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Anthropology with
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Posted at October 08, 2021

1. Anthropology is basic study of

a) Human being
b) Community
c) Male and female
d) None of these
Answer: a

2. The sub discipline of anthropology that

studies diversity of human behavior in the
past is
a) physical anthropology
b) archaeology
c) linguistic anthropology
d) cultural anthropology
Answer: b

3. The study of the bodies and behaviour of

human-like species such as monkeys and
apes is called
a) anthropology
b) apeology
c) primatology
d) archaeology
Answer: c

4. The field of anthropology that studies

cross-cultural knowledge and use of
plants is called
a) ethnobotany
b) forensic anthropology
c) vegetal anthropology
d) there is no such field
Answer: a

5. Students who major in anthropology can

make a living in which career(s)?
a) teaching
b) business/consulting
c) government/policy
d) all of the above
Answer: d

6. Which of these is NOT part of the

anthropological perspective?
a) cross-cultural study
b) ethnocentrism
c) holism
d) cultural relativism
Answer: b

7. The perspective that all aspects of a

culture must be studied in interconnection
with each other is
a) holism
b) cross-cultural study
c) glocalization
d) cultural relativism
Answer: a

8. The written description of a culture that

an anthropologist produces from his/her
research is called
a) ethnocentrism
b) ethnicity
c) ethnocide
d) ethnography
Answer: d

9. The attitude that you can understand or

judge another culture in terms of your own
culture is called
a) cultural relativism
b) cultural anthropology
c) ethnocentrism
d) ethnoculturalism
Answer: c

10. Who said “Ideas about race, culture and

people-hood or ethnicity have long served
to orient anthropology’s inquiries ….”
a) Eric R. Wolf
b) Magnus Hundt
c) Otto Casmann
d) Bartholins
Answer: a

11. Word Anthropology first appeared in

Renaissance Germany in the works of
a) Magnus Hundt
b) Otto Casmann
c) Bartholins
d) Both a & b
Answer: d

12. Who defined l’anthropologie as follows:

Anthropology, that is to say the science
that treats of man, is divided ordinarily and
with reason into Anatomy, which considers
the body and the parts, and Psychology,
which speaks of the soul.
a) Bartholins
b) Étienne Serres
c) Charles Darwin
d) Paul Broca
Answer: a

13. Name the neurosurgeon who had taken

an interest in the pathology of speech
a) Bartholins
b) Étienne Serres
c) Charles Darwin
d) Paul Broca
Answer: d

14. Who defined anthropology as “the

science of the nature of man”?
a) Waitz
b) Étienne Serres
c) Charles Darwin
d) Paul Broca
Answer: a

15. Cultural anthropology in particular has

emphasized
a) cultural relativism
b) holism,
c) Use of findings to frame cultural
critiques
d) All of these
Answer: d

16. In Great Britain and the Commonwealth

countries, the British tradition of
__________ tends to dominate.
a) Social anthropology
b) biological or physical anthropology;
c) cultural anthropology
d) None of these
Answer: a

17. In the United States, anthropology has

traditionally been divided into the four field
approach developed by _______ in the
early 20th century:
a) Franz Boas
b) Étienne Serres
c) Charles Darwin
d) Adam F. Kollár
Answer: a

18. Ethnology term coined and defined by

a) Étienne Serres
b) Charles Darwin
c) Adam F. Kollár
d) Franz Boas
Answer: c

19. Kardiner in his study of relationship

between culture and personality is
a) Present personality
b) Grooming personality
c) Basic personality
d) All of the above
Answer: c

20. In nature a mode or strategy for

survival is known as
a) An association
b) Artificial selection
c) An adaptation
d) Adaptive radiation
Answer: c

21. Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, are

students of

a) Morgan
b) E.B Taylor
c) Franz Boas
d) None of these
Answer: c

22. In the case of skeletalized human

remains, which of the following features is
not of potential use in making a personal
identification?
a) Bone disorders
b) Dentition
c) Tattoos
d) Surgical implants
Answer: c

