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Origins: The Searching for the Essence of a Gendered Humanity?
Multiple Choice
1
We learn in Chapter 1 that origin stories
A)
are generally discarded in the face of the modern experience.
B)
set a baseline for understanding the identity and values of a group.
C)
stand in direct opposition to Western science.
D)
have very limited impact on gender relations in a society.
2
Anthropologists use __________ to fill in the gaps in our understanding of the origins of human behavior.
A)
the fairly complete fossil record of human evolution
B)
genetic research
C)
analogies
D)
dreams
3
The fossil record can tell us about
A)
the age at which children reached sexual maturity.
B)
body-fat ratios among early hominids.
C)
the mode of locomotion of our hominid ancestors.
D)
the sexual division of labor of our hominid ancestors.
4
Representatives of the genuses Ardipitheus and Australopithecus, early hominids, lived in ____________ over four million years ago.
A)
North America
B)
Western Europe
C)
Polynesia
D)
East Africa
5
Sexual dimorphism among Australopithecus afarensis, that is, difference in size between males and females,
A)
has been proven to exist.
B)
remains an issue of active debate among paleoanthropologists.
C)
cannot be ascertained because there is no way to identify males and females without soft tissue evidence.
D)
is of very little interest to anthropologists.
6
The first evidence of early culture among hominids consists of
A)
cave art.
B)
evidence of burial rituals.
C)
stone tools.
D)
hides cured and transformed into clothing.
7
The first hominid to reach the Old World was
A)
H. sapiens.
B)
H. neanderthalensis.
C)
A. afarensis.
D)
H. erectus.
8
The idea that early human society was characterized by men who hunted while women gathered plant food, with men providing the bulk of the diet and women and children dependent upon men for food
A)
offers unchallenged support for the idea that humans are destined to live in male dominated society.
B)
asserts, with considerable supporting scientific evidence, that early man engaged in subsistence big-game hunting.
C)
ignores the prominence of plant foods gathered by women in modern foraging societies.
D)
is supported by most scholars today.
9
The anti-war and feminist movements of the latter half of the twentieth century
A)
had a significant impact on popular theories of gender among early hominids.
B)
were not interested in human origins or the behavior of early humans, since such things were irrelevant to their efforts.
C)
discarded ideas of early human behavior which lacked sufficient scientific support.
D)
had little or now impact on the early 21
st
century understanding of "human nature".
10
Anthropologists study non-primates
A)
because they are so much fun to watch.
B)
because they are our ancestors and we can learn from them.
C)
in order to explore the possibility of inborn human traits.
D)
to understand how the gender equity in non-human primate groups becomes gender inequity in human societies.
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