Canadian History Superquiz 2: Can Lit

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone!  In celebration, test your knowledge of our literary landscape.

1.  Susanna Moodie is famous for her memoir:
- Roughing It In The Slush
- Flushing It In The Swish
- Huffing It In The Bushes
- Stuffing It In The Dish

2.  “The Hockey Sweater” is a children’s story about:
- Maurice “Bonhomme” Richard
- Maurice Richard as portrayed by Roy Dupuis
- The Quiet Revolution
- The demise of Eaton’s due to poor customer service

3.  Choose your geographic metaphor:
- The prairie is vast and empty, like my soul
- The arctic is vast and empty, like my soul
- The city is vast and empty, like my soul
- The sea is vast and empty, like my soul

4.  Who are the Beautiful Losers?
- Runner ups on America’s Next Top Model
- I don’t even know what I’m supposed to think of this book
- It was you and me, but you got away, didn’t you babe
- Characters who are better appreciated after the author becomes famous doing something else

5.  What was Al Purdy doing at the Quinte Hotel?
- Forcing poetry on other patrons
- Making exquisite anthologies
- Noticing flowers
- Being insensitive

6.  Which one is the Farley Mowat novel:
- Owls in the Family
- Wolves at the Birthday Party
- Ducks in the Truck
- Snakes on a Plane

7.  For your book report, choose one of the following misspellings of Michael Ondaatje:
- “Michael Andatchey”
- “Michael On-Dot-Jay”
- “Michael …  ahh forget it!”
- “Mikey O.”

8.  Pick the line by Robert Service:
- Too much rum ‘neath the midnight sun makes a man pass out in the snow
- The whoop up was wild, there was guns and hooch and a travelin’ puppet show
- Yukon Joe ate sourdough till he had to go to the can
- The cold was fierce, and I barely recall how I murdered Sled Dog Stan

Please circle all your answers and submit your papers via the underground railroad

You may refer to past test results to see if you got any better at this.

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