Quiz 11
1. T/F Art can encourage us to change our current conditions, according to Ai Weiwei.
True
2. The following ideal is perhaps the most central to Confucius in The Analects. It’s
something to die for, potentially.
fame
humaneness
physical beauty
3. T/F According to Yun Sheng in “Little Emperors,” the “rustication” or sending away of
youth to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution prevented these youth from
obtaining an education.
True
4. T/F Confucius doesn’t care about whether people correct their mistakes.
False
Quiz 2B – Global Cultures
1. Consider the following passages. Which one describes the guna of rajas?
“ignorance-born, / deludes all embodied beings; / it binds them, Arjuna, by means
of / dullness, indolence, and sleep”
“marked by passion / born of craving and attachment; / it binds the
embodied Self / to never-ending activity”
“untainted, / luminous, free from sorrow, / binds by means of attachment / to
knowledge and joy, Arjuna”
2. Who speaks the following in the Gita (give the name of his specific, human incarnation
in this text):
The man who sees me in everything
and everything within me
will not be lost to me, nor
will I ever be lost to him.
Lord Krishna who is an incarnation of Vishnu- one of the three main deities in Hinduism
also known as the preserver
3. Gandhi prefers to use this term, rather than “independence,” to refer to the selfdetermination and sovereignty of India.
Swaraj
4. Who thinks that the Bhagavad Gita is not to be read strictly literally, but is primarily
symbolic, “a battle between the innumerable forces of good and evil which become
personified in us as virtues and vices”?
Gandhi
Global Cultures Week 1 – Quiz 1B
1. Give a short summary of what Simone de Beauvoir dislikes about American
culture/civilization.
Simone de Beauvoir emphasizes her dissatisfaction with American society and
civilization, particularly its materialism, shallowness, and consumerism. She is
opposed to the emphasis on wealth and prestige, as well as the ubiquitous impact of
advertising and mass media, which she feels encourages uniformity and discourages
critical thinking. She is also critical of the social disparities and racial segregation
that remain in the United States, despite the country's claims to be a land of liberty
and opportunity.
2. Who said the following:
Let us say, then, of the paper-knife that its essence—that is to say the sum
of its formulae and the qualities which made its production and its
definition possible—precedes its existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
3. Identify Sartre’s three “existential conditions”—the three states in which we already are
living, even if we do not yet know it, and that (in his view) we must acknowledge in
order to live fully.
hope
despair
anguish
joy
anarchy
abandonment
Abandonment, Despair, Anguish
4. This poet wrote the narration for Nuit et brouillard/Night and Fog, concluding the film
on the general warning that human cruelty and totalitarianism did not end in 1945.
Albert Camus
Jean Cayrol
Hanns Eisler
Quiz 3 – Global Cultural Studies
1. True or False: according to Frantz Fanon, decolonization is always violent.
True
2. In The Battle of Algiers, when a reporter asks him “Isn’t it cowardly to use your women’s
baskets to carry bombs?” he responds that it seems more cowardly to “attack defenseless
villages with napalm bombs” and concludes: “Give us your bombers [e.g., airplanes] and
we’ll give you our baskets.”
Ben M’hidi, a key leader of FLN (National Liberation Front), the Algerian
revolutionary movement, in The Battle of Algiers
The French paratrooper commander (Colonel Mathieu), in The Battle of Algiers
Jean-Paul Sartre
3. True or False: According to Fanon, those who are forced to live under colonial
domination dream about jumping, swimming, running, and climbing, among other
activities.
False
4. Name one effect that Adam Tooze ties to the COVID crisis that you didn’t already know
about.
Tooze talks about how the COVID crisis has highlighted and exacerbated existing social
and political inequities, as well as heightened arguments about healthcare access, social
safety nets, and the role of governments in crisis management; I hadn’t know the actual
extent of this before reading Tooze.
Quiz 4B – Global Cultural Studies
1. Which animal is considered sacred in Igbo culture and is not to be killed – a position that
will cause a tense relationship between the Christian converts and the clan when one of
the converts kills one?
the tortoise
the chicken
the python
2. What do the local leaders of Umuofia do to the church building after one of the Christian
converts, Enoch, deliberately unmasks (and therefore strips of dignity) an egwugwu?
The smash everything in it and then burn the remains
3. What is the favorite instrument of Okonkwo’s father Unoka—one that he takes with him
when he is brought into the forest to die alone?
a flute
a drum
a gong
4. True/false: Fela Kuti approved of multinational corporations like ITT and their influence
on Nigerian government, commerce, and culture.
False