QUIZ

Week Twelve! On the twelfth day of this term, my advisor gave to me a course all about the great big sea!

1. What people constitute a "pariah" group (untouchable) in Japan?

2. What animal is thought to be the stimulus for the "Kraken"

3. What is the largest BONY fish in the ocean?

4. What term is used for ceremonies that mark a change of status or position?

5. In what part of the world did sailors "rediscover" Tattoing?

6. Currently, what is the "major" line whose crossing is celebrated on ships (although the hazing is much reduced)

7. What area of the ocean is called a "sea" but is surrounded on no sides by land, only currents?

8. What mineral coming from the sea is used for ritual purification in Japan?

9. What do Judaism, Christianity and Islamm share in common that makes them called "The People of the Book"?

10. What are people who have not been initiated when crossing the equator?

ANSWERS TO THE LAST QUIZ

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

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

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

5. What is the general term for a religious prohibition?
Answer: "taboo" also properly spelled "tabu"

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

7. What instrument was involved in causing the disaster of the Marie Celeste?
Answer: "clock" or "chronometer"

8. What meteorlogical phenomenon causes a "glow" to appear on a ship's masts and yards?
Answer: St. Elmo's Fire

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

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