Week 15 Quiz

Which statement gives the course's definition of colonialism?

Select one.

• Cultural change that follows sustained contact between two groups
• One society's rule over another and the use of its land, labor, and resources
• The intensifying flow of goods, people, money, and ideas across the whole world over time
• Trade in which each side gives and receives goods of about equal value within a known time

Canada banned the potlatch under the Indian Act, a documented colonial law. In what year was the ban dropped?

Select one.

• 1921
• 1990
• 1951
• 2003

On an illustrative coffee route, beans are grown on farms in one region and then roasted, branded, and sold by a company in another country. In the world-system model, which reading fits?

Select one.

• The growing region is the core, because the beans start there
• Both ends of the route are the core, because both of them earn money from selling the beans
• The roasting and selling country is the periphery, because it depends on the beans
• The growing region is the periphery, and the roasting and selling country is the core

According to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, about how many international migrants were there in 2024, and what share of the world's population was that?

Select one.

• About 304 million, 3.7 percent of the world's population
• About 154 million, 2.9 percent of the world's population
• About 308 million, which is exactly double the estimated count for 1990
• About 304 million, 37 percent of the world's population

International migrants were 3.7 percent of the world's population in 2024 and 2.9 percent in 1990, according to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. How should the change be written?

Select one.

• A rise of 0.8 percent
• A rise of 0.8 percentage points
• A rise of 6.6 percentage points in all
• A rise of 2.9 percentage points

An illustrative museum in the United States that receives federal funds is asked by a Native American tribe to return a sacred object. Which statement matches the course and the law signed in 1990?

Select one.

• The museum may return it as an act of optional goodwill, but only if its donors agree to it
• The museum must keep it, because a museum can care for it better
• The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires the museum to return it
• Only UNESCO's 2003 convention can decide whether the object goes back

True or false: anthropologists find that globalization makes every culture the same, because the same goods and media now reach most places.

True or false.

• True
• False

At the course's illustrative market, two vendors mention sending money to relatives in another country every month. Which reading fits the course's synthesis of the site?

Select one.

• The transfers are remittances, transnational ties that the market's coded tally does not record
• The transfers are redistribution, because they pass through the market manager
• The transfers are counted among the 33 market exchanges in the coded tally
• The transfers show that globalization has made the market the same as every other market on earth

On the course's illustrative market visit, 33 of the 50 coded exchanges were market exchange. What percent of the coded exchanges was market exchange?

Select one.

• 33 percent
• 50 percent
• 26 percent
• 66 percent

In an illustrative family, a worker abroad sends money to a parent at home every month, and no one in the family keeps count or expects it back. Read as a classroom model, which form of exchange does this look like?

Select one.

• Balanced reciprocity
• Generalized reciprocity
• Negative reciprocity
• Market exchange at a set price