Cultural Anthropology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Cultural Anthropology explores the diverse ways in which humans perceive, organize, and experience their everyday lives across the globe. This course introduces students to key anthropological concepts and methods, examining topics such as kinship, religion, language, gender, economic systems, political structures, and the processes of culture change. Through ethnographic case studies and comparative analysis, students gain a deeper understanding of cultural diversity, the construction of identity, and the impacts of globalization, while critically engaging with issues of power, representation, and ethics within contemporary societies.
Recommended Textbook Diversity in Families 10th Edition by Maxine Baca Zinn
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Chapter 1: Images,Ideals,and Myths
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Q1) With respect to violence in families,the authors of your text observe that
A) violence is found in all families.
B) families can be places of both violence and nurturance.
C) most families are either violent or nurturing.
D) although American society is filled with violence, the family is one place where it is generally screened out.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is a component of a macro level analysis of families?
A) a focus on internal dynamics of nuclear families
B) a focus on the ways structures such as race, class, and gender shape families
C) a focus on relationships in extended families
D) none of the above
Answer: B
Q3) Myths are beliefs that are held uncritically and without examination.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Preindustrial Families and the Emergence of a Modern Family Form
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Q1) As the family ceased to be a center of production during industrialization, A) an increasing number of young children were sent away from home to work.
B) it ceased to function efficiently.
C) it took on specialized functions of procreation, child-rearing, and consumption.
D) its educational function increased.
Answer: C
Q2) With the transition to the wage economy,households began to incorporate a variety of non-kin members.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Hareven's research on patterns in family history concludes that A) families are passive victims of social change.
B) community involvement is rare among early colonial families.
C) there is not a uniform pattern of change among all families toward a more modern level.
D) all immigrant groups have similar patterns of adjusting to family life in the United States.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Historical Making of Family Diversity
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Q1) Which of the following would not be considered a virtue of True Womanhood?
A) piety
B) purity
C) assertiveness
D) domesticity
Answer: C
Q2) The addition of northern Mexico to U.S.territory after the Mexican War had what effect on the indigenous people of the region?
A) Mexicans found their traditional pastoral life disrupted.
B) Many Mexicans were forced off the land where they had worked and lived.
C) Mexicans furnished cheap labor for Anglo expansion in the region.
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q3) According to the text,the critical transition period to industrial capitalism was
A) the American Revolution.
B) the decade before the Civil War.
C) the period of large scale immigration between 1880 and 1920.
D) the first decade of the twentieth century.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Families and the New Economic Realities
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Q1) Poor economic conditions can have what effect on American families?
A) parents' working longer hours
B) an increase in job layoffs
C) an increase in marital problems
D) all of the above
Q2) Discuss the coping strategies families use to adapt to higher costs and lower pay.
Q3) Joseph Schumpeter coined this term to describe a process inherent to capitalism in which as the economic structure of capitalism matures,some sectors will lose out while others gain.
A) sunset industry
B) creative destruction
C) perfect storm
D) flipping
Q4) Discuss the indicators of contraction of consumption during difficult economic times and their consequences.
Q5) The postmodern form of family life is new to the poor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Families and Demographic Trends: the New
Immigration and the Aging of Society
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Q1) Which of the following generalizations about race and aging is inaccurate?
A) The median net worth of older White families is far higher than that of older African American families.
B) The life expectancy of Whites is longer than the life expectancy of racial minorities.
C) The poverty rates of elderly Americans in all racial groups are approximately the same.
D) Racial minorities are less likely than Whites to receive full-time skilled nursing home care.
Q2) As a result of a large influx of immigrants,Whites are now a numerical minority in the state of California.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is true of the elderly immigrant in the United States?
A) They are poor.
B) They do not speak English.
C) They often provide child care for the family.
D) all of the above
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Chapter 6: Class,Race,and Gender
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Q1) The concept of "underclass" in its common usage assumes that
A) family patterns among the poor are adaptations to material conditions they experience.
B) poor people are locked into poverty because of their maladaptive culture.
C) lower-class people have similar attitudes to the middle class, but limited opportunity structures.
D) all of the above
Q2) Distinguish between public and private patriarchy,giving examples of male privilege in each.
Q3) Why is extended family important to racial ethnic families? Give examples of patterns of extended family interaction in either African American or Mexican heritage families.
Q4) Research by Sarkisian and Gerstel shows that Latinos
A) have stronger family ties than whites.
B) are more likely than whites to live near or with kin.
C) are more likely than whites to give financial assistance to kin.
D) are more likely than whites to give emotional support to kin.
Q5) Describe two of the five social classes discussed in the text.How do connections with opportunity structures differ for families in these two classes?
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Chapter 7: Meshing the Worlds of Work and Family
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Q1) Less than ten percent of U.S.families have a breadwinner husband and a homemaker wife.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Outline the range of family-supportive policies implemented by U.S.employers.How adequate are these supports in meeting family needs?
Q3) To what are the authors referring when they discuss a "two-tiered" family benefits structure?
A) Women and men have different family benefits.
B) Women in high level jobs have better family benefits than women in low-wage jobs.
C) Older women have better family benefits than younger women.
