5. What is the capital city of Quebec?
Select One:
Gatineau
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec City
6. What is known as the effort by women to achieve the right to vote?
Select One:
The suffrage motion of women
The election law
The women's suffrage movement.
The women's voting law
7. What does the Canadian justice system guarantee to everyone?
Select One:
Due Process
Justice
Fairness
Liberty
8. What do the initials MP stand for in Canadian politics?
Select One:
Member of Parliament.
Master of the Province
Member of the Patriots
Minister of Parliament.
9. What does the Iroquoian word "Kanata" mean?
Select One:
The Land
The People
The Village
The place
10. What does a Member of Parliament do?
Select One:
He or she liaises with the municipal government.
He or she represents the Queen.
He or she links Canadians to the federal government.
He or she works for the Governor General.
11. What do political parties do?
Select One:
Work with the local governments.
Follow commands from the Queen.
Plan for the celebration of Canada Day
Share ideas about how government should work
12. In what year did Canada become a country?
Select One:
1867
1876
1866
1800
13. When did thousands of miners first come to Yukon?
Select One:
Early 1700s.
Early 1800s.
1890s.
1790s.
14. What are the Prairie Provinces?
Select One:
Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia.
15. In 1813, Laura Secord, pioneer wife and mother of five children, made a dangerous 30-kilometre journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon of a planned American attack. Her bravery contributed to the British-Canadian victory at the Battle of:
Select One:
Beaver Dams
Secord House
Sweet River
Thamesford Harbour
16. What year was Confederation?
Select One:
1871
1870
1898
1867
17. From whom are the Acadians descended?
Select One:
French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime Provinces in 1604.
Métis and Inuit.
First Nations who began settling in what are now the Prairie Provinces in 1600s.
British colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime Provinces in 1604.
18. Name three requirements you must meet in order to vote in a federal election.
Select One:
Canadian citizen, at least 21 years old, and on the list of electors.
Working for the government, at least 21 years old, and Canadian citizen.
Canadian citizen, at least 16 years old, and on the list of voters.
Canadian citizen, at least 18 years old and on the voters' list.
19. What does equality under the law mean?
Select One:
To be protected against any discrimination.
To be discriminated against.
To be the same as anywhere in the world.
To be like anyone else in Canada.
20. The largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area is located between the province of Ontario and the United States of America and is called:
Select One:
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Great Slave Lake