Grade 10 Academic History
Unit 3 Practice Test
NOTE: The practice test questions are NOT the questions that will be asked on the formal unit test.
The attached questions are examples of the style and format of questions you will encounter.
The practice questions help you prepare with two types of questions:
1. Knowledge-based questions (e.g., What are Residential Schools? What were the
primary causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash?) and
2. Higher order application questions (e.g., Explain the historical importance of the
1919 Winnipeg General Strike in the context of the Canadian identity. Contrast
Canadian social programs pre- and post-Great Depression)
Please, do NOT memorize the practice test questions.
PART A – MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. In the 1920s, women had more social freedoms (e.g., dancing, smoking, Bob hair cut). There was a
sense of optimism and money flowed more freely. What is the nickname for the 1920s?
a. Free Twenties
b. Roaring Twenties
c. Happy Twenties
d. Dirty Twenties
2.
What court recognized women as persons in Canada’s constitution, and thus, finally in 1929
recognized women as persons in Canada? This court also said the exclusion of women was “a relic of
days more barbarous than ours."
a. Kingston Municipal Court
b. Court of Appeals
c. Supreme Court of Canada
d. Privy Council of Britain
e. Court of the Crimson King
3.
What was the reason for the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike?
a. Communist revolution
b. Socialist revolution
c. Women’s right to vote
d. Child welfare
e. Better wages
4.
In the 1920s, it was a criminal offense in Canada to give out information about birth control. One
woman challenged the law by giving information to poor women in Ottawa. She was arrested and
charged. In the trial, she won the right to talk about family planning. Who was the woman?
a. Agnes MacPhail
b. Doris Day
c. Brittany Spears
d. Dorthea Palmer
5.
During parts of the 1920s, prohibition was used. What did prohibition do?
a. Prohibiting contraceptive use
b. Eliminated child labour
c. Stopped the sale of alcoholic beverages
d. Limited the use of the strap in schools
6.
Old-Age Pension was introduced in 1927. The initial program was very restrictive, and as a result,
only a limited number of people met the requirements and became eligible to receive $20 a month.
Which of the following was not an eligibility requirement for Old-Age Pension in this period?
a. Person could not be a status Indian
b. Person must be a Canadian citizen
c. Person must be age 70 or older
d. Person must have lived in Canada for more than 20 years and in their present province for
more than five years
e. Person had an annual income less than $365
7.
When Aboriginal children “graduated” from Indian Residential School, they could become
enfranchised (i.e., they qualified for citizenship rights such as voting). At the same time to become
enfranchised, the graduate had to relinquish something (give something away). What was it?
a. Give up the freedom to travel and leave the reserve
b. Give away health care benefits
c. Forfeit Indian status
d. Relinquish to choice to consume alcohol
8.
What did Banting and Best discover in 1921 to combat diabetes?
a. Penicillin
b. Aspirin
c. Alcohol
d. Insulin
9.
To gain political power, which group did Hitler blame for Germany’s economic woes?
a. Poles
b. Islamic fundamentalists
c. Communists
d. Jews
10. What was the name of the 1923 action that stopped almost all Chinese immigration to Canada?
a. Chinese Head Tax
b. Chinese Exclusion Act
c. War Measures Act
d. Canada for Canadians Act
11. This woman’s haircut was considered un-lady like and scandalous. What is the name of the hair cut?
a. Brush cut
b. Wave
c. Bob
d. Dread locks
12. Why was there such a sense of prosperity during the 1920s in Canada?
a. In the Prairies, wheat was plentiful, but so was demand especially in war torn Europe.
Demand exceeded supply so the price of wheat increased.
b. Newsprint production was the second largest industry in Canada. Forests from Nova
Scotia to British Columbia were involved.
c. The 20s were also called the Oil Age. Major oil fields were discovered in Alberta.
d. Over 50% of Canadians could afford and owned cars.
e. Nickel and copper were found in the Canadian Shield, while lead and zinc were found in
the Rockies. Canada was forming strong ties with the booming USA economy.
f. More women had jobs, and with the economic freedom, they had more personal
freedoms.
g. All of the above
13. What group fought for women’s right and pursued the Person’s Case?
a. Famous Five
b. Fantastic Five
c. Fabulous Five
d. Fortunate Five
14. What was the women’s group in the Person’s Case trying to do?
a. Get better jobs for women
b. Allow women to be appointed to Canada’s Senate
c. Allow women to vote
d. Permit birth control
15. In 1919, Canada’s first French Prime Minister died. His picture is on the $5 bill. Who is he?
a. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
b. William Lyon Mackenzie King
c. Sir John A. MacDonald
d. Jean Chretien
16. Why was the number five so important in the Person’s Case?
a. Five people was the minimum number needed to petition the Government of Canada and
the Supreme Court of Canada
b. Five is representative of the five grievances of women in the period
c. Five people allowed for a vote to be taken without a tie
d. It is not meaningful
17. Five baby girls were miraculously born in 1934. They were made “wards of the state” in Ontario and
shown to people like zoo animals. What were the babies called?