D) Paternity leave is becoming widespread.
Q4) In the military,where racial discrimination is less prominent than in other institutions,African Americans are
A) less likely to divorce than outside the military.
B) more likely to be unmarried than outside the military.
C) more likely to divorce than outside the military.
D) a smaller percentage than they are in the population at large.
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Chapter 8: The Social Construction of Intimacy
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Q1) Human sexuality is strictly a biological drive.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the idea of "gendered love and sex." Compare men's and women's patterns of expectations and experiences related to both love and sex.
Q3) According to research,which of the following statements about teen sexuality is accurate?
A) Since 1991, sexual intercourse among teens has declined modestly.
B) The sexual activity of teens shows little variability by race.
C) Sexual abstinence is a growing trend among teens.
D) The percentage of teen boys who are sexually active is far higher than the percentage of teen girls who are sexually active.
Q4) Which of the following describes teen child-bearing in the United States?
A) Teen child-bearing is at the highest rate ever in the United States.
B) The marriage rate for teen mothers is increasing.
C) The United States has a higher rate of teen child-bearing than most other countries.
D) all of the above
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Chapter 9: Contemporary Marriages
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Q1) Schwartz identifies a new type of marriage relationship characterized by equality,equity,and friendship as
A) "assortive mating."
B) "passive congenial marriage."
C) "peer marriage."
D) "feminist marriage."
Q2) Divorce is most common in which of the following racial groups?
A) White
B) Asian
C) Hispanic
D) African American
Q3) Cuber and Haroff refer to marriages that revolve around argumentation as A) passive-aggressive.
B) vital.
C) devitalized.
D) conflict-habituated.
Q4) The loss of high-wage manufacturing jobs has led to a decrease in family power for many men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Parents and Children
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Q1) What racial-ethnic group has the highest rate of births to unmarried women?
A) White
B) African American
C) Hispanic
D) Asian American
Q2) First born children,in comparison with later born children, A) respond more to the influence of peers.
B) tend to be more achievement-oriented.
C) are more likely to remain childless in adulthood.
D) have a tendency to rebel against the values of their parents.
Q3) Research evidence indicates that children of gay and lesbian parents are as emotionally healthy as children raised by heterosexual parents.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most common model for families with children in contemporary U.S.society is A) a dual-earner family with children.
B) a single adult and dependent children.
C) a breadwinner husband, stay-at-home wife, and dependent children.
D) a multigenerational household.
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Chapter 11: Violence in Families
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Q1) The authors of the text believe that minorities are over-represented in official statistics on family violence.What explains this? Is it likely that middle-class Whites are under-represented in such statistics? Why or why not?
Q2) New efforts are underway to prevent and detect elder abuse through routine screening by
A) family members.
B) social workers.
C) neighbors.
D) medical doctors.
Q3) Which of the following factors is strongly associated with wife abuse?
A) verbally aggressive interaction patterns
B) alcohol abuse
C) inadequacy of husbands
D) all of the above
Q4) According to the text,authorities who observe potential child abuse
A) are usually more suspicious of violence in poor families than middle-class families.
B) are the best potential source of data about child abuse.
C) are usually correct in their assessments of child abuse across social class.
D) have no power to protect the children they suspect of being abused.
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Chapter 12: Divorce and Remarriage
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Q1) A leading predictor of divorce within the first five years of marriage is
A) the presence of children.
B) educational attainment of spouses.
C) age at first marriage.
D) religiosity.
Q2) What percent of remarriages have a child of their own within the first two years?
A) 15%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 75%
Q3) The 2005 divorce rate is nearly double the divorce rate of the 1860s.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An important factor in remarried couples' difficulties is
A) most remarried couples are not sufficiently committed to marriage.
B) society does not provide guidelines for managing the problems remarried couples face.
C) younger children are not willing to consider the stepparent a "real" parent.
D) none of the above
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Chapter 13: Emergent Families in the Global Era
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Q1) In her analysis of health,happiness,and life satisfaction,DePaulo finds that
A) married people do much better than single people.
B) single people do much better than married people.
C) single and married people are much more alike than different.
D) formerly married individuals do much better than either never married or married individuals.
Q2) Heterosexual cohabiting households increased by this percentage in the last two decades.
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 150%
D) 200%
Q3) Which of the following conditions is cited as a benefit for commuter marriages?
A) The presence of children.
B) The ability to pursue careers without everyday family constraints.
C) Greater distance between households.
D) The romantic nature of this lifestyle.
Q4) Discuss the factors that explain the increase in heterosexual cohabitation.
Q5) What explains the rise in commuter marriages? How do wives evaluate this arrangement? How do husbands evaluate this arrangement?
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Chapter 14: Family Policy for the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) What other benefits are often available to those who are receiving welfare assistance?
A) education
B) child care
C) transportation
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q2) The infant mortality rates for African American and White babies are approximately the same.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The 1996 Welfare Act guarantees a job to everyone currently on welfare.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With regard to same-sex marriage,in 2013,
A) more than 50% of Americans supported same-sex marriage.
B) less than 50% of Americans favor civil unions.
C) the opposition to same-sex marriage increased.
D) all of the above
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