Scand 101 final

After reuniting with her husband, Lise honestly recounts the events that led to her losing her wedding ring.

False

Anti-Sámi prejudice and racism has all but disappeared from modern Scandinavia.

False

Because they're so closely related, Finnish and Estonian each use the same gendered pronouns to express he/she him/her etc.

False

Before her first visit Svalbard, Woldstad had previously had worked as a taxi driver in the northern city of Trondheim

False

Bodily edges are always experienced as a whole from a distance and lend themselves well to public consumption.

False

Bodily edges are always singular: felt and perceived as a definitive, distinct silhouette.

False

Bodily parts possess both inner and outer edges.

False

Cairns in Iceland are defined only as wayfinding tools in the landscape, helping people to make their way across vast open spaces.

False

Casey uses the example of rocks along the coast of California to posit that each space can be the sight of only a single edge.

False

Finnish and Estonian belong to completely different language families, and thus are not at all mutually intelligible.

False

Professor Marianne Stecher-Hansen is an international authority on the work and life of Karen Blixen.

True

Professor Olivia Gunn recently published a book about Henrik Ibsen and she is an authority on his life and work.

True

Professor Troy Storfjell is working on a book about Sámi and indigenous methods (critical sovereignty) for reading and understanding cinema.

True

Robert had a Fulbright fellowship to Norway early in his career that allowed him to research business practices at four different companies in the Nordics (Statoil in Norway, IKEA in Sweden, Novo Nordisk in Denmark, and Nokia in Finland).

True

Some critics have regarded the two women in Persona as actually a single person (something like representing two different voices in the same soul).

True

Which of the following professions was NOT represented on the boat in film, Expedition to the Edge of the World:

musician

In The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921), how does Sister Edit die:

of galloping consumption, i.e. tuberculosis

The game that Pippi suggests the children play at her birthday party is called:

"Don't Step on the Floor"

Professor Troy Storfjell reads the ending of the film Sámi Blood as:

A return home for the main character, back to the Siida (or reindeer herding camp) All of these A moment of triumph A moment of strength

In the film Sámi Blood, Christina bears with her a physical mark that reminds her of the traumas of her childhood. What is it?

A scar on her ear

Ingmar Bergman is sometimes criticized for not making more overtly political films. In Persona there are two moments that are often enlisted to argue that he was actually interested in politics. What are they?

A shot of a monk setting himself on fire to protest the war in Vietnam, and A photograph of a child in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII

Where did Ingmar Bergman start writing the screenplay for the film Persona?

At Sophiahemmet, the royal hospital in Sweden where he had been admitted because he had been working too hard and had developed double pneumonia and acute penicillin poisoning.

In Sustainable Vikings, Robert Strand interprets Gil Scott-Heron's famous the phrase "The revolution will not be televised" to mean what:

B the most significant form of revolution is internal, and thus not observable C a revolution involves becoming aware of systemic problems

In The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921) David Holm goes to jail for what:

Drunken behavior

A physical, self-declared frame must always exist around a painting.

False

According to Casey, borders and boundaries have had minimal impact on institutional, regional, personal, or global histories.

False

According to Casey, edges are never regular and represent only what lies outside of them.

False

According to Casey, groupings of and relationships between various types of edges can be summed up as a matter of pure taxonomy.

False

According to Casey, there is no real difference between discussions of how framing functions and discussions of how rims and gaps function.

False

According to Edmond Casey in his Prelude to The World on Edge, edges have been central to philosophical accounts of human experience, alongside preoccupations with the nature of truth, the verification of knowledge claims, and the evidential nature of sensory perception.

False

According to Strand's research, companies in the Nordics often have a very hierarchical structure and leadership style.

False

According to Strand, the American perception that the Nordic countries are exemplars of socialism is completely correct.

False

According to the Expedition to the End of the World film, the main difference between the scientists and artists on the expedition is that the former group have no thoughts about the concept of life.

