NUSC 1165 FINAL MOLIKA CHEA
UCONN COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Adoption.
Answer: Taking in and raising a child who is not biologically yours. Often
tied to kinship or alliance, not just "love."
◍ Alloparenting.
Answer: Caregiving by someone other than the biological parent. Helps
reduce parental workload.
◍ Think back on your personal experience with theatre. Perhaps you have
attended a great deal of theatre in the past, or perhaps you have even
participated, either onstage or behind the scenes. It is perfectly fine if you
have never been to a live theatre performance. Think about other kinds of
live performances you have attended, whether it was a musical concert, a
circus, a religious ceremony, or even a parade. Describe a memorable
experience that you have had while attending or performing in some form of
live performance..
Answer: I have gone to several musical concerts and also been a part of a
few theatre productions in the city that I grew up in. I recall one instance in
which I was apart of the "High School Musical 2: Live" at a theatre in
Memphis and it was very fun. I remember having to rush to change
costumes and remember my lines and things and it being such a challenge
for me being only around eight or nine. Being apart of that really made me
realize how theatre was not my forte, although I had quite a lot of fun being
apart of it.
,◍ Avunculate.
Answer: Special relationship between a mother's brother and her children.
Common in matrilineal societies.
◍ What are your favorite shows to binge watch? Why?.
Answer: I love to watch Grey's Anatomy. The show constantly has plot
twists and brings in new people to never let the show get boring. It is mostly
not about the surgeries that the doctors do, but about the personal lives of
the workers and how challenging it is to be a surgeon. I also love to binge
Criminal Minds. Criminal Minds is such a great show, even though the
structure of it is the same with every episode. It is so fascinating to hear of
all the things they discuss, since most of the scenarios are based on real life
cases.
◍ I want you to think about a "story" from your own life...something that
happened to you or someone close to you that affects how you think about
yourself. This could be the story of how your parents met, the night you
were born, how you met your best friend or significant other, how you
decided what to study in college, or some other story that pertains to you in
some way..
Answer: During my senior year, my grandmother got sick and she fell and
broke her hip due to a stroke. This caused her to go into the hospital and
then rehab, and she was doing better. I enjoyed taking care of her and being
there for her and kind of nursing her back to health, but sadly we got some
bad news in October 2019. She got colon cancer that spread to her liver, and
she immediately went into hospice and was given 4 to 6 months to live.
From that point on my parents and I and my grandfather took care of her
whenever we could, I would check out of school and take care of her and
things like that and this really made me want to pursue nursing. She passed
away during the second week of November, and shortly after this my mom
got sick. My mom was very nauseous and lost about 50 pounds in the span
of three months and she was in and out of the hospital several times but
nobody could figure out what was wrong with her. In February 2020, she
, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This was a life-changing moment and
it dramatically changed my quarantine for most every other persons. I took
care of her every day and night and had to be at her every beck and call
pretty much. She made it to my graduation in late June, however she quickly
declined after that and passed in early July of this year.
◍ When you tell this story to new people that you meet, what is it that you
want them to understand about you by your telling it?.
Answer: I don't really tell the story very often but it's something that's been
really weighing on me recently. Being at college in a new environment with
the recent loss of my mom is some thing that nobody should have to go
through. If I do tell about it to other people, it's not to get pity from them or
for them to feel bad for me it's probably just because they've seen me crying
or something like that. I don't really want people to ever think that I just
want them to feel bad for me because that's not the case at all. I sometimes
tell people about my situation if we are all talking about it and just being
deep and real with each other, but I don't just voluntarily say it to everyone
new that I meet. Its still a very sensitive subject but everyday is easier than
the last.
◍ Bride service.
Answer: Husband works for wife's family after marriage. Seen in foragers.
Payment = labor, not money.
◍ Clan.
Answer: Large kin group claiming common ancestor (usually mythical).
Determines marriage rules.
◍ Cooperative breeding.
Answer: Many people help raise one child. Humans do this a LOT.
◍ Think again about the performance you wrote about when you began this
chapter. How did this performance comprise "showing doing?" What
experiences and ideas were on display in this performance?".
Answer: In that performance, we acted out the roles of the people that were
in "high school musical two" the movie. We showcase the emotions of the
, actors that we were portraying, and played out the scenes to the best of our
abilities in order to give the audience an accurate presentation of what the
actual movie was like. We practiced for weeks and weeks to make sure that
the performance was the best of our abilities, and that it was as realistic as
possible. There was a strong sense of commitment among the entire cast, as
everybody wanted to make sure the performance was the best it could
possibly be.
◍ Imagined community.
Answer: Feeling of belonging to a group even if you'll never meet most
members. (Nation-states!)
◍ Incest taboo.
Answer: Universal rule against mating with close kin. How "close" varies
across cultures.
◍ Kinship.
Answer: Social relationships based on blood, marriage, or other ties.
Foundation of social life.
◍ Marriage and Family Program.
Answer: Cultural rules about who marries whom and how families are
structured.
◍ Matrilineal descent.
Answer: Tracing family through mother's line.
◍ What is Art? How would you define it, keeping in mind that your definition
would apply to painting, sculpture, and architecture, but also to music,
dance, and theatre?.
Answer: I consider art to be a way to express emotions and feelings through
a painting or a sculpture, or something like a song or a choreographed
dance. In good art, you can really get a sense of what the artist or the painter
or the dancer is feeling in their current life and you can relate to them and be
able to feel what they feel. A good artist can get their audience to feel the
way that they felt while creating that piece of art. Art is a way of life for
UCONN COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◍ Adoption.
