Modern Canada: Citizenship Test Practice Questions

1. Hockey
2. Track and field ✓ Correct answer
3. Swimming
4. Rowing

Why: Phil Edwards won bronze medals in track and field in 1928, 1932 and 1936, then became a doctor and expert in tropical diseases.

1. The North American Free Trade Agreement
2. The Treaty of Paris
3. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ✓ Correct answer
4. The Statute of Westminster

Why: Restrictive Depression-era trade policies were opened up by treaties like GATT, now the World Trade Organization (WTO).

1. Saskatchewan
2. Alberta ✓ Correct answer
3. Newfoundland and Labrador
4. British Columbia

Why: The discovery of oil in Alberta in 1947 began Canada's modern energy industry.

1. 1951 ✓ Correct answer
2. 1919
3. 1945
4. 1967

Why: In 1951, for the first time, a majority of Canadians could afford adequate food, shelter and clothing.

1. 1927
2. 1951
3. 1965
4. 1940 ✓ Correct answer

Why: Unemployment insurance (now Employment Insurance) was introduced by the federal government in 1940.

1. 1940
2. 1951
3. 1965
4. 1927 ✓ Correct answer

Why: Old Age Security was devised as early as 1927.

1. 1927
2. 1940
3. 1965 ✓ Correct answer
4. 1982

Why: The Canada and Quebec Pension Plans were established in 1965.

1. The Warsaw Pact
2. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) ✓ Correct answer
3. La Francophonie
4. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Why: Canada joined NATO, a military alliance of Western democracies, during the Cold War.

1. NATO
2. GATT
3. NAFTA
4. NORAD ✓ Correct answer

Why: Canada joined the U.S. in NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defence Command.

1. Iceland
2. Cyprus ✓ Correct answer
3. Portugal
4. Chile

Why: Canada has participated in peace operations in places such as Egypt, Cyprus, Haiti, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.

1. The Quiet Revolution ✓ Correct answer
2. The Great Upheaval
3. The Dirty Thirties
4. The Patriote Rebellion

Why: Quebec experienced rapid change in the 1960s known as the Quiet Revolution.

1. 1970 and 1982
2. 1960 and 1980
3. 1980 and 1995 ✓ Correct answer
4. 1995 and 2006

Why: The sovereignty movement was defeated in Quebec referendums in 1980 and again in 1995.

1. Bilingualism and Biculturalism ✓ Correct answer
2. Immigration and Refugees
3. Aboriginal Land Claims
4. Health Care

Why: The 1963 Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism led to the Official Languages Act of 1969.

1. NATO
2. NORAD
3. The United Nations
4. La Francophonie ✓ Correct answer

Why: In 1970 Canada helped found La Francophonie, an association of French-speaking countries.

1. Ontario
2. Alberta
3. Newfoundland and Labrador
4. Quebec ✓ Correct answer

Why: The Constitution was amended in 1982 without the agreement of Quebec.

1. Japanese Canadians ✓ Correct answer
2. Aboriginal peoples
3. Women in Quebec
4. Chinese Canadians

Why: In 1948 Japanese Canadians were given the vote.

1. 1918
2. 1948
3. 1960 ✓ Correct answer
4. 1982

Why: Aboriginal people were given the federal vote in 1960.

1. 16
2. 18 ✓ Correct answer
3. 19
4. 21

Why: Today every citizen aged 18 or over may vote.

1. 3,700
2. 50,000
3. 37,000 ✓ Correct answer
4. 110,000

Why: About 37,000 Hungarians fled Soviet tyranny in 1956 and found refuge in Canada.

1. About 5,000
2. About 50,000 ✓ Correct answer
3. About 37,000
4. About 500,000

Why: About 50,000 Vietnamese sought refuge in Canada after the Communist victory in 1975.

1. A war poet
2. A humorist ✓ Correct answer
3. A playwright and critic
4. An Inuit storyteller

Why: Stephen Leacock was one of Canada's best-known humorists.

1. A poet and author ✓ Correct answer
2. A sculptor
3. A filmmaker
4. A jazz pianist

Why: Pauline Johnson was a celebrated poet and author among Canada's men and women of letters.

1. Painter
2. Journalist ✓ Correct answer
3. Composer
4. Astronaut

Why: Robertson Davies was a novelist, playwright, critic and journalist.

1. Louis-Philippe Hébert
2. Michael Ondaatje ✓ Correct answer
3. Healey Willan
4. Norman Jewison

Why: Writers such as Joy Kogawa, Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry have diversified Canada's literary experience.

1. Painters
2. Novelists
3. Hockey players
4. Musicians ✓ Correct answer

Why: Musicians Sir Ernest MacMillan and Healey Willan won renown in Canada and abroad.

1. Portraits of Prime Ministers
2. Abstract city scenes
3. Rugged wilderness landscapes ✓ Correct answer
4. Battle scenes of the First World War

Why: The Group of Seven developed a style of painting to capture Canada's rugged wilderness landscapes.

1. Lawren Harris
2. Emily Carr ✓ Correct answer
3. Jean-Paul Riopelle
4. Kenojuak Ashevak

Why: Emily Carr is famous for painting the forests and Aboriginal artifacts of the West Coast.

1. Modern abstract art ✓ Correct answer
2. Landscape painting
3. Inuit soapstone carving
4. Historical sculpture

Why: Les Automatistes, notably Jean-Paul Riopelle, pioneered modern abstract art in the 1950s.

