Question 1

Biologists have rejected the idea of three great races-white, black, and yellow-largely because it fails to account for Native Americans.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Migration and rapid population growth are fueling multiculturalism in countries like the United States and Canada.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Colonialism often erected boundaries that corresponded poorly with preexisting cultural divisions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The election of Barack Obama to the U.S.presidency in 2008 has rekindled public discussion on race in the United States.How does this debate highlight the gap between "the gray" and "the brown?"

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The election of Barack Obama in 2008 bro...

Question 6

Racial categories in Japan are more rigid than racial categories in Brazil.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In 1998, the American Anthropological Association issued a statement on race.This statement makes all of the following points EXCEPT that

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A)  there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them.
B)  although the continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind as a single species, some scientists suggest that current racial divisions in society that keep certain groups from interbreeding might lead to a true separate species.
C)  physical variations in any given trait tend to occur gradually rather than abruptly over geographic areas.
D)  physical variations in the human species have no meanings beyond the social ones that humans put on them.
E)  race evolved as a worldview, a body of prejudgments that distorts our ideas about human differences and group behavior.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

What is an "imagined community?" Social roles such as ethnicity and nationality are important to this concept-explain how.

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Question 9

East Asians who have emigrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population.This phenomenon illustrates that

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A)  natural selection continues today.
B)  genetic adaptation of environmental stressors can occur within one generation.
C)  cultural adaptation provides effective shortcuts to those that are genetically disadvantaged in a foreign environment.
D)  because of global warming, the lack of sunlight that people are exposed to in the northern regions is made up for by the intensity of the sunlight.
E)  natural selection's role in determining skin color is a thing of the past, relevant only prior to the 16th century, when massive population migrations altered the geographic distribution of dark-skinned people.F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 10

In Japan, the burakumin

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A)  are perceived as pure Japanese, even if one of their parents is not Japanese.
B)  are stigmatized despite being genetically indistinguishable from other Japanese.
C)  are the cream of Japan's racial categories, having the purest blood.
D)  no longer face discrimination.
E)  constitute a numerical majority in Japan.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society.One way that anthropologists-and social scientists in general-do this is by studying status, which refers to

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A)  a mutually exclusive social identity that is set by others and has little to do with the actions of an individual.
B)  any position, no matter what its prestige, that someone occupies in society.
C)  one's biologically determined identity within a hierarchical society.
D)  one's socially negotiated identity, which always changes throughout a person's lifetime.
E)  an identity determined by the state through census practices.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 12

Human biological differences are evident only to individuals who wrongfully sustain the validity of human races.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What is hypodescent? Why is it an arbitrary rule of racial classification?

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Question 14

Depending on the situation, the same man might declare "I'm Jimmy's father"; "I'm your boss"; "I'm African American"; or "I'm your professor." This phenomenon, whereby a person's claimed or perceived identity varies depending on context, is called

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A)  ethnicity.
B)  hypodescent.
C)  a situational negotiation of social identity.
D)  ethnic tolerance.
E)  rotating core personality traits.F) A) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 15

What is the term for the use of force by a dominant group to compel a minority to adopt the dominant culture?

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A)  attitudinal discrimination
B)  genocide
C)  forced assimilation
D)  ethnocentrism
E)  environmental racismF) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 16

What is the term for ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political status?

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A)  ethnicities
B)  captive nations
C)  nations
D)  nationalities
E)  ethnic avengersF) All of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 17

Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks distinct races, because human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following statements about U.S.racial categories is true?

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A)  They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
B)  They are biologically valid, as demonstrated by the Phipps case in 1970s Louisiana.
C)  They are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies.
D)  They are based on genetics, whereas Japan's are based upon undemonstrated descent.
E)  They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 19

What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?

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A)  pluralism
B)  broad-spectrum subsistence
C)  plural society
D)  multicultural
E)  assimilationistF) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

Historically, scientists have approached the study of human biological diversity in two main ways: racial classification, which is now largely abandoned; and the current explanatory approach, which focuses on understanding specific differences.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 6: Ethnicity and Race

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Migration and rapid population growth are fueling multiculturalism in countries like the United States and Canada.

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Colonialism often erected boundaries that corresponded poorly with preexisting cultural divisions.

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Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.

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Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks distinct races, because human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups.

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What is an "imagined community?" Social roles such as ethnicity and nationality are important to this concept-explain how.

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