, CHAPTER 1
Historical Foundations of Addressing Needs:
Indigenous, French, and English Traditions
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Mino-pimatisiwin is a Cree word that means ________.
a) social work
b) the Medicine Wheel
c) the good life
d) First Nations
e) a gathering of elders
2. Canadian social work has largely been shaped by ________ traditions.
a) British and American
b) American only
c) Western European
d) Australian
e) Scandinavian
3. ________, a principle contained in the Medicine Wheel, refers to understanding each aspect of the four cardinal
directions of the Wheel and the directions' interconnections for holistic well-being.
a) Stability
b) Wholeness
c) Treatment
d) Fulfillment
e) Welfare
4. Historically, which of the following has not been a way Elders have passed on knowledge?
a) Role modelling
b) Written texts
c) Storytelling
d) Ceremonies
e) Sharing circles
5. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit is the Inuktitut term for ________.
a) traditional or Indigenous knowledge of the Inuit
b) working with non-Inuit Peoples
c) Inuit ways of knowing
d) Inuit territory
e) Inuit elder education
6. After Quebec, the province or territory with the largest number of residents whose mother tongue is French is
________.
a) New Brunswick
b) British Columbia
c) Ontario
d) Alberta
e) Yukon
,7. It is through ________ for healing and growth that individuals, families and communities can attain
mino-pimatisiwin.
a) personal responsibility
b) long-term therapeutic interventions
c) harmony
d) collective work
e) institutional treatment
8. ________ authored an analysis of the conditions of Montreal's working-class communities in the late 1800s.
a) L'Abbé Charles-Edouard Bourgeois
b) Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
c) Frederick Marsh
d) Herbert Ames
e) Charlotte Whitton
9. The Public Charities Act of 1921 ________.
a) was the first legislation enacted which brought together charity organizations to formalize and organize relief
provision to the poor
b) was the first social legislation enacted, mandating that government was required to help those in need
c) was the legislation which provided public funding to parishes to serve communities living in poverty
d) provided targeted funding for the distribution of aid in rural communities
e) formally brought together Charity Organization Societies to systematically provide relief
10. In seventeenth-century Montreal, a(n) ________ combined relief with moral rehabilitation through labour for
the undeserving poor.
a) maison d'industrie
b) settlement house
c) hostel
d) almshouse
e) halfway house
11. The bureaux des pauvres were established and operated in the cities of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières
in ________.
a) 1566
b) 1601
c) 1688
d) 1710
e) 1750
12. An early belief about poverty was that it was ________.
a) a result of economic forces
b) evidence of the shortcomings of the education system
c) individually driven
d) a consequence of the lack of collaboration between the provinces and the federal government
e) tied to a region's agricultural productivity
13. ________was one of the first in Quebec to challenge conventional attitudes toward the poor, asserting poverty
was more related to unemployment than laziness.
a) Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
b) L'Abbé Charles-Edouard Bourgeois
, c) Sœurs Dominicaines du Rosaire in Trois-Rivières
d) Herbert Ames
e) J.S. Woodsworth
14. The 1871 census recording in Quebec found that ________ of the population was Roman Catholic.
a) 50 per cent
b) 55 per cent
c) 99 per cent
d) 85 per cent
e) 70 per cent
15. In Quebec in the nineteenth century, most charitable activities were carried out ________.
a) under the supervision of or directly by churches
b) by local government officials
c) by settlement houses
d) by wives of wealthy businessmen
e) by provincial administrators
16. In ________, the Civil Code of Lower Canada sought to codify all aspects of civil relations, primarily persons,
property, succession, and marriage.
a) 1935
b) 1866
c) 1937
d) 1897
e) 1901
17. In the 1800s in Quebec, ________ were an early model for charity organization societies.
a) workhouses
b) benevolent societies
c) civil offices
d) municipal welfare offices
e) local independence societies
18. Material assistance provided to individuals and families in their own homes was referred to as ________.
a) indoor relief
b) poorhouse provision
c) outdoor relief
d) alms
e) organized charity
19. In the 1800s in Quebec, ________ were entities founded by groups of workers to provide for workers and their
families in case of sickness or death.
a) mutual benefit societies
b) Charity Organization Societies
c) settlement house organizations
d) missions
e) municipal councils
20. The principle requiring that the standard of living of a labourer who works the lowest-paying labour market
job be higher than that of an individual receiving public assistance is ________.
