移民部加国常识－问答（１）：How Canadian are You, eh? – Solution

Question 1:

When did the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Government of Canada, officially apologize in the House of Commons for the Chinese Head Tax that was imposed on Chinese newcomers in 1885?

  1. July 1, 2006
  2. June 1, 2006
  3. June 22, 2006 (CORRECT)
  4. September 22, 2006

Question 2:

Canada currently claims ownership of the North Pole.

  1. True
  2. False (CORRECT)

Question 3:

Canada’s most densely populated province is:

  1. Ontario
  2. Quebec
  3. Saskatchewan
  4. Prince Edward Island (CORRECT)

Question 4:

In what year did the Iroquois and the French finally make peace?

  1. 1701 (CORRECT)
  2. 1943
  3. 1804
  4. 1900

Question 5:

Whom does the governor general of Canada represent at the federal level?

  1. The prime minister
  2. The Queen of Canada (CORRECT)
  3. The chief of staff
  4. The deputy minister

Question 6:

Which famous Canadian composed the Canadian national anthem?

  1. Céline Dion
  2. Calixa Lavallée (CORRECT)
  3. Bryan Adams
  4. Gordon Lightfoot

Question 7:

Where are the highest tides in the world?

  1. Hudson’s Bay, between Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Nunavut
  2. The Bay of Fundy, between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (CORRECT)
  3. James Bay, between Ontario and Quebec
  4. Cowichan Bay, British Columbia

Question 8:

What is the only officially bilingual province in Canada?

  1. Alberta
  2. Ontario
  3. Quebec
  4. New Brunswick (CORRECT)

Question 9:

How many oceans does Canada border?

  1. Two (Atlantic and Arctic)
  2. Three (Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic) (CORRECT)
  3. Four (Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian)
  4. None

Question 10:

What is the approximate population of Canada?

  1. 25,000,000
  2. 31,000,000
  3. 34,000,000 (CORRECT)
  4. 40,000,000

Question 11:

Each year on November 11, Canadians celebrate Remembrance Day by pinning which type of flower to their jackets?

  1. Daisies
  2. Roses
  3. Poppies (CORRECT)
  4. Carnations

Question 12:

Which of the following rivers is Canada’s longest river?

  1. Mackenzie River (CORRECT)
  2. St. Lawrence River
  3. Yukon River
  4. Fraser River

Question 13:

Why did Ottawa establish the Mounted Police in 1873?

  1. To perform equestrian shows
  2. To pacify the West and negotiate with the Indians (CORRECT)
  3. To arrest Louis Riel
  4. To drive the Métis out of Canada

Question 14:

How many time zones stretch across Canada’s vast landscape?

  1. 3
  2. 6 (CORRECT)
  3. 8
  4. 1

Question 15:

What famous sea creature in the Okanagan Lake of British Columbia was called N’ha-a-itk by local Aboriginal tribes and is considered “Canada’s Loch Ness Monster”?

  1. Caddy
  2. Manopogo
  3. Ogopogo (CORRECT)
  4. Champ

Question 16:

What is the capital city of Nova Scotia?

  1. St. Johns
  2. Charlottetown
  3. Halifax (CORRECT)
  4. Fredericton

Question 17:

What is the oldest English settlement in Canada?

  1. Québec, Quebec
  2. Halifax, Nova Scotia
  3. Ottawa, Ontario
  4. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (CORRECT)

Question 18:

Who was the first woman to serve as governor general of Canada?

  1. Jeanne Sauvé (CORRECT)
  2. Jean Augustine
  3. Adrienne Clarkson
  4. Michaëlle Jean

Question 19:

Who is Canada’s Head of State?

  1. Her Majesty the Queen of Canada (Elizabeth II) (CORRECT)
  2. The Prime Minister
  3. The Governor General
  4. None of the above

Question 20:

What level of government in Canada is in charge of education and health care?

  1. Federal
  2. Provincial and territorial (CORRECT)
  3. Municipal
  4. Local

Question 21:

In Canada, rights come with responsibilities. Which of the following is an actual responsibility for all Canadian citizens?

