Citizenship Test: History: the Dominion and the World Wars

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1. What was the economic crisis of the 1930s called?

   1. The Great Upheaval
   2. The Quiet Revolution
   3. The Great Depression
   4. The Roaring Twenties

2. Which general does Discover Canada call Canada’s greatest soldier?

   1. General Sir Arthur Currie
   2. Captain Billy Bishop
   3. Brigadier James Wolfe
   4. Major-General Sir Isaac Brock

3. Who drove the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway?

   1. Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona
   2. Sir Sandford Fleming
   3. Sir Sam Steele
   4. Sir John A. Macdonald

4. Which beach did Canadian troops capture on D-Day, June 6, 1944?

   1. Omaha Beach
   2. Dieppe
   3. Hong Kong
   4. Juno Beach

5. Who led the Métis uprising at Red River and seized Fort Garry?

   1. Gabriel Dumont
   2. Joseph Brant
   3. Louis Riel
   4. Sam Steele

6. Who was the Métis' greatest military leader?

   1. Gabriel Dumont
   2. Sir Sam Steele
   3. Louis Riel
   4. Chief Poundmaker

7. Where was Sir John A. Macdonald born?

   1. Kingston, Upper Canada
   2. Ireland
   3. Montreal
   4. Scotland

8. Which day has Parliament recognized as Sir John A. Macdonald Day?

   1. May 24
   2. January 11
   3. November 20
   4. July 1

9. Which was the last province to join Canada, in 1949?

   1. British Columbia
   2. Newfoundland and Labrador
   3. Prince Edward Island
   4. Alberta

10. Which province was created in 1870 after the first Métis uprising?

    1. Manitoba
    2. Alberta
    3. Saskatchewan
    4. British Columbia

11. After the CPR was built, what was the Head Tax?

    1. A tax on railway tickets bought by settlers heading West
    2. A race-based entry fee charged to Chinese immigrants
    3. A tax on land owned by the Métis
    4. A fee paid to become a Mountie

12. Approximately how many Canadian deaths in the First World War does Discover Canada report?

    1. 10,000
    2. 60,000
    3. 44,000
    4. 110,000

13. Which territory was created in 1999?

    1. Nunavut
    2. Yukon
    3. Labrador
    4. Northwest Territories

14. Which two provinces joined Canada in 1905?

    1. Manitoba and British Columbia
    2. Alberta and Saskatchewan
    3. Alberta and Manitoba
    4. Saskatchewan and Yukon

15. In April 1917, which battle secured the Canadians' reputation as the shock troops of the British Empire?

    1. Dieppe
    2. Vimy Ridge
    3. Paardeberg
    4. Juno Beach

16. Why did British Columbia join Canada in 1871?

    1. Gold was found in Ontario
    2. Ottawa promised to build a railway to the West Coast
    3. The Hudson's Bay Company asked it to
    4. It wanted to leave the United States after the gold rush

17. What did the Royal Canadian Navy do in the Battle of the Atlantic?

    1. Defended Hong Kong
    2. Captured Juno Beach
    3. Bombed Japanese warships in the Pacific Ocean
    4. Protected convoys from German submarines

18. What do Canadians wear on Remembrance Day to honour those who served and died?

    1. A red poppy
    2. A fleur-de-lys
    3. A white ribbon
    4. A maple leaf pin

19. How many Canadians served in the First World War?

    1. More than 600,000
    2. More than 2 million
    3. About 60,000
    4. About 7,000

20. In what year did Quebec grant women the right to vote?

    1. 1916
    2. 1960
    3. 1940
    4. 1918

21. Who founded the women's suffrage movement in Canada?

    1. Agnes Macphail
    2. Thérèse Casgrain
    3. Dr. Emily Stowe
    4. Laura Secord

22. How many Allied air crew were trained in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?

    1. Over 130,000
    2. About 13,000
    3. Over 1 million
    4. About 44,000

23. Which city became the headquarters of the North West Mounted Police?

    1. Regina
    2. Ottawa
    3. Calgary
    4. Winnipeg

24. In what year was the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway driven?

    1. 1871
    2. 1905
    3. 1867
    4. 1885

25. About how many Ukrainians settled in the West before 1914?

    1. 1,000,000
    2. 17,000
    3. 115,000
    4. 170,000

26. What wartime wrong did the Government of Canada apologize for in 1988?

    1. The residential schools
    2. The Chinese Head Tax
    3. The internment of Ukrainians in the First World War
    4. The forced relocation of Japanese Canadians

