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Canada at War: WWI
Quiz#5





  1. The idea of the League of Nations came from which U.S. president?



    A) Bill Clinton
    B) Teddy RooseveltBR> C) Woodrow Wilson
    D) Franklin Roosevelt



  2. The Treaty of Versailles stated that this German region must be free of soldiers.



    A) Bavaria
    B) Sudetenland
    C) Alsace Lorraine
    D) Rhineland



  3. Which law granted the Canadian government the power to arrest suspected spies?



    A) War Measures Act
    B) Military Service Act
    C) Wartime Elections Act
    D) Internment Act



  4. Which Canadain general planned and executed the assault on Vimy Ridge?



    A) Billy Bishop
    B) Douglas Haig
    C) Sam Hughes
    D) Arthur Currie



  5. What rifle was issued to Canadian soldiers at the outbreak of WWI?



    A) Lee Enfield
    B) Vickers
    C) Ross Rifle
    D) AK-47



  6. What was trench foot?



    A) British Tank
    B) disease leading to gangrene
    C) code name for Passchendaele
    D) Robert Borden's nickname



  7. In 1914, which training camp did Canadian volunteers attend?



    A) Versailles
    B) Halifax
    C) Valcartier
    D) Flanders



  8. In the film, "All Quiet on the Western Front", how did Paul Bauer die?



    A) sniper
    B) heavy shelling
    C) infection
    D) stabbed by bayonet



  9. "All Quiet on the Western Front" was written by an author of what country?



    A) Austria-Hungary
    B) France
    C) Russia
    D) Germany



  10. What was "no man's land"?



    A) Atlantic Ocean
    B) area between two front lines
    C) sky over the battlefield
    D) Switzerland



  11. An example of militarism was the arms race between which two countries?



    A) France and Germany
    B) Austria-Hungary and Germany
    C) Germany and Britain
    D) Austria-Hungary and Serbia