, granted the right to vote in federal elections?

  • Question 8

    When was the Bank of Canada created?

  • Question 9

    What led to the Great Depression in the 1930s?

    • The stock market crash of 1932
    • Low grain prices and a terrible drought in 1929
    • The stock market crash of 1929Correct
    • Low grain prices and a terrible drought in 1932
  • Question 10

    During the Second World War, what was the ratio of Canadians in the Allied forces on D-Day?

  • Question 11

    At the end of the Second World War, Canada's navy was:

    • The largest in the world
    • The second largest in the world
    • The third largest in the worldCorrect
    • Canada had no navy at that time
  • Question 12

    How did the native people live when the first European arrive in Canada?

    • Off the land, by hunting and gathering
    • Off the land, by raising crops
    • By trading fur with other native in North America
    • Off the land, some by hunting and gathering, others by raising cropsCorrect
  • Question 13

    Regarding the European - Aboriginal relationship, which of the following statements is false?

    • The arrival of European traders, missionaries, soldiers and colonists changed the native way of life forever
    • Large numbers of Aboriginals died of European diseases to which they lacked immunity
    • Aboriginals and Europeans formed strong economic, religious and military bonds in the first 200 years of coexistence which laid the foundations of Canada
    • European traders, missionaries, soldiers and colonists killed most of the native population in CanadaCorrect
  • Question 14

    Who was the first European to explore the St. Lawrence River?

    • Jacques CartierCorrect
    • Pierre de Monts
    • Samuel de Champlain
    • John Cabot
  • Question 15

    What is the significance of "l'Anse aux Meadows"?

    • It is a World Heritage site where can be found the remains of Jacques Cartier’s first three voyages across the Atlantic
    • It is a World Heritage site where can be found the remains of the first European town built by the early settlers
    • It is a World Heritage site where can be found the remains of the Vikings from Iceland who reached Labrador and the island of Newfoundland 1,000 years ago
      This is the right answer (See chapter-3 page-14 – click here)
    • It is a World Heritage site where can be found the remains of the Battle of TrafalgarIncorrect
  • Question 16

    What was driving the vast fur trade economy?

    • The demand for beaver pelts in EuropeCorrect
    • The demand for beaver pelts in Asia
    • The demand for beaver pelts in the Aboriginal communities
    • The needs for beaver pelts in the settlers’ communities
  • Question 17

    What are leaders like Jean Talon, Bishop Laval, and Count Frontenac famous for?

    • They built a British Empire in North America that reached from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico
    • They built a French Empire in North America that reached from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico
      This is the right answer (See chapter-3 page-15 – click here)
    • They defeated the British armies during the War between France and England
    • They defeated the French armies during the War between France and EnglandIncorrect
  • Question 18

    In Canada, how did democratic institutions develop?

    • Gradually and with a lot of fighting
    • Gradually and peacefullyCorrect
    • Rapidly and peacefully
    • Rapidly and with a lot of fighting
  • Question 19

    What did Upper Canada mainly consist of?

    • Loyalist, Protestant and English-speaking peopleCorrect
    • Loyalist, Catholic and English-speaking people
    • Catholic and French-speaking people
    • Protestant and French-speaking people
  • Question 20

    What did Lower Canada mainly consist of?

    • Loyalist, Protestant and English-speaking people
    • Loyalist, Catholic and English-speaking people
    • Catholic and French-speaking peopleCorrect
    • Protestant and French-speaking people
  • Question 21

    Who was Upper Canada’s first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the City of York (now Toronto)?

    • Joseph Brant
    • Joseph Howe
    • Sir John A. Macdonald
    • Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe Correct
  • Question 22

    What was the Underground Railroad?

    • A Christian anti-slavery networkCorrect
    • The name of the new railroad linking the East to the West of Canada
    • The name of a famous circle of Canadian artists in the late 1960s
    • The unofficial railroad network linking small communities across Canada
  • Question 23

    When did the Montreal Stock Exchange open?

  • Question 24

    Who refused to surrender Quebec to the English in 1690?

  • Question 25

    What was Pierre Le Moyne famous for?

    • He was a great hero of New France, winning many victories over the English in the late 17th and early 18th centuriesCorrect
    • He was a great hero of New England, winning many victories over the French in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
    • He defeated the Americans in the Battle of Trafalgar
    • He was Upper Canada’s first Lieutenant Governor
  • Question 26

    Who defended the rights of the Canadiens and defeated an American military invasion of Quebec in 1775?

  • Question 27

    Who defeated Napoleon in 1815, and therefore played a direct role in founding the national capital?

    • Bishop Laval
    • Sir Guy Carleton
    • Sir John A. Macdonald
    • The Duke of WellingtonCorrect
  • Question 28

    Who was a champion of French language rights?

  • Question 29

    How many Canadians have died in all wars up to the present day?

  • Question 30

    Who composed the poem “In Flanders Fields” that is often recited on Remembrance Day?

    • Sir Arthur Currie
    • Sir Sam Steele
    • Lt. Col. John McCraeCorrect
    • The Duke of Wellington
  • Question 31

    When did Canadian medical officer Lt. Col. John McCrae composed the poem “In Flanders Fields” that is often recited on Remembrance Day?

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