False

If you're a scholar handling a 13th century manuscript at the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland (or the one in Denmark) you'll definitely need to wear gloves to turn the pages.

False

In Act 2 of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, the three herdgirls have each slept with trolls in order to exact revenge for the deaths of their husbands.

False

In Scandinavian folklore, the term "troll" is used exclusively to refer to a large, solitary variety of supernatural monsters who live in mountains and hate the daylight.

False

In terms of Sustainable Development Goals, the Nordic regions trails far behind the United States.

False

In terms of historical and political struggles, the Sámi have very little in common with other indigenous peoples.

False

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) had a longstanding, intimate working relationship with a trusted translator that she used to translate her work from Danish to English.

False

Isak Dinesen is broadly admired for her political activism. She stormed the Danish parliament, for instance, to argue that women should also have the right to vote.

False

Karen Blixen and Isak Dinesen were brother and sister.

False

Kristian used to teach math at a Folkhøjskole [a folk high school] in Denmark, where high grades were the main emphasis.

False

Lise removes her wedding ring and offers it to the strange man out of great fear and as an attempt to bargain for her life.

False

Most of Dinesen's work is set in contemporary Denmark in the same time period in which she was writing, i.e. post WWII.

False

Mrs. Settergren and the other ladies would most likely describe Pippi as a very well-behaved child.

False

One of Kristian's main points about "hygge" is that Danes are frequently regarded as "happy" because they regularly practice "hygge," i.e. take the time to be cozy with friends, in front of a fire etc.

False

One of the key contexts of Härmävaara's work on the construction sites is the recent phenomenon that Finland is being flooded by Estonian migrant workers.

False

Pippi Longstocking lives with her mother and father in a house called Villa Villekulla.

False

Pippi takes two things with her when she leaves her father's ship: a suitcase full of coins and a little monkey named Mr. Hansen.

False

Professor Stecher-Hansen grew up speaking Norwegian with her parents at home.

False

Professor Troy Storfjell is a Sámi scholar working at the University of Washington.

False

Speaking Estonian allowed Ilona Härmävaara to get a key post-doc research project in which she'll be studying the use of Estonian and Finnish in university social events.

False

The "Nordic model" can only exist because the region is, and has always been, extremely wealthy and unconcerned with personal freedom. True

False

The "we are in-between" middle-class worldview is a relatively new concept in Scandinavia, having only emerged after the 2000s.

False

The Nordic countries have consistently ranked far below the United States by the metrics of childhood well-being and safety of mothers.

False

The concept of "hygge" has an extremely limited presence in Danish culture.

False

The elements that make up "hygge" - such as an emphasis on safety and a child-centric focus - can only be found within the Scandinavian countries.

False

The encroachment of environmentalist groups and policies - such as the building of wind turbines - onto Sapmi has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on Sámi traditions or livelihoods.

False

The introduction of mining in Sapmi in 1635 brought with it many financial opportunities for the Sámi people.

False

The point of identifying "the Swedish theory of love" at work in Swedish (and Nordic) societies is that it helps illustrate how the state should have nothing to do with regulating interpersonal relationships.

False

The vast majority of elderly Swedish citizens say that they would prefer to rely on their adult children, not the state, for financial support.

False

This concept of "bodily edges" falls under a large category of salient edges, as they are extremely noticeable and often disrupt our experience.

False

When at the sheepfold, Lise's husband and the old sheepmaster, Matthias, discuss the recent rash of wolf attacks in the area.

False

In Anu Partanen's book The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life, Partanen grew up in which of the following countries:

Finland

The Sámi language and its various dialects belong to which language family:

Finno-Ugric

Interestingly, despite the fact that almost all of Ibsen's plays are set in Norway and critique Norwegian society, he actually wrote most of them while living abroad in which countries:

Italy and Germany

According to Kristian, the first ever recorded mention of the term "hygge" was in a 1916 poem by which Danish poet:

Jeppe Aakjær

What was wrong with the map that Professor Roos showed in her slide presentation?

