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Basic Anthropology (Cultural and Global View) MCQ

1. At higher latitudes, natural selection favored a reduction in skin pigmentation because _____.

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Correct Answer: The risk of UV damage to folate was reduced

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2. A female statue column used as an architectural support was known as a ____.

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Correct Answer: Caryatid

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3. A fantastic creature, the lamassu had the head of a ____.

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Correct Answer: Human

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4. The ____ cortices are important for helping us form abstract thoughts related to our senses.

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Correct Answer: Association

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5. Sensory perceptions that are not directly attributable to environmental stimuli are called ____.

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Correct Answer: Hallucinations

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6. The traditional composition of tempera, rarely used today, consisted of __________.

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Correct Answer: Egg, pigment, and water

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7. A silverpoint drawing is ____.

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Correct Answer: Made by using a thin stylus made of silver

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8. Government under william the conqueror was _______.

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Correct Answer: Both centralized and strong

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9. Thomas hobbes belongs to the __________ school of thought.

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Correct Answer: Realist

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10. In band societies, ________ determine the amount of respect or status individuals enjoy.

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Correct Answer: Culturally valued personal attributes

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11. The discoveries of what we now refer to as homo erectus go back to the _____ century.

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Correct Answer: 19th

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12. Archaeological sites in australia have been dated to __________ years ago.

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Correct Answer: 55,000

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13. The _______is the best area to look when assessing ancestry.

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Correct Answer: Skull

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14. The words cowardly and vile are examples of words with negative __________ meaning.

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Correct Answer: Connotative

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15. The term alienation describes ________ in industrial economies.

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Correct Answer: The separation of workers from the things they produce

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16. The ________ society has village heads.

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Correct Answer: Yanomami

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17. According to tylor, ________ is the idea that a person's body is inhabited by two entities.

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Correct Answer: Animism

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18. Paleoanthropologists would have a greater interest in ____

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Correct Answer: The origin of human ancestors.

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19. During the middle pleistocene, premodern homo sapiens invented the _____ technique.

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Correct Answer: Levallois

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20. Two broad ideas presented an obstacle to evolution as a concept: young earth and ___________.

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Correct Answer: Fixed species

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21. According to your book, the normative amount of emotional expression shown by americans is _____.

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Correct Answer: Behavior falls in the middle of most other cultures

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22. The __________ are nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the kalahari desert.

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Correct Answer: San Bushmen

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23. Today, hunting and gathering societies ________

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Correct Answer: Are close to disappearing from the world.

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24. The most common type of family for children in the united states is the _____.

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Correct Answer: Nuclear family

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25. Cultural transmission refers to the process of ________

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Correct Answer: Passing cultural patterns from one generation to another.

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26. The conservation of the archaeological record is a fundamental principal of ____________

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Correct Answer: Archaeologists from the US and Britain met with government officials before the war to warn them of potential looting at museums and sites in Iraq

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