KINES 100 EXAM 1 NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL EXAM
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What role did sport and physical education play in the polis - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > cities competed with one another for fame through
their athletes, olympic games
- physical education - to train common people to be worriers
In David Epstein "Sports Genes", who is "mitochondrial Eve" -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > we are all from 1 person in africa
Did ancient greek athletes care about wining, or did they prefer
to take part in a spirit of fair play whether they finished first or
last - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > only cared about winning
How were greek sports different from modern sports - ✔✔✔ Correct
Answer > greece - big time / community used sports to promote
them / wanted to train warriors
- more extremist / individual sport (we like team sport) /
religious in character (pleasing the gods)
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How were greek sports different from modern sports? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > only care about elite athletes
What kinds of holiday is "super bowl" sunday - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
consumerism
Where does the super bowl rank in the pantheon of American
holidays - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > biggest shared experience in the
world
What is the setting for this "A Good Man in Africa" story? - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > liberia - civil war
Whats happening in liberia at the end of the twentieth century -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > government falling apart
Who is george weah - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > professional soccer
player from liberia
What is the lone star - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > national soccer team of
liberia
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What is weah's relationship with the government of liberia - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > - government intruded his house and raped the
women
- he returned
- now the president
Do liberians believe sport can change their civil war ravaged
nation? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > yes, they believe it can link ppl
together
Clifford Geertz uses the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's
concept of "Deep Play" to explain which of the following
characteristics of Balineses cock fighting?
A. The hatred of animals demonstrated by people who participate
in cockfighting
B. The fact that the British introduced cockfighting to Bali
C. The fact that gambling stakes are so high in many of the
cockfights that, from a rational, economic perspective, it is
irrational for men to engage in these activities
D. The escape form work and money concerns that the cockfight
provides for the village
E.the total immersion of men and women in the psycho-sexual
dynamics of the event - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > C
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According to Clifford Geertz, in "Deep Play", what can you "read"
by looking at the sports and other physical activities of a culture?
A. You can "read" social patterns such as how men and women fit
into gender roles and how economic classes are taught to
interact with one another
B. You cannot really "read" much of anything since ports and
physical activities are just games and amusements
C. You can "read" everything about a culture. Sports and physical
activities are "master keys" that reveal all the basic structures
and logics of cultures
D. You can "read" what kinds of books a culture values
E. You can "read" animal behavior so Geertz knew a lot about
chickens, especially about roosters but not much about humans -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > A
According to Clifford Deertz, Balinese cockfights involve
demonstrations of each of the following except:
A. Political alliances
B. Kinship
C. Models for the transition from girlhood to womanhood
D. Cultural ideas of violence
E. Status - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > C