Dreams of a Land

1.Who originally gave Quebec its name?

  • a. The First Nations Peoples
  • b.The colonists
  • c.Samuel de Champlain
  • d.The King of France

2.What was Samuel de Champlain’s main ambition?

  • a. To go back to France every winter
  • b. To build a citadel in New France
  • c. To find a passage to China
  • d. To meet the Iroquois

3.Why did Champlain have to return to France every year?

  • a.To get supplies
  • b.To get new commands from the King
  • c.To visit his family
  • d.To sell the fish and furs he’d acquired in Canada

4.How long, on average, did it take Champlain to cross the Atlantic Ocean?

  • a.Six days
  • b.Up to 10 weeks
  • c.Half a year
  • d.Three months

5.This voyage back to France was

  • a.Boring
  • b.Dangerous
  • c.Exciting
  • d.Useless

6.What Quebec resource did Champlain think was just as good as in France?

  • a.The fish
  • b.The soil
  • c.The culture
  • d.The furs

7.Champlain found the remains of the camp of which earlier explorer?

  • a.Christopher Columbus
  • b.Jacques Cousteau
  • c.Jean Cabot
  • d.Jacques Cartier

8.What did the First Nations Peoples most admire about Champlain?

  • a.His honesty
  • b.His physical strength and determination
  • c.His sense of humour
  • d.His ability to speak several languages

9.When Champlain finally found a huge body of water, how did he know it wasn’t the ocean?

  • a.He looked at a map
  • b.He tasted the water, and found it was not salty
  • c.He had read the diary of Jacques Cartier
  • d.He crossed the water in his canoe

10.Why did Champlain think that this land could become a great empire?

  • a.The soil was good for crops
  • b.There were lots of forests
  • c.The hunting was excellent
  • d.All of these

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