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