1. A network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations is called:
a. kinship.
b. descent.
c. relative network.
d. social network.
e. affinal relationships.
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Chapter Introduction
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
2. Descent groups are associated with all of the following except:
a. they provide social security for the elderly members.
b. they promote harmony through worship of ancestors.
c. they play a role in arranging marriages for members.
d. they make all laws for the state.
e. they are economic units providing aid.
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
3. All of the following are types of descent except:
a. moiety.
b. phratry.
c. lineage.
d. clan.
e. institution.
ANSWER: e
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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, 4. Which of the following is not a Maori cultural concept?
a. w aka
b. iwi
c. mauri
d. namus
e. tapu
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
5. In what country do we find aboriginal Maori people?
a. Argentina
b. Canada
c. Australia
d. Tasmania
e. New Zealand
ANSWER: e
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
6. In the Biocultural Connection box Maori Origins, what was the focus of the research on the Maori people?
a. Studying migration patterns of the first peoples to inhabit North America
b. Creating lineage divisions based on DNA samples
c. Connecting mitochondrial DNA with the Australian aborigines
d. Connecting DNA types with the people’s origin myths
e. Sequencing DNA in order to type for potential diseases in this ethnic group
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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, 7. Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome studies of the Maori indicate that their creation myth telling of their origins
from the ancient place of Hawaiki is consistent with an origin in:
a. India and Central Asia.
b. Morocco and northern Africa.
c. Polynesia and Southeast Asia region.
d. Australia.
e. North America.
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
8. When kinship membership is traced either through males or through females but not both, it is called:
a. bilateral.
b. unilineal.
c. patrilineal.
d. ambilineal.
e. matrilineal.
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
9. If you are a member of a patrilineal descent group:
a. descent is traced exclusively through females.
b. your sisters belong to the same patrilineal descent group that you do.
c. your mother’s brothers are members of your descent group.
d. your brothers belong to the same descent group but your sisters do not.
e. you do not publicly recognize your mother.
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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, 10. All of the following statements regarding a lineage are correct except:
a. it always involves a totem.
b. it is part of unilineal descent.
c. it is kinship that can be traced directly to an ancestor.
d. it has a genealogical depth of 4-6 generations.
e. it is found in both matrilineal and patrilineal groups.
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
11. You belong to a patrilineal descent group. Which of the following belong(s) to the same group?
a. Your mother
b. Your father’s sister
c. Your mother’s sister
d. Your mother’s father
e. Your father’s sister’s children
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
12. An extended unilineal descent group whose members claim descent from a common ancestor but who cannot trace
their genealogical links to that ancestor is called a(n):
a. family.
b. totem.
c. lineage.
d. kindred.
e. clan.
ANSWER: e
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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a. kinship.
b. descent.
c. relative network.
d. social network.
e. affinal relationships.
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Chapter Introduction
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
2. Descent groups are associated with all of the following except:
a. they provide social security for the elderly members.
b. they promote harmony through worship of ancestors.
c. they play a role in arranging marriages for members.
d. they make all laws for the state.
e. they are economic units providing aid.
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
3. All of the following are types of descent except:
a. moiety.
b. phratry.
c. lineage.
d. clan.
e. institution.
ANSWER: e
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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, 4. Which of the following is not a Maori cultural concept?
a. w aka
b. iwi
c. mauri
d. namus
e. tapu
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
5. In what country do we find aboriginal Maori people?
a. Argentina
b. Canada
c. Australia
d. Tasmania
e. New Zealand
ANSWER: e
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
6. In the Biocultural Connection box Maori Origins, what was the focus of the research on the Maori people?
a. Studying migration patterns of the first peoples to inhabit North America
b. Creating lineage divisions based on DNA samples
c. Connecting mitochondrial DNA with the Australian aborigines
d. Connecting DNA types with the people’s origin myths
e. Sequencing DNA in order to type for potential diseases in this ethnic group
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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, 7. Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome studies of the Maori indicate that their creation myth telling of their origins
from the ancient place of Hawaiki is consistent with an origin in:
a. India and Central Asia.
b. Morocco and northern Africa.
c. Polynesia and Southeast Asia region.
d. Australia.
e. North America.
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.01 - Explain how kinship is the basis of social organization in
every culture.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
8. When kinship membership is traced either through males or through females but not both, it is called:
a. bilateral.
b. unilineal.
c. patrilineal.
d. ambilineal.
e. matrilineal.
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
9. If you are a member of a patrilineal descent group:
a. descent is traced exclusively through females.
b. your sisters belong to the same patrilineal descent group that you do.
c. your mother’s brothers are members of your descent group.
d. your brothers belong to the same descent group but your sisters do not.
e. you do not publicly recognize your mother.
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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, 10. All of the following statements regarding a lineage are correct except:
a. it always involves a totem.
b. it is part of unilineal descent.
c. it is kinship that can be traced directly to an ancestor.
d. it has a genealogical depth of 4-6 generations.
e. it is found in both matrilineal and patrilineal groups.
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Conceptual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
11. You belong to a patrilineal descent group. Which of the following belong(s) to the same group?
a. Your mother
b. Your father’s sister
c. Your mother’s sister
d. Your mother’s father
e. Your father’s sister’s children
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Applied
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
12. An extended unilineal descent group whose members claim descent from a common ancestor but who cannot trace
their genealogical links to that ancestor is called a(n):
a. family.
b. totem.
c. lineage.
d. kindred.
e. clan.
ANSWER: e
DIFFICULTY: Factual
REFERENCES: Descent Groups
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CULT.HAVI.17.10.02 - Apply kinship terminology as a cross-cultural code for
analyzing social networks.
OTHER: MSC: Pickup
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