Latvia and Lithuania were in the wrong place.

When leaving the glade, the strange man takes with him:

Lise's handkerchief

The most provocative, controversial, and titillating scene in The Abyss is the "gaucho dance." How does the dance scene end?

Magda bites the cowboy character's neck like a vampire

The archipelago of Svalbard is owned by which country:

None of these

Near the beginning of the reading, Liberating Sápmi, Kuhn states that about 90 percent of the Sámi population live in these two countries:

Norway and Sweden

Act 2 of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, opens with Peer and Ingrid having an argument. Why are they arguing?

Peer has "persuaded" Ingrid away from marrying another man, the two have slept together, and now he refuses to marry her

Which of the following is true about Elizabeth Stang:

She believes that films like Norwegian Nazi Zombie films reveal interesting things about Norwegian culture. Studying Scandinavian Studies at UW allows her also to study film, her other research interest. Elizabeth really likes the more obscure, weird Norwegian genre/horror films like Dead Snow (a Norwegian Nazi Zombie film). She got interested in Norwegian by listening to singing in different languages and liked how Norwegian sounded.

In Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, what is Aase's relationship to Peer?

She is his mother.

In Persona, what does Alma do for a living?

She's a nurse.

The young couple featured in Isak Dinesen's "The Ring" are named:

Sigismund and Lovisa (Lise)

Which of the following statements characterize what Robert Strand thinks about his work:

The Nordics can learn from the US. It's important to think about systems, for instance, how business is a part of society rather than separate from it. America can learn a lot from the Nordics. Free markets are not always freedom enablers. We need to think about "freedom" more wholistically.

Which of the following historical events discussed in the Kuhn chapter was NOT depicted in Amanda Kernell's film, Sámi Blood?

The creation of The Sámi Council 1956

Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, is the most performed playwright in the world, after William Shakespeare.

True

One of the reasons Ilona Härmävaara likes sauna in Finland is that it allows her to perform a lot of embodied cultural knowledge.

True

Partanen claims that, in recent years, the Nordic region has been seen as a model of social mobility and quality of life and that in many ways, the Nordic countries represent the possibility of achieving the American dream better than the United States does.

True

Professor Marianne Stecher-Hansen has long been interested in History. She was a history major in undergrad at UC Berkeley.

True

The names of the two children living in the house next to Villa Villekulla are:

Tommy and Annika

Which of the following does Lauren Poyer NOT discuss in relation to her work here at the UW:

Traditional gender roles of the family in medieval Iceland.

"Hygge" has been criticized as encouraging the avoidance of opportunity, risk, or necessary conflict.

True

A silhouette is a flat image of a body whose volume and internal features cannot be distinguished. Correct Answer True

True

According to Anu Partanen, many people in the United States often mistakenly refer to the Nordic countries as "socialist" (understood as: life is less free and that the state owns the means of production, i.e. there's no free market economy there). But actually, Americans can learn a lot from Finland about freedom, free market economies, and modern capitalism.

True

According to Casey, a frame is an active force that affects our perception of what lies within it.

True

According to Casey, we tend to overlook edges in part because they bring with them a kind of anxiety.

True

According to Härmävaara, war reparations from the Soviet Union and the mobile phone company Nokia both helped fuel Finland's recovery after its devastation during WWII.

True

According to Partanen, many of the social systems present in Nordic countries - free education, universal healthcare, etc. - are designed to increase citizens' independence and freedom to make life choices like marrying for love, and studying whatever you'd like to in college.

True

According to Professor Gunn, although representations of trolls continue to change and take more modern forms, trolls serve a similar function: they allow humans to reflect on what it means to be human.

True

According to the Linnet, expensive purchases and vacations can pretty much be considered the antithesis of hygge.

True

After reading Casey's chapter on borders and boundaries, Professor Roos thought it made sense to think of the Estonian identity at the heart of the book Border State as more of a "Boundary State" than as a border state identity.

