WorksheetsPre-Reading: How to be a Canadian (ELA A30 intro)
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Based on this sentence, what is the meaning of the underlined word?
"These commercials...reiterate an important central fact about Canadians."
repeat for emphasis
introduce
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"This sophisticated sense of self-identity...is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg."
commonly mentioned
freezing cold
biblical
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"Canada, you see, is a seething hotbed of anti-Americanism. Anti-Americanism is at a fever pitch, ever rampant and always present."
growing furiously
quiet and unnoticed
resembling a ramp
The essay mentions Newton's Laws of Motion, Granada, Beruit, the US Marines, Moose Jaw, and the expression Carpe Diem among others. When an author makes a reference to a well known historical, biblical, geographical , literary, etc., person or place, it is called
Allusion
Metaphor
Paradox
Irony
Based on this sentence, what is the meaning of the underlined word?
The author claims that people of various cultures can proudly claim their homeland and culture but states, "If you are an American, you must completely disavow your homeland. "
deny or disown
swear allegiance to
make a vow to
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"You see, in the hypersensitivity of today's all-inclusive Canada, American culture is just about the only thing left that Canadians are allowed to mock."
overly sensitive
crude or brutish
multi-cultural
Based on this sentence, what is the meaning of the underlined phrase?
"In fact, you must learn to avert your gaze every time you pass a magazine stand or turn on a television set, if only to avoid the corrosive influence of American culture - a culture that Canadians have fervently rejected. In anecdote, at least."
look away
focus your vision
be assertive
Based on the following sentence, what is the definition of the underlined word?
"In fact, you must learn to avert your gaze every time you pass a magazine stand or turn on a television set, if only to avoid the corrosive influence of American culture - a culture that Canadians have fervently rejected. In anecdote, at least."
harsh and destructive
enlightening and positive
influencial
Based on the following sentence, what is the definition of the underlined word?
"In fact, you must learn to avert your gaze every time you pass a magazine stand or turn on a television set, if only to avoid the corrosive influence of American culture - a culture that Canadians have fervently rejected. In anecdote, at least."
intensely
happily
grumpily
Based on the following sentence, what is the definition of the underlined word?
"It's simply another shocking example of the appalling ignorance that the Americans have when it comes to Canada."
causing dismay or horror
appealing
understandable
intensifying
The author writes: "Why, we're as mad as a porcupine that's been put in a sack and poked with a stick."
This literary device is...
a simile
a pun
a metaphor
an allusion
Based on the following sentence, what is the definition of the underlined word?
"The next time a proud Canadian complains about how little Americans know about Canada, ask the aforementioned Canadian a simple question: 'What is the capital of New Burnswick?' "
ignorant
previously mentioned
well-educated
unknown
"Not like us Canadians, eh?"
"Yessiree, Bob!"
The above phrases from the essay are examples of...
idioms (language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people)
allusions to the famous Canadian named Bob
Based on the following passage from the text, what is the meaning of the underlined word?
So there you have it, the two central axioms of Canadian identity, the mantra and the motto of an entire nation:
(a) I. Am. Canadian.
(b) I am not American.
a universally accepted, self-evident truth that doesn't require proof
falsehoods one tells to one self
intersections of beliefs
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"Just as Canadians are obsessed with Americans looking down on them...Quebecois nationalists look down on the rest of Canada, with the same blend of threatened insecurity and glib arrogance."
thoughtless, superficial
obvious
generous
Based on the following passage from the text, what is the definition of the underlined word?
"When you define yourself in terms of negation, you don't actually say anything about who you really are. 'I'm not a lumberjack, I don't live in an igloo, I don't eat whale blubber..." These don't say what or who you actually are.
the act of denying
having a negative attitude
nationalism
