1) The gorilla named “Koko” was able to: A) communicate using about 170 signs from the American Sign Language (ASL) B) learn how to drive a car and fl y an airplane C) learn to program a computer using the computer language called FORTRAN D) speak and communicate by using over 100 English words E) write her own name and verbally communicate her needs to humans 5) Linguistic anthropologists find that people who are forced to abandon their native language and culture: A) are better off socially and economically B) easily regain both in 100 years C) all speak English D) begin to lose their self-esteem Unit 2 Examination 6) Noam Chomsky suggests humans are born with a brain prewired to enable us to acquire languages easily. This “prewiring” is referred to as: A) infinite model B) functional template C) universal grammar D) syntax 8) Edward B. Tylor, who published a major book entitled Primitive Culture in 1871, is recognized as the first: A) person to formulate laws of human behavior B) scientist to suggest a scenario for human evolution C) scholar appointed to an academic position in anthropology D) anthropologist to live with primitive peoples in order to study them 9) Lewis Henry Morgan was a lawyer and banker of the late 19th century whose principal scholarship in anthropology was concerned with: A) archaeology of the American Indians B) language acquisition C) systems of human kinship D) human physical variation 10) The body of anthropological theory concerned with the spread of technology, religion, economic systems, art forms, and other expressions of culture is known as: A) particularism B) diffusionism C) idealism D) functionalism Unit 2 Examination 11) Grafton Eliot Smith and William Perry, major fi gures associated with the school of British diffusionism in the early 20th century, proposed that: A) all aspects of civilization derived from the culture of ancient Egypt B) culture’s principal function is establishing institutions to guide behavior C) a culture can only be interpreted in the context of its own historical development D) each culture has a key personality type 13) The neo-evolutionists’ perspective differed from the nineteenth-century evolutionists’ ideas in a number of ways. The neo-evolutionists: A) assumed a unilineal direction for society from savagery to barbarism to civilization B) assumed that civilization was the pinnacle of sociocultural development C) did not assume that sociocultural evolution toward complexity was always equated with progress D) were ethnocentric and racist in their approach to understanding cultural evolution and complexity 14) Conducting unstructured and structured interviews, talking with key informants, making naturalistic observations, engaging in participant observation, and collecting quantitative and qualitative data are all parts of a research design: A) in ethnographic fi eldwork B) that attempts to uncover ecofacts that infl uence cultures C) to avoid getting culture shock D) of ...

1. 1) The gorilla named “Koko” was able to:
A) communicate using about 170 signs from the American Sign
Language (ASL)
B) learn how to drive a car and fl y an airplane
C) learn to program a computer using the computer language
called FORTRAN
D) speak and communicate by using over 100 English words
E) write her own name and verbally communicate her needs to
humans
5) Linguistic anthropologists find that people who are forced to
abandon their native language and culture:
A) are better off socially and economically
B) easily regain both in 100 years
C) all speak English
D) begin to lose their self-esteem
Unit 2 Examination
6) Noam Chomsky suggests humans are born with a brain
prewired to enable us to acquire languages easily. This
“prewiring” is referred to as:
A) infinite model
B) functional template
C) universal grammar
D) syntax
8) Edward B. Tylor, who published a major book entitled
Primitive Culture in
1871, is recognized as the first:
A) person to formulate laws of human behavior
B) scientist to suggest a scenario for human evolution
C) scholar appointed to an academic position in anthropology
D) anthropologist to live with primitive peoples in order to
study them

2. 9) Lewis Henry Morgan was a lawyer and banker of the late
19th century whose principal scholarship in anthropology was
concerned with:
A) archaeology of the American Indians
B) language acquisition
C) systems of human kinship
D) human physical variation
10) The body of anthropological theory concerned with the
spread of technology,
religion, economic systems, art forms, and other expressions of
culture is
known as:
A) particularism
B) diffusionism
C) idealism
D) functionalism
Unit 2 Examination
11) Grafton Eliot Smith and William Perry, major fi gures
associated with the school of British diffusionism in the early
20th century, proposed that:
A) all aspects of civilization derived from the culture of ancient
Egypt
B) culture’s principal function is establishing institutions to
guide behavior
C) a culture can only be interpreted in the context of its own
historical development
D) each culture has a key personality type
13) The neo-evolutionists’ perspective differed from the
nineteenth-century evolutionists’
ideas in a number of ways. The neo-evolutionists:
A) assumed a unilineal direction for society from savagery to
barbarism to civilization
B) assumed that civilization was the pinnacle of sociocultural

3. development
C) did not assume that sociocultural evolution toward
complexity was always
equated with progress
D) were ethnocentric and racist in their approach to
understanding cultural evolution
and complexity
14) Conducting unstructured and structured interviews, talking
with key informants, making naturalistic observations, engaging
in participant observation, and collecting quantitative and
qualitative data are all parts of a research design:
A) in ethnographic fi eldwork
B) that attempts to uncover ecofacts that infl uence cultures
C) to avoid getting culture shock
D) of sociologists but not anthropologists
15) Studies of hunter-gatherer groups often include an
investigation of the maximum
population that a specifi c environment can support, or what is
called
the ________, in order to understand population change and
distribution.
A) population burden
B) fecundity
C) life expectancy
D) niche load
E) carrying capacity
Unit 2 Examination
17) Ethnologist Leonard Pospisil has suggested that there are
four criteria that
must be present in order for a norm to be considered a law.
Which of the
following is not one of these criteria?
A) obligation
B) authority

4. C) sanction
D) intention of universal application
E) internalization
20) If you discovered a society in which males and females
participated equally in political decisions, where females were
treated with the same respect as males, and where there was
little evidence of male domination or maltreatment of women,
you would probably be in a/an ________ culture.
A) amorphous
B) hierarchical
C) anarchical
D) egalitarian
E) patrilineal