  1. The responsibility to help others in the community
  2. The responsibility to obey the law
  3. The responsibility to vote in elections
  4. All of the above (CORRECT)

Question 22:

Which biennial sports event that began in 1970 features such sports as snowshoeing and dog sledding, as well as athletes from northern communities like the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Alaska, Greenland and several northern Russian provinces?

  1. Northern Winter Olympics
  2. Arctic Cup
  3. Arctic Winter Games (CORRECT)
  4. Northern Games

Question 23:

The prime minister of Canada must recommend a governor general candidate to the Queen before a decision is made. True or false?

  1. True (CORRECT)
  2. False

Question 24:

What leaf is on the Canadian flag?

  1. mint leaf
  2. maple leaf (CORRECT)
  3. bay leaf
  4. grape leaf

Question 25:

Which of the following answers includes all four of the fundamental freedoms dating back to the Magna Carta, also known as the Great Charter?

  1. Freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of speech, freedom to wear what you want, freedom to read
  2. Freedom of speech, freedom to think, freedom of association, freedom to walk
  3. Freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom to drive, freedom to sing, freedom of association
  4. Freedom of conscience and religion; freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression; freedom of peaceful assembly; freedom of association (CORRECT)

Question 26:

The Queen has been present at a number of important sports occasions. In 1976, she opened the Olympic Games in ______.

  1. Ottawa
  2. Victoria
  3. Quebec City
  4. Montreal (CORRECT)

Question 27:

Which monarch proclaimed the National flag in 1965?

  1. King George IV
  2. King Edward VII
  3. Queen Elizabeth II (CORRECT)
  4. Queen Elizabeth I

Question 28:

What does the Latin name for Nova Scotia mean in English?

  1. New Scotland (CORRECT)
  2. New Scott
  3. New Land
  4. New Star

Question 29:

Newfoundland was the last province to join Confederation in 1949. What year did the province’s name officially change to include Labrador?

  1. 1999
  2. 1954
  3. 2004
  4. 2001 (CORRECT)

Question 30:

What is the name of the highest mountain in Canada?

  1. Blackcomb Mountain
  2. Rocky Mountains
  3. Mount Logan (CORRECT)
  4. Yoho Mountain

Question 31:

In 1957, the Queen officially opened the first session of the 23rd Parliament, becoming the first reigning Canadian monarch to read the ______ from the Throne.

  1. Speech (CORRECT)
  2. Letter
  3. Memorandum
  4. Document

Question 32:

Which document made Confederation official and legal?

  1. The British North America Act of 1867 (CORRECT)
  2. The Dominion Act
  3. The British Dominion Act
  4. The Confederation Act

Question 33:

What is the oldest national park in Canada?

  1. Glacier National Park
  2. Banff National Park (CORRECT)
  3. Fundy National Park
  4. Waterton Lakes National Park

Question 34:

Which country is Canada’s major trade partner for energy products?

  1. Great Britain
  2. Norway
  3. Algeria
  4. United States (CORRECT)

Question 35:

In Canada’s three northern territories, which phenomenon is sometimes referred to as “the midnight sun”?

  1. 24-hour darkness in the fall and winter
  2. 24-hour daylight in the summer (CORRECT)
  3. Lunar eclipse
  4. Solar eclipse

Question 36:

What was the name of the secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves, led by Harriet Tubman, in the United States to escape to Canada?

  1. The Underground Railroad (CORRECT)
  2. The Highway to Freedom
  3. The Great Canadian Escape Route
  4. The Freedom Tunnel

Question 37:

On June 6, 1944, in a bid to roll back the Nazi regime, 15,000 Canadian soldiers stormed which Normandy beach on a day otherwise known as D-Day?

  1. Jupiter Beach
  2. Miami Beach
  3. Côte d’Azur Beach
  4. Juno Beach (CORRECT)

Question 38:

How many provinces and territories are there in Canada?

  1. 13 (CORRECT)
  2. 10
  3. 8
  4. 15

Question 39:

Canada has a large population of the world’s biggest land-based carnivore (meat-eating animal). It is the:

  1. Grizzly bear
  2. Brown bear
  3. Black bear
  4. Polar bear (CORRECT)

Question 40:

Which of the following is a requirement in order to vote in a Canadian federal election?

