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Why is the sports movie called an "incoherent genre" in the slides?
  • It spans comedy and tragedy, popular and art cinemas, and historical and contemporary subjects
  • It has no protagonists
  • It only covers documentaries
  • It is limited to biopics
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What is Wiedenfeld's definition of a sports movie?
  • A film about the history of sport
  • A film whose protagonists inhabit the world of sports (athlete, coach, agent, fan)
  • A film shot at a sporting event
  • A film where a team wins
3
Which view of genre do sports movies challenge, per the syllabus?
  • Auteur theory
  • The semantic/syntactic view of genre
  • Apparatus theory
  • Realism
4
Whose concept of action relating body to community informs the course?
  • Hegel
  • Bellah
  • Hannah Arendt
  • Habermas
5
What three questions open the slides?
  • What is the aesthetic value of sports, sports media, and sports movies?
  • What is the economic value of sports, media, and movies?
  • What is the political significance of sports, sports media, and sports movies?
6
Who first proposed civil religion to secure a social contract (Gorski)?
  • Bellah
  • Rousseau
  • Hegel
  • Alexander
7
In what year do the slides date Rousseau's civil religion?
  • 1967
  • 1835
  • 1762
  • 2006
8
Which is NOT a feature of Rousseau's civil religion (slides)?
  • Sacred social contract
  • Common morality
  • Religious intolerance required
  • No religious intolerance
9
Who injected civil religion into modern sociology?
  • Rousseau
  • Robert Bellah
  • Philip Gorski
  • Durkheim
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What is the title and year of Bellah's civil religion essay?
  • "Civil Religion in America," 1967
  • "The Civil Sphere," 2006
  • "American Covenant," 2017
  • "Civil Repair," 2025
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How did Bellah first define civil religion?
  • The state's control of churches
  • A replacement for organized religion
  • The "religious dimension" of the "political realm"
  • The rejection of religion in politics
12
How did Bellah later define civil religion?
  • A set of ritual laws
  • The "founding myth" of a political community interpreting its history in light of transcendent reality
  • A form of religious nationalism
  • A neutral public square
13
Is Bellah's civil religion voluntary or compulsory?
  • Compulsory
  • Voluntary
14
Is Bellah's civil religion more scriptural or more ritual?
  • More scriptural
  • More ritual
15
Does Bellah's civil religion replace organized religion?
  • Yes, entirely
  • Yes, in public life
  • No, it exists alongside and is differentiated from the churches
  • It only replaces Protestantism
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What is the major weakness of Bellah's definition, per Gorski?
  • It is too ritualistic
  • It does not clearly separate civil religion from religious nationalism
  • It is compulsory
  • It ignores the Bible
17
Who wrote "The Civil Religious Tradition and Its Rivals"?
  • Robert Bellah
  • Philip Gorski
  • Jeffrey Alexander
  • Michael Thomas
18
How does the week 1 slide sum up American civil religion?
  • Union of church and state
  • Total separation of religion and politics
  • Separation of church and state, but sacredness of the state
  • Rule by the churches
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Which is NOT one of the three "sacred beliefs in practice" on the slides?
  • Remember great actions and persons
  • Revere special icons and words
  • Prohibit all public ritual
  • Recite texts and rehearse ideas
20
What image illustrates American civil religion in the slides?
  • Lincoln Memorial
  • JFK lying in state
  • Washington crossing the Delaware
  • The Liberty Bell
21
What image illustrates Rousseau's civil religion in the slides?
  • The storming of the Bastille
  • A papal procession
  • Voltaire's remains moved to the French Pantheon
  • Napoleon's coronation
22
What does the Canadian civil religion slide show?
  • Parliament Hill
  • The Princes' Gates, inaugurated 1927 by Princes George and Edward
  • A hockey arena
  • The CN Tower
23
What is the horizon of "world civil religion" for Bellah?
  • Economic growth
  • Cultural homogeneity
  • Global peace
  • Military alliance
24
Which symbols appear on the "world civil religion" slide?
  • Only national flags
  • Flags of the U.N., I.O.C., and Pride progress, peace sign, world religion symbols
  • Only religious symbols
  • Corporate logos
25
What two views of "religion" and "ritual" does week 1 contrast?
  • Ancient versus modern
  • Irrational beliefs that deceive and control versus forms of social organization and collective feeling
  • Private versus public
  • Christian versus secular
26
What are Gorski's three rival traditions?
  • Republicanism, liberalism, socialism
  • Civil religion, religious nationalism, radical secularism
  • Prophetic religion, apocalypticism, atheism
  • Civil sphere, state, economy
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What does religious nationalism want between religion and politics?
  • Total separation
  • Partial overlap
  • Maximum fusion
28
What does radical secularism want between religion and politics?
  • Maximum fusion
  • Partial overlap
  • Total separation
29
What does civil religion want between religion and politics?
  • Maximum fusion
  • Total separation
  • Partial overlap
30
What two sources feed American civil religion (Gorski)?
