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Canadian Democracy, A Concise Introduction - Chapter 3

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) 30 to 33 per cent
b) 7 to 9 per cent
c) 6 to 10 per cent
d) 9 to 12 per cent
e) 40 to 50 per cent

Question 2:


a) Service industry, primary industry, secondary industry, and construction
b) Sales, communication, farming, and finance
c) Primary industry, manufacturing sector, construction, and service industry
d) Manufacturing sector, construction, primary industry, and public administration
e) Transportation, sales, communication, and construction

Question 3:


a) Skilled, high-paying jobs
b) Skilled, low-paying jobs
c) Unskilled, high-paying jobs
d) Unskilled, low-paying jobs
e) None of the above

Question 4:


a) Low-skill/high-paying construction jobs
b) High-skill/high-paying manufacturing jobs
c) Low-skill/high-paying manufacturing jobs
d) High-skill/high-paying construction jobs
e) Both A and B

Question 5:


a) Outsourcing involves the loss of high-skill/high-paying jobs.
b) Outsourcing involves the loss of low-skill/high-paying jobs.
c) Outsourcing redistributes economic activity from rich countries to those that aspire to a higher standard of living.
d) Both B and C
e) Both A and C

Question 6:


a) An increasing number of human rights officers
b) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
c) Provincial human rights codes
d) Both B and C
e) All of the above

Question 7:


a) The distribution of income in Canada has remained relatively unchanged for decades.
b) The richest one-fifth of the population receives 74 per cent of all income.
c) The poorest one-fifth of the population receives 47 per cent of all income.
d) The distribution of income in Canada is fairly atypical compared to other capitalist societies.
e) Both B and D

Question 8:


a) Poverty lines are relative.
b) Poverty lines measure the incomes of groups of people, not individual need.
c) Poverty lines are arbitrary.
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

Question 9:


a) Native Canadians and the corporate elite
b) Immigrants and women
c) Native Canadians and women
d) Women and the corporate elite
e) Immigrants and the corporate elite

Question 10:


a) Discrimination and a lower level of education
b) Cultural heritage
c) Choice of occupation
d) Residence far from main economic centres
e) All of the above

Question 11:


a) A father’s income has greater effects on a daughter’s earnings than on a son’s earnings.
b) Educational attainment is related to the educational achievements of one’s parents and the occupation of one’s father.
c) Frequent changes of residence for children are associated with a higher income in adults.
d) A child’s education attainment is associated with the status of his or her mother’s occupation.
e) Sons and daughters of fathers with asset income have considerably lower incomes than those whose fathers had none.

Question 12:


a) Choice and politics
b) Deliberate and systemic inequality
c) Systemic and deliberate discrimination
d) Both A and C
e) Both A and B

Question 13:


a) Deliberate discrimination is the intent to treat members of a group in an unequal manner.
b) It is more important in explaining inequality than choice, politics, and systemic discrimination.
c) The intent that underlies deliberate discrimination is hard to prove.
d) Deliberate discrimination is prejudice towards a group that is acted upon.
e) Deliberate discrimination still exists in Canadian society and is exercised against the members of some groups more than others.

Question 14:


a) Choice
b) Deliberate inequality
c) Systemic inequality
d) Both A and C
e) None of the above

Question 15:


a) It is not inherent in traditions, rules, and customary practices.
b) It is the intent to treat the members of a group in an unequal manner.
c) It is without conscious individual intent.
d) It is hard to prove.
e) All of the above are true.

Question 16:


a) Material well-being and the level of satisfaction with life
b) Happiness and material well-being
c) Happiness and the level satisfaction with life
d) Social pathologies and happiness
e) None of the above

Question 17:


a) Alcoholism and destitution
b) Crime
c) Mortality
d) Suicide
e) None of the above

Question 18:


a) Demand on food banks is fixed.
b) Demand on food banks is not cyclical.
c) Demand on food banks decreases with higher unemployment rates.
d) In recent years, demand on food banks has increased with economic growth and decreased unemployment.
e) Both B and D

Question 19:


a) It is the gap that exists between the income from social assistance and the cost of life’s necessities.
b) It is the same across the country.
c) It varies because of regional differences in the cost of living.
d) Both A and C
e) All of the above

Question 20:


a) BNLs tend to be lower than Statistics Canada’s LICOs.
b) BNLs are based on the cost of maintaining long-term physical well-being.
c) The welfare gap narrows in BNLs.
d) BNLs do not automatically rise with increased personal income.
e) None of the above is false.

Question 21:


a) Lower than average infant mortality rates
b) Overcrowded living conditions on reserves
c) Higher than average life expectancy
d) Lower than average suicide rates
e) Lower prevalence of alcoholism

Question 22:


a) The power to amend the Constitution
b) The power to enter into foreign treaties
c) The power to interpret the Constitution
d) Both a and b
e) All of the above

Question 23:


a) Geographical proximity
b) A common language
c) Shared values
d) All of the above
e) None of the above

Question 24:


a) Military alliances
b) Military animosities
c) Trade
d) Contemporary mass media
e) All of the above

Question 25:


a) Export markets, foreign sources of investment capital, and imports
b) Imports, domestic sources of investment capital, and export markets
c) Domestic sources of investment capital and imports
d) Export markets and domestic sources of investment capital
e) None of the above

Question 26:


a) True
b) False

Question 27:


a) True
b) False

Question 28:


a) True
b) False

Question 29:


a) True
b) False

Question 30:


a) True
b) False

Question 31:


a) True
b) False

Question 32:


a) True
b) False

Question 33:


a) True
b) False

Question 34:


a) True
b) False

Question 35:


a) True
b) False

Question 36:


a) True
b) False

Question 37:


a) True
b) False

Question 38:


a) True
b) False

Question 39:


a) True
b) False

Question 40:


a) True
b) False