ANT 202 Week 4 Quiz

1.Scarves worn by bride and groom are tied together symbolizing their eternal bond in which traditional wedding ceremony?

 

a.   Buddhist

b.   Hindu

c.   Christian

d.   Muslim

           

2.A kinship relationship based on a blood connection is called:

 

a.   clan.

b.   consanguineal.

c.   affinal.

d.   collateral.

           

3.A kinship relationship based on a marriage connection is called:

 

a.   patrilineal.

b.   consanguineal.

c.   affinal.

d.   collateral.

           

4.         In a kinship diagram, a single line between a male and a female symbol indicates:

 

a.   siblings.

b.   marriage.

c.   divorce.

d.   death.

           

5.         A nuclear family consists of all of the following, EXCEPT:

 

a.   mother.

b.   father.

c.   siblings.

d.   grandparents.

           

6.         Family that include persons that are not kin are called:

 

a.   blended families.

b.   single-parent families.

c.   expanded families.

d.   extended families.

           

7.Bridewealth refers to:

 

a.   gifts from the groom's family to the bride's family.

b.   wealth brought with the bride when she marries.

c.   wealth already owned by the bride.

d.   wealth accumulated prior to marriage.

           

8.         Which of the following marriage patterns allows the newly married couple to choose where they live?

 

a.   Bilocal residence

b.   Neolocal residence

c.   Avunculocal residence

d.   Matrilocal residence

           

9.         In which residence form does the newly married couple live with the bride's mother?

 

a.   Neolocal

b.   Patrilocal

c.   Matrilocal

d.   Avunculocal

           

10.       What marriage rule functions to assure that a man will have a replacement wife when his wife dies?

 

a.   Levirate

b.   Sororate

c.   Exogamy

d.   Endogamy

           

 

11.       What marriage rule functions to assure that a widow and her children are provided for?

 

a.   Levirate

b.   Sororate

c.   Exogamy

d.   Endogamy

           

12.       You are an ethnographer whose data on residence customs after marriage show that 65% of couples live with the groom's MoBr. Your ethnography would report that __________ residence is the most common.

 

a.   patrilocal

b.   matrilocal

c.   avunculocal

d.   bilocal

           

13.       A marriage rule requiring an individual to marry someone in his or her own social group is called a(n):

 

a.   lineage rule.

b.   exogamous rule.

c.   clan rule.

d.   endogamous rule.

           

14.       The advantages of polygyny across cultures include all of the following, EXCEPT:

 

a.   more wives means more sexual variety and access.

b.   having more than one wife is a mark of prestige for both husband and wife.

c.   more wives means more children, and more children brings status.

d.   more wives means more workers, which means more wealth.

 

15.       Which form of marriage found in Melanesia and elsewhere potentially gives a man the most political status?

 

a.   Polyandry

b.   Polygyny

c.   Monogamy

d.   Group marriage

           

 

16.       All of the following are goals or aims that kinship systems achieve for their group members, EXCEPT:

 

a.   identify political leaders.

b.   organize people into groups.

c.   direct people's behavior.

d.   provides security for the group.

           

 

17.       Which of the following descent groups are predominate in the United States and Europe?

a.   Patrilineal

b.   Matrilineal

c.   Ambilineal

d.   Bilateral

 

18.       In what descent group do individuals trace their descent to a known ancestor?

a.   Clan

b.   Lineage

c.   Phratry

d.   Kindred

           

 

19.       In this type of descent group, two individuals cannot actually trace how they are related by blood; rather, they trace their descent to a mythical ancestor.

 

a.   clan

b.   Lineage

c.   Phratry

d.   Moiety

           

20.       A culture is described as having polygynous marriages and patrilineal descent but data shows that fewer than twenty percent of the population is in a polygynous marriage. This illustrates what dichotomy?

 

a.   Ideal/real

b.   Culture/subculture

c.   Culture/society

d.   Etic/emic

           

21.       How do the Hawaiian and the Iroquois terminological systems differ? The Hawaiian system:

 

a.   is not generational while Iroquois is generational.

b.   is found in societies without strong unilineal descent whereas Iroquois is associated with unilineal descent societies.

c.   uses more specific terms than the Iroquois.

d.   bifurcate kin and the Iroquois does not.

           

 

22.       This common type of kinship organization found in large food producing societies seems to function in the same way as clans and phratries are:

 

a.   patrilineages.

b.   segmentary lineages.

c.   sodalities.

d.   moieties.

           

23.       The most common kinship system in North America today consists of __________ descent groups known as __________.

 

a.   ambilineal, phratries

b.   unilateral, clans

c.   bilateral, moieties

d.   bilateral, kindreds

           

24.       In aboriginal foraging societies, like the Dobe Ju/'hoansi !Kung, kinship relations are important because kin:

 

a.   share food resources.

b.   help in conflict situations.

c.   provide security during major life transitions.

d.   all of the choices apply.

           

25.       A significant advantage of unilineal descent groups is that they:

 

a.   facilitate property inheritance.

b.   determine residence.

c.   dictate appropriate marriage partners.

d.   control the choice of a chief.

           

26.       If your informant describes how her peers treat her differently because her father is an important film star, this is termed her __________ status.

 

a.   earned

b.   achieved

c.   ascribed

d.   ancillary

           

27.       An informant tells a fieldworker that the preferred marriage custom in his culture is for a man to marry his mother's brother's daughter. The fieldworker would label this as an example of what type of marriage?

 

a.   Lineage double descent

b.   Parallel cousin

c.   Cross-cousin

d.   Clan

 

 

28.       The Inuit kinship terminological system was so named because it was:

 

a.   only used by the Inuit.

b.   first described for the Inuit.

c.   only found among such foraging societies as the Inuit.

d.   a primary feature of aboriginal arctic societies.

           

 

29.       A bifurcate kinship system is one where:

 

a.   all cousins are called by the same term.

b.   each member of a kin group is called by a different term.

c.   ego labels father's side of the kin group differently than mother's side.

d.   ego calls two different generations by different terms.

           

 

30.       It is often difficult for members of one culture to understand the kinship system of another culture because:

 

a.   an etic perspective makes it difficult to grasp an emic perspective.

b.   kinship rules do not fit any recognizable patterns.

c.   the logic behind kinship systems is constantly changing.

d.   ideal patterns of kinship systems are not the same as the real (or actual) patterns.

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