Anthropology Final Exam
According to Lutz (2002) the acceleration military spending occurred during which time period(s) in the United States?
2001 with the attacks of 9/11
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, what percentage of the U.S. working population was unemployed during The Great Depression?
25%
According to Ogawa (2013) Nuclear Power before accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant provided __% of Japan's electricity.
30%
How many million internally displaced persons are there around the world?
33 million are displaced
According to the film, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, how many people died in Africa from 1998 to 2003 in the conflict over minerals?
4.5 million
According to Ed Vayda in the film, Chernobyl's Power, the amount of radiation released at Chernobyl was ____times the radiation released at Hiroshima.
400
According to the film, Bombies, how many cluster bombs were dropped on Laos?
90 Million
A remittance is:
A migrant sending money to their home country
Biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology all inform contemporary understanding of human migration. According to one popular theory the migration of humans or near humans began in:
Africa
Which area of the world has the largest number of internally displaced persons?
Africa
Which continent has the highest number of deaths due to war and violent conflict?
Africa
Forced migration has impacts in both countries migrants move from and move to. Migration impacts which of the following:
All of the below: a) Growth b) Employment c) Public spending
Which of the following would be considered a megacity? a) All of the below b) New York City c) New Dehli d) Beijing
All of the below: New York city, New Dehli, and Beijing
According to one individual in the film No Colors, Which group(s) has/have been involved in FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) that has been active since 1999 and is in 13 European countries?
All of these: a) Fan Clubs b) Football Associations c) Players
According to Ed Vayda in the film, Chernobyl's Power, the Kiev May Day Parade was typically broadcast across the Soviet Union. True or false?
False
According to Mattingly et al. (2002), all Americans took 9/11 very hard. True or false?
False
According to studies cited by Mattingly et al. (2002), there was no difference in support of immediate U.S. involvement along the lines of race and gender. True or False?
False
According to the 2001 quote from John Ashcroft, US Attorney General under President George Bush, freedom to disagree with one another is the reason terrorists hate the USA. True or false?
False
According to the Institute for Economics and Peace (2014), 7 of the 10 most peaceful countries are in Asia. True or false?
False
According to the Institute for Economics and Peace the number of deaths from terrorism has decreased since the United States began its "war on terror". True or false?
False
According to the film, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, the billions of dollars that the IMF paid assisted taxpayers in Indonesia. True or false?
False
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, Watson is a robot that was designed by programmers at IBM with the primary intent that it would be able to outcompete humans on the game show Jeopardy. True or false?
False
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, insurance companies have been hesitant to issue insurance for autos or self-driving automobiles. True or false?
False
According to the film, No Colors, religious discrimination is still permissible under law in the United States. True or false?
False
According to the lecture, the structure of Family Readiness Groups often undermines the hierarchical structure of the military. True or false?
False
Chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons were all addressed by the 1925 Geneva Protocol. True or false?
False
Forced migration due to conflict is currently at its lowest level since World War II. True or false?
False
Human migration began only in the last 100 years with increasing transportation options. True or false?
False
Militarization is only an issue in less developed countries. True or false?
False
Parenti's Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis focuses on the prison-industrial complex. True or false?
False
The color coded system used by the U.S. government today to warn of terror threats derives from Operation Teapot. True or false?
False
The last public execution in the US occurred in 1953. True or false?
False. In 1936.
According to Bohannon (1955), the Tiv began to experience which global issue with the introduction of money:
Food insecurity and hunger
Forced migration:
Has been increasing over time
Which of the following, according to Masco (2008), is incorrect regarding Project East River in 1952?
It formed the basis for the color-coded terrorist warning system used by TSA today
Hornborg suggests a coupon systems similar to LETS. What is LETS?
Local Exchange Trading Systems
Which countries, according to the World Bank in 2013, were host to the largest number of refugees?
Pakistan and Iran
According to the United Nations, what is the largest source of forced migration?
Refugees
According to the film, Bombies, in order to escape the bombing, Laos citizens did all of the following except:
Relocate to cities
According to the Institute of Strategic Studies (2014), which country had the greatest per capita military spending in 2013 at $2,100 (USD)?
Saudi Arabia
According to the World Bank which country is most dependent on remittances?