True

Andy earned his PhD at the University of Washington in English with a specialization in American Literature and ecological criticism.

True

As both Professor Gunn and John Lindow discuss, one function of trolls in folklore is to encourage good behavior and uphold cultural norms.

True

Casey describes how the Mississippi River can be thought of both as a boundary and a border.

True

Colin Connors first began being interested in Nordic/Icelandic/Scandinavian Studies when he was the only undergraduate allowed to participate on an anthropological dig run by one of his UW Madison professors in Iceland.

True

In Casey's discussions of the terms, bearing up refers to the way edges establish our perceptions about an object's form and function while bearing out reinforces the basic shape of these notions, an act which paradoxically draws attention to what lies outside of its own edges.

True

In his lecture, Kristian draws a connection between the recent popularity of "hygge" and Brexit.

True

In spite of the utopian reputation they are often afforded, problems such as overconsumption, racism, and inequality are certainly present within Nordic societies.

True

It's fair to say that one of the things that Andy likes best about Norway is its linguistic diversity.

True

Karen Blixen's old house, in a town called Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen, is now a museum that you can visit when you travel to Denmark.

True

Many of Karen Blixen's stories reflect her interest in the intellectual debates of the 1920s that revolved around issues such as birth control, women's status in marriage and society, and sexual morality.

True

Many places in Scandinavia have multiple names: one in the Sámi language, one in the colonial language, and, sometimes, one in another minority language.

True

The Estonian television show that Ilona Härmävaara showed us clips of is important because it is humorous and it also depicts the really very harsh life of Estonian workers working under the table in Finland in a humanizing way. It also represents issues like the sex trade.

True

The Tale of the Cairn-Dweller can be read as evidence that even after Christianity came to Iceland around the year 1000, people still felt anxious and unsettled about their pagan/pre-Christian past. Cairns were physical reminders of this past in the landscape.

True

The core idea of what Trägårdh and Berggren refer to as "the Swedish theory of love" (which Anu Partanen takes up in Chapter 2) is that love and friendship can only exist within a relationship between equal, independent individuals.

True

The goal of the luohti - a traditional form of Sámi singing commonly known as the yoik - is that of evocation rather than reflection.

True

The phantom carriage can go anywhere to fetch a soul from its corpse, including to the bottom of the sea.

True

The Áltá Dam conflict was a major contributing factor in the reassertion and revitalization of Sámi cultural identity and political power.

True

Throughout the 20th century, the Sámi faced harsh discrimination in terms of education, employment, and housing, with governments pushing for the erasure of Sámi language and culture in service of assimilation.

True

Wanny Woldstad is notable in that she is one of a very small number of women who chose the traditionally male dominated profession of hunting and trapping in the far north.

True

When Amanda Kernell talks about directing the film Sámi Blood she refers to some of her family members who herd reindeer and other family members who strongly reject any Sámi identity.

True

Õnnepalu's 1993 novel, Border State, is framed as a collection of letters written by the narrator to recipient in a Western country.

True

Õnnepalu's 1993 novel, Border State, is often read as the first queer Estonian novel as the lovers depicted in it were both men.

True

Which of the following academic institutions has Robert Strand NOT either attended or taught at during his career.

University of Illinois

In The Abyss (Urban Gad, 1910) which of the following professions does the character Magda have?

a Variety Theater performer a piano teacher

According to Linnet, the word "hygge" is commonly used to refer to:

a safe, low-key, intimate form of social interaction

What invention did Woldstad come up with to gather eggs on Svalbard without getting hurt.

a self-shooter trap for Eider ducks

Which of the following can be considered a "distinct sense" of a profile?

a singling out of people based on race or ethnicity a person's professional persona and public standing All of these an outline of a person's face

In entering a hidden glade on the way home, Lise encounters:

a strange man

According to Casey, an example of nonerotic interaction would be:

all of these a goodbye hug a pat on the back a handshake

In Persona, what is Elisabeth Vogler's profession?

