Name: ____________________

Date: ____________________

Check-Up: Grade 5 Social Studies

Answer each question below. Please write neatly.
1) Who were the coureurs des bois? Where did the
coureurs des bois come from? What did the coureurs
des bois do?

2) What were the main languages spoken by fur traders

and their families in the fur trade forts? List the
languages below (you dont need to tell me any words
from each language).

3) Who were the habitants? Write three sentences

describing what you think their life would have been
like.

Multiple Choice and True or False

1) Which company controlled the fur trade?
A. Hudsons Bay Company
B. Metis
C. Northwest Company
2) True or False: Hudsons Bay Company made their own
money.
A. True
B. False
3) Which is NOT a reason Europeans came to North
America?
A. Northwest Passage
B. Sell products to new groups of people
C. Catch fish
4) Where was New France?
A. In modern-day Ontario
B. In modern-day Quebec
C. In modern-day New Brunswick

How well do you think you understand New France and the
fur trade? Rate yourself on the scale below, and explain your
answer.

1
2
Dont
Dont
understand any understand
of what we have some of what

3
4
Understand
Understand
most of what we everything we
learned, but am have learned

learned

we learned

still confused on
some things

Reason:
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