Pine TB revision – Ottenheimer Ch 1
Multiple choice
1. When we say that anthropology is characterized by seeing the whole picture, getting
the broadest view possible, anthropologists generally use the adjective
a. holistic
b. relativistic
c. theoretical
d. comparative
Answer: a [p. 2]
2. The study of all people, at all times, and in all places is a broad definition of what
academic discipline?
a. anthropology
b. linguistics
c. biology
d. literature
Answer: a [p. 2]
3. Which of the following refers to the idea that differences exist among cultural
systems, that different cultural systems can make as much sense as our own, and that
we can learn to understand these different systems?
a. ethnocentrism
b. cultural relativity
c. frames of reference
d. cultural determinism
Answer: b [p. 4]
4. Using your own cultural system to interpret what others are doing, with the
assumption that your own system is the only one that makes sense, is referred to as:
a. cultural relativity.
b. emic analysis.
c. ethnocentrism.
d. ethnosemantics.
Answer: d [p. 4]
,5. In cultural and linguistic anthropology, which of the following takes you into another
living human culture where you are expected to adapt and adjust your frames of
reference until you can understand and operate successfully within that cultural and/or
linguistic system?
a. interviews
b. archival research
c. fieldwork
d. geographic relocation
Answer: c [p. 6]
6. In Czech, the clock time of 10:30 is expressed by a phrase that translates as which of
the following?
a. half-past ten
b. half of eleven
c. early eleven
d. ten gone
Answer: b [p. 7]
7. The strong emphasis on fieldwork in American anthropology traces its origins to the
teachings of which of the following?
a. Socrates
b. Martin Luther King, Jr.
c. Franz Boas
d. Ferdinand deSaussure
Answer: d [p. 8]
8. Franz Boas, father of American anthropology, taught the importance of:
a. fieldwork.
b. patriotism.
c. Russian Marxist/Leninist social sciences.
d. German comparative linguistics.
Answer: a [7]
9. Boas argued that you could only really understand another cultural system by:
a. visiting occasionally, staying for at least a week each time you visit.
b. engaging in lots of rituals and ceremonies.
c. focusing your collection on myths, folktales, and children's rhymes.
d. learning and speaking the language you are living with.
Answer: d [p. 9]
,10. The American Anthropological Association statement on ethics in fieldwork can be
summed up briefly as:
a. introduce no changes.
b. do no harm.
c. bring no money.
d. never lose your temper.
Answer: b [p. 10]
11. Anthropologists are expected to be particularly attentive to ways in which their
presence, or their writings, might cause dangers to the people who are hosting them,
from revealing sensitive political or religious information to introducing damaging
changes. This mandate to “do no harm” is called a:
a. code of ethics.
b. legal code.
c. bill of rights.
d. code of elements.
Answer: a [p. 10]
12. Theoretical linguistics, in contrast with linguistic anthropology, is:
a. analytical, data interpretive, and structural.
b. diverse, grammar based, and syntax related.
c. focused, specific, and intuitive.
d. comparative, hierarchical, and laboratory based.
Answer: c [p. 13]
13. Which of the following best describes linguistic anthropology?
a. holistic, comparative, and fieldwork-based
b. focused, specific, and intuitive
c. holistic, comparative, and intuitive
d. focused, specific, and fieldwork-based
Answer: a [p. 14]
14. The concern that learning a new frame of reference will cause you to lose your
existing frames of reference is
a. supported by extensive data.
b. referred to as ethnocentrism.
c. extraordinarily rare, particularly in the United States.
d. an attitude which makes learning a new language as an adult a simple task.
, Answer b [p. 5]
15. The idea that languages are arbitrary systems, and that knowing one language does
not allow you to predict how another language will categorize and name the world, is
referred to as
a. linguistic relativity.
b. cultural emphasis.
c. semiotic prognostication.
d. componential analysis.
Answer a [p. 4]
16. Ethical concerns prompted linguistic anthropologist Harriet E. Manelis Klein, in her
work with Ngobe speakers in Panama to
a. refuse to teach missionary priests and nuns the Ngobe language.
b. start a Spanish language school for Ngobe speakers, to help them become informed
so that they would not sign away their land rights to multinational corporations.
c. teach nuns and priests Ngobe even though she disagreed with their objection to
Ngobe polygyny.
d. begin the website “NgobeEndangerment.com”, to raise money to preserve this
language.
Answer: c [p. 13]
17. In his article, “A Goy in the Ghetto,” William Mitchell describes some of the
challenges he faced as an anthropologist learning to adjust to:
a. New Jersey accents.
b. styles of communication.
c. types of teasing.
d. different kinds of food.
Answer: b [Workbook/Reader ]
18. Living among a group of people on their own terms, learning and speaking their
language and trying, as much as possible, to see the world from their perspective is
called:
a. going native.
b. comparative research.
c. a holistic approach.
d. fieldwork.
