Social and Cultural Diversity Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the complexities of social and cultural diversity in contemporary societies, examining how factors such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and ability shape individual and collective experiences. Students will engage with key theories and concepts from sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies to critically analyze the social structures and cultural dynamics that contribute to both inclusion and exclusion. Through case studies and interactive discussions, the course encourages reflection on personal identities, the impact of power and privilege, and the importance of fostering equity and cross-cultural understanding in diverse communities.
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The Essence of Anthropology 3rd Edition by William A. Haviland
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Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
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Q1) Applied physical anthropologists routinely use their expertise in all of the following areas except:
A) public health
B) gross anatomy laboratories
C) the study of primates
D) criminal investigations
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following describes how anthropologists study culture:
A) anthropologists study individuals who are more "cultured" than others
B) anthropologists study a society's shared and socially transmitted ideas
C) anthropologists grow microbial organisms
D) anthropologists do not study culture
Answer: B
Q3) The areas in which archaeologists work are known as:
A) fields
B) grids
C) composites
D) sites
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution
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Q1) What is adaptation and what is its role in natural selection?
Answer: Adaptation is a series of beneficial adjustments to the environment which can change the organism over time.
Q2) Speciation through adaptation is generally believed to occur at a pace called:
A) homeobox adaptation
B) punctuated equilibria
C) Darwinian gradualism
D) adaptive evolution
Answer: C
Q3) A painful disease in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells change into abnormal shapes is called:
A) anemia
B) natural blood selection
C) Trisomy 21
D) sickle-cell anemia
Answer: D
Q4) _______________ is a major organizing principle of biological science.
Answer: Evolution
Q5) _______________ is responsible for the creation of new species over time.
Answer: Evolution
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Chapter 3: Living Primates
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Q1) What evolutionary advantages were associated with arboreal mammals?
Answer: Arboreal life opened up an abundant food supply, development of manipulative hands, keen vision, and provided protection from larger predators.
Q2) Which of the two, chimpanzees or bonobos, have been observed in the wild making and using more tools? _________________.
Answer: chimpanzees
Q3) Humans belong to the order _______________.
Answer: Primates
Q4) Which is the only animal group to use mediators in conflict resolution?
A) Orangutans
B) Gorillas
C) Chimpanzees
D) Bonobos
Answer: C
Q5) All primates have single births.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Human Evolution
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Q1) Humans are more evolutionarily advanced than other animals.
A)True
B)False
Q2) For a hominoid fossil to be definitively classified as part of the human evolutionary line there must be certain evidence of:
A) bipedalism
B) an elongated skeletal frame
C) a large brain
D) meat-eating
Q3) How does the spinal column differ between an adult human and a chimpanzee?
A) the chimpanzee spine is straight, while the human spine has one long curve
B) the human spine is straight, while the chimpanzee spine is curved
C) a chimpanzee spine has a series of convex and concave curves
D) a human spine has a series of convex and concave curves
Q4) "Lucy" is an example of one of the species of _______________.
Q5) Discoverers of Homo sapiens idaltu have used this fossil evidence to argue that Neandertal is part of the direct line of Homo sapiens sapiens.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Neolithic Revolution: The Domestication of Plants
and Animals
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Q1) The invention of food production occurred in both Mesoamerica and Southwest Asia through:
A) independent invention
B) diffusion
C) shared invention
D) imposition
Q2) Archaeologists have documented a sharp rise in the number of young male goats killed at a 10,000 year-old site in the Zagros Mountains, Iran. They believe this indicates domestication, as young males:
A) were slaughtered and females kept for breeding purposes
B) were selectively chosen because they were born at a significantly higher rate than females
C) would not stay in corrals and enclosures as well as females
D) would interfere in the breeding process of young females
Q3) The microlith was:
A) a pebble tool
B) a drill
C) a hammer
D) a blade
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Q4) _______________ is the genetic modification of plants and animals by humans.
Chapter 6: The Emergence of Cities and States
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Q1) The advent of writing is well documented and clearly understood.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In 2003 in the Henan Province of China, archaeologists discovered evidence of writing in the form of:
A) signs carved into tortoise shells
B) knotted strings
C) clay tablets
D) bark etchings
Q3) Trace the spread of early civilization from Mesopotamia to China in chronological order by listing geographical areas.
Q4) What is action theory?
Q5) In Uruk, about 5,100 years ago the reed stylus was used to make:
A) monosyllabic markings
B) monosyllabic letters
C) polysyllabic markings
D) polysyllabic letters
Q6) Describe the Code of Hammurabi.
Q7) In the city of Uruk, the use of reed stylus allowed the people to mark on
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Chapter 7: Modern Human Diversity: Race and Racism
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Q1) While tragic, the Nazi holocaust is not unique in human history.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An IQ test measures the genetic disposition or the level of intelligence an individual was born with.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which individual, as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, did the most to combat racism in the United States?
A) Franz Boas
B) Carolus Linnaeus
C) Ashley Montagu
D) Samuel Morton
Q4) Over the past 2.5 million years, humans have primarily adapted through ________________.
Q5) All of the following are part of a "Paleolithic prescription" for health except:
A) lower calorie consumption
B) more varied diet
C) higher consumption of processed foods
D) increased physical activity
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Chapter 8: The Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) English is a set of symbols.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most significant function of culture is to:
A) develop differences among people
B) create distinctions between species
C) define separate territories
D) mark group identities
Q3) What is most characteristic about Apache dwellings?
Q4) All pluralistic societies are multi-ethnic.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following forces has caused the greatest acceleration in culture change today?
A) advent of capitalism
B) decline of productive lands
C) population growth
D) globalization
Q6) The belief that one's own culture is superior to others is called _______________.
