Cultural Anthropology Test Bank
Course Introduction
Cultural Anthropology explores the diverse ways in which people around the world live, think, and interact. This course introduces students to core concepts such as culture, kinship, religion, language, and identity, while examining how societies organize themselves and make meaning. Through ethnographic case studies and comparative analysis, students will gain insight into social norms, rituals, belief systems, economic and political structures, and the processes of cultural change and globalization. The course encourages critical thinking about cultural difference, social inequality, and the construction of meaning in human communities.
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Cultural Anthropology The Human Challenge 13th Edition by William A. Haviland
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Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
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Q1) Recent studies have shown that the unusual degree of separation of mother and infant in Western societies has important consequences.Which of the following are not consequences of the rather long degree of mother/infant separation in Western societies?
A)decreases in the length of infant feeding
B)prevention of early ovulation after childbirth
C)increase in physical abuse of child
D)increases in crying
E)decreases in physical stimulation
Answer: B
Q2) Humans are mammals,specifically primates.However,they do not share a common ancestry,like apes do,with other primates
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Anthropology emerged as a scientific discipline less than 100 years ago.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) Polish-born anthropologist ___________________________ argued that people share certain biological and psychological needs.
A)Levi-Strauss
B)Malinowski
C)Benedict
D)Wallace
E)Evans Pritchard
Answer: B
Q2) A society's economic base is part of the superstructure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is not a common aspect of culture?
A)ideas
B)behavior
C)genes
D)perceptions
E)values
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods, and
Theories
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Q1) Annette Weiner worked in the Trobriand Islands in the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) When researchers use things such as photographs in order to prompt people to speak with them about a particular topic,these are called _______________.
A)soliciting devices
B)eliciting devices
C)prompting devices
D)circular conversations
E)participant tools
Answer: B
Q3) Which anthropologist did a "re-study" of the Trobriand Islanders?
A)Annette Weiner
B)Margaret Mead
C)Hortense Powdermaker
D)Bronislaw Malinowski
E)Ruth Benedict
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Becoming Human: the Origin and Diversity of Our Species
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Q1) Chimpanzees hunt for what reason?
A)to obtain food
B)for social reasons
C)for sexual reasons
D)to gain social status
E)all of the above
Q2) Primates use a variety of calls along with body movements to convey a message..
A)True
B)False
Q3) Humans are one of some 4,000 species of mammals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Fossil evidence suggests there are distinctions between the Homo erectus populations of Asia and Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Increased meat consumption by our early ancestors was important to human evolution.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) Chantek was a gorilla who learned American Sign Language.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Wampum belts were used to convey a variety of messages through the use of symbols.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A Scottish butler in an English mansion says to the lady of the house,"You may wish to stay inside today,Madam;it's quite cold outside." But when he goes back to his own cottage he is likely to say to his wife in broad Scots,"Shut the door and get inside,Maggie,you'll freeze your buns off." In linguistics this is an example of
A)code switching
B)class consciousness
C)glottochronology
D)phonological analysis
E)Whorfian hypothesis
Q4) Human culture as we know it could have easily existed without language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) What is considered "normal" in a society is defined by culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dependence training is more likely in _______________.
A)nuclear families
B)societies whose subsistence is based on pastoralism
C)a food foraging society
D)extended families in societies whose economy is based on subsistence farming
E)industrial societies
Q3) For anthropology,_______________ developed the idea that personality is a cultural construct.
A) Benjamin D. Paul
B) Betty Friedan
C) Michael Cole
D) Elizabeth Colson
E) Ruth Fulton Benedict
Q4) Anorexia nervosa is an example of a culture bound syndrome.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
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Q1) Cultural features which are basic in the society's way of making its living are
A)national values
B)cultural evolution
C)culture cores
D)culture assessments
E)all of the above
Q2) Progress is always advancement for humans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _______________ introduced the term Neolithic revolution to refer to the profound culture change associated with domestication of plants and animals.
A)Franz Boas
B)Stephen Jay Gould
C)Jane Goodall
D)Gordon Childe
E)James G.Frazer
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) Raw materials,labor,and technology are productive resources used by all societies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Because anthropologists deal primarily with small-scale societies with nonindustrial technologies,they have little to contribute to international business.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Market exchange is usually associated with _______________.
