Question 1

2 out of 2 points

Anthropology is the study of...

Selected Answer:

humankind in all places past and present.

Answers:

sports medicine.
insects.
electric circuit boards.
humankind in all places past and present.

Question 2
2 out of 2 points

Anthropology consists of four sub-fields: biological/physical

anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, archaeology, and...
Selected Answer:

linguistic anthropology.
Answers:

antiquarian anthropology.
agrarian anthropology.
aquatic anthropology.
linguistic anthropology.

Question 3
2 out of 2 points

This fundamental principle of anthropology holds that the

various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in
the broadest possible context in order to understand their
interconnections and interdependence.
Selected Answer:

Holistic perspective
Answers:

Impartial perspective
Dualistic perspective

Holistic perspective
Neutral perspective

Question 4
2 out of 2 points

When anthropologists engage other people and cultures with

sensitivity and respect for the privacy under which cultural
knowledge is shared with them, they are adopting what kind
of approach?
Selected Answer:

An ethical approach.
Answers:

A passive approach.
A biased approach.
An ethical approach.
An indifferent approach.

Question 5
2 out of 2 points

In anthropology, an explanation of cultural or natural

phenomena supported by reliable data is called a...
Selected Answer:

theory.
Answers:

line of research.
hypothesis.
theory.
doctrine.

Question 6
2 out of 2 points

When anthropologists conduct field-work to collect and

interpret information pertaining to a society and its culture,
they are undergoing what kind of research?

Selected Answer:

Ethnographic research
Answers:

Ethnographic research
Zoological research
Innovative research
Laboratory research

Question 7
2 out of 2 points

In the field of anthropology, human beings are categorized

under which taxonomic order within the biological
classification system?
Selected Answer:

Primates
Answers:

Protists
Prions
Arboreals
Primates

Question 8
2 out of 2 points

The entire sequence of human DNA is known as the...

Selected Answer:

human genome.
Answers:

human genetic corpus.

human DNA box-set.
human genome.
human gene complex.

Question 9
2 out of 2 points

The 2008 DNA sampling test administered by U.S. government

officials in the Dadaab refugee camp in Nairobi, Kenya was
especially suspect in its protocol because DNA testing was
administered among camp inhabitants to confirm familial
relations, but not among...
Selected
Answer:

Answers:

family members living in the U.S. with whom the

refugee camp inhabitants wished to reunite.
family members living outside Dadaab, but close by
in Kenya, with whom the refugee camp inhabitants
wished to reunite.
foster family members living close by in Kenya
selected by the officials.
foster family members living in the U.S. selected by
the officials.
family members living in the U.S. with whom the
refugee camp inhabitants wished to reunite.

Question 10
2 out of 2 points

The process by which biological life adapts to environments

through the elimination of offspring unfit to survive is called...
Selected Answer:

natural selection.
Answers:

critical selection.
critical development.
natural selection.
natural development.

Question 11
2 out of 2 points

The genetic composition of species varies over time by way

of...

Selected Answer:

mutation.
Answers:

division.
mutiny.
mutation.
correction.

Question 12
2 out of 2 points

The person regarded as the chief theorist behind evolution in

general and natural selection in particular is...
Selected Answer:

Charles Darwin.
Answers:

Jane Goodall.
Charles Darwin.
Charles Manson.
Herbert Spencer.

Question 13
2 out of 2 points

In biology, structures possessed by different organisms that

are superficially similar due to similar function but that do not
share a common developmental pathway or structure are
called...
Selected Answer:

analogies.
Answers:

analogies.
isomorphisms.
biosynergies.
homologies.

Question 14
2 out of 2 points

In biology, structures possessed by two different organisms

that arise in similar fashion and pass through similar stages
during embryonic development, although they may have
different functions are called...
Selected Answer:

homologies.
Answers:

homologies.
biosynergies.
isomorphisms.
analogies.

Question 15
2 out of 2 points

Anthropologists identify this time periond as one in which we

see an explosion in tool variation and expressive art.
Selected Answer:

Upper Paleolithic
Answers:

Miocene
Lower Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic
Pliocene

Question 16
2 out of 2 points

Anthropologists identify this time period as one in which many

humans transitioned from foraging for food to producing food
by way of horticulture and pastoralism.
Selected Answer:

Neolithic Revolution
Answers:

Sedentary Revolution
Neolithic Revolution

Subsistence Revolution
Monolithic Revolution

Question 17
0 out of 2 points

The spread of humans into Europe and Southwest Asia during

the Neolithic Revolution was largely a result of...
Selected Answer:

climate change.
Answers:

periodic crop failures.

a clash of civilizations.
climate change.
being hunted by predators.

Question 18
2 out of 2 points

According to archaelogists who study the relationship between people

of the past and their environments, the centralized control of irrigation
systems, of trade networks, and of scarce resources gave rise to...
Selected Answer:

civilizations.
Answers:

farming communities.
early workers unions.
civilizations.
pastoralism.

