SOSC303FA2005TESTTwo

SOCIAL SCIENCE 303 EXAM II on November 4, 2005.


1 In "traditional" times, the Netsilik Eskimo of North America had their holy men, called: 
pilchuks.
Big-Men.
Shamans.
Itimagnacs.

2 A scene from Fiddler on the Roof was used in class to demonstrate the importance of:
attitudes.
behavior.
politics.
traditions.

3 Stories that reveal the religious knowledge of how things have come into being is a definition pertaining to:
religious stories.
just-so-stories.
mythology.
mana.

4 "If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools" was made by:
Charles R. Darwin.
John T. Scopes.
Clarence Darrow.
Robert Chambers.

5 The Guidebook pointed out that the bloody years of Yana history were from _____. It was in then that the whole white population of the Sacramento Valley was in an uproar of rage and fear over the murder of five white children by hill Indians--probably Yahi.
1825-1850
1849-1881
1850-1872
1872-1911

6 The way people characteristically look out on the universe is known as:
religion.
Worldview.
ethnocentrism.
mythology.

7 The individual who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" was:
John. T. Scopes.
Charles Lyell.
Thomas Henry Huxley.
Alfred Russel Wallace.

8 Pacific cultures were changed primarily as a result of:
military pacification.
explorers and trade goods.
the introduction of non-indigenoous religious systems.
Sorry: all-of-the-above resulted in changes in Pacific Cultures!

9 The "Native American Gaming Revolution" began in the State of Oklahoma.
TRUE
FALSE

10 The Cree Indians of Canada have an "electronic pen-pal" system with indigenous people in Australia.
TRUE
FALSE

11 The process of differential survival and reproduction that results in changes in gene frequencies and in the characteristics that the genes encode is known as "Intelligent Design."
TRUE
FALSE

12 Truganini (of Tasmanian fame) died on May 8, 1926.
TRUE
FALSE

13 Herbert Spencer was the first individual to come up with the concept of "survival of the fittest" and Charles Dawin eventually borrowed it from him.
TRUE
FALSE

14 According to Barnett (in the Guidebook), European mastery of large parts of the globe was due to racial superiority.
TRUE
FALSE

15 According to Darwin for Beginners, the "destruction" of the literal interpretation of the Bible came about because of the publications of Darwin.
TRUE
FALSE

16 Finally, the city known as Cahokia was located in what we call Tasmania.
TRUE
FALSE