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title: Canada: a short story — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 39 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 10 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Canada: a short story

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**Tests:** 2 of 10 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** plain · **Understood:** 8 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 39 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/39-canada-a-short-story/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/).

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### Test 1 · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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Ollie from Ohio asks why Canadian cereal boxes have French on them

- **1.** The cereal is made in Paris and shipped all the way across the Atlantic to Canada — no support
- **2.** It is a mistake by the factory — no support
- **3.** French is the only language in Canada — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** Canada has two official languages, English and French, from its French history — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 37, line 8: «After 1066 French became the language of the rulers, and thousands of French words entered English.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «french» (+2); the same thing acted on «language» (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t1/)

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### Test 2 · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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The USA broke away from Britain with a war. How was Canada's road different?

- **1.** Canada became independent step by step and peacefully — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Canada fought a longer war — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Canada was conquered by the USA — no support
- **4.** Canada never became independent — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «The American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, was fought largely over slavery; Abraham Lincoln declared slaves in the rebel states free, and in 1865 slavery was e…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «fight» (+2); the same thing acted on «american civil war» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t2/)

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### Test 3 · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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Why is the beaver on Canadian things like the five-cent coin?

- **1.** It was the king's pet — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is a joke from 2020 — no support
- **3.** The fur trade made the beaver a symbol of Canada — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Beavers built the dam beside the very first Canadian parliament — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t3/)

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### Test 4 · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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What would a country stretching thousands of kilometres need to hold it together in 1885?

- **1.** A bigger castle — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** A railway linking east and west — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** More beavers — no support
- **4.** A wall around it — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 33, line 1: «By 1914 the big countries of Europe were rivals with large armies, tied together in two groups of allies, so a quarrel between two of them could pull in all th…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «big countries» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t4/)

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### Test 5 · right ✓ {#t5}

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A child sent to a residential school was not allowed to speak her own language. Why is that so painful?

- **1.** It only lasted one day — no support
- **2.** It cut children off from their families and culture — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** It made school easier, because every lesson was in one language — no support
- **4.** It was what families wanted — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 39, line 14: «For over a hundred years many Indigenous children were taken from their families to residential schools, where they were forbidden to speak their own languages…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same thing acted on «many indigenous children» (+3); the same place «families» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t5/)

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### Test 6 · wrong ✗ {#t6}

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eh, why'd canada say sorry for the schools? isn't that old history

- **1.** It was a joke — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Canada did not say sorry — no support
- **3.** Because the schools were too far away from the cities and cost a lot of money to run — no support
- **4.** The harm affected many families still alive, and apologising helps healing — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t6/)

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### Test 7 · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Why did fighting at Vimy Ridge matter to Canadians so much?

- **1.** It was the first battle ever fought by any army anywhere in the world — score 3
- **2.** It ended the Second World War — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** Canada lost Québec there — no support
- **4.** It gave Canada a stronger sense of being its own nation — **✓ the right answer** · score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 33, line 17: «After the war old empires collapsed and new countries appeared on the map, and people hoped it had been the war to end all wars.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end» (+4); the same thing acted on «wars» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 6. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t7/)

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### Test 8 · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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A Toronto classroom has kids whose families come from 20 countries. What does that show?

- **1.** Toronto is a school for travellers — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Kids move every year — no support
- **3.** Only one culture lives in Canada — no support
- **4.** Canada is a mosaic of many cultures — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t8/)

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### Test 9 · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Who lived in Canada before the French arrived in 1608?

- **1.** First Nations and Inuit peoples, for thousands of years — **✓ the right answer** · score 7
- **2.** Only the British — **← Mova's choice** · score 8
- **3.** Only Vikings — score 5
- **4.** Nobody, it was empty land with only beavers, moose and bears — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 7 for the next best. Its support: lesson 17, line 17: «Millions of Native people live in the USA and Canada today, keeping their languages, ceremonies and nations alive, and many nations have their own governments.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «live» (+4); the same place «usa» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 7. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t9/)

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### Test 10 · right ✓ {#t10}

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Why did the Chinese railway workers deserve to be remembered?

- **1.** They fought at Vimy Ridge — score 2
- **2.** They did the most dangerous work building the railway — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** They designed the maple leaf flag — score 2
- **4.** They owned the railway — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, against 2 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 13: «Workers formed trade unions to ask together for fair pay, shorter hours and safety, and won things like the weekend and the eight-hour day.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «workers» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/t10/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the event commemorated annually upon the first day of July in Canada.

- **1.** The adoption of the maple leaf flag — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Confederation of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The Battle of the Plains of Abraham — no support
- **4.** The founding of Québec in sixteen hundred and eight — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the manner in which Canada attained independence?

- **1.** Gradually and by peaceful means — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** By purchase from France — no support
- **3.** By a single violent revolution — no support
- **4.** It has never attained independence — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Ascertain the official languages of Canada.

- **1.** French and Spanish together — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** English and French — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** English and Latin equally — no support
- **4.** English alone, everywhere — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the residential schools of Canada.

- **1.** Indigenous children were removed from their families and forbidden their own languages — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 13
- **2.** They were attended solely by adults — no support
- **3.** They taught exclusively in Indigenous languages — no support
- **4.** They were established at the request of Indigenous families who wished their children to learn English — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 13, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 39, line 14: «For over a hundred years many Indigenous children were taken from their families to residential schools, where they were forbidden to speak their own languages…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «take» (+5); the same place «families» (+5); the same thing acted on «many indigenous children» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/39-canada-a-short-story/e4/)

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