Chapter Fifteen: An Era of Change: The 1960s

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Question 1
What change in the financing of universities occurred in 1966?
a. The federal government began to make contributions to the provinces for financing of postsecondary education.
b. The federal government began to make grants to the public universities.
c. Tuition fees increased by at least 30 percent in all provinces as universities had to build new facilities to accommodate the influx of students.
d. The provincial governments (except in Quebec) established long-term loan programs for the financing of capital expenditures the universities faced as a result of increased enrollments.

Question 2
Which of the following Canadian films was seen by 1.3 million people at Expo 67?
a. Memorandum
b. Valérie
c. Labyrinth
d. L'Acadie! L'Adadie!

Question 3
In what year were homosexual practices between consenting adults legalized in Canada?
a. 1961
b. 1966
c. 1969
d. 1972

Question 4
What did feminists inspired by the likes of Kate Millett and Germaine Greer think of the Bird Report?
a. They thought that it was an outstanding document showing just how many reforms would be needed to change social attitudes towards and policies regarding women.
b. They thought that it was far too conservative.
c. They thought that it was not worth the paper it was written on.
d. They thought that it was too radical.

Question 5
Which of the following added to the inflationary pressures in the Canadian economy of the mid-1960s?
a. lack of adequate spending on the part of the consumers
b. increase in the value of the Canadian dollar
c. exports to new markets in Asia and eastern Europe
d. pay increases in many industries

Question 6
In his A Choice for Canada, Walter Gordon argued that Canadians had to choose between
a. a liberal, socially conscious society and corporate ownership and, as a result, corporate rule.
b. the superficial politics of flashy leadership and sincere, well thought-out policy initiatives.
c. the socialist and the capitalist systems.
d. political and economic independence and colonial status in the American empire.

Question 7
What contributed to Diefenbaker's downfall?
a. the inability to reconcile the interests of urban and rural voters
b. lack of support in Quebec
c. his own policies, which brought disillusionment to most voters
d. all of the above

Question 8
Who became the first leader of the New Democratic Party in 1961?
a. Tommy Douglas
b. Pierre Elliott Trudeau
c. Réal Caouette
d. Claude Ryan

Question 9
What did Lester B. Pearson urge Americans to do in his speech in April 1965?
a. allow the Canadian government to regulate American investment in Canada
b. stop taking over Canadian companies
c. stop bombing North Vietnam
d. stop the escalating nuclear weapons build-up

Question 10
Which of the following did Trudeau favour?
a. strong provincial governments
b. a country of "two nations"
c. participatory democracy
d. neutral and passive role in international politics

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