  • Conquest narrative and apocalypticism
  • Libertarian liberalism and total separationism
  • Prophetic religion and civic republicanism
  • Rousseau and Hobbes
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What two sources feed religious nationalism?
  • Prophetic religion and civic republicanism
  • The conquest narrative and apocalypticism
  • Libertarian liberalism and total separationism
  • Utilitarianism and atomism
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What two sources feed radical secularism?
  • Libertarian liberalism and total separationism
  • Conquest narrative and apocalypticism
  • Prophetic religion and republicanism
  • Canon and archive
33
Which biblical books ground the conquest narrative?
  • Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah
  • Joshua, Judges, and Kings
  • Genesis and Exodus
  • Matthew and Mark
34
Which biblical books ground prophetic religion?
  • Joshua, Judges, Kings
  • Revelation and Daniel
  • The Latter Prophets (Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah)
  • Leviticus
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What does the God of the prophets demand instead of blood sacrifice?
  • Conquest
  • Obedience in war
  • Individual righteousness and social justice
  • Silence
36
What does blood sacrifice mark in Gorski's argument?
  • The birth of republicanism
  • Divergence of prophetic religion and the conquest narrative
  • The end of the Exodus
  • The rise of secularism
37
What is Gorski's formula for American religious nationalism?
  • Prophetic religion plus civic republicanism
  • Apocalyptic politics plus the conquest narrative
  • Libertarianism plus separationism
  • Canon plus archive
38
What is Gorski's formula for American civil religion?
  • Conquest narrative plus apocalypse
  • Individualism plus utilitarianism
  • Prophetic religion plus civic republicanism
  • Liberalism plus secularism
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How does the apocalyptic worldview read scripture?
  • Allegorically and symbolically
  • Predictively, literally, premillennially, and vindictively
  • Historically and critically
  • Postmillennially
40
Which is NOT one of Gorski's four dangers of apocalyptic nationalism?
  • Hubris
  • Demonization of others
  • Fatalism
  • Excessive civic virtue
41
What is religious nationalism to civil religion, per Gorski?
  • Its opposite
  • Its dark side
  • Its ancestor
  • Its replacement
42
What is radical secularism to civil religion, per Gorski?
  • Its dark side
  • Its source
  • The libertarian version of civil religion
  • Its ritual form
43
Which of Gorski's traditions arrived first in America?
  • Radical secularism
  • Religious nationalism
  • Civil religion, with the Puritans
44
Where was religious nationalism born, per Gorski?
  • In the French Revolution
  • Out of the Puritans' wars with native peoples
  • In the Civil War
  • In the Progressive Era
45
How do republicans see human nature (Gorski)?
  • Unsocial and rapacious
  • Inherently social and political
  • Driven only by exchange
  • Presocial
46
How does liberal freedom differ from republican freedom (Gorski)?
  • Liberal: being an active citizen
  • Liberal: not being interfered with
  • Liberal: not being a slave to passions
  • Liberal: virtue
47
What does Gorski call the greatest danger to civil religion today?
  • Religious revival
  • Secular decline
  • The weakening of civic republicanism
  • Prophetic religion
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What are the four elements of a tradition (Gorski)?
  • Canon, creed, ritual, narrative
  • Text, image, rite, myth
  • Canon, archive, pantheon, narrative
  • Scripture, saint, hymn, rite
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What is a "canon" for Gorski?
  • Widely known and read texts that focus civic debate
  • Heroes and martyrs
  • Stories not yet incorporated
  • An interpretation of the past
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What is a "pantheon" for Gorski?
  • A set of texts
  • An interpretation of the past
  • The founders, heroes, saints, and martyrs of civic life
  • Unincorporated stories
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What is a "narrative" for Gorski?
  • Heroes of civic life
  • An interpretation of the past that generates a vision of the future
  • A set of texts
  • A set of rituals
52
What is an "archive" for Gorski?
  • Famous founders
  • The Constitution
  • Texts, persons, and stories not yet in the tradition but possibly incorporated later
  • A ritual calendar
53
Who sits at the apex of Gorski's pantheon?
  • Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
  • King, Lincoln, Washington
  • Lincoln, Reagan, King
  • Paine, Jefferson, Madison
54
Which biblical story models many American civic narratives?
  • Noah's flood
  • The Exodus
  • The Crucifixion
  • Revelation
55
Which Obama speech does Gorski quote?
  • The 2004 convention speech
  • The inaugural address
  • The 2008 "race speech"
  • The Selma speech
56
How did African Americans retell the Exodus by the Civil War?
  • As a story of conquest
  • They were the chosen people and white Americans the Egyptians
  • As an apocalypse
  • They rejected it
57
Which chapter by Wiedenfeld is on the week 1 syllabus?
  • "Multicultural American Heroes" on Obama-era biopics of Robinson and Owens
  • "Egalitarian Women and Sideline Men"
  • "Hegel and Ethiopia"
  • "Sports Queen"
58
Who directed 42 (2013)?
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Brian Helgeland
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Kon Ichikawa
59
What themes does Wiedenfeld list for 42?
