Seminar MCQ Flashcards
MC - Lucy and the Football
To abrogate means to:
a) Abolish by authoritative action
b) To stray from the original meaning of a term or concept
c) Teaching a person to accept a set of beliefs uncritically
d) To evade a responsibility or duty
a and d
MC - The Rise and Resistance of Indigenous Literature
How was Oral History traditionally passed down in Indigenous cultures?
a) Through written scrolls
b) By storytelling from elders to younger generations
c) Through European missionaries
d) By government records
b
MC - Lucy and the Football
What does obfuscate mean?
a) To objectify
b) To force something to become obsolete
c) To stray away from the original meaning of something
d) To steal
c
MC - Cultural Pillagers
The famous Pretendian who wrote Three Day road is:
a) Joseph Boyden
b) Carrie Bourassa
c) Michelle Latimer
d) Tamara Bell
a
MC - Racism Carefully Sown
What year was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created
a) 1948
b) 1952
c) 1963
d) 1945
a
MC - Land Back
What was the Oka Crisis?
a) Dispute over pipeline being built
b) Dispute over land that was going to become a golf course
c) Dispute over land that was going to become a park
d) Dispute over a reserve
b
MC - The Rise and Resistance of Indigenous Literature
How does Indigenous epistemology differ from Western epistemology?
a) It values lived experience, oral tradition, and relationships with the land
b) It completely rejects scientific knowledge
c) It only considers spiritual beliefs as valid knowledge
d) It relies solely on textbooks and written records
a
MC - $13.69
What was the final diagnosis
a) Anxiety
b) Joint disorder from breaking her arm
c) Diabetes
d) Chronic life-long PTSD complicated by major depressive disorder
d
MC - Land Back
What does “dichotomy” mean?
a) A division or contrast between two things that are being opposed or entirely different
b) The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated
c) Distance or dissociate oneself from something
d) A lack of correspondence or consistency
a
MC - Cultural Pillagers
True or False. Indigenous people who joined the military, have higher education, or pursue law professions were easily able to gain Indian Status.
False
MC - Cultural Pillagers
In what instance would an Indigenous person lose their status?
a) All Indigenous peoples who marry a non-Indigenous person.
b) Indigenous women who married a non-Indigenous man.
c) Indigenous man who married a non-Indigenous man.
b
MC - $13.69
How did The Sixites Scoop affect children?
a) More tight knit Indigenous communities, they fought together for change
b) Indigenous children were provided with better opportunities
c) Indigenous children lost their culture and identity
d) Indigenous families received more government support
c
MC - Residential Schools
True or False? Most of the residential schools emerged between 1880 to 1996.
True
False
True
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When did Splatsin first propose their law and when did provincial governments finally approve it?
a) 1980 and 2022
b) 1980 and 2020
c) 1980 and 2018
d) 1980 and 2023
b
MC - Cultural Pillagers
What does a pretendian do?
a) Promotes cultural appreciation
b) Takes away from the experiences of real Indigenous peoples
c) Helps preserve Indigenous culture and heritage
d) Takes away land rights from the Canadian government treaties
b
MC - The Rise and Resistance of Indigenous Literature
What part was censored from Maria Campbell’s 1973 memoir, Halfbreed?
a) The physical abuse she faced in residential school for speaking Cree
b) Her account of when an RCMP officer sexually assaulted her
c) The drug abuse common in many deep poverty Indigenous communities
d) Her experience in sex work
b
MC - Lucy and the Football
Why did Lucy represent the Canadian government?
a) she was Canadian
b) she had the football which represents treaty
c) she held power over charlie brown like the Canadian government
d) Lucy doesn’t represent Canadian government
c
MC - Residential Schools
What were the goals of the residential school program in Canada? Why did the government decide to target the children?
a) To assimilate Indigenous children into European-Canadian society by root out their culture, languages, and traditions
b) To provide a better education and future opportunities for Indigenous children
c) To give Indigenous children access to traditional knowledge
d) To target children because they believed young people were the best suited to maintain and pass down their own Indigenous ways of life.
a
MC - Racism Carefully Sown
What were the requirements needed to join the KKK Clan?
a) Everyone could join
b) Everyone except women
c) Had to be white, gentile and a protestant
d) Had to donate a certain amount of money each year
c
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What providence was Walter Davy Cowan a member of?
a) Ontario
b) Saskatchewan
c) British Columbia
d) Nova Scotia
b
MC - $13.69
What Splatsin?
a) A government in B.C.
b) A group of indigenous children in 60s Scoop
c) A First Nation in B.C
d) A First Nation in P.E.I.
c
MC - Lucy and the Football
What year was the two row wampum belt made?
a) 1613
b) 1780
c) 2021
d) 1560
a
MC - Residential Schools
Which of the following is the most appropriate strategy for assimilating indigenous children in boarding schools?
a) Students are allowed to learn their mother tongue at school, but must use English or French in class
b) Students are forced to adopt European names, forbidden to use their native language and deprived of their right to contact with their families
c) Students are encouraged to retain their traditional culture in order to better adapt to social diversity in the future
d) By providing skills training, indigenous students can find a job more easily after graduation
b*
*not actually given
MC - Residential Schools
- Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the long-term impact of the boarding school system on indigenous communities?
a) It improved the educational level of indigenous children and enabled them to better adapt to modern society
b) It enabled indigenous children to learn multiple languages and improve their intercultural communication skills
c) It caused language loss and cultural fragmentation, and brought about intergenerational psychological trauma
d) It had a negative impact on indigenous communities in the short term, but promoted economic development in the long term
c*
*not actually given
MC - Cultural Pillagers
True or False: The term “pretendians” is used to celebrate people who identify as Indigenous, regardless of actual heritage
False
MC - Cultural Pillagers
What was the main goal of the blood quantum system?
