ANTH373FA2007TESTTwo

ANTH 373 EXAM II on Friday November 9, 2007
1 The phrase "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindness" is a quotation in the Guidebook from:
Karl Heider.
Charles Darwin.
Samuel Clemens (also known as Mark Twain).
Andrew Strathern.
2 Micronesia, or the islands of Micronesia, have been described as "the islands that someone else
always runs" ever since the 16th Century when _____________ discovered the islands.
the British.
the American whalers.
the Dutch.
the Spanish.
3 On Mokil, the paneyney is a________l extended family and each family centers their activities in its canoe house.
matrilineal
patrilineal
cognatic
none-of-the-above!
4 Ongka's "Big Moka" referred to:
an elaborate string necklace that Ongka was weaving for the dead Dani youth.
the tail-feathers from a New Guinea Bird-of-Paradise.
a huge pig that Ongka was raising for Dr. Strathern.
the system of receiving gifts and later repaying them.
5 The "South Seas" or "Mar del Sur" was the term applied to the Pacific Ocean, largest on this planet with over 64,000,000 square miles in area, by:
Ferdinand Magellan.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa.
Captain James Cook.
Antonia Pigafeta.
6 Vast changes took place in the Pacific, especially WWII. The largest Japanese base in the Pacific - their "Gibraltar" of the Pacific (where their Imperial Fleet was anchored at various times) was destroyed in
February 1944 at:
Yap.
Rabaul.
Mokil.
Truk.
7 In the video First Contact (shown in the first part of this course!), the indigenous inhabitants thought the Leahy Brothers were:
prospectors for gold.
explorers opening up new territory.
returning ancestors.
escaped convicts from Australia.
8 Anthropological evidence indicates that islands in Melanesia have the most direct links to 
Polynesia. The evidence from Melanesia is:
rock carvings.
canoe shapes.
lapita pottrty.
all-of-the-above!
9 Shortly after World War II had ended, American intelligence in the Pacific received a shocking report: The Japanese, just prior to their surrender, had developed and successfully test-fired an atomic bomb. 
TRUE
FALSE
10 The term "cargo cult" describes a revitalization movement (also designated as revivalist, nativistic, or millenarian).
TRUE
FALSE
11 The term dege among the Dani of the New Guinea actually meant "human being."
TRUE
FALSE
12 The nation of Papua New Guinea became independent in 2005.
TRUE
FALSE
13 There are two aspects of the Pacific environment (especially for what we term "Micronesia") which dominate the thoughts of the islanders, especially on small islands: the scarcity of land and foreign aid.
TRUE
FALSE
14 It has been written that Micronesian political systems fall into the type generally called chiefdoms.
TRUE
FALSE
15 November 1, 1945, was the date that Operation Olympic was to begin (the invasion of the main islands of Japan)
TRUE
FALSE
16 According to Douglas Oliver, "The rape of Oceania began with Guam."
TRUE
FALSE