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:

Where did provision of care for persons with impairments begin?
a) Asylums
b) Prisons
c) Workhouses
d) Churches

Question 2:

How does the Disability Tax Credit define disability?
a) Physical or mental health condition or a health problem that restricts one’s ability to engage in activities of daily living
b) Individual deficit fundamentally physiological or anatomical in origin
c) Severe and prolonged impairment in physical or mental functions, certified by a qualified practitioner
d) Physical or mental health condition or a health problem, certified by a qualified practitioner

Question 3:

Which of the following is NOT an assumption of the social model of disability?
a) Disability is a result of social exclusion.
b) Impairment and disability are not the same thing.
c) Medicalizing disability is oppressive.
d) Persons with disabilities are not an oppressed group.

Question 4:

Which province/territory once introduced legislation that allowed for the sterilization of persons with developmental disabilities on a case-by-case basis?
a) Ontario
b) Alberta
c) Quebec
d) Yukon

Question 5:

When were persons with disabilities moved from custodial institutions to units in hospitals?
a) 1940s
b) 1950s
c) 1960s
d) 1970s

Question 6:

Which of the following is NOT a principle of the Independent Living movement?
a) Self-determination
b) The right to risk
c) The importance of interdependence
d) De-professionalization of services

Question 7:

What would disqualify a person from eligibility to the disability benefit of the Canada Pension Plan?
a) No history of working
b) Continuous impairment for a year
c) Severe impairment in activities of daily living
d) Meet the minimum qualifying period of contributions

Question 8:

When did Canada ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
a) 1995
b) 1998
c) 2010
d) 2014

Question 9:

What is Jordan’s Principle?
a) A requirement that all Canadian schools accommodate students with disabilities
b) A directive to eliminate wait lists for disability services
c) A mandate that services be delivered to a child in medical need without delay
d) A rule that parents are financially responsible for their children’s health care

Question 10:

What organizations provide the majority of services to persons with disabilities in Canada?
a) Hospitals
b) Specialized services
c) Rehabilitation centres
d) Non-governmental organizations

Question 11:

Canada has a unified definition for what constitutes a disability.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The social model of disability distinguishes between disability and impairment.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

The social model of disability recognizes how intersecting identities impact experiences of disability.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

According the World Health Organization’s classification system, disability is an umbrella term for a phenomenon that is both biological and social.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

According to the World Health Organization’s classification system for disabilities, juvenile diabetes restricts one’s activity due to difficulties in grasping objects.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

If an organization requires a diagnosis for service delivery, it is taking a categorical approach to disability.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

One benefit to the functional approach to disability is that it simplifies and standardizes service provision.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

The Canadian Survey on Disability focuses on individuals living in institutions and on First Nations reserves.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

In the nineteenth century, asylums that housed persons with disabilities could have up to 3,000 residents.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The Council of Canadians with Disabilities tackles disability issues such as transportation and universal design from a human rights approach.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Introduction to Social Work: Chapter 11