Mid Year Exam Flashcards
What is the term used to describe korero tuku iho
a. mythical narratives
b. creation narratives
c. historical narratives
d. cosmological narratives
b. creation narratives
Who is referred to as the creator of the first woman in the readings
a. maui
b. Rangi
c. Hinenuitepo
d. Tane
d. Tane
What is the Maori name for massey univeristy
a. Te kunenga te pupuke
b. te kunenga ki te mahara
c. te kunenga ki purehuroa
d. te kunga ki te hihiri
c. te kunenga ki purehuroa
who was the deity of weather
a. haumietiketike
b. ranginui
c. tane mahuta
d. tawhiri
d. tawhirimatea
- The book “Tikanga Māori: Living by Māori values” was written by?
(a) Ranginui Walker
(b) Hirini Moko Mead
(c) A.W. Reed
(d) Peter Buck
b . Hirini Moko Mead
Who was given the name ‘dawn maiden’ in the narratives? A Taranga B Hinetitama C Hineahuone D Hinenuitepō
B Hinetitama
Ngāti Rangitāne is most closely associated with which waka or canoe?
a. Horouta
b. Kurahaupō
c. Mamari
d. Tākitimu
d. Takitimu
The term tikanga refers to?
a. rites
b. values
c. practices
d. rights
e. all of the above
c. practices
Who was Taranga’s last born son? (a) Māui-roto (B) Maui who (C) Maui potiki (D) maui pie
c. Maui potiki
- Who was responsible for Māui’s death?
- (a) Rūaumoko
- (b) Māui-pae
- (c) Hinenuitepō
- (d) Mahuika
- (e) Murirangawhenua
c. Hinenuitepo
- Which of the following is not an element of mana whenua?
- (a) taunahanaha
- (b) kawe kōrero
- (c) whenua raupatu
- (d) whenua kite
b. kawe korero
- Besides Tane, this deity was also said to have retrieved the three baskets of knowledge from the heavens?
- (a) Tāwhirimātea
- (b) Whiro
- (c) Tāwhaki
- (d) Rūaumoko
- (e) Rongo
c. Tawhaki
- In your course notes, knowledge relating to darkness & things unknown is contained within?
- (a) T e kete tuāuri
- (b) T e kete tuātea
- (c) T e kete aronui
a. Te kete tuauri
- What is the name given to the deity of night and death?
- (a) Hinenuitepō
- (b) Hinetītama
- (c) Papatūānuku
- (d) Hineahuone
a. Hinenuitepo
- Who is credited with the theory of the Great Fleet?
- (a) Elsdon Best
- (b) Peter Buck
- (c) Percy Smith
- (d) Māori Marsden
- (e) Hirini Moko Mead
c. Percy Smith
- Waka narratives are used by Māori to:
- (a) recount their migration stories
- (b) establish whakapapa connections
- (c) establish mana whenua
- (d) all of the above
d. all of the above
- In the course, the term ahikāroa refers to:
- (a) Māori land
- (b) Community
- (c) Citizenship
- (d) Conservation
c. citizenship
- Who is the deity of the kawakawa plant?
- (a) T angaroa
- (b) Rongomātāne
- (c) Tūmatauenga
- (d) Tāne Mahuta
- (e) Rūaumoko
b. Rongomatane
- Which part of a carved ancestral house is the tekoteko?
- (a) central support pole
- (b) main ridgepole
- (c) carved figure on gable
- (d) carved face at apex of barge boards
c. carved figure on gable
- The grandmother who gave Māui knowledge of fire was:
- (b) Murirangawhenua
- (c) T aranga
- (d) Mahuika
- (e) Kahukura
c. Taranga