  1. You are at least 18 years old on election day
  2. You are a Canadian citizen
  3. You can prove your identity and address
  4. All of the above (CORRECT)

Question 41:

What battle can be described as the Royal Canadian Navy’s “finest hour”?

  1. Battle of the Caribbean Sea
  2. Battle of the Atlantic (CORRECT)
  3. Battle of the Pacific
  4. Battle of the Arctic

Question 42:

What province did the “Marathon of Hope” creator and Canadian hero Terry Fox come from?

  1. Quebec
  2. New Brunswick
  3. Manitoba
  4. British Columbia (CORRECT)

Question 43:

The Queen’s first visit to Canada was in ______ when she was Princess Elizabeth and aged ______.

  1. 1951, 25 (CORRECT)
  2. 1946, 20
  3. 1945, 19
  4. 1930, 4

Question 44:

Which section of the Parliament buildings was destroyed by fire on February 3, 1916?

  1. West Block
  2. Centre Block (CORRECT)
  3. East Block
  4. All of the above

Question 45:

The Liberation of Western Europe from Nazi rule began in 1944 on:

  1. D-Day (CORRECT)
  2. VE-Day
  3. VJ-Day
  4. May Day

Question 46:

Which Canadian imagined the idea for the first telephone at his summer house in Canada?

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Alexander Graham Bell (CORRECT)
  3. Mathew Evans
  4. Henry Woodward

Question 47:

Which year is associated by many with Quebec’s “Quiet Revolution,” a period of social, political and cultural change.

  1. 1960 (CORRECT)
  2. 1970
  3. 1840
  4. 1980

Question 48:

Who wrote the popular novel Anne of Green Gables in 1908 which has since been translated into 15 languages and inspired two films and a musical performed in Charlottetown every year?

  1. Lucy Maud Montgomery (CORRECT)
  2. Margaret Atwood
  3. Alice Munro
  4. W.O. Mitchell

Question 49:

Who was the only Canadian ever to serve as Prime Minister of Great Britain?

  1. Tony Blair
  2. Margaret Thatcher
  3. Andrew Bonar Law (CORRECT)
  4. Sir Winston Churchill

Question 50:

On April 1, 1999 Nunavut became Canada’s newest territory.

  1. Ontario
  2. Nunavut (CORRECT)
  3. Northwest Territories
  4. Yukon

Question 51:

Jacques Cartier was the first European to explore which great Canadian river?

  1. Red River
  2. St. Lawrence River (CORRECT)
  3. Hillsborough River
  4. Grand River

Question 52:

What does the Official Languages Act of 1969 stipulate for all Canadians?

  1. That every citizen must be bilingual
  2. That English is the only official language of Canada
  3. That English and French would enjoy equality of status in all institutions of the Parliament and government of Canada(CORRECT)
  4. That all government documents must be bilingual

Question 53:

The Trans-Canada Highway is the longest national highway in the world.

  1. True (CORRECT)
  2. False

Question 54:

What is the most significant difference between Canadian football and American football?

  1. Canadian football allows three downs instead of four
  2. Canadian football uses a bigger ball
  3. Canadian football is played on a bigger field
  4. All of the above (CORRECT)

Question 55:

The name “Canada” comes from the Iroquois word “Kanata” which means what in English?

  1. Maple leaf
  2. Village (CORRECT)
  3. Coast
  4. Land of the free

Question 56:

Who, from June 25 to November 4, 1993, was Canada’s first woman prime minister?

  1. Michaelle Jean
  2. Jeanne Sauvé
  3. Agnes Campbell Macphail
  4. Kim Campbell (CORRECT)

Question 57:

Canada is the world’s second largest country by land mass.

  1. True (CORRECT)
  2. False

Question 58:

Which national project to connect Canadians across the country began in 1871 and was completed six years ahead of schedule in 1885, with the final section constructed in Craigellachie, British Columbia?

  1. Trans-Canada Highway
  2. Telephone lines
  3. Canadian Pacific Railway (CORRECT)
  4. Trans-Canada Trail

Question 59:

What is the name of the dried meat, made by Plains Indians and Métis peoples, that became a staple during the fur trade?

  1. Bison
  2. Pemmican (CORRECT)
  3. Jerky
  4. Bannock