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| The book, Majority Men in a Minority Setting, published by Richard Joy in 1962 showed that the group with the highest income in Quebec was made up of men who spoke … |
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| The June 24th Feast of Saint John the Baptist was |
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A) An annual celebration in Quebec marked by parades and picnics.
B) To honor the patron saint of Quebec.
C) Co-opted by the Parti Québécois and recast as the National Holiday celebrating Quebec culture and society.
D) All of the above |
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| L’Affaire Michaud demonstrated that… |
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A) The leadership, if not all the members of the Parti Québécois is committed to an independent Quebec in which immigrants and the English-speaking minority are welcome.
C) Old time nationalists with xenophobic and racist attitudes continue to play an important role in the Quebec politics.
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| Today, barring any serious efforts to undermine Bill 101, support for separatism in Quebec remains at ___: about the same as in 1980. |
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| The reason Elija Harper delayed ratification of the Meech Lake Accord was that… |
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| B) Aboriginal communities and their demand for self government were not addressed in the accord. |
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| After a ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court, a key provision of Bill 101 was changed to allow children to attend English schools in Quebec only if ... |
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B) Their parents had been educated in English in Canada
C). Their older sibling attended English school in Quebec
E). B and C only |
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| The Quiet Revolution was … |
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| C) The emergence in the 1960s of a secularized Quebec society in place of the traditional church-dominated, rural society. |
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| According to the segment “Mâitres chez nous” in Canada: A Peoples’ History, the first institution to be reformed during the “Quiet Revolution” was… |
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| Which of the following statements about the “Clarity Act” (Bill 20) is true? |
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| B) The wording of the question would have to be reviewed and approved by the federal government. |
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| Roch Carrier’s short story/cartoon “The Sweater” that was shown in class depicts a young boy (the author) who outgrew his favorite hockey sweater. The new sweater his mother received from Mr. Eaton was that of the… |
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| In the short film, “Tickets. s.v.p.,” |
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| C) M. Bruyère was embarrassed when the year before, a friend refused to speak English with conductor on the train. |
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| French Canadians (Québécois) have always viewed la survivance as the survival of their culture and language, while English Canadians view survival as… |
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A) Defending against potential lost or annexation of some far-flung territory to the United States.
B) Survival of the Canadian union against the hostile forces of geography, climate and American culture.
C) Reconciling internal diversity in order to preserve the whole.
D) All of the above |
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| In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Quebecers best defense for the survival of their language and culture was the revanche des berceaux, also known as the: |
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| C) The revenge of the cradles |
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If you follow the economic determinist model proposed by Benjamin Freedman, the underlying reason Quebec has been
transformed into a tolerant, democratic and open society was… |
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| C) Economic growth and the feeling of prosperity fueled by American direct foreign investment. |
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| With the rise of Quebec nationalism in the 1960s, _____ replaced _____ as the marker of Quebec identity. |
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| _______ wanted a multicultural and bilingual Canada and strong federal government in Ottawa; _______ wanted French to be the official language in Quebec and strong provincial governments in a confederation. |
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| Which of the following is true? |
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| C) The aboriginal peoples of Quebec would prefer to stay with Anglo Canada in case Quebec separates from Canada |
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| Which of the following contributed to a Quebec determination to enact tough new language laws in the 1960s and 1970s? |
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A) The tendency of most immigrants in Montreal to educate their children in English rather than in French.
B) The sharply lowered birthrate among francophones in Quebec.
C) The desire to reverse the generational-old class structure in Quebec, in which francophones occupied the lower positions.
D) All of the above. |
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| The “Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s marked great political and social change for Quebec, for example “opting-out”, defined as: |
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| A) The federal government provides funds to Quebec provincial government, allowing this province to design and execute policy in its own way. |
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| The _____ was the terrorist group that kidnapped British trade commissioner Richard Cross and killed Quebec’s minister of labor and immigration, Pierre LaPorte, precipitating the 1970 October Crisis. |
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| C) Front de Liberation du Québec (FLQ) |
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| According to Daniel Latouche, which of the following is a statement reflective of ethnocultural nationalism? |
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A) “Three-fifths of those who are… of what we are voted ‘yes.”
