Deck 12: This Adventure Called Canada-Building

Question 1

According to the text, the concept of citizenship consists of two dimensions: the legal and the .

A) Formal
B) Informal
C) Social
D) Cultural

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Unlike Canada which many see as an unfinished project, what expression best describes European societies?

A) complete societies
B) immigrant societies
C) emigrant societies
D) postmodern societies

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What innovation in "living together" was introduced by Canada's Citizenship Act in 1947?

A) Included all those with British ancestry as citizens of Canada
B) Ignored a distinction between British-born and foreign-born as basis for citizenship
C) Created a category of citizenship only for those born in Canada
D) Promoted cultural diversity as a basis for differentiated citizenship

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to the text, what is meant by the term "adventure" in the chapter title, "An Adventure Called Canada"?

A) A foolish project
B) A daring enterprise
C) An unfinished project
D) A contested site

Question 5

There are two components to citizenship: (a) reciprocal exchange of rights and duties and (b) .

A) Mutual exchange of obligations
B) Membership in the state
C) The right to vote
D) A model for living together with differences

Question 6

According to the text, entitlements under a universal citizenship often fail to deliver for minorities because they tend to privilege rights over rights, thus ranking all individuals as similar for entitlement purposes.

A) Formal equity, substantive equality
B) Postmodern, modern
C) Diversity, unity
D) Formal equality, substantive equity

Question 7

The challenges of Canada-building are formidable. Nevertheless other countries face equally daunting challenges in forging unity from diversity. For example, what country is the site of 16 official languages and 5 major religions?

A) China
B) Pakistan
C) Indonesia
D) India

Question 8

What is the term by which citizenship is acquired by someone who is not a citizen by birth?

A) Universal
B) Birthright
C) Entitlement
D) Naturalization

Question 9

According to the text, citizenship can be divided into two major types with respect to defining entitlements and belonging: universal and .

A) Uniform
B) Particular
C) Inclusive
D) Civic

Question 10

What term describes a citizenship that treats all citizens the same since everyone is thought to belong in the same kind of way?

A) Differentiated
B) Equity
C) Universal
D) Inclusive

Question 11

The ideals of modernism and modernity reflect the ideals of ?

A) Romanticism
B) Transnationalism
C) Christianity
D) The Enlightenment

Question 12

About what percentage of immigrants to Canada eventually take the oath of citizenship?

A) 85%
B) 75%
C) 60%
D) 50%

Question 13

What kind of society is Canada poised to become as a result of its commitment to build a new society on the basis of new rules?

A) Post-transnational
B) Postnational
C) National Post
D) Postmulticulturalism

Question 14

What term is associated with a belief in the need to challenge the conventional and taken for granted?

A) Postmodernism
B) Modernism
C) Transnationalism
D) Liberalism

Question 15

According to the text, what model of society tends to espouse the virtues of conformity and standardization?

A) Postnational
B) Modern Nation-State
C) Transnational
D) Postmodern

Question 16

What specific expression captures the principle and process of accommodating different ways of accommodating differences?

A) Inclusivity
B) Canada's Difference Model
C) Modern nation-state
D) This adventure called Canada-building

Question 17

The Canadian Way is composed of two dimensions: content and .

A) process
B) politics
C) pluralism
D) power

Question 18

When it comes to engaging differences, a modern nation-state tends to endorse pluralism.

A) pretend
B) deep
C) differentiated
D) transmigratory

Question 19

Four types (or patterns) of citizenship entitlements can be discerned. Which of the following is NOT one of these types (or patterns)?

A) Equity
B) Self-determining
C) Postnational
D) Transmigratory

Question 20

In keeping with Canada's evolving political status, Canada is moving from a modern nation-state to a postnational -state.

A) Notion-
B) Native-
C) Modern-
D) Difference-

Question 21

What term best describes the validity of both universal citizenship rights and citizenship rights that are differentiated because of needs, status, or experiences?

A) postnational
B) global
C) inclusive
D) multicultural

Question 22

Canada is a society of immigrants. By contrast, European countries tend to see themselves as societies that (until recently) rejected immigration as a basis for society building.

Question 23

A citizenship is constructed around the notion of ensuring that every citizen has the same package of rights and obligations.

Question 24

The Act of 1947 was the first in the world to include the foreign-born as citizens of Canada.

Question 25

Canada-building may be a formidable challenge, but other countries confront an equally daunting challenge in forging unity from diversity. For example, the country of is the site of 200 million people, across 17,000 islands, with 300 different ethnic groups and 500 different languages and dialects.

Question 26

The concept of citizenship consists of two dimensions, the social and the .

Question 27

In redefining Canada's evolving response to the dynamics of race, ethnic, and Aboriginal relations, institutions have evolved from a focus on exclusion to that of

Question 28

The process of acquiring citizenship by someone who is not a citizen by birth is known as .

Question 29

A discourse is associated with the spirit of challenging the conventional and taken for granted in building a new society for living together with our differences.

Question 30

An citizenship attempts to balance universal citizenship rights with differentiated citizenship entitlements.

Question 31

A transmigratory (or transnational) citizenship is based on what principle?

A) Citizenship no longer matters in a global world
B) One citizenship entitles a person to citizenship in different countries
C) The possibility of dual or multiple citizenships
D) Citizenship controls are impossible to regulate

Question 32

What term describes the citizenship entitlements associated with Aboriginal peoples because of their unique constitutional status in Canada?

A) multicultural
B) global
C) postnational
D) self-determining

Question 33

Canada's Difference Model acknowledges the need to simultaneously address the interests and demands of the three major Ethnicities in Canada. Which of the following is NOT regarded as a major Ethnicity under the Canada's Difference Model?

A) Aboriginal Peoples
B) Francophones outside of Quebec
C) Multicultural minorities
D) Charter groups l

Question 34

What expression in Canada captures a commitment to accommodate different ways of accommodating differences?

Question 35

Four types of entitlements and belonging can be differentiated under an inclusive citizenship. They are transmigratory, multicultural, self-determining, and .

Question 36

A citizenship refers to the possibility of dual, even multiple, citizenships that can exist concurrently and without contradiction.

Question 37

The social dimension of citizenship is primarily concerned with entitlements and .

Question 38

The Canadian Way consists of two dimensions: process and .

Question 39

What citizenship entitlements are aimed at improving institutional inclusion for racialized minorities through removal of discriminatory barriers?

A) Equity
B) Transnational
C) Self determining
D) Multicultural

Question 40

According to the text, Canada is on the brink of becoming the world's first society since it bends some of conventional rules for living together and society building.