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Anthropology Quiz: Cave Art, Culture, and Society, Exams of Nursing

A quiz focusing on various aspects of anthropology, including cave art, culture, and society. It covers topics such as ethnography, ethnological data, ethnocentrism, kinship, and economic institutions. The quiz tests the understanding of concepts like imitative magic, generalized reciprocity, sapir-whorf hypothesis, and carrying capacity.

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Download Anthropology Quiz: Cave Art, Culture, and Society and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! ANTH 2 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATE GUARANTEED SUCCESS. Question 1 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Ideal culture can be defined as Select one: a. what people believe they should do. b. what people want to plan. c. what people do? d. what people actually plan? Check Feedback The correct answer is: what people believe they should do. Question 2 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question The correct answer is: contagious magic. Question 4 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text An industrial society’s police force is an example of the legitimate use of Select one: a. political sanctions. b. authority. c. wealth. d. power. Check Feedback The correct answer is: authority. Question 5 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Which statement best describes the difference between magic and religion? Select one: a. Magic deals primarily with supernatural forces, whereas religion deals primarily with supernatural beings. b. Magic is the belief of aboriginal populations, whereas religion is the belief of advanced cultures. c. Religion contains many ceremonies, whereas magic does not. d. Religion gives people a euphoric feeling, whereas magic does not. Check Feedback The correct answer is: Magic deals primarily with supernatural forces, whereas religion deals primarily with supernatural beings. Question 6 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Check Feedback The correct answer is: cultural groups. Question 8 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Across cultures, the most preferred type of specific marriage form based on the number of societies practicing the marriage form is Select one: a. monogamy. b. polygamy. c. polygyny. d. polyandry. Check Feedback The correct answer is: polygyny. Question 9 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The three major components of culture are Select one: a. technology, learned behavior, and innovation. b. inventive processes, learned behavior, and diffusion. c. material objects, cognitive processes, and behaviors. d. symbols, learned behavior, and diffusion. Check Feedback The correct answer is: material objects, cognitive processes, and behaviors. Question 10 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Check Feedback The correct answer is: giving of time, objects, and food among close kin. Question 12 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The idea that any aspect of a culture must be viewed and evaluated within the context of that culture is called Select one: a. cultural relativism. b. cultural ethnography. c. cultural ethnocentrism. d. cultural holism. Check Feedback The correct answer is: cultural relativism. Question 13 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Goals of research in cultural anthropology include Select one: a. explaining cultural ecology. b. describing the origin and spread of human religions. c. describing and explaining human geographic distribution. d. describing cultural similarities and differences. Check Feedback The correct answer is: describing cultural similarities and differences. Question 14 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Feedback The correct answer is: enculturation. Question 16 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Culture shock is the Select one: a. experience of fainting when exposed to strange customs. b. sudden experience of disorientation when entering a new community. c. feelings of helplessness from many small intercultural frustrations. d. feeling of disapproval regarding the customs of other cultures. Check Feedback The correct answer is: feelings of helplessness from many small intercultural frustrations. Question 17 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Slow Food places an emphasis on Select one: a. preserving traditional foods among aboriginal societies. b. reducing the fat and cholesterol in meat products. c. preserving the biodiversity of traditional food production. d. the slow maturation of fruits and vegetables to preserve vitamins. Check Feedback The correct answer is: preserving the biodiversity of traditional food production. Question 18 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Check Feedback The correct answer is: Trobrianders and the Ju/’hoansi. Question 20 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The process of learning one’s culture while growing up in that culture is called Select one: a. enculturation. b. the culture concept. c. acculturation. d. a cognitive process. Check Feedback The correct answer is: enculturation. Question 21 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The concept of carrying capacity refers to Select one: a. the amount of food foragers can locate in their territory. b. the ability of an ecological niche to support a particular organism. c. conclusions drawn from optimal foraging models. d. the ability of the patrilocal band to care for its members. Check Feedback The correct answer is: the ability of an ecological niche to support a particular organism. Question 22 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 c. 100,000 to 50,000 B.P. d. 40,000 to 12,000 B.P. Check Feedback The correct answer is: 40,000 to 12,000 B.P. Question 24 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Anthropological research has demonstrated that