23. One of unique aspects of cultural

anthropology is
a) spending long periods living in the
communities they study
b) The use of questionnaires in their
fieldwork
c) The collection of quantitative
behaviour data
d) Subjecting people to laboratory
experimentation
Answer: a

24. Which of following kin term systems

distinguishes between cross and parallel
cousins
a) Hawaiian
b) Eskimo
c) Sudanese
d) Iroquois
Answer: d

25. Egoistic, special type of suicide

presented by Emile Durkheim spring from
a) Excessive regulation
b) Excessive individualism
c) Over migration with group
d) None of these
Answer: c

26. Which of following kinds of work would

applied anthropology include?
a) Cultural resource management
b) Medical anthropology
c) Ethno botany
d) All of the above
Answer: a

27. Medical anthropology is a study about?

a) Health
b) Disease
c) Mental health
d) All of the above
Answer: b

28. Biological anthropology includes study

of
a) Non-human primates
b) Fossil record of human evolution
c) Human variation
d) All of the above
Answer: d

29. Who are leaders in economic, military,

political, and religious affairs?
a) King
b) Big man
c) Chiefs
d) Political leader
Answer: c

30. Research is usually use in field of

a) Biology and chemistry
b) Math’s and physics
c) Sociology and anthropology
d) Urdu and English
Answer: c

31. In caste society groups of persons

engaged in specific occupations and
characteristics which is called
a) Impurity
b) Purity
c) Clean
d) None of these
Answer: b

32. Feminist anthropologists shows that

there is no difference
a) with women and girl
b) Men and boys
c) Women and men
d) None of these
Answer: c

33. Term used to refer to biological

maximum number of birth is
a) Sex ratio
b) Fertility
c) Fecundity
d) Natural increase
Answer: c

34. Systems are ones in which kinship

group membership and inheritance
passes through female line
a) Matrilineal
b) Patrilineal
c) Matriarchy
d) Patriarchy
Answer. a

35. Cultural ecology process of

a) Human nature
b) Human Adaptation
c) Human behaviour
d) Human made culture
Answer. b

36. Sociology should relinquish every

attempt at discovering origins and forms
of evolution
a) Aristotle
b) Karl Marx
c) Claude Levi Strauss
d) Herbert Spenser
Answer. c

37. Humans to transform themselves from

plant and dead animal in Africa to a truly
global species behavior patterns and
knowledge by people as members of a
society
a) Culture
b) Tradition
c) Way of living
d) None of these
Answer. a

38. Mode of production that includes

gathering of food that is available in
nature, by gathering, fishing, or hunting
a) Foraging
b) Horticulture
c) Pastoralist
d) Agriculture
Answer. a

39. Davis’s work focused on issues of

personality development, childhood
socialization, and educational testing of
intelligence in
a) 1940
b) 1950
c) 1930
d) 1941
Answer. a

40. Who presented that capitalism is the

product of one sect of Christianity?
a) Max Weber
b) Karl Max
c) Emile Durkheim
d) Spenser
Answer. a

41. Social class position in a true ?open

class? structure is based upon in which
a) Ascribed criteria
b) Race
c) Family position
d) Achieved criteria
Answer. d

42. Applied anthropology make somewhat

greater use of
a) Qualitative method
b) Quantitative method
c) Both A and B
d) None of these
Answer. b

43. Process by which cultural traits spread

from one group or society to another is
called
a) Folkways
b) cultural diffusion
c) counter culture
d) cultural complexes
Answer. b

44. What is definition of a literate person?

a) A person who can read
b) A person who can read and write
c) A person who can only write
d) None of these
Answer. b

45. Which of following factors would come

under term of diversity??
a) Gender
b) Socio-economic status
c) Cultural background
d) All of these
Answer. d

46. Enculturation is process by which

a) Culture is reduced
b) A child learns his or her culture
c) A culture is transformed
d) Culture becomes adaptive
Answer. b

