Cultural Anthropology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Cultural Anthropology explores the diversity of human societies and cultures around the world, focusing on the ways people live, think, and interact within their communities. This course examines foundational concepts such as kinship, language, religion, economic systems, social organization, and cultural change. Students will learn methods used by anthropologists including participant observation and ethnographic research to understand cultural practices, beliefs, and values. By engaging with case studies and current issues, the course encourages critical reflection on cultural assumptions and promotes appreciation of cultural diversity in an increasingly interconnected world.
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Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology and Why Should I Care
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Q1) Ethnography is a specialty of biological anthropology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Applied anthropology is practiced in which of the following subdisciplines?
A)cultural anthropology,anthropological linguistics,forensic anthropology
B)primatology,human paleontology,ethnography,archaeology
C)archaeology,biological anthropology,anthropological linguistics,cultural anthropology
D)anthropological linguistics and cultural anthropology
E)cultural anthropology only
Answer: C
Q3) Archaeology is the study of human material remains.Its primary focus,however,is on the search for:
A)patterns.
B)new discoveries.
C)ritual activity.
D)complex thought.
E)human evolution.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Culture Counts
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Q1) Name the six characteristics of culture.
Answer: It is learned,patterned and integrated,shared,adaptive,subject to change,and makes use of symbols.
Q2) Which of the following statements best illustrates the experience of mild autism?
A)It is an inability to understand any form of language and communication.
B)It is a physical impairment that leads an individual to be able to hear words aloud,but the individual cannot respond in any way.
C)It is an emotional impairment,and autistic individuals have no ability to feel anything at all.
D)It is a social impairment that leads autistic individuals to avoid all forms of human contact.
E)It is an inability to intuitively understand the meaning and feelings that accompany very basic human interactions.
Answer: E
Q3) Distinguish between norms and values.
Answer: A norm is a shared idea about the way things should be done;a value is a shared idea about what is true,right,and beautiful.
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Chapter 3: Doing Cultural Anthropology
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Q1) What are the ethical responsibilities for anthropologists in the field?
Answer: There are responsibilities to the people studied,the discipline of anthropology,sponsors,the anthropologist's own and host governments,and the public.
Q2) The Human Relations Area Files:
A)do not allow for cross-cultural comparison.
B)represent multiple researchers using a single perspective
C)involve multiple perspectives and indexed data
D)are no longer active today.
E)are not available in computer searchable formats.
Answer: C
Q3) Name at least 3 challenges associated with collaborative ethnography.
Answer: These include: representing a culture accurately and not just what informants want,reporting to the best of the anthropologist's ability,not knowingly falsifying information,understanding that no community is homogeneous and all voices cannot be represented equally,and being aware that collaborative work can lead to biased reporting and personal pressures.
Q4) The belief that one's own culture is superior to another is called __________.
Answer: ethnocentrism
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Chapter 4: Communication
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Q1) Human language is a symbol system.This is important for all of the following reasons except:
A)it means there is a direct connection between sound and meaning.
B)it allows humans language to be inherently creative.
C)it means that a small number of sounds can have an infinite number of meanings.
D)there is no maximum number of words and meanings in any human language.
E)it allows humans to transmit and store information.
Q2) Animal vocalizations are referred to as _______________.
Q3) What other name is used to refer to AAEV today?
A)African dialect
B)standard English
C)Ebonics
D)rural English
E)Labovian dialect
Q4) A lexicon is a language's collection of words.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the relationship between language and class or social status?
Q6) Discuss how language is alike and different cross-culturally.
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Chapter 5: Making a Living
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Q1) Subsistence and politics go hand in hand.Discuss the ways that politics affect our food options and health strategies.
Q2) What do you believe is the primary impact of globalization on our food networks and subsistence strategies? Give examples.
Q3) The central structure of traditional peasant agriculture is:
A)the farm cooperative.
B)the church.
C)the household.
D)the bank.
E)the government.
Q4) Most Inuit today now base their livelihoods solely on the cash economy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The productivity of any given environment is directly related to:
A)the amount of available biofuels.
B)the amount of genetic diversity in the species present in the environment.
C)the number of people living in an area.
D)the technology used to exploit it.
E)the availability of resources within specific climate zones.
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Chapter 6: Economics
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Q1) What is notable about Putnam County,New York?
A)It provides all of the commuter workers for New York City.
B)It does not have any economic system.
C)It is a county in upstate New York that does not participate in subsistence economy.
D)It is the only county in the United States that does not have any capitalist enterprise.
E)It is a county near New York City that lives by more than one kind of economic system.
Q2) An institution that is organized primarily for financial gain is called a(n):
A)organization.
B)corporation.
C)firm.
D)factory.
E)multinational corporation.
Q3) Cargo systems are classified as a form of reciprocity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the three fundamental attributes of capitalism?
Q5) Describe how eBay represents very typical market exchange within U.S.society.
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Chapter 7: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
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Q1) In the United States,racial groups and social classes tend to be:
A)endogamous.
B)exogamous.
C)collateral kin.
D)caste-like.
E)patrilineal.
Q2) When a couple can choose between living with the wife's or husband's family,it is called:
A)neolocal residence.
B)bilocal residence.
C)avunculocal residence.
D)patrilocal residence.
E)matrilocal residence.
Q3) When a couple lives with the wife's family,it is referred to as:
A)neolocal residence.
B)bilocal residence.
C)avunculocal residence.
D)patrilocal residence.
E)matrilocal residence.
Q4) Name three functions of a kinship system.
