True/False
Indicate whether the sentence or statement is true or
false.
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In
Canada, more food is thrown away than is given to famine relief.
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2.
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Widely
accepted professional standards require that applied anthropologists always support the interests of
the agencies which request their services.
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3.
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The
typewriter and computer keyboard in widest use is not the most efficient one, but continues to be
dominant because it was on the scene first.
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4.
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Wheeled
vehicles are always a better adaptation than pack animals for moving goods and people over long
distances.
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5.
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Acculturation always involves an element of force, either directly or
indirectly.
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6.
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The
deliberate extinction of native cultures in the Amazon basis hasn’t happened since the
nineteenth century.
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7.
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Anthropology’s holistic perspective may be specially suited to combating common
errors in planning for the future.
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8.
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Most
distinct peoples in the world have consented to rule by the governments of the states they find
themselves living within.
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9.
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Food
production is a more important factor in causing world hunger than food distribution.
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10.
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The
first European colonists in Canada could not have survived without the help of the first
nations.
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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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In the
mid-1990s, cases of __________ occurred between Albanians and Serbs. a. | syncretism | b. | mutual cooperation | c. | diffusion | d. | genocide | e. | a and c | | |
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People
who predict a “one-world” culture may not take sufficient account of
___________. a. | rivalries between
North America and Asia | b. | the tendency of states to come
apart
c the impact of contagious disease | c. | People who predict a “one-world” culture may not
take sufficient account of ___________. | d. | the lack of desire for western consumer goods in Africa and
Latin America | e. | the decline of
materialism in North America | | |
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It is
likely that the most powerful instruments of diffusion in the contemporary world
are_______________________. a. | objects brought home by
travellers | b. | Christian
missionaries | c. | wars | d. | labour migrations | e. | the U.S. media | | |
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____________ results when a people are able to mix some of their traditions with
elements introduced from outside. a. | Cretinism | b. | Depression | c. | Gratification | d. | Syncretism | e. | Assimilation | | |
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The
_______________ were a First Nations society in Newfoundland, who were wiped out in the
18th and 19th centuries as a result of deliberate massacres and changes in
their ecosystem resulting from European settlement. a. | Iroquois | b. | Cree | c. | Beothuk | d. | Tlingit | e. | Mi’kmaq | | |
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______________, the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in anthropology in Canada in 1967,
was unusual in that she studied not only indigenous peoples but the bureaucracies that affected their
lives. a. | Janice
Boddy | b. | Jean
Briggs | c. | Ruth
Landes | d. | Sally
Weaver | e. | Eleanor Burke
Leacock | | |
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Which
of the following are mechanisms of change? a. | innovation | b. | diffusion | c. | cultural loss | d. | acculturation | e. | all of the above | | |
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Participatory-action research is _________________. a. | a movement by anthropology graduate students to gain more
control over the curriculum. | b. | a type of applied anthropology in which the subjects of the
research have a great degree of control over both the process and the
results | c. | a type of applied
anthropology in which anthropologists have control because of their superior
knowledge | d. | a type of research
which anthropologists have rejected because it doesn’t conform to the criteria of objective
science | e. | another term for
participant observation | | |
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______________is the abandonment of an existing practice or trait, with or without
replacement. a. | Acculturation | b. | Diffusion | c. | Innovation | d. | Cultural loss | e. | Assimilation | | |
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______________is an ethnocentric term referring to a global process of change by which
traditional, nonindustrial societies seek to acquire characteristics of industrially
"advanced" societies. a. | Urbanization | b. | Modernization | c. | Civilization | d. | Suburbanization | e. | Globalization | | |
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Hegemony is a concept developed by Antonio Gramsci to describe
____________. a. | the violent
suppression of the poor by elites in capitalist societies | b. | resistance by the poor to rule by the
rich | c. | genuine agreement
between the interests of the poor and those of the rich | d. | a process by which elite values are integrated into
“common sense” | e. | CHOICE BLANK | | |
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When
the level of aspirations far exceeds the bounds of an individual's local opportunities,
_______________will usually develop. a. | a poverty of values | b. | anomie | c. | a feeling of power | d. | a void of expectations | e. | a culture of discontent | | |
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The
replacement of reindeer sleds with snowmobiles by Skolt Lapps has resulted in
____________. a. | easier and more
efficient herding | b. | an increase in the reindeer
population | c. | better conditions
for Skolt Lapp women | d. | a “de-domestication” of the reindeer and a
decline in the herds | e. | a decrease in the amount of cash required to start a
reindeer herd | | |
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The
discovery that firing clay vessels makes them indestructible (unless they are dropped or otherwise
smashed) probably came about when clay-lined basins next to cooking fires in _______________were
accidentally fired. a. | China | b. | North America | c. | the Middle East | d. | South America | e. | the Near East | | |
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Which
of the following is true of multinational corporations? a. | In 1994, only 10 individuals helped direct 37 North
American companies with combined assets of $2 trillion. | b. | Multinationals increasingly thwart the wishes of
government. | c. | Multinationals
sometimes act in concert with government, directing policy to their own
ends. | d. | all of the
above | e. | both a and c but
not b | | |
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In the
face of the AIDS epidemic sweeping southern Africa, the___________________ is/are highly adaptive in
that it/they militate(s) against the kind of sexual practices that spread the
disease. a. | use of
condoms | b. | beliefs of several
million Christian Zionists | c. | advertising against unprotected sex on
television | d. | campaigns to
"just say no" | e. | government's efforts to educate the public about the
disease | | |
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Tobacco, having spread from the tropics of the Western hemisphere to much of the rest
of North and South America, it rapidly spread to the rest of the world after 1492. The spread of
tobacco is a classic example of________________. a. | innovation | b. | cultural loss | c. | invention | d. | diffusion | e. | adaptation | | |
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Trobriand ____________ is a classic example of syncretism. a. | cricket | b. | yam exchange | c. | labour migration | d. | kula trade | e. | football | | |
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29.
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Multinational corporations increasingly favour _____________for low-paid, low-skilled
assembly jobs. a. | mature married
men | b. | children | c. | mature married women | d. | young single women | e. | young single men | | |
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In 1988
__________ became the first county to officially adopt multiculturalism. a. | the United States | b. | Mexico | c. | Canada | d. | France | e. | Japan | | |
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