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1. Which number on the kinship diagram is Ego's parallel cousin? a. 15 b. 13 c. 11 d. 7

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B

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2. Which number on the kinship diagram is Ego's cross cousin? a. 12 b. 13 c. 14 d. 15

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D

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3. If Ego lives in a society that practices the Hawaiian form of kinship terminology, for which two people would he/she use the same kinship term? a. 4, 3 b. 4, 5 c. 4, 6 d. 1, 3

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B

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4. Which of the following is NOT a member of ego's patrilineage? a. 3 b. 6 c. 9 d. 11

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B

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5. If Ego lives in a society that uses the Eskimo form of kinship terminology, whom would Ego call "uncle"? a. 2 b. 11 c. 2 and 6 d. 2 and 3

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C

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6. State-level societies have all of the following except: a. monopoly on the use of physical force to coerce people b. centralized authority c. egalitarian distribution of wealth d. large bureaucracy e. class stratification

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C

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7. Which of the following is a uncentralized form of political system? a. patrilineage b. tribe c. chiefdom d. class

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B

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8. What aspect of political organization is found in all societies? a. police forces b. ways of creating and maintaining order c. leaders chosen collectively by the people d. designated mediators

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B

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9. State level societies generally get most of their food from: a. pastoralism b. food collecting/hunting-gathering c. horticulture d. intensive agriculture

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D

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10. Cross-cultural research shows that the more complex the level of political organization: a. The more egalitarian the society b. The more class distinctions are present in the society c. The less dense the population d. The greater the dependence on collected foods.

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B

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11. Of the following, which is a characteristic trait necessary to be the "Big Man" of Kumdi-Engamoi of New Guinea? a. good looking b. good writer c. good speaker d. good runner e. the father of a several sons

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C

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12. According to lecture and the film Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth, racism and inequality adversely affect health status. a. True b. False

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A

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13. Anthropologists are reasonably certain that class stratification is as old as Homo sapiens, as the earliest archaeological evidence for social classes is approximately 180,000 years old and found in Africa. a. True b. False

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B

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14. A ________ is a category of persons who all have about the same opportunity to obtain economic resources, power and prestige. a. social group b. social class c. culture d. subculture

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B

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15. A society is practicing which form of stratification when the members of the society have equal access to economic resources but not to prestige? a. egalitarian b. caste c. class d. rank

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D

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16. How probable is it that an individual will change their social class in an open class system? a. high probability b. low probability c. about even d. impossible

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B

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17. Which type of society generally is the most stratified? a. food collectors/foragers/hunter-gatherers b. horticulturalist c. pastoralist d. intensive agricultural

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D

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18. Industrial societies are noted for having unequal access to economic resources (wealth), power and prestige. What type of stratification exists in these societies? a. egalitarian b. caste c. class d. rank

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C

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19. ___________ are persons who do not own their own labor, and as such, they represent at minimum a class. a. Peasants b. Serfs c. Slaves d. Prisoners

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C

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20. A ________is a ranked group in which membership is determined at birth and marriage is restricted to members of one's own group. a. egalitarian b. caste c. class d. rank

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B

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21. What percentage of societies DO NOT allow women to participate in warfare (combat)? a. 87 b. 75 c. 65 d. 50

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A

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22. Which of the following is not a primary subsistence activity? a. gathering plants b. hunting animals c. grinding corn d. herding animals

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C

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23. According to the _______theory, men may produce musical instruments from wood because men are the ones who collect the wood in the first place and probably understand its properties better. a. compatibility with child care theory b. economy of effort theory c. expendability theory d. strength theory

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B

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24. Cross-cultural research discussed in class supports the idea that females are genetically pre- disposed to be passive as a personality trait. Thus the relative lack of females in positions of political power has a biological basis. a. True b. False

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B

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25. According to material presented in class, homosexual behavior is likely to be more tolerated in: a. Societies interested in increasing their population size. b. Societies that don't want to increase their population size. c. Only in industrial, western societies. d. Societies that are dependent on root horticulture.

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B

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26. Humans display some _______________. That is, the females and males of the species differ in size and appearance. a. physiological differences b. chromosomal differences c. genotypic differences d. sexual dimorphism

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D

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27. Cross-cultural studies show that which of the following factors is related to higher status for women in many areas of life? a. The women are members of an intensive agricultural society b. Members of the society rarely hunt c. The presence of religions with many female deities, or a female supreme god d. Kin groups and marital residence is organized around women

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D

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28. Bacha posh is a term used to identify a man who marries another man in traditional Afghan culture. a. True b. False

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B

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29. Marriage is considered a________trait by anthropologists because it is practiced by all societies. a. dominant b. prescriptive c. sensible d. universal

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D

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30. Bride________is a gift of goods or money from the groom or his kin to the bride's kin. a. price b. service c. exchange d. dowry

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A

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31. The custom of allowing a man to marry more than one woman is: a. found in most societies anthropologists have studied b. found in only a small minority of societies c. almost always accompanied by rules specifying the rights of different wives. d. associated with family dynamics free of jealousy, suspicion and other dysfunctional attributes. e. both a & c

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E

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32. The _____________ is the marriage custom that obliges a woman to marry her sister's widower. a. sororate b. exogamy c. endogamy d. levirate

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A

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33. Which of the following terms may be defined as one woman married to multiple men? a. Polygamy b. Polygyny c. Polyandry d. Polyester

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C

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34. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the woman / woman marriage custom found among the Nandi? a. It enables a woman without biological sons to inherit a share of her husband's property. b. It enables the woman who is the "wife" of the female husband to raise her status and live a more secure life. c. It legitimizes female homosexual relationships. d. It enables the female "husband" to raise her status by becoming the "mother" of sons.

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C

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35. The fact that people who are brought up together are uninterested in each other as marriage partners, even if the marriages are favored by their parents supports which theory of the incest taboo? a. the "cooperation" theory b. the "childhood familiarity" theory c. the "family disruption" theory d. Freud's Oedipal theory

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B

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36. Most people in the city of Omaha practice which system of kinship terminology? a. Sudanese b. Eskimo (Inuit) c. Hawaiian d. Crow e. Omaha

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B

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37. Which of the following would not be a function of a unilineal descent group? a. Own property b. Determine religious affiliation c. Organize a raid on a neighboring group d. all of the above are possible functions of a unilineal descent group

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D

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38. Two of the following systems of kinship terminology do not identify parallel cousins by the same term as brothers and sisters. Which two is it? a. Eskimo (Inuit) and Sudanese b. Hawaiian and Eskimo (Inuit) c. Iroquois and Sudanese d. Sudanese and Hawaiian

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A

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39. Which residence pattern is most closely linked to resource availability? a. matrilocal b. patrilocal c. ambilocal d. avunculocal e. neolocal.

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C

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40. Ghosts and gods may both be part of religious practice. a. True b. False

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A

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41. The belief that nature is animated with impersonal spirits could be a description of: a. animism b. polytheism c. monotheism d. animatism

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D

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42. Who is considered to have the correct theory about the origins of religion? a. Durkheim b. Tylor c. James d. Freud e. None of the above

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E

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43. When an individual attempts to compel the supernatural to act on their behalf, which of the following is always true: a. divination is being performed b. sorcery is being performed c. witchcraft is being performed d. magic is being performed

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D

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44. ____________ are generally full-time religious specialists who have long periods of formal training, and are often distinguished by special clothing or hairstyles. a. Shamans b. Mediums c. Sorcerers d. Priests

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D

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45. A polytheistic religion recognizes ______gods, none of which is ________. a. many, supreme b. dualistic, sexed c. totemic, taboo d. polygamous, female

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A

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