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Third Quarter ST1
Third Quarter ST1
SUMMATIVE TEST # 1
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Grade 12
B. Identify what country does each taboo is referring to. Choose your answer from the word bank below (10)
Papua New Guinea China Italy Japan Brazil
Jamaica Nigeria Russia India France
____________16. Sharing your meal must place the tasting morsel on a small plate and then pass it to the recipient.
____________17. It is believed that if children eat chicken before they learn to speak, they will never talk.
____________18. It is considered rude to rush through a meal or hurry your order along.
____________19. Children who eat eggs will turn into thieves, they also feel particularly strongly about coconut milk.
____________20. Eating a cow in prohibited, as it is thought of as God’s useful gift to mankind since it provides dairy products and is
the basis for other products.
____________21. Predatory fish, like piranhas and bottom feeders are considered taboo for the ill to eat.
____________22. As the initiator of the date, you are expected to pay for everything, as most women won’t even bring their wallets on
a formal date.
____________23. After finishing a meal at a restaurant, do not leave your chopsticks sticking up in the left-over rice at the bottom of
your bowl. That practice is employed when families offer a meal to their ancestors' ghosts at family shrines but people believe that
doing so in a restaurant would plague the proprietor with a terrible curse.
____________24. Despite the fact these people will feed you until you are beyond full, it is considered rude to accept the first offering
of food.
____________25. Anyone who eats the food a menstruating woman cooks or even steps over, that person, — particularly the husband
— will become "ill with cough and possibly die.”
KEY ANSWERS
TEST I
1. D. Wright Mills
2. C. Power
3. A. Edward Taylor
4. A. Authoritative policy
5. C. Culture
6. B .Political Behavior
7. D. Right to vote
8. B. Society
9. D. Rallies
10. D. Taboos
TEST II
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