a) benefit adjusting
Historical Foundations of Addressing Needs:
Indigenous, French, and English Traditions
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Mino-pimatisiwin is a Cree word that means ________.
a) social work
b) the Medicine Wheel
c) the good life
d) First Nations
e) a gathering of elders
2. Canadian social work has largely been shaped by ________ traditions.
a) British and American
b) American only
c) Western European
d) Australian
e) Scandinavian
3. ________, a principle contained in the Medicine Wheel, refers to understanding each aspect of the four cardinal
directions of the Wheel and the directions' interconnections for holistic well-being.
a) Stability
b) Wholeness
c) Treatment
d) Fulfillment
e) Welfare
4. Historically, which of the following has not been a way Elders have passed on knowledge?
a) Role modelling
b) Written texts
c) Storytelling
d) Ceremonies
e) Sharing circles
5. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit is the Inuktitut term for ________.
a) traditional or Indigenous knowledge of the Inuit
b) working with non-Inuit Peoples
c) Inuit ways of knowing
d) Inuit territory
e) Inuit elder education
6. After Quebec, the province or territory with the largest number of residents whose mother tongue is French is
________.
a) New Brunswick
b) British Columbia
c) Ontario
d) Alberta
e) Yukon
,7. It is through ________ for healing and growth that individuals, families and communities can attain
mino-pimatisiwin.
a) personal responsibility
b) long-term therapeutic interventions
c) harmony
d) collective work
e) institutional treatment
8. ________ authored an analysis of the conditions of Montreal's working-class communities in the late 1800s.
a) L'Abbé Charles-Edouard Bourgeois
b) Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
c) Frederick Marsh
d) Herbert Ames
e) Charlotte Whitton
9. The Public Charities Act of 1921 ________.
a) was the first legislation enacted which brought together charity organizations to formalize and organize relief
provision to the poor
b) was the first social legislation enacted, mandating that government was required to help those in need
c) was the legislation which provided public funding to parishes to serve communities living in poverty
d) provided targeted funding for the distribution of aid in rural communities
e) formally brought together Charity Organization Societies to systematically provide relief
10. In seventeenth-century Montreal, a(n) ________ combined relief with moral rehabilitation through labour for
the undeserving poor.
a) maison d'industrie
b) settlement house
c) hostel
d) almshouse
e) halfway house
11. The bureaux des pauvres were established and operated in the cities of Quebec, Montreal, and Trois-Rivières
in ________.
a) 1566
b) 1601
c) 1688
d) 1710
e) 1750
12. An early belief about poverty was that it was ________.
a) a result of economic forces
b) evidence of the shortcomings of the education system
c) individually driven
d) a consequence of the lack of collaboration between the provinces and the federal government
e) tied to a region's agricultural productivity
13. ________was one of the first in Quebec to challenge conventional attitudes toward the poor, asserting poverty
was more related to unemployment than laziness.
a) Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
b) L'Abbé Charles-Edouard Bourgeois
, c) Sœurs Dominicaines du Rosaire in Trois-Rivières
d) Herbert Ames
e) J.S. Woodsworth
14. The 1871 census recording in Quebec found that ________ of the population was Roman Catholic.
a) 50 per cent
b) 55 per cent
c) 99 per cent
d) 85 per cent
e) 70 per cent
15. In Quebec in the nineteenth century, most charitable activities were carried out ________.
a) under the supervision of or directly by churches
b) by local government officials
c) by settlement houses
d) by wives of wealthy businessmen
e) by provincial administrators
16. In ________, the Civil Code of Lower Canada sought to codify all aspects of civil relations, primarily persons,
property, succession, and marriage.
a) 1935
b) 1866
c) 1937
d) 1897
e) 1901
17. In the 1800s in Quebec, ________ were an early model for charity organization societies.
a) workhouses
b) benevolent societies
c) civil offices
d) municipal welfare offices
e) local independence societies
18. Material assistance provided to individuals and families in their own homes was referred to as ________.
a) indoor relief
b) poorhouse provision
c) outdoor relief
d) alms
e) organized charity
19. In the 1800s in Quebec, ________ were entities founded by groups of workers to provide for workers and their
families in case of sickness or death.
a) mutual benefit societies
b) Charity Organization Societies
c) settlement house organizations
d) missions
e) municipal councils
20. The principle requiring that the standard of living of a labourer who works the lowest-paying labour market
job be higher than that of an individual receiving public assistance is ________.
a) benefit adjusting
