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Social Studies 20-1

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Ten questions of mixed difficulty, covering Canada, Internationalism, Nation and identity, Origins. Print it, or work through it on screen — the answer key starts on its own page.

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  1. The three distinct Indigenous peoples recognised in Canada's Constitution are

    1. a) First Nations, Métis and Inuit
    2. b) Treaty peoples, Status Indians and settlers
    3. c) Métis, Inuit and immigrants
    4. d) First Nations, Inuit and Francophones

  2. A common criticism of Canadian multiculturalism policy is that it

    1. a) can emphasise difference in a way that weakens a shared national identity
    2. b) applies only in Quebec
    3. c) has no legal basis
    4. d) requires immigrants to abandon their culture

  3. Canada's historic reputation for peacekeeping dates largely from

    1. a) Lester Pearson's proposal during the 1956 Suez Crisis
    2. b) Canada's role in the Second World War
    3. c) the founding of NATO in 1949
    4. d) the Korean War

  4. The strongest nationalist objection to a supranational body such as the EU is that

    1. a) it prevents states from having their own flags
    2. b) it has too few members
    3. c) it increases trade between members
    4. d) decisions affecting citizens are made by institutions they did not elect and cannot easily remove

  5. Holding both a strong provincial identity and a strong Canadian identity at once shows that

    1. a) the person is not truly a citizen
    2. b) one of the two identities must be false
    3. c) national identity is unimportant
    4. d) identities can be multiple and overlapping rather than exclusive

  6. The Reign of Terror is used in this course to illustrate that

    1. a) monarchy is preferable to republics
    2. b) nationalism in the name of the people can be used to justify violence against them
    3. c) revolutions always fail
    4. d) France never became a nation

  7. Treaties between the Crown and First Nations are best understood as

    1. a) informal understandings with no legal force
    2. b) nation-to-nation agreements whose terms remain legally binding today
    3. c) agreements between provinces
    4. d) one-time land sales that are now historical

  8. The Quiet Revolution of the 1960s in Quebec involved

    1. a) an armed uprising against the federal government
    2. b) Quebec's separation from Canada
    3. c) rapid secularization and a much larger role for the provincial state
    4. d) the end of the French language in Quebec

  9. A nation-state is one in which

    1. a) the nation has no territory
    2. b) the state has no nation
    3. c) the boundaries of the nation and the state closely coincide
    4. d) several nations share one government

  10. A nation is best described as

    1. a) a group of people who share a sense of common identity
    2. b) the government of a country
    3. c) any country that belongs to the United Nations
    4. d) a territory with defined borders and a government

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Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. a) First Nations, Métis and Inuit — Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 names all three and affirms their existing rights. They are distinct peoples with different histories, languages and legal relationships to the Crown.
  2. a) can emphasise difference in a way that weakens a shared national identity — Supporters answer that a shared civic identity does not require cultural uniformity. This is the Canadian form of the civic-versus-ethnic nationalism argument from Related Issue 1.
  3. a) Lester Pearson's proposal during the 1956 Suez Crisis — Pearson proposed a UN Emergency Force to separate the combatants, and it won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957. Peacekeeping was essentially invented in that crisis and became central to how Canada saw itself.
  4. d) decisions affecting citizens are made by institutions they did not elect and cannot easily remove — This is the democratic deficit argument, and it is about accountability rather than economics. The internationalist reply is that the problems being solved cross borders, so the institutions must too.
  5. d) identities can be multiple and overlapping rather than exclusive — People routinely hold local, regional, national and supranational loyalties together. Nationalism becomes a problem mainly when it demands that one loyalty override all the others.
  6. b) nationalism in the name of the people can be used to justify violence against them — The same revolution that produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man executed thousands as enemies of the nation. The pattern — defining the nation and then defining people out of it — recurs throughout Related Issue 2.
  7. b) nation-to-nation agreements whose terms remain legally binding today — Canadian courts have repeatedly affirmed them as living obligations, and the parties often understood their terms very differently at the time. That gap is at the centre of many modern land and rights cases.
  8. c) rapid secularization and a much larger role for the provincial state — The Church's role in education and health passed to the province, Hydro-Québec was nationalized, and a modern francophone middle class emerged. It transformed Quebec nationalism from defensive to assertive.
  9. c) the boundaries of the nation and the state closely coincide — Iceland and Japan come close. Most states are not nation-states — Canada contains many nations, and the Kurdish nation is divided across several states.
  10. a) a group of people who share a sense of common identity — A nation is about shared identity — language, culture, history, land, or simply the belief that you belong together. A state is the political and territorial unit. The two words are used interchangeably in everyday speech and mean quite different things in this course.