Practice Quiz: Chapter 12

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. Which former Canadian prime minister said, "The twentieth century will belong to Canada"?

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. What is the central feature of Canada's economic condition?

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. How have Canadians traditionally viewed themselves?

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. According to Mark Kingwell and John Ralston Saul in their separate definitions of Canadian identity, which idea is our greatest contribution to world history?

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. Most of the resources in which Canada has invested support an international network of knowledge about and goodwill towards which two regions?

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. Whose National Policy of 1879 was the first and only coherent economic development strategy that Canada has known before embracing free trade in the 1980s?

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. What two factors have driven globalization in recent decades?

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. In what way have anti-globalization protests been expressed?

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. Which term more accurately describes the new post-industrial model spawned by globalization?

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. Which is the only provincial economy that does more business with the rest of Canada than it does with economies outside of Canada?

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. What percentage of all foreign investment in Canada is from the United States?

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. 12 In 2015, which county was the US's largest export market?

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. According to Allan Gotlieb, Canada's former ambassador to the United States, how can Canada improve its trade relations by attracting more attention in Washington?

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. Which prime minister was a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?

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. Which has been the most prominent structure for the conduct of multilateralism in the post-World War II era?

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. Which of the following international organizations, to which Canada belongs, is primarily a military alliance?

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. For several decades, Canadian governments, excluding the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney, sought which main counter-weight to American dominance?

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. According to Michael Ignatieff, what is one of the great foreign policy challenges facing Canada?

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. Which of the following was NOT an issue that saw Canada opposing the United States in recent years?

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. Which term refers to the theory and practice of protecting domestic industries?

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. What was the campaign slogan that Donald Trump embraced when he laid out his foreign policy goals in April 2016?

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. America's "homeland security" policy adopted since 11 September 2001 as part of that country's "war on terror" has had a direct impact on Canada in which of the following ways?

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. According to Joseph Nye, which of the following are the other "soft power" countries?

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. Which of the following is NOT one of the national attributes that Michael Ignatieff argues is required for Canada to live up to its commitment to multilateralism?

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. Which of the following indicates that Canada has been moving away from multilateralism?

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. In surveys, Canadians are always among the populations expressing the greatest satisfaction with their lives.

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. Corruption is very great in Canada although Canadians believe to be a minor problem.

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. For Canada, the question of globalization is inseparable from that of its relationship with the United States.

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. Canadians tend to feel very good about themselves, their lives, and the state of the country.

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. National subsidies and protectionism are no longer practised due to World Trade Organization rules.

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. The Occupy movement involved anti-globalization protesters who occupied public spaces in cities around the world.

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. The vast majority of Canadian provinces do more business with economies outside of Canada than they do with the rest of Canada.

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. The Canada-US trade relationship is the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world.

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. Canada is the single largest source of energy imports to the United States.

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. Americans are as aware as Canadians if not more aware about Canada's economic importance to the United States.

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. Multilateralism is embraced just as enthusiastically by the United States as it is by Canada.

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. Canada spends more on defence, at about 1.2 per cent of GDP, than most of the countries in NATO.

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. The so-called "process" led to the adoption of the international treaty banning landmines.

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. Protectionism is a type of free trade theory and practice.

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. Although many Canadians greeted the election of Barack Obama in 2008 as American president with high expectations, the substance of the Canada-US relationship has since changed relatively little.

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