1. How does Las Vegas influence postmodern architecture? (In your answer, make reference to images and readings in the text.)
2. Discuss the effect of globalization on the environment and indigenous cultures. In your answer, make reference to images from the text.)
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11. Colonization:
a. Has created various “rights” for Aboriginal people
b. Has prevented Aboriginal people from developing healthy cultural identities c. Has produced empowerment in Aboriginal communities
d. Has produced cohesive Aboriginal communities.
12. Early settlers in Canada:
a. Allowed Aboriginal people access to lands and resources
b. Developed strategies to help Aboriginal people adjust to.
1. Describe Kafka’s imaginative world as evidenced by the selection from his
Metamorphosis (Reading 37.2).
2. Describe significant characteristics and figures of the International Style. (In your answer, refer to images from the text.)
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1. On the subject of human races it can be said that
A. there is biological support for dividing people into races. B. race is a cultural construct.
C. race never played a big part in U.S. history.
D. race was never an aspect of U.S. immigration laws
2. Thomas Jefferson
A. engaged in miscegenation.
B..
1. After years of research, science has established a connection between race, intelligence, and genetics?
2. During World War I soldiers were given the Army Mental Tests. One conclusion was that the American adults scored barely above that of a moron.
3. No intelligence tests for African Americans were ever developed because.
1. Human variation includes
A. enzymes.
B. blood types.
C. disease susceptibility. D. any or all of these
2. The ancient Greeks
A. lacked ethnocentrism.
B. divided the world into Greeks and Non-Greeks based on culture and language. C. based slavery on race like the ancient Romans.
D. believed only Greeks could learn to speak to Greek.
3. .
1. No modern study has confirmed that beak size in Darwin’s finches came about by natural selection.
2. Creationism and Intelligent Design trace their ancestry to the writings of William
Paley the beginning of the 1800s.
3. Thomas Malthus argued that population growth if left unchecked would outstrip food supplies.
4. Alfred Russell Wallace.
1. How is naturalism different from modernity? Explain, using works of Baudelaire, Manet, and
2. What is and was the appeal of opera as a genre? Use Verdi’s Rigoletto and Wagner’s
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1. With regard to human differences in biological traits, anthropologists ask
A. What are the adaptive significances of the traits? B. How can these traits fit into a typology?
C. How do these traits correspond racial categories? D. How does lung size connect to skin color?
2. Maintaining normal physiological function in spite.
1. Charles Darwin
A. was an excellent student of Greek and Latin Classics. B. enjoyed medical school.
C. was recommended to be the naturalist on the HMS Beagle. D. did not finish his education as a minister.
2. While at Cambridge, Darwin
A. found that he enjoyed natural history.
B. never liked collecting beetles or.
1. The foraging lifestyle included a diet of
A. of mostly meat.
B. mostly meat and some plant foods. C. mostly plant food and some meat. D. most grains gathered by women.
2. The division of labor in among foragers was mostly based on
A. age and one’s place in the social hierarchy. B..
1. People whose ancestors have lived in hot climates and who continue to occupy hot climates have both a genetic adaptation and acclimatization to the heat found in their environment.
2. In the U.S. a tan is seen as a sign of health, vigor and affluence but it may lead to.
1. Among those anthropologists who accept the biological validity of race, there is agreement on the number of human races.
2. Before 1950 there were no biological anthropologists who questioned the biological existence of race.
3. One problem when discussing race is that there is often confusion between race and cultural differences.
4. .
1. Gergor Mendel discovered
A. the mechanism of blending inheritance.
B. genetic principles that only apply to plants
C. the process of inheritance in all sexually reproducing organisms. D. the principles of inheritance while working as a teacher in France.
2. When crossing pure breeding tall and short pea plants
A. no offspring appear.
B. all.
1. Given Darwin’s objective observations and conclusions, why were his conclusions so controversial? Discuss the nature of the debate he had with Agassiz and their different views on the relationship between race and species.
2. Is ?propaganda? an appropriate term to apply to Homer’s illustrations and Gardner’s and
O’Sullivan’s photographs of war? .
5. Why was Kate Chopin’s The Awakening a critical flop? (In your answer, reference
6. What does Sullivan mean by ?form follows function?? (In your answer, reference images from the text.)
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3. What were the causes of the Opium War between Britain and China?
4. What is the significance of Japanese woodblock prints? (In your answer, reference images from the text.)
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4. How is John Cage’s work an ?art of inclusiveness??
5. How is pop art a rejection of commercialism? (In your answer, reference images from the text.)
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1. Explain the effect of the mythologizing of the American West on Native populations. (In your answer, reference images from the text.)
