Anthropology

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	The study of the chimpanzee Chantek indicated that _______________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. orangutans are incapable of spoken language      2. monkeys are incapable of spoken language     3. orangutans are incapable of kinesics     4. orangutans are incapable of paralanguage      5. orangutans are capable of spoken language 0%     Score: 0/0.5
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	The United Nations declared September 8 as  _________________________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. World Peace Day     2. Clean Water Day      3. International Literacy Day 100%      4. World Hunger Eradication Day     5. Alphabet Learning Day     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	A Scottish butler in an English mansion says to the lady of the house, “You may wish to stay inside today, Madam; it’s quite cold outside.” But when he goes back to his own cottage he is likely to say to his wife in broad Scots, “Shut the door and get inside, Maggie, you’ll freeze your buns off.” In linguistics this is an example of _______________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. Whorfian hypothesis     2. phonological analysis     3. glottochronology      4. code switching 100%      5. class consciousness     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The study of the patterns or rules which govern speech word formation is called ________________ .   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. glottochronology     2. phonetics      3. morphology 0%     4. phonology     5. substitution frames      Score: 0/0.5
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	The Bushman languages in southern Africa use a unique ________________ sound.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback  1. click 100%      2. burbling     3. choking     4. throaty     5. lung inflated     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Humans talk, while much communication among other primates is done through _______________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. screams     2. unconscious     3. symbolism      4. gestures 100%      5. grunts     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Edward Hall articulated aspects of nonverbal communication in his 1959 book _______________, now recognized as the founding document for the field of intercultural communication.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. Kinesics and Context      2. The Silent Language 100%      3. Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution     4. Language, Thought and Reality     5. A Practical Introduction to Phonetics     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Chantek eventually learned to produce _______________ signs.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. 500     2. 100      3. several hundred 100%      4. 250     5. 50     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	_______________ is a series of symbols representing sounds of a language arranged in a traditional order.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. Glottochronology     2. Speech     3. Grammar     4. Linguistics      5. Alphabet 100%      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The system of communication using sounds and/or gestures is called _______________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. paralanguage     2. vocal qualifiers      3. language 100%      4. speech     5. kinesics     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Among the oldest complete writing systems in the world is _______________, developed about ________ years ago and in use for about 3,500 years.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback  1. Egyptian hieroglyphics/5,000 100%      2. Maya hieroglyphics/2,500     3. Mesopotamian wedge-shaped writing/4000     4. Chinese pictographs/3,500     5. Semitic inscriptions/3,000     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Today, more than ___________________ million people cannot read and write.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback  1. 800 100%      2. 400     3. 500     4. 1     5. 37     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	The roots of linguistics, the modern scientific study of language, go back a long way to the works of ancient grammarians in _____________, more than two thousand years ago.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. Persia     2. Greece     3. Egypt     4. Mesopotamia      5. India 100%      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Kinesics is a method for notating and analyzing _______________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. food     2. kissing      3. any form of body language. 100%      4. fighting     5. screaming     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Paralanguage is to speech as _______________ is to position of the body.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback  1. kinesics 100%      2. form class     3. ethnolinguistics     4. displacement     5. phonetics     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Which of the following statements about linguistic divergence is incorrect?   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. NEW vocabulary emerges in a language due to a quest for novelty and the development of specialized vocabulary by groups.     2. One force for linguistic change is borrowing by one language from another.     3. Changes in pronunciation may emerge as markers of class boundary  (e.g., upper-class “U” vs. “Non-U”)      4. Dying languages may be revived in the name of linguistic nationalism. 0%     5. If languages were isolated from each other, there would be very little linguistic change.      Score: 0/0.5
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	In France, a committee exists which has the job of eliminating subversive foreign influences in the form of words borrowed from other languages.  English is a major offender (as in le bluejeans or le hamburger). This is an example of _______________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. core vocabulary     2. ethnolinguistics     3. French close mindedness     4. linguistic parochialism      5. linguistic nationalism 100%      Score: 0.5/0.5
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	_______________ is the cross-cultural study of humankind’s perception and use of space.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. Ethnography      2. Proxemics 100%      3. Phonetics     4. Kinesics     5. Ethnology     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	All _______________, as systems of communication using sounds or gestures that are put together in meaningful ways according to a set of rules, are organized on the same basic plan.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback  1. languages 100%      2. phonetics     3. symbols     4. signals     5. core vocabulary     Score: 0.5/0.5
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	Native speakers of the Lakota language were amused when they saw the movie Dances with Wolves because __________________________________________.   Student Response Value Correct Answer Feedback 1. the language did not fit the people group     2. the language was all male oriented     3. the language was all spoken as if the actors were children      4. the language was all female oriented 100%      5. the writers got it all wrong     Score: 0.5/0.5