Multiple choice

Question 1
The central theme of Joni L. Jones’s “Searching for Osun” installation in Austin Texas was to:
A) perform racial stereotypes
B) explore the multiple, shifting and blurry identities
C) coming to America
D) African gods on stage

Question 2
According to Joni L. Jones, one of the primary ideas of performance ethnography or how culture is done in the body is that:
A) performers cannot out-dance the subjects
B) You can worship African gods in America
C) Whites get a chance to act black
D) people learn through participation

Question 3
In this research, Joni L. Jones concludes that Blackness is a series of :
A) acquired behaviors
B) stereotypical behaviors
C) radical or problem behaviors
D) child-like behaviors

Question 4
While in Nigeria, Joni the ethnographer experienced disorientation and was frequently called oyinbo meaning:
A) lost sister and one of us
B) one called and loved by the gods
C) stranger and white person
D) neither white nor black

Question 5
Osun-a prominent power in Yoruba spirituality is the force of:
A) evil, darkness and witchcraft
B) life creation, pleasure and luxury
C) law, punishment, fire and brimstone
D) lightning, thunder and storms.

Question 6
In Catherine Cole’s article “Reading Black Face, what raised questions about how black face traveled all the way to West Africa for the researcher?”
A) a newspaper
B) a film
C) a picture
D) a carving.

Question 7
According to Cole (in the reading), what fascinates most North Americans when they learn about the concert party?
A) Blackface
B) the music
C) improvisational skills
D) English accents.

Question 8
According to Cole, the only way African Americans could be accepted on stage was by:
A) taking off their clothes
B) blackening their faces
C) going to acting schools
D) knowing casting directors personally.

Question 9
In the film Stage Shakers, who played female roles in both concert party and minstrelsy?
A) young boys with thin voices
B) men in drag
C) transgender actors and actresses
D) bi-sexual actors

Question 10
In the film Stage Shakers, Catherine Cole discovered that in Ghana also known as The Gold Coast at the time, concerts began in _______________________________?
A) harbors
B) beach hotels
C) prisons
D) schools

Question 11
In the film Stage Shakers, the early Concert Party Theaters were in the form of a trio (had three characters only). Name any one character that comprised the trio in these early forms:
A) the gentleman, lady and the houseboy
B) the gentleman, lady and the govenor
C) the gentleman, lady and the dragon
D) the gentleman, lady and the spirit