Chapter 14 Practice Quiz

Language Politics
. The term "allophone" refers to ________.

. Since 1901, the percentage of the Quebec population who speaks French at home has remained steady at about ________.

. Quebec's share of Canada's total population has fallen over the last two decades, from ________ 1971 to about ________ in 2013.

. Roger Bernard of the University of Ottawa concluded that ________ have led to the collapse of francophone communities outside Quebec.

. Almost ________ of all bilingual Canadians reside in Quebec.

. The following was not one of the institutions that traditional French Canadian nationalism viewed as key to the survival of the French language and the Catholic religion: ________.

. The Quiet Revolution included all of the following reforms, except ________.

. All of the following initiatives are consistent with what Raymond Berton refers to as the "Canadian symbolic order," except ________.

. Among the main actions taken to increase the bilingual character of the federal bureaucracy has been ________.

. Since the 1960s, the approach to language policy pursued by successive federal governments has been based on ________.

. Social characteristics of the Quebec population that distinguish it from those of the other provinces include ________.

. The Calgary Declaration of 1997 was explicit in declaring that what is distinct about Quebec society is primarily its ________.

. A 2010 survey conducted for the pro-federalism think-tank The Federal Idea reported that ________ of Quebecers believed that the sovereignty debate was over.

. Roughly ________ of all Canadian francophones reside in Quebec.

. The 1991 Report of the Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Quebec argues that the Constitution Act of 1982 is based on certain principles fundamentally opposed to the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society, including ________.

. Following the 1995 Quebec referendum, the federal government ________.

. In 2006, the House of Commons passed a resolution affirming that ________.

. How many referendums have been held on Quebec independence?

. What does Statistics Canada say will likely happen to Francophone populations in predominantly English-speaking provinces between now and 2036?

. What Quebec politician called Francophones outside of Quebec "dead ducks"?

. What document established the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages as a watchdog?

. Most of Quebec's population increase is due to immigration, so the linguistic choices made by newcomers are crucial to the language balance in the province.

. Since the 1960s, the sole reason for the rise in Quebec's population has been an increasing birth rate among francophones.

. As of the 1961 census, 46 per cent of foreign-born residents of Quebec spoke only French.

. The rate of French language retention is high in all Canadian provinces.

. The rate of language transfer to the dominant language group is greatest among younger generations.

. The 2001 census showed that the francophone population in every province except Quebec and New Brunswick was younger than in Canada as a whole.

. Receptive bilinguals are people who are capable of responding to French communications but do not themselves initiate conversations in French, consume French-language media, or seek out opportunities to live in their acquired second language.

. Francophones have always controlled the economic decision-making and wealth of Quebec.

. During the Quiet Revolution, the provincial state was seen as the moteur principal of Quebec's attempt to modernize social and political institutions that were ill-suited to the urbanized, industrialized society that Quebec had become.

. Marcel Rioux has characterized the traditional nationalism as an ideology of conflict.

. In 1998, the Supreme Court ruled that Quebec's ban of English-language public signs and advertisements did not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

. Bilingualism is most likely to be required for public service positions in the National Capital Region (Ottawa–Gatineau), Quebec, and outside Canada.

. Surveys carried out by the Commissioner of Official Languages between 2005 and 2011 found that francophone public servants were regularly required by their workplace circumstances to communicate in English.

. Until 1985, religious rights cases were the only ones supported by Ottawa under its Court Challenges Program.

. The demand for constitutional recognition of Quebec as a distinct society has been a non-negotiable item on the agenda of Quebec's political elite since the late 1980s.

. The vast majority of immigrants to Canada have selected English as their adopted language.

. Quebec's share of the total Canadian population has grown over recent decades.

. Bilingual graduate are more sought after and, on average, earn more than unilingual grads.

. The Meech Lake Accord sought to recognize Quebec as a "distinct society" within Canada.

. Maîtres Chez Nous ("masters in our own home") was the campaign of the Quebec Liberals amidst the Quiet Revolution.

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