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Anthropology: Chapter 2

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Enculturation
b) Socialization
c) Habitus learning
d) Human agency

Question 2:


a) Culture is a particular, learned way of life while cultures is an attribute of the human species as a whole
b) cultures refers to a particular, learned way of life while Culture is an attribute of the human species as a whole
c) Culture is learned while cultures is instinctive
d) cultures is considered more primitive while Culture is more advanced

Question 3:


a) empathetic
b) adaptive
c) ambiguous
d) partly biological

Question 4:


a) ethnocentric
b) xenocentrism
c) cultural relativism
d) agency

Question 5:


a) ethnocentrism
b) xenocentrism
c) cultural relativism
d) agency
e) enlightenment

Question 6:


a) are ethncentrically defined
b) should be banned and/or deemed unethical
c) have some cultural legitimacy but are deemed harmful to women
d) result in death

Question 7:


a) imperialism
b) colonization
c) judication
d) cultural implantation

Question 8:


a) the Inuit rejected their beliefs
b) the Inuit acted with aggression
c) the Inuit had moved to another territory farther north
d) the Inuit “Inuitized” Christianity

Question 9:


a) encourage the view that non-industrialized peoples possessed “capabilities and habits” that merited respect
b) encourage ethnocentrism toward non-industrialized peoples
c) encourage colonialism
d) provide a foundation for the developing discipline of sociology

Question 10:


a) Enculturation
b) Socialization
c) Coevolution
d) Holism

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False