  • Marxism and feminism
  • Christian evangelicalism, liberalism, libertarianism
  • Nationalism and fascism
  • Modernism and realism
60
Who directed Race (2016)?
  • Brian Helgeland
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Peyton Reed
  • Hugh Hudson
61
Which mix of nationalities made Race (2016)?
  • All American
  • Canadian producers and star, German producers and settings, USA subject, British director
  • Only British
  • Japanese and German
62
What two ideas head week 2 ("The Power of Ritual")?
  • Sport is play
  • Heroes fail
  • Rituals ingrain orderly conduct
  • songs and poems praise heroes
  • Law replaces ritual
63
Whose classical views are studied in week 2?
  • Hegel and Rousseau
  • Bellah and Gorski
  • Confucius and Plato
  • Plato and Aristotle
64
When are the Analects dated, and who translated the course edition?
  • About 500 BC
  • Burton Watson
  • About 100 BC
  • Burton Watson
  • About 500 BC
  • R. G. Bury
  • About 347 BC
  • T. M. Knox
65
What are the Analects, per the slide?
  • A legal code
  • Conversations with Master Kong of the Ru school
  • A military manual
  • A Han dynasty history
66
What period does the slide place Confucius in?
  • The three ancient dynasties
  • The Han Dynasty
  • Feudal clans at war, about 500 BC
  • The Qing dynasty
67
What does the slide date to Emperor Wu?
  • About 500 BC
  • About 1000 BC
  • About 100 BC (Han Dynasty)
  • About 347 BC
68
For Confucius, poems are the best means to what (slide)?
  • Winning wars
  • Orderly communities
  • Individual freedom
  • Wealth
69
What does Analects 2.1 compare virtuous government to?
  • A river
  • The North Star with other stars paying court
  • A builder's prop
  • A chariot
70
What does Analects 2.2 say the Odes sum up to?
  • "Know thyself"
  • "Be filial"
  • "Think nothing base"
  • "Follow the Way"
71
In Analects 2.3, what follows guiding by virtue and ritual?
  • People evade the law
  • A sense of shame and uprightness
  • Fear of penalties
  • Strict obedience
72
What year do the slides date Plato's Laws?
  • 427 BC
  • 510 BC
  • 347 BC
  • 380 BC
73
What dates do the slides give Plato?
  • 510-323 BC
  • 427-347 BC
  • 380-347 BC
  • 1000-500 BC
74
What did Plato found and when?
  • The Academy in Athens, 380s BC
  • The Lyceum, 340s BC
  • A colony on Crete, 347 BC
  • The Olympic Games, 776 BC
75
Which places does the slide say Plato traveled to?
  • Persia and India
  • Egypt and Sicily
  • Rome and Gaul
  • Sparta and Crete
76
What two things do sports do for Plato (week 2 slide)?
  • Entertain and unite
  • Form lawful citizens and cultivate excellence
  • Win wars and honour gods
  • Make profit and fame
77
Which book of Plato's Laws is studied, and where is the city set?
  • Book I, Athens
  • Book VII, a new city on Crete
  • Book X, Sparta
  • Book VII, Egypt
78
Who is educated in Laws VII?
  • Boys only
  • Nobles only
  • Children of both sexes
  • Soldiers
79
How does Plato describe ancestral customs (§793C)?
  • Like a river
  • Like builders' props that wrap up the laws
  • Like chains
  • Like a mirror
80
Which people's method does Plato cite for dance, music and sacred feasts?
  • Spartan
  • Persian
  • Egyptian
  • Cretan
81
How do mothers calm sleepless children (§790C)?
  • With silence
  • With food
  • With combined movements of dance and song
  • With games
82
What are Plato's early education stages?
  • 0-6 school
  • 0-3 nurses, 3-6 games at village temples, 6+ lessons separated by sex
  • 0-3 mothers, 3-6 temples, 6+ army
  • All together to age 10
83
Why do children's games matter for legislation (§797B)?
  • They exhaust children
  • Unchanging games let the serious laws remain undisturbed
  • They teach combat
  • They honour gods
84
What do gymnastic and musical lessons train (§795E)?
  • Gymnastic: soul
  • musical: body
  • Gymnastic: body
  • musical: soul
  • Both: body
  • Both: soul
85
Which two kinds of dancing does Plato list?
  • Sacred and profane
  • Pacific and warlike
  • Male and female
  • Slow and fast
86
Do girls get military training in Plato's Laws (§794D)?
  • No
  • Only in Sparta
  • Yes, riding, archery, javelin and slinging alongside boys
  • Only dancing
87
Which warrior women appear on Plato's slide?
  • Amazons
  • Spartans
  • Sauromatian women
  • Athenians
88
How does Plato divide music between the sexes (§802-03)?
  • Same music for both
  • Noble and manly is masculine
  • decorum and sedateness feminine
  • Women get no music
  • Men get only hymns
89
What life deserves the name "life" for Plato (§807C-D)?
  • A life of leisure
  • A life of war
  • One aiming at a Pythian or Olympian victory, caring for bodily and spiritual excellence
  • A life of trade
90
Whom does Plato say to praise in hymns (§801D)?
