Deck 15: The End Is Near

Question 1

The biggest celebrities in this book were:

A) Gulf Coast shrimpers
B) American janitors
C) Trobriand Islanders
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Anthropologists usually stand with:

A) presidents
B) kings
C) celebrities
D) ordinary people
E) priests

Answer 2

D

Question 3

To change the status quo requires:

A) economists
B) university professors
C) organizing
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The director of the Coalition for the Homeless in Chicago said that their job was:

A) to get rid of the need for homeless shelters
B) to make homeless shelters better
C) to increase security in homeless shelters
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 5

Raising money for kids with cancer is a good thing, but a better thing would be:

A) there is no better thing
B) working toward a better health care system
C) raising money for the families of kids with cancer
D) raising money to pay more doctors to treat cancer
E) raising money for cancer research

Question 6

When you see a problem for you and the people around you, the best thing you can do is:

A) raise money
B) wait for a hero to come help
C) apply to a government agency for help
D) apply to an NGO for help
E) organize to help yourselves

Question 7

Who first patented horseback riding?

A) the Mongols
B) the Huns
C) the Chinese
D) Native Americans
E) nobody

Question 8

The human world is too complex to ever really understand.

Question 9

Anthropologist Charles Hockett thought that societies with cities had ceased to have any adaptive value.

Question 10

To change the world you must first understand it.

Question 11

In the Amazon there are some groups that are still isolated from the global system.

Question 12

Ethnography is an adequate guide to the global system.

Question 13

The discipline of economics is part of the mind control system to support corporations and make them seem natural.

Question 14

Sociologists never do ethnography.

Question 15

Some anthropologists work for corporations.

Question 16

Anthropologists work for the World Bank.

Question 17

Anthropologists work for governments.

Question 18

Economists never show us realities.

Question 19

In many respects American universities are medieval.

Question 20

It's important to our species not to settle for an unfair world.

Question 21

Reasonable people should grow up and give up on ideas like fairness and justice.

Question 22

It's OK to be a little unbalanced.

Question 23

Anyone who looks into her own culture is going to feel uncomfortable.

Question 24

There are no heroes any more.

Question 25

List two anthropologists named in this chapter:

Question 26

Why do we keep saying economics is a religion?

Question 27

What's the point from the quote from the movie that the windmills might be giants?

Question 28

Discuss what you think would happen if everyone in America voted for fairness.

Question 29

Discuss what this course has meant to you and how you think you might be able to use the knowledge you gained here in your future.