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1 |  |  Ethnology: |
|  | A) | provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture. |
|  | B) | reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors. |
|  | C) | examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological studies. |
|  | D) | is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims through experiment, observation, and deduction to produce reliable explanations of phenomena. |
|  | E) | refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems. |
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2 |  |  Kottak text suggests that there are proportionally more black football and basketball players in the U.S. and proportionally more white tennis, golf, and hockey players because of all the following reasons except: |
|  | A) | differential access to equipment and facilities. |
|  | B) | cultural traditions of excellence in those sports. |
|  | C) | race-based physical differences. |
|  | D) | different patterns of play among children. |
|  | E) | traditional career opportunities. |
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3 |  |  Which is not an example of applied anthropology? |
|  | A) | forensics |
|  | B) | medical anthropology |
|  | C) | development anthropology |
|  | D) | sociolinguistics |
|  | E) | Cultural Resource Management |
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4 |  |  Anthropology has strong links to all of following academic fields except: |
|  | A) | history. |
|  | B) | zoology. |
|  | C) | economics. |
|  | D) | physics. |
|  | E) | sociology. |
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5 |  |  Anthropology is traditionally composed of how many subfields? |
|  | A) | one |
|  | B) | two |
|  | C) | three |
|  | D) | four |
|  | E) | five |
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6 |  |  Archaeological anthropologists traditionally study all of the following except: |
|  | A) | trash. |
|  | B) | fragments of pottery. |
|  | C) | plant remains. |
|  | D) | asteroids. |
|  | E) | stone tools. |
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7 |  |  Anthropology is not: |
|  | A) | a field of science. |
|  | B) | a field of the humanities. |
|  | C) | a field of social science. |
|  | D) | a field with a narrow set of research questions. |
|  | E) | related to sociology. |
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8 |  |  Traditionally, anthropologists would be least interested in: |
|  | A) | cultural change over time. |
|  | B) | Third World subsistence strategies. |
|  | C) | art consumption by the elite in modern societies. |
|  | D) | diversity among cultures. |
|  | E) | the link between nature and nurture. |
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9 |  |  Which of the following is not one of the subdisciplines of anthropology? |
|  | A) | cultural anthropology |
|  | B) | biological anthropology |
|  | C) | developmental anthropology |
|  | D) | linguistic anthropology |
|  | E) | archaeological anthropology |
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10 |  |  Children learn cultural traditions by growing up in a particular society through a process called: |
|  | A) | adaptation. |
|  | B) | invention. |
|  | C) | investment. |
|  | D) | enculturation. |
|  | E) | development. |
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11 |  |  Ethnography: |
|  | A) | examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological studies. |
|  | B) | provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture. |
|  | C) | reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors. |
|  | D) | refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems. |
|  | E) | is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims through experiment, observation, and deduction to produce reliable explanations of phenomena. |
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12 |  |  Biological anthropology studies all of the following except: |
|  | A) | human growth and development. |
|  | B) | biology, evolution, behavior, and social life of primates. |
|  | C) | human genetics. |
|  | D) | human diversity as revealed by material culture. |
|  | E) | the behavior of primates. |
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13 |  |  Which of the following is not an example of applied anthropology? |
|  | A) | study of language in the classroom |
|  | B) | Cultural Resources Management |
|  | C) | forensics |
|  | D) | study of human evolution |
|  | E) | development anthropology |
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14 |  |  The field that investigates the relationships between social and linguistic variation is: |
|  | A) | medical anthropology. |
|  | B) | physical anthropology. |
|  | C) | ethnology. |
|  | D) | sociolinguistics. |
|  | E) | applied anthropology. |
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15 |  |  What term refers to an explanatory framework that helps us understand why something exists? |
|  | A) | a model |
|  | B) | a theory |
|  | C) | a synthesis |
|  | D) | a symbiosis |
|  | E) | a hypothesis |
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