a. Harrison Triplets
b. Babies Cole
c. Dionne Quintuplets
d. John and Kate plus eight
18. Who was Canada’s first woman Member of Parliament?
a. Agnes MacPhail
b. Eileigh McKenzie
c. Nellie McClung
d. Shania Twain
19. What event is called Bloody Saturday?
a. The day that teachers decided to wear black
b. The day the troops fired on strikers in Winnipeg killing one protestor
c. The day the stock market crashed
d. The day women received the right to vote
20. What was the name of the boat carrying Jewish refugees fleeing NAZI Germany that was denied
entrance to Canada in 1938? The boat returned to Germany and most of the passengers were killed in
the Holocaust.
a. S.S. Christie Pit
b. S.S. Titanic
c. S.S. Llandovery Castle
d. S.S. St. Louis
e. RMS Empress of Ireland
f. S.S. Mont Blanc
21. What December 1931 British law clarified the powers of Canada's Parliament and granted Great
Britain’s former colonies (including Canada) full legal freedom except in those areas where they chose
to remain subordinate to Britain?
a. Balfour Report
b. Chanak Affair
c. Statute of Westminster
d. War Measures Act
e. Continuous Passage Act
22. What event killed more people in one year than all of the WWI battles?
a. Spanish Flu
b. Winnipeg General Strike
c. Great Depression
d. Diabetes
e. Chanak Affair
23. Why is the King-Byng Affair so important to Canadian history and our identity?
a. Established that the Canadian Parliament would decide independently whether Canadian
soldiers would participate in wars and other global conflicts
b. Redefined the role of the Governor-General of Canada relative to the powers of the
Canadian Parliament and our Prime Minister
c. Redefined the role of the Supreme Court of Canada as Canada’s highest body of legal
power
d. Established that the Government of Canada was equal in status with the Government of
Great Britain
24. Prior to WWII, Hitler practiced his battle tactics in a conflict that saw Nationalists (fascists supported
by Hitler) fighting Republicans (social-democratic forces supported by Communists). Canada and
other parts of the world ignored this fighting due to isolationist attitudes (i.e., non-intervention in
foreign affairs) and not wishing to side with the Communist forces. What was the conflict?
a. Chanak Affair
b. Invasion of Ethiopia
c. Spanish Civil War
d. Rape of Nanjing
e. Communist Revolution
25. What is the day the Stock Market crashed called?
a. Black Tuesday
b. The Big Drop
c. Jumper Day
d. Off-myself Saturday
e. Bloody Saturday
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PART B – SHORT ANSWER
26. In the Dirty 30s, two new political parties formed: (1) Social Credit and (2) Commonwealth
Cooperative Federation (CCF). The Social Credit promoted “social reform” as the solution to the
Great Depression; whereas, the CCF called for “socialism.” Contrast “social reform” and “socialism.”
27. In 1936, Prime Minister Bennett introduced a New Deal for Canadians to help offset the impacts of the
Great Depression. The New Deal offered many changes to Canada’s delivery of social and support
programs. Name FOUR changes.
28. What is the historical significance of the New Deal to the Canadian identity? Provide two ideas.
29. Many people wrote to Prime Minister Bennett during the Depression seeking his help. What did
Bennett do secretly to help people?
30. The King – Byng Affair involved Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Governor-General
Lord Byng. King wanted to hold an election in Canada, but Byng said, “No.” At this time the
Governor-General of Canada was the King of England’s representative to both the Canadian
Government and the British Government. Why would the role of the Governor-General be a problem
to Canada? Provide one reason with your answer.
31. How might the Great Depression cause Quebec nationalism to increase? Provide two ideas.
32. Contrast the anti-Semitic policies and practices in 1930s Canada with the persecution of Jews in Nazi
Germany in the 1930s. How were the actions in Canada and Germany similar? How were they
different?
33. What were the consequences of the Privy Council of Britain 1928 ruling that women were persons
under Canadian law? Provide two ideas.
34. Why did the highest court of Canada declare that women were not “persons” during the 1928 Persons
Case? Provide TWO ideas.
35. Name FOUR of the six causes of the Great Depression?
36. The world’s failure to confront totalitarian governments such as the fascists in Italy and the Nazi in
Germany resulted in WWII.
a. Identify and explain two forces that worked during the 1930s that promoted the rise of
totalitarian governments
b. In a short paragraph, could the same things happen today? Explain your reasons for your
answers.
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PART C – GRAPHING AND INTERPRETATION
37. Table 1 lists Unemployment Rates in Canada between 1926 and 1939.
 Make a bar graph of the data
 The Depression began in 1929. From your graph, determine the number of years the
Depression lasted
Table 1. Unemployment in Canada between 1926 and 1939
Year
Unemployment Rate (%)
1926
4.7
1927
2.9
1928
2.6
1929
4.2
1930
12.9
1931
17.4
1932
26.0
1933
26.6
1934
20.6
1935
19.1
1936
16.7
1937
12.5
1938
15.1
1939
14.1
Multiple Choice Answers
Question
Answer
Question
Answer
Question
Answer
1
B
10
A
19
B
2
D
11
C
20
D
3
E
12
G
21
C
4
D
13
A
22
A
5
C
14
B
23
B
6
B
15
A
24
C
7
C
16
A
25
A
8
A
17
C
9
D
18
A