supernatural beings and forces exist in what percentage of the world’s cultures? Select one: a. 95 percent b. 100 percent c. 50 percent d. 80 percent Check Feedback The correct answer is: 100 percent Question 25 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The ability to influence people and cause them to do things they would not do otherwise is called Select one: a. coercive power. b. legitimate power. c. power. d. authority. Check Feedback The correct answer is: power. Question 26 Incorrect b. Blood splatter patterns at a crime scene. c. Hair samples recovered from crime victim clothing. d. Bullets and bullet casings at a crime scene. Check Feedback The correct answer is: Skeletal remains at an airline crash site. Question 28 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Among the Tchambuli, Mead noted that Select one: a. distinct male and female roles existed but were opposite of the role models in North American culture. b. both men and women were non-emotional and business-like. c. both men and women were maternal. d. no distinct male and female roles existed. Check Feedback The correct answer is: distinct male and female roles existed but were opposite of the role models in North American culture. Question 29 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text A significant advantage of unilateral descent groups is that they Select one: a. facilitates property inheritance. b. controls the choice of a chief. c. determines residence. d. dictates appropriate marriage partners. Check Feedback The correct answer is: facilitate property inheritance. Question 30 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 d. archaeology and applied anthropology. Check Feedback The correct answer is: ethnographic and ethnological research. Question 32 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Gods cross-culturally have all but one of these attributes: they are Select one: a. often ancestral to people. b. more powerful than people. c. anthropomorphic. d. forgiving. Check Feedback The correct answer is: forgiving. Question 33 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Theoretical models in anthropology are Select one: a. modes of analysis that can’t be proven. b. devices for explaining and understanding cultures. c. models of ideal culture. d. approaches to fieldwork that uncovers actual cultural behavior. Check Feedback The correct answer is: devices for explaining and understanding cultures. Question 34 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Check Feedback The correct answer is: ethnography. Question 36 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The practice of designating "female husbands" among the Nandi of Africa serves what purpose? Select one: a. It provides for an additional economic asset for a household. b. It allows economic security to women who never married. c. It gives lesbian women an opportunity to marry. d. It provides a means for women without male heirs to transmit property. Check Feedback The correct answer is: It provides a means for women without male heirs to transmit property. Question 37 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The extra somatic aspect of culture means that culture is Select one: a. beyond learning or inheritance. b. inherited, not learned. c. learned, not genetic d. coded in a person’s DNA. Check Feedback The correct answer is: learned, not genetic Question 38 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 c. god. d. ghost. Check Feedback The correct answer is: god. Question 40 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text An object that is made by humans is called Select one: a. an Eco fact. b. a site. c. a madden. d. an artifact. Check Feedback The correct answer is: an artifact. Question 41 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Holism in anthropology means that Select one: a. the entire time of human existence is studied. b. humans are included in the study of ecological systems. c. humans are studied biologically and culturally through time. d. whole societies are examined in an evolutionary context. Check Feedback The correct answer is: humans are studied biologically and culturally through time. Question 42 Correct c. ideal patterns of kinship systems are not the same as the real (or actual) patterns. d. the logic behind kinship systems is constantly changing. Check Feedback The correct answer is: an etic perspective makes it difficult to grasp an emic perspective. Question 44 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Bridewealth refers to Select one: a. wealth accumulated prior to marriage. b. gifts from the groom’s family to the bride’s family. c. wealth brought with the bride when she marries. d. wealth already owned by the bride. Check Feedback The correct answer is: gifts from the groom’s family to the bride’s family. Question 45 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text A bifurcate kinship system is one where Select one: a. ego labels father’s side of the kin group differently than mother’s side. b. each member of a kin group is called by a different term. c. all cousins are called by the same term. d. ego calls two different generations by different terms. Check Feedback The correct answer is: ego labels father’s side of the kin group differently than mother’s side. Question 46 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 c. archaeology, ethnography, ethnology, cultural anthropology. d. biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics. Check Feedback The correct answer is: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics. Question 48 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text A group of people who have a similar relationship to the mechanisms of wealth, power, and social status is termed a(n) Select one: a. age set. b. stratified group. c. class. d. caste. Check Feedback The correct answer is: class. Question 49 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The Venus of Willendorf is an example