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1.
The Hutterites are originally from
A)New Guinea.
B)the Amazon jungle.
C)Europe.
D)Africa.
2.
How long has the Hutterite religion been around?
A)275 years.
B)375 years.
C)475 years.
D)575 years.
3.
What was Dr. Park’s main objective in studying the Hutterites?
A)To study fingerprints and document family relationships.
B)To study the processes of evolution and how they affect humans.
C)To record Hutterite methods of agriculture.
D)To compile documentation for the government.
4.
What made the Hutterites ideal for the author’s study?
A)They were emotionally isolated.
B)They were a fairly large group but with small families.
C)The Hutterites consisted of individual populations that resulted from the splitting of earlier populations.
D)All the above.
5.
The anthropological approach of examining a subject by focusing on the interrelationships among its parts is called
A)holography.
B)holmium
C)holistic.
D)homburg.
6.
A subfield of anthropology that focuses on human cultural and behavioral systems and the variation in cultural expression among human groups is
A)paleoanthropology.
B)applied anthropology.
C)primatology.
D)cultural anthropology.
7.
Biological anthropology is
A)a subfield of anthropology that studies the human cultural past and the reconstruction of past cultural systems.
B)a subfield of anthropology that studies humans as a biological species.
C)the study of the structure, function, and evolution of the skeleton.
D)a specialty that studies the relationships between humans and their environment.
8.
The most characteristic feature of our species’ behavior is
A)culture.
B)bipedalism.
C)in our genes.
D)warfare.
9.
Cultural behavior is programmed into the genes of which species?
A)ants
B)humans
C)Both of the above.
D)None of the above.
10.
Cultural knowledge involves
A)facts.
B)concepts.
C)generalizations.
D)All the above.
11.
Culture differs from
A)society to society.
B)time period to time period.
C)environment to environment.
D)All the above.
12.
Anthropology seeks to describe and explain the interactions between our nature as a biological species and the cultural behavior that is our species’ most striking and important trait. This is the definition of
A)a holistic approach to anthropology.
B)a biocultural approach to anthropology.
C)physical anthropology.
D)cultural anthropology.
13.
One step in the scientific method is
A)finding patterns, associations, and connections.
B)developing hypotheses.
C)making predictions.
D)All the above.
14.
Good science is
A)proven.
B)conclusive.
C)skeptical.
D)only done in a lab.
15.
An idea that is taken on faith and cannot be scientifically tested is a
A)belief system.
B)hypotheses.
C)theory.
D)deduction.





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