  • Living athletes
  • Gods first, then daemons and heroes
  • Only kings
  • Only ancestors
91
Why is it unsafe to praise the living (§802A)?
  • They are proud
  • They have not completed life and reached a noble end
  • They are rivals
  • They are foreign
92
Who shares honours for excellence in Plato (§802A)?
  • Men only
  • Citizens only
  • Women as well as men
  • Soldiers only
93
What does sober music do (§802C)?
  • Weakens the soul
  • A man reared on it detests the opposite kind as "vulgar"
  • Makes him fearless
  • Makes him idle
94
What is the week 2 summary on Plato and heroes?
  • Heroes weaken communities
  • Stories of heroes cultivate resilient and orderly communities
  • Heroes should be forgotten
  • Heroes belong to gods
95
Who directed Tokyo Olympiad and who produced it?
  • Hugh Hudson, Allied Stars
  • Kon Ichikawa, IOC/Toho
  • Leni Riefenstahl, Olympia-Film
  • Sun Yu, Lianhua
96
What was week 2's in-class prompt on Tokyo Olympiad?
  • Compare it with Olympia
  • A moment Confucius would approve or disapprove of
  • Its portrayal of women
  • Its use of sound
97
What was week 2's in-class prompt on Plato?
  • Two reasons Plato's Athenian thinks ideal citizens should play sports
  • Plato's view of poetry
  • Plato's view of war
  • Plato's view of law
98
What is Hargreaves's Sport, Power and Culture (1986) about?
  • A social and historical analysis of popular sports in Britain
  • The Olympic Games
  • American baseball
  • Sport in film
99
What does the week 3 slide call Victorian sport?
  • A working-class rebellion
  • A ritual for the bourgeois ruling class, 1830-1900
  • A religious rite
  • A military drill
100
What was the week 3 slide question?
  • Why did sport become a film genre?
  • Why did sport become a modern social practice?
  • Why did sport become professional?
  • Why did sport become global?
101
Who was Rugby headmaster 1828-42?
  • Thomas Arnold
  • Eric Liddell
  • Harold Abrahams
  • Hugh Hudson
102
What was Arnold's aim, per Hargreaves?
  • Train athletes
  • Train soldiers
  • An enlightened ruling class of "Christian gentlemen"
  • Train teachers
103
What did Arnold want his men to resist?
  • Christianity
  • The greed and vulgarity of industrialists and socialist claims of the oppressed
  • Public schools
  • Amateurism
104
What is "noblesse oblige" in Hargreaves's account?
  • Inheritance of rank
  • Privileged men earn position by duty and restrained conduct as an example to the lower orders
  • Free service to the poor
  • Military honour
105
What happened to those who did not fit Arnold's world?
  • They were retrained
  • They were ruthlessly excluded
  • They were promoted
  • They were ignored
106
What did the "Christian gentleman" give primacy to?
  • The intellect
  • Athletic skill
  • Moral excellence and character training without neglecting the intellect
  • Wealth
107
What were English "public schools" (slide)?
  • Free state schools
  • Fee-paying boarding schools not restricted to nobility
  • Noble-only academies
  • Church schools for the poor
108
Which is NOT one of the four features of "rational ritual" sport (slide)?
  • Rule-governed
  • Team loyalty
  • Moral excellence
  • Professional payment
109
What does "amateur" connote versus "professional"?
  • Amateur: working class
  • Amateur: ruling class
  • professional: lower-class mechanics, artisans, labourers
  • Both: ruling class
  • Both: working class
110
What are the two phases on the week 3 slide?
  • 1800-1830 and 1900-1930
  • 1830-1875 bourgeois sport established
  • 1880-1914 extended to working class
  • 1750-1800 and 1800-1850
  • 1914-1945 only
111
What does the YMCA (1880s) illustrate?
  • Professional sport
  • A civilizing mission
  • Women's sport
  • Military training
112
Which is NOT in "rational control of play time" on the slide?
  • Settlement houses
  • Boys' clubs
  • Boy Scouts
  • Professional leagues
113
What example of "sport for ladies" appears on the slide?
  • Roedean Public School for Girls, 1885
  • The Girl Guides
  • Wimbledon
  • Rugby School
114
What was week 3's in-class prompt on Hargreaves?
  • Why elite British schools in the Victorian Era instituted sports
  • Why sport became professional
  • Why women played sport
  • Why sport spread to colonies
115
Who financed Chariots of Fire (slide)?
  • The BBC
  • Mohamed Al-Fayed and Dodi Fayed
  • Warner Bros only
  • The Olympic Committee
116
Who directed Chariots of Fire?
  • Brian Helgeland
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Kon Ichikawa
117
Which 1924 Olympians does the slide list for Chariots of Fire?
  • Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson
  • Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams
  • Abebe Bikila and Jesse Owens
  • Eric Liddell and Thomas Arnold
118
What question does the slide ask about Chariots of Fire?
  • Who financed it?
