Gabriel Dumont: Métis Leader on the Prairies
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Answer the multiple-choice questions below.
1.
When and where was Gabriel Dumont born?
- (A) He was born during the California gold rush in 1849
- (B) He was born in 1885 at the Batoche siege
- (C) He was born in 1837 at the Red River Settlement
- (D) He was born in Ottawa during the railway era
2.
In 1851, where did the buffalo hunt take Gabriel and his family?
- (A) Out onto the Grand Coteau, the wide open prairie
- (B) Up to the busy stone docks at Red River for trading
- (C) All the way to a small schoolhouse in Montreal
- (D) Down to a noisy gold mine deep in California
3.
In the video, what were buffalo used for?
- (A) Mostly for big ceremonies that happened once a year
- (B) Mostly for building railway tracks across the prairie
- (C) Mostly for carrying letters and mail to the towns
- (D) For food, for trade, and for warm robes for families
4.
Gabriel was about 13 years old at Grand Coteau. What does he say he did?
- (A) He stayed back in town and went to school that summer
- (B) He stood with the older hunters, doing what he was told
- (C) He led the whole hunt brigade all by himself that day
- (D) He hid far away from the camp until it was all over
5.
Why was protecting the buffalo hunt so important?
- (A) Buffalo gave families food and things to trade
- (B) It was a fun summer game the kids liked to watch
- (C) It was a class project the schoolhouse made everyone do
- (D) It was just practice for a long parade in town
6.
When the buffalo got harder to find, what did Gabriel do?
- (A) He moved away to Paris and never wrote home again
- (B) He stopped helping his community and stayed inside
- (C) He became a sailor and crossed the Atlantic Ocean
- (D) He started a ferry, did some farming, and ran a store
7.
Why did the Métis choose Gabriel as one of their leaders?
- (A) He had the loudest and best singing voice of anyone
- (B) They knew and trusted him from years on the hunt
- (C) He was the youngest person in the whole camp
- (D) He was newly arrived from a faraway country
8.
In 1885, the Métis felt their voices were not being heard. What did Gabriel help them do?
- (A) They wanted to move away from the prairies forever
- (B) They wanted to forget about hunting and trading
- (C) They stood together to ask to be treated fairly
- (D) They wanted to build a railway across all of Canada
9.
At Batoche, what was hardest for the Métis?
- (A) They got tired of horseback riding in the prairie heat
- (B) They forgot which way was the road back home
- (C) They had way too many extra carts on the road
- (D) They ran low on the supplies they needed
10.
After the hard time of 1885, what happened to Gabriel?
- (A) He left for a while, then later came back home
- (B) He sailed away on a giant boat to live in England
- (C) He moved to the moon to study the stars
- (D) He became the very first king of Canada