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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 |  |  Anthropology is practiced in |
|  | A) | a corporate office building. |
|  | B) | a Mesopotamian tomb. |
|  | C) | a North American shopping mall. |
|  | D) | an inner city classroom. |
|  | E) | All the above. |
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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 the 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 is not true about culture? |
|  | A) | Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success. |
|  | B) | Culture is transmitted through biology. |
|  | C) | Cultural forces consistently mold and shape human biology and behavior. |
|  | D) | Culture guides the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them. |
|  | E) | Culture is passed on from generation to generation. |
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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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