Quizzes -- Fall 2007

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CF 3333 Clash of Cultures
QUIZZES -- Fall 2007
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. In 1450 it was the prevailing mode of production in state societies. 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. Among the readings for today’s class, the selection on Ancient Society was written by ____________. 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. An ______________________ is a problem-solving mechanism that links culture to society. Extra credit: Please identify the symbol on the flag above: ____________________.
QUIZ TWO circle the right answer: 1. Most scholars hold with the idea that the First Americans came into the New World from a) Northeast Asia b) the Near East c) South Asia d) Southern Europe 2. The New World crop trilogy includes maize, beans and a) oats b) greens c) squash d) wheat 3.) El Inca’s power was associated with the a) Moon b) Underworld c) Sun d) Rain God 4. The classic book on the Iroquois, League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee or Iroquois was written by a) Franz Boas b) Elmer Service c) Lewis H. Morgan d) Eric Wolf 5. The two founders of the League of the Iroquois are considered to be Deganawidah and a) Chief Seattle b) Hiawatha c) Geronimo d) Sitting Bull
QUIZ THREE 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. The area of South America we know as Brazil was colonized by _______________ . 3. _________________ , 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. 4. _____________ was the conqueror of Mexico. 5. The slaves brought to the Americas came from the continent of ______________ .
QUIZ FOUR Please circle the right answer: 1. The “Great Schism” refers to a major problem for the Medieval Church; that problem was a) the Holy Roman Emperor took his subjects out of the Church. b) there was a period in which two or more people claimed to be Pope. c) the Eastern and Western branches of the Church split. d) the result of the triumph of John Wycliffe in England. 2. According to Hythloday the Utopians a) outlawed Catholicism in Utopia. b) did not make use of priests in their worship. c) rejected the existence of a God. d) allowed all to practice the religion of their choice. 3.) The Bull Unam Sanctam promulgated by Boniface VII a) argued that obedience to the Pope was necessary for salvation. b) was a plea to Christianize South America. c) divided the non Christian world between Spain and Portugal. d) declared Luther to be a heretic. 4. If Medieval Europe had a master institution it was a) the government of the Holy Roman Empire. b) the Roman Catholic Church. c) the great universities. d) the Patriarchate of Constantinople. 5. Utopian society was marked by a) a bitter division between the inhabitants of the cities and the rural areas. b) reliance on a very complex code of laws. c) a very even distribution of goods. d) the existence of a strong army and a desire for conquest.
QUIZ FIVE 1.) The first European People to reach North American in about A.D. 1000 were the ___________________________. a) French c) Italians b) Vikings d) Germans 2.) The Great Sun was the leader of the ________________________. a) Natchez c) Iroquois b) Huron d) Powhatan 3.) The Pueblo Revolt was led by several individuals but the man named _____________________ gets the most credit for leading the revolt. a) Sitting Bull c) Papago Foot b) Esteban d) Pope 4.) Two major European items generated great change in the Plains Indian world they were the _________________and the trade gun. a) Horse c) Ox Cart b) Metal Axe d) Trade Blanket 5.) In the Early 1540s __________________________ made an extensive trip throughout the Southwest and into the Plains but did not find gold and silver. a) Cortez c) Coronado b) Juan de Onate d) John Cabot
QUIZ SIX 1. The English philosopher __________ is called the “Father of Liberalism. 2. In France before the Revolution the Third Estate was made up of everyone who was not clergy or ____________. 3. ______________________ wrote “What is the Third Estate?” 4. ______________________ is the author of the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman.” 5. The “Declaration of the Rights of Woman” was addressed to the Queen of ______________.
QUIZ SEVEN 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 Wealthy retired merchant in Coketown, later a member of Parliament. Espouses a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and hard, cold fact. Generally called “Tom.” An apprentice at Bounderby’s bank. A dissipated, hedonistic, hypocritical young man. The innocent, compassionate, imaginative daughter of a circus entertainer in Sleary’s circus. She is taken in by Gradgrind when her father disappears. 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. One a member of the aristocratic elite, she fell on hard times after the collapse of her marriage. A selfish, manipulative, dishonest woman. 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. A rationalistic, pale-skinned young man at Gradgrind’s school, later an employee at Bounderby’s bank. The unpleasant, rationalistic teacher at Gradgrind’s school. 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. 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.
QUIZ EIGHT (circle the best choice) The city of Lowell whose factories were praised by Dickens is a city in Yorkshire New York Scotland Massachusetts. The mode of production 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 is the tributary mode of production capitalist mode of production democratic mode of production elite mode of production. The Industrial Revolution began in Germany the United States England the Netherlands. The Wealth of Nations was written by Karl Marx John Locke Adam Smith Alexis de Tocqueville. In his essay on "Slavery" Dickens shows his hatred of that institution provides a dispassionate analysis of slavery congratulates the South for humanizing slavery argues that the slave in America had it no worse than the worker in Coketown
QUIZ NINE Please circle the correct answer. 1. The author of a letter to President Franklin Pierce assigned for tonight is assumed to be a. Chief Portland b. Handsome Lake c. Chief Seattle d. Chief Pontiac. 2. When the Russians came to the New World in 1741 their first major encounter was with the a, Aleuts b, Cherokee c. Iroquois d. Crow. 3. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was strongly endorsed by a, John Ross b. Handsome lake c. Wovoka d. Andrew Jackson. 4. The true meaning of the phrase "The Trail of Tears" would only apply to the a. Seminole b. Creek c. Cherokee d. Chickasaw. 5. The second Ghost Dance was led by the shaman a. Wovoka b. Handsome Lake c. Osceola d. Pontiac.
QUIZ 10 Please circle the correct answer. 1. The name of the movement that advocates the political, social, and economic equality of men and women is: a. liberalism b. egalitarianism c. feminism d. socialism 2. The belief that men are intrinsically superior to women and are thus fated to control the institutional arrangements governing the allocation of power (according to your Sourcebook): a. chauvinism b. patriarchy c. masculinism d. sheer pigheadedness 3. Author of "Why I Mention Women"; she lived in France: a. Olympe de Gouges b. Sarah Grimke c. Angelina Grimke d. Flora Tristan 4. This German sociologist is the author of "On Charisma and Bureaucracy": a. Karl Marx b. Max Weber c. Friedrich Engels d. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5. The "Two Nations" referred to in the reading by Benjamin Disraeli are: a. the rich and the poor b. men and women c. the proletariat and the bourgeoisie d. Liberals and Conservatives
QUIZ 11 Barbara is a major in the _____________ Army. Adolphus is a professor of ____________ . Andrew Undershaft is the head of a very successful company known for: a. producing textiles b. producing cannons c. building bridges d. building cathedrals Peter Shirley lost his job because he is: e. a pardoned criminal f. a drunk g. suffering from mental illness h. too old 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:” i. Baptism and Communion j. money and gunpowder k. faith and good works l. love of neighbor and self On the morning after his conversation with Undershaft, Professor Cusins describes him to lady Britomart as the m. Champion of Freedom n. Savior of the Salvation Army o. Prince of Darkness p. a superb drummer The “Undershaft inheritance “ requires that the successor to the head of the firm must be q. a member of the Church of England r. a foundling s. a nobleman t. an MBA Undershaft’s son, Stephen, is deemed by his father to be best suited for a career in: u. trades v. Parliament w. journalism x. philosophy In the debate with his father, Stephen declares that what governs England is y. the Prime Minister z. The Church of England aa. Queen Victoria bb. English national character Andrew Undershaft declares to Cusins that _____________ is the “greatest crime.”

CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

QUIZZES -- Fall 2007