1. Wild animals
2. Totem poles
3. Abstract shapes
4. Historical figures ✓ Correct answer

Why: Quebec's Louis-Philippe Hébert was a celebrated sculptor of historical figures.

1. Kenojuak Ashevak ✓ Correct answer
2. Emily Carr
3. Pauline Johnson
4. Denys Arcand

Why: Kenojuak Ashevak pioneered modern Inuit art with etchings, prints and soapstone sculptures.

1. Sculptor
2. Composer
3. Astronaut
4. Filmmaker ✓ Correct answer

Why: The films of Denys Arcand have been popular in Quebec and across Canada and have won international awards.

1. Poets
2. Filmmakers ✓ Correct answer
3. Painters
4. Scientists

Why: Norman Jewison and Atom Egoyan are among Canada's noteworthy filmmakers.

1. Basketball ✓ Correct answer
2. Hockey
3. Lacrosse
4. Volleyball

Why: James Naismith, a Canadian, invented basketball in 1891.

1. Paul Henderson
2. Wayne Gretzky ✓ Correct answer
3. Donovan Bailey
4. Mark Tewksbury

Why: Wayne Gretzky is considered one of the greatest hockey players of all time.

1. Phil Edwards
2. Terry Fox
3. Donovan Bailey ✓ Correct answer
4. Rick Hansen

Why: Donovan Bailey became a world-record sprinter and double Olympic gold medallist in 1996.

1. Speed skating
2. Wheelchair racing ✓ Correct answer
3. Swimming
4. Sprinting

Why: Chantal Petitclerc became a world champion wheelchair racer and Paralympic gold medallist.

1. Cancer research ✓ Correct answer
2. Spinal cord research
3. Heart disease research
4. Children's hospitals

Why: Terry Fox, who lost a leg to cancer at age 18, ran the Marathon of Hope in 1980 to raise money for cancer research.

1. Cancer research
2. Diabetes research
3. Brain surgery research
4. Spinal cord research ✓ Correct answer

Why: Rick Hansen circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for spinal cord research.

1. People with disabilities
2. Refugees
3. Gay and lesbian Canadians ✓ Correct answer
4. Cancer patients

Why: Mark Tewksbury is an Olympic gold medallist and a prominent activist for gay and lesbian Canadians.

1. The miracle on ice
2. The golden goal
3. The goal heard around the world ✓ Correct answer
4. The shot of the century

Why: Paul Henderson's 1972 Summit Series winner is remembered as 'the goal heard around the world'.

1. Speed skating ✓ Correct answer
2. Figure skating
3. Hockey
4. Skiing

Why: Catriona Le May Doan won gold in speed skating at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and carried the flag.

1. Marshall McLuhan ✓ Correct answer
2. Harold Innis
3. Robertson Davies
4. Stephen Leacock

Why: Marshall McLuhan, a pioneer thinker, is known for 'the medium is the message'.

1. Communication theory ✓ Correct answer
2. Brain surgery
3. Molecular biology
4. Space exploration

Why: Harold Innis, like Marshall McLuhan, was a pioneer thinker in communication theory.

1. The BlackBerry
2. The snowmobile
3. The Canadarm ✓ Correct answer
4. The pacemaker

Why: The Canadian Space Agency and Canadian astronauts have taken part in space exploration, often using the Canadarm.

1. Gerhard Herzberg ✓ Correct answer
2. Michael Smith
3. Bertram Brockhouse
4. Sidney Altman

Why: Gerhard Herzberg, a refugee from Nazi Germany, won the Nobel Prize for his work on the structure of molecules.

1. At his summer house in Canada ✓ Correct answer
2. In a laboratory in Boston
3. At McGill University
4. On a ship crossing the Atlantic

Why: Alexander Graham Bell hit on the idea of the telephone at his summer house in Canada.

1. The electric streetcar
2. The hovercraft
3. The ski-lift
4. The snowmobile ✓ Correct answer

Why: Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile, a light winter vehicle.

1. The cardiac pacemaker
2. The electric light bulb
3. The radio
4. The worldwide system of standard time zones ✓ Correct answer

Why: Sir Sandford Fleming invented the worldwide system of standard time zones.

1. Thomas Edison ✓ Correct answer
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. Nikola Tesla
4. Reginald Fessenden

Why: Evans and Woodward invented the first electric light bulb and later sold the patent to Thomas Edison.

1. Telephone
2. Television
3. Telegraph
4. Radio ✓ Correct answer

Why: Reginald Fessenden contributed to the invention of radio and sent the first wireless voice message.

1. Dr. John A. Hopps
2. Dr. Wilder Penfield ✓ Correct answer
3. Sir Frederick Banting
4. Dr. Emily Stowe

Why: Dr. Wilder Penfield was a pioneering brain surgeon at McGill University in Montreal.

1. The artificial kidney
2. The X-ray machine
3. The hearing aid
4. The cardiac pacemaker ✓ Correct answer

Why: Dr. John A. Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker, used to save people with heart disorders.

1. Research In Motion and Bombardier
2. The Bank of Canada and McGill University
3. NORAD and NATO
4. SPAR Aerospace and the National Research Council ✓ Correct answer

Why: SPAR Aerospace and the National Research Council invented the Canadarm.

1. The Canadarm
2. The snowmobile
3. The pacemaker
4. The BlackBerry ✓ Correct answer

Why: Research In Motion, a wireless communications company, is known for the BlackBerry.

1. Penicillin
2. Insulin ✓ Correct answer
3. The pacemaker
4. The polio vaccine

Why: Banting and Best discovered insulin, a hormone used to treat diabetes that has saved millions of lives.