GEOG 1020A
Claudia Langevin
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Dates/ locations of mock exam take-up: Thursday October 13th 6:35-7:55pm ME
3174 & Sunday October 16th 1-2:30pm UC 279 --- Office Hours 2:30-4:30pm UC 279
GEOG 1020A
Claudia Langevin
1. Eurocentrism is…
a) The theory for population growth in European countries
b) The West is the reference point for history, knowledge, and cultural
difference
c) The conquest and control of land
d) The theory that culture is a European construct
2. What is the Western view of nature?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Humans and the environment create an interrelated system
Humans are capable of controlling nature through social processes
Humans have three goals, to protect, preserve and conserve nature
Humans consciously work towards a more sustainable environment
3. Which figure best described the following, “The state shapes the way we think
about ourselves, others and the world around us.”
a)
b)
c)
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
Jeremy Bentham
Michele Foucault
John Stuart Mill
4. John Gast created a painting called American Progress, what was the purpose of
this painting?
a) To create an image in which the West forms basis to build a certain society
b) A narrative that fits with a particular form of production
c) Claiming a monopoly over land as it pushes the frontier farther and farther
west
d) Illustrates a dualism
5. Which of the following does not describe settler colonialism?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Displacing people from land
Primarily concerned with extracting value from labour
Haida Gwaii
The Dominion Land Act
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6. As a practice, relates to how people use land, organize themselves in space and
give meaning to place
a)
b)
c)
d)
Territoriality
Place theory
Central-space theory
Theory of accumulation
7. How is dispossession defined?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Displace people and withhold them of things that are rightfully theirs
Efforts to get more land from Indigenous people and their resources
Leaves them without place to live
All of the above define dispossession
8. What does the feminist critique of Eurocentrism seek to explain?
a)
b)
c)
d)
How the idea of the “other” is formed in society
How women were treated through a colonial lens
Societies lack a certain level of compassion as a result of colonization
None of the above are correct
9. Which of the following does not explain how the “other” is formed in society?
a) Stereotypes form different groups
b) A dominant group holds something intrinsic that the lower group cannot
attain
c) A system that operates upon evidence-based practices
d) Groups are ascribed unequal, hierarchal values
10. Which of the following are true about maps?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Regardless of their positioning they equally represent states
Are social and political representations of space
It establishes political power over land
They discuss the perceived distance of things
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11. In the film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, what issue was at stake?
a) Indigenous groups wanting to reclaim land, taken during settler
colonialism
b) Indigenous group loosing their territory over a golf course
c) Quebec government wanting to remove Mohawk people from the province
d) Mohawk dispossessing Quebecers from territory
12. What is a key argument made in The Golden Spruce?
a) The forest is perceived as the other player
b) Nature is a passive player; man is active controlling nature through social
processes
c) Feminism seeks to eradicate the practice of logging and other challenges
brought on by the logging industry
d) Logging is the reference point for settler colonialism in Canada
13. Which of the following best describes Utilitarianism?
a)
b)
c)
d)
A theory developed by Grant Hadwin for cutting down the Golden Spruce
Greatest good for the greatest time
John Stuart Mill describing nature as amoral
Greatest good, for greatest number, for longest time
14. _________ is the view that there should be no-development, or high regulation
of nature
a)
b)
c)
d)
Developed by Gifford Pinchot
Conservation
Preservation
Ethical anthropocentrism
15. Which of the following do not support Max Weber’s notion of Thinking Like a
State?
a)
b)
c)
d)
State are communities that gain monopoly with physical force
The state is made up of a series of wealthy, powerful westerners
The state decides what types of force are legitimate or not
Foundation of state means that citizens give up certain aspects of power
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16. What does the term conservation indicate?
a) Through the use of governmentality, strictly conserve the use of natural
resources
b) Using innovative technology to eliminate the use of non-renewable
resources
c) Involving government action to use nature wisely and to protect against
private corporations
d) To create the greatest good for greatest amount of people, for greatest
amount of time
17. Which of the following is not true about the Ecological critique?
a)
b)
c)
d)
A thing is right when it promotes stability, integrity and beauty of land
The fundamental flaws of forestry practices are improvable
Thinking like a mountain will prevent further environmental degradation
We must re-value the ways in which we think about nature
18. John Muir was adamant about using the Yellowstone National Park resources
wisely for human use. He believed that resources should be conserved but not
completely regulated.
a) True
b) False
19. The concept of a panopticon was developed by which of the following figures?
governmentality was developed by:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Gifford Pinchot
Jeremy Bentham
Michel Foucault
Grant Hadwin
20. What is symbolic power?
a) To structure ways, we think and accept as legitimate, social political or
moral orders
b) A distinct social relationship in society that forms the basis for the “other”
c) There is not one key holder of power in any given society but a system of
interrelated foundations
d) The refusal to be united in a dominant belief system in a given society
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21. Which of the following does not describe nature?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Things that exist or happen without human interference
The dualism ingrained in the human and nature relationship
The sum-total of everything that exists, including people
The processes that affect how humans and non-humans interact
22. Which of the following does not support the notion that settler colonialism in an
on-going process?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Dispossess people from their land, then uses people for means of labour
It establishes political power over land
It is a structure; not an event that happened and then ended
It pivots on the issues of territory and territoriality
23. ______________refers to the location or setting that provides context for
human meanings with respect to physical, social or cultural attributes or
symbolic importance
a)
b)
c)
d)
Space
Private Property
Place
Territoriality
24. Which of the following statements are not true about establishing the noble race?
a)
b)
c)
d)
It seeks to transform the nature into a productive use of space
It is a production of the others
Establishes unequal hierarchal values among groups
Forms the expectation that a subordinate class should try to reach an ideal
25. Which of the following best defines anthropocentrism?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Counting humans normally but excluding Indigenous people
Producing an other with nature
Not only humans count morally
All and only humans count morally
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Part B: Short Answer
The following instructions and questions were copied from Professor Schmidt’s
midterm preparation document. Take the time to answer each of the following
questions to your best abilities, please ensure you answer all components to each
question
A selection of these questions will be on the midterm exam as part of the short
answer/paragraph section. When answering these questions on the test, your responses
should be one paragraph; around 6-8 sentences. Answers should be in full sentences
(i.e. no bullet points).
1. Explain the differences between environmental conservation and environmental
preservation using the example of Grant Hadwin cutting down the Golden
Spruce.
2. Using examples from class readings or videos, describe the three main tenets of
the feminist critique of Eurocentric “others.”
3. Using the example of the Salton Sea, compare and contrast two different options
for how “nature” may be understood.
4. Using an example from class readings or lectures briefly define dispossession.
5. Define human territoriality and explain it using the example of private property.
6. Define the idea of the commodity form, and explain it using The Golden Spruce.
7. Using an example from either class lectures or readings, briefly discuss some of
the key elements of Eurocentrism.
8. Using an example, briefly explain governmentality and how it may affect social
space?
9. Using the example of forests from The Golden Spruce, explain the difference
between space and place.
10. Briefly define settler colonialism and use references to 270 Years of Resistance to
explain why it is a structure, not an event.