Question 19
0 out of 2 points

This theory was put forth by early European anthropologists

and follows from the belief that all humans are destined to
advance in similar ways along a single trajectory of progress,
a trajectory on which these anthropologists believed they and
their own socieites were much farther along.

Selected Answer:

Progressivism
Answers:

Unilinealism
Bilateralism
Progressivism
Diffusionism

Question 20
0 out of 2 points

The erroneous belief that some people and their present day societies exhibit
traits characteristic of early humans and therefore must be slower to develop
socially and culturally compared to their more advanced contemporaries.
Selected Answer:

Socio-cultural lag
Answers:

Arrested development
Socio-cultural lag
Primitivism
Primordialism

Question 21
2 out of 2 points

Early anthropologists who never actually conducted field-work, but

instead collected data and proposed theories based on a corpus of
documents from abroad are coined by contemporary anthropologists
as...
Selected Answer:

armchair anthropologists.
Answers:

armchair anthropologists.
pocketbook anthropologists.
blindfolded anthropologists.
footstool anthropologists.

Question 22
0 out of 2 points

Many early anthropologists based their theories on documents

brought back to Europoe from colonies by...
Selected Answer:

missionaries.
Answers:

missionaries.
military officials.
colonial administrators.
All of the above

Question 23
2 out of 2 points

Taking after the evolutionary theory of natrual selection, this

Victorian Era belief maintained that social processes and
development resembling those of biology were responsible for
socio-ecomomic disparities between classes of people.
Selected Answer:

Social Darwinism
Answers:

Social Fitness
Bio-social Imbalance
Social Lamarckianism
Social Darwinism

Question 24
2 out of 2 points

This term stands for a complex of structurally interrelated institutions

and modes of existence in which people collectivelly participate.
Selected Answer:

Society
Answers:

Clan
Tribe
Chiefdom

Society

Question 25
2 out of 2 points

Which of the following is an example of a social institution?

Selected Answer:

All of the above

Answers:

Political governance
Economic exchange
Means of subsistence
All of the above

Question 26
2 out of 2 points

This theory maintains that societies are like bodies with

organs in which institutions are defined not by virtue of their
independent properties but by their relations to all other
institutions within a comprehensive system.
Selected Answer:

Structural Functionalism
Answers:

Inter-institutionalism
Structural Functionalism
Social Complexity
Social Web

Question 27
2 out of 2 points

This Victorian Era thinker was one of the originators of the

theory of Structural Functionalism and proposed that
throughout history societies transitioned from Mechanical
Solidarity (homogeneity) to Organic Solidarity (heterogeneity).
Selected Answer:

Emile Durkheim

Answers:

Emile Durkheim
Dwayne Johnson
Emmet Dirknowitskiheim
Auguste Comte

Question 28
2 out of 2 points

This British anthropologist was a proponent of Structural

Functionalism and sought to apply the scientific method to
social phenomena much in the way one does to biological
phenomena.
Selected Answer:

Alfred Radcliffe Brown

Answers:

Thomas Malthus
Abraham Maslow
Clifford Geertz
Alfred Radcliffe Brown

Question 29
2 out of 2 points

This anthropologist is considered the father of modern

anthropology. He departed from most Structural Functionalist
thinkers in that he believed society is much more embedded
in the natural world as well as the natural needs of human
beings, such as the need for food, shelter, and reproduction.
Selected Answer:

Bronislaw Malinowski
Answers:

William Rivers
Edward Burnett Tylor
James George Frazer
Bronislaw Malinowski

Question 30

2 out of 2 points

The following is an influential quote by Bronislaw Malinoski

and has become an enduring aspect of modern anthropology:
Selected
Answer:

Answers:

The goal of the ethnographer is "to grasp the

native's point of view, his relation to life, to
realize his vision of his world."
The goal of the ethnographer is "to teach natives
how to understand their own society better."
The goal of the ethnographer is "to find a happy
medium between his grasp of the world and that of
the native's."
The goal of the ethnographer is "to conduct fieldwork from afar so as not to disturb the native."
The goal of the ethnographer is "to grasp the
native's point of view, his relation to life, to
realize his vision of his world."

Question 31
2 out of 2 points

In class, we discussed how institutional divisions function

together much like...
Selected Answer:

parts in an engine.
Answers:

wood panels in a floor.

parts in an engine.
tributaries flowing into a river.
ingredients in a milkshake.

Question 32
2 out of 2 points

When engaging other people and their cultures,

anthropologists seek to suspend their worldviews as much
possible in order to understand different people's...

Selected Answer:

perspectives.
Answers:

biorhythms.
perspectives.
intellectual limitations.
mental errors.

Question 33
2 out of 2 points

If society is the structure that holds facets of institutional life

together, ________ is the nuanced ways through which this
structure is represented to and between the very people who
live within it.
Selected Answer:

culture
Answers:

societal particularity
societal effervescence
societal ostensibility
culture

Question 34
2 out of 2 points

The process by which culture is passed on from one

generation to the next is called...
Selected Answer:

enculturation.
Answers:

aculturation.
cultural transfer.
cultural dissemination.
enculturation.

