According to the text, ________ is/are a direct cause of global warming.
a. turtle hunting in Honduras
b. the melting ice sheets in the Himalayas
c. the shift to production of organic foods
d. carbon emissions from gas and oil fuels
e. growing manioc in the Amazon
Which of the following statements about language is true?
a. Language can be spoken, written, or conveyed through body movements or gestures.
b. Language includes speech and writing only.
c. Humans are genetically predisposed to learn specific languages.
d. Language is widespread throughout the animal kingdom.
e. All languages share a common syntax, and vary only in the morphemes used to form
words.
Victims of gender-based violence are most likely to be assaulted:
a. in the streets.
b. in parks.
c. in public.
d. in a residence.
e. at work.
In order to examine the role of religion in community life in Niger, West Africa,
anthropologist Paul Stoller apprenticed with which of the following religious
specialists?
a. priest
b. witch doctor
c. rabbi
d. witch
e. sorcerer
Social movements build support and justify collective action through the creation of
common understandings of their cause, and this is called the:
a. vindication.
b. social rationale.
c. reasoning.
d. framing process.
e. cause clbre.
Conventional wisdom attributes good health and longevity to all of the following,
EXCEPT:
a. eating the right foods.
b. getting exercise.
c. smoking in moderation.
d. not using illegal drugs.
e. clean living.
The environmental issues that so concern people like the Marshall Islanders are
aggravated by companies taking advantage of lax environmental regulations. What
aspect of globalism does this demonstrate?
a. environment dodging
b. flexible accumulation
c. increasing immigration
d. rapid change
e. time-space compression
Categories found within a class system serve as a basis for unequal access to which of
the following?
a. gender
b. race
c. status
d. ethnicity
e. sexuality
The United States requires that individuals identify legally as:
a. either male or female.
b. male, female, or intersexual.
c. male, female, or transgender.
d. male, female, or middle sex.
e. heterosexual, homosexual, or intersexual.
Personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race constitute:
a. alienation.
b. institutional racism.
c. miscegenation.
d. individual racism.
e. eugenics.
Anthropologists refer to sounds that make a critical difference in meaning within a
language as:
a. focal vocabulary.
b. key elements.
c. structures.
d. grammar/syntax.
e. phonemes.
First cousin marriages (between the children of two siblings) are legally prohibited:
a. in all fifty states in the United States of America.
b. in some states in the United States of America.
c. in no state in the United States of America.
d. in all Western countries.
e. universally.
Which discipline of anthropology studies human beings in the present and from the past
through the excavation and analysis of material artifacts?
a. archaeology
b. cultural anthropology
c. ethnography
d. ethnology
e. physical anthropology
The author suggests each of the following points to explain how men tend to dominate
in mixed-gender conversations, EXCEPT:
a. men tend to use commands and criticisms, and are more likely to interrupt and to
express doubts.
b. male communication patterns are unrelated to social stratification in the culture at
large.
c. men speak more in public forums like board meetings, classrooms, and seminars.
d. women are more likely than men to apologize, agree, and ask.
e. men tend to dominate the conversation by the amount of talking they do.
The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group is known as:
a. apartheid.
b. ethnic cleansing.
c. divestment.
d. genocide.
e. mass murder.
The creation of shared meanings and definitions that motivate and justify collective
action by social movements is called its:
a. cause clbre.
b. framing process.
c. rationalization.
d. social rationale.
e. vindication.
Which of the following members of a ranked society do not accumulate great wealth,
despite their high prestige?
a. women
b. grandfathers
c. men
d. wives
e. chiefs
People who make comprehensive studies of languages and their component parts are:
a. descriptive linguists.
b. sociolinguists.
c. paralinguists.
d. cultural anthropologists.
e. language specialists.
The phrases “boys will be boys” and “it’s a girls’ thing” reflect gender:
a. stratification.
b. roles.
c. stereotypes.
d. performance.
e. construction.
Which of the following was the only immigrant group to be legally excluded on the
basis of national origin in the United States?
a. Chinese
b. Mexicans
c. Palestinians
d. Russians
e. Ethiopians
Karl Marx argued that the proletariat were unable to develop a political awareness of
their class position because:
a. they simply lacked interest or motivation to do so.
b. they were continually occupied with the struggle to make ends meet.
c. they naturally had lower intellect than the bourgeoisie.
d. stratification and class division is the most natural state for society.
e. class is not political.
Anthropologists who emphasize how culture, society, and a person’s social position are
what shapes language are best described as engaged in the study of:
a. cultural preservation.
b. sociolinguistics.
c. psychological anthropology.
d. the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
e. social Darwinism.
Leith Mullings argues that class cannot be studied in isolation but rather must be
considered together with race and gender as interlocking systems of:
a. economies.
b. status.
c. power.
d. prestige.
e. class.
The author writes that the roots of cultural anthropology and ethnographic fieldwork lie
in:
a. biological models.
b. philosophical debates.
c. demographic trends.
d. colonial encounters.
e. aboratory experiments.
The “Hobbit” of Flores Island, Indonesia, is characterized by all of the following,
EXCEPT:
a. short stature.
b. primitive wrist bones.
c. tiny brain size.
d. powerful jaw with large molars.
e. microcephaly.
Which of the following statements about kinship is true?
a. Kinship is the only means through which humans form groups in any given society.
b. Kinship is the system that determines who is related to whom in a given society.
c. Kinship groups arise predominantly around the nuclear family.
d. Kinship is not influenced by nonbiological relationships such as marriage.
e. Unlike other aspects of culture, kinship is understood similarly across all cultures.
Linguistic anthropologists have discovered that the languages spoken in Europe such as
Latin, English, German, and Greek are derived from an earlier language they call:
a. Proto-Indo-European.
b. Pre-Modern European.
c. Pan Archaic European.
d. Proto-Germanic.
e. Proto-Latin.
A system of economic, military, and political control of one country over another is
referred to as:
a. communism.
b. racism.
c. despotism.
d. imperialism.
e. colonialism.
Anne Fausto-Sterling’s analysis of biological sexual identity identifies:
a. three sexes, including machos.
b. four sexes, including hijras.
c. six sexes, including Two-Spirits.
d. five sexes, including intersexuals.
e. seven sexes, including berdaches.
The ban on ________ was enacted in a Florida town after local residents and officials
learned of the religious practices of Cuban and Haitian immigrants in the Santeria
Church.
a. cock fighting
b. wearing head scarves
c. homosexuality
d. bestiality
e. animal sacrifices
The advent of computers and deregulation of banking in the 1970s caused which of the
following financial tools to burst on the scene in the United States, transforming the
financial environment?
a. online banking
b. home equity loans
c. traveler’s checks
d. credit cards
e. student loans
In which way(s) has globalization affected the modern world system in the past forty
years?
a. There is less predictability in the flow of goods between core and peripheral nations.
b. There are no longer any peripheral nations due to technological changes in
manufacturing.
c. More than 80 percent of the world’s population now lives in developed nations.
d. Semiperipheral nations have lost their economic power to peripheral nations.
e. The standard of living has declined dramatically in the core nations due to migration.
Early anthropologists considered which of the following groups as key to understanding
each culture’s economic, political, and religious dynamics?
a. ascent groups
b. unilineal groups
c. descent groups
d. ambilineal groups
e. consanguineal groups