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Quiz on the Official Languages Act

(10 minutes)

Answer true or false to the following statements to check your general knowledge of the act. Then check your answers.

	1. The primary reason the act was passed was to ensure service to the public in English and French.
	2. The act confers on members of the public the obligation to request service in the official language of their choice.
	3. The act obliges institutions to provide service to the public in the two official languages in certain circumstances.
	4. Individual public servants have linguistic obligations only if they occupy bilingual positions.
	5. The act gives members of the public the right to choose the official language in which they wish to be served.
	6. Under the act , institutions are obliged to announce that service is available in both official languages.
	7. The obligation to make an 'active offer' of service does not apply to communications with visitors to Canada and federal inmates.

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