a) To limit indigenous citizenship and recognition in the law
b) To help indigenous determine what percentage of indigenous blood they have
c) To out pretendians
a
MC - Residential Schools
- What wasn’t the purpose of residential schools?
a) Convert Indigenous people into Euro-Canadian culture.
b) Educate Indigenous children.
c) To assimilate Indigenous people.
d) To colonize Indigenous communities and erase their culture.
d
MC - Residential Schools
Why did the settlers want to do the fur trade on the buffalos?
a) They want to kill the buffalos for meat
b) They want to kill the buffalos for their tongues
c) They want to kill the buffalos for selling them
b
MC - $13.69
What was the maximum compensation under the IAP an indigenous person could receive?
a)$200 000
b)$800 000
c)$250 000
d)$450 000
c
MC - Cultural Pillagers
What is the colonial imperative?
a) A collection of policies, laws and practices that uphold colonialism.
b) A forceful drive to maintain colonialistic ideology.
c) Taking control and exploiting another country or region.
d) A period of colonization in history.
b
MC - Land Back
The conflict of the Wet’suwet’en of B.C was a:
a) Forceful attempt to build pipelines on Indigenous land, violating their sovereignty
b) An attempt from Indigenous peoples to build pipelines on their land
c) A protest of non-native citizens against Indigenous peoples
d) Conflict between two Indigenous communities
a
MC - Racism Carefully Sown
In the 1920s the KKK membership in saskachewan was
a) 50,000
b) 10,000
c) 5,000
d) 25,000
d
MC - Land Back
What was the Mi’kmaq lobster fishery conflict?
a) A miscommunication between indigenous and non-indigenous fishers, resolved by the RCMP
b) A physical conflict between indigenous and non-indigenous fishers due to failure of government to address rights
c) Dispute between indigenous fishers and non-indigenous fishers’ over fishing nets
d) A long standing protest of indigenous fishers against strict and unfair RCMP regulations that violate their rights
b
MC - Lucy and the Football
What year was the White Paper Policy Proposed
a) 1964
b) 1996
c) 1969
d) 1947
c
MC - $13.69
Which statement is true about the sixties scoop?
a) Indigenous children removed only if living in poor conditions
b) Indigenous families could not care for their children properly
c) Indigenous kids were mostly placed with extended family or another Indigenous one
d) Sixties Scoop survivors were received a settlement of $800 million or $25,000 each
d
MC - Residential Schools
- How many students attended residential schools?
a) Less than 30,000
b) Less than 60,000
c) More than 100,000
d) More than 150,000
e) None of above
d
MC - The Rise and Resistance of Indigenous Literature
What does NOT describe the “trickster” in the context of Indigenous storytelling and literature?
a) A term coined by anthropologists to describe the role of a figure in storyteling
b) A supernatural figure that challenges societal norms
c) An always malevolent character that causes ruin to society
d) An empowering symbol for Indigenous authors
c
MC - Cultural Pillagers
Which of the following is an example of a non-status Indian?
a) A non-Indigenous woman who married an Indigenous man.
b) An Indigenous man who married a non-Indigenous woman.
c) A non-Indigenous man who married an Indigenous woman.
d) An Indigenous woman who married a non-Indigenous man.
d
MC - Land Back
What is ‘Crown Land,’ and its impact on reserves?
a) A large amount of land owned by the federal or provincial government
b) Land owned by the federal government only
c) Land owned by the provincial government only
d) A small percent of land owned by the federal or provincial government
a
MC - Lucy and the Football
1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples is now fully fulfilled.
a)True
b) False
False
MC - Cultural Pillagers
Who created the Indigenous Identity Act?
a) Joseph Boyden
b) Carrie Bourassa
c) Michelle Latimer
d) Tamara Bell
d
MC - Land Back
What was the Red Paper?
a) A document created in Alberta that argued for Indigenous rights
b) A document that removed all treaties between the government and Indigenous peoples
c) A document that removed Indigenous rights by ending legal distinction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens
d) A document that ended the Indian act
a
MC - Racism Carefully Sown
What does Tuberculosis mean?
a) A name of a residential school
b) An Infectious disease caused by bacteria that affects the lungs
c) A term used to describe mixed Indigenous and and European ancestry
d) To have empathy for someone
b
MC - $13.69
Why did the Independent Assessment Process replace the alternative dispute resolution?
a) It aimed to be more survivor-focused and efficient
b) it was more cost effective
c) the Indigenous people created it themselves
d) the alternative dispute resolution process became obsolete
a
MC - Residential Schools
How does the occupation of Rupert’s Land change the Indigenous economy?
a) Their financial resources are richer
b) They coexist with non-indigenous economy
c) They have to depend on selling european goods
c
MC - Lucy and the Football
Why did Trudeau want to enact the White Paper Policy
a) To assimilate indigenous
b) To take away past treaties made with indigenous peoples
c) To make indigenous peoples equal
d) To indigenous peoples their rights back
c
MC - Land Back
Which statement about the White Paper Policy (1969) is correct?
a) It is created by the Indian Association of Alberta
b) Recognized Indigenous peoples as “Citizens Plus”
c) Remove Indigenous rights by ending legal distinction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians
d) Establishes the framework of minimal standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of Indigenous Peoples
c
MC - Lucy and the Football
- As of Sept. 21, 2024, some _ former residential schools have shown possible indications of unmarked graves.
a) 36
b) 80
c) 72
d) 94
b
MC - Land Back
What does disenfranchise mean?
a) To remove the costs of an object
b) To discriminate against Indigenous Peoples
c) To take away opportunities from a group of people
d) To state that the accomplishments of a group of people don’t have any significance
c
