Practice Quiz: Chapter 05

Practice Quiz: Chapter 05

. What does the term "allophone" refer to?

. What is the "bilingual belt" of Canada?

. What was the Quiet Revolution?

. What were the two major changes made by the federal government to change the character of the federal state so that francophones would not have grounds to view it as an "alien" level of government from which they were largely excluded?

. In 2006, the House of Commons passed a resolution affirming what?

. On which two pillars was Canada built?

. As compared to a generation ago, which trend about Canadian families is false?

. When was multiculturalism given its first minister?

. Women account for what percentage of the senior ranks of the federal public bureaucracy?

. Which two sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protect women's rights?

. The early women's movement focused on which three sets of issues?

. The second wave of feminism was more effective than the early women's movement because of which of the following three factors?

. What are Indian reserves?

. Which term refers to the remedy proposed by social activists and civil libertarians in the 1950s and 1960s for the exclusion of minority groups from the rights and opportunities enjoyed by the majority?

. What does the notion of self-government conceptualized in the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples state?

. Which of the following cases ruled that no defence of implied consent to sexual assault exists under Canadian law?

. What was the main emphasis of the third wave of feminism in Canada?

. Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada?

. Which of the following politicians is NOT a federalist?

. Who adopted the 1962 campaign slogan "Maitres chez nous"?

. The idea of "la survivance" refers to the call to arms made by French Canadian leaders against the British forces at the Plains of Abraham.

. The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism was a first step towards Ottawa's adoption of a policy of official bilingualism.

. Rene Levesque became the first leader of the Parti Quebecois in 1968.

. Human rights commissions at both the federal and provincial levels have played an important role in expanding the concept of minorities.

. The commission that investigated ethnic accommodation in Quebec is known as the Bouchard-Taylor Commission.

. Much like the early women's movement, over the past two decades women's organizations have not resorted to public and/or confrontational strategies in an attempt to achieve their objectives.

. The federal government has repeatedly rejected calls for gender-based analyses of new policies and legislation.

. Communitarianism is anchored on the idea that certain groups suffered inequality in their relation to the state, and that those groups had rights and were entitled to a status that was different from others.

. The proposals on Aboriginal reform made by the federal Liberal government in the White Paper, 1969, were intended to be integrationist.

. The philosophical premises and policy proposals of the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples could hardly have been more different than those of the 1960 White Paper.

. One of the original provisions of Bill 101 required businesses with more than 50 employees to receive a francization certificate as a condition of doing business in Quebec.

. In D.B.S v S.R.G (2006) the Supreme Court upheld legislation banning protests within a certain distance of abortion clinics.

. Close to two-thirds of all employed women continue to work in predominantly female occupations.

. More than half of status-Indians live on reserves.

. Non-Aboriginal Canadians are about three times more likely than Aboriginal Canadians to have graduated from university.

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