HSY316 Cross Cultural World History Quiz

HSY316 Cross Cultural World History Quiz
1. According to Maria Nugent, how did early twentieth-century accounts of James Cook’s landing at Botany Bay affect views of cross-cultural contact between the British and indigenous Australians?
They marginalised the presence and agency of indigenous Australians in the colonial story.
They denied that any such contact existed.
They made it seem like the indigenous people welcomed Cook to Australia.
1 points
QUESTION 2
1. How did Banks view the European lifeway in comparison with that of the Indigenous Australians he met?
Civilised
Excessive
Both
1 points
QUESTION 3
1. What does Greg Dening argue was the main reason why Europeans like Cook, and the Spanish mariners who preceded him, practised violence against Pacific Islanders?
They believed they had a right to do so
They were attacked first.
They didn’t understand the people they encountered, and weren’t able or willing to try.
Continue: Topic 4 Quiz. Early Sydney: Inter-Cultural Exchange?
QUESTION 1
1. According to Clendinnen, what was a major source of conflict between Indigenous Australians and white settlers in the early colonial era?
Indigenous Australians collaborated with convicts attempting to escape.
The British believed they had a right to natural resources that Indigenous Australians understandably saw as belonging to them.
Indigenous Australians did not understand the system of trade that the British attempted to institute.
1 points
QUESTION 2
1. For what reason(s) was La Perouse a significant site in the early history of Sydney?
Captain Cook famously visited the site, and made contact with Indigenous Australians there.
It was named after the French explorer Lapèrouse, whose expedition disappeared without trace after his visit to Australia.
Not only is the site connected with the Lapèrouse expedition, but it was also an important Aboriginal settlement in the nineteenth century.
All of the above.
1 points
QUESTION 3
1. What opinion(s) did David Collins form of Aboriginal women during his observations of Bennilong and his people in the 1790s?
They were oppressed and treated cruelly.
They were unreserved in their behaviour
They were quick to pick up on British customs and attitudes.
All of the above.
None of the above.
Take Test: Topic 5 Quiz. Sex and Intermarriage: Gender and Race in the Colonies
QUESTION 1
1. According to Victoria Maynard, why were white men so against sexual relations between white women and Aboriginal men in colonial Australia?
The rape of white women was common enough to create a stereotype
They believed that any marriage would be null and void and therefore the woman would be living in sin
Women’s bodies were seen as representative of white society and its inviolability by black culture
0.5 points
QUESTION 2
1. How did some nineteenth-century Native Americans become ‘cultural mediators’ in the contact zone between native and white America?
They married white women
They received financial support for higher education
Both
0.5 points
QUESTION 3
1. How were a small number Aboriginal men able to take the difficult step of marrying white women in the twentieth century?
The Second World War made people more aware of the negativity of racial prejudice.
By living with their wives and families in isolation from both white and Aboriginal societies
By becoming famous and/or successful in some way
0.5 points
QUESTION 4
1. Why did Charles Eastman support the idea of what Ellinghaus calls ‘acculturation’?
It was the only way he could marry the woman he loved
He believed that both white and native American cultures had good qualities
He wanted to participate in mainstream American society without becoming Christian
Take Test: Topic 6 Quiz. Performance and Display: The Case of Sara Baartman
QUESTION 1
1. What, according to Poignant, is a significant methodological problem with attempting to interpret Aboriginal “captive” narratives?
The lack of unprejudiced evidence
The historian becoming emotionally involved
The very act of analysis makes Aboriginal historical figures the captives of archives and discourses that aren’t their own
1 points
QUESTION 2
1. Why were indigenous peoples a source of fascination for Western audiences in the nineteenth century?
They were different, exotic — part of a tradition of exhibiting human beings as curiosities
Their captive presence reinforced notions of white power and superiority
They were seen as evidence of a global hierarchy of cultures and peoples.
All of the above
1 points
QUESTION 3
1. In what context(s) could British commentators see Sara Baartman as a victim?
Slavery had just been abolished when Sara was in London, and sympathy with indigenous peoples ran high in London
The man exhibiting Sara was white but not British, so it was easier for London commentators to view the situation as unjust colonial oppression
Both
Neither
Take Test: Topic 7 Quiz. Museums and Exhibits: A Cross-Cultural History of Bodily Remains and Objects
QUESTION 1
1. Why did nineteenth and early-twentieth-century scientists study and collect Aboriginal human remains?
Because of the perceived link between biology and culture
So that they could prove they were human
So that they could be given Christian burials
0.5 points
QUESTION 2
1. How did Aboriginal people react to the removal of r