Chapter Twelve: Canada in the Great Depression

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Question 1
Which regions of Canada were hit the hardest by the Great Depression?
a. Ontario
b. southern Ontario
c. the Prairie West and British Columbia.
d. Quebec

Question 2
What effect did Bennett's high-tariff policy have?
a. It encouraged interprovincial trade and hence strengthened the struggling economy.
b. It allowed exports to pick up, somewhat relieving the burden of the depression.
c. It caused massive discontent among factory workers, resulting in strikes across the country.
d. It undermined Canada's competitive edge on the world market.

Question 3
Approximately how many immigrants were returned to Europe between 1930 and 1935?
a. 30,000
b. 45,000
c. 60,000
d. 80,000

Question 4
Why did men from British Columbia work camps embark on the trek to Ottawa in 1935?
a. to demand changes in the immigration policy
b. to protest conditions in the work camps
c. to found a new party
d. to overthrow the capitalist system

Question 5
What was the philosophy behind the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation?
a. Capitalist government should be overthrown in a revolutionary coup.
b.Governments should inject money into the economy and prevent financial institutions from hoarding capital, so that consumers could buy more goods, in this way fuelling the economy.
c. Governments should be slowly phased out to allow for direct rule of the people.
d. Capitalism should be eradicated, all wealth should be distributed, and world peace should be pursued.

Question 6
Whose government was the only government in Canada to get re-elected during the depression?
a. T.D. "Duff" Pattullo's
b. Allison Dysart's
c. Mitch Hepburn's
d. Thane Campbell's

Question 7
Support for birth control during the depression tended to come from
a. British-educated doctors and health professionals.
b. upper-class women.
c. socialist groups.
d. middle-class male taxpayers.

Question 8
When was the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established?
a. 1936
b. 1940
c. 1932
d. 1939

Question 9
What did the Rowell-Sirois Commission recommend?
a. delegation of responsibility for relief payments to the provinces
b. low-tariff policy
c. stronger federal-government economic presence
d. establishment of a fund for research and development in the area of agriculture

Question 10
The first agitprop troupe in Canada was
a. the Dominion Drama Troupe.
b. the Workers' Experimental Theatre.
c. Legault's temporary group set up in 1937.
d. People's Theatre Group.

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