Culture and Heritage Quiz

What does the term "cuisine" refer to?

• Style of cooking or preparing food

• A type of traditional food

• A form of liquid

• A group of people from a specific region

Which of the following best defines "traditions"?

• Customs or beliefs handed down from generation to generation

• Clothes, especially of a particular type

• A type of food

• A method of transportation

Who are considered Afro-Colonial people?

• Descendants of African workers in the country

• People who migrated from Europe during the colonial period

• People of African lineage who are descendants of enslaved Africans brought to a country during the colonial period

• People who practice traditional storytelling

Who are the Afro-Antillean people?

• Descendants of Antillean workers who migrated to build the Panama Canal and work on banana plantations

• People who migrated from Africa during the colonial period

• Descendants of European settlers

• People who specialize in cooking traditional foods

Michael stands in front of a group of children and shares a story with them, sometimes reading from a book and sometimes acting out the scenes. What is Michael doing?

• Practicing traditional dances

• Preparing traditional foods

• Building canals and plantations

• Reciting a story or reading from a book

Match each description with the correct definition of "staple".

• A food or item that is essential and commonly used in daily life

• A type of traditional dance

• Technique for narrating events or stories

• Something that is a fundamental, basic, or key component of something else, often essential to the whole

• Folk performance involving music and movement

• A group of people from a specific region

• Community originating from a particular area

• A method of storytelling

Abigail is helping her grandmother prepare dinner and sees a bowl filled with yellow pieces, like the ones in the picture. She wonders what corn kernels are.

• A beverage

• Shelled corn of either dent or flint varieties

• A type of clothing

• A means by which something is transmitted

What is the primary use of plantains in cooking?

• They are usually eaten raw like sweet bananas

• They are typically cooked before being eaten

• They are ground into flour for baking cakes

• They are used as a spice in soups

What is the definition of clothing?

• A means by which something is transmitted

• Clothes, especially of a particular type

• Shelled corn of either dent or flint varieties

• Tropical banana plants whose coarse fruit is eaten cooked

(a)   is an article of clothing.

• Conduit
• Plantain
• Garment
• Corn kernel