2. Discuss some of the prominent features of Native American art. (In your answer, reference images from the text.)
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1. The authors argue that colonialization:
a. Helped shape the organization of Canadian society. b. Demonstrated the value of Aboriginal culture
c. Allows us to understand inter-tribal warfare
d. Shows how individual discrimination takes place in society
2. Aboriginal participation in Canadian society:
a. Is a result of the attributes of Aboriginal culture
b. .
1. Traits that are under simple genetic control with little environmental influence include
A. intelligence
B. height
C. hemophilia
D. inventiveness
2. The arrangement of primitive life forms to complex animals arrayed in a linear fashion is called
A. the Linnaeus hierarchy.
B. the scientific relationship between race and behavior. C. an upside down ladder.
D. the Great.
1. For most of human history, humans have been agriculturalists.
2. Childhood malnutrition is an unintended consequence of the Neolithic Revolution.
3. The dietary pyramid of the Department of Agriculture parallels that of the diet of foragers.
4. The Neolithic Revolution resulted in an increase in cardiovascular disease and cancer.
5. Organized religion and.
26. Myths become maps by which people make sense of their world, even if they are not true.
27. The argument of “terra nullius” has a good legal underpinning in Canada for determining who owns land.
28. White privilege is the ability to make decisions that affect everyone without taking others into.
1. Describe the philosophy of Impressionism in painting. (In your answer reference images from the text).
2. How are Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy Slavophiles?
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1. The basic biological adaptation of humans happened in
A. China. C. the tropics.
B. western Europe. D. near the Arctic.
2. Living at high altitudes
A. is not a major stressor for the human lifestyle. B. is pleasant because it is cool and lacks wind.
C. can be unpleasant because of increased.
1. Among those anthropologists who accept the biological existence of race there is agreement that
A. skin color is a good marker of biological race.
B. The ABO blood group should be used in classifying races. C. races can be identified by their geographical area.
D. any or all of these
2. Polymorphic variation.
4. What is Ruskin’s critique of mass production? (In your answer, reference Reading 31.3.) In Reading 31.3, Ruskin argues that mass production’s benefits are specious. In
5. What are some of the late-nineteenth-century’s attitudes toward women as expressed
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3. Discuss the tension between abstraction and representation in works of postmodern visual art. (In your answer, make reference to images from the text.)
4. Discuss some of the significant themes of postmodern literature. (In your answer, make reference to readings in the text.)
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1. Race is based on the fact that people from different parts of the world have different biological traits that appear in exclusive clusters.
2. From the establishment of the United States, political inequality based on race has been an aspect of American society.
3. The Dred Scott case furthered the cause.
1. The basic biology of humans is that of a dweller of the tropical latitudes.
2. High altitude is considered to be above 3000 feet.
3. Air pressure is the same at the equator as it is at high latitudes.
4. Solar radiation can be very intense at high altitudes.
5. There is variation.
3. What is the significance of Walt Whitman? Explore some of the prominent themes in his work. (In your answer, reference Reading 32.2.)
4. Discusses themes in Emily Dickinson’s work. (In your answer, reference Reading 32.4.)
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4. What does Nietzsche mean by the ?death of God?? (In your answer, make reference to
5. What is social Darwinism? Was Darwin a proponent of this theory?
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2.How is Simone de Beauvoir’s work existentialist? (In your answer, draw from the readings in the text.)
3. Discuss some of the existentialist themes in the work of Camus and Beckett. (In your answer, draw from readings in the text.)
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1. What does W.E.B. DuBois mean by ?double consciousness?? (In your answer, reference readings from the text.)
2. Explain the cult of the machine. (In your answer, make reference to images and/or readings from the text.)
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2.Describe some of the significant imagery of Rosenquist’s F-111 and how this imagery fueled controversy. (In your answer, refer to the discussion in the MyArtsLab Closer Look section.)
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3. What is the significance of color for the Symbolists (Post-Impressionists)? (In your answer, make reference to images found in the text as well as the discussion of works in the Closer Look section of MyArtsLab.)
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1. The Greeks saw foreigners as barbarians but believed that barbarians could become
Greek.
2. During the Roman Empire, slavery was based on the idea of biological inferiority of people made part of the empire by conquest.
3. Forensic anthropologists go about the job identifying race for law enforcement officials assumes that racial.
1. Gregor Mendel failed to publish his paper on his breeding experiment on the common pea plants.
2. A 9:3:3:1 ratio is associated with a monohybrid cross.
3. Once a recessive trait disappears, it is gone forever.
4. The Law of Segregation states that genes segregate independently of each other during reproduction.
5. Mendel’s.