A)hunting and gathering bands
B)horticultural tribes
C)pastoral tribes
D)some sort of complex division of labor as well as a centralized political organization
E)the household as the unit of production and consumption
Q4) Among the Inca there was such a thing as "chocolate money."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) Although details differ from one society to another,woman/woman marriages among the _______________ of western Kenya may be taken as reasonably representative of such practices in Africa.
A)Zulu
B)Ashanti
C)Tutsi
D)Nandi
E)Maasai
Q2) Families can be consanguine or conjugal.The conjugal family has many forms.One type of conjugal family is the _______________,consisting of the husband,wife,and dependent children.
A)polygynous family
B)polygamous family
C)polyandrous family
D)nuclear family
E)extended family
Q3) Instinctive repulsion does not explain institutionalized incest.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) Membership in a _______________ is determined not by descent from a common ancestor (as in descent groups)but by the fact that they share a living relative (ego).
A)clan
B)lineage
C)phratry
D)kindred
E)moiety
Q2) Today's technological advances pose new opportunities for kin-making.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You belong to a patrilineal descent group.Which of the following belong(s)to the same group?
A)your mother
B)your father's sister
C)your mother's sister
D)your mother's father
E)your father's sister's children
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) The degree of mobility in a stratified society is related to _______________.
A)the prevailing kind of family organization
B)its ideology
C)the number of different common-interest associations it has
D)the difference between its richest and poorest class
E)genetic factors
Q2) Which term is used to identify the act of (or ability to)willingly join any association,not based on gender or marriage?
A)voluntary association
B)voluntary mutation
C)voluntary realignment
D)voluntary transformation
E)voluntary evolution
Q3) All human societies have some division of labor by sex.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The eruv is a sacred Jewish ritual space.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) The term _______________ refers to the way power,or the ability to control others' behavior,is distributed or embedded in society.
A)social structure
B)political control
C)political organization
D)authoritarianism
E)dictatorship
Q2) The most widely known act of genocide in recent history was the attempt of the Nazis during World War II to wipe out
A)European Jews and Roma
B)European Jews and Israelites
C)Gypsies
D)Polish people
E)Jews and Gentiles
Q3) The Cheyenne Indians are an example of a tribe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) In southern Africa's Swaziland all types of illnesses are generally thought to be caused by _______________ or _______________.
A)viruses/bacteria
B)negative kharma/negative attitude
C)sorcery/loss of ancestral protection
D)poor hygiene/poverty
E)none of the above
Q2) Just 16% of the world's population claim to be _______________.
A)Catholic
B)Muslim
C)Jewish
D)Protestant
E)non-religious
Q3) According to Clyde Kluckhohn,Navajo witchcraft serves to channel
A)punishments for outsiders and those not living on the reservation
B)illness and sorcery caused by fellow tribal members
C)anxieties and frustrations caused by pressures from Euramerican society
D)feelings of euphoria and joy related to having lots of material possessions
E)needs caused by high rates of alcoholism and drug addiction
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) From the study of people's myths,an anthropologist can learn how the people define their world and the nature of their relationship to this world.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By describing an orderly universe,_______________ function to set standards for orderly behavior.
A)myths
B)legends
C)poems
D)tales
E)songs
Q3) The interpretative approach can be used to better understand the meaning of rock paintings in southern Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To a degree,in literate states (like the United States),the function of legends has been taken over by history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) The British introduced cricket to "civilize" the Trobriand Islanders.What happened?
A)The Trobrianders were so upset at losing their traditional customs that they rebelled against the British rulers.
B)The Trobrianders gave up competitive sport altogether.
C)The Trobrianders accepted the game and played it the way the British played it.
D)The Trobrianders changed the game so that it became more like the traditional Trobriand contest involving display of prestige,use of battle magic,and erotic dancing.
E)The Trobrianders preferred baseball to cricket.
Q2) In China,____________________ labor has become critical to economic expansion.
A)child
B)female
C)male
D)peasant
E)young
Q3) Progress is a term that is often used by anthropologists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the
Role of Anthropology
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Q1) The more divergent cultural traditions are,the more difficult it is for pluralism to be successful.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The United States is responsible for nearly ______________________ of all the money spent on military arms worldwide.
A)one quarter
B)one half
C)one third
D)three quarters
E)two thirds
Q3) Historical evidence supports the idea that a global culture will eliminate conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In Guatemala attempts to hold the military accountable for past abuses have been successful.
A)True
B)False
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