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1
The Hutterites are originally from
A)New Guinea.
B)the Amazon jungle.
C)Europe.
D)Africa.
2
The exhumation of Henry Opukaha`ia is an example of what type of anthropology?
A)paleoanthropology.
B)cultural anthropology.
C)linguistic anthropology.
D)applied anthropology.
3
What was Dr. Park's main objective in studying the Hutterites?
A)To obtain fingerprints and document family relationships.
B)To study gene flow and genetic drift.
C)To record Hutterite methods of agriculture.
D)To compile documentation for the government.
4
What made the Hutterites ideal for the author's study?
A)They were emotionally isolated.
B)They were a fairly large group but with small families.
C)They were small individual populations that resulted from the splitting of earlier populations.
D)They practiced a conservative form of Christianity.
5
The anthropological approach of examining a subject by focusing on the interrelationships among its parts is called
A)integrated.
B)induction.
C)holistic.
D)deduction.
6
A subfield of anthropology that focuses on human cultural and behavioral systems and the variation in cultural expression among human groups is
A)paleoanthropology.
B)applied anthropology.
C)primatology.
D)cultural anthropology.
7
Biological anthropology is
A)a subfield of anthropology that studies the human cultural past and the reconstruction of past cultural systems.
B)a subfield of anthropology that studies humans as a biological species.
C)the study of the structure, function, and evolution of the skeleton.
D)a specialty that studies the relationships between humans and their environment.
8
Educated guesses to explain natural phenomena best describes the term
A)culture.
B)hypothesis.
C)fact.
D)osteology.
9
Cultural knowledge and behavior
A)is learned.
B)is programmed into our genes.
C)does not vary from society to society.
D)involves specific facts but not generalizations or abstract ideas.
10
Anthropology seeks to describe and explain the interactions between our nature as a biological species and the cultural behavior that is our species' most striking and important trait. This is the definition of
A)the holistic approach of anthropology.
B)the biocultural approach of anthropology.
C)physical anthropology.
D)cultural anthropology.
11
Science is
A)a collection of facts.
B)a belief system about the nature of the universe.
C)a method of inquiry.
D)concerned only with visible, tangible, present-day things.
12
Which of the following is NOT a step in the scientific method?
A)finding patterns, associations, and connections
B)developing hypotheses
C)making predictions
D)eliminating all preconceptions.
13
Good science is
A)proven.
B)conclusive.
C)skeptical.
D)only done in a lab.
14
An idea that is taken on faith and cannot be scientifically tested is a
A)belief.
B)hypothesis.
C)theory.
D)deduction.





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