QUIZ

Week Eleven - almost heaven to be so close to the end!



1. Magic differs from religion in that religion is supplicative while magic is....

2. Malinowski divided the "world" into two parts, one of which is the profane. What is the other?

3. What kind of supernatural responses are high risk situations more likely to produce?

4. What is likely the cause of "folk wisdom" advising people not to eat oysters in months which lack the letter "r"?

5.What is the general term for a religious prohibition?

6. What term describes fish which are born in the ocean but live in fresh water most of their lives?

7. What instrument was involved in causing the disaster of the Marie Celeste?

8. What meteorlogical phenomenon causes a "glow" to appear on a ship's masts and yards?

9. What animal is thought to be the "model" for mermaids?

10. What is a story believed to be sacred and true known as technically by folklorists?

ANSWERS TO THE LAST QUIZ

1. What kind of relationship do symbols have with their referent that signs do not?

Answer: arbitrary

2. The earliest techniques used to get food are known as

Answer: hunting and gathering

3. What term is used to indicate that too many fish have been taken for the stock to keep replenishing itself?

Answer: over fishing

4. At about how many years ago do the earliest examples of pelagic fishing that we know of appear?

Answer: 40,000

5.What term is used to describe pulling a net behind a vessel for the purposes of catching some marine life?

Answer: trawling

6. What is it called when one takes too many fish that results in the depletion the mature adult population of the fish?

Answer: recruitment over fishing

7. What term is used to decribe fish which were unintentionally caught in a net?

Answer: by catch

8. What term is used for the greatest catch of a species that will ensure the log term viability of the species?

Answer: maximum sustainable yield

9. What tool appears to mark the horticultural level of food production?

Answer: digging stick

10. What term is used for fishing equipment that has broken loose and is floating in the ocean still catching fish?

Answer: ghost fishing