Answer: Taking in and raising a child who is not biologically yours. Often
tied to kinship or alliance, not just "love."
◍ Alloparenting.
Answer: Caregiving by someone other than the biological parent. Helps
reduce parental workload.
◍ Think back on your personal experience with theatre. Perhaps you have
attended a great deal of theatre in the past, or perhaps you have even
participated, either onstage or behind the scenes. It is perfectly fine if you
have never been to a live theatre performance. Think about other kinds of
live performances you have attended, whether it was a musical concert, a
circus, a religious ceremony, or even a parade. Describe a memorable
experience that you have had while attending or performing in some form of
live performance..
Answer: I have gone to several musical concerts and also been a part of a
few theatre productions in the city that I grew up in. I recall one instance in
which I was apart of the "High School Musical 2: Live" at a theatre in
Memphis and it was very fun. I remember having to rush to change
costumes and remember my lines and things and it being such a challenge
for me being only around eight or nine. Being apart of that really made me
realize how theatre was not my forte, although I had quite a lot of fun being
apart of it.
,◍ Avunculate.
Answer: Special relationship between a mother's brother and her children.
Common in matrilineal societies.
◍ What are your favorite shows to binge watch? Why?.
Answer: I love to watch Grey's Anatomy. The show constantly has plot
twists and brings in new people to never let the show get boring. It is mostly
not about the surgeries that the doctors do, but about the personal lives of
the workers and how challenging it is to be a surgeon. I also love to binge
Criminal Minds. Criminal Minds is such a great show, even though the
structure of it is the same with every episode. It is so fascinating to hear of
all the things they discuss, since most of the scenarios are based on real life
cases.
◍ I want you to think about a "story" from your own life...something that
happened to you or someone close to you that affects how you think about
yourself. This could be the story of how your parents met, the night you
were born, how you met your best friend or significant other, how you
decided what to study in college, or some other story that pertains to you in
some way..
Answer: During my senior year, my grandmother got sick and she fell and
broke her hip due to a stroke. This caused her to go into the hospital and
then rehab, and she was doing better. I enjoyed taking care of her and being
there for her and kind of nursing her back to health, but sadly we got some
bad news in October 2019. She got colon cancer that spread to her liver, and
she immediately went into hospice and was given 4 to 6 months to live.
From that point on my parents and I and my grandfather took care of her
whenever we could, I would check out of school and take care of her and
things like that and this really made me want to pursue nursing. She passed
away during the second week of November, and shortly after this my mom
got sick. My mom was very nauseous and lost about 50 pounds in the span
of three months and she was in and out of the hospital several times but
nobody could figure out what was wrong with her. In February 2020, she
, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This was a life-changing moment and
it dramatically changed my quarantine for most every other persons. I took
care of her every day and night and had to be at her every beck and call
pretty much. She made it to my graduation in late June, however she quickly
declined after that and passed in early July of this year.
◍ When you tell this story to new people that you meet, what is it that you
want them to understand about you by your telling it?.
Answer: I don't really tell the story very often but it's something that's been
really weighing on me recently. Being at college in a new environment with
the recent loss of my mom is some thing that nobody should have to go
through. If I do tell about it to other people, it's not to get pity from them or
for them to feel bad for me it's probably just because they've seen me crying
or something like that. I don't really want people to ever think that I just
want them to feel bad for me because that's not the case at all. I sometimes
tell people about my situation if we are all talking about it and just being
deep and real with each other, but I don't just voluntarily say it to everyone
new that I meet. Its still a very sensitive subject but everyday is easier than
the last.
◍ Bride service.
Answer: Husband works for wife's family after marriage. Seen in foragers.
Payment = labor, not money.
◍ Clan.
Answer: Large kin group claiming common ancestor (usually mythical).
Determines marriage rules.
◍ Cooperative breeding.
Answer: Many people help raise one child. Humans do this a LOT.
◍ Think again about the performance you wrote about when you began this
chapter. How did this performance comprise "showing doing?" What
experiences and ideas were on display in this performance?".
Answer: In that performance, we acted out the roles of the people that were
in "high school musical two" the movie. We showcase the emotions of the
, actors that we were portraying, and played out the scenes to the best of our
abilities in order to give the audience an accurate presentation of what the
actual movie was like. We practiced for weeks and weeks to make sure that
the performance was the best of our abilities, and that it was as realistic as
possible. There was a strong sense of commitment among the entire cast, as
everybody wanted to make sure the performance was the best it could
possibly be.
◍ Imagined community.
Answer: Feeling of belonging to a group even if you'll never meet most
members. (Nation-states!)
◍ Incest taboo.
Answer: Universal rule against mating with close kin. How "close" varies
across cultures.
◍ Kinship.
Answer: Social relationships based on blood, marriage, or other ties.
Foundation of social life.
◍ Marriage and Family Program.
Answer: Cultural rules about who marries whom and how families are
structured.
◍ Matrilineal descent.
Answer: Tracing family through mother's line.
◍ What is Art? How would you define it, keeping in mind that your definition
would apply to painting, sculpture, and architecture, but also to music,
dance, and theatre?.
Answer: I consider art to be a way to express emotions and feelings through
a painting or a sculpture, or something like a song or a choreographed
dance. In good art, you can really get a sense of what the artist or the painter
or the dancer is feeling in their current life and you can relate to them and be
able to feel what they feel. A good artist can get their audience to feel the
way that they felt while creating that piece of art. Art is a way of life for
