Pop Quiz Questions

Question 0

Which of the following statements about foraging is false?

Answer 0

Foraging societies have all changes in similar ways because they have faced similar circumstances

Question 1

The concept of an adaptive strategy is?

Answer 1

Is used to describe any society’s system of economic production

Question 2

Which if the following is associated with horticulture?

Answer 2

Periodic cycles of cultivation and fallowing.

Question 3

Which if the following statements about horticulture is true?

Answer 3

It makes use of simple tools for growing crops

Question 4

The key factor that distinguishes agriculturalists from horticulturalists is that agriculturalists:

Answer 4

Use land intensively and continuously

Question 5

Which of the following is not a consequence of agriculture?

Answer 5

Agriculture promotes nomadism to allow farmers to take full advantage of their land

Question 6

Which of the following is found in all adaptive strategies?

Answer 6

Some kind of division of labor based on gender

Question 7

Most generally, economic alienation in industrial societies comes about as a result of:

Answer 7

Separation of workers from the products they make

Question 8

Which of these statements about generalized reciprocity is true?

Answer 8

It is the characteristic form of exchange in egalitarian societies

Question 9

All of the following are true about pot latching except

Answer 9

The giving away of substantial wealth in the pot latch indicates that it is a classic case of economically wasteful behavior

Question 10

The text argues that the term sociopolitical is preferable to Morton’s Fried’s political organization because

Answer 10

Fried spoke of the management of “public policy” in his definition of political organization, making this term less applicable to non-states

Question 11

Band societies:

Answer 11

Have cultural rules that help members to distinguish between proper and improper behavior

Question 12

All of the following statements about the SAN OF SOUTHERN AFTICA are true EXCEPT:

Answer 12

No San today retain their foraging lifestyle

Question 13

Which of the following factors is responsible for the recent changes in Yanomami tribal society?

Answer 13

Gold miners and cattle ranchers have encroached on Yanomami territory and attacked its people;the miners have introduced new diseases

Question 14

Why are pantribal sodalities and age grades described in a chapter on political systems?

Answer 14

They are organizing principles used to mobilize and link groups to form alliances

Question 15

The comparison between the Basseri and the Qashqai, two Iranian nomadic tribes, illustrates that:

Answer 15

As regulatory problems increase, political hierarchies become more complex

Question 16

In foraging and tribal societies, what is the basis for the degree of respect or status attached to an individual?

Answer 16

Personal attributes, such as wisdom, leadership skills, and generosity

Question 17

In what kind of society does differential access to strategic resources based on social stratification occur?

Answer 17

States

Question 18

All of the following are interrelated dimensions of social stratification as defined by the sociologist Max Weber expect:

Answer 18

The permanence of social position

Question 19

Which of the following would not constitute a status or specialized function that is found in all states?

Answer 19

Elimination of different rights granted to different social classes

Question 20

Which of the following explains the reasons for the primacy of the nuclear family in modern North America?

Answer 20

Geographic mobility separates North Americans from their extended families.

Question 21

Which of the following is not true about the nuclear family?

Answer 21

It is universally present in human societies.

Question 22

A lineage is distinguished from a clan by this particular characteristic

Answer 22

Lineage members can name their forebears from the apical ancestor through the present.

Question 23

The following is generally true about incest:

Answer 23

Human behavior with respect to mating with close relatives may express a generalized primate tendency, including both urges and avoidance

Question 24

The rule of endogamy in India’s caste system is an extreme example of that practice. All of the following are true of endogamy in India except:

Answer 24

Castes are NEVER subdivided into exogamous lineages

Question 25

In societies where same sex marriage is legal, Edmund Leach’s rules about the allocation of rights by marriage apply in all of the following ways, except:

Answer 25

In CONTEMPORARY North American society, parents typically recognize affinity l, or relation through marriage, with a child’s partner of the same sex

Question 26

The practice by which the husbands group makes a substantial gift to the wife and her kin is called:

Answer 26

Bridge wealth

Question 27

Which of the following statements about divorce is false?

Answer 27

Divorce is LESS common in matrilineal societies than in patrilineal societies.

Question 28

POLYGAMY includes all of these cases EXECPT:

Answer 28

A man who marries, then divorces, then marries again, then divorces again

Question 29

Which of the following statements about marriage is true?

Answer 29

Outside industrial societies, marriage is often more a relationship between groups than one between individuals

Question 30

Quote “the biological nature of men and women (should be seen) not as narrow enclosure limiting the human organism…” Which of the following best describes this quote’s significance?

Answer 30

The quote REFLECTS the PREDOMINANT anthropological position on sex/gender roles in biology

Question 31

Hidatsa women made boats, and Pawnee women worked wood. These two cases suggest that:

Answer 31

There are EXCEPTIONS to cross-cultural generalizations about the kinds of work men and women usually do in different societies

Question 32

Among foragers:

Answer 32

The lack of clear domestic-public dichotomy is related to relatively weak gender stratification.

Question 33

Which of the following statements about gender STATUS AND POWER in horticultural societies is false?

Answer 33

Matriarchy describes systems in which the women hold superior power to, and rule, the men

Question 34

Which of the following is false about gender roles and statuses among agriculturalists?

Answer 34

The advent of agriculture in horticultural societies gave women a further advantage in the prestige hierarchy

Question 35

In which kind of SOCIETY do anthropologists melt typically find female gentian operations, warfare, female infanticide, and dowry murders?

Answer 35

Patrilineal-patrilocal

Question 36

The idea that “A WOMAN’S PLACE IS AT HOME”:

Answer 36

Emerged in the United States as industrialism spread after 1900.

Question 37

In comparing gender roles and status in different societies, we can say that the following is TRUE:

Answer 37

Generally, women’s status is relatively high among horticulturalists with matrilineal descent and matrilocal residence

Question 38

“THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY” means that:

Answer 38

Women and their children are increasingly represented among the worlds poorest people

Question 39

All of the following are key ideas to take away from this chapters discussion of sexual orientation except:

Answer 39

There is conclusive scientific evidence that sexual orientation is generally determined.