Peoples and Cultures of the World Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Peoples and Cultures of the World is an exploration of the rich diversity of human societies across the globe. This course examines the social structures, belief systems, traditions, economies, and daily practices of various cultural groups, emphasizing the ways in which people adapt to their environments and interact with one another. Through case studies, ethnographies, and multimedia resources, students gain insight into the complexities of identity, cultural change, globalization, and the impact of historical and contemporary forces on communities worldwide. The course fosters cross-cultural understanding and challenges students to think critically about their own cultural assumptions and the interconnectedness of global societies.
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Cultural Anthropology 4th Canadian Edition by Barbara D. Miller
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Anthropology
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Q1) Anthropologists should provide information about the people they study to government administrators so that the officials can ensure public security of the people being studied.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following tasks has always been a defining feature of Canadian anthropology?
A) studies of ethnic conflict in Canada
B) advocacy of Aboriginal people's religious and cultural rights
C) understanding Canadian cultural sovereignty
D) writing reports for federal and provincial governments
Answer: B
Q3) The gender of anthropologists in the field is not important to their ability to conduct their research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Nature of Culture
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Q1) Why do the Roma (Gypsies)NOT have strong ties to a homeland,unlike so many other immigrants?
A) They were subjected to genocide in 1456 in their homeland.
B) Their homeland was absorbed by the former Soviet Union in 1919.
C) They are not really a culture,society,or ethnicity and just move constantly.
D) They migrated away from their homeland about 1,000 years ago.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Hutterite colonies in Western Canada?
A) The colonies are stratified,based on age.
B) The colonies are stratified based on gender.
C) The colonies are polygamous,with most men having more than one wife.
D) Young people are baptized in their early to mid-twenties.
Answer: C
Q3) Providing restitution to Chinese immigrants to Canada who had to pay a head tax was promoted by Heritage Canada.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Human Culture
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Q1) Which term is an alternate name for the archaic Homo sapiens that lived from 500,000 years ago up to the appearance of Neanderthals?
A) Cro-Magnon man
B) advanced Homo erectus
C) Homo Heidelbergensis
D) Homo robustus
Answer: C
Q2) The earliest known tool tradition
A) Is called Oldowan.
B) Began about 1 million years ago.
C) Marked the beginning of the Mesozoic.
D) Developed in China.
Answer: A
Q3) What discovery provides evidence of complex social and ritual behaviour among Neanderthals?
A) ritual cremations
B) medical instruments
C) deliberate burials
D) organized warfare
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Language and Communication
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Q1) What is the term for the modern scientific study of all aspects of language?
A) glottochronology
B) phonology
C) linguistics
D) grammar
Q2) What is the main focus of ethnolinguistics?
A) differences among the world's languages
B) the relationship between language and culture
C) the development of professional and scientific language
D) sound systems in ethnically related languages
Q3) The French-English debate may be losing relevance for contemporary Canadians.Why?
A) Nearly all Canadians are fluent in both languages.
B) Quebec is probably going to separate from Canada.
C) Many Canadians have ties to other important linguistic identities.
D) French is not being used in other countries of the world.
Q4) Explain and critique the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Q5) Syntax refers to the rules for making phrases and sentences in a language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Making a Living
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Q1) Some anthropologists refer to food foragers as "the original affluent society." Why?
A) They manage to accumulate a lot of wealth.
B) They occupy the most attractive environments with abundant food supply.
C) They work an average of only 20 hours a week to maintain a nutritious diet.
D) They earn a good wage for the hours of work they put in each week.
Q2) An ecosystem is composed of the physical environment and the organisms living in it.Which of the following is the most important aspect of adaptation for humans?
A) tools
B) culture
C) technology
D) subsistence economy
Q3) Food foragers do not farm,but they usually practise animal herding.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Of all the people who have ever lived,90 per cent have been foragers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Critique the Western notion of "progress" from an anthropological viewpoint.