  • What meaning does the film convey for the UK in 1981?
  • Is it an epic?
  • Is it classical?
119
Who was Hegel, per the slide?
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 Stuttgart to 1831 Berlin
  • Plato, 427-347 BC
  • Rousseau, 1712-1778
  • Weber, 1864-1920
120
When are Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics dated on the slide?
  • 1762
  • 1842
  • 1835
  • 2015
121
Which thinkers did Hegel's idealism influence (slide)?
  • Plato and Confucius
  • Kierkegaard, Marx, Adorno, Eisenstein
  • Bellah and Gorski
  • Hansen and Rea
122
What is reason for Hegel (slide)?
  • Calculation
  • Self-aware spirit that has freedom
  • Natural instinct
  • Faith
123
Which is higher for Hegel: artistic or natural beauty?
  • Natural beauty
  • Artistic beauty
124
What do nations deposit in works of art, per Hegel?
  • Their wealth
  • The profoundest intuitions and ideas of their hearts
  • Their laws
  • Their armies
125
What does art do, per the slide?
  • Denies the senses
  • Replaces thought
  • Renders ideas in sensuous forms
  • Copies nature
126
What is "pathos" (πάθος) for Hegel?
  • A form of fear
  • A lyric mood
  • An inherently justified power over the heart, the true centre of art
  • A kind of plot
127
What gives character "living interest," per Hegel?
  • Simplicity
  • Heroism
  • Many-sidedness
  • Virtue
128
What are Hegel's three types of poetry on the slide?
  • Tragedy, comedy, satire
  • Epic, drama, lyric
  • Ode, ballad, hymn
  • Myth, saga, fable
129
What is the epic, per Hegel (p. 1045)?
  • A private lyric
  • A stage drama
  • The Saga, Book, Bible of a people expressing its original spirit
  • A philosophical treatise
130
What does the epic still demand (p. 1046)?
  • Moral lessons
  • An immediate unity of feeling with action
  • Poetic meter
  • A single hero's death
131
What does the epic imply a belief in (slide)?
  • Individual genius
  • National character
  • Divine right
  • Progress
132
What does the epic hero embody (slide)?
  • His own passion
  • The spirit of a people
  • Divine wrath
  • Class interest
133
What is a genuinely epical event (Hegel p. 1051)?
  • A single casual deed
  • An accident
  • An action ramified into its whole age and national circumstances, portraying the world in its entirety
  • A private conflict
134
Which epic does the slide give as an example?
  • The Iliad
  • The Ramayana
  • Beowulf
  • The Odyssey
135
What question closes the week 4 slides?
  • Can sports movies be tragedies?
  • Can sports movies be epics?
  • Can sports movies be modern?
  • Can sports movies be civil?
136
What was week 4's in-class prompt on Hegel?
  • Is pathos individual?
  • Could Hegel's epic poem be a movie? Give two reasons
  • Is art higher than nature?
  • Is the lyric a movie?
137
What was week 4's in-class prompt on The Athlete?
  • Its use of music
  • How it is oriented to Ethiopians living abroad, one formal and one story aspect
  • Its portrayal of Haile Selassie
  • Its festival awards
138
Who wrote "Contesting Visions of Ethiopia in Two Amharic Sports Films"?
  • Hargreaves
  • Hansen
  • Michael W. Thomas
  • Hasan Gurkan
139
Which two films does Thomas compare?
  • Offside and The Athlete
  • The Athlete and Yenegen Alweldim
  • Race and The Athlete
  • Yenegen Alweldim and Lagaan
140
What is Amharic, per Thomas?
  • A religion
  • The official working language of Ethiopia
  • An Ethiopian dynasty
  • A film studio
141
What does Thomas say about Ethiopia in Africa?
  • Largest and colonized
  • Second most populous and only African nation to maintain sovereignty against European colonialism
  • Smallest and independent
  • Ruled by Italy
142
How many ethnolinguistic groups does Thomas say Ethiopia has?
  • About 10
  • About 40
  • Over 80
  • Over 200
143
What sport gave Ethiopia world power status since the 1960s (Thomas)?
  • Football
  • Boxing
  • Middle- and long-distance running
  • Cycling
144
When did Ethiopia's commercial film industry become established, per Thomas?
  • 1960s
  • 1991
  • Early 2000s
  • 2009
145
Which Higson claim does Thomas question?
  • That film is classical
  • That a stable national identity succeeds only by suppressing internal differences
  • That sport is political
  • That Amharic is dominant
146
What does Thomas say sporting success does in Ethiopia?
  • Divides ethnic groups
  • Unites peoples of different ethnic groups and religions behind national athletes
  • Replaces religion
  • Weakens the state
147
What dates does the slide give for the Ethiopian Empire and Haile Selassie?
  • Empire 1855-1991
  • Selassie 1855-74
  • Empire 1855-1974
  • Selassie 1916-74
  • Empire 1916-74
  • Selassie 1991
148
When was Ethiopia's multi-ethnic federal state established?
