This book was a “Canada Reads” selection for 2005.
What is Volkswagen Blues?
100
Jack Kerouac’s hometown, and the setting for his novel Visions of Gerard
What is Lowell, Mass."?
100
Residents of Quebec fled to New England during the 20th century primarily for this reason.
What is economic opportunity?
100
The name Jack Kerouac gave to his entire body of fiction, which he conceived as a single literary project.
What is the Duluoz Legend?
200
This North American author received the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize.
Who is Patrick Chamoiseau?
200
The site of the largest wave of Acadian deportation, and the setting for the first part of the poem Evangéline
What is Grand Pré?
200
The French explorer who gave the name “Louisiana” to the area surrounding the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682.
Who is Lasalle?
300
This text first appeared in Italian, and wasn’t published in French until more than 50 years after it was written.
What is "The First Voyage of Jacques Cartier"?
300
The “Gateway to the West,” a French settlement founded in 1699
What is St. Louis?
300
This French officer founded the settlement of Detroit in 1701. Centuries later, his name is still prominent in the city that is now primarily known for its automobile industry.
Who is Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac?
400
The New York Herald Tribune called this book “slapdash, grossly sentimental, often so pridefully sincere that you can’t help question the value of sincerity itself.”
What is Visions of Gerard?
400
An American City whose name is the French term for the geographical feature “strait”
What is Detroit?
400
This 1763 treaty ended the French and Indian War and transferred most of France’s North American possessions into British control
What is the Treaty of Paris?
500
This famous author declared of Jack Kerouac’s books “That’s not writing at all. It’s typing.”
Who is Truman Capote?
500
The first permanent French settlement in North America, established by Samuel de Champlain in 1604
What is Port Royal?
500
In this year, France made La Martinique and Guadeloupe “overseas departments,” theoretically placing them on par with other administrative divisions of France.