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Chapter 6: Economic Systems
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Q1) Which of the following statements about levelling mechanisms is true?
A) They are more common in foraging societies than in agricultural communities.
B) They result in one family becoming wealthier than others.
C) They are found where property must not be allowed to threaten an egalitarian social order.
D) They are more common in industrial societies than in agricultural societies.
Q2) Which of the following characterizes a division of labour featuring dual sex configuration?
A) Both sexes perform up to 50 percent of their activities with roughly equal participation.
B) Men and women carry out their work separately but in a balanced relationship.
C) Men and women both carry out all work activities,but never at the same time.
D) Men manage women's work activities,and women manage men's work activities.
Q3) According to Annette Weiner,the Trobriand recipient of yams is indebted to the yam giver.What form of payment must that person use to repay the debt?
A) a meal of yams for the giver's family
B) a stone axe blade
C) a woman's wealth
D) an offering to the giver's ghost-spirits
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Chapter 7: Sex and Marriage
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Q1) Only heterosexual relations and heterosexual marriages are considered normal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A woman marries and goes to live with her husband in his village.When the woman dies ten years later,her husband marries his deceased wife's sister.What is the term for this custom?
A) the sororate
B) the levirate
C) polygyny
D) polyandry
Q3) Which term applies to relatives who are related genetically (by blood)?
A) affinal
B) consanguineal
C) endogamous
D) nuclear
Q4) What does Pharaonic circumcision involve?
A) removal of only the clitoral prepuce,or hood
B) removal of just the tip of the clitoris
C) removal of the entire clitoris and the labia minora
D) removal of all external genitalia,with suturing/stitching of the opening
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Chapter 8: Family and Household
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Q1) An anthropologist who knows how a group makes its living and understands its political organization,the amount of land available to the people,and the degree of their involvement in warfare can usually predict where a couple will live after they get married.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement best characterizes the consequences of close paternal parenting provided by the Aka?
A) It produces children that are timid and compliant.
B) It produces children that are confident and aggressive.
C) It produces children with emotional and social well-being and strong feelings of autonomy.
D) It produces children similar to cultures where fathers are less involved.
Q3) In Canada,the most prevalent same-sex families are lesbian stepfamilies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Account for the existence of female-headed families in both Canada and the Caribbean region,and describe characteristics of these families.
Q5) Identify and discuss the problems inherent in the "traditional" nuclear family.
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Chapter 9: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) You are a male member of a patrilineal descent group.Which of the following is correct?
A) Descent is traced exclusively through your mother's male ancestors.
B) Your sisters belong to the same patrilineal descent group as you do.
C) You probably live in a South Asian horticultural society.
D) Your brothers belong to the same descent group as you;your sisters do not.
Q2) In Canada,the size of our kin group is not a matter of personal choice.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Dogon of Mali build their houses to resemble large water birds.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Mbuti pygmies orient their houses symbolically.Which statement best describes this practice?
A) They orient them to face their relatives and friends and avoid others.
B) They orient their houses toward the east to greet the daily sunrise.
C) They orient their houses facing north to honour the evening north star.
D) They orient their houses facing west to bid the daylight goodbye as the sun sets.
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Chapter 10: Social Stratification and Groupings
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Q1) Older people are known to be interested in politics and vote more frequently than younger people.What is a recent development in the politics of the elderly?
A) Today the elderly hardly vote at all.
B) In some countries,the votes of the elderly count as double what the votes of people under 50 do.
C) The elderly are voting in favour of policies to increase their wealth and limit the power of younger people.
D) In some countries,the elderly are organizing into their own political parties.
Q2) In Canada,what attribute of a person is most likely to confer a higher status on that individual?
A) their charisma
B) their profession
C) the number of children they have
D) their religious affiliation
Q3) Being strong and healthy can be interpreted as a symbolic indicator of social class.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
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Q1) The Order of Canada is awarded in a formal ceremony in Ottawa each year.What is this an example of?
