Q 01/05

What does the word 'Inuit' mean?

A) The hunters

B) The northerners

C) The ice dwellers

D) The people

Answer · why

D) The people

The singular is Inuk; every Inuit dialect uses a cognate of the Proto-Eskimo root for 'person'.

Q 02/05

What is the singular form of Inuit?

A) Inua

B) Inuq

C) Inupi

D) Inuk

Answer · why

D) Inuk

Two people are Inuuk and three or more are Inuit.

Q 03/05

Inuit descend from which prehistoric culture, which emerged from the Bering Strait region around 1000 CE?

A) Dorset

B) Norton

C) Clovis

D) Thule

Answer · why

D) Thule

The Thule spread east across the Arctic and reached west Greenland by about 1100 CE.

Q 04/05

What name did the Inuit give the earlier Dorset culture, remembered in legend as giants?

A) Sadlermiut

B) Qallunaat

C) Ijiraat

D) Tuniit

Answer · why

D) Tuniit

The Dorset were the last major Paleo-Eskimo culture and were displaced by the Thule's dogs and better weapons.

Q 05/05

The Thule culture is named after a place in which country, where its remains were first found?

A) Greenland

B) Alaska

C) Canada

D) Russia

Answer · why

A) Greenland

The site near present-day Qaanaaq in north-west Greenland is Comer's Midden.