video questions

All questions below must be answered in the essay (number them in your paper). All papers will be submitted through blackboard and checked for plagiarism against other students and internet websites before grading. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE ANYTHING FROM THE INTERNET – SUCH ACTIVITIES CONSTITUTE PLAGIARISM!

Grading guideline - minus three points for each of the following pieces of essential information that must be in the answer

THE FAST RUNNER

1. Describe the initial duel in which Atarnajuat wins his wife.

2. How does Atarnajuat acquires a second wife,

3. What happens to Atarnajuat when he is hiding under a pile of seaweed.

4. What animal spirit appears to Atarnajuat’s uncle in a dream that he sends to Oki who kills and eats the spirit and becomes drugged into docility?

5. What does Atarnajuat do to his feet in the final showdown with Oki?

6. What does Atarnajuat do to Oki in the final showdown.

7. What do you think was the most interesting event in this film? Describe it in detail.

Grading guideline - minus three points for each of the following pieces of essential information that must be in the answer

TEN CANOES

1. What is the moral of the story?

2. What did the men think about the genitals of the unknown stranger who appeared at their camp?

3. Why did the enemies believe that the fat man was the killer when they found their tribesman dead?

4. Why was the fat man so fat?

5. Who is the person that interferes with the younger brother when he goes to sneak a look at his older brother’s pretty wife?

6. What do you think was the most interesting event in this film? Describe it in detail.

Grading guideline - minus three points for each of the following pieces of essential information that must be in the answer

DISCOVERING ARDI

1 What is specifically is notable about Ardi's hands and fingers?

2 What was the ecology like where Ardi lived?

3 How did scientists stabilize Ardi's bones when they started to crumble?

4 Where did scientists take the bones to get complete 3D digital images of them?

5 What does Owen Lovejoy think favored bipedalism in Ardipithecus? What is his hypothesis about the adaptive utility of bipedalism?

6. What do you think was the most interesting information in this film? Describe it in detail.

Grading guideline - minus three points for each of the following pieces of essential information that must be in the answer

Dead birds:

1. What does Weyak do so that women will know that it is safe to go work in their gardens each day?

2. How exactly do boys practice the skills they need for warfare as adults?

3. Why do the warriors hurry to get back home before dark?

4. What had happened to Laca’s hands and why? This is described as she is making salt ash and her hands are shown closeup?

5. Who gets killed first in the film, from Weyak’s village, and during the pig feast and how does it happen?

6. When Weyak’s people finally kill an enemy to take revenge for the first killing, how do the women celibrate the victory?

Rise of the Warrior Apes

1. What is the purpose of the pant grunt that males do to other males?

2. How do males maintain themselves at the top of the dominance hierarchy? Who was Bartok, and how did he beat Lofty to become the alpha male?

3. How big was the area being used by Ngogo Chimpanzees? 28 km2

4. What was the role of Ellington and what was his nickname? Who was Ellington’s best friend?

5. Who witness firsthand the first fatal attack where the Ngogo chimpanzees killed a male from another group?

6. What is unique about human eyes when compared to all other primates and why does it matter? What is weird about Pincer?