  • 1855
  • 1916
  • 1974
  • 1991
149
Who directed The Athlete and what kind of production was it?
  • Hudson, UK
  • Rasselas Lakew and Davey Frankel, USA-Germany-Ethiopia
  • Panahi, Iran
  • Ichikawa, Japan
150
Who is The Athlete's subject, per the poster?
  • Haile Selassie
  • Eric Liddell
  • Abebe Bikila, first Olympic marathon double gold medallist
  • Jesse Owens
151
Which audience was The Athlete aimed at, per Thomas?
  • Local Ethiopian cinema-goers
  • Amharic speakers only
  • A global audience
  • Festival jurors only
152
What language is The Athlete's voice-over?
  • Amharic
  • English
  • German
  • French
153
How does The Athlete represent Ethiopia, per Thomas?
  • Critically
  • Hegemonic, nostalgic national culture through Bikila and highland vistas, countering negative stereotypes
  • Through ethnic division
  • Through politics
154
How successful was The Athlete on the festival circuit?
  • A few festivals
  • Banned
  • Over 40 festivals and 14 awards
  • One award
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How did Rasselas Lakew describe himself?
  • A local Ethiopian filmmaker
  • A British filmmaker
  • "More of an American filmmaker," 14 years in New York
  • A German producer
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Who is Jeffrey C. Alexander, per the slide?
  • Author of American Covenant
  • Author of The Civil Sphere (2006), student of Bellah
  • Author of Hegel's Aesthetics
  • Teacher of Bellah
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What tradition does Civil Sphere Theory draw from?
  • Marxist
  • Weberian
  • Late Durkheimian
  • Foucauldian
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What question motivates CST?
  • How does capital shape society?
  • How can belief in democracy act as a social force?
  • How do states form?
  • How does ritual deceive?
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What does CST say modern societies are structured by?
  • Only economy and state
  • Only religion
  • Economic and political forces and a solidary civil sphere
  • Only culture
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What is the civil sphere (slide)?
  • The state
  • The market
  • A collective feeling of democratic solidarity with real force
  • A church
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Which is NOT a non-civil sphere for Alexander and Horgan?
  • Economy
  • State
  • Family
  • Civil
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Which are the civil qualities (slide)?
  • Dependence, irrationality, dishonesty
  • Autonomy, rationality, honesty, cooperativeness
  • Loyalty, faith, love
  • Wealth, power, status
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Which are the anti-civil qualities (slide)?
  • Autonomy, rationality, honesty
  • Dependence, irrationality, dishonesty, selfishness, aggression
  • Autonomy, aggression
  • Cooperativeness, honesty
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Why is civil discourse "dangerous"?
  • It is irrational
  • It is binary, purifying and polluting, so it includes and excludes
  • It is violent
  • It is secret
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What are "primordial" qualities (slide)?
  • Universal civil virtues
  • Non-democratic traits of founding groups mistaken as essential
  • Economic traits
  • Religious doctrines
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What exclusion examples does the slide give?
  • Catholics and Muslims
  • Scots and Jews, and women
  • Workers and farmers
  • Immigrants only
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Who founded America's civil sphere, per Alexander?
  • Women and Catholics
  • White, male, heterosexual Anglo-Saxon Protestants
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Immigrants
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What triggers civil repair (Alexander and Horgan p. 16)?
  • Economic growth
  • Strains from contradictions between founding primordial qualities and non-civil pressures
  • War
  • Elections
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What is the slide goal of "repairing solidarity"?
  • Narrow membership
  • Restore tradition
  • Expand membership
  • Abolish spheres
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What is "frontlash"?
  • Advancing the civil sphere and expanding civil recognition
  • Subordinating the civil sphere
  • Narrowing recognition
  • Banning movies
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What is "backlash"?
  • Expanding recognition
  • Advancing the civil sphere
  • Subordinating the civil sphere to other spheres and narrowing recognition
  • Repair
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How does civil repair work, per Alexander (2025)?
  • Through violence
  • Activists pollute the old order as anti-civil and communicative institutions spread the critique
  • Through ritual
  • Through the market
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Which are examples of civil repair?
  • Klan and Jim Crow
  • Feminists, Black civil rights activists, Dalit protesters
  • Nazism
  • Trumpism
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Which institutions communicate civil judgments?
  • Courts and parties
  • Police and army
  • Journalists, filmmakers, novelists, associations, polling
  • Banks and firms
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What are the civil sphere's regulative institutions?
  • Journalism, film, polling, novels
  • Voting, law, office, political parties
  • Church, family, market
  • Army, police
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What is "whiplash" in civil repair?
  • A form of repair
  • Losses and broken hearts among those on the losing side of progress
  • A film technique
  • A regulative institution
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Which are backlash examples Alexander gives?
  • Weimar and Reconstruction
  • KKK and Jim Crow, Nazism, right-wing populism or Trumpism
  • Feminism and civil rights
  • Fabian socialism
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What did Alexander say Weber ignored?
  • Bureaucracy
  • Secular civic republicanism and the cultural foundations of democracy
  • Capitalism
  • Protestantism
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What is Alexander's critique of Marx, Weber, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Bauman?
