HSY316 Cross-Cultural World History Quiz

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Take Test: Topic 3 Quiz - Pacific First Contact: On the Beach

QUESTION 1

1. According to Maria Nugent, how did early twentieth-century accounts of James Cook's landing at Botany Bay affect views of cross-cultural contact between the British and indigenous Australians?

		They marginalised the presence and agency of indigenous Australians in the colonial story.
		They denied that any such contact existed.
		They made it seem like the indigenous people welcomed Cook to Australia.

1 points

QUESTION 2

1. How did Banks view the European lifeway in comparison with that of the Indigenous Australians he met?

		Civilised
		Excessive
		Both

1 points

QUESTION 3

1. What does Greg Dening argue was the main reason why Europeans like Cook, and the Spanish mariners who preceded him, practised violence against Pacific Islanders?

		They believed they had a right to do so
		They were attacked first.
		They didn't understand the people they encountered, and weren't able or willing to try.

Continue: Topic 4 Quiz. Early Sydney: Inter-Cultural Exchange?

QUESTION 1

1. According to Clendinnen, what was a major source of conflict between Indigenous Australians and white settlers in the early colonial era?

		Indigenous Australians collaborated with convicts attempting to escape.
		The British believed they had a right to natural resources that Indigenous Australians understandably saw as belonging to them.
		Indigenous Australians did not understand the system of trade that the British attempted to institute.

1 points

QUESTION 2

1. For what reason(s) was La Perouse a significant site in the early history of Sydney?

		Captain Cook famously visited the site, and made contact with Indigenous Australians there.
		It was named after the French explorer Lapèrouse, whose expedition disappeared without trace after his visit to Australia.
		Not only is the site connected with the Lapèrouse expedition, but it was also an important Aboriginal settlement in the nineteenth century.
		All of the above.

1 points

QUESTION 3

1. What opinion(s) did David Collins form of Aboriginal women during his observations of Bennilong and his people in the 1790s?

		They were oppressed and treated cruelly.
		They were unreserved in their behaviour
		They were quick to pick up on British customs and attitudes.
		All of the above.
		None of the above. Take Test: Topic 5 Quiz. Sex and Intermarriage: Gender and Race in the Colonies

QUESTION 1

1. According to Victoria Maynard, why were white men so against sexual relations between white women and Aboriginal men in colonial Australia?

		The rape of white women was common enough to create a stereotype
		They believed that any marriage would be null and void and therefore the woman would be living in sin
		Women's bodies were seen as representative of white society and its inviolability by black culture

0.5 points

QUESTION 2

1. How did some nineteenth-century Native Americans become 'cultural mediators' in the contact zone between native and white America?

		They married white women
		They received financial support for higher education
		Both

0.5 points

QUESTION 3

1. How were a small number Aboriginal men able to take the difficult step of marrying white women in the twentieth century?

		The Second World War made people more aware of the negativity of racial prejudice.
		By living with their wives and families in isolation from both white and Aboriginal societies
		By becoming famous and/or successful in some way

0.5 points

QUESTION 4

1. Why did Charles Eastman support the idea of what Ellinghaus calls 'acculturation'?

		It was the only way he could marry the woman he loved
		He believed that both white and native American cultures had good qualities
		He wanted to participate in mainstream American society without becoming Christian

Take Test: Topic 6 Quiz. Performance and Display: The Case of Sara Baartman

QUESTION 1

1. What, according to Poignant, is a significant methodological problem with attempting to interpret Aboriginal "captive" narratives?

		The lack of unprejudiced evidence
		The historian becoming emotionally involved
		The very act of analysis makes Aboriginal historical figures the captives of archives and discourses that aren't their own

1 points

QUESTION 2

1. Why were indigenous peoples a source of fascination for Western audiences in the nineteenth century?

		They were different, exotic -- part of a tradition of exhibiting human beings as curiosities
		Their captive presence reinforced notions of white power and superiority
		They were seen as evidence of a global hierarchy of cultures and peoples.
		All of the above

1 points

QUESTION 3

1. In what context(s) could British commentators see Sara Baartman as a victim?

		Slavery had just been abolished when Sara was in London, and sympathy with indigenous peoples ran high in London
		The man exhibiting Sara was white but not British, so it was easier for London commentators to view the situation as unjust colonial oppression
		Both
		Neither

Take Test: Topic 7 Quiz. Museums and Exhibits: A Cross-Cultural History of Bodily Remains and Objects

QUESTION 1

1. Why did nineteenth and early-twentieth-century scientists study and collect Aboriginal human remains?

		Because of the perceived link between biology and culture
		So that they could prove they were human
		So that they could be given Christian burials

0.5 points

QUESTION 2

1. How did Aboriginal people react to the removal of remains from their graves?

		With immediate violence against the white 'grave-robbers'
		They fled in terror
		Both - not all people reacted the same
		Neither - they found other ways to state their opposition

0.5 points

QUESTION 3

1. According to Russell, why were Aboriginal weapons displayed in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British museums?

		To depict the natives as hostile violent and primitive
		To celebrate Western military superiority
		They were considered exotic

1 points

QUESTION 4

1. According to Jones, what is the enduring significance of Blackburn's whip?

		It is one of the first known objects to have been appropriated from an Aboriginal gravesite
		It is a striking example of hybrid culture, an important cross-cultural artefact
		Both