of Select one: a. a fetish figure. b. parietal art. c. a poltergeist. d. mobile art. Check Feedback The correct answer is: mobile art. Question 50 a. inherited. b. shared. c. learned. d. adapted. Check Feedback The correct answer is: learned. Question 52 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Colin Turnbull came to fully understand the importance singing played in the Mute culture when he heard the Select one: a. songs celebrating a successful elephant hunt. b. honey harvest song. c. lima puberty songs for women. d. Molino songs to the forest. Check Feedback The correct answer is: Molino songs to the forest. Question 53 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Heterogeneous cultures are those that exhibit Select one: a. a lack of subcultures. b. deviant individuals. c. many shared features. d. few shared features. Check a. cymbals. b. maracas. c. flutes. d. drums. Check Feedback The correct answer is: flutes. Question 56 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Chimpanzees are not considered to have language because their communication system is Select one: a. closed and lacks calls. b. open but lacks syntax. c. closed and lacks recursion. d. open but lacks creative change. Check Feedback The correct answer is: closed and lacks recursion. Question 57 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The term manna is best defined as Select one: a. a ritual of intensification. b. a member of a hierarchy of priests. c. the implements used in magical ceremonies. d. a supernatural impersonal force. Check Feedback b. men planting crops and women tending the crops. c. all horticultural labors are equally shared by men and women. d. women do all of the gardening. Check Feedback The correct answer is: men planting crops and women tending the crops. Question 60 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The formal rules that guide anthropological behavior toward informants is called the American Anthropological Association Code of Select one: a. Behavior. b. Ethics. c. Fieldwork. d. Responsibility. Check Feedback The correct answer is: Ethics. Question 61 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The Begawan of Borneo believe that a soul will linger around the living after death because it Select one: a. must wait for a traveling companion. b. must wait for the physical remains of the deceased to deteriorate. c. must receive sufficient food from the living before journeying to the land of the dead. d. was mistreated by the living. Flag question Question text When anthropologists say that human traits demonstrate plasticity, they mean that traits are Select one: a. influenced by the way they develop during the growth process. b. determined by nutrition. c. modified by genetic errors. d. determined by DNA variations. Check Feedback The correct answer is: influenced by the way they develop during the growth process. Question 64 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text What type of subsistence strategy is based on simple crop production without the benefit of cultivation or irrigation? Select one: a. foraging b. agriculture c. horticulture d. pastoralism Check Feedback The correct answer is: horticulture Question 65 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text A part-time practitioner who has special abilities for handling supernatural forces is called a Select one: a. shaman. b. churning. c. priest. Flag question Question text To make people do his bidding, a Yanomamo headman has Select one: a. limited authority b. authority, but not power. c. power, but not authority. d. sanctions he controls Check Feedback The correct answer is: power, but not authority. Question 68 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text It is often difficult to recognize supernatural beliefs and practices in other cultures because you are Select one: a. being ethnocentric. b. being culturally relativistic. c. using an emic perspective. d. using a holistic view. Check Feedback The correct answer is: being ethnocentric. Question 69 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text A kinship relationship based on a blood connection is called Select one: a. collateral b. clan Flag question Question text The Inuit kinship terminological system was so named because it was Select one: a. only found among such foraging societies as the Inuit. b. first described for the Inuit. c. only used by the Inuit. d. a primary feature of aboriginal arctic societies. Check Feedback The correct answer is: first described for the Inuit. Question 72 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The Cana (Kuna) of San Blas has a rich and varied expressive art in the form of Select one: a. appliquéd blouses called moles. b. elaborate wooden bowls. c. marine animal serving spoons. d. carved shell beads. Check Feedback The correct answer is: appliquéd blouses called moles. Question 73 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text The presence of Coca-Cola drinks in restaurants worldwide is an example of Select one: a. invention. b. innovation. Flag question Question text Horticulturalists have poorer nutrition than foragers because Select one: a. they suffer from protein deficiency owing to lack of meat. b. they have to work harder. c. their vitamin and mineral intakes are reduced. d. they live in crowded conditions and do not get enough to eat. Check Feedback The correct answer is: their vitamin and mineral intakes are reduced. Question 76 Incorrect Mark 0.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Marvin Harris argues that Americans avoid eating dogs because they are Select one: a. less efficient sources of protein. b. too cute. c. carries diseases. d. too costly as a protein source. Check Feedback The correct answer is: less efficient sources of protein. Question 77 Correct Mark 1.00 out of 1.00 Flag question Question text Most definitions of religion are Select one: a. culturally diffused.
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