Quiz 13| Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

Some social groups have a ________ in which kinship is traced through mother–child links, while other societies may recognize an equal relatedness through both the mother and father’s lineage. This is known as ________.
a) matrilineage; bilateral descent
b) patrilineage; unilineal descent
c) unilineal descent; ego-centrality
d) bilateral descent; patrilineage

Question 2:

The process of nested groups opposing each other at different hierarchical levels is known as ________.
a) harmonious opposition
b) segmentary opposition
c) activism
d) longitudinal aggression

Question 3:

Each of the following notes the relatedness of people except ________.
a) collaterality
b) bifurcation
c) affinity
d) proximity

Question 4:

Each of the following is a kind of spousal system except ________.
a) monogamy
b) polygyny
c) polyandry
d) pluralistic

Question 5:

When a woman takes multiple husbands, this is called ________.
a) neolocal marriage
b) polyandry
c) polygyny
d) patrilocal marriage

Question 6:

A family pattern made up of brothers and their wives or sisters and their husbands (along with their children) living together is called a(n) ________ family.
a) joint
b) extended
c) neolocal
d) patrilineal

Question 7:

Among the Inuit, it is believed that marriages ________.
a) are always blended
b) are patrilocal in terms of residence pattern
c) can never be permanently dissolved
d) are always polyandrous

Question 8:

The transfer of goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride upon marriage is referred to as ________.
a) dowry
b) compensation
c) segmentary opposition
d) bridewealth

Question 9:

Consanguineal relationships are those that are based upon ________.
a) adoption
b) marriage
c) blood ties
d) friendship

Question 10:

Marrying someone from a different ethnic or class background is an example of ________.
a) exogamy
b) endogamy
c) segmentary opposition
d) monogamy

Question 11:

Because friendship does not occur through blood lines it is not considered a kind of relatedness.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

The gender roles of men and women in societies throughout the world are predictable and universal in that they the same in every society.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Morphological sex, gonadal sex and chromosomal sex are the three primary ways in which lay people and anthropologists distinguish between the males and females of a society.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Two-spirit individuals are individuals with sex anomalies and whose gender is perceived as being the archetype of Indigenous societies.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Gestational surrogacy problematizes the notion of kinship because it divides genetrix into two roles that can be performed by two different women.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

According to Robert Brain, the Western belief that friendship and kinship are separate phenomenon often breaks down in practice.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

A “social parent” is a synonym for “biological parent.”
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

In the West, kinship is usually understood as the social construction of natural facts.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Ghost marriages are common among the Inuit.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Neolocal residence occurs when a couple sets up their own, independent residence after marriage.
a) True
b) False

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