Question 35
2 out of 2 points

Social structure is to cultural influence as...

Selected
Answer:

Answers:

The architecture and logistics of a motor speedway

is to the flavorful identities of fans in the seats on
race day.
a particular song is to a piano.
a television show is to a TV.
The architecture and logistics of a motor speedway
is to the flavorful identities of fans in the seats on
race day.
a dance is to a stage.

Question 36
0 out of 2 points

The process by which culture at the macro-level is held

together despite mutual differences at the level of sub-culture
is called...
Selected Answer:

cultural diplomacy.
Answers:

cultural variation.
cultural bargaining.
cultural diplomacy.
cultural impasse.

Question 37
2 out of 2 points

The form of political organization by which two or more

ethnicities or nationalities are situated within a single state in
a way that accomodates the cultural norms of each is called...
Selected Answer:

pluralism.
Answers:

socio-political compatibility.

pluralism.
cosmopolitanism.
socio-political equity.

Question 38
2 out of 2 points

The belief that one's own culture is superior to others is

called...
Selected Answer:

ethnocentrism.
Answers:

cultural bias.
racism.
cultural favorability.
ethnocentrism.

Question 39
2 out of 2 points

The highest tier in the barrel model of culture, the tier

characterized by the perception of the self, society, and the
world around us, is called the...
Selected Answer:

superstructure.
Answers:

environment.
infrastructure.
social structure.
superstructure.

Question 40
2 out of 2 points

The spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one

culture to another is called...

Selected Answer:

diffusion.
transfusion.

Answers:

infusion.
diffusion.
interfusion.

Question 41
2 out of 2 points

When we speak of cultures as being dynamic, this means...

Selected
Answer:

Answers:

that cultures are more like rubberbands than rocks;

they are able to stretch and bend their norms in the
effort to cope with and adjust to strains and tensions
from within and from beyond.
that cultures are short lived and easily give way to
new and emerging cultures.
that cultures are constantly changing.
that cultures grow bigger and bigger until they reach
critical mass, whereby they divide into smaller
cultures and repeat the process.
that cultures are more like rubberbands than rocks;
they are able to stretch and bend their norms in the
effort to cope with and adjust to strains and tensions
from within and from beyond.

Question 42
2 out of 2 points

This American anthropologist proposed that anthropologists

push the study of social structure to the back-burner and
focus instead on the abundance of cultural forms in all their
complexity. He was also an integral figure in the devleopment
of the theory of cultural relativism.

Selected Answer:

Franz Boas
Answers:

Franz Boas
Leslie White
Lewis Henry Morgan
Sidney Mintz

Question 43
0 out of 2 points

This American anthropologist is regarded as one of the initial

developers of symbolic and interpretive anthropology. He
emphasized meaning as a ubiquitous aspect of all cultures and
encouraged anthropologists to regard meaning as the primary
object of analysis.
Selected Answer:

Marshall Sahlins
Answers:

Eric Wolf
Clifford Geertz
Alfred Kroeber
Marshall Sahlins

Question 44
2 out of 2 points

In anthropology, sounds, gestures, marks, and other signs that

are linked to something else and represent them in a
meaningful way are called...
Selected Answer:

symbols.
Answers:

icons.
symbols.
motifs.
emblems.

Question 45
2 out of 2 points

In anthropology, which among the following could be seen as

a symbol?
Selected Answer:

All of the above

A house cat

Answers:

A smartphone
A chair
All of the above

Question 46
2 out of 2 points

In anthropology, a symbol...
Selected
Answer:
Answers:

All of the above

may be interpreted differently by many people.
may be interpreted differently by a single person
depending on the time and place at which he or she
observes it.
is meaningless without the presence of a person to
assign meaning to it.
All of the above

Question 47
2 out of 2 points

The process by which lower levels of organization come

together to form higher levels of organization which, in turn,
result in the presence of a whole greater than the sum of its
parts is called...
Selected Answer:

emergence.
Answers:

effervescence.

transcendence.
emergence.
immanence.

Question 48
2 out of 2 points

Which of the following exemplifies a part-whole relationship

characteristic of emergence?
Selected Answer:

All of the above

Answers:

An ant relative to an ant colony

A water molecule relative to an ocean
paper money relative to an economy
All of the above

Question 49
2 out of 2 points

This social philosopher reconceptualized how we think about

the accrual and spread of power in society by proposing that
social norms (and the measures of control they facilitate) are
not created and monitored by a group of people having the
highest level of socio-political power, but are instead willingly
harnessed by virtually everyone throughout society; social
norms are embodied in people's public identities and
behaviors and then enforced by way of their mutual adoption
and recognition.
Selected Answer:

Michel Foucault
Answers:

Michael Buble
Robinson Crusoe
Dwayne Johnson
Michel Foucault

Question 50
2 out of 2 points

The example Michel Foucault used to explain his theory on

social power was based on an 18th century design for a prison
system known as the...
Selected Answer:

panopticon.
Answers:

rubicon.
panopticon.
duathlon.
comic-con.