Mock test

Anthropology  is the study of all of the following EXCEPT

• Primates and their behavior
• How plants and animals organized
• Changes in language
• The differences in modern cultures.

A physical anthropologist studies:

• The cultures of the human species.
• Language as a human characteristic.
• Humans as a biological species.
• The fragile remains of past cultures.

A biological anthropologist would probably not focus on:

• Variations in cultural systems.
• Primatology.
• Genetics.
• Evolution

Archaeology includes the topic of:

• material/cultural remains
• universal features of language
• political systems
• Human cultural expression

Paleoanthropologists are mostly interested in learning about:  

• the cultures of living people
•   sub-cultures of modern, large-scale societies
• ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt
• the fossil record of human evolution

Which field of anthropology is primarily interested in the prehistory and early history of societies and their cultures?  

• archaeology
• ethnobotany
  
• forensics
• cultural anthropology

Inherent in the holistic approach to learning about humans is the realization that:

• All people are fully and equally human.
• Ethnocentric beliefs are biologically inherited.
• People cannot be understood by studying either their biological makeup or their cultural background alone. It is necessary to take into consideration both genetically inherited and learned traits in trying to explain how we have become the people we are.
• all of the above

Which of the following best describe how anthropologists primarily learn new information about humans?

• field work
• laboratory experiments
• reading travelers accounts
• none of the above

________________ is research in which one learns about the culture of another society through fieldwork and firsthand observation in that society.

• ethnology
• ethnography
• anthropology

An ethnographer trying to learn about another society's culture would most likely ______________ .

• select only a portion of the host society to study intensively
• extensively question everyone in the host society
• select a single knowledgeable person to provide a detailed description of the host society's culture