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) Ethnolinguistics is part of historical linguistics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One difficulty in learning a second language is to know when to employ the use of euphemisms and why. Why might this be hard for a person learning a second language (and, by association, learning culture, too)?
Q3) Distinct male and female patterns of speech are called:
A) ethnolinguistics
B) gendered speech
C) dialectic speech
D) code switching
Q4) Although non-human primates can use language, the distinction is that they do not cognize symbols.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss gendered speech. What examples can you provide of gendered speech among your friends? How does body language also "get gendered"?
Q6) A _______________ is a sound or gesture that has a natural or self-evident meaning.
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Chapter 10: Social Identity, Personality, and Gender
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Q1) Those values that are especially promoted by a culture are considered its ___________________________.
Q2) Psychological anthropologists have distinguished between two general patterns of child rearing,
A) interdependent training and dependent training
B) dependence training and independence training
C) independence training and imitation training
D) imitation training and observation training
Q3) In the Ottoman Empire, men who were castrated were called _______________.
Q4) Dependence training helps an individual become self-reliant, independent, and ambitious.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The term that many North American Indians prefer for a transgendered individual is:
A) bakla
B) two-spirits
C) two-way
D) fa'afafines
Q6) Define personality.
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Chapter 11: Subsistence and Exchange
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Q1) Slash-and-burn cultivation produces approximately how many units of energy per unit expended?
A) 5 to 10 units of energy
B) 10 to 20 units of energy
C) 20 to 25 units of energy
D) -5 to -10 units of energy
Q2) _______________ is a transaction between two parties whereby goods and services of roughly equivalent value are exchanged.
Q3) In some societies conspicuous consumption is connected to the idea of prestige and status. That is, consuming goods and products, buying things and more things, is often a way North Americans attempt to impress others. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages that might be related to conspicuous consumption.
Q4) Originally, the Comanche were:
A) warlike horse raiders from the area of what is now Arizona
B) raiders and hunters from the area that is now southern Idaho
C) hunters/gatherers from the area that is now southern Utah
D) hunter/gatherers from the area that is now southern Idaho
Q5) Discuss the process of cultural adaptation among the early Comanche Indians.
Q6) Another name for slash-and-burn horticulture is ________________________.
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Chapter 12: Sex, Marriage, and Family
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Q1) Traditionally, among the Hopi Indians, _______________ residence was commonly practiced.
Q2) The smallest family unit is the _______________ family.
Q3) Payments of money or valuable good to the bride's parents or other close kin is called _______________.
Q4) Which of the following statement is true?
A) most societies are neither exogamous nor endogamous
B) a society that is highly developed is exogamous
C) a society that has sexual restriction can be classified as endogamous
D) a society may have both exogamous and endogamous rules
Q5) A nuclear family contains one or two parents and their immediate offspring.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The United States' custom of the bride's family paying for the wedding expenses is:
A) bride service
B) bride-price
C) dowry
D) bridewealth
Q7) What advantages does dowry confer on a woman?
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Chapter 13: Kinship and Other Methods of Grouping
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Q1) In matrilineal descent groups, the children of a family belong to the descent group of their:
A) father
B) father's brother
C) father's grandmother
D) mother's brother
Q2) _______________ descent is tracing descent through the male line.
Q3) Kinship systems have been a central element within the history of anthropology. Why do you think anthropologists have focused so much attention on how people are related to each other within a society and how group affiliations are formed?
Q4) Clans have more genealogical depth than lineages.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Globalization is a major force in redefining society today. Discuss the role of "virtual communities" in the social structure today.
Q6) What is totemism?
Q7) How do new reproductive technologies challenge kinship terminology systems?
Q8) What are the advantages of structuring a society with age grades?
Q9) The Eskimo system is also known as the _______________ system.
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Chapter 14: Politics, Power, and Violence
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Q1) A _______________ control is an external control through open coercion.
Q2) Describe an uncentralized political system. Give at least six characteristics.
Q3) In the past, Igbo women managed their own affairs, both politically and socially.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How long has warfare been a problem for human societies?
A) at least since 10,000 years ago
B) at least since 15,000 years ago
C) at least since 5,000 years ago
D) at least since 2,000 years ago
Q5) The prevalence of patriarchal societies and the seeming absence of matriarchal societies have at times perplexed anthropologists. How do anthropologists handle the issue of power and gender? What are some of the arguments to explain this disparity?
Q6) Compare and contrast ethnocide with genocide.
Q7) Political organization in the tribe is temporary.
A)True
B)False
Q8) How do anthropologists define "power"?
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Chapter 15: Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) The widespread occurrence of shamanism and the remarkable similarities noted among various shamanic traditions are due to:
A) common neurological inheritance
B) legitimacy and accuracy of the religion
C) universal ailments of humankind
D) diffusion of tradition among groups
Q2) Which of the following is one of the most common activities of shamans cross-culturally?
A) controlling animals
B) healing the sick
C) bringing rain
D) punishing enemies
Q3) Why is there so much controversy over clitoridectomy?
A) it is a non-Western religious practice
B) it is extremely dangerous to women's health
C) it causes women to have too much fertility
D) it allows women to practice birth control
Q4) One goal of anthropologists is to develop a better religion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Changes and the Role of Anthropology
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Q1) How many member states are there in the United Nations?
A) 67
B) 167
C) 273
D) 193
Q2) In the United Nations 1966 Covenant on Human Rights, it states that ethnic groups within nation-states:
A) are encouraged to assert their independence and right of self-determination
B) should use technological advance to further develop their cultures
C) need to assimilate to the dominant cultures
D) have group rights
Q3) What is the current number of people worldwide who are considered to be overweight?
A) 347 million
B) 1.1 billion
C) 1.9 billion
D) 2.3 billion
Q4) There are developed pockets of resistance in the global order.
A)True
B)False
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