ANT 202 Week 5 Quiz

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 1 Margaret Mead profiled the temperament of men and women among the:

 a. Arapesh Zuni, and Arapaho.

 b. Arapesh Washo, and Trobriands.

 c. Arapesh, Mbuti, and Nandi.

d. Arapesh, Tchambuli, and Mundugumor.

2. Which of the following chromosomal pairs shows that an individual is male?

 a. XX

b. XY

c. Xxy

d. YY

 3. Gender refers to the:

 a. ability of an individual to produce sperm or egg.

 b. biological designation of male and female.

c. sex of the individual.

d. assigned role of an individual within a society.

 4. Throughout Polynesia, third-gender individuals are known as:

a. gay.

 b. hijra.

c. mahu.

d. berdache.

5. The Zuni recognize the berdache gender person as being:

 a. neither man nor woman.

 b. a woman who cross-dresses.

c. part man and part woman.

d. a man who wears woman's clothes.

6. The hijras of India are:

a. men who dress like women and behave like women.

 b. emasculated men who take feminine names.

c. men who behave as women in all ways.

 d. gay men.

 7. The practice of designating "female husbands" among the Nandi of Africa serves what purpose?

 a. It provides for an additional economic asset for a household.

 b. It allows economic security to women who never married.

c. It gives lesbian women an opportunity to marry.

 d. It provides a means for women without male heirs to transmit property.

 8. Sex play and experimentation are common among young children of the:

a. Trobrianders and the Ju/'hoansi.

b. Nandi and the East Bay people.

c. Zuni and the Mbuti pygmies.

d. Mbuti pygmies and the Mae Enga.

 9. Ford and Beach's cross-cultural study of homosexuality found that it was socially accepted as "normal" in what percentage of societies?

a. About 20 percent

 b. About 30 percent

c. About 40 percent

d. About 60 percent

10. Which of the following terms refers to the socially and culturally assigned roles dictating how male and females should behave?

a. Sex roles

 b. Gender roles

c. Sexual orientation

d. Diversity

 11. All of the following are factors that affect gender roles, EXCEPT:

 a. economic resources.

 b. ideology.

c. sexual behavior.

d. kinship.

12. The marriage of one woman to another among the Nandi of Africa serves which of the following?

a. It is a cultural adaptation that allows a woman without male heirs to transmit property.

 b. It serves to marry women whose father's cannot give large dowries.

c. It allows the Nandi to practice matrilineal descent in a patrilineal society.

d. It ensures a stable household for a woman who has lost her husband.

13. Among the Yanomamo, the purpose of separate origin myths for males and females reinforces:

 a. the role of women in a patrilineal society.

b. female dominance over men.

c. the relative position of men over women.

d. none of the choices apply.

14. Anthropological interest in sexuality can be traced back to which of the following anthropologists?

a. Majorie Shostak

 b. Regina Smith Oboler

 c. Margaret Mead

d. Bronislaw Malinowsk

15. The issue of female circumcision generates outrage in North America. According to Kristen Bell, the reason for this is that:

 a. medical research proves male circumcision is a necessary, healthful practice.

b. culture bound ideas about gender prevent our objectivity.

c. we are more advanced than the cultures that practice female circumcision.

d. only undereducated people practice such customs.