NewsTracker Answers for week of Nov. 11, 2019

Q: Quebec authorities ruled that because a French citizen wrote one chapter of her doctoral thesis in English her level of French language fluency wasn’t sufficient to obtain a certificate she needs to permanently settle in the Canadian province. Where is the province of Quebec?

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Q: Emilie Dubois, who grew up speaking French, said one out of five chapters of her thesis on cellular and molecular biology was in English because it was based on a published English article in a scientific journal. She received her doctorate from a French university in Quebec’s capital ...

A. Montreal

B. Ottawa

C. Quebec City

D. St. John's

C. Quebec City, the capital and second largest city of Quebec, was founded in 1608 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain. Montreal is the largest city in Quebec. Ottawa is the capital of Canada, and St. John’s is the capital and largest city of Newfoundland and Labrador, the easternmost province of Canada.

Q: Quebec’s authorities jealously protect the status of French as the official language of a province surrounded by English-speaking North America. Quebec came under British control 1763 after France’s defeat in what war?

A. French and Indian War

B. Seven Years’ War

C. War of Conquest

D. All of the above

D. Known as the French and Indian War in the United States and the Seven Years’ War in most of Canada, French-Canadians often call it La guerre de la Conquête ("The War of Conquest"). The conflict among five European powers over five continents started with an ambush of a small French force by a British unit led by a 22-year-old George Washington.

Q: After that war, the British expanded the Province of Quebec’s borders all the way to the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Which one of these present states was NOT part of that expanded province?

A. Illinois

B. Iowa

C. Michigan

D. Wisconsin

B. The province's territory was expanded to include much of what is now the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota. Iowa is across the Mississippi River from southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.

Q: During the Seven Years’ War, the British deported about 11,500 French-speaking Acadians from their land near the eastern coast of Canada. Where did many of those deportees end up?

A. Louisiana

B. Ohio

C. Texas

D. Wisconsin

A. Thousands of deported Acadians were sent to France and then recruited by Spain to settle farms in what is now Louisiana. There they developed what became known as Cajun culture. Other Acadians were sent south to Britain’s other Atlantic colonies where they often ended up in servitude and poverty.