How Canadian are you, eh?

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) challenges you to test your knowledge of Canada with a fun quiz on its multiculturalism.gc.ca/canadian2 website.

You can test your knowledge of Canada by accessing the app within Facebook or downloading the quiz for free onto your smartphone (iPhone, BlackBerry, Android) through designated online stores, such as the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World or the Android Market.

Each time you take the quiz, 20 random questions are pulled from a collection of more than 150 Canadian trivia questions, so you can play more than once. Take the quiz, share your results, and challenge friends and family to beat your score! When you play the “How Canadian are you, eh?” app on Facebook and Twitter, the game will track your results and let you publish them instantly and see which questions you answered correctly and which you didn’t.

This game is part of CIC’s Teacher and Youth Web Corner “A Fun Path to Learning.” The content comes from the popular new citizenship test study guide, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, and the educational tool uses games and activities to teach students about Canada’s history and political institutions.

Test your knowledge with some of these questions

1. Which structure made by the Inuit was traditionally used to indicate directions for travellers, warn of danger, mark a place of respect, or act as a helper in hunting caribou?
   • Inukshuk
   • Totem pole
   • Igloo
   • Mukluk
2. Famous Canadian Roberta Bondar is known for achieving which of the following goals in 1992?
   • She was the first female prime minister
   • She was the first Canadian woman to play in the NHL
   • She was the first Canadian woman to travel into outer space
   • She won a Governor General’s Award
3. Which biennial sports event that began in 1970 features such sports as snowshoeing and dog sledding, as well as athletes from northern communities like the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Alaska, Greenland and several northern Russian provinces?
   • Northern winter Olympics
   • Arctic Cup
   • Arctic Winter Games
   • Northern games
4. Which of the following is a constitutional responsibility of the governor general of Canada?
   • To head the Canadian military
   • To ensure that Canada always has a prime minister and a government in place that has the confidence of Parliament
   • To provide leadership and direction to the government with the support of a cabinet
   • To verify all changes to the Canadian Constitution Act
5. What is Canada’s motto?
   • A mari usque ad mare: From sea to sea
   • Fortis et liber: Strong and free
   • Splendor sine occasu: Splendour without diminishment
   • Quaerite prime regnum dei: Seek ye first the kingdom of God

Answers

1. Inukshuk
2. She was the first Canadian woman to travel into outer space
3. Arctic Winter Games
4. To ensure that Canada always has a prime minister and a government in place that has the confidence of Parliament
5. A mari usque ad mare: From sea to sea