B) Le Québéc aux Québécois (“Quebec for Quebeckers”).
C) Mon NOM est Québécois (“My name is Québécois”).
D) All of the above |
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| In folk societies, ______ describes population that is emotionally bound together by their common experience and lives as farmers. |
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| According to Resnick, “nationalism lite” tends to be open to: |
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A) Other cultures and nations
B) A level of political and economic integration beyond the nation-state
C) A global/cosmopolitan dimension of identity
D) All of the above |
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| The event that caused a cascade of political crises in Canada was… |
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| B) Trudeau’s decision to patriate the constitution |
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| Which of the following statements concerning the Charlottetown Accords is true? |
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A) It would have recognized the right of aboriginal self-government subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
B) The appointed Senate would have replaced by a more powerful body elected using proportional representation to ensure fair
representation from Quebec and the Western provinces.
C) It was rejected by the majority of Canadians in a national referendum.
D) All of the above |
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| In the view of Frances Fukuyama, familism … |
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C) Is characteristic of cultures that support family and kinship as the principle locus of sociability resulting in low levels of social
capital |
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| In Resnick’s terms, ressentiment is… |
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A) A chronic feeling of affront, linked with vengeful desires that cannot be readily consummated.
C) The reason why the desire of minority nationalities to respond in a constructive way to the demands of the rival linguistic community is low.
E) A and C only |
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| Weekly church attendance among Catholics in Quebec dropped to 50% during the first decade of the Quiet Revolution and is currently at 15%. |
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| Which of the following statements about the “economie sociale” in Quebec is true? |
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A) Quebec has over seven thousand co-operatives and non-profit enterprises that operate within the market, rather than outside it and include financial services (caisses populaires),forestry, food services, grocery, retail, and electricity distribution
B) These institutions do not fit the classic model of the non-profit voluntary association used in North America to measure social capital.
C) These institutions reflect the basic moral precepts of the Catholic Church defined in De Rerum Novarum.
D) All of the above |
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| The consistent American position on Canada is that: |
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| C) There should be only one Canada |
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| Rodney Stark challenges Weber’s classic theory that capitalism flourished in the Protestant states of northern Europe because Protestantism is more compatible with it and argues instead that in countries like France, Italy and Spain that _____ inhibited capitalism. |
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| B) Political tyranny and absolutist states |
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| According to research on impact of diversity on economic development in Canada: |
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| C) Both and independent Quebec and a severed Canada would suffer from the loss of much of the present benefits of diversity because of het loss of contact with each other, and because of the loss of intensity of contact with each other. |
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| One of the oldest clichés about economic development in Quebec has been that its Catholicism, with its focus on afterlife rather than the mundane present, prevented it from embracing fully the capitalist ethic |
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| In the 1980 Referendum concerning sovereignty-association … |
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| B) Quebecers were given a vote on whether their provincial government would negotiate sovereignty with the federal government. |
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| According to Thompson, the long term results of Bill 101 demonstrated that radical reform was possible within the Confederation and as a result undermined the separatist movement for Quebec independence. |
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| The reason the Catholic Church lost control of the key social institutions in Quebec was that |
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A) A technocratic elite emerged in the civil service and expanded the role of the provincial government.
B) The Church had come to depend on the state for financing its social services and could not operate without state funds.
C) The French-speaking population became urbanized.
D) All of the above |
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| In their chapter on Quebec’s destiny, Belanger and Doran argue that for all its efforts as modernization Quebec remains a xenophobic and reclusive society. |
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| In 1994, when Bloc Québécois leader Lucian Bouchard visited France, the French government reminded him that France’s position, like that of the United States, on the issue of Quebec independence was that of: |
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| The “Meech Lake Accord” : |
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| C) Would have recognized Quebec as a “distinct society” and explicitly recognized the coexistence of French and English language groups as “a fundamental characteristic of Canada.” |
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