Tajikistan
According to Kunzar (2007):
Terrorists are rational in the context of maximizing satisfaction/utility within larger society (country and/or religion)
According to the film, Bombies, U.S. planes were launched for missions in Laos in all of the following countries, except:
Thailand
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies (2010), which country has the highest prison population in the word?
The United States of America
Near the end of World War II, the U.S. dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima and Fat Man on Nagasaki in August of 1945. How many days separated these bombings?
Three
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, which industry employs the greatest number of Americans?
Transportation
According Steingraber (1987), famine and ecological reasons were used to justify relocation and villagization in Ethiopia. True or false?
True
According Steingraber (1987), villagization and resettlement have been used as a military strategy in Vietnam, Guatemala and Cambodia. True or false?
True
According to Andersson (2012), state and international agencies will intervene in international waters using humanitarian arguments. Specifically, patrols are done in order to save the lives of migrants in international waters. True or false?
True
According to Ben-Ari and Fruhstuck (2003), Japanese live fire exercises are cultural performance in that they are occasions in which a culture or society reflects and defines itself, dramatizes its collective myths and history. True or false?
True
According to Foucault's Discipline and Punish there has been a shift in the justice system and society as a whole with an increased focus on discipline rather than punishment. True or false?
True
According to Jacobs-Huey (2006), comedy is one way of being able to speak about things which would otherwise not be spoken about. True or false?
True
According to Kajihiro (2000), military uses of the land in Hawai'I are seen as violations of the sacred landscape by Native Hawaiians. True or false?
True
According to Kane (2010) structural adjustment policies and currency devaluation increased the need for remittances in Senegal. True or False?
True
According to Masco (2008), JC Penny's clothing was tested to withstand a nuclear bomb in the Nevada desert as a part of Operation Cue, the clothing later was brought around the United States as part of the Federal Civil Defense Administration's efforts to create a bomb-proof society. True or false?
True
According to Natalka Prudka in the film, Chernobyl's Power, Ukraine is planning on building 20 new nuclear power plants. True or false?
True
According to Natalka Prudka in the film, Chernobyl's Power, nuclear power is the basis of economic security for Ukraine. True or false?
True
According to Ogawa (2013), Japanese police underestimated the number of people present at anti-nuclear rallies in Tokyo. True or false?
True
According to Ogawa (2013), Japanese rallies typically end peacefully. True or false?
True
According to Trémon (2013), the French police failed to protect the constitutional rights of citizens by allowing Chinese Wholesalers to use video surveillance outside of their shops. True or false?
True
According to Yurij Akymenko in the film, Chernobyl's Power, 6000 people had their salaries reduced by half in Slavutich when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shut down. True or false?
True
According to the film, Bombies, children are educated about bombies using art, puppet shows, school songs, and posters incorporating art from other children in Laos. True or false?
True
According to the film, Bombies, parts of munitions including bombies are used for scrap metal to make everyday household items in rural Laos. True or false?
True
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, Baxter, a general-purpose robot, has vision and can learn what you want him to do by watching you do it and Baxter costs less than the average annual salary of a human worker. True or false?
True
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, bots trade with one another on the New York Stock Exchange. True or false?
True
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, demand for computers is what makes them both more powerful and cheaper every year. True or false?
True
According to the film, No Colors, issues and incidents of racism and discrimination in Europe have intensified since the early 2000s. True or False?
True
According to the film, No Colors, migrants from Sierra Leone and Senegal are large sources of labor in France. True or false?
True
According to the film, No Colors, the EU is involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. True or false?
True
According to the film, No Colors, there is greater pressure on Muslim community to prove themselves as British and that their loyalties are with Britain. True or false?
True
According to the film, No Colors, women in the Islamic world are always the direct opposite of men. They do not have to go through life like men and women want to be 100% women and this is why women in the Islamic world can assume their role and use it with men. True or false?
True
According to the lecture, under U.S. law a grenade is a weapon of mass destruction. True or false?
True
An estimated 2/3 of the world's refugees had been in exile for more than five years, and half of them were children. True or false?
True
Buurs' (2003) study on the post-Apartheid State in South Africa examines the use of people's courts to get community justice in areas where the government is not actively enforcing the law. True or false?
True
In 1992 the American economic boom was transforming the entire world, particularly in South Korea and Thailand which both gave up trade restrictions, creating what was referred to as the "Asian miracle". True or false?
