Chapter Eight: The Aftermath of the Conquest of Quebec, 1760-1774

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Question 1
Why was Britain’s plan to assimilate the French doomed?
a. The Roman Catholic church, with its growing clergy, remained a very strong influence over the French.
b. New Englanders did not want to migrate north.
c. The wealthiest citizens of the former New France strongly held onto their traditions.
d. The British could not assimilate the French because they could not agree on whether or not to keep New France at all.

Question 2
Sir William Johnson advised General Amherst to
a. sign treaties with, or make one-time purchases from, the Amerindians.
b. wage biological warfare to reduce the Amerindians’ strength.
c. make annual payments to the Amerindians.
d. destroy Pontiac’s confederacy by inciting old hostilities between Amerindian nations.

Question 3
Who was Marie-Josephte Corriveau?
a. A historian who described the Conquest of Quebec from a feminist perspective in 1980s.
b. A victim of a biased judicial system.
c. A successful business woman who lost much of her property as a result of the Conquest of Quebec.
d. A famous murderess.

Question 4
Who became the first governor of the Province of Quebec?
a. James Murray
b. Sir Guy Carleton
c. Sir William Johnson
d. Ralph Burton

Question 5
Where was the British army quartered after the Conquest?
a. Jesuit College in Quebec
b. Hôpital Général de Québec
c. Sulpician community property near Montreal
d. the Ursuline convent in Quebec

Question 6
By 1771, the British decided that the seigneurial system
a. should be gradually phased out.
b. should be perpetuated.
c. should be reformed to benefit Protestant settlers.
d. should be abolished.

Question 7
What was the fate of the French-speaking merchants in the Province of Quebec?
a. They quickly adjusted to the British rule and prospered.
b. They shifted their focus from the fur trade to the provisioning of English ships.
c. They suffered a decline because of their conservative investment practices.
d. Historians disagree on this point.

Question 8
Why were the Americans embittered by the extension of Quebec’s borders into the Ohio region?
a. They lost their Amerindian allies.
b. They perceived it as a way of sealing off the West.
c. They disliked having to pay tithes to fund new Protestant churches.
d. All of the above.

Question 9
Which group was unhappy with the establishment of an appointed, as opposed to an elected, assembly?
a. English-speaking merchants
b. seigneurs
c. the governor and his advisors
d. the British Parliament

Question 10
What was Carleton’s attitude toward the secret instructions that accompanied the Quebec Act of 1774?
a. He intended to ignore those related to civil law, but carry out those related to religion.
b. He knew he could not carry them all out, but hoped that his successor would finish the job.
c. He never discovered their existence.
d. He disapproved of them and intended to ignore them.

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