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Chapter 8: Sex and Gender
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Q1) What is meant by the concept of "deep play" in anthropology?
A)It is a form of psychological intimacy that is shared between women and men.
B)It is an expressive form of culture that displays social structure and cultural concepts associated with identity.
C)It is a theoretical concept that is associated with the social construction of gender ideology.
D)It is a performative aspect of culture that determines social relations and class consciousness.
E)It is another term for sexual intimacy.
Q2) Distinguish between sex and gender.
Q3) Male dominance in society is called:
A)patrilineality.
B)patriarchy.
C)patrilocality.
D)patricentrality.
E)patriotism.
Q4) Are the Tuareg a matrilineal,patrilineal,or nonunilateral society? How does this affect the status of women?
Q5) Name four functions of male rites of passage.
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Chapter 9: Political Organization
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Q1) What is the characteristic mode of exchange associated with ranked societies?
A)generalized reciprocity
B)balanced reciprocity
C)negative reciprocity
D)market exchange
E)redistribution
Q2) The attempt of one group to reallocate power and resources within a political structure is a:
A)riot.
B)revolution.
C)renaissance.
D)rebellion.
E)regeneration.
Q3) How groups and individuals use power and authority to achieve various public goals in a society is part of the:
A)political ideology.
B)political norm.
C)political process.
D)stratified society.
E)secret society.
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Chapter 10: Stratification: Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Caste
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Q1) Why are classes typically endogamous in the U.S.?
A)There are laws that prohibit incest in the U.S.
B)Most people never meet individuals of other social classes.
C)Americans do not travel as much as Europeans.
D)In the U.S. ,there are shared cultural patterns and shared associations between classes.
E)Typically,endogamy means that the two individuals share the same culture and language.
Q2) How does conflict theory explain the presence of so much inequality?
A)It is caused by the struggle for scare goods and services.
B)It is caused by multiculturalism and the presence of diverse races.
C)Inequality is caused by unequal access to education.
D)Inequality is caused by migration into a country and struggle for resources.
E)Technological backwardness is the cause of social and material inequality.
Q3) Max Weber argued that people's behavior could best be explained:
A)in economic terms.
B)in class terms.
C)in terms of prestige.
D)in terms of power.
E)in economic terms and in terms of prestige
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Chapter 11: Religion
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Q1) Name the five common characteristics of religion cross-culturally.
Q2) What are the three stages in rites of passage?
A)reincorporation,separation,divisiveness
B)transition,liminality,reincorporation
C)separation,liminality,redress
D)separation,liminality,reincorporation
E)revitalization,liminality,separation
Q3) Which of the following statements is correct?
A)When religions fail to meet the needs of followers,people tend to turn away from all forms of leadership.
B)When religion does not meet the needs of its followers,prophets may come forth to create new religions.
C)If religion fails to meet the needs of its followers,it is common for the society to become secularized.
D)Religion always meets the needs of its followers;in fact,the state has relied on religion for centuries for stability.
E)Religion never meets the needs of its followers;most people are part of religion because it is tradition.
Q4) In what kinds of situations would you expect to find witchcraft accusations?
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Chapter 12: Power, Conquest, and a World System
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Q1) Europe had several different kinds of colonies that it administered.Discuss each type of colony and how you think the structure of the colony would affect the ability of the native country to survive and thrive in a post-colonial time period.
Q2) The three most important reasons that colonies were granted independence are:
A)civil disobedience,changing political structures,and changing religious traditions.
B)changing religious structures,changing political structures,and changing economic structures.
C)changing political structures,changing economic structures,and civil disobedience.
D)changing economic structures,warfare,and globalization.
E)globalization,changing religious traditions,and new geographical boundaries.
Q3) Both anthropology and 19th century colonialism are products of:
A)the romantic retrenchment of the 15th century.
B)the Industrial Revolution.
C)the 17th century European Enlightenment.
D)the discovery of evolution.
E)17th century romanticism.
Q4) Name three motives for European expansion.
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Chapter 13: Globalization and Change
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Q1) Families in poorer nations tend to have more children than those in wealthy nations for all of the following reasons except:
A)they provide a labor pool for the family.
B)women do not have ready access to birth control.
C)child mortality rates are low.
D)it improves the odds that one of the children may prosper and help the family.
E)the family and kinship network is valuable in society.
Q2) Among what group of people do we find the crafting of tongkonan and tau tau?
A)Ju/'hoansi
B)Toraja
C)Yanomamo
D)Inuit
E)Saami
Q3) Multinational corporations have enormous economic power,but they are not a significant political force.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Name four problems that many post-colonial nations face today.
Q5) What is a multinational corporation?
Q6) How does migration change both urban and rural areas?
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Chapter 14: Anthropology Makes a Difference
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Q1) Why did the African-American community in Hyde Park not receive any type of compensation or settlement for the damages caused by environmental pollution of local factories?
A)They did not have lawyers who were capable of representing them.
B)They were not told about the lawsuit or settlement.
C)The lawsuit failed and there were not damages paid.
D)The white residents of Hyde Park took all of the settlement money.
E)The court costs were so high that there was no money left after the settlement.
Q2) In southern Africa some 75% of AIDS victims are women.
A)True
B)False
Q3) This chapter included many examples of types of applied anthropology and ethnographic study that contributed to changes among a group of people.Choose one of the examples and discuss the types of contribution that occurred as a result of the anthropological perspective.
Q4) Forensic anthropologists worked to help identify victims of September 11th,2001.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the three primary messages of the RACE Project?
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