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CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

QUIZZES -- Fall 2005

QUIZ ONE

 

1. The ______________________ mode of production is based on a ruling elite of surplus takers who have the right and power to take surplus from the working population.

2. According to the SourceBook, "in a ________________ political power is institutionalized, enacted, and official, and it employs, threatens, or implies the actual use of force."

3. The religion of the Ottoman Empire was _____________________.

4. We have defined ________________ as the sum total of knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavioral patterns shared and transmitted by members of the same human society.

5. According to Wendell Oswalt, no ______________ could be erected without having a potlatch to honor the event.

 

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QUIZ TWO

1. ___________________ was a Dominican priest who devoted himself to protecting Amerindians under Spanish rule. His accounts of the treatment meted out by his fellow Spaniards to the native population of the Americas gained much attention.

2. _________________ , starting from Spain in 1519, led the first circumnavigation of the globe; some members of his crew returned to Spain in 1522. He died on the voyage.

3. _____________ was the conqueror of Mexico.

4. That area of South America we know as ______________ was colonized by Portugal.

5. The ____________ ____________ is a term used by Adler and other historians to refer to new crops, animals, technologies and values introduced by Europeans in the Americas and to the reverse flow of products and influences from the Americas to Europe.

 

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QUIZ THREE

1. More wrote in favor of religious diversity in Utopia . This view was not shared by Boniface VII who lived before More’s time. In 1302 he issued “The Bull ____________ ____________” in which he declared “…that there is one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and that outside that Church there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.”

2. The word utopia comes from ou topos meaning “ ___________ place.”

3. In Utopia _____________ and _______________ were used for bedpans.

4. The legendary founder of Utopia was King ____________.

5. In the lecture on Utopia it was argued that More represents, not post-Reformation individualism, but Medieval ____________.

 

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QUIZ FOUR -- HARD TIMES

Instructions: Insert the number of the appropriate character description in front of the character listed here below.

_______ Bitzer

_______ Stephen Blackpool

_______ Josiah Bounderby

_______ Mrs. Gradgrind

_______ Thomas Gradgrind

_______ Thomas Gradgrind, Jr.

_______ James Harthouse

_______ Cecelia Jupe

_______ Mr. M’Choakumchild

_______ Mrs. Sparsit

 

1. Wealthy retired merchant in Coketown, later a member of Parliament. Espouses a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and hard, cold fact.

2. Generally called “Tom.” An apprentice at Bounderby’s bank. A dissipated, hedonistic, hypocritical young man.

3. The innocent, compassionate, imaginative daughter of a circus entertainer in Sleary’s circus. She is taken in by Gradgrind when her father disappears.

4. A wealthy factory owner and banker in Coketown. He claims to be a self-made man and boastfully describes being abandoned by his mother as a young boy.

5. One a member of the aristocratic elite, she fell on hard times after the collapse of her marriage. A selfish, manipulative, dishonest woman.

6. A sophisticated, bored young London gentleman who comes to Coketown to enter politics as a disciple of Gradgrind, simply because he thinks it might alleviate his boredom. He quickly becomes attracted to Louisa and resolves to seduce her.

7. A rationalistic, pale-skinned young man at Gradgrind’s school, later an employee at Bounderby’s bank.

8. The unpleasant, rationalistic teacher at Gradgrind’s school.

9. A whiny, anemic wife, who constantly tells her children to study their “ologies,” and constantly complains that she’ll “never hear the end” of any complaint.

10. A hand in Bounderby’s factory. Loves Rachael, but is unable to marry her because he is already married, albeit to a horrible, drunken woman who constantly abandons him. A man of great honesty and integrity.

 

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QUIZ FIVE

 

1. The city of Lowell whose factories were praised by Dickens is a city in ________________________________.

2. The ___________________________ mode of production is based on workers who are free to sell their work, on ownership of the means of production by an economic elite, and on the emergence of a money-based economy.

3. The Industrial Revolution began in what European country? _______________

4. ________________________ wrote The Wealth of Nations.

5. ______________ wrote essay on slavery in America in the SourceBook.

 

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QUIZ 6

 

1. __________________ was the most famous Iroquois religious figure of the 19th century.

2. The Ghost Dance is an example of what sociologists call a _____________________ movement.

3. “The death of a Crow warrior sometimes led an inconsolable male kinsman to take one of the greatest of vows- to hold a ____________ .”

4. _________ ______________ is assumed to be the author of a letter to President Franklin Pierce assigned for tonight.

5. According to Mr. Phinney, one of the most traumatic events for 19th century Plains Indians was the disappearance of the _______, whose hides were in great demand.

 

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QUIZ 7

1. _________________ is the name of the movement that advocates the political, social, and economic equality of men and women.

2. _________________ is the belief that men are intrinsically superior to women and are thus fated to control the institutional arrangements governing the allocation of power.

3. _________________ is the author of “Why I Mention Women”; she lived in France.

4. _________________, a German sociologist, is the author of “On Charisma and Bureaucracy.”

5. _________________, later Queen Victoria’s Prime Minister, wrote what the SourceBook titles “The Two Nations” as a young man.

 

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QUIZ 8

Fill in this “study guide” as you watch the film. Turn in the sheet at the conclusion of the film. Either fill in the blank or circle the best answer to each question.

1. Barbara is a major in the _____________ Army.

2. Adolphus is a professor of ____________ .

3. Andrew Undershaft is the head of a very successful company known for:

a. producing textiles

b. producing cannons

c. building bridges

d. building cathedrals

4. Peter Shirley lost his job because he is:

a. a pardoned criminal

b. a drunk

c. suffering from mental illness

d. too old

5. In a conversation with Adolphus Cusins, Andrew Undershaft describes himself as a “collector of religions” and goes on to say that there are “two things necessary for salvation:”

a. Baptism and Communion

b. money and gunpowder

c. faith and good works

d. love of neighbor and self

6. On the morning after his conversation with Undershaft, Professor Cusins describes him to lady Britomart as the

a. Champion of Freedom

b. Savior of the Salvation Army

c. Prince of Darkness

d. a superb drummer

7. The “Undershaft inheritance “ requires that the successor to the head of the firm must be

a. a member of the Church of England

b. a foundling

c. a nobleman

d. an MBA

8. Undershaft’s son, Stephen, is deemed by his father to be best suited for a career in:

a. trades

b. Parliament

c. journalism

d. philosophy

9. In the debate with his father, Stephen declares that what governs England is

a. the Prime Minister

b. The Church of England

c. Queen Victoria

d. English national character

10. Andrew Undershaft declares to Cusins that _____________ is the “greatest crime.”

 

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