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Which of the following is your cross cousin? |
| | A) | your mother's sister's daughter |
| | B) | father's brother's daughter |
| | C) | your mother's brother's son |
| | D) | your mother's sister's son |
| | E) | your father's brother's daughter |
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Which of the following is your parallel cousin? |
| | A) | your mother's brother's daughter |
| | B) | your mother's sister's son |
| | C) | your father's sister's daughter |
| | D) | your mother's brother's son |
| | E) | your father's sister's son |
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What of the following is not cited in the textbook as evidence to refute the idea that incest horror is instinctive? |
| | A) | The use of fire is a cultural universal, but it is not instinctive. |
| | B) | If it were instinctive, the incest taboo would be the same in all human populations. |
| | C) | If it were instinctive, we would not need cultural rules to forbid it. |
| | D) | The incest taboo in humans is identical to the incest taboo found in chimpanzee populations. |
| | E) | What is considered to be incest differs around the world. |
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What is endogamy? |
| | A) | It refers to the rules that dictate marriage outside a group to which a person belongs. |
| | B) | It is synonymous with cross cousin marriage. |
| | C) | It refers to the rules that dictate marriage within a group to which a person belongs. |
| | D) | It refers to forbidden sexual relations with a close relative. |
| | E) | It refers to the custom by which the children of two brothers or two sisters marry. |
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Which of the following statements about India's caste system is not true? |
| | A) | It is an extreme example of endogamy. |
| | B) | A man who has sex with a lower-caste woman cannot restore his ritual purity. |
| | C) | Occupational specialization often sets off one caste from another. |
| | D) | Contact with a member of the untouchable caste is considered defiling. |
| | E) | The castes are endogamous, but many are internally subdivided into exogamous lineages. |
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Which of the following statements about royal incest in traditional Hawaii is not true? |
| | A) | It functioned to downplay status differences between individuals. |
| | B) | It functioned to limit conflicts about succession. |
| | C) | Royal incest concentrated mana in the chiefly lineage. |
| | D) | It reduced the number of royal heirs. |
| | E) | It functioned to keep the royal estate intact. |
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According to Edmund Leach, marriage can accomplish all of the following, except: |
| | A) | give either or both spouse a monopoly in the other's sexuality. |
| | B) | establish an arbitrary and meaningless bond between both spouses and their families. |
| | C) | establish a socially significant relationship between spouses and their families. |
| | D) | establish the legal father of a woman's children and the legal mother of a man's children. |
| | E) | give either or both spouses rights over the other's property. |
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Which of the following statements about berdaches is not true? |
| | A) | Berdaches are biological males who have assumed many of the gender roles assigned to women. |
| | B) | Berdaches are sometimes married men. |
| | C) | Berdaches fill the wifely role when they marry. |
| | D) | Berdaches are used in the textbook as an example of one of the shortcomings of same-sex marriage. |
| | E) | Several Native American groups have berdaches. |
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Which of the following statements about dowry is not true? |
| | A) | Dowry exists in more cultures than bridewealth does. |
| | B) | Dowry is the exchange of gifts from the bride and her kin to the groom and his kin. |
| | C) | Dowry tends to be practiced in societies with low female status. |
| | D) | A woman's dowry is supposed to compensate the groom's kin for the added burden of being responsible for the bride. |
| | E) | In India, women are sometimes murdered when the groom's family considers the dowry insufficient. |
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Which of the following statements about bridewealth is not true? |
| | A) | Bridewealth exists in more cultures than dowry does. |
| | B) | As the value of bridewealth increases, marriages become more stable. |
| | C) | The bridewealth compensates the bride's kin for the loss of her companionship and labor. |
| | D) | Bridewealth is the exchange of gifts from the bride and her kin to the groom's kin. |
| | E) | Bridewealth is sometimes called progeny price. |
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Which of the following is not true about the Hopi of the American Southwest? |
| | A) | Hopi marriages are unstable. |
| | B) | Hopi women are secure in their home and land ownership. |
| | C) | There are many formal barriers to divorce. |
| | D) | There are conflicting loyalties to matrikin versus spouse. |
| | E) | In Hopi families the kids stay with the mother. |
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Which of the following statements about divorce is not true? |
| | A) | Divorce is more common in matrilineal than in patrilineal societies. |
| | B) | Divorce is more common in modern Western society than it was a century ago. |
| | C) | As the value of the dowry increases, the likelihood of divorce increases. |
| | D) | Divorces tend to increase after wars. |
| | E) | Divorces tend to decrease when times are bad economically. |
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What is serial monogamy? |
| | A) | Serial monogamy is synonymous with polygyny. |
| | B) | Serial monogamy is the kind of plural marriage that is found in foraging societies. |
| | C) | Serial monogamy is the kind of plural marriage found in big man societies. |
| | D) | Serial monogamy is synonymous with polyandry. |
| | E) | Serial monogamy is when an individual has more than one wife, but never more than one at the same time. |
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Which of the following statements about polygyny is not true? |
| | A) | Even in societies where polygyny is practiced, most men are monogamous. |
| | B) | Polygyny can play an important role in the economic standing of a household, but it has little to do with political functions. |
| | C) | The custom of men marrying later in life than women promotes polygyny. |
| | D) | The number of wives is an indicator of a man's household productivity and social position. |
| | E) | Widows often make up a large number of the women involved in plural marriages. |
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Which of the following statements about polyandry is true? |
| | A) | Most polyandrous societies are found in Polynesia. |
| | B) | Polyandry is more common than polygyny. |
| | C) | Polyandry is often a cultural adaptation to female mobility associated with trade or military operations. |
| | D) | Polyandry reduces the amount of land fragmentation between generations by limiting the number of wives and heirs. |
| | E) | Polyandry increases the amount of land fragmentation between generations by increasing the number of wives and heirs. |
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