47. Applied anthropology falls into

categories which are
a) 4
b) 2
c) 1
d) 5
Answer. b

48. Another component of radical ecology

is
a) Ecofeminism
b) Ecology
c) Ethnocentrism
d) All of the above
Answer. a

49. A family consisting of step relations is

called
a) Plural family
b) Joint family
c) Extended Family
d) Compound family
Answer. c

50. Movement of people between positions

on different levels
a) Traveling of groups from one place to
another
b) Participation in the cultural activities of
modern age
c) Migration from rural to urban areas
d) Social Mobility
Answer. d

51. Clifford Geertz characterized culture as

a) A process of enculturation
b) A biological necessity
c) A set of control mechanisms and
behaviour
d) only partially shared
Answer. c

52. Principle of descent in which people

think of themselves related to both their
mother’s kin and their father’s kin at same
time is called
a) Bilateral descent
b) Unilateral descent
c) Double descent
d) Parallel descent
Answer. a

53. Social structure of a society is network

of
a) Institutional Relations
b) Value system
c) Traditions
d) Compliance to norms
Answer. d

54. All human societies have exchange

institutions whereby goods and services
are transferred from one local group to
another is called
a) Business
b) Exchange system
c) Trade
d) Market place
Answer. c

55. A verities of language traditionally,

term was applied to regional dialects but
applied to verities of particular social
groups are called
a) Mother toung
b) National Language
c) Languages
d) Dialects
Answer. d

56. Crime is learned in Associations who

said this
a) Paul H. Norton
b) Edwin Sutherland
c) Wright Mills
d) George Simple
Answer. b

57. Process by which individuals are

socially attached to their parents are
called
a) Assimilation
b) Affine
c) Filiations
d) None of these
Answer. c

58. Feminist anthropology is study of

a) Male
b) Both Male and Female
c) Women and women’s
d) Genders
Answer. c

59. As identified in “Shamanism,” current

popular and self-help movements with
connections to shamanism include all of
following except
a) Elitism
b) New Age
c) Neo-shamanism
d) Self-actualization
Answer. b

60. Stratified samples fall under

a) Probability sampling design
b) Non-Probability sampling design
c) Multi-stage sampling design
d) None of these
Answer. a
61. Phenomena when educated and highly
skilled people emigrate to a new country,
their home country loses, is referred as
a) Chain migration
b) Life-time migration
c) Brain Drain
d) Mover
Answer. c

62. Problem solving process began?

a) Clarification of the situation
b) Establishment of alternatives
c) Identification of the difficulty
d) Isolation of the cause
Answer. c

63. Symbolic anthropology was also a

reaction against
a) materialism and Marxism
b) Material and economic
c) symbols and mental
d) None of these
Answer. a

64. Cultural anthropology to understand

human ecology and adaptation was
introduced by
a) Julian steward
b) Malinowski
c) E.B Taylor
d) Morgan
Answer. a

65. A women who shares a husband with

one or more other women in a polygynous
union are called
a) Co-friend
b) Co-women
c) Co-wife
d) None of these
Answer. c

66. A property given by a family to its

daughter upon marriage for benefit of her
new conjugal household is
a) Gift
b) Dowry
c) Give and take
d) Gift
Answer. b

67. Symbolic anthropology can consider as

a reaction to
a) Structuralism
b) Actions
c) Culture
d) None of these
Answer. a

68. All human societies have exchange

institutions by goods and service are
transferred from one place to another is
called
a) Distribution
b) Redistribution
c) Business
d) Trade
Answer. d

69. Best known as an ethnographer are

a) Jane Goodall
b) Dian Fosse
c) Margaret Mead
d) Farley Mowat
Answer. c

70. Concept alienation was first introduced

by
a) Max Weber
b) Karl Marx
c) August Comte
d) C.W. Mills
Answer. b

71. Gerontology is study of

a) Human beings
b) Special groups
c) Aged and aging
d) All of these
Answer. c

72. Totem symbolized the

a) Culture
b) Community
c) Society
d) People
Answer. c

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