True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or
false.
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According to your text, bride price is a way of "selling one's daughter" for
monetary gain.
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Group
marriage, in which several men and women have sexual access to one another, is common in
nonindustrial societies.
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3.
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Among
humans, homosexual behaviour is not at all uncommon.
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4.
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Anthropologists are in agreement that female genital mutilation should be supported
where it is part of local custom.
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5.
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Human
females are unusual among mammals insofar as they will engage in sex at any time in their ovulatory
cycle.
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6.
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Canadian law today accepts polygamist practices.
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7.
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Both
cross-cultural studies and studies of animals other than humans suggest that homosexual
behaviour is not unnatural.
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8.
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Anthropologists have found that the incest taboo is not a universal
phenomenon.
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9.
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A
marriage where the partners choose each other tends to be more stable than an arranged
marriage.
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10.
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The
Western ideal that an individual should be free to marry whomever he or she chooses is pretty much
the global norm.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
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According to the ________ theory of incest taboo, children feel so guilty about their
sexual feelings for a parent that they repress them, and this is expressed culturally in the incest
taboo. a. | genetic | b. | instinctive | c. | psychoanalytical | d. | anthropological | e. | sociological | | |
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Among
the Nandi, the person who agrees to become a wife to a female husband is usually
________________. a. | a woman at the end
of her child-bearing years who wishes to start a new life | b. | a woman who has been unable to make a good marriage, often
because she has illegitimate children | c. | a man who is dissatisfied with his role as a husband and
wishes to take on a new role of a woman | d. | a man at the end of his child-bearing life who has no
sons | e. | her
sister | | |
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Although it has become fairly common in all social classes in North America, serial
monogamy was most common historically in situations where ____________. a. | a woman with children receives a great deal of help from
her mother and brothers. | b. | women do not have many children. | c. | a woman with dependent children marries a series of
partners to get the assistance of another adult. | d. | women are very wealthy. | e. | divorce is forbidden. | | |
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A form
of marriage that has been historically preferred among many Arabs, as well as in ancient Israel,
was a. | patrilateral cross-cousin
marriage | b. | matrilateral
cross-cousin marriage | c. | patrilateral parallel-cousin
marriage | d. | matrilateral
parallel-cousin marriage | e. | bilateral cross-cousin marriage | | |
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According to the Original Study by Serena Nanda, which of the following is/are likely
to be considered by parents in India in selecting marriage partners for their
children? a. | skin
colour | b. | social
class | c. | character | d. | all of the above | e. | both b and c but not a | | |
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A
custom by which a widow is expected to marry her deceased husband’s brother is called
_______________. a. | the
levirate | b. | the
sororate | c. | the
zadruga | d. | the
avunculate | e. | the marriage class
system | | |
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All
societies have rules of sexual access, but there is a great deal of variation. About ________ percent
of known societies have rules that say sexual relationships are permissible only when a couple is
married.
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In many
Native North American cultures, socially respectable roles existed for men and women who assumed some
of the dress and occupational roles of the opposite sex. Though each local language had its own term
for such people, anthropological literature most commonly refers to them as
________________________. a. | homosexuals or lesbians | b. | gay | c. | berdaches or two-spirits | d. | transsexuals | e. | inverts | | |
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Among
Trobriand Islanders, according to Annette Weiner, sexual partner switching among adolescents is
___________________. a. | the result of general immorality | b. | a result of parental neglect | c. | an opportunity for young people to learn social skills they
will use later in life | d. | the result of poverty | e. | an effect of colonialism | | |
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Among
the Masai__________________. a. | warriors are allowed to engage in sexual play with
pre-pubescent girls but not girls who have begun to menstruate | b. | no one is allowed to have sex of any kind before
marriage | c. | warriors are
encouraged to have sex with the wives of older, infertile men | d. | adolescents of both sexes are allowed to have sex with each
other | e. | homosexual
relations are encouraged among adolescents in order to avoid premarital
pregnancy. | | |
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In
North America ______________people live in households made up of a man with two or more
wives. a. | less than one
hundred | b. | several
hundred | c. | thousands
of | d. | about a
million | e. | several
million | | |
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Same-sex marriage _____________________. a. | is not recognized anywhere in
Canada | b. | at the time your
textbook went to press was recognized on some Canadian provinces | c. | is recognized in Ontario only | d. | is recognized in British Columbia
only | e. | is recognized
everywhere in Canada | | |
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Why did
poorer gay male drug users in San Francisco avoid seeking HIV prevention education or
support? a. | They thought they
didn’t need such assistance. | b. | They were under the influence of drugs most of the time, so
could not act rationally. | c. | Such information was not made available to disadvantaged
citizens. | d. | They feared
violence from homophobic peers. | e. | Education and support were not provided in a language they
could understand. | | |
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Which
of the following is true? a. | Polygyny is less common than
polyandry. | b. | In societies which
allow polygyny, the majority of men tend to be polygynously married at any given
time. | c. | Polygyny is
especially common in state societies. | d. | Even in societies where polygyny is allowed, it is often
the case that relatively few people engage in it. | e. | Polygyny as a preferred form of marriage is less common
than a preference for monogamy. | | |
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The
author uses the ________________ to illustrate that rules about sexual access can be highly
variable. a. | Nayar of
India | b. | Dayaks of
Borneo | c. | Trobriand
Islanders | d. | Amish | e. | Ju/hoansi | | |
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Divorce
was fairly common among Yahgan who lived at the tip of __________, and was seen as justified if the
husband was considered cruel or failed as a provider. a. | South Africa | b. | the Arctic circle | c. | Kamchatka | d. | South America | e. | South Wales | | |
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___________ is an anthropologist who has argued for cultural relativism with regard to
female genital operations. a. | Mary Daly | b. | Fran Hoskens | c. | Alice Walker | d. | Henny Lightfoot | e. | Janice Boddy | | |
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Among
the ____________ a household is composed of consanguineal kin. a. | Yahgan | b. | Nandi | c. | Nayar | d. | Mekronati | e. | Trobrianders | | |
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Endogamy is ____________. a. | brother-sister marriages | b. | an alliance between groups | c. | marriage outside one's particular
group | d. | marriage within a
particular group of individuals | e. | inbreeding | | |
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The
French anthropologist ____________ says that the incest taboo is universal because humans have
learned to establish alliances with strangers and thereby share and develop culture. a. | Francois Mitterand | b. | Charles De Gaulle | c. | Claude Levi-Strauss | d. | Claude Van Dame | e. | Emile Durkheim | | |
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