True
Kajihiro (2000) calls for military to disclose all pertinent environmental, economic and social data to assess the true impacts of its presence. True or false?
True
Operation Cue was a nuclear test that was conducted in Nevada and involved public-private partnerships to test everyday items that American used. True or false?
True
Police use of automatic weapons, flak jackets, and armored vehicles in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, is an example of militarization of the police. True or false?
True
The Geneva Protocol (1925) covers chemical and biological weapons. True or false?
True
U.S. law specifies more items as weapons of mass destruction than does the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. True or false?
True
What is the reasons people migrate?
Voluntary, force, and structural
According to the Sentencing Project, which group has the lowest lifetime likelihood of imprisonment at 1 in 111?
White women
According to the film, Bombies, an estimated ____ % of bombs are unexploded in Laos. a) 10-30% b) Under 10% c) 31-50% d) Over 51%
a) 10-30%
According to the film, Bombies, what was the date range that United States conducted a massive air war against Laos? a) 1969-1972 b) 1921-1925 c) 1964-1973 d) 1955-1963
a) 1969-1972
What percentage of deaths attributed to bombies are children? a) 25% b) 33% c) 40% d) 50%
a) 25%
Masco (2008) refers to the attacks of 9/11 as "strangely familiar" in that the World Trade Center had been the object of destruction in a variety of entertainment media. According to the lecture, these have included: a) All of the below
a) All of the below: Sesame Street - Cookie Monster, Marvel Comics - Spidey Super Stories (Spiderman), and The film Gone with the Wind '75
According to the film, Bombies, all of the countries/entities are involved in efforts to deal with bombies, except: a) Germany b) United States C) United Nations d) Russia
a) Germany
According to Livingstone's (2014) work on the Favelas in Rio de Janerio, what have been the negative aspects of intensified policing coinciding with preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics:
a) Increase in homicides of black males b) High levels of victims shot by police in apparent confrontation c) Number of disappearances risen
According to the film, Bombies, what are the estimated number of casualties caused by bombies since the air war ended? a) Over 10,000 b) Under 2,000 c) 5,000 d) 8673
a) over 10,000
According to the 2014 Global Peace Index from the Institute for Economics and Peace, which county is the world's least peaceful country? a) Iraq b) Syria c) Iran d) Afghanistan
b) Syria
Which US President when asked about the mushrooming military budget, responded that it, "would leave the nation a militarized husk, hardly worth defending"? a) Lincoln b) Washington c) Eisenhower d) Reagan
c) Eisenhower
According to Hawkins (2004), which is not a characteristic of the military in the United States? a) Micromanage almost every aspect of life b) Greedy institution c) Empathetic
c) Empathetic
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies which country was not in the top three for military spending in 2013? a) China b) USA c) England d) Russia
c) England
According to Lutz (2002), what is the contradictory and tense social process in which civil society organizes itself for the production of violence? a) Crime and Punishment b) Warfare c) Militarization d) Apartheid
c) Militarization
In the video shown in class: Landscapes of Emergency, Greece used all of the following except what as a justification for squat eviction? a) Education - to build a school b) Culture - to build a museum c) Nation - to build a stadium
c) Nation - to build a stadium
What was the name of one of the most watched made for television movies in U.S. history, with a reported 100 million viewers, which refuted President Ronald Reagan's optimism of a winnable nuclear war? a) Operation Teapot b) Survival is Your Business c) The Day After d) When Worlds Collide
c) The Day After
According to the Institute of Strategic Studies (2014), which country had the highest military spending in the world during 2013 with $600.4 billion (USD) in military spending? a) Russia b) China c) United States of America d) Saudi Arabia
c) United States of America
According to Lutz (2002) the acceleration military spending occurred during which time period(s) in the United States? a) All of the below b) 1930 with the National Security state c) 1909 with the rise of fascist forces d) 2001 with the attacks of 9/11
d) 2001 with the attacks of 9/11
According to the film, Humans Need Not Apply, what percentage of jobs is potentially at risk due to automation? a) 45% b) 35% c) 60% d) 25%
d) 25%
Which country suffers from the highest impact of terrorism, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace? a) Greenland b) Saudi Arabia c) USA d) Iraq
d) Iraq