an actress

According to Casey, the main medium of interaction between bodily edges is:

flesh

As John Lindow discusses in his book, Af Klintberg categorized around 150 types of troll stories in folklore, including:

friendly coexistence how to avoid being taken by trolls trolls and thunder Correct! all of these trolls and the sign of the cross

Casey discusses four ways in which bodily edges can be projected. These are:

aura, silhouette, profile, figure

As John Lindow discusses in his book, in the category "loans between trolls and human" identified by Klintberg, the object/substance most commonly featured/borrowed is

beer

According to Casey, the focus of his book thus far has been on edges related to landscapes, events, and streets, among other things, but has neglected which of the following:

bodily edges

In Casey's view, the difference between borders and boundaries can be summed up as:

borders are clearly defined and linear, boundaries change—they expand and contract

What is Tina/Reva's main occupation in the movie Border.

customs agent

In Act 2 of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, "wedding-day horse" that the Woman in Green calls for appears as a

gigantic pig

In Anu Partanen's book The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life, she describes the Finnish concept of "sisu" as:

grit, i.e. like toughness and having ingenuity

In the interview with Shannon Stecher Anandasakaran, who is the Exhibitions Manager at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and specifically the de Young, Which of the following is true of Anandasakaran:

he did an BFA in Painting in undergrad she bought one of the paintings in the "On the Edge" exhibit she studied at the University of Washington none of the above she majored in Political Science in college Correct Answer all of the above

In the Alley Theatre's production of August Strindberg's The Stronger, what are the two women drinking?

hot chocolate

Notions of "hygge" and the values it represents often perform a normative function in Danish society. Which the following kinds of social control does "hygge" typically undertake?

it can help limit the overt and flagrant consumption of expensive things it can privilege home-life/family life as valuable and authentic it can help promote egalitarian values based on ideas of sameness

A parergon, as Casey mentions it, exists as a "by-work," meaning that:

it exists in-addition to and supplements the picture it surrounds

In the movie Border, Tina/Reva grows up being afraid of what...

lightning

In the interview with Shannon Stecher Anandasakaran, who is the Exhibitions Manager at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and specifically the de Young, Anandasakaran refers to the "On the Edge" exhibition/competition as:

one of the most democratic exhibitions she had worked on at the de Young a whole lot of work Correct Answer all of the above one of the most moving openings that she had been a part of

The edge formed by a frame can be described as:

practical/instrumental a. pictorial/representational

The "doorbell" that Woldstad mentions in chapter 2 is meant to signal the presence of what, outside:

seals

In Bergman's film, Persona how does Elisabeth cut herself?

she steps on a piece of broken glass that Alma sets out for her

Linnet links the idea of "hygge" to which of the following concepts:

small spaces a Lutheran interest in interiority the desire to appear to belong to the middle class family life

Policies included in the "Nordic model," as described by Strand, include:

subsidized child care paid parental leave universal education

In the "The Tale of the Cairn Dweller," the phrase "scabbard-serpents" is a substitute (i.e. a kenning) for which of the following:

swords

Casey is interested in using "edges" to understand the world in through what he calls what he calls "peri-phenomenology" which is:

the description of ostensibly peripheral phenomena

In the conversation with Colin Connors, which of the following did he NOT discuss or mention:

the details of his work consulting with Walt Disney on the Frozen II film

When John Lindow (in the introduction to his history of trolls) speculates that his friend's encounter with a troll may have been the result of a combination of rain, wind, darkness, and imagination, among other factors, he refers to it is an example of which following phenomena:

the empirical supernatural

As Casey discusses in his chapter, the point of a cadastral map is:

to show the extent and measurements of fields and plots of land on an appropriate scale

In the Alley Theatre's production of August Strindberg's The Stronger, what does Miss X embroider on her husband's slippers?

tulips