Question : The field of anthropology interested in studying the way of 

life of contemporary human populations is:

Student Answer: 

archaeology. 

physical anthropology. 

cultural anthropology. 

historic linguistics. 

2. Question : Which of the following statements is most true?

Student Answer: 

culture is learned 

culture is genetically based 

culture is influenced by instincts 

for culture to exist there needs to be language 

3. Question : The process of cultural transmission from one generation to 

another is called:

Student Answer: 

transmigration. 

socialization. 

enculturation. 

diffusion. 

4. Question : Environmental determinism means:

Student Answer:

culture is determined by biology. 

culture is determined by diffusion. 

culture is determined by the environment people live in. 

culture can change an environment people live in. 

5. Question : Margaret Mead was all of the following except:

Student Answer:

a strong proponent of biological explanations for human behavior. 

a student of Boas. 

a public icon of her time. 

influential on sexual behavior in her own culture. 

6. Question : The ethnographic present:

Student Answer: 

provides a slice-through-time description. 

is easier to describe than in the past tense. 

makes the reader think the society is like that presently. 

avoids having to discuss history. 

7. Question : Interviewing traditional healers and recording their thoughts 

and feelings as they pertain to illness is an example of 

gathering quantitative data.

Student Answer: 

True 

False 

8. Question : Race has no biological basis but is a cultural construct.

Student Answer:

True 

False 

9. Question : Ethnology’s success depends on discovering ________ 

categories that make sense in all cultures.

Student Answer:

universal 

emic 

analyzable 

A and B 

10. Question : What is the psychological trauma sometimes experienced by 

people when they are confronted with aspects of a way of life 

very different from their own?

Student Answer: 

cultural disorientation 

cultural relativism 

cultural ambiguity

culture shock