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Communities in Canada Quiz 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Community?

a)

A city or town located inside a country

b)

A TV show on Netflix

c)

A country where people share the same land

d)

A group of people who share common interests

2.

What is Immigration?

a)

When a person or family leaves their homeland

b)

When a person or family enters a new land to call that place home

c)

A swarm of birds that move south for the winter

d)

A form of irrigation farming that settlers to Canada used on the land

3.

Why did the first immigrants to Canada, The First Nations, come?

a)

They got lost and found a new land

b)

They were trying to find a water route to India

c)

They followed the food they were hunting over a land bridge

d)

They built the Bering Land Bridge to get from Russia to Alaska

4.

According to the reading, how many First Nation groups were in Canada?

a)

6

b)

13

c)

8

d)

4

5.

The First Nation group that lives in the Arctic call themselves…

a)

Inuit

b)

Eskimos

c)

Cree

d)

Alaskansas

6.

What led to the destruction of many First Nation communities?

a)

Trade & Technology

b)

Disease & Land Ownership

c)

None of the Above

d)

Both a & b

7.

Which explorer claimed Canada for France?

a)

Samuel de Champlain

b)

Jacques Cartier

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Marco Polo

8.

What was the French community in Canada first called?

a)

Quebec

b)

Terra Francophone

c)

New France

d)

La Canadiens

9.

What occupation did many men take up in early French Canada?

a)

Filles Du Roi

b)

Sailor

c)

Courier Des Bois

d)

Maple Tree Tapping

10.

What was the role of a “habitant” in French Canada?

a)

They owned the seigneurie and oversaw the labourers

b)

They worked on the merchant ships

c)

They were the fur traders who met with the First Nations

d)

They worked the land on a seigneurie