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Should Nationalism be the Foundation of Identity - Part 2

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is NOT a way to celebrate a community's national identity?

a)

Having parades

b)

Wearing the nation's colours

c)

Keeping national identity hidden from the public

d)

Making and eating cultural food

2.

Being firmly committed or faithful to something or someone. This definition describes:

a)

Loyalty

b)

Sovereignty

c)

Nationalism

d)

Patriotism

3.

In 2007, Jay Forbes started a petition to rename a stretch of highway between Canadian Forces Base Trenton and Toronto from highway 401 to the Highway of Heroes to honour soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

This situation is an example of:

a)

Loyalty

b)

Sovereignty

c)

Nationalism

d)

Patriotism

4.

Nationalist loyalties do not affect people's decisions or choices.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The only way you can show your true loyalty to Canada is by dying for your country at war.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What is NOT an example of contending loyalties?

a)

Choosing to fight for your country or stay home with your family.

b)

Choosing between the University of Alberta and MacEwan University.

c)

Choosing between going to school in California away from your home or in Alberta close to your home.

d)

Choosing between attending a friend's birthday lunch or going to your sister's hockey game.

7.

What is the point of the South Baffin Place Names Project?

a)

To create a map of Canada with all the places changed to Inuktitut names.

b)

To create new Inuktitut place names for Inuit.

c)

To reclaim/record traditional Inuktitut place names.

8.

What effect would reclaiming Inuit place names have on Inuit nationalism?

a)

Increase

b)

Stay the same

c)

Decrease

9.

Respect for cultural differences; people from many nations living together in one country; ethnic, linguistic and religious groups live together in harmony. This definition describes what?

a)

Conflict

b)

Reasonable accommodation

c)

Contending loyalties

d)

Cultural pluralism

10.

Canada was the first country to adopt multiculturalism as official government policy.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Reasonable accommodation means:

a)

Respect for cultural differences; people from many nations living together in one country; ethnic, linguistic and religious groups live together in harmony

b)

A legal and constitutional concept that requires Canadian public institutions to adapt to the religious and cultural practices of minorities as long as those practices don’t violate our rights and freedoms.

12.

Can you have 2 loyalties without having conflict?

a)

Yes

b)

No

13.

Israelis and Palestinians in Israel is an example of what?

a)

A group who arrived in another group's territory and split the land fairly for both groups, and living together in peace.

b)

A group who arrived in another group's territory and refusing to leave or give up the land, leading to violence.

c)

Two groups having history in an area who are unable to settle their differences, leading to violence.

d)

Two groups having history in an area who have settled their differences despite some difficulty and live together in peace.

14.

Why did Quebec have a referendum in 1995?

a)

To join Canada

b)

To separate from Canada

c)

To make French the main language

d)

To remove English from the province

15.

Did the referendum to separate Quebec from Canada pass or fail?

a)

Pass

b)

Fail

16.

Québecois who support Québec becoming an independent state are called:

a)

Federalists

b)

Sovereignists

c)

Nationalists

17.

Québecois who say that Québec identity cannot be separated from Canadian identity are called:

a)

Federalists

b)

Sovereignists

c)

Nationalists

18.

Coming to terms with the past or mending a broken relationship means:

a)

Sovereignty

b)

Federation

c)

Reconciliation

d)

Nationality