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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Every one of these statements is true
B Studies how humans adapt to local, environmental conditions
C Studies how humans adapt to local, environmental conditions
D Studies how humans adapt to local, environmental conditions
Question #2
A It is concerned with modern human behavior and culture
B Evolutionary anthropologists have no interest in social justice; it is only an academic pursuit
C It is a multidisciplinary approach
D Evolutionary anthropologists try to understand humans by understanding how we evolved
Question #3
A disease in earlier human groups
B non-human primates
C skeletal remains at crime scenes
D human skeletal material
Question #4
A Studying the fossils of human ancestors.
B Studying disease and injury in human and animal remains.
C Investigating skeletal remains to determine whether or not a crime has been committed.
D The study of human genetic diversity.
Question #5
A The study of human genetic diversity.
B Investigating skeletal remains to determine whether or not a crime has been committed.
C Studying disease and injury in human and animal remains.
D Studying the fossils of human ancestors.
Question #6
A advancing an understanding of the life sciences
B race classification and skull measurements
C humans as a single population with very little genetic variation
D population genetics
Question #7
A Can only focus on the measurement of isolated groups of humans
B Should be called physical anthropology rather than biological anthropology
C Should be referred to as biological anthropology rather than physical anthropology
D Should not be concerned with modern theories of evolution
Question #8
A osteology
B archaeology
C primatology
D physical/biological anthropology
Question #9
A courtship dances among non-human primates
B patterns of lines on ancient pottery
C the anatomy of the larynx
D how language is used to reinforce hierarchical relationships
Question #10
A are not interested in human behavior
B primarily recover valuable artifacts
C study earlier human groups using artifacts and structures as their evidence
D never work with physical anthropology
Question #11
A ethnology
B applied anthropology
C anthropometry
D linguistic anthropology
Question #12
A focuses solely upon the study of traditional societies
B includes the recovery and analysis of material culture from earlier civilization
C has no practical application in modern society
D is the study of the patterns of belief and behavior found in modern and historical cultures.
Question #13
A Cultural
B Linguistic
C Archaeology
D Psychological
Question #14
A It includes four subfields
B It is a very broad branch of the social sciences
C It is often focused on trying to find solutions for human problems
D American anthropologists only study Americans
Question #15
A Only studies modern cultures
B Includes the study of all things human except laws and legal codes
C A narrow field of study that is not concerned with other branches of the social sciences
D Studies humans and primates of the past and the present
Question #16
A only practiced by adventurers who wear fedoras and use bullwhips
B one branch of the social sciences
C the recovery of dinosaur fossils
D one of the academic life sciences