Grade 10 Canadian History Pretest
26 Questions
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- 1.Easy opener ....What is the capital of Canada?
- 2.What is Canada's official winter sport?
- 3.What is Canada's official summer sport?
- 4.Who was Canada's first Prime Minister (last name only)?
- 5.
- 6.Who was Canada's first French Canadian Prime Minister (last name only)?
- 7.Who was Canada's first female Prime Minister (last name only)?
- 8.What year was Confederation?
- 9.Which of the following were original provinces of Canada? Check as many as apply.
- A.
Manitoba
- B.
Ontario
- C.
Quebec
- D.
New Brunswick
- E.
Nova Scotia
- 10.What was the last territory to enter Confederation?
- 11.In what year did World War I begin?
- 12.What was the most famous Canadian poem of World War I known as?
- 13.What was Canada's most famous military victory of World War I?
- 14.On what date did World War I end?(Use dd-mm-yyyy format - for example, September 24, 1965 would be written 24-09-1965)
- 15.Who invented the snowmobile (last name only)?
- 16.Which of the following cities was NOT an original member of the NHL in its first season?
- A.
Toronto
- B.
Montreal
- C.
Hamilton
- D.
Ottawa
- E.
Vancouver
- 17.Which woman is considered our most famous 'suffragette', leading the fight to get women the vote in Canada (last name only)?
- 18.Which of the following were the Toronto researchers who discovered insulin in 1922? Check as many as apply.
- A.
Frederick Banting
- B.
Alexander Bell
- C.
Charles Best
- D.
Stephen Leacock
- E.
Jonas Salk
- 19.What event is considered to mark the start of the Great Depression?
- 20.Who led Nazi Germany during World War II (last name only)?
- 21.What French city was raided by Canadian troops in 1942, and is considered to be our greatest military disaster?
- 22.What was Canada's great fighter jet, scrapped in the 1950s because of its expense?
- 23.What new symbol of Canada was unveiled in 1965?
- 24.During the 1960s, the FLQ was a terrorist organization that operated in Canada. They wanted the independence of what?
- 25.What does UN stand for?
- 26.What does NATO stand for?
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