A) a positive sanction
B) an informal sanction
C) an internalized sanction
D) a military sanction
Q2) Which phenomenon often becomes an unwelcome feature of social movement protests?
A) Violence coming from the protesters,the police,or both.
B) Protest leadership being compromised by payoffs from government.
C) Conflicting protest groups undermine each other's issues.
D) Protesters dislike media coverage and often smash their cameras.
Q3) Among the Iroquois nations of southern Ontario,what form did women's political power take?
A) They were village leaders.
B) They were tribal council leaders.
C) Only they could appoint men to or remove men from high council positions.
D) They sat on the great council of the League of Five Nations.
Q4) Among the Wape,ancestral ghosts can be seen as agents of social control.
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A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Religion and the Supernatural
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Q1) How is the Inuit myth of Sedna,the sea goddess,regarded by the Inuit?
A) as a story about imaginary events
B) as frivolous entertainment,much like a children's television cartoon
C) as analogous to a historical document of the Inuit past
D) as irrelevant to their lives in the modern world
Q2) What are the major themes of modern Islamic revivalism and what are the goals of Islamicization?
Q3) Which of the following statements about Wiccans is true?
A) They believe in divine spirits that can inform them about the future.
B) They believe their power comes from the supernatural.
C) They believe that only certain aspects of nature have spirit value.
D) They believe their power comes from the inner self.
Q4) According to your text,religion fulfills psychological but not social needs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Islamic concept of "the big jihad" is the struggle against evil within oneself.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the similarities and differences between religion and witchcraft?
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Chapter 13: The Arts
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Q1) Ukrainian dancers;Jewish klezmer bands;Celtic fiddlers:What function do these three types of music perform?
A) They remind people of past tragedies.
B) They give otherwise unknown performers high visibility.
C) They affirm and celebrate people's ethnic identity.
D) They unite Canada into a single culture.
Q2) Which statement about tattoos among the Maori of New Zealand is true?
A) They were done only on men.
B) They signified that a man had been circumcised.
C) They took the form of facial swirls symbolizing cultural pride.
D) They symbolized a person's rank as a religious leader.
Q3) In the world of art collection,"primitive" objects,such as masks,can command extravagant prices.As an anthropologist,how would you feel about the classification of such things as "art" to be collected,exhibited in museums,auctioned off at Sotheby's,and so on? What impact might the designation of cultural objects as "art" have on the people who make them?
Q4) Foragers such as the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi do not have instruments on which to play music.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Anthropology at Work
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Q1) How might applied anthropologists contribute to the understanding of disability studies?
A) They could help determine whether or not an individual is disabled.
B) They could study the delivery of medical services to cultural minorities with disabilities.
C) They could help design mobility aids for the disabled.
D) They could study the law pertaining to cultural minorities with disabilities.
Q2) Which of the following options best defines cultural resource management?
A) managing cultural resources concerned with traditional and historic culture,including archaeology
B) managing the objects in art galleries and museums relating to our culture
C) managing the cultural artifact collections in archaeological labs and universities
D) managing the cultural resources that are part of government,including heritage buildings and furnishings
Q3) Ruth Benedict worked for the U.S.government studying German and Japanese customs,behaviour,and character to help support the war effort during World War II.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Cultural Change and the Future of Humanity
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Q1) What does the term "global apartheid" refer to?
A) the prediction that in the future South Africa will dominate the world economy
B) the fact that whites have greater access to the world's resources
C) the fact that whites suffer disproportionately from hunger,pollution,and overpopulation
D) the fact that the structure of world society is very similar to that of Africa
Q2) Which of the following is an example of the concept of urbanization?
A) population movements from city centres to suburban areas
B) population movements from rural to urban areas
C) population movements from developing to developed nations
D) the continual expansion of urban infrastructure
Q3) The Snowmobile Revolution means that Norwegian reindeer herders are increasingly dependent on the outside world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cultural pluralism is rarely successful.
A)True
B)False
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