1. Which of the
following pieces of evidence supports the theory of evolution by natural
selection?
a) Humans and
chimpanzees share more than 98% of their genetic material
b) Various species
exhibit similar, but not identical, morphological features, including
centralized nervous system and bilateral symmetry
c) The discovery of
multiple hominin and hominid fossils in Africa that share some traits with
humans, and some traits with other modern apes
d) The survival of dark-colored
speckled moths in late 1800's Great Britain.
e) All of the above
2. Which of the
following is not a mechanism of cultural change?
a) Diffusion
b) The Media
c) Globalization
d) Independent Invention
e) Acculturation
3. A group of European
settlers moves to Australia and begins interbreeding with the local population,
introducing new alleles into the genetic makeup of the local population. This
is an example of _____________.
a) Gene flow
b) Sexual selection
c) Fixation
d) Stabilizing selection
e) Random genetic drift
4. Which of these is NOT
a characteristic of culture?
a) It is learned
b) It is shared
c) It is innate
d) It is symbolic
e) It is integrated
5. The anthropological
term for the process by which culture traits are spread from one culture to another
through direct long term contact is:
a) Ethnocentrism
b) Enculturation
c) Emic
d) Holism
e) Acculturation
6. Which of the
following is not an etic explanation of a cultural practice?
a) Someone suggesting
altitude affects a body's adaption during development
b) Someone explaining
colds are caused by being exposed to bad weather or cold air
c) Someone explaining
Thanksgiving is one of many postharvest festivals practiced across the world
d) Someone suggesting
anorexia spread quickly in Hong Kong due to the influence of Western media
e) Someone using
"garbology" to explain what a people did, not what they think they
did
7. What is meant by
focal vocabulary?
a) A language's meaning
system
b) Set of words
describing particular domains of experience
c) A language's
dictionary or set of names for things, events, actions, and qualities
d) Speech sounds
e) Arrangement and order
of words in phrases and sentences
8. Holism refers to:
a) The comparative study
of cultures
b) An approach in
anthropology that parallels participant observation
c) A focus on the small
details of culture
d) The study of the
whole of the human condition
e) An adaptive change
that occurred in early humans
9. Which of the
following is NOT an ethnographic technique?
a) Using experts on
particular aspects of local life as a consultant
b) Understanding
kinship, descent, and marriage by looking at a culture's genealogical history
c) Learning a culture by
participating in social practices and observing the culture over time
d) Talking to members of
a culture to find out more information and even life histories
e) All of the above are
examples of ethnographic techniques
10. A scientific theory
is best described as:
a) A guess or hunch
formulated without prior knowledge to explain something
b) A way to explain
unknowable phenomena before collecting observable evidence
c) A set of ideas
formulated by reasoning from known facts to explain something
d) A suggested, but as
yet unverified, explanation for phenomena
e) None of the above