  • They ignore economics
  • Their critical theories are one-sided and miss the democratic thread of modern life
  • They are too normative
  • They are too optimistic
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What do movies do in the civil sphere (Alexander and Horgan p. 6)?
  • Deceive citizens
  • Social performances representing solidarity through meaningful structures of feeling
  • Replace journalism
  • Serve the state
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What does the week 5 slide ask of movies?
  • Who watches them?
  • How do state, economic, and other spheres affect production and exhibition?
  • Are they classical?
  • Are they epics?
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What is the title of Alexander's companion volume to Civil Repair?
  • The Civil Sphere
  • Civil Religion
  • Frontlash/Backlash
  • Civil Whiplash
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Who directed Offside (2006)?
  • Sun Yu
  • Jafar Panahi
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Rasselas Lakew
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What does Offside's poster say about women in Iran?
  • They may attend with escorts
  • They are banned from men's sporting events
  • They may attend freely
  • They may play football
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Which event does Offside's poster mention?
Iran beating Bahrain in 2005 to qualify for the World Cup (June 2005); Iran winning the 1998 World Cup; Iran hosting the World Cup; Iran losing to Japan
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Which award did Offside win, per the poster?
  • Golden Palm
  • Oscar
  • Silver Bear (Berlin)
  • Golden Lion
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What was week 5's in-class prompt on Offside?
  • Compare it with Challengers
  • Why an Iranian censor might approve it
  • and an instance of civil sphere versus a non-civil sphere
  • Its use of sound
  • Its ending
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Who wrote "Cinema as an Alternative Media: Offside by Jafar Panahi"?
  • Ali Jaafar
  • Hasan Gurkan
  • Michael Thomas
  • Miriam Hansen
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Who wrote the Sight and Sound pieces on Panahi and Iranian cinema?
  • Hasan Gurkan
  • Ali Jaafar
  • Christopher Rea
  • André Loiselle
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What does the slide say classical cinema is?
  • Fragmented and shocking
  • Systematic production and storytelling with unity, harmony, transparency
  • High modernism
  • Documentary only
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What question opens the vernacular modernism slides?
  • Is cinema art?
  • Is mainstream cinema classical art, or modern art?
  • Is cinema political?
  • Is cinema national?
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What does the slide say modernity involves?
  • Rural tradition
  • Industrial and social revolution, and sensory mediation (not natural)
  • Natural experience
  • Religious revival
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Which modern themes mark Shanghai cinema (slide)?
  • Rural harmony
  • City/country antithesis and women characters symbolizing contradictions of modernity
  • Only war
  • Only comedy
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Who wrote "Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons"?
  • Christopher Rea
  • Miriam Bratu Hansen
  • Sun Yu
  • Stefan Hübner
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What does Hansen say Queen of Sport promotes?
  • A traditional role for women
  • A new physicality, in line with the New Life Movement
  • Communism
  • Isolation
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Which Western qualities does Hansen see in Queen of Sport?
  • Classical harmony
  • An Americanist celebration of youth and white teeth, and mass ornament shots
  • British gentlemanliness
  • Russian montage
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What does Hansen say happens to the "falling woman" stereotype?
  • It disappears
  • It is reinforced
  • It slides into an alternative that does not exactly conform to Confucian standards
  • It becomes heroic
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How does Hansen say the star's body is shown?
  • Hidden
  • A privileged site of visual pleasure and display, linking to modern fashion and consumption
  • As purely symbolic
  • As religious
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Who wrote "Sports Queen" in Chinese Film Classics?
  • Hansen
  • Christopher G. Rea
  • Loiselle
  • Thomas
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What message does Rea say Sports Queen extends to women?
  • Domestic duty
  • Self-strengthening the nation
  • Class struggle
  • Religious piety
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How does Rea contrast Li Lili with Anna May Wong?
  • Li: active, outdoors, natural, barefoot
  • Wong: silks, makeup, high heels
  • Li: slinky, silks
  • Wong: active
  • Both the same
  • Li: foreign
  • Wong: local
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How does Rea contrast Li Lili with Ruan Lingyu?
  • Li: fragile
  • Ruan: robust
  • Li: robust and upbeat
  • Ruan: delicate, fragile, melancholy
  • Both fragile
  • Both robust
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What else does Rea say Sports Queen offers besides healthy patriotism?
  • Only moral lessons
  • Visual pleasure, including the star's "frisky" and "spontaneous sexuality"
  • Political satire
  • Religious imagery
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Who directed Queen of Sport and who stars?
  • Wu Yonggang, Ruan Lingyu
  • Sun Yu, Li Lili
  • Sun Yu, Ruan Lingyu
  • Wu Yonggang, Li Lili
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Who directed and wrote The Goddess (1934) and who stars?
  • Wu Yonggang
  • Ruan Lingyu
  • Sun Yu
  • Li Lili
  • Sun Yu
  • Ruan Lingyu
  • Wu Yonggang
  • Li Lili
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What does The Big Road (1934, Sun Yu) show, per the slide?
