Question 1

Which of the following statements about polygynous marriages is true?

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A)  They are characteristic of high social instability,as with serial monogamy in southern California and Washington,D.C.
B)  They frequently involve a hierarchical arrangement among the wives.
C)  They are associated with male infanticide.
D)  They are characterized by there being more than one husband in a single household.
E)  They tend to occur in societies that have more men than women.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

Incest is a cultural universal that is defined the same way by all cultures.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In South Sudan,a Nuer woman can marry a woman if her father has only daughters but no male heirs.This is done to maintain the patrilineage.The "wife" has sex with one or more men until she gets pregnant.The children born are then accepted as the offspring of both the female husband and the wife.What is important in this example is

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A)   the fact that only same-sex marriages are recognized in patrilineal societies.
B)   social rather than biological paternity, again illustrating how kinship is socially constructed.
C)   how biology overrides culture regardless of human intentions.
D)   how often marriage is simply about property.
E)   that it illustrates how romantic love is both universal and complicated.F) A) and C)
G) B) and E) B

Question 4

In the caste system of India,failure to adhere to class endogamy rules traditionally resulted in a ritually impure union.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Among the Yanomami of Venezuela and Brazil,as in many societies with unilineal descent,which of the following is true?

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A)   Marriage between parallel cousins is preferred, whereas marriage between cross cousins is considered incest.
B)   Marriage between cross cousins is preferred; marriage between parallel cousins is considered incest.
C)   Marriage between first cousins is preferred, but marriage between second cousins is considered incest.
D)   Marriage between sororate cousins is preferred, although marriage between levirate cousins is considered incest.
E)   Marriage between Crow cousins is preferred; marriage between Omaha cousins is considered incest.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

The children of your father's sister are called your cross cousins.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of a rule of endogamy?

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A)   a taboo on marrying members of the same totemic group
B)   the Nazi law forbidding Aryans from marrying anyone but other Aryans
C)   a taboo against marrying within the same village
D)   a taboo on mating with members of one's extended family
E)   the incest tabooF) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 8

Early anthropologists explained incest taboos as a reflection of "instinctive horror" of mating with close relatives.However,this explanation for incest taboos has been rejected because formal incest restrictions would be unnecessary if humans really do have an instinctive aversion to incest.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What term refers to the culturally sanctioned practice of marrying someone within a group to which one belongs?

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A)   incest
B)   exogamy
C)   hypogamy
D)   endogamy
E)   endospermF) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 10

Divorce tends to be more common

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A)   when the dowry is very small.
B)   when marriages are political alliances between groups.
C)   in matrilineal than in patrilineal societies.
D)   in societies in which marriage residence is patrilocal.
E)   in all societies when romance fails.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 11

This chapter includes several examples linking marriage practices with issues about property and inheritance.Describe these examples.Based on what you have learned so far about marriage,kinship,adaptive strategies,and political systems,can you suggest ways in which anthropologists could help explain relationships involving property?

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Question 12

A recent cross-cultural study of 87 societies,all of which had incest taboos,investigated the rate at which such taboos were broken.The results of this study add to the evidence that

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A)   cultural universals, like the human ability to make fire, always have a genetic basis.
B)   Freud was right: Children everywhere have sexual feelings toward their parents.
C)   although tabooed, incest does happen.
D)   many societies need better educational systems.
E)   many societies need better techniques of social control.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 13

If Hannah marries her deceased husband's brother,the arrangement is considered a levirate marriage.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 14

A cross-cultural study that systematically compared romantic love in many cultures found

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A)   that while people everywhere know what love is, they experience it differently.
B)   evolutionary evidence for romantic love in all societies surveyed.
C)   a rise in love matches over arranged marriages in industrialized societies, but the opposite trend in nonindustrialized societies.
D)   a scholarly bias throughout the social sciences that views romantic love as a luxury in human life, especially in academia.
E)   evidence that romantic love may be a universal, although romantic love and marriage do not necessarily go together.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 15

The rise in female employment in the United States,especially in professional careers,when coupled with ________,has dramatically increased household incomes in the upper classes.This pattern has been one factor sharpening the contrast in household income between the richest and poorest populations of Americans.

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A)   homogamy
B)   serial monogamy
C)   endogamy
D)   sororal polygyny
E)   exogamyF) None of the above
G) C) and D) A

Question 16

Serial polygamy is the practice of having more than one wife,but never more than one at the same time.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

What is the term for the marital exchange in which the bride's family or kin group provides substantial gifts when their daughter marries?

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A)   polygamy
B)   bridewealth
C)   dowry
D)   progeny price
E)   brideserviceF) B) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 18

Dowries are most common in societies in which women occupy an elevated status position.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What is the term that anthropologists use to identify ego's socially recognized father?

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A)   pater
B)   genitor
C)   creator
D)   father
E)   materF) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 20

The incest taboo is almost culturally universal,but

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A)   not all cultures have one.
B)   not all cultures define incest the same way.
C)   not all cultures know about the consequences of incest.
D)   some cultures have replaced it with the levirate.
E)   some cultures practice gerontology anyway.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

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The children of your father's sister are called your cross cousins.

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Which of the following is an example of a rule of endogamy?

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Early anthropologists explained incest taboos as a reflection of "instinctive horror" of mating with close relatives.However,this explanation for incest taboos has been rejected because formal incest restrictions would be unnecessary if humans really do have an instinctive aversion to incest.

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