(ASB 222) QUIZ QUESTIONS
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The subfield within the discipline of anthropology that focuses on living groups of human beings is
called:
a. ethnography
b. bioanthropology
c. ethology
d. primatology - ANSWER✔️✔️-a. ethnography
Uniformitarianists viewthe current appearance of the earth as the result of:
a. volcanic eruptions
b. processes of erosion and weathering
c. flooding
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,d. the evil influence of the Devil - ANSWER✔️✔️-b. processes of erosion and weathering
Most European scientists in the seventeenth century believed that the world was:
a. a and b
b. ancient and changing
c. the result of natural evolutionary forces
d. perfect and mostly unchanged since creation - ANSWER✔️✔️-d. perfect and mostly unchanged
since creation
The flint tools found by Boucher de Perthes were thought to be ancient because:
a. they had an exceptionally thick rind on their surfaces, the result of a long period of burial in soil
b. the flint from which the tools were made dated to more than 100,000 years ago
c. they were found in association with the bones of extinct animals
d. all of the above - ANSWER✔️✔️-c. they were found in association with the bones of extinct
animals
The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects:
a. the uniformitarian perspective
b. a catastrophist perspective
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,c. an anti-evolutionary perspective
d. a biblical perspective - ANSWER✔️✔️-a. the uniformitarian perspective
In the uniformitarian view, one could determine the age of the earth by:
a. reference to the modern rate of erosion
b. the analysis of stratigraphy
c. analysis of the bones of extinct animals found buried in the earth
d. means of radiometric measurement - ANSWER✔️✔️-a. reference to the modern rate of erosion
Edmund Halley suggested that a cause of the catastrophe known in the Bible as "Noah's Flood" had
been:
a. a cataclysmic explosion causing an effect like a nuclear winter
b. a volcanic eruption
c. an earthquake
d. a comet crashing into the earth - ANSWER✔️✔️-d. a comet crashing into the earth
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system divided human history into which three ages:
a. Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic
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, b. Pliocene, Miocene, Pleistocene
c. Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
d. Stone, Bronze, Iron - ANSWER✔️✔️-d. Stone, Bronze, Iron
The study of the living apes and monkeys is called:
a. simianology
b. primatology
c. pongidology
d. monkeyology - ANSWER✔️✔️-b. primatology
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system was based on a perceived regular pattern of change
through time in human:
a. intelligence
b. technology
c. social systems
d. religion - ANSWER✔️✔️-b. technology
In the Reverend John Ray's natural philosophy:
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(MODULE 1 & 2) 2025 WITH
ANSWERS
The subfield within the discipline of anthropology that focuses on living groups of human beings is
called:
a. ethnography
b. bioanthropology
c. ethology
d. primatology - ANSWER✔️✔️-a. ethnography
Uniformitarianists viewthe current appearance of the earth as the result of:
a. volcanic eruptions
b. processes of erosion and weathering
c. flooding
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,d. the evil influence of the Devil - ANSWER✔️✔️-b. processes of erosion and weathering
Most European scientists in the seventeenth century believed that the world was:
a. a and b
b. ancient and changing
c. the result of natural evolutionary forces
d. perfect and mostly unchanged since creation - ANSWER✔️✔️-d. perfect and mostly unchanged
since creation
The flint tools found by Boucher de Perthes were thought to be ancient because:
a. they had an exceptionally thick rind on their surfaces, the result of a long period of burial in soil
b. the flint from which the tools were made dated to more than 100,000 years ago
c. they were found in association with the bones of extinct animals
d. all of the above - ANSWER✔️✔️-c. they were found in association with the bones of extinct
animals
The statement "The operations of nature are equable and steady" reflects:
a. the uniformitarian perspective
b. a catastrophist perspective
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,c. an anti-evolutionary perspective
d. a biblical perspective - ANSWER✔️✔️-a. the uniformitarian perspective
In the uniformitarian view, one could determine the age of the earth by:
a. reference to the modern rate of erosion
b. the analysis of stratigraphy
c. analysis of the bones of extinct animals found buried in the earth
d. means of radiometric measurement - ANSWER✔️✔️-a. reference to the modern rate of erosion
Edmund Halley suggested that a cause of the catastrophe known in the Bible as "Noah's Flood" had
been:
a. a cataclysmic explosion causing an effect like a nuclear winter
b. a volcanic eruption
c. an earthquake
d. a comet crashing into the earth - ANSWER✔️✔️-d. a comet crashing into the earth
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system divided human history into which three ages:
a. Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic
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, b. Pliocene, Miocene, Pleistocene
c. Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
d. Stone, Bronze, Iron - ANSWER✔️✔️-d. Stone, Bronze, Iron
The study of the living apes and monkeys is called:
a. simianology
b. primatology
c. pongidology
d. monkeyology - ANSWER✔️✔️-b. primatology
Christian Jurgensen Thomsen's three-age system was based on a perceived regular pattern of change
through time in human:
a. intelligence
b. technology
c. social systems
d. religion - ANSWER✔️✔️-b. technology
In the Reverend John Ray's natural philosophy:
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