27. What happened to Louis Riel after the second rebellion of 1885?

    1. He was exiled to Britain for life
    2. He was tried and executed for high treason
    3. He became Premier of Manitoba
    4. He was pardoned and took his seat in Parliament

28. In what year did Prince Edward Island join Confederation?

    1. 1905
    2. 1871
    3. 1873
    4. 1867

29. At the time of Confederation, who could vote?

    1. Adult male British subjects who met property qualifications
    2. Anyone who paid taxes
    3. All citizens over 18
    4. All men over 21, whether or not they owned land

30. Why did Prime Minister Macdonald establish the North West Mounted Police in 1873?

    1. To collect the Chinese Head Tax
    2. To protect the fur trade along the St. Lawrence in Quebec
    3. To guard the border with Alaska
    4. To pacify the West and help negotiate with the Indians

31. In spring 1945, Canadian forces played a major role in liberating which country?

    1. Poland
    2. The Netherlands
    3. Norway
    4. Belgium

32. What is the national police force of Canada today?

    1. The Ontario Provincial Police
    2. The Sûreté du Québec
    3. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    4. The Canadian Rangers

33. In 1918, most female citizens of what age gained the right to vote in federal elections?

    1. 18 and over
    2. 21 and over
    3. 25 and over
    4. 30 and over

34. Who became the first woman Member of Parliament, in 1921?

    1. Thérèse Casgrain
    2. Emily Stowe
    3. Mary Ann Shadd Cary
    4. Agnes Macphail

35. When was Yukon Territory created?

    1. 1880
    2. 1999
    3. 1898
    4. 1870

36. Who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields"?

    1. Robert W. Service
    2. Sir Arthur Currie
    3. Stephen Leacock
    4. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae

37. Why was the Bank of Canada created in 1934?

    1. To print stamps for the post office
    2. To lend money only to farmers in the drought-hit West
    3. To collect income tax
    4. To manage the money supply and stabilize finance

38. Which province was the first to give women the right to vote, in 1916?

    1. Manitoba
    2. Quebec
    3. Nova Scotia
    4. Ontario

39. Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?

    1. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
    2. Sir George-Étienne Cartier
    3. Sir John A. Macdonald
    4. Sir Robert Borden

40. Whose portrait is on the vertical $10 banknote issued in 2018?

    1. Sir Frederick Banting
    2. Sir Isaac Brock
    3. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
    4. Viola Desmond

41. Which battle on August 8, 1918, did the Germans call "the black day of the German Army"?

    1. The Battle of Mons
    2. The Battle of Vimy Ridge
    3. The Battle of Hill 70
    4. The Battle of Amiens

42. Who was the first French-Canadian Prime Minister since Confederation?

    1. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
    2. Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
    3. Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
    4. Sir George-Étienne Cartier

43. At the end of the Second World War, how did Canada's navy rank in size?

    1. Largest in the world
    2. Smallest among the Allies
    3. Tenth-largest in the world
    4. Third-largest in the world

44. Who was the key architect of Confederation from Quebec?

    1. Louis Riel
    2. Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
    3. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
    4. Sir George-Étienne Cartier

45. From 1914 to 1920, whom did Ottawa intern as "enemy aliens"?

    1. Former Austro-Hungarian subjects, mainly Ukrainians
    2. Italian immigrants in Montreal
    3. Japanese Canadians living along the British Columbia coast
    4. German-speaking Mennonites