Trade-Up Residential Schools Junior High

Question 1

Children in residential schools stayed and played with siblings at the same school.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 2

Almost 1 in 4 students who attended residential schools in western Canada died during the 1900s

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 3

The Sixties Scoop refers to the 6000 students taken from their families.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 4

The Indian Act of 1876 protected Indigenous students attending residential schools.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 5

All residential schools were run by church organizations (eg Catholic Church & Anglican Church)

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 6

Only First Nations children attended residential schools.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 7

The last residential school closed in 1996.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 8

All experiences in residential schools were bad for the students.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 9

Students could retain parts of their identity with their own choice of clothes and hairstyles.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 10

Gov't of Canada is committed to implementing Truth & Reconciliation Commission's Calls 2Action

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 11

If a family member died, children were taken home to participate in funeral ceremonies.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 12

Indigenous languages were taught in residential schools.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 13

Students & family could keep in touch with residential school children through letters.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 14

Church-run residential schools operated in all provinces in Canada.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 15

All residential school survivors received compensation in 2007 - IRS Settlement Act

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 16

Children from residential schools were allowed to go home for holidays.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 17

One of the TRC's Calls to Action was to make education about residential schools mandatory.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 18

Not all parents rejected the idea of residential schools.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 19

Residential schools were well funded to meet the needs of the staff and students.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 20

A "cat-o-nine tail" was a poem commonly performed every morning by the children for the nuns.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 21

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a public apology, 2008, for residential schools & the harm

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 22

Religious instruction comprised a very small amount of time in the schools.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 23

Children at residential schools were only taught English.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 24

Students were still able to practice oral traditions to help with learning in the classroom.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 25

Alberta had the most residential schools in Canada

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 26

Indigenous children had to attend residential schools or their parents were punished.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 27

The Canadian gov't did not begin investigations into residential schools until 1994

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 28

Many children died in residential schools.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 29

Metis children did not have to attend residential schools.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 30

Residential schools, as a means to assimilate Indigenous children, appeared in the early 1900s.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 31

The goal of residential schools was to educate Indigenous children

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 32

There are 62 Calls to Action proposed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Accepted Answer

FALSE - there are 94 Calls to Action

Question 33

The federal gov't conducted food & nutrition experiments on children in residential schools.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 34

Ethics were taught and included subjects such as obedience, respect, and order.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 35

Are you excited to QUIZ today?

Accepted Answer

Yes

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