1) Imagine a society primarily practicing horticulture, organized around kinship groups, and without
highly centralized power structures or permanent offices beyond family heads. According to
anthropological models, which political system would most likely characterize this society?
a. Band
b. Tribe
c. Chiefdom
d. State
2) A researcher is investigating whether daily consumption of sugary drinks affects student focus in
class. They collect data on drink consumption and teacher-rated focus but fail to account for
student sleep schedules or underlying health conditions. What type of research bias is most likely
being introduced here?
a. Reverse causation
b. Omitted variable
c. Confirmation bias
d. Ethnocentrism
3) In anthropology, a group identified by shared language, history, traditions, and a collective sense of
identity related to cultural heritage is most appropriately described by which term?
a. Race
b. Sex
c. Gender
d. Ethnicity
4) In a society where it is customary for a newly married couple to live with or near the husband's
father's family, which kinship residence pattern is being practiced?
a. Matrilocal
b. Neolocal
c. Patrilocal
d. Ambilocal
5) A person in a community becomes suddenly ill with symptoms like fever and weakness. The
community members and healer believe the sickness is due to an ancestral spirit being angered
because the person missed a traditional ceremony. Based on anthropological concepts, which
disease theory system best explains this understanding of the illness's cause?
a. Naturalistic disease theory
b. Emotionalistic disease theory
c. Personalistic disease theory
d. Biomedical disease theory
6) In the Ultimatum Game, when a proposer offers a responder a very small share of a sum of money,
responders often reject the offer, meaning neither person gets anything. What key anthropological
insight does this behavior challenge or reveal about human decision-making compared to traditional
economic models?
a. Humans are universally self-interested
b. Cooperative behavior is random and unpredictable
c. Individuals always prioritize their own financial outcome
d. Fairness concerns and social norms can override pure economic gain
, 7) Considering the anthropological concepts discussed in the text, the existence of roles like Two-
spirit individuals in some Native American cultures or Fa’afafine in Samoa, which embody genders
outside of typical male/female norms, best exemplifies which idea?
a. The gender binary as a gradient and the cultural construction of gender
b. Gender stratification
c. Sex essentialism
d. The strict biological definition of sex
8) In anthropological studies of kinship, how is the relationship between you and your father's brother's
child most accurately described using specific terminology?
a. Lineal kin
b. Affinal kin
c. Cross cousin
d. Parallel cousin
9) When observing a cultural practice in another society, an anthropologist judges it as strange or
inferior based only on their own culture's standards. What specific bias is the anthropologist
exhibiting?
a. Cultural relativism
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Emic perspective
d. Participant observation
10) A multinational corporation relocates hundreds of employees from its headquarters to a new branch
overseas. Which of Arjun Appadurai's scapes does this movement of people primarily represent in
the context of globalization?
a. Technoscape
b. Financescape
c. Ethnoscape
d. Mediascape
11) Which subfield of anthropology focuses on the study of human language?
a. Archeology
b. Biological Anthropology
c. Linguistics
d. Cultural Anthropology
12) What is cultural anthropology primarily concerned with?
a. Investigating past cultures through material remains
b. Studying human and primate evolution
c. Studying cultural variation and its influence on human life
d. Documenting languages
13) Which anthropological method involves observation while being socially involved in the studied
population?
a. Experiment
b. Participant observation
c. Comparative methods
d. Quantitative methods
14) What does a thick description in anthropology entail?
a. Description from an outsider's perspective
b. Explanation with a comprehensive cultural context
highly centralized power structures or permanent offices beyond family heads. According to
anthropological models, which political system would most likely characterize this society?
a. Band
b. Tribe
c. Chiefdom
d. State
2) A researcher is investigating whether daily consumption of sugary drinks affects student focus in
class. They collect data on drink consumption and teacher-rated focus but fail to account for
student sleep schedules or underlying health conditions. What type of research bias is most likely
being introduced here?
a. Reverse causation
b. Omitted variable
c. Confirmation bias
d. Ethnocentrism
3) In anthropology, a group identified by shared language, history, traditions, and a collective sense of
identity related to cultural heritage is most appropriately described by which term?
a. Race
b. Sex
c. Gender
d. Ethnicity
4) In a society where it is customary for a newly married couple to live with or near the husband's
father's family, which kinship residence pattern is being practiced?
a. Matrilocal
b. Neolocal
c. Patrilocal
d. Ambilocal
5) A person in a community becomes suddenly ill with symptoms like fever and weakness. The
community members and healer believe the sickness is due to an ancestral spirit being angered
because the person missed a traditional ceremony. Based on anthropological concepts, which
disease theory system best explains this understanding of the illness's cause?
a. Naturalistic disease theory
b. Emotionalistic disease theory
c. Personalistic disease theory
d. Biomedical disease theory
6) In the Ultimatum Game, when a proposer offers a responder a very small share of a sum of money,
responders often reject the offer, meaning neither person gets anything. What key anthropological
insight does this behavior challenge or reveal about human decision-making compared to traditional
economic models?
a. Humans are universally self-interested
b. Cooperative behavior is random and unpredictable
c. Individuals always prioritize their own financial outcome
d. Fairness concerns and social norms can override pure economic gain
, 7) Considering the anthropological concepts discussed in the text, the existence of roles like Two-
spirit individuals in some Native American cultures or Fa’afafine in Samoa, which embody genders
outside of typical male/female norms, best exemplifies which idea?
a. The gender binary as a gradient and the cultural construction of gender
b. Gender stratification
c. Sex essentialism
d. The strict biological definition of sex
8) In anthropological studies of kinship, how is the relationship between you and your father's brother's
child most accurately described using specific terminology?
a. Lineal kin
b. Affinal kin
c. Cross cousin
d. Parallel cousin
9) When observing a cultural practice in another society, an anthropologist judges it as strange or
inferior based only on their own culture's standards. What specific bias is the anthropologist
exhibiting?
a. Cultural relativism
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Emic perspective
d. Participant observation
10) A multinational corporation relocates hundreds of employees from its headquarters to a new branch
overseas. Which of Arjun Appadurai's scapes does this movement of people primarily represent in
the context of globalization?
a. Technoscape
b. Financescape
c. Ethnoscape
d. Mediascape
11) Which subfield of anthropology focuses on the study of human language?
a. Archeology
b. Biological Anthropology
c. Linguistics
d. Cultural Anthropology
12) What is cultural anthropology primarily concerned with?
a. Investigating past cultures through material remains
b. Studying human and primate evolution
c. Studying cultural variation and its influence on human life
d. Documenting languages
13) Which anthropological method involves observation while being socially involved in the studied
population?
a. Experiment
b. Participant observation
c. Comparative methods
d. Quantitative methods
14) What does a thick description in anthropology entail?
a. Description from an outsider's perspective
b. Explanation with a comprehensive cultural context
