Anthropology

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	In many nonindustrial societies, ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. cooperative work groups are organized primarily for profit     2. people prefer to have fun rather than work     3. cooperative work is always done in the household     4. solitary work is preferred to cooperative work      5. cooperative work is usually done with a festive, sociable air      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Among the Ju/'hoansi, ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. elderly people are taken care of grudgingly because after the age of 60 they contribute nothing to the group     2. elderly people past the age of 60 are expected to contribute hunted or gathered food to the group      3. elderly people are a valuable source of knowledge and wisdom about hunting and gathering      4. children are expected to contribute to subsistence from the time they are 7 or 8     5. children are expected to set up their own separate households by the time they are 12     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The system by which goods flow into some central source, and then out again to the community is called ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. a cargo system      2. redistribution      3. reciprocity     4. a Kula Ring     5. market exchange     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	A(n) ____ system is one in which goods are produced, distributed, and consumed.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. economic      2. political     3. religious     4. kinship     5. industrial     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	When Spanish invaded Mexico and Guatemala, they adopted the local practice of using ____ as money.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. feathers      2. chocolate      3. gold     4. salt     5. coins     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Which of the following is not a reason why recruiters from multinational corporations might try to recruit anthropologists?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Big businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on the raw materials and labor of "Third World countries," which are typically studied by anthropologists.      2. Because anthropologists are intimately involved in the lives of the people they study, they can be recruited by the American government to spy on local insurgents and trouble-makers for big business.      3. Anthropologists can provide important information about the everyday etiquette expected in arranging business deals.     4. Anthropologists know the language of the people they study, and can provide translation and interpretation.     5. None of the above is a reason.     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The administration of the ____ was one of the most efficient the world has ever known, both in the collection of taxes and methods of control.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Mongol empire in Asia and Asia Minor     2. Persian empire in Mesopotamia      3. Inca empire in Peru      4. Ottoman empire in the Near East     5. Aztec empire in Mexico     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The Kula Ring functions to ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. distribute scarce resources over a broad ecological zone     2. establish allies among potential enemies     3. gain power through the ability to give and receive highly valued prestige items     4. accumulate wealth in the hands of an upper class elite      5. all but d      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	When a man works hard in his garden in the Trobriand Islands to produce yams, he does this to satisfy which of the following demands?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. to gain prestige by giving yams away to his sister's husbands      2. to prove to his wife that he can work as hard as she can     3. to have food for his household to eat     4. to trade for fish      5. to give the yams to his wife so that she can trade them for goods that they don't produce themselves     Score: 0/0.5
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	In North American society the trading of baseball cards and the buying of drinks when one's turn comes at gatherings are examples of what type of reciprocity?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. generalized      2. balanced      3. derisive     4. negative     5. neither are examples of any type of reciprocity     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	A Navaho gives ten of his sheep that he knows are infected with disease to a Hopi in exchange for a jeep. This is an example of ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. negative reciprocity      2. redistribution     3. generalized reciprocity     4. silent trade     5. balanced reciprocity     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Which of the following situations involving gender division of labor are likely to produce a sense of equality among males and females?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Societies in which both males and females do each others' work without embarrassment.     2. Societies in which males and females have their own separate jobs, and certain jobs are considered superior to others.     3. Societies in which males and females have their own separate jobs, but the jobs are considered complementary and equally important.      4. a and c only.      5. None of the above.     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The Kula ring is a form of ____ that reinforces trade relations among a group of seafaring Melanesians inhabiting a ring of islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. generalized reciprocity     2. silent trade      3. balanced reciprocity      4. negative reciprocity     5. market exchange     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	A typical Ju/'hoansi band requires about ____ square miles of land.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. 75     2. 10      3. 250      4. 800     5. 500     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Obligations by wealthier members of the community to give to less wealthy members so that no one accumulates more wealth than anyone else, is called ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback  1. a leveling mechanism      2. conspicuous consumption     3. silent trade     4. negative reciprocity     5. generalized reciprocity     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	In North American society, the stereotypic car salesman would practice what type of reciprocal exchange?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. balanced      2. negative      3. deceptive     4. general     5. ambiguous     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The Afar people of Ethiopia specialize in ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. mining gold     2. mining coal     3. sculpting quartz      4. mining salt      5. extracting minerals from sea water     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	With which international corporation did Karen Stephenson work as a visiting anthropologist for ten years?   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. Dell     2. Coca Cola     3. IBM       4. General Motors     5. McDonald's     Score: 0/0.5
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	Leveling mechanisms ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. are more common in industrial societies than in agricultural societies     2. are found in communities where property must not be allowed to threaten an egalitarian social order      3. are more common in hunter-gatherer societies than in agricultural communities     4. no longer exist      5. result in one family becoming more wealthy than others     Score: 0/0.5
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	From an economist's point of view, "market exchange" is defined by ____.   Student Response Correct Answer Feedback 1. the role of multi-national corporations     2. face-to-face bargaining for goods and services      3. the buying and selling of goods and services whose value is determined by supply and demand      4. the role of middlemen who bring buyers and sellers together     5. the purchase of goods in a marketplace     Score: 0.5/0.5