  • A love story
  • Worker-led solidarity against a foreign (Japanese) threat
  • A sports championship
  • A courtroom drama
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What did the 1911 Revolution do?
  • Established the KMT
  • Replaced the Qing dynasty with a republic
  • Began the civil war
  • Ended Japanese rule
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When was the Chinese civil war (slide)?
  • 1911-1927
  • 1927-1949
  • 1937-1949
  • 1949-1970
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What did Chiang Kai-shek do in 1927?
  • Fled to Taipei
  • Established a national government and purged communists from the KMT
  • Invaded Shanghai
  • Founded Lianhua
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What happened in 1937 and 1949 (slide)?
  • 1937 civil war begins
  • 1937 Japan invaded Shanghai
  • 1949 Chiang and KMT fled to Taipei
  • 1937 Revolution
  • 1949 Japan surrenders
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What was the 1932 Film Group, League of Left-Wing Writers?
  • KMT censors
  • CCP-affiliated filmmakers evading censorship and dominating Yihua and Diantong early on
  • Lianhua's owners
  • A Hollywood studio
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When was Lianhua founded, and what were its units?
  • 1911
  • 1930
  • owner loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, three units with one left-wing
  • 1949
  • all left-wing
  • 1932
  • two units
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What were the Far Eastern Championship Games (slide)?
  • A 1960s event
  • Games held 1913-1934, studied as a sporting "civilizing mission"
  • The Olympics itself
  • A Japanese film festival
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How did a 1913 Philippines Free Press piece describe the Far Eastern Olympiad?
  • As a failure
  • As "democracy in itself" and a sign of progress
  • As imperial
  • As a Western plot
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What did Japan do in 1934 (slide)?
  • Withdrew from the Games
  • Applied to host the 1940 Olympics
  • Hosted the Far Eastern Games
  • Banned women
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How were women included in the Far Eastern Games (slide)?
  • Excluded
  • 1930 two women accompanied male flag bearers
  • 1934 women's events on par with men's
  • Only 1913
  • Only as spectators
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What was week 6's in-class prompt on Queen of Sports?
  • Compare it with Olympia
  • Two features of vernacular modernism and one moment supporting Nationalist initiatives
  • Its use of colour
  • Its ending
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Who directed Olympia (1938)?
  • Sun Yu
  • Kon Ichikawa
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Hugh Hudson
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What is Les Raquetteurs (1958)?
  • A feature on Montreal
  • A 15-minute NFB film by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx
  • A Quebec feature
  • A hockey documentary
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Who wrote Michel Brault: Cinema as History (2007)?
  • Christopher Rea
  • André Loiselle
  • Michael Thomas
  • Grant Wiedenfeld
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Which screening pairs with Gorski and Wiedenfeld (week 1)?
  • Race
  • 42
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Offside
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Which screening pairs with Confucius and Plato (week 2)?
  • Olympia
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Tokyo Olympiad
  • The Athlete
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Which screening pairs with Hargreaves (week 3)?
  • Tokyo Olympiad
  • Chariots of Fire
  • 42
  • Offside
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Which screening pairs with Hegel and Thomas (week 4)?
  • Offside
  • Chariots of Fire
  • The Athlete
  • Queen of Sport
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Which screening pairs with Alexander and Horgan, Gurkan, and Jaafar (week 5)?
  • The Athlete
  • Queen of Sport
  • Offside
  • 42
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Which screening pairs with Hansen and Rea (week 6)?
  • Les Raquetteurs
  • Queen of Sport (plus an Olympia excerpt)
  • Tokyo Olympiad
  • Offside
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Which screening pairs with Loiselle (week 7)?
  • Queen of Sport
  • Les Raquetteurs
  • The Athlete
  • Offside
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Which director made Chariots of Fire?
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Kon Ichikawa
  • Sun Yu
  • Jafar Panahi
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Which director made Tokyo Olympiad?
  • Kon Ichikawa
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Brian Helgeland
  • Leni Riefenstahl
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Which director made Offside?
  • Jafar Panahi
  • Sun Yu
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Hugh Hudson
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Which director made 42?
  • Brian Helgeland
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Hugh Hudson
  • Kon Ichikawa
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Which director made Queen of Sport?
  • Sun Yu
  • Wu Yonggang
  • Kon Ichikawa
  • Jafar Panahi
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Which thinker says rituals ingrain orderly conduct?
  • Confucius
  • Hegel
  • Bellah
  • Hargreaves
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Which thinker says the epic hero embodies the spirit of a people?
  • Hegel
  • Plato
  • Rousseau
  • Gorski
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Which author describes sport as a ritual for the bourgeois ruling class?
  • Hargreaves
  • Hegel
  • Hansen
  • Alexander
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Which author developed civil repair and frontlashacklash?
  • Alexander
  • Gorski
  • Hansen
  • Bellah
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Which author wrote on Shanghai silent film as vernacular modernism?
  • Hansen
  • Hegel
  • Rea
  • Thomas
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