HWST Midterm Practice Exam Unit 2

What is neocolonialism as defined by the Epeli Hauofa?

To make people believe they have no other choice but dependence.

What year did the missionaries arrive in Hawaii?

1820

Which of the following decades reflect the critical years of HPE developing?

1890-1910

Of all the languages in the world, what is the percentage of Oceanic languages?

20%

What is the idea of smallness and tiny confined spaces relative to to?

A matter of perception

Choose the best perspective or worldview of the peoples of Oceania regarding their environment.

Anything but small

The Punana Leo program was modeled after an immersion program in which of the following nations?

Aotearoa

Ngugi states that the imperialist tradition in Africa is maintained by the international (blank) and the resistance tradition is carried out by the working people (the peasantry and the (blank) aided by patriotic students, intellectuals (academic and non-academic), soldiers and other progressive elements of the petty middle class.

Bourgeoisie, Proletariat

According to the pakeha’s perception, what did the Maori children need to attain educational achievement?

English language policy

What was the reaction of the Maori families that was not anticipated by others after the first immersion school opened?

Enthusiasm

What are the two major language branches of the Austronesian Family of Languages?

Formosan and Malayo-Polynesian

What type of function of society was brought with the advent of the aikapu system?

Gender specific roles, Organization of gender related responsibilities, Religion

If immersion schools are to make a significant impact, what kind of support do they need?

Government and Financial

Which of the following is the chronological order of the children born to Papa and Wakeas?

Hawaii, Maui, Ho’ohokukalani, Kauai, Niihau, Lehua, Kaula

Malama Aina was demonstrated in traditional society through the kuleana of each class. Choose the answer that matches the given Hawaiian word describing a position in traditional society. The Hawaiian word is: Alii Nui:

High ranking chiefs who take care of the Akua and Politics

What is the significance of the story of Papa, Wakea, and Hoohokukalani?

Origins story

Within Polynesia, who is the father and mother that is found as a common theme throughout Polynesia and all other gods are born from them?

Papa and Wakea, Papa and Akea, Papa and Atea

What does the Maori language and the Kohanga Reo program provide for the Maori child?

Self-Confidence Self-Identity

What does current scholarship argue that the similar place names throughout Polynesia represent?

Sites were named systematically from one place to another and became symbolized as origins where forgotten.

Within Polynesia, who is the father and mother that is found as a common theme throughout Polynesia and all other gods are born from them?

Sky father and Earth mother

What are the names of the most well known, first order gods of Polynesia deities?

Tangaroa, Tane, Rongo, Tu

What new view of Oceania did the Epeli Hauofa have in Big Island at a conference?

The world of Oceania is not small: it is huge and growing bigger every day

What geographic places can cognates of the name Hawaiiki be found?

Throughout East and West Polynesia

What reason did Epeli Hauofa give to explain why aristocracy in Tonga used belittlement with commoners?

To control and subordinate

The effect of control is through deliberate (blank) of a people's culture, art, dances, religions, history, geography, education, oratory, literature and the conscious elevation of the language of the colonizer.

Undervaluing

What was the re outcome of the English language policy by the 1960s?

high rates of failing schools poor student achievements blame on socio-economic situation of families the result of low student achievement

Exclusive creole speakers arose out of which of the following generations and are attributed to systematizing features of HPE?

second generation and third generations

The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people's definition of themselves in relation to their natural and social (blank), indeed in relation to the entire (blank)

social, universe

Through immigrant arrivals, Chinese in 1852, the Japanese around 1868, the Filipinos around 1907, what did these languages contribute in the development of HPE & HCE?

syntax and intonations

Niaupio an mating ritual forbidden to commoners. Niaupio was allowed only by the highest ranking of chiefs to create which of the following?

to create god-like children to walk the earth, to procreate highest-ranking, honorable, and powerful lineage(s), to solidify political relations