All About Tahitian Dance

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All About Tahitian Dance - Quiz

This quiz will ask questions pertaining to Tahitian dance styles and Tahitian dance history. It will also ask about tahitian costume making and oral traditions.


Questions and Answers
  • 1. 
    What does "Otea" mean?
    • A. 

      Dance of Life

    • B. 

      Drum Dance

    • C. 

      Dance of Love

    • D. 

      Hip shaking dance

    • E. 

      All of the above

  • 2. 
    What does Aparima mean?
    • A. 

      "Kiss of the hands" dance

    • B. 

      Lord of the dance

    • C. 

      Fan dance

    • D. 

      Fire dance

    • E. 

      Dance of the forest

  • 3. 
    What does Tamure mean?
    • A. 

      Hello

    • B. 

      Goodbye

    • C. 

      Party

    • D. 

      Tahitian and Cook Island dance

    • E. 

      Dance of Hawaii

  • 4. 
    What is the "grass skirt" made out of and called in Tahitian?
    • A. 

      Long grass and skirts called hula hula

    • B. 

      Coconut tree/Lila

    • C. 

      Wild Hibiscus tree bark and skirts are called "more'"

    • D. 

      Pandanus/paore

    • E. 

      Fara tree/piu piu skirts

  • 5. 
    What is Pandanus used for? 
    • A. 

      Weaving

    • B. 

      Costume making

    • C. 

      For sitting on

    • D. 

      For walls of houses/huts

    • E. 

      All of the above

  • 6. 
    When was Tahitian dance banned when the missionaries arrived?
    • A. 

      Early 1700's

    • B. 

      Early 1800's

    • C. 

      Early 1900's

    • D. 

      Was never banned

    • E. 

      None of the above

  • 7. 
    What is the big dance competition called in Tahiti held every year during the  Bastille day celebration?
    • A. 

      Ori

    • B. 

      Upa Upa

    • C. 

      Maeva

    • D. 

      Heiva

    • E. 

      Iaorana

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