Answer: d [p. 10]
Multiple choice
1. When we say that anthropology is characterized by seeing the whole picture, getting
the broadest view possible, anthropologists generally use the adjective
a. holistic
b. relativistic
c. theoretical
d. comparative
Answer: a [p. 2]
2. The study of all people, at all times, and in all places is a broad definition of what
academic discipline?
a. anthropology
b. linguistics
c. biology
d. literature
Answer: a [p. 2]
3. Which of the following refers to the idea that differences exist among cultural
systems, that different cultural systems can make as much sense as our own, and that
we can learn to understand these different systems?
a. ethnocentrism
b. cultural relativity
c. frames of reference
d. cultural determinism
Answer: b [p. 4]
4. Using your own cultural system to interpret what others are doing, with the
assumption that your own system is the only one that makes sense, is referred to as:
a. cultural relativity.
b. emic analysis.
c. ethnocentrism.
d. ethnosemantics.
Answer: d [p. 4]
,5. In cultural and linguistic anthropology, which of the following takes you into another
living human culture where you are expected to adapt and adjust your frames of
reference until you can understand and operate successfully within that cultural and/or
linguistic system?
a. interviews
b. archival research
c. fieldwork
d. geographic relocation
Answer: c [p. 6]
6. In Czech, the clock time of 10:30 is expressed by a phrase that translates as which of
the following?
a. half-past ten
b. half of eleven
c. early eleven
d. ten gone
Answer: b [p. 7]
7. The strong emphasis on fieldwork in American anthropology traces its origins to the
teachings of which of the following?
a. Socrates
b. Martin Luther King, Jr.
c. Franz Boas
d. Ferdinand deSaussure
Answer: d [p. 8]
8. Franz Boas, father of American anthropology, taught the importance of:
a. fieldwork.
b. patriotism.
c. Russian Marxist/Leninist social sciences.
d. German comparative linguistics.
Answer: a [7]
9. Boas argued that you could only really understand another cultural system by:
a. visiting occasionally, staying for at least a week each time you visit.
b. engaging in lots of rituals and ceremonies.
c. focusing your collection on myths, folktales, and children's rhymes.
d. learning and speaking the language you are living with.
Answer: d [p. 9]
,10. The American Anthropological Association statement on ethics in fieldwork can be
summed up briefly as:
a. introduce no changes.
b. do no harm.
c. bring no money.
d. never lose your temper.
Answer: b [p. 10]
11. Anthropologists are expected to be particularly attentive to ways in which their
presence, or their writings, might cause dangers to the people who are hosting them,
from revealing sensitive political or religious information to introducing damaging
changes. This mandate to “do no harm” is called a:
a. code of ethics.
b. legal code.
c. bill of rights.
d. code of elements.
Answer: a [p. 10]
12. Theoretical linguistics, in contrast with linguistic anthropology, is:
a. analytical, data interpretive, and structural.
b. diverse, grammar based, and syntax related.
c. focused, specific, and intuitive.
d. comparative, hierarchical, and laboratory based.
Answer: c [p. 13]
13. Which of the following best describes linguistic anthropology?
a. holistic, comparative, and fieldwork-based
b. focused, specific, and intuitive
c. holistic, comparative, and intuitive
d. focused, specific, and fieldwork-based
Answer: a [p. 14]
14. The concern that learning a new frame of reference will cause you to lose your
existing frames of reference is
a. supported by extensive data.
b. referred to as ethnocentrism.
c. extraordinarily rare, particularly in the United States.
d. an attitude which makes learning a new language as an adult a simple task.
, Answer b [p. 5]
15. The idea that languages are arbitrary systems, and that knowing one language does
not allow you to predict how another language will categorize and name the world, is
referred to as
a. linguistic relativity.
b. cultural emphasis.
c. semiotic prognostication.
d. componential analysis.
Answer a [p. 4]
16. Ethical concerns prompted linguistic anthropologist Harriet E. Manelis Klein, in her
work with Ngobe speakers in Panama to
a. refuse to teach missionary priests and nuns the Ngobe language.
b. start a Spanish language school for Ngobe speakers, to help them become informed
so that they would not sign away their land rights to multinational corporations.
c. teach nuns and priests Ngobe even though she disagreed with their objection to
Ngobe polygyny.
d. begin the website “NgobeEndangerment.com”, to raise money to preserve this
language.
Answer: c [p. 13]
17. In his article, “A Goy in the Ghetto,” William Mitchell describes some of the
challenges he faced as an anthropologist learning to adjust to:
a. New Jersey accents.
b. styles of communication.
c. types of teasing.
d. different kinds of food.
Answer: b [Workbook/Reader ]
18. Living among a group of people on their own terms, learning and speaking their
language and trying, as much as possible, to see the world from their perspective is
called:
a. going native.
b. comparative research.
c. a holistic approach.
d. fieldwork.
Answer: d [p. 10]
