Chapter Twelve: Rebellion and Change on the St. Lawrence

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Question 1
Which industry offset the decline of the fur trade in Quebec at the beginning of the nineteenth century?
a. The brewing industry.
b. The banking industry.
c. The timber industry.
d. The textile industry.

Question 2
Which of the following statements is not true of women in Lower Canada?
a. Women founded many charitable organizations.
b. More women were in the labour force at the end of the nineteenth century than in the 1820s.
c. Many women worked as domestic help.
d. There were female blacksmiths in Montreal in 1825.

Question 3
Whom did the mayor of Quebec blame for the rapid spread of cholera?
a. the British authorities
b. the Water Supply Management Board
c. the ship owners
d. the owners of stalls in public markets

Question 4
During his visit to Lower Canada in 1831, Alex de Tocqueville found that
a. the clergy was unaware of the habitants’ prosperity.
b. the habitants did not resent church tithes, but were generally unwilling to participate in church events.
c. the habitants had found ways to settle their grievances with the seigneurs.
d. there was social unrest.

Question 5
The voluntary system of education established by the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning was
a. a moderate success in that it led to the establishment of state-supported schools.
b. largely a failure because the Roman Catholic Church was suspicious of it.
c. a success because it helped reconcile the differences between the Protestants and the Catholics.
d. a failure because the Protestants did not have sufficient funds to build schools and pay teachers.

Question 6
The new professional class that emerged in Lower Canada aimed to
a. replace the seigneurs as leaders of French Canada.
b. introduce laws to promote the well-being of British subjects in the colony.
c. introduce universal suffrage.
d. establish a colony-wide system of Protestant education.

Question 7
Before the rebellions in Lower Canada in 1837 and 1838, the English speakers had control of __________, while the French speakers had control of __________.
a. the Executive Council and the Assembly; parish fabriques
b. the Assembly; the Executive Council and the Advisory Board
c. the Executive Council; the Assembly
d. the Executive Assembly; the city councils of major cities

Question 8
What was the British Parliament’s attitude toward the growing dissatisfaction of the French speakers in Lower Canada?
a. disinterested, to the point of leaving all issues to the discretion of the Colonial Office in Ottawa
b. unmoved from the beginning
c. supportive of the French cause, despite the Whigs’ fierce opposition
d. originally conciliatory and then refused compromise

Question 9
The first skirmish between the Patriotes and the British forces took place at
a. St. Denis.
b. St. Charles.
c. St. Eustache.
d. St. Benoît.

Question 10
Who won at Beauharmois?
a. the British
b. the French
c. the Mohawks
d. the French and the Mohawks

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