Reconciliation And Residential Schools Fact Quiz
A brief quiz to fill in basic knowledge gaps about the history of residential schools. You have two hours to complete the quiz online. When you submit each question, the answer will be revealed (except for long answers, where links to information will be provided).
- 1.What was the purpose of Residential Schools?
- A.
To allow all Canadians to better understand aboriginal culture.
- B.
To assimilate the children of aboriginal peoples into Canadian society.
- C.
To assimilate the aboriginal children into the cultural mosaic of Canadian society.
- D.
To assimilate aboriginal children into Canadian society, to educate them as Christians, to "kill the Indian in the child."
- E.
To provide employment for civil servants and a role for churches.
- 2.When did the last Residential School close down?
- A.
1970
- B.
1988
- C.
1996
- D.
2000
- E.
1969
- 3.When was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established?
- A.
2001
- B.
1990
- C.
2008
- D.
2009
- 4.What year did the Canadian government apologize for their role in the Residential Schools?
- A.
1998
- B.
2001
- C.
2010
- D.
2008
- 5.Why are residential schools referred to as part of the genocide of aboriginal people?
- A.
High mortality rate in residential schools
- B.
Conform to the UN definition of genocide
- C.
Discovery of mass graves of aboriginal children
- D.
All of the above
- 6.Were all aboriginal children put into residential schools during the period they existed?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- 7.List 5 films about the residential school experience.
- 8.List 5 books (novels, plays, poetry collections, autobiographies or anthologies) about the residential school experience.
- 9.What are intergenerational impacts? Identify five forms.
- 10.There were 139 federally-, provincially-, and church-administered residential schools.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.The number of children who attended residential schools is approximately
- A.
50,000
- B.
100,000
- C.
150,000
- D.
200,000
- 12.Which of the following did poet and Superintendent of Indian Affairs Duncan Campbell Scott NOT write or do?
- A.
"Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic."
- B.
Suppress a medical inspector's report entitled "A National Crime" detailing the health conditions in residential schools.
- C.
Outlaw the Potlatch.
- D.
"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habituating so closely in the residential schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is geared towards a final solution of our Indian Problem."
- E.
"Indian children can learn and absorb nothing from their ignorant parents but barbarism."
- F.
None of the above.
- 13.Which of the following national churches offered formal apologies to residential school survivors?
- A.
United Church
- B.
Presbyterian Church
- C.
Roman Catholic Church
- D.
Anglican Chrch
- E.
Lutheran Church
- 14.What are the five main components of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement?
- A.
Healing
- B.
Commemoration
- C.
Truth and Reconciliation
- D.
Independent Assessment Process
- E.
Common Experience Payment
- F.
Legal aid
- G.
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
- H.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- 15.Who are the commissioners of the TRC?
- A.
Justice Murray Sinclair
- B.
Chief Shawn Atleo
- C.
Dr. Marie Wilson
- D.
Chief Wilton Littlechild
- E.
Chief Theresa Spence
- 16.Name 6 books by aboriginal authors (plays, fiction, non-fiction, poetry etc.) that deal with the residential school experience.
- 17.Name 5 films (of any genre) that deal with the residential school experience.
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