1) Under the Constitutional Act, 1791 certain owners and tenants were granted qualified voter status, without distinction as to sex. Some women of Lower Canada who met the prerequisites were able to vote until 1849, the year in which this right was withdrawn from them. True False
2) Who said: "It is revolting to see women dragged by their husbands and daughters, by their fathers, often against their will, to hustings. Public interest, decency and the modesty of women demand that these scandals never reoccur."? Louis-Joseph Papineau Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine Robert Baldwin Cardinal Bégin
3) Mrs. Thérèse Casgrain, Mrs. Carrie Derrick, Mrs. Marie Gérin-Lajoie, Mrs. Walter Lyman and Ms Idola Saint-Jean were all women who actively campaigned for women's suffrage. True or False? True False
4) She headed the League for Women's Rights, an organization that fought for the legal and political equality of Québec women. Marie Gérin-Lajoie Mae O'Connor Thérèse Casgrain Agnès Macphail
5) From 1922 to 1940, Québec suffragettes made several "pilgrimages" to Québec City to demand their right to vote. Idola Saint-Jean was one of these pilgrims. What organization did she head? Montreal Suffrage Association Comité pour le vote des femmes L'Alliance canadienne pour le vote des femmes du Québec Ligue des droits de la femme
6) In their struggle for political equality, suffragettes encountered a great deal of opposition. For the most part, resistance came from: the clergy and politicians journalists women all of the above
7) Siding with the cause of suffragettes, he agreed to submit the first bill on women's right to vote in 1922. Who was he? Henry Miles Irénée Vautrin Victor Marchand Joseph-Adélard Godbout
8) During the election campaign that preceded the 1939 general election, he promised to give women the right to vote. Once elected, he presented the bill granting women the right to vote and to stand for election, a bill assented to on April 25, 1940. Who was he? Joseph-Adélard Godbout Maurice L. Duplessis Louis-Alexandre Taschereau Henry Miles
9) From 1922 to 1940, how many bills dealing with women's suffrage were tabled before women were finally victorious? 13 14 10 3
10) In 1961, she was elected in a by-election and would be the first Québec woman to sit in the Legislative Assembly and the first Québec woman to be a minister. Who was she